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Week Two: Friday Jan 21st - Saturday Jan 29th

Friday

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Dinner up on The Peak at Cafe Deco

Who's on the U.S. Potato Board? And why are they meeting here?
Waiting @ the hotel lobby for Jorge
Top-quality advertising on the side of a bus
Dinner @ Cafe Deco
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Racquel and her "Gay Nineties" dessert
Juan and his itty-bitty slice of chocolate cake
My dessert
It's kinda gay too

 

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Up on The Peak, Olivia hunted down big game: the McDonald's arches
The view from The Peak
Waiting for the tram to go back down the mountain
 
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Artsy or just a bad picture? You decide.

Saturday

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Trip to Kowloon to see the Avenue of the Stars, then a bus ride to the other side of Hong Kong Island to shop @ Stanley Market
For transportation, the Octopus card is for travel on the subway and buses. It's also accepted at McDonald's, 7-Eleven, etc. You can also buy a watch and recharge that with money too for transportation. Cool!
On the way to Kowloon via subway
And where are we?
 
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Anybody know where we're going?
The skyline from the other side
 
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A residential building, built along Feng Shuis specifications
 
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Cool design
I'd love to live here
Olivia taking Juan's picture in Stanley Market
 
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I loved that old 70's show. What was the theme?

"Spader Man, Spader Man. He can do all the things a spader can."

Sunday

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Visit to Lantau Island to see the Big Buddha and the nearby Po Lin Monastery
We took a ferry across the gulf to Lantau Island
The ferry ride from Hong Kong Island to Lantau Island is 30 minutes
A hydrofoil -- I've never seen one in real life
On the bus ride across Lantau Island to the monastery
Great views of the island mountains & valleys
 
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Market outside the monastery
Nice hat
Check it out, a big statue up on high
If you see the little person at the bottom, you can guess the scale
 
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Mary, Juan, me, Olivia, Jorge
Uh, is there an escalator?
Nice view from the top
 
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The monastery
The monastery zoomed in
Whose house is that? I want a golden roof too
 
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Great hero? Is it Optimus Prime?
 
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The monastery temple
Inside the monastery
Love the reliefs
Waiting for the subway
 
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Look, you can even use an Octopus card to buy drinks @ vending machines
 

Thursday

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Just some examples of the super $$$ cars that we see all over Hong Kong
Like Porshes, Bentleys, Rolls Royce
BMW 7-series, Mercedes, Lotus, Ferrari, argh

Friday

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It's not only Friday, but my last workday in Hong Kong. For dinner, we went to Jumbo in Aberdeen, a large floating restaurant
Jorge just did something very inappropriate. I'll let you guess.
The new Chinese New Year is coming up Feb 6th or something
Uh, a cool outside shot of the streets of Hong Kong? Okay, I've taken better, I admit it.
Check out that billboard. Some people just have too much money.
The Jumbo floating restaurant in Aberdeen
 
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How do you get there? Oh, by boat.
Olivia, Mary, Wayne, Jorge, Juan
Oooh, now we're zoomed in
It's so gaudy, you gotta get a picture
Okay, so do I
 
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It's friggin' huge
Now, on to dinner!
Kitschy, kitschy, ya ya, da da. Mmm yeah.
Just one of the large dining rooms
Juan and the world's saddest margarita
 
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Olivia doing her "thumb" song. Hey, beats the hell out of me, but she just started doing it in public.
Could this be the most boring picture ever taken? Who took this photo?
Everyone wants to be in a photo. Hmm, I guess I've never met a photo opportunity that I didn't like.
Okay, this is getting ridiculous
"Ipe, you think this is funny? Real funny, huh?"
 
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Jorge finally rectified the situation by the proper use of an angry elbow
I think Wayne is letting his new promotion get to his head
I'm not sure if this is comical, or gay. You decide, but keep it to yourself.
Group photo [warning: large] in the Emperor's Throne
Bad photo outside Jumbo, or bad photo? You decide? Also, who's that girl? Does she want me? These are the questions that demand an answer!
 
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Someone came to eat at Jumbo in their Porshe. Asshole.
Then again, a Lotus was parked right next to it
Damn, it's tiny

Saturday

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After going out for "one drink" with Jorge, I went to bed by 4:30am. I figured I'd get up by 7am, pack, and leave by 9:15am.

Unfortunately, I snoozed, and woke up by 8:45am. Nice. Still, no worse for the wear.

Damn, Hong Kong Int'l Airport is huge
Burger King & Popeye Chicken. Hmm, what to eat at 10:30am?
All a geek needs: free internet and Diet Pepsi
I'm on my way! Hong Kong -> San Francisco -> Newark NJ