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ENTRIES FROM THIS CATEGORY
- Keeping Up With The Raichelsons
- A Day Away With A Big Buddha - The Greens Under The Glass - The Six Days Between Dawn And Dusk - The Big Bang / Getting Money - Portuguese Chinese - Cubes and Triads - The Last Village - Last Time for Tea Time |
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September 18, 2004
Keeping Up With The RaichelsonsDAY 328: When the British Empire defeated the Chinese and took over Hong Kong in 1898, little did they know that 99 years later it would eventually be taken over by the Starbucks Empire. Regardless of the British handing back...Read this entry September 19, 2004
A Day Away With A Big BuddhaDAY 329: "Are you in on the Buddha?" Aviva asked me. Out of context that may sound like a request to try some wild hallucinogenics, but she was referring to a plan she and Moe had to spend their Sunday...Read this entry September 21, 2004
The Greens Under The GlassDAY 330: Everybody goes back to work on Monday in Hong Kong. The movers, the shakers, the wheelers and dealers, Moe, Meg and the 150,000 Filipina maids -- everyone except Aviva and me. While Aviva would eventually look into more...Read this entry September 22, 2004
The Six Days Between Dawn And DuskDAY 331: Travel has a weird effect on the perception of time. When you're doing so many new things out of a daily routine, everything becomes a blur; every experience is in one ear and out the other. Seconds feel...Read this entry September 23, 2004
The Big Bang / Getting MoneyDAY 332 (Part 1): "Just go ahead, I can't run in these [flip-flop sandals]!" Aviva called to me as we were running through an underground pipeline tunnel in the Causeway Bay district. I quickened by pace. There was no time...Read this entry September 24, 2004
Portuguese ChineseDAY 333: Great Britain, as great as it was before the break-up of The Beatles, wasn't the only European power meddling in places on the other side of the world. During the hey day of seafaring trade, Portugal was also...Read this entry September 25, 2004
Cubes and TriadsDAY 334: "I suddenly remember that I don't miss this," I said to Aviva. We were sitting in a familiar but frightening place to me: an office cubicle, Moe's desk and workspace on the 50th floor of Hong Kong's Citigroup...Read this entry September 26, 2004
The Last VillageDAY 335: Modernization has really taken its toll on Hong Kong Island since its colonization by the British in the seventeenth century. Skyscrapers have sprouted like weeds on the northern shore, filling every hole in the Hong Kong skyline. However,...Read this entry Last Time for Tea TimeDAY 336: If there's one thing to mention about the influence of British imperialism in the Hong Kong territory, it's the concept of high tea, or "tea time." You know, drinking tea and eating krumpets and scones with posh British...Read this entry |