Going postal in Hong Kong

OK, ignore the fact that this trip was mainly to spend time with my lady...the trip to Hong Kong itself was pretty fun. I didn't really plan to see anything in particular, but nonetheless I got to absorb a few more things this time then I expected.

First, the flight over to HK was HELL as I expected. In all about 16 hours to get there if you count all the stops. I had 2 transfers on China Airlines to get there. The first flight over was ok for about the first 5 hours where I thought to myself "Bah, this is cake...easy!" I had my zip pac with me and I was all ready to go.

By the time I was on the last 3 hours of this journey, my head felt like exploding, my back was killing me, and I was about one notch away from spewing the contents of my zip pac. Unfortunately I didn't spot one barf bag around me.

The flight back was much easier, only about 11 hours to get back.

You don't go to Hong Kong to relax. Of course...coming FROM the world's premier destination spot for relaxation, I don't expect to really go anywhere else and to expect to "get away" from anything. Everyone is moving, everyone is doing SOMEthing there. It can be 10pm at night and in some areas of town there are still crowds of people at some department store shopping for sales on designer clothes.

I ate a lot. I probably immediately sweated it all out of me as well. Average temperature while I was there was in the low 90's with very high humidity.

Did I buy anything? Not really. I DID pick up a few design books for work. I know...sad isn't it?

I picked up this little gem of a design book called "How to be a graphic designer without losing your soul" It's a great little book that has ground rules and opinions from other designers about everything from design all the way to customer relations. Rarely do any of us get the opportunity to just be able to sit down and talk to others in our fields about how we run our businesses. So this book has been great so far...

The bookstores in HK are about 3 times bigger then any Borders or Barnes & Nobles we have here in Hawaii. I imagine because there are both asian and european sources for the materials they keep. It's pretty cool...

Back to work.