Hong Kong

so after living about 2 hours away from HongKong for 5 months i finally got around to going there.
Definetly a fun place. But not at all China. I mean by law it is part of China, even though you need your passport to go there, and chinese people need a visa to go there. But when you are there its not at all like China. Its clean, people all dress western (the girls were a sight for sore eyes) there are Mexican restaurants ( maybe 5 in all on mailand china), tons of white people, black people ad alot of Arabs. All of which is not something that you see on a daily basis on the Mainland. So it was cool, but not too carzy. The prices were outlandish, i spent about a months pay there in one day. I also bought a camera, but thats besides the point. there are also escalors that take you around the city. which is any lazy mans dream.
here are some cool pics form the trip.
fun fact: i had my first allergic reaction to a food, ever, while in HongKong. I dont know what did it, but in the middle of a margaritta and tacos my face swelled up like a giant red puffer fish.

polaroids

So Greg has a polaroid camera. Which is really fun and interesting, but kind of a novelty since there is no zoom and the cameras are really limited.
But they dont have them in china. So when greg showed my friend Eric he went nuts about how cool it was and went out and bought one. so here are some of the pictures that he, and everyone else has taken with his camera. I was there to see some of them being taken, but some of the others are just cool and i want people to see them.
see more on his blog ericlai.blog.com.cn

son of a beach!

sorry about the lame post name. shit happens
i went to a chinese beach a week or so ago, and it was awesome. It was about 2 hours away and seemed totally secluded. Since it was China we were not at all alone, but there was not that many people there. Also most people stayed out of the water becuase it was a little cold when we got there. But the stupid foreigners were all about it.
As soon as night time rolled around the people who ran this "resort" brought out a ton of grills. The chinese people we came with then brought out about a crap load of meat. There was meat of all sorts, from mystery meatballs to chiken breasts. The spice that is used in all chinese BBQs is the best thing ever. If i spilled some on my arm i would end up eating my own arm off. its that good. So we grubed and chilled in hamics for a couple hours.
One of the most awesome parts was that the average china man works like 10 hours a day and 6 days a week. so when they live it up, they really get the most of it. At 5 am there was still a healthy portion of people up. not really partying but just chilling. People were swimming and playing mahjong all night. Some of our chinese friends wanted to stay up and watch the sunrise at 6 am. i made it till 5. then was woken up at 6 to be told that a mountain was blockign the sun.
the next day was hot as hell. and well there was an ocean and a beach right by us. so you i trust that you all can fill in the blanks.
here are some pictures.
Peace.



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long time no post.

sorry about the utter lack of posts. i am not really that sorry since i dont think anybody even looks at this thing.
but here are some more photo goodies from my recent-ish trip to Thailand.
it was all i could have asked for, except that the airline i was on stole my camera, hence no posts for a month. i finally got around to getting some pictures to put up here. they were so kindly taken by one brian Jackson.
thialand had the most amazing beaches. we actually chilled on the beach that Leo Dicapprio filmed the movie "the Beach" on. so you can assume it was epic. Greg also got attacked by monkeys on a beach. i dont there is anything funnier than monkies chasing a grown man into the water. they even swam after him. just to see that was worth the trip.

so here they be. pictures of a chinese beach to follow shortly.