I have been here in Hong Kong for about two months now. I live on a boat that is tied up to a barge in a thyphoon shelter in Kwun tong. It’s in the east part of Hong Kong. On the Kowloon side. Kowloon is the mainland you can say. Then we have the Hong Kong Island which is just south of Kowloon. Hong Kong Island is very fancy and clean. It is all very modern and beautiful. But still very compact and full of tall buildings and people of corse. It all gives a very straight and busy impression and it is all just business, business, business on a high level. So many handsome business men in good looking suits from all over the world that just looks stiff and too formal. Kowloon on the other side looks more like something from a Bruce lee or Jackie Chan movie. It is a little bit more messy with lots of colorful signs everywhere. I guess it is a lot of everything in big cities like this. They say that Hong Kong is the biggest center in the world for human trafficking. Lots of business are going on here. Bad and good I suppose. The barge where we live keeps us away from the hustle and bustle of the city. We are separated from everything by water and the barge almost works like a little garden for us, even though it is made of metal. We have put up a little party tent and put together some tables there and had some barbecues together. The crew is nice and I am grateful for all the simple things in life which the universe have brought me. That I have company and the fact that I get food and shelter. The basic necesseties. We work on the boat where we live 6 days a week and we go ashore almost every day to go to the gym. The gym is only 5 minutes away. It is a fresh, large and new gym on the fifth floor in a building full of restaurants and spas. That gym also definitely keeps you separated from the city. It is a different atmosphere in there.
I find it hard to find anything to write about Hong Kong really. It has taken me a while. Of course it is a hectic big city. But it is not at all as overwhelming and impressive in that matter as Mumbai was for me. In comparison to Mumbai this city is very calm and clean. It is almost perfect and boring. Not like in Mumbai where you suddenly could walk by a big stack of old motorbikes on top of each other full of dust as if you were in a dystopic science fiction environment. Like in “teenage mutant ninja turtles”, 200 years into the future. The amount of people that lives here in Hong Kong is only a third of the amount of people that lives in Mumbai. Hong Kong is not at all a very typical Asian city. It is a lot more westernized then China is from what I have heard. And of course, that makes sense, since it has been a British colony. Hong Kong is very competitive and efficient. It is an extremely complex structure of society and construction. Most of the things in this city is indoors. Wherever you get you seem to be inside. You can walk from building to building very long distances without needing to go outside and the metro system with the underground train seems to be well figured out and very efficient. The city is a maze. Hong Kong is a big business centrum and I guess it kind of works like a gateway between China and the western world. The western people that I have spoken to that works here doesn’t really seem to want to support the export from China to the western world. But rather would want to sell their products to china instead. What I am doing here is that I drive around some nice boat, cruising in the water between Hongkong Island and Kowloon while the owner is having some business related dinner on board. I am taking a turn in Kowloon bay and around the Hong Kong island to Stanly bay and Deep water bay and those places on the south side of Hong Kong Island. That is why I am here and I guess I will stay here for a few more months now.
I find it hard to find anything to write about Hong Kong really. It has taken me a while. Of course it is a hectic big city. But it is not at all as overwhelming and impressive in that matter as Mumbai was for me. In comparison to Mumbai this city is very calm and clean. It is almost perfect and boring. Not like in Mumbai where you suddenly could walk by a big stack of old motorbikes on top of each other full of dust as if you were in a dystopic science fiction environment. Like in “teenage mutant ninja turtles”, 200 years into the future. The amount of people that lives here in Hong Kong is only a third of the amount of people that lives in Mumbai. Hong Kong is not at all a very typical Asian city. It is a lot more westernized then China is from what I have heard. And of course, that makes sense, since it has been a British colony. Hong Kong is very competitive and efficient. It is an extremely complex structure of society and construction. Most of the things in this city is indoors. Wherever you get you seem to be inside. You can walk from building to building very long distances without needing to go outside and the metro system with the underground train seems to be well figured out and very efficient. The city is a maze. Hong Kong is a big business centrum and I guess it kind of works like a gateway between China and the western world. The western people that I have spoken to that works here doesn’t really seem to want to support the export from China to the western world. But rather would want to sell their products to china instead. What I am doing here is that I drive around some nice boat, cruising in the water between Hongkong Island and Kowloon while the owner is having some business related dinner on board. I am taking a turn in Kowloon bay and around the Hong Kong island to Stanly bay and Deep water bay and those places on the south side of Hong Kong Island. That is why I am here and I guess I will stay here for a few more months now.
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