Musings of an Idiot

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Back to the warm weather in Auckland and the silence feels great. The flight back was pretty uneventful and I slept the whole way through. Lance woke me up in the middle as I was talking in my sleep - well atleast I seem to be communicating with someone in my dreams, even if I don't speak much in person.

The funny incident in Hong Kong was the lack of wide usage of English. We were standing at the bus stop trying to get to Big Buddha statue and I tried talking to the person in front of me, who refused to understand english and then i tried speaking to the person behind me but the person wildly shook his head indicating that he could not understand me. It came as a bit of a surprise as I thought Hong Kong was more multi-national. We decided that we would take a cab and it took a couple of refusal from cab drivers to find out that we were getting into the wrong cab and that we needed to find a blue coloured cab. We found a blue cab and the trip to Big Buddha was really cool, as that was a Hong Kong, we possibly would not have seen had we not taken that pain. It was beautiful country side unlike the metropolitan image that you think of Hong Kong.

The trip through customs was uneventful and they did not have any problems with the pickles I was carrying, so I am extremely happy. Lance tried dropping me off home but his car broke down and Lance's mom and dad ended up dropping me home and also jump starting my car. It feels great driving again and that too among sanity where rules still hold true. One of my flatmates was on a holiday but I came home to find it empty, so I am presuming that my other flatmate is on a holiday as well and it comes as a bummer as he seems to have switched off the internet connection or something. I can not check stuff at home, which also means that I won't be able to upload any photographs for a few more days - a bit frustrating but nothing that can be done about it.

Overall - the trip was fantastic and it has definitely helped me reanalyse and find myself again. Another couple of days of getting used to the country and the grind starts again. To all the people whose emails I haven't been answering, I will start doing that once my internet connection is restored.

Till later,
Amit

posted by Amit @ 5:39 PM