hong kong is pretty hot…

I’m in Hong Kong for a week for a bit of a holiday and to hang out with this cool guy who owns the www.megaupload.com and www.megarotic.com websites. Check Alexa.com to see how MegaUpload is doing. MegaRotic is totally awesome by the way, check it out and if I’m wrong, call me a liar.

Anyway, Hong Kong is pretty awesome. It’s so refreshing to be out of Manila and be in a city where people work hard and appear to be mostly competent. The only thing stopping me from moving here is that not a lot of people speak good English, although you can definitely get around ok with hand signals and writing and some broken English.

I landed with some Filipino friends of mine, and the package deal was $400 for return flights and 3 nights hotel stay in Hong Kong. I was expecting some joke hotel for that price, but as it turns out, we are in an awesome hotel on the main street in Kowloon. They still do the insanely annoying thing where if you have “Do Not Disturb” sign on your room, they ring you up to see if you want housekeeping. I will never understand why hotels do this. Nothing tilts me more.

Anyway, the whole city seems to be built a long harbour, which makes for awesome waterfront views. It’s a 1hr ferry ride to Macau, and we’re probably going to go check it out tomorrow.

I’ve been doing a bit of shopping, with lots of good electronic products here pretty cheap without being omg cheap. Just good value.

Explored a bit of the city - the city is pretty wealthy with a nice 3 bdrm apartment in the middle of the city going for around $2 million aud so it’s pretty expensive city to live in.

I saw the most amazing thing I might have ever seen. I’m browsing down the main street in Kowloon and I see a long line at 2pm in the afternoon in front of the Louis Vutton store. I’m like “wtf - what is going on here?” - I stop for a smoke and to investigate.

There is a line about 80 people long with an airport immigration style setup, obviously they’re expecting lines. Security guards at the front of the door wave 2 patient people in when 2 leave. I’m fascinated - I can’t turn away. I watch for about 15 min and decide to try my luck at getting into the store. I walk up to the doors of the store and try to enter. The security guard motions to the back of the line. I pull out a large wad of US dollars, and he looks at me like I’m stupid and motions to the back of the line. WTF? I have a wad of cash trying to enter a store that sells expensive products and security is telling me I need to wait my turn in the line. How f awesome is that? I want shares in Louis Vutton - that’s just ridiculous.

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