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everyone’s heard of the legendary mini houses in Hong Kong.
here’s pictures of my little hole that i will be staying in for a month. it’s kinda growing on me. everything is about two steps away

what you see as you walk in

come monday, i will no longer be able to pretend that everything is fine, that i alone exist in my made-up reality.
come monday, i will be surrounded with people who know me as ‘the intern’.
so from now till monday, please leave me to enjoy my last moments of imagined solitude, to drown in my own [...]

i’m sitting in a room all alone, overlooking the sea in glorious hong kong right now, and am truly smiling for the first time in months.
i realized after last night that i like being here because i like being anonymous. i like knowing that i can walk around sulking because i can’t find a top [...]

in a little more than 2 weeks, yours truly will be in the fragrant harbor (??). totally stoked, and slightly nervous.

there’s just something about the place which is comforting. maybe because i like to be the stranger in the crowd.

or maybe its the harbor.

not that i’m ruling out the satiating of my material desires.
either way, [...]

I’m leaving Hong Kong in 7 hours back to the land of sambal sting-rays and bak chor mee I’ve learned a lot from this month in Hong Kong, about myself and about the country.
If you ask me if I would like to work here now, I’d say yes, but 4 years down the road, [...]

So it seems that I’ve caught some stomach virus (viral gastritis), thus leaving me completely weak and almost bedridden.
Went to the doctors yesterday and thank Heavens the doctor was educated overseas and could speak proper and fluent English. I would have probably been prescribed cancer if he didn’t, what with my limited Cantonese. Problem is, [...]

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Finally, a proper post/update from Hong Kong.
I’mma start of by saying that I am not biased towards Hong Kong (though everyone thinks so because I abhor MediaCorp and adore TVB). To me, both cities have their pros and cons, and after working and living here for 2 weeks, I still can’t decide where I’d rather [...]