Hello freaks! (that is meant to be read like King Julian from Madagascar and don't be offended it really is a term of endearment with me. Besides, I haven't found a halfway decent name to call my readership yet. True believers was already taken and Scottarinos sounded too Flandery/narcissitic [flandercissitic?]) Any ways, to understand todays post let me take you back over the past couple of days. Walking around Hong Kong during rush hour, or any hour really but rush hour is the worst (not the movie), is like traveling through a maze, albeit a simple one. Not because the streets are confusing, they really aren't, it's because of all the people. It is impossible to walk in anything other than a straight line for more than a yard or so. That's because you have to dodge a person, or a cart, or a cart with a person. Seriously, no matter when no matter where there is a person you will have to dodge it's ridiculous! When it's raining though, oh that's when things get interesting. You see when it's raining people have a little object called an umbrella. Now one or two here and there isn't all that bad. THOUSANDS of them on the other hand is awful. Now, not only do you have to navigate around people, loose bricks on the side walk, and random debris on the x, y axis you have to add in the z axis when umbrellas are in the mix. Now you have to either raise or lower your umbrella as well as dodge side to side. You won't understand unless you've been here but seriously it's crazy!
To continue with the theme of my commute I decided to do something different today--count 7-11s on my way to work. That's different but it makes sense. You see on my way to work I pass 5 different 7-11s. One in each station of the MTR. And three from the Sheung Wan station to my apartment above a dried seafood store. Two of which are on the same block and one of those is across the street from the MTR station. Three 7-11s all within a few minutes of each other. Yet none of them, nope not a single one, has a slurpee machine. This has caused me to lament, "7-11s everywhere and not a drop to slurp."
Work today was fun as well. I finished off the probate case and got assigned a couple of other cases, one of which is a tenancy case. Yet more interestingly the air conditioner I sit under peed on me. No, it was not literal urine it was just condensation from the AC. I was just sitting there asking my co-worker Ringo, who is a baller by the way guys awesome, about something to do with the probate case and suddenly bam a streamlet of water came cascading onto my bald spot. That caused me to jump up and swear in Bosnian and Serbian. However, according to my co-workers water is an omen of money so...give me money!
Now, what am I going to do for dinner tonight...wait...is that...yes! MEXICAN FOOD NEAR MY HOUSE GOTTA RUN!
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