Hello Amazing People,
Talking about amazing and people there are 8 million of them packed here in Hong Kong. 99% of them, like myself, live in tiny apartments, or flats as they say here, (old British influence) that are crazy expensive $700 000 Canadian for my little two bedroom flat. Some flats are much smaller than mine and have 10-15 folks squished into them.
In Canada everyone seems to have a house and an average Canadian spends a good chunk of their life span maintaing, landscaping, paying off the mortgage , and living in their house. Here in Hong Kong people's lives are centered around work, eating out, shopping, and basically doing anything to stay away from home. With no maintenance, mortgage (most pay rent) and hardly any space why would you? Mind you the weather, excellent for about 350 out of 365 days a year helps a lot too. As a result people are out on the streets of Hong Kong constantly. And not just a few people. A lot of people.
One of the most crowded places on earth is the Mon Kok area in Kowloon City because it has the Ladies Market and The Night Market, infamous for their wide variety of knock merchandise plus it has several streets blocked off for pedestrians to roam around and shop. It also attracts various organizations like Greenpeace, Amnesty International, plus traveling music and acting groups that display and perform for the masses that invade Mon Kok pretty well every day. Only a typhoon warning and the early morning hours causes the crowds to wane a tad.
Elsie, our little Elsie now 21 and officially an adult, got a chance to perform with her DRIME (Disciples Ready In Mobile Evangelism) team from Trinity Western University in Mon Kok. Drime is basically dance depicting the life of Jesus and people's response to Him. It is quite good and was well received by the audience in Mon Kok. Elsie is planning to go on to Thailand later in August with a DRIME team and she is certainly looking forward to that.
Well that is all for this week. I failed to get a picture of Chinglish this week, but I did see a sign on a boat that I was disembarking and did not have time to capture on digital: "Remain seater until boat is secure at berth." Or something like that. Next time I will have the camera ready. Enjoy your week.
Love adios and peng on,
Dirk
Talking about amazing and people there are 8 million of them packed here in Hong Kong. 99% of them, like myself, live in tiny apartments, or flats as they say here, (old British influence) that are crazy expensive $700 000 Canadian for my little two bedroom flat. Some flats are much smaller than mine and have 10-15 folks squished into them.
In Canada everyone seems to have a house and an average Canadian spends a good chunk of their life span maintaing, landscaping, paying off the mortgage , and living in their house. Here in Hong Kong people's lives are centered around work, eating out, shopping, and basically doing anything to stay away from home. With no maintenance, mortgage (most pay rent) and hardly any space why would you? Mind you the weather, excellent for about 350 out of 365 days a year helps a lot too. As a result people are out on the streets of Hong Kong constantly. And not just a few people. A lot of people.
One of the most crowded places on earth is the Mon Kok area in Kowloon City because it has the Ladies Market and The Night Market, infamous for their wide variety of knock merchandise plus it has several streets blocked off for pedestrians to roam around and shop. It also attracts various organizations like Greenpeace, Amnesty International, plus traveling music and acting groups that display and perform for the masses that invade Mon Kok pretty well every day. Only a typhoon warning and the early morning hours causes the crowds to wane a tad.
Elsie, our little Elsie now 21 and officially an adult, got a chance to perform with her DRIME (Disciples Ready In Mobile Evangelism) team from Trinity Western University in Mon Kok. Drime is basically dance depicting the life of Jesus and people's response to Him. It is quite good and was well received by the audience in Mon Kok. Elsie is planning to go on to Thailand later in August with a DRIME team and she is certainly looking forward to that.
Well that is all for this week. I failed to get a picture of Chinglish this week, but I did see a sign on a boat that I was disembarking and did not have time to capture on digital: "Remain seater until boat is secure at berth." Or something like that. Next time I will have the camera ready. Enjoy your week.
Love adios and peng on,
Dirk
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