Wednesday, September 20, 2006

Beautiful Hong Kong

It’s a gorgeous city on a beautiful day. Is it the most beautiful modern city in the world? It has everything. It has a harbour river, it has sea and beaches, and it has tropical forests and hills that pretend to be mountains. It has islands, crazy Chinese people, awesome skyscrapers and all kinds of foreigners. It has ass, it has class.

Going to work from SoHo is an amazing adventure. You emerge onto one of the narrow, slanted streets, you pass by western bakeries and coffeeshops, take the longest escalator in the world down to the central business district. You escape a gang of imposing skyscrapers by jumping into a taxi with doors that open automatically and are then transported into the half Chinese, half Southeast Asian ghetto of Wan Chai.

Current status

Death. The Dundee Expat met his demise in Hong Kong, where he was subverted as a concept by the rise of the Wannabe Gentleman.