I’m blogging from an airport; I feel like such a seasoned traveler. Actually I’m writing this post just so that I can claim to post on the internet from airports.
I am of course flying back to Manila after a short 3-day visit to Hong Kong. People always ask me where I plan to go while in HK, even though I always come here to work. It’s even worse this time, as I flew in Sunday evening, attending a three-day seminar until Wednesday, working during the evenings then flying back Thursday morning. Not much time to do anything really.
Ordinarily, I wouldn’t want to take lunch at the airport because of the excessive price, but the check-in took a bit longer than I expected so I wasn’t able to grab some food outside. The second mistake was ordering a fried noodle dish. It would have been fine if I was sufficiently skilled with chopsticks, but as it is I can only food I can manage relatively well with chopsticks are large pieces of meat. And fried noodles are served all bunched up together and they aren’t straightforward to chew through, hence whenever I shove some into my mouth with the chopsticks, I feel like I would be unable to stop until I swallow it all (or choke, whatever). Eventually I just give up with about a third of the noodles still in the bowl. The flight will have some food anyway.
Whenever I’m bored and traveling I tend to think of random insane scenarios that I act out in my head. Examples:
While watching a 15-year old Chinese kid struggle with a Rubik’s Cube on the MTR:
Me (stands up and walks over to the kid, extending hand): “Give me that!” (Grabs the cube and solves it in ten seconds flat, and immediately jump off at Central station while the rest of the passengers watch in awe)
—
While looking for a place to eat at the airport:
Me (walks up to a random Chinese woman): Hi, I’m hungry.
Chinese woman: Eh?
Me (making hand-to-mouth signs): Hungry! Give me some food!
—
Luckily, I never do any of these.
See Also
I'm sorry, I completely forgot na nagpabili ka ng Transformers. T_T Not that I would have had time to buy you anything, since busy talaga.
I usually go to Hong Kong for work, meeting up with clients, etc. The company I work for is HK-based so a lot of the work comes from there.
Although I go onsite, usually it's just for technical assistance stuff. Although the last two times I went it was because I had to work directly with a partner company.
And we don't usually hire analysts directly, you need to work your way up from being a programmer before you get any SA work. :D