Hong Kong Sunrise from Gergely Laszlo-Zwickl on Vimeo.

Yesterday I couldn't sleep. Around 5 AM I fixed the camera to the bathroom window catching the first rays of the Sun touch the neighbor rooftop. Just in time, now it seams the rain's coming.

Today was Monday. Adrian went to work for the future of China, Daniel finally managed his tickets to New Zealand and left us.

I took a ferry to Kowloon, opposite side of the Hong Kong Island. This is the district where Bruce Lee was grown up more or less, funny thing that I could not find any Bruce Lee movies in the DVD stores of Tsim Sha Tsui. This part of Kowloon is a big shopping center with big brands, small shops and dizzy streets where everything is for sale. I really mean everything! Hi-tech, cloth, girls, hotels and striptease bars, massage parlors and money change.

But my aim was different. I crossed Kowloon till the suburb to visit Grandmaster Mr. Ip Chee Keung, the old master of Chow Gar Praying Mantis Kung Fu. I was witness of a small traditional training exercise with the old master and one of his 'costumers' as he expressed. According to his age Mr. Keung is really in a good shape and I was greatly honored to meet him.

We worked hard all day. Went to Lamma Islands down the south of Hong Kong hoping to find a nice a beach to rest, have a beer and enjoy the sun. But as crossing the forest we were suddenly captured by fast moving creatures dressed all black, with swords and stuff. They spoke a language we did not understand, shouting with us. Daniel was cut so we decided not to fight anymore and capitulated. They were forced us to work for them free all day.

Do not come here as a tourist! Hong Kong was built by cheap East European manpower.

We still haven't seen the dragon but walked on it's back.

Got frighten by a giant spider on the way to Shek O Beach.

And had dinner at the canteen of the Hong Kong Western Police Station. Well it's a long story...

Daniel took the good pictures, I made the bad ones.

Hong Kong, Sheung Wan, Queensroad West, 22nd August, 4 AM. I'm struggling with frames, formats and codecs for about eight houres. I use to do the something like this at my workplace with the difference that I was payed for that. Now I'm free or what?!

Sitting in Andrian's desk nearby the window and watching the screen of my laptop. Converting, editing, exporting and uploading videos day by day from here's close to the impossible. I mean it's really possible if you're watching your viewer in every single minute while walking around the city but not the people and place where you really are, and stock in a room on the 9th floor half a day and screen, edit, export, upload and so on. I bought several chinese CDs today to have original music for editing but couldn't play them. Some local format, or I don't know. I still haven't seen anything except the end of the street, I woke up at 4:30 PM yesterday, editing, yet-lag. I don't want to make crap, rather something longer from the shots I have when I'm back. I'm here for Hong Kong! This was the moral of the day. And maybe a bit more.

Now I need to sleep some, share a couch with a Polish guy, who was sent back from the airport this afternoon as he didn't have the return ticket back from New Zealand and speak polish-english while dreaming. Here we are. Madness! Uploading daily HD videos from the other corner of the world was simply a dream I have to face this. So I'd rather look around here, enjoy the hospitality of this amazing city, stay with text and still images, all in all in REALITY.