Tag: hongkong
by: gergo | at: August 20, 2009 | in: hongkong, travel | comments: 7

Than and now

Landing in Hong Kong with three hours delay, tired, hungry, sweaty. 33 C, 88% humidity. Sunshine! Caught bus to Sheung Wan, got lost, taxi.

Had good local food with local faces front of my stay. My great host is Adrian from Romania and for tonight we have Daniel from Poland, both guys are in IT, East European majority at the 9th floor on 25 square meter in the heart of Hong Kong! Sharing a flat designed for local demands: small. Small table, small, chair, small window, big cockroach... not in the flat but on the street. Daniel's leaving tomorrow to New Zealand for work, Adrian stays in the jungle to fight his daily battle with bits, servers and databases. God bless him, I've a couch to sleep!

Tomorrow's basic checking around, editing at night. Here are a few shots from Daniel about our surroundings. Find more photos from him here! Thx!

East meets west

What is this?

Flamingos of Hong Kong

The spirit

And the pray

Old VS New

Where's Batman?

Getting dark

Hong Kong by night

by: gergo | at: August 20, 2009 | in: hongkong, travel | leave a shout!

Sunrise

Sitting on the plane somewhere above India people are sleeping around me. Now I have enough time to think about the meaning of this whole trip but not enough space to stretch my legs. Crossing time zones and countries, heading east.

This machine is a big fat B777-300 ER aircraft, with 300 passengers on board, cruising with the speed of 950 km/h, in an almost 15.000 km altitude. Displays and hi-tech gadgets're built in each seats, films, music and games. I've just watched X-MEN, listened the full Slumdog Millionaire soundtrack, made a logo for a Dakta Dub, aka. Dj Balu, who's might be sleeping straight here under my feet somewhere in Hyderabad, and it's still five and a half hours to Hong Kong! China is far from Budapest, Turkish Airlines still have the best food at this height! No sign of any dragons yet.

by: gergo | at: August 19, 2009 | in: hongkong, travel | leave a shout!

Where are you?

I'm leaving today.

18 days, 3 continents, 20383 km.

Budapest - 1064 km - Istanbul - 8016 km - Hong Kong - 1605 km - Singapore - 8634 km - Istanbul - 1064 km - Budapest. Something like that...

Looking around in the Hong Kong and Singapore film and tv biz mostly. With a deep interest in eastern culture, people, cuisine and martial arts. And searching for dragons for sure! With only few clothes in a bag but with a small post production studio on my back to be able to edit video anywhere and show you as much as I can about this journey in one-minute films.

And here I'd like to grab the opportunity to say thanks for this blog to my friend Oizys the big guru and bass-master, find out more about him at Kultblog.hu or even more at Tuzfeszek!

So wish me luck and come back soon, hope to find the dragon in Hong Kong!

My way