Summer 2012: Day 3: Drivers in Hong Kong @

Finally, Edward had time to hang out with me! :D Actually, the whole family hung out with me~ Hehe...
Edward rented a car to drive us around today. People drive crazy here. I got so scared even sitting in the back seat. If you don't maintain 1 inch away from the car in front of you, people will try to cut in... Felt like death is upon us every second! @_@ Both Edward and Wendy haven't drove for a while, so it was even scarier... Auntie was holding on to her life gripping the seat belt and not letting go. Haha. We made it back alive, so it's good. But the drivers here are crazy comparing to drivers in the US. If you think New York drivers are crazy, think of that x5 more dangerous. This is because that only rich people drive. And rich people like to show off, so they drive around like crazy taxis. There's no such thing as regular cars. Everyone drives BMW, Audi, Benz, and Lamborghini and Ferrari are so common it's like Toyota and Ford in America...
Anyways, Edward drove around University of Hong Kong to show me around but we were getting lost the whole time. University of Hong Kong is on high lands and that's where all the rich people live, so we got to see a lot of buildings that rich people live in (cost $100,000,000~$1,000,000,000, the higher elevated up it is).
While being lost, we ended up going to Cyberport. This is a city where all the techy companies are located. Even the buildings here look really modern. While there, we got to see someone filming a scene for a movie! More pictures below, but I'm guessing it's a car related movie. We stayed to watch them film a bit of it, but it was taking them forever to set up a retake, so we ended up leaving.
We went for another hour of getting lost around University of Hong Kong and eventually went to 泥田 for their famous chicken congee for dinner. I thought it was really good, but my cousins said it used to be better.
Before heading back home, we were going to another peak to watch the skyline of Hong Kong (that's what they're famous for), but it was really foggy and it started pouring so we just headed back home.
I had a lot of fun today and I'm starting to love Hong Kong. Job opportunities are insanely high, teaching English gets you $480,000/year (roughly US$61,000) starting pay, economy is booming, food is good and you can find any kind of food you want and it actually taste genuine unlike the US. The only bad thing about Hong Kong is that the population outweigh the available land mass in Hong Kong --> people expanding the land by "filling" the sea with boulders to the point where the government started restricting it because they are taking up too much water area (What used to take an hour ferry ride only takes 30 minutes to get across). Also, more people comes with more pollution. The air is gross here.... And I think they don't get as much benefit for low income families in the US. :P Other than that, Hong Kong is so great (some would argue that I'm giving it too much credit). Well, peace out until another day!

Haha, there's a hole in the middle of the building. The government was complaining that all these tall buildings in Hong Kong are blocking out all the wind/breeze, so designers put holes in the middle to let breeze through. There's a little garden in the hole. This is a residential place where one room cost ~$300,000,000 for the size of a regular sized living room in the US.