Ah, Hong Kong! A cultural melting pot of East meets West, with great shopping, good eats and good-looking people. It's a big city with people running around, streets that are gloriously confusing and a vibe that can only be exciting. Having said that, a 3-day jaunt on "Asia's World City", seems like a taxing endeavor especially when you are going to do it all by yourself (i.e. good riddance, boring tour packages!). However if you are well-traveled and have been there once or twice before, it should be fool-proof, right? Probably true. But sadly, not for us We admit that once we've been to a place before, we tend to be pretty stubborn in our ways. And lazy. Big time. This could be due to too much sun and salt water exposure. Or you know how you seem to be good at Physics and you think you got it so you end up not studying for the exam and then when you take the exam you "surprisingly" fail? Well, that's kind of what happened on our Hong Kong trip (And I really thought I was good at Physics!). So we end up missing the last cable ride to see the Big Buddha in Ngong Ping, not having time to see Takashi Murakami's exhibit at Gagosian Gallery in Central HK and (gasp!) having our dinner at Mc Donald's (a first in our international jaunts, mind you. KFC is of course another story). When will we ever learn that in big cities like Hong Kong getting from point A to B will take a lot of perseverance and time? This is a whole lot true when about thousands of people are also wanting to do the same things as you are planning to do and you are taking mass transportation-- because you are not on said boring tour package. Such are times when an itinerary is kind of important and time is sort of golden (aren't I the epitome of adulthood?)
