Trip to Lamma Island

Lamma island is the third largest island in Honk Kong. It takes 30 min to go there on a ferry from Central HK. It is supposed to be quiet and clean, with a nice beach and fresh sea food...

When leaving HK at noon, the weather was already pretty bad,
but for some reason we thought that Lamma island is an island with a beach,
and
therefore is going to be
a
NICE
and
SUNNY
GETAWAY!

It was pouring when we arrived there!
But we still thought/hoped the sun is going to come out!
We went for coffee in a local bar
and
waited
and waited
and waited...

Until we realized that it will pour all day!

We couldn't get any wetter than what we already were,
so we decided to visit the 2 things there are on this island:
THE TEMPLE
and
the BEACH!

Are those mangos?

After a really short walk we reached the TIN HAU TEMPLE

Which was basically a little hut, really disappointing!
Actually, I am still not convinced that this is the actual temple.
But providing the weather conditions, I guess we were satisfied with what we found.
And we gave up looking for something bigger.

Another 15 min walk through a jungle-like-landscape
and
we made it to the beach...
it wasn't really hard to find

Most people were well equipped for the rain!

Even dogs wear RAINCOATS!

Oh, which reminds me, quote of the day:
"There are so many dogs here!"
did we say that:
"There are so many dogs here!"
and by the way:
"There are so many dogs here!"
And this little princess with her pink rubber boots!
In contrast to us: TOTALLY SOAKED!

Bananas?

Power Station

Bamboo?

Baby bananas?

And there we go...THE BEACH

We stopped for some SEAFOOD before we got back on the ferry!
Which was really fresh and therefore GOOD!!!!

And we were back in HK just in time for tea!
***

It is never what it looks like! (the angry post with no pictures)

It's been exactly one month since I've arrived here.

I told everybody that I loved it.

But I lied!

I thought I was gonna love it!

But I didn't.

I was expected to love it here!

I felt huge pressure from anybody who has ever been here and everybody who lives in here now.

They all told me:
"YOU ARE GONNA LOVE IT. YOU ARE NOT GONNA LEAVE THAT PLACE.
YOU AGE GONNA STAY THERE FOREVER. YOU WILL SEE!"

So here I am sitting and wondering:
"What the hell is wrong with me, why am I not loving it?!?!?"

I AM SO OVER:

strawberry daiquiris

rice noddles

d-i dinners

the smell of any local food

the smell on the streets

yacht parties

huge flying cockroaches

mosquito bites all over my body

the hot hot hot humidity making you sweat

the typhoon and the rain

the air-conditioning that makes you freeze once you come in somewhere

and sweating again once you come out!

and getting sick...

People pulling trolleys 24/7 on each street, on every escalator, in any elevator!

People giving you shoulders and not saying sorry.

People stepping on your feet and not saying sorry.

People running you over with their trolleys and not saying sorry.

I am so fed up with people pretending to not understand what am I saying or to be looked down upon/ being ripped off as a non-Chinese-customer!

the Chinese "i-wanna-kill-myself-when-i hear-it-music" in each shop

ok-thank you-bye-mantra said with an even intonation by any shop assistant

the informal "obligation" to bargain for every single piece of sh** you buy...including a GYM membership

I was always trying to push myself into limits and see how far I can go.

This is it:

the limit of all limitations:

Of all humanity. Of all money. Of all fashion.

I am over the whole system.

I feel it's so not right.

Did I have to go that far,

Did I have to struggle through life and space and cultures to find out

WHO I DON'T WANT TO BECOME!

The city, the flashy lights, the amazing skyline...the whole anonymity and emotionless.

A city, where money rules above all values, moral stances and everything that counts.

People are fake.

People are so full of themselves.

OK-thank-you-bye.

It is all about brands, and fashion and looks

and faking brands

and faking looks

and faking well-being

and faking all that's real!

Here I've realized I am so

old-fashioned,

traditional

and

European

(be it an Eastern one!).

And I love it.

I am proud of it!

...

OK, enough complaining and negativity.
I know you wanna slap me in the face having to read all that!
I know you wanna tell me:

GO AWAY IF YOU DON'T LIKE IT!
WE LOVE IT!

BUT NO!
I will stay!
I'm gonna give it some time!

Maybe it is not them, maybe it is just me!

I will try! I promise!
I am already trying...
Oh I think it even starts working...
There must be something I can LOVE here.
I will try to find out
and
keep you posted!

If you look at those pictures...

you'd probably think that i am having the time of my life...

Is it really what it looks like...
I will tell you next time!

Jeeeeez it's been raining for days...

"At first HUMANITY was thought to be a weakness, but it proved to be his greatest strength"

Apparently it is rainy season over here! Nobody told me that until I actually realized it 2 days ago...when it first started...

So we went to see this 3D super hero movie. It was quite cute!
At first when those things with robots and aliens and space ships started I thought:
"Oh no! This is gonna be one of those movies where I don't get who is who, who is doing what, who is against who! It's gonna be just shooting around with their laser guns..."
Oh, ok I have to mention I didn't choose the movie and I didn't know what it was before I sat in there.

But I liked it, because these guys didn't take themselves seriously with that superhero stuff, they were more like making fun of superheros, super hero outfits and superheros always "getting the girl"-kind of situation, while stressing on the value of HUMANITY.
I like that.

And yes, there was a superhero- pretty girl-happy ending-kiss indeed,
but again, they kind of made fun out of it, as a cliche...

What else: FEAR, POWER OF MIND... IMAGINATION IS YOUR ONLY LIMIT

Yeah, another entertaining junk movie. If it rains at your part of the globe, go and see it!

I am Sooooooo in LOOOoooooVE!

"You know you're in love when you can't fall asleep because reality is finally better than your dreams."

I am sooooooo in loooOOOOOOOooove!


Reality is finally better than my dreams!!!

I can take pictures that are finally better than REALITY!

SAY HELLO

to my BABY

LOVE has reasons which reason cannot understand

Fullstop!

THE BEST IS YET TO FOLLOW!!!!!

A HOT DAY OFF

Today I had a day off...
I woke up 6.09am from the sunlight in my window...

After enjoying the beauty of the sunrise for 10 mins
I went back to bed and woke up at noon.
I had lunch and read in bed...until sunsetI went out just for 10 mins
( to make sure I was right that it was waaaay too hot for doing any sightseeing tours.)
Jeez I was so right!
Grocery and laundry tour is more than enough for the day!

Until the sun goes down again and the night life begins...
I listened to this song a zillion times today

...And I never was smart with love, I let the bad ones in and the good ones go...

...And I never was smart with love, I let the bad ones in and the good ones go...

...And I never was smart with love, I let the bad ones in and the good ones go...

...And I never was smart with love, I let the bad ones in and the good ones go...

Tomorrow is a new (HOT!) day!
Tomorrow is FRIDAY!

HK week 2: THE NY OF ASIA

Sometimes being a model is not too bad. For example when you get invited to a Sunday-yacht-afterparty, (actually to a group of yachts connected in between),
somewhere with no phone reception whatsoever,
a real danger to be eaten by sharks whenever you jump into the water,
a good DJ,
food&drinks...
Exciting!

The view when approaching HK at night, after such a nice day, can be breathtaking as well......not as much on the picture than it was live

Alternatively (in case you don't get lucky enough to go to a yacht party),
you could try to "achieve" the same breathtaking view by taking the STAR FERRY between Tsimshatsui and Central.
Around sunset the view is truly romantic, and it costs only HK$3, (around 0.30€!)

...and (in my experience) depending on the company, it might be MORE enjoyable than a yacht!


As I recently read/heard somewhere:
"BIGGER is not always BETTER! BETTER IS BETTER!"
*LMAO*

So it is not about "HOW MUCH and WHERE" it is more about "WHO WITH"...
*I miss my "old" friends back in Europe so so so much!!!!*

But enough distraction, back to the point:

Seeing these pictures, you could have almost thought:

"WOW, this looks like the NEW YORK of Asia!"

And you probably think right, before you:

-got lost and realized that you are in...ASIA ASIA!

or
-before you realized that eating chicken feet is not only a myth!
They actually DO eat chicken feet!

As well as that the huge cockroaches actually DO fly!
I know it sounds naive,
but I didn't believe it before I actually had the misfortune to see it.
And, unlucky enough, despite my hopes in the opposite:
HUGE COCKROACHES DO go even UP TO the 26th floor...
where I happen to live...

But well, Asia, has many positive sides, such as:
FINALLY you are in that mythic "MADE IN CHINA" -paradise,
where THINGS are MADE (obviously),
and therefore much much much cheaper!
SO THAT
FOR LESS MONEY YOU GET MORE
AND BIGGER IS BETTER
AND BETTER is BIGGER
and BETTER IS BETTER
MORE IS MORE

...and your SUITCASE SEEMS TO GET SMALLER and SMALLER each day
but they sell suitcases here as well...
Hong Kong is for bargainers!

And if you thought they have only poor quality stuff, you will be surprised, that, actually, there are also very good stuff as well!

DOES ANY OF THAT MAKE ANY SENSE?!?!?
NO?
GOOD.
It wasn't meant to.