Or as Wikipedia calls it, “right of way”; the side of the road people drive on. Hong Kong, as a former British colony, requires cars to drive on the left (and drivers to sit on the right side). Other than a harrowing terminal transfer shuttle at Heathrow, I’d never been in a right-hand drive vehicle, [...]
Archive for August, 2007
handedness, especially of roads
31 August, 2007
28 August, 2007
I had a dream this morning about eating Mexican food.
In the dream, I was in Vail for some reason, doing orientation for a job overseas. I remember saying,“So this was my train of thought: oh, we should have Mexican food every night, because we’re leaving the country. But then I remembered, we’re going to be [...]
my Work Email
20 August, 2007
Is “samuel@ied.edu.hk”, because apparently nobody here has ever been named Samuel before. Other ETAs have FirstInitialLastName or just LastName as their campus user name (as in, it isn’t standardized), but for some reason I got this one. This may be related to the program being disorganized, but I’m not one to point fingers.
to-do list (sort of)
15 August, 2007
Plans for the rest of the week/weekend:
–get Hong Kong Resident Identity Card saturday morning: I have to take the train really really early in the morning to make sure I arrive at my appointment on time. There are only five bureaus where you can get a card, and they’re very helpful to have, so appointments [...]
I spoke too soon?
10 August, 2007
Note the little loop and then how it just kind of settles in over the city… (Tai Po, where the school is, is about in the same place as the 11pm forecast X)
On the plus side, class got out an hour early when the staff had to “evacuate” because public transportation shut down. On the [...]
10 August, 2007
typhoon was a bust–lots of rain, warm air, few winds… apparently its thunder got stolen by another typhoon moving northward that glanced off of it.
We went shopping again tonight, and I managed to stay strong and not actually buy anything. Orientation continues to consist of a lot of vague discussion of potential future job responsibilities [...]
