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05 July 2008 @ 05:13 pm
Urban Magic July 5th 2008  

Above ground transportation in Hong Kong is a system of travel comprised of the most elaborate mazes and rituals devised b man. A traveler gets around on two different sized busses: large double deckers and 16 person mini busses. The large busses seem lost.  They making turns in the spirit of haphazard gift work.

 They stop on the edge of civilization, open door and wait.  A soft wind bows in through open door and tassels the thin hair of the aging bus driver. He the edge of his mouth rises slightly and he takes a deep breath as the door closes.  The gods of frivolity have accepted the offering.

I imagine that such ceremonies are performed by the Hong Kong transit system in the black of every night and if not literally then in spirit at least..

The mini busses function for based solely on qualifications.  If you can’t speak Catonese then you can’t get off where you want, if you figure out exactly where you need to get off in a hundred some odd “scheduled”  then you are obliged to take the bus to get off the bus and pay again as you take another try around.

Downtown is full of wonder, a panorama of color, cars and people.  The restaurant we ate at did not prepare food but give you a limited selection of the menu at restaurant next door.  Once the food is ordered the waiter walks over, orders and pays for the food.  The only way it makes money is by running a full bar and maintaining a bluesy atmosphere and we stumble back through the impossibly steep streets of Hong Kong I think to myself that is good metaphor for life: fetch drinks and change people for the food you get next door. 
 
 
Current Location: Hong Kong, China
Current Music: Great Balls of fire song in slow Catonese drawl
 
 
 
 

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