In love again

After a good night's sleep and a typical HK day today, I am back in love with the city again.

It's not just that it's a place where anything could happen. It's that it's a place where anything CAN (and will) happen. Practically nothing is impossible, and that's what makes it great for every single one of my multiple personalities...

You can have a high power teleconference with Korea, China, Taiwan and Japan before breakfast (like I did this morning), then you can hop in a taxi under the pouring rain (it's monsoon season at the moment) and race to an incredibly luxurious hotel for a facial (for which a friend gave me a voucher - pampering is so much more relaxing when it's free) and then stroll back in the sun (the rain has relieved the sky for a while) to the Star ferry so that you can cross the beautiful harbour that sits right on your doorstep.

On the weekend you can join your friends for a junk trip to a secluded beach, or hike up a steep hill in search of a breathtaking vista over HK's nature trails. That's right, nature.

And then you can also dial a number and get McDonalds delivered right to your doorstep. Yep, 24/7 in Hong Kong, you can now save those 100 calories it previously took to walk to the junk food dispenser and sit on your sofa instead! I'll probably never use this service, but it sure is nice to know that it exists if I should ever want to.

You can't actually get your new name pronounced the way it should be, but that's a small price to pay for any idea that comes through your mind becoming reality...