Today in Hong Kong I get a view from the Peak on a clear day. Hong Kong is a totally modern city and quite bedazzling depending on your view. Around the harbor the buildings are all new with mirrored surfaces, reaching toward the sky. The tallest, the IFC, is 88 floors and towers above all the others. When I was here 11 years ago, in 1995, the newest and tallest building was the Bank of China building, built by I.M. Pei with his signature triangular shapes (he built the pyramid of the Louvre) outlined with white neon all up the building. It looks like a building made by trianimoes. (For those of you who did not spend countless hours trying to entertain yourselves while snowed-in in Tahoe during your formative years, this is a game like Dominoes but with triangular pieces instead of rectangular). At night these outlines are lit with stark white lights that reflect in the newer buildings around this totally cool building. It is still the coolest building in Hong Kong in my humble opinion.
This is my first impression of Hong Kong. It is a pretty amazing city, really. In this city of amazing dichotomy, one thing holds constant: where ever you are, there are always hundreds of people around you.
I am looking for jobs- most want me to have a permit to work here, which I can't get unless I have a job. Total catch-22 and so aggravating.
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