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Second Trip to Longhua - 2/26/08

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Taipei airport very early in the morning    
     
 
My gate   Bored... taking pictures of myself
     
 
    Hello Kitty
     
 
So nice when it's not crowded   My definition of Hell on earth... a perfume store
     
 
Some of my fellow passengers to Hong Kong   My ride to Hong Kong from Taipei
     
 
Escalator in Hong Kong Airport   These apartment buildings facinate me
     
 
They're so narrow   And there are so many units
     
 
Suspension bridge    
     
 
Tai Lam Tunnel   Inside the endless tunnel
     
 
     
     
 
     
     
 
Hanging clothes   Must be laundry day
     
 
Can tell that we're getting closer to Longhua... the vehicles get more and more sketchy   Until finally... we're on the streets of Longhua... the streets with no lanes
     
 
Early morning smog   My traveling companions
     
 
Foxconn Longhua campus   Abby Road
     
 
This is A2... the building where I spend most of my time    
     
 
The VIP center on the left   Looking down the street on the LH campus
     
 
Terry Guo's offices   The overpass
     
 
     
     
 
    Food stalls at street level
     
 
     
     
 
     
     
 
    Our taxi
     
 
The taxi drivers don't take any chances    
     
 
Ken and Allison   The front of the Dragon Springs... my hotel
     
 
The inside court at the 'Dragon'   Not sure what this was... some bracing over the court yard
     
 
Court yard fountain   The view from my room
     
 
Close-up of the garbage pile under my window    
     
 
Interesting signage   Folks who appeared to be living on the roof across from my room
     
 
Night signage    
     
 
Air pollution... gahk    
     
 
The moon!  My Gawd... Nature!    
     
 
    Rework?  Do they have an SOP?
     
 
Service area outside A2... the building where I worked   Looking the other way
     
 
My dream job   The pool... it was bitterly cold... somewhere in the 60s I'm guessing
     
 
Nice pool though... but next time I'm bringing a wetsuit... I'm not as studly as these guys    
     
 
One of the many golf carts parked in front of A2   Jakub... isn't he a stud?
     
 
Ken.. trying to keep a straight face   Reggie reacting to the traffic... my trick was just not to look
     
 
Here he is trying to look all calm    
     
 
My favorite sushi place in Longhua... actually the only sushi I've ever had in Longhua   Yiho! 
     
 
Yiho and Jakub   Some kind of pre-work cerimony
     
 
All done... time for work   Reggie and Ken said nothin' raw... at a sushi place?!
     
 
     
     
 
Nasty   Once again I ate too much
     
 
    Two crazy vehicles... but typical... dad taking his family on the bicycle... and then one of those moving van tricycles.
     
 
     
     
 
     
     
 
    Oh!  Here is one of those crazy guys riding a bicycle through traffic carrying three propane tanks... it's like he's a bomb!
     
 
Just after this picture was taken... he buzzed right through a red light without a care    
     
 
     
     
 
Family hauling company    
     
 
     
     
 
This was a picture of a dead chicken in the elevator at the Dragon Spring... irrestible huh?    
     
 
     
     
 
Sun setting over Shenzhen   Rush hour
     
 
My Hong Kong hotel room....   Very nice after two weeks in Longhua
     
 
    They upgraded Jim and me...
     
 
Out and about in Hong Kong   Jim on the ferry
     
 
Hong Kong from the ferry   Ferry landing
     
 
Street in Hong Kong    
     
 
Ally in Hong Kong   The Peninsula Hotel
     
 
    Fountain in front of the Peninsula Hotel
     
 
I like this picture... the tower in the background just seemed to float in the night sky   More pictures of my hotel room... this was one of my bathrooms
     
 
     
     
 
     
     
 
Next morning... picture out my window... you can see me in the reflection in the window across the street   Ferry out in the harbor from my room window...
     
 
Tai Chi practitioners across the street   Reflections of flags in the morning
     
 
Sat with my coffee and watched the harbor much of the morning   View out my bathroom window
     
 
Gorgeous building you could see from my room    
     
 
Reflection of penthouse in building next to my hotel    
     
 
Hong Kong across the harbor    
     
 
     
     
 
Water flowing down a sculpture   Cool sandbox thing... would be fun to do something like this in our house
     
 
The front of the hotel   Across the street from the hotel at street level
     
 
Random Hong Kong scenes    
     
 
Shipping traffic in the harbor   Cranes for unloading ships
     
 
The top of one of the suspension bridges   Hong Kong airport
     
 
Good advise when driving in China   The guy next to the black guy is/was the rudest person I've ever experienced on an airplane
     
 
EVA airplane scene   We sit in the very nose of the airplane on EVA
     
     
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