Sevens 2008

Hong Kong Night View.

This weekend is the Sevens weekend. To the uninformed, Sevens = rugby. In Scotland we have Six Nations played by 6 different rugby-crazy countries and with lots of beer involved. Sevens is played by many more countries and have seven players a side and is THE major sporting event of Hong Kong with tickets changing hands for many more times the face value of the ticket. I am astonished at how a ticket with a face value of 600 dollars can be sold for 6000 dollars. I am seriously in the wrong profession. I should set up some stall outside some dodgy alley and sell Sevens tickets instead of working in my clinic. Initially I did not want to go since I knew nothing about rugby besides the fact that they are generally played by men who are burly and are smarter than footballers. In a podiatrist's point of view, rugby players have more sense than football players as they buy proper fitting shoes unlike footballers who buy shoes too small like women do. The banker convinced me to go but when I have gotten all excited he has told me he sold his ticket. -_- So now I am left with the choice of forking out thousands to watch a game I don't even know anything about (besides the above).

I rather spend my thousands on things I understand better such as massages, manicures and jewellery. However, I am sure the atmosphere will be brilliant as any international sporting will involve beer. Unless it's Wimbledon where it would be strawberries. Maybe next year... or if the banker has sympathy for me maybe I can go catch the Finals on Sunday.

In the meantime, I shall entertain you with wonderfully random photos of the Wonderful Worlds of Whampoa. It is the most amazing tourist attraction in Hong Kong guarenteed to give you a WTF moment. In fact, they should class it as THE place to see in Hong Kong instead of the Peak or IFC or Victoria Harbour. Mind you, they have probably classed it as some protected area already. It is okay to knock down historical buildings to build highrises but its not okay to disturb that ship smack bang in the middle of the housing estate.

Hanging crocrodile.

Tea. No wonder they threw it overboard, it looked like shit.My WTF moment.

Sunset Boulevard!

It takes a bit of getting used to...Like maybe a lifetime.

I found a traditional candy stand inside Treasure World...Dragon Whiskers candy sounds so cool huh?
Freshly made on the spot with organic dragon whiskers!

Filled with super-strength inducing peanuts and sugar.They didn't give some cool name for the filling like Phoenix poo or something.