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    Grin I'm going to Hong Kong! .....help!

    I guess I should be excited, but right now I'm just waiting for my passport (mails out on the 26th), then I buy a ticket and find my way to Hong Kong...job for the summer.

    Great opportunity, etc etc, we all know PG doesn't worry about such things. I want to know a few things:

    - I speak Cantonese, but not well enough to be errr, well, 10 year old level. Well maybe.

    - I don't write or read. I'm illiterate.

    How doomed am I? Be crushingly honest. I'm told the business sector is fluent in english and respects asians who can speak and write fluently. So I don't think there's a big problem there. It's the wandering around, the buying of food, and most importantly, the clubbing (!!) Is it any good? What is Hong Kong like?

    I'm assuming there are members of EoFF who frequent here and are from HK. Wanna meet PG? :D

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    Enjoy Hong Kong, it's a lovely city (I've been there quite a few times myself).
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    Quote Originally Posted by pureghetto
    I don't write or read. I'm illiterate.
    In that case that was a surprisingly well written post. Well done. Good luck reading the replies.

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    Awesome...how long are you staying? If it's more than a week I don't think you're doomed at all.
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    Yeah but how much actual cantonese is needed to be known? Will I pick up more than usual? Help I want pie!!! :(

    Oh and what's teh clubbing scene like there? I KNOW THERE ARE PPL FROM HONG KONG OR AT LEAST PEOPLE WHO HAVE VISITED!11ONE

    *hides*

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    Isn't Iri in that area? You should hook up with her.

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    Well I'm open to meeting anybody, but 'hook up'? asl?

    :p

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    Eh somantics. Take it as you will.

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    Hong Kong huh..well, have fun, and don't eat any sea food that looks suspicious...xD..oh and go to that big Toys 'R Us they have there. And lastly, take some awesome pictures to show us ^_^.

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    PG have a good plane [strike]crash[/strike] flight!. maybe I'll come see you . Oh and you'll be doomed and I'm betting you'll be calling home wanting to come sleep in your own bed in 3 hours <3

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    I'm sure you'll do fine. English would probably be a common language, but if I were you, you probably need to sharpen up your Cantonese, just in case the people you work with can't speak English very well.

    Apparently, I have been declared banished.

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    You're going to catch so many horrible diseases.

    Enjoy yourself.
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    I went to Hong Kong and couldn't speak any Asian language at all, and then I went on a boat and kicked the asses of 20 henchmen of a Cuban cokelord. Then I busted some fat dragon and high kicked the king of Korea. I did all this from my the womb of my mother.

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    Meh, it's HK. You hardly need any Cantonese at all, IMHO. I have friends who have lived there almost all their lives, and they're completely Chinese-illiterate, and deaf and dumb. xD

    It's very Western, it is. And the SHOPPING. HECKARZ, YEAH. xD But expensive. But anyways...HAVE A GREAT TIME! ^_^
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