Just came back from a 3 week trip with Xuong and Eddie to Hong Kong and Japan. We stayed in Hong Kong for about 6 days and Japan for nearly 2 weeks. In Hong Kong we stayed at Eddie's aunt place and then we stayed at his uncle's place in Macau (which is about a 45 minute ferry ride away.) In Japan, Xuong and I stayed with his host sister's Saori's family for 2 days. We then went to Shin-Osaka Youth Hostel where we stayed for a week. We finished off our vacation with a few days in Tokyo. During our time there we hung out with Xuong and Eddie's Japanese friends: Aki, Hitomi, Tomomi, Riyo and Sachiko. I'm not the biggest fan of travelling, but I had a really good time. My only complaints...Asia is hot as hell this time of year and I broke the LCD on my camera.  Hong Kong/Macau observations: 1. Humid as hell and smells like crap. However unlike the Japanese, they're willing to blast their A/C everywhere. 2. Smoking is pretty much banned everywhere except inside your house but everyone still does it. 3. I was extremely dissapointed with the girls out in HK. Not as many lookers as I expected. 4. All the dudes look the same. 110lbs dripping wet with girly hair. 5. The Pizza Hut in Macau was mad baller! They had things like reservations, a VIP club, and the waiters takes our orders on handheld electronic devices. Food-wise they had things like escargot, raw salmon and fancy looking european dishes. 6. There are more scooters then cars, and driving/traffic is crazy. Forget about 2 seconds of seperation between vehicles, it's more like 2 feet. 7. Saw a C6 Z06 in Macau. Damn thing probably costs 150k out there. Japan observations: 1. Not quite as humid but the sun is beating down on you constantly. Not nearly as liberal with the A/C. 2. Lots, and I mean lots of hot girls. I was extremly suprised seeing how the Japanese girls out here are pretty beat. You can't go over a minute without seeing someone cute/hot. 3. Like the Dave Chappelle Prince skit...all the dudes that look the most like girls got the chicks. If you aren't wearing skin-tight jeans and rockin a Bon Jovi haircut, you won't be getting any girls. An average guy like me wouldn't get shit out there. 4. Some things are retardedly expensive out there. Cup o Noodles, the same exact one they have out here for 10 cents costs $1.50. Are they shipping the damn things to the US and importing them back or something??? Car audio is nearly twice as expensive, even Japanese companies like Pioneer and Alpine. Music CDs are $30, DVDs are $40 and Blu-Ray discs are $80. 5. Jack Bauer and 24 is popular out there. Ads everywhere, toys, commercials, etc. Season 6 boxed set is $200. 6. Sachiko thought I was Mexican. She also said I looked like an actor from Armageddon. She meant Ben Afleck but I think Steve Buschemi is more accurate. 7.Cars absoultely suck out there. Everybody drives a tiny econobox. We saw maybe 3 fixed up cars out there. Here are the photo albums from the trip: http://www.typhan.com/images/albums/japantrip http://www.typhan.com/images/albums/japantripxuong/ http://www.typhan.com/images/albums/stickypics/ Random images: 
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