Education

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21 Nov

On Ana�s recommendation, I decided to expose myself to some local culture.

Expose myself, heh heh.

I went to visit the Hong Kong Museum of History. As the name says, it�s about HKG. The basement is all about geology and flora and fauna and animals and all that nature stuff that used to be where HKG is now. The meat of the museum is on the upper floors where the history of the city is chronicled.

The origin of the Crown Colony is well known, being the most successful booty resulting from state sponsored drug dealing. But there were interesting accounts of HKG under the Japanese occupation and the various crises from 1949 on. These include: fire, flooding, typhoons, drought, riots and transportation issues.

Also some small regime change back in 1997.

Well, it was pretty big. You don�t generally get to read about this stuff outside of HKG.

Sounds like Los Angeles. But like LA, HKG has dealt with these issues in one way or another. Even the regime change.

Finally got hold of April. We�re going to meet in Kowloon Tong, near her workplace and going to grab some local food. Maybe drinks after if there�s time.