Short blog post on my work life in
HK Magazine the beginning of this year. It's
work, y'know, no matter how much more casual we are than the office culture during my year working in architecture, I try and keep photos to a minimum. So what's pictured below is me being super excited about the January issue of
The List magazine because my first ever cover story was there, free gifts from Intercontinental Hotel, and missing the shuttle bus from Causeway Bay to work - two times in a row.
Okay, I gotta explain... since I only have one day off from school on Wednesdays, on Mondays I need to rush to work right after my morning 9:30 to 12:30 class. It's a big hurry because I have to get to Causeway Bay, shovel lunch down my throat at some random place, and run to the bus stop - which is not even
in Causeway Bay exactly, it's on the periphery of Wanchai. The bus stop is
super far away from the MTR station and civilisation (for Hong Kong city standards, anyway), so basically the time on average it takes to step off the train to run to the bus stop is 20 minutes, thanks to the uneven traffic lights. All of these traffic lights cross major roads, so I can't even jaywalk. Oh, and the time it takes from my class in Eliot Hall, the peak of HKU to the MTR station? At least 20 minutes too.
The bus stop is actually on Yat Sin Street, and it's not a place where the shuttle bus can stop and wait until the designated time it's supposed to be there. More than often, there's serious traffic, so if you're not there when the bus arrives, it's gone. It's scheduled to come at 2PM but I've arrived at 1:50PM and still missed it. I've also arrived at 2:05PM but still caught it. It's fucking crazy.
The third time around, I just decided to catch the bus from Kowloon Tong at 2:15PM altogether. Turned out to be a lot more convenient because at least the bus stop was right outside the freakin' MTR station.
