Typhoon Memories
Posted by Andy on September 25, 2008, 6:00 am
Some memories from my last night in Hong Kong and Typhoon Hagupit:
Before dinner, in the lobby of our Hotel.
And yes that is correct, I’m doing the whole “Hey look how important I am on my blackberry, yet I still have time to point to the Typhoon level 8 warning sign and show everyone how awesome of a job the hotel is boarding up the windows.”
After seeing this one might want to reconsider going out for dinner on a night like this considering Hong Kong is located right on the water. We considered staying in, but 3 seconds later we decided how often do you get to go out on a Typhoon night.
Though Hong Kong is pretty small and it’s subway system pretty efficient there are still some places where you can’t simply hide from the elements.
Though the path was trecharous, we eventually made it to dinner, and after dinner my friend told me about a place of legend in Hong Kong. A place where boys become men, and men become drunk, and women become scared of the drunk men who were once boys. A place where this transition takes places only on treacherous nights like these.
And that place my friends, is Typhoon. Apparently they serve free shots when a Typhoon hits level 8, talk about sytematically trying to weed out the riff-raff of society.
Well that’s where it ended. A little night cap here and a little night cap there and before you knew it we were on a plane the next day flying over the typhoon to Taiwan and back to from Taiwan to the US.
So on a final note I’d like to bid my friends Typhoon Sinlaku and Hagupit farewell, you will be missed, we had good times, almost became BFFs if you had not tried to make out with me and whispher sweet nothings in my year.
Not bad though, all in all 3 typhoons/hurricanes in 2 weeks for the Red Ledge staff. Looks like a record we’ll have to try to beat next year.
2008
Red Ledge 3:
Spinning Swirly Things: 0
2009
TBD
