Hong Kong Walkabout

Here in HKIS, as our last writing project, we will plan a tour through Hong Kong. We are dropped off at City Hall. We take a picture, and go write about the Chinese food upstairs.

The picture from the left consist of Sebastian Wong (Known as 'Sea bass.'), Junsung Park, Inwoo (Me or nicknamed Incow or Oomni),m and Aaron (Ayre boy). We are heading to Ifc. The rules are simple, do not take taxi's or private cars. Public transport only. Oh yeah, walking is allowed.






Here, to the left, are pictures of what I saw on my camera, walking from City Hall, to IFC2. Don't own a car? The most common car in Hong Kong is the red taxi. We also saw Mini buses. Below the mini bus is some statues and a sign of a shortcut. One of the most famous statues is the Sumo. Our plan is to walk through Ifc, go to Mannings, and go to exchange square (The shortcut.), and write. The semi famous is the two cows, excactly the same. Theere's also a donut sort of thing. There are more statues like people made of fake gold, a metal lump in the back ground, the golden ring was tooken while walking to Ifc on the road. The golden dragon is from Happy Valley.

Now, the Ifc is here. If you eat Chinese food, try the Crystal Jade. Vegetarian? Eat 'Dressed.' There's a lot of tech stores here. Dymocks, and a good fashion shop, called Lane Crawford which is expensive and huge oh yeah, it's good too!

We are now heading to the peak. We will walk through HK park, but we took a normal tram, and my batteries ran out on my camera. The hk park has a fountain where you go underneath, however, we used umbrellas. But I can show you it online. I went into this very fountain in 2007 with my cousin, sister, and me. No umbrellas.

The peak tram is famous. It is a tram that is over 100 years old. Obviously, it gets to peak, and back. It's the red tram by the way. I used to live on the peak on dynasty court, tower 2, Floor 41A. On the peak, we wandered around.We went to burger king, sat down, and wrote, we came back down, and walked a little, as time got short, we broke a rule. We took a taxi, got off at the ferry boats took a photo, walked across a land bridge, and took a taxi to school. The parents wouldn't listen to me say "You can walk down!" and rode the peak tram.

Middle School

I'd been herea million times. Sometimes just wandering, others going to baseball, basketball, or soccer. I feel guilty but hey, they deserved it. There was a locker, and I was there with my friend Matthew and his brother Daniel. It was open, and it had candy inside. But somehow, there were no ants or roaches. So we all ate some and ran away.

So what, I know the middle school from the inside structure and where stuff are, but what happens here? Well, I leave that to my sister, she talks about social and academic problems. Man, she whines for 10 minutes, straight. Sometimes, me and my older sister say "Shutup!"
But she's always bragging about she got a whole bunch of friends. And don't forget academics. She get exceeding expectations and got one meeting. And she things meeting is as bad as can be.

But I wonder, she has a social enemy, and I'm not strong socially. To me, friends just come and go. Junsung, just took interest and since Jason's friends, he became my friend along with Kwanlong. Since the populars made friends, I was soon popular too. But what is this balance breaks. What if a new kid steals my authority? And another thing...

Food. The food thats on the Chartwells menue was disgusting. And I don't bring or buy. I'm on the list. So its a waste of money. But one thing is that I don't worry about who I'm with in class. I can always make friends, but it would be a bonus. Oh yeah, detention cleaning if you're late constantly. Another thing is my friends are also threatening (Jason and Kwanlong) are shouting behind the person I have a crush on and saying "Hey (Name), Inwoo wants to tell you something!" or "(Name) likes you!" I tell them to stop, but they won't, so what do I do?

Duh. I fight. But Mr Navis said that "If you get in a fight, you might get suspended. If you do it constantly, you get expelled. I'm not worried about the principal talk, I'm worried about the parent talk. They scold me won't stop nagging and shout for a month or more I'm guessing. So much for loving parent. Ohyeah, but I'll be in Korea so, nothing to worry about except Korean style, International school trouble. And in a fight, Korean kids know Tae-Kwan-Do.

Nightmarish Middle.

So as you can see, there is absolutely NOTHING to worry about.And that was it, recess. I climbed up the stairs. Sebastian, my best friend called. "Wait up Inwoo!" I waited. I said "I bet he meant to worry when he said don't worry, it'll be fine." We started laughing.

I felt sorry. My sister was doing homework for 2 hours and she's really smart. And her reputation got messed up because of a girl who didn't like her joining her group. So she had stress and was awake in bed for 1 hour or more. I didn't like that. But too bad I'm not staying here, so yeah. I was always kinda a forgetful and talkative person. That meant I might be late for class and forget my combination or forget to lock the door. You see, I'm not the most responsible person. Well, sorta heard that the school in Korea is like that too except bigger with the social stuff, like vandalizing. I also have a habit of getting in the popular boys way. But in this case, I knew Junsung for 3 years because of violin class.

I just hope that I manage to get a friend in a high position, someone who will help me like Junsung until my reputation is built in. And, I also hope my schoolbag or jacket or any belonging needed is vandalized. Man, I also heard that in local schools, there's fight very often, but this is international school, so it speaks English, so I can act like I'm in HKIS. But here, 6th grade is still Upper Primary. One more year of happy youth. But in 5th grade, I still wanna be 4 or 5 years old. As a little kid, I could get away with more stuff and sit on the floor crying... That hilarious...

The Infiltration

"Go go go!" Shouted Daniel. I sprinted, crouching not making noise. I shot all 6 bullet off my revolver. All hit him square in the belly. "Good shot!" Daniel said. One less enemy to take down. I took my shells out, filled up, placed my gas, and stood up. A guy shouted like a terrorist "Alahuakbah!" I shot him in the chest as his M19 pistol hit my chest 6 times. I still resisted. A guy came behind and shouted "BANZAI!" He had a Glock 18. Miss. That was because he was running. I shot him easy in the stomach 2 times. My last 3 bullets were wasted on a insane person jumping a me shooting blindly with an MP5K. Daniel took my back as reinforcements to our team came. Daniels Desert eagle shot another person. "Traguvitch!" we shouted. It was a Russian word meaning 'Targo or enemy down!' from Call of Duty 4, Modern Warfare.

Hey, anyone hungry? I said. It was break, and we had pizza. This time, I had borrowed a ghillie suit (Extreme camouflage.) I lied in the grass, though disgusted by the ants, spiders, and cockroaches around. Oh yeah, I borrowed a Type 96 so yeah. I shot and hit a sand bag. It stood still.I Advanced.I threw the sniper over my back, and switched with my AK-74 or AK-47 (I couldn't really tell the difference.) A guy reloading was behind the car. I flashed to Automatic and fired. A long line hit his stomach square. He tumbled over. He screamed. I would need to get the heck outta here. I heard some shout.I ran into the dirt. I knew a lot of the boys don't check the bushes.I lay and waited. It was actually sort of comfortable when I lyed.

I lyed for two minutes. I almost fell asleep. I turned the radio on. I whispered "Reinforcements in the dumpster Vin." "Okay, I copy. Where is your position and status? Over." I told him. "There is a bush right behind the dumpster, and I am currently outnumbered 3-1." And that was it. I waited. then, four teammates appeared behind the bushes. One said, "It sure stinks..." I jumped straight out and charged not shouting.I shot. I was shot with a guy with a Double Eagle Shotgun. Three bullets hit me. I gasped. I stood. The instructor didn't see me. I continued.

I avoided gun fire, up the stairs. I picked some guys out with my sniper, bolt-action. I remembered the time some people in our class cluster were watching a Civil War movie and some boys and girls said "Oh... Its a semi-automatic gun." It was bolt action... Hilarious. Anyways, where was I? Right. I took the guards out.I shot through the window of the other base. In a hurry, they rushed over. 'Big mistake!' I thought. I shot as many as possible. I climbed down for some Close-Quarters.

I crawled. I was followed by a parade f bullets. I took him out with my sniper, getting shot 6 times. I climbed up the stairs, and I looked around. An over turned couch. I shot the wall behind to ricochet, just in case. Startled cries. That would be the rest of the guards. It won't be long before a patrol squad comes... I grabbed the flag in the center of the building. I slung my AK-74 or 47 loose at my waist. So I held the flag in the other hand. I climbed down, on my way.

I exited the door cautiously. I took constant cover, A guy walked right past, I held my breath and hoped he wouldn't see me. He didn't. A guy approached. I shot him, not taking chances. I was advancing.A patrol squad came, I was in trouble.

I slung the AK backwards, not bothering to put it on my back.I rushed, sprinting. I stabbed the flag next to ours, getting shot at least 15 times. I did it, at a price. We had won, because of me. I was proud, then, I collapsed, exhausted. The gun was uncomfortable, so I put them away. And waited for the instructor's call.

The Invasion

"Wahhhh!" I woke straight up, grabbing a chair leg, as I hit the zombie in the face. They had busted the Mong Kok MTR station hold. As I pulled the lever and an electric whir appeared. I pressed a button and jumped in. Stupid zombies were scraping at the armored windows. Crunch. I looked out the window. There were electrocuted and squished zombies. Yet they were silent. Then they all started moaning. They crawled for the train. To late. Even the under belly of the train was armored. At the gunners seat, I threw a grenade on the floor just as I arrived. I hopped out. An explosion. I ran, with the burning zombies chasing me. These zombies were once human, but the rabid Swine Flu killed, then drove them insane by rabies.

I found a chain with a hook attached on an a boat in Repulse Bay. Was that a person? No, it was an infected police. I smashed his head with the hook, connected to his neck, I kicked his body back, and ripped. I took his armor, gun, stun gun, and car. The Magnum was heavy. I drove, knowing that the district was infected. I ran over more zombies. Reaching Redhill, I looked. There, Kwanlong, Junsung and Sebastian were all with the same equipment as me. I picked them up. We talked in the armored car. "I was in Mong Kok when it started. I wasn't allowed out." I said. "I was playing with Junsung and I wasn't allowed out." said Sebastian. We drove away. Driving to a police station, in hunt for guns and ammo, we went in. There, the zombie halls were thick with mucus. I found a box, then, something inside moved. It was an infected cat. I whacked it, killing it. i found the rifle room. We grabbed fat packs of ammo and rifles. Some how, we found a chainsaw. I sawed the butt of the gun and the barrel.

"Lahhhhh!" A wave of police said in the same tone, same pitch. I blew of its leg. I took the club and hit another head. It flew away. The virus had weakened the genetic structure. We had a cure and vaccine, but the infected didn't. Even a bite would infect. As I reloaded in a corner, I was saved, by a bullet from Sebastian. Suddenly, we were ambushed by zombies, pinning us down. We pushed, but each did the same procedure. It scratched, then bit our neck.Sebastian was still up with the gun. He shot them all, but it was too late. It didn't get the others, but it got me. I heard someone say " Inwoo was a brave comrade, too bad we lost him. Let's find new recruits." And the rims of my vision, went red. I heard and saw them left. They couldn't hear me when I said "Help." Then, that was my last thought. Blackness. A sound came. I thought it was the sound of hell or heaven, but then I woke. It was the alarm clock. It was a nightmare.

Deep Trouble

(Not meant to be offending. I just needed to add dramatic measures.)
Ting! The mac book pro chimed when I tapped it. "Stop it!!! I'm gonna tell Mr Navis!" I replied, knowing he was my friend he would not. I replied plainly "Yeah right." Just then, he got out of his seat, talked to Mr Navis, and Mr Navis walks right up, points at a corner, and I move my desk there. Sitting and sulking, I cursed underneath my breath. I heard Junsung say "Mr Navis, Inwoo keep's touching my computer." Then Jason added "He kicked my computer." This was not true. I would not kick Jason's computer. His computer was so worn out looking, that it did not look worthy for vandalizing. Only a shiny laptop like Junsung's would attract me. Even worse, Elaine and the other girls said "(person not willing to enter name A.K.A PNWTEN), Inwoo, and Satoshi was calling us names like plop and plopper."

Mr Navis pointed at the hall. "Go to the office, I'll be with you soon." He said that in a cold, grim and vicious voice. It was so cold I could nearly see icicles hanging out PNWTEN's nose. And he didn't get cold easily. I sulked with the class staring in wonder, as i walked. "What are you looking at? Do your own stuff!" I shouted. I left the cluster, hearing a muffled Mr Navis voice saying "Why are you guys friends with Inwoo? All he does is get into trouble!" I closed the door, keeping my head low and walked up to the office, sitting on a blue couch. There I sat for the next 45 minutes, waiting for Mr Navis. The secratery asked me "What are you doing here?" I boldly replied "I got in trouble." Who's your teacher?" Once again boldly "Mr Navis." And the silence was silence. The only thing was the doors swinging, and the occasional cough. Mr Navis came.

Interrogaion began. Why did you touch Junsung's laptop?" "It was a joke." Laptop's are expensive, not one of those plastic BB guns. You can come back to class as long as you don't touch the laptops. Okay?" I nodded. I followed him. In class, everyone came to my aid. "Are you okay?" "I was so worried." and Etc. I nodded to them all, and the day dragged on.

The Fish

The roar of the engine blocked out all noise. The blue sky made me want to stay for ever. But if I wanted to sleep, then I do that at home. Right now, I was here to fish. Let me tell you about a couple of fish I caught.

Let me start with the most dangerous one. "Dad, I think I got a bite!" reeling like a madman, I pulled the rod, hooking the hook in the mouth. pulling it out, was disappointing how the tiny fish could have given me a big task. As I pulled the fish boat ward, my dad shouted "Don't touch it!" I stopped. He told the skipper in rapid Korean "Can you get the blow fish off?" with a nod, he rushed over.

I lugged a fish out of water. It was beautiful. Rainbow colored, a foot big, and slippery. I took it in. I noticed the razor teeth. Might be a carnivore. But it was a close call. I warned my dad. In the cooler box, I looked at the remains of the worm. Half was bitten away.

"Look what I caught!" Holding a sardine about 9 inches long, it thrashed. I knew sardines were school travelers. For 30 minutes, they hanged below. But it was gone. Now there was no fish. about every 2 minutes. Exhausted, I went in a cabin and lied on a blanket.

We were back from the two our trip. We called the rest of the family. We counted 67 fish. a lot right? The person next to us had just over 100 in 2 hours. At the beach, we scared the wits out of the rock crabs.

We found a tiny rock crab, and I MEAN tiny. It was as big as this period. (Look at left) In a tiny trop of water in a tiny bag, we left. Somehow, we managed to find a crap the size of my fist. A full grown rock crab. We played with it in the car. Oh yeah. 1 thing too. I crept a single sardine. We purchased a fishbowl and it looked cool. It was the end of the adventure.

The Sleepover

3 kids, 2 beds, and 1 house, and a sleep over with a a friend. Three kids because of Jason's brother who claimed himself Communist, Jason, and me, Inwoo. This is a sleep over I will never forger because it was the worst sleep over ever.

7:00, I was at Jason's doorway. Just in time for dinner. Sitting awkwardly at the dinner table, getting my share. I couldn't wait till the fun started. 7:30, we are playing games. 8:00, still being addicts. 8:30, we get bored. 9:00, we go out and march around the compound with broken BB guns. 9:30, we're back. 10:00, we make a fort. 10:30, we jump down a floor to land on a mattress. 11:00, We use the computer, once again. 12:00, we stop, change clothes, take showers, and brush teeth. 1:00, Jason goes to bed.

1:30 A.M, Robert is wide awake shouting. With only 2 beds, I must sleep on the floor. 1:45, Jason's mom comes in and shouts at us. 2:00, Jason shouts and beats Robert up so he shuts up. 4:00, barley a wink of sleep. I walked down stairs. 4:15, on a low quality mattress, I fall asleep with no blanket with the air conditioning on high. 4:30, I wake up, wearing my day clothes, both pants and shirt a a pair of pajamas is a blanket. 6:15, I wake up. I need to get more sleep. 6:30, after 15 minutes of lying down, I head up to wake Jason up. With out success, I go down, take Jason's laptop, and play games.

7:00, Jason's awake. We play games together. 7:30, everyone is awake and changed. We eat breakfast. 8:00, Jason's family heads to church as they drop me off. 8:10. I go transform in to my boxers and go into my soft, comfortable bed. 10:10, I wake up when my dad tells me how long I was sleeping. My life goes back to normal. I play Wii, computer, and eat lunch. I continue until my dad tells me to do some math and reading. I listen and do so. A day wasted is a day well spent.

When The Relatives Came

Every single year until my grandparents leave this world, they visit me. The first thing they say when they see me is "My my, how much you've grown!"But you wouldn't understand so let me begin from the beginning. My name is Inwoo and I'm going to talk about a time my grandparents came.

I saw my grandpa pick up a big bag of luggage. They were going to stay at my house for 1entire week! "Oh boy, this was going to be a hard week." I silently thought. The first thing they did was tell me how much I've grown and then hugged me. Then they talked with mom& dad about the trip.

We packed the luggage. We called the taxi at 5:30 and it took 30 minutes to come. Enough for breakfast. We left. It took about an hour to get to the airport. Of course, we went on Korean Air. And the taxi driver couldn't understand us so we called you. And it took another hour to get here! 1 hours difference earlier in Korea. That's my grandparents travel story.

I had to show him my room. Up in the attic there was a couch. I brought my game boy up, and hid there. Sometimes playing up to 5 hours a day. Until grandpa found me. Reading the Korean comic, I said "Can I play now?" My grandpa loved me and said yes and let me be a spoiled child (Tee-hee.) On the computer, I played a variety of different games.

Some how, the week wasn't AS miserable as others. Actually, I sort of enjoyed it. Base ball with grandpa and dad, Sit outside and read with grandpa, and go in the car talking cheerfully in a car. It wasn't that bad. But the week was gone and life went on. But it was a week never to be forgotten.

Trespassing

Silently, walked, down the worn concrete road, watching out for dogs,the electronic buzz, making me cautious. Then, all the sudden, a dark brown colored dog runs at us, but halting. Daniel, leader of operation Sewage Invasion say "It's either scared or not allowed to go over here." But as we advance, it backs away. We hear some staff, talking in Cantonese about all the barking. We run out, almost tripping, if we tripped, we would fly forward, getting injured badly. Running out, we couldn't go back in, for fear they would close the gates, with us locked inside. But we had an idea. Daniel said "If we're locked, we'll say "We were wondering what was here, so we went inside, we were just curious." So in we go. The four of us pack together, armed with bb guns. Why couldn't we just climb over the walls?

1. They were metal, solid nets with tiny holes impossible to put your feet in, not loose metal nets.
2. Even if we could climb over, there was barbed wire on top of the fence.

The decision was made, we would enter the water station, once we got our gas, guns, and bullets.

Stalking inside, we looked out. There were large, man made caves, dog houses, and offices. There was a man, standing there. Being cautious, thinking he was a security guard, we walked over, lied down, and crawled in to the bushes. Getting out binoculars, we looked. But Daniel however, was looking through a BB gun sniper scope. He saw the man, what looked like talking to himself, but talking to himself. He was actually talking through a microphone on his shirt and also a small head phone on his head.

He got into a bus, with a short man in a suit following him in. They got out, leaving us, almost alone. There were the dogs who were scared, and the guy in the office. They both were busy. Running while crouching silently is not an easy task. In the end, we made. We were going in the direction of the buzz. It grew so loud, we had to shout. No one was here. Walking on the catwalk, we looked down. a dozen tanks stood there with an open top. One held water, another dirty water, trash, and then there was the human dung. disgusting the stench!!! Then we heard people shouting in Cantonese. Alarmed, but not loud, we did not run, we walked. As soon as the trees blocked the view of the building, we ran. The gates were closing, no they weren't, I was hallucinating.

The gate was closing as soon as we got out. And after all this, Daniel said "Hey, wanna do that again next week?" We all sounded reasonable. This was trespassing, but it was fun when not caught.

Pacific Place

This building, is a great place to buy souvenirs! It has almost any disc at Hong Kong records. You name it. My favorite X-box 360 games are Gears of War 1&2, Call of Duty 5, Fallout 2, and Left 4 Dead. If you're hungry, try Dna Ryan's Chicago Grill, or if you're looking for the Chinese things, might as well go to Peking Garden. If you ever need to go buy things like water, food, and other things, go to Great, it is the absolute the best grocery shop. There's also a good luxury shop, Lane Crawford. If youre going to go do sports, gigasports is the shop for you! Click here to go find more.

Bank of China

This building, having being a very tall building as you can see, is very important. This is the second largest commercial banking group in Hong Kong. It looms over the shorter buildings. I, having used to live close to that building, had always went there to go to the Pacific Place.

I was lost almost here. It is a very large building, but before, when I was younger, I had taken the wrong turns because I was playing the "step in the tiles" game. Looking at the floor, I was heading the right way, they take a sudden turn,go left, and I continue going right, and I get lost. But then my sister So Jung realizes I'm not there, and so she shouts "Inwoo!" and I quickly realize there is no voices around me, so I look around, and see my sister, waving her arms. Here's the funniest part. The shiny, smooth, flat marble surface I'm running on towards her. Then, I slip and trip. All the adults near by look at me and say are you okay. I nod and keep going. It's funny how people like me can trip when there's nothing there. In fact, I still do, when I'm 10 in 2009. But it isn't occasional, it's rare. This too, if someone who's been to Hong Kong see's this building in a picture, they would immediately recognize it as the Bank Of China.

Redhill

If you're planing to stay here, a good place is Red Hill. It is close to HKIS Ups and Ms, and very close to HS. This is the ideal place for HKIS students. The houses on the top is my house. The house inside picture is house 6.

My neighbor hood is great for playing outside. On a top of a hill with a playground, if you think, you can think of a lot of things. Me and my pals even go out to the woods, climb tree's make bases, play bb gun wars, make bonfires, run around and jump of things. It's crazy, but fun. One time, the oldest, a 9th grader named ****** had a tin bottle full of lighter fluid and burned our shoes. We burned a lot of other stuff too. There's another time all 8 of us climbed onto the guard house roof, and made wierd noises until the guard saw us. Once, ****** and ***** told me they flicked the catapillar off my back, but it was still there, then it crawled up, up and up, into my neckand it was itchy so I scratch my neck, and there's a catpillar on my pinkie. All the black hairs hurt and itch,I fling the caterpillar of and scream and run around in circles. It can be a great place, but summer's a killer. With the humidity, the only place to play is inside the pool, or in the houses. And now, Daniel doesn't come out to play alot so playing outside is over.

Ifc

This building is the Ifc mall. It is the trade mark of Hong Kong. It is one of the tallest buildings in the world. The miniature version of the towering giant on the right is Ifc 1. The taller one is Ifc 2. Ifc stands for

International

Financial

Center.

The first day's I came to HK, the IFC was one of the first buildings I visited. My mom told me it would be like a famous mall in Seoul, Korea. WRONG! It was cleaner, bigger, straighter, and quieter. I was shocked, I thought "Is this actually what a mall looks like?" My mom told me "Lotte is suitable for younger children, this place is more business." Just then, I saw a American family walk by with a young child my age, staring at me as if I were an alien. I stared back angrily. He turned away. I backed away but my mom was gone. I was lost. I went looking as fast as I could for an information stand. I found one. But I found a stand, and spoke Korean. Then I remembered, this was Hong Kong. I said very simply "I lost." Luckily, Hong Kong was populated with Koreans, and it also happened a Korean lady was walking past. She immediatley took action. In english, she said "I speak korean, please let me use the microphone." I told the lady my mother's name. I thanked her and just as she left, my mom came. She said "Where were you?" I told her "I was here, and a lady helped me." I never saw that lady again.

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Building of The Mountains

The Peak, is a district. It's a tourist attraction. There are 2 ways to get there. Either hike up the road, or take the tram. The road is an ordinary, steep road. But the tram, is unique.

There is also the banana building. It is a tourist attraction.

Here is a view from the Peak. It's very high as you can see, it's very high. The Building you see the most is the IFC mall.

I used to live in this great mountain. I hiked up with my parents, lagging behind as I was 7. We reached there after what felt like eternity. We had entered. We ate lunch at the restaurant we always went to. (I forgot the name.) The girls went shopping, I went home with dad. As we were going, I passed a video game shop and I stopped, but my dad didn't notice me. My dad was already gone. It was after my dad left I noticed he wasn't there. I remembered what my mom said if I got lost, don't move from where I was. After eternity, my mom passed saying "What are you doing here? Wheres dad?" I told her I got lost, and I went back home. I thought "I will never get lost there, ever again!" But I soon forgot that and got lost again.

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About this page.

This page is my memories of hong kong. I will post pictures and we can discuss it together. If I leave, you can tell me about Hong Kong, new, people, and other things.