Our day in HK started off with the hotel breakfast which wasn’t very good. It’s curious why hotels in Asia feel the need to serve “western” style breakfasts, when they would probably be so much better serving something local and which they are good at. After breakfast, we had a bit of extra time, so we went outside to look around, but there wasn’t much open, so ended just going around the block and back to our hotel.

Our time in HK, albeit short, has been rather disappointing. This is probably due to the fact that we don’t have much time and the time we do have, we don’t know where to go, other than just wander around. There is a lesson there about traveling in unknown cities and the need for referrals and reference points.

We then got dressed to join our company’s Chinese New Year celebration where we gave our speeches. This time the translation seemed particularly difficult, probably because we don’t understand the language we were being translated into, Cantonese. A lesson in cross-cultural communications and the challenges there.

Before the festivities concluded, we had to rush over to the airport to get checked in for our flight to Malaysia. We were able to rest a bit in the business class lounge and even walk around the concourse to look around. The food in the lounge wasn’t very good, but fortunately, we spotted a Popeye’s Fried Chicken at the food court and grabbed some to eat in the lounge.

For the flight to Malaysia, we ended up on a small little plane, but wasn’t really noticeable. At least they let us use our computers this time so that we can could some shows. After arriving in Kuala Lumpur, we got an airport taxi to take us to our hotel and finally got to bed sometime after midnight.