When you've been in China too long..

Yesterday I flew back from China. I had a connecting flight in
San Fran, and had a short layover - due to my 1st flight being delayed 35minutes.

In China & Hong Kong, there's a large congestion of people all the time. They're all constantly bumping into you, or pushing their way in. It doesn't matter how big/small/old you are, it's just a constant "me first" approach.
As such you quite used to high paced walking and pushing back as much as the locals do, push on me and I push back; at th same force.

Yet the US isn't like that (except at rush hour in certain high traffic locations).

So during my transfer, I was walking at China pace, but not really pushing as there were few people in San Fran airport @ 10pm.
Anyhow, I blow past this older woman at the gate, and maybe just w/ my size & speed, she goes completely down.
She as an old "blue hair," and the stares I got from the others waiting for flight were quite evil.
I did help her up, apologized for knocking her over, and continued on my way.

I didn't really feel wrong for knocking her over, as I didn't actually knock into her, but it did give me a wake up that the US was quite slower.

Awake +13hours from home

well it's been 3 days since I arrived, and seems like I'm finally on China time. I did wake a little earlier then my norm this morning, 5am vs. 7am. As tomorrow is Saturday, I'll be heading out for some sightseeing, going to go to a research farm near my office - Kadoorie Farm. Maybe go to the outlying islands for a hike; but definitely plenty of photo taking.

I think my co workers will finally take me to some more local food places soon, been doing steak and sushi recently. Would prefer some flavorful HK food, so much better then most chinese food I've had. They say that most of the Chinese food is laden with tons of MSG as it's not that fresh, so that's why it all tastes the same.

Hulu - Yay!!

I am loving Hulu, it's a media streaming site which is owned/operated by the networks. I've been watching some Family Guy's I missed. You can't get better content other then downloading illegally or watching whilst it's on TV. The benefit, especially over downloading, is that it's streamed. I don't have to download a full 300-700mb file to watch a show I missed. There are a 2 adverts per 30min show; but their short 30sec or so. In fact they were advertising a movie, I haven't seen anywhere else - a remake of Alvin & the Chipmunks.

Now the question is will I be able to use this while I'm in China?? I hope so, the bandwidth is fine, just need to hope the Chinese government hasn't filtered it.