so, never been to hong kong before, and some/most would say i have still not really been there yet. did not make it out of the airport this time, but whoa is that one big nice airport. oops, did i mention the excitement of our arrival at yvr...they lost the key for the planes front door, or something like that...bottom-line we were stuck at the terminal on the plane for about 20 minutes...i am starting to see some benefits from not racing to get off the plane first, you don't have to stand in the aisle for 20 mins when they lose the keys!
so, hong kong, hkia...3 hour stopover, duty free shopping (always overated), american burger chains (almost always standard menu and taste), travelators, smoking rooms (never cease to amuse me), free internet access courtesy of samsung (this is not the only country i have seen this, do they have an unfair monopoly or what?). suddenly i go from a country where i can read half of all the signs, and i get a free lesson in francais reading the other half. in hkia all the signs are in english, and almost all have this other crazy text on them, but i don't think i will ever learn enough to even recognise that text even if i saw it twice within a ten second time span. it was very similar to being in russia, but st. petersberg has much less in english, as you would probably expect.
so where am i going with this??? nowhere really i guess. i bought a pair of sony inner ear/ear canal headphones, these are truly the best thing you will ever hear. the sound is so clear and beautifully reproduced, man they are sooo cool. they are literally 100% better than any open ear headphones i have used. a couple of notes i must add though...the way they work is to slide into the ear canal, creating a seal which blocks out all other sounds around you, good for sound quality, bad for being able to hear anything or anyone around you. so i guess they are not the headphones for all occasions, but places like on a plane where they can block out a lot of the plane noise, they are great. i had recently tried a pair that apple is selling for use with the ipod, they are ipod white and stand out just a little too much. these sony ones are black and like the apple ones come with three different sized pieces of rubber that you can change depending on the size of your ears, tres cool...
so now sony owes me some money for that free advertising...
so, hong kong, hkia...3 hour stopover, duty free shopping (always overated), american burger chains (almost always standard menu and taste), travelators, smoking rooms (never cease to amuse me), free internet access courtesy of samsung (this is not the only country i have seen this, do they have an unfair monopoly or what?). suddenly i go from a country where i can read half of all the signs, and i get a free lesson in francais reading the other half. in hkia all the signs are in english, and almost all have this other crazy text on them, but i don't think i will ever learn enough to even recognise that text even if i saw it twice within a ten second time span. it was very similar to being in russia, but st. petersberg has much less in english, as you would probably expect.
so where am i going with this??? nowhere really i guess. i bought a pair of sony inner ear/ear canal headphones, these are truly the best thing you will ever hear. the sound is so clear and beautifully reproduced, man they are sooo cool. they are literally 100% better than any open ear headphones i have used. a couple of notes i must add though...the way they work is to slide into the ear canal, creating a seal which blocks out all other sounds around you, good for sound quality, bad for being able to hear anything or anyone around you. so i guess they are not the headphones for all occasions, but places like on a plane where they can block out a lot of the plane noise, they are great. i had recently tried a pair that apple is selling for use with the ipod, they are ipod white and stand out just a little too much. these sony ones are black and like the apple ones come with three different sized pieces of rubber that you can change depending on the size of your ears, tres cool...
so now sony owes me some money for that free advertising...