Practicing Mandarin in Hong Kong 🇭🇰

What's up, grinders? Welcome back to the channel. Today's the day I officially fly to China. I am on the train with my wife, who has already forgotten like half of her items. We're starting our trip. My wife is like, "Don't film me. Don't film me." Because she's like always wants to be perfect looking for the camera, but uh I've told her she has to accept her fate that she will be on camera. So, we're at the airport now. We've just checked in. Uh and my wife noticed like this random little mark on the bag that I'm carrying my backpack. Okay, it's a waterproof bag. We look at it. I smell it. One of the cats peed on my bag. Don't know when, but they peed on my bag. So, I just had to go into the freaking airport toilets to clean my bag. So, this track trip has started off as like a complete disaster. Okay, so I'm just at the airport. I'm waiting for my flight, which should go in about 30 minutes. In the meantime, I've already done uh 15 minutes of production practice, and I was just doing some uh chatting with AI, just practicing some uh new scenarios. So, I would say all up. I've done probably like 45 minutes worth. I've got a bunch of videos downloaded for the flight, mainly Spanish for some reason. I don't know why. I just I probably should download some more Chinese on. I'm literally going to China. This makes no sense. Why am I Why am I focused on Spanish right now? Okay, so we're on the plane right now and we're right at the door entrance and uh we actually got the emergency seats luckily enough. It's probably because they looked at me and went, "That's one strong, strapping looking handsome young man. You know, he will be able to lift everyone out of this plane. No problem at all." >> Looks like we're about to descend into Hong Kong. I pretty much just spent the time while I was here on the plane reading this book in Escranto. It's just about Oh, Moto, a religion out of Japan. Okay. Wow. So, we are in the airport in Hong Kong. I honestly don't know where we're going, but I had to get a second eim just for Hong Kong cuz apparently you can't use the China Eim in Hong Kong. We're looking for our uh exit gate area. I'm just joking with the wife is the fact that she's going to have to go through the foreign gate with me. That's right. You're a foreigner in Hong Kong, you dirty foreigner. Okay, so apparently she can go through the Hong Kong gate as a Chinese citizen. And she said I must apologize for insulting her entire heritage. I'm not apologizing. She's not here. Still, I went through the foreigner gate and it was basically the same speed. So made no difference. >> Okay, so that's the first time that's ever happened before. So I just picked up our bags from the carousel. We were literally the first two bags to come through. Straight up. I can feel a very big difference between uh this airport and the airport we usually land in. What's the one that we usually land in? It's called >> China. >> Oh yeah, Chingal airport. Because like here this is just way more international feeling like >> well obviously but like it's just like I don't even well I don't even feel like I'm in China at the moment. >> Why is that? >> Like more foreigners here than Chinese. Like if it wasn't for the fact that there's like security guards walking around that have literally got balan on their like shirts written. I would just assume I'm in Sydney. Like that just looks like a standard 7-Eleven. >> Hey, did you get the Eim? >> No, mine doesn't support eim. I have to buy in the city here. They don't have actual eim. >> Oh, okay. So, I'm just chilling here and the wife is over there getting some uh train tickets. We'll finally get to see what the trains are like here. I don't know why I'm suddenly so excited, but like at the beginning of the trip, I was not excited at all. My wife just said that the two train tickets here is exactly the same price as just getting a taxi. So, I guess we're not going to do the trains. Taxi it is or DD or whatever you call it. I just realized I did unintentionally the lamest Espiranto thing ever. Okay, check this out. I'm wearing an Espiranto shirt. I just slapped on a random shirt this morning. I did not actually pick this out. This is totally unintentional. Okay. Okay. So, we've just arrived in our tiny tiny tiny tiny ass hotel room. As you can see right here, >> four star already. >> Yeah, this is four star. The one thing you need to know about Hong Kong is apparently it doesn't matter how good the hotel is, they're going to be [ __ ] tiny and they're going to smell. So, ours doesn't smell too bad. Then again, I stink like [ __ ] at the moment, so it's probably not that bad. I don't know. What's the plan now? We're going to go out and grab food or you going to like disinfect everything? Hey guys, let me know down in the comments section. Are you the type of person that when you rock up to a hotel room, you disinfect absolutely everything? Like my wife will wipe down everything. Hell, she'll even wipe me down. >> If she could. Yeah, she would disinfect me, but it probably kill me. So, she doesn't want to do that. But I'm I'm the type of person like I'll just come straight to a bed. I'll just I'll just day I'll just die there. Okay. She's She's got like a full-on bed cover and everything. It's like a It's like a military style freaking sleeping bag that she sleeps in cuz she doesn't want to touch anything. She's like, "Oh, if you touch that, you're going to get AIDS." >> Okay, so we've set up shop. Now we're just going to go grab a drink and then my fatty fat wife might grab some food. >> Are you talking so stinking the taxi driver need to open the window to >> [ __ ] [ __ ] Okay. No. Okay. Okay. So, let let me explain that story. So, we're in the taxi in the back seat. And here in Hong Kong, it's [ __ ] hot. Okay. And then there's a taxi start driving. He's like, "I just need to open the windows cuz you know it's hot." >> No, because you are stinky. >> It's got nothing to do with me, woman. >> It stinks. >> No. >> Okay. So, we just got back to the hotel room. We went for a little wander around the streets here, but apparently everything's actually shut at this time. The culture here seems to be a little bit different from mainland well the rest of China because in China in general things just never closed. But here in Hong Kong everything's closed by like 8 by the looks of it. Anyway, picked up this sandwich from the 7-Eleven. This was roughly half as much as what you would pay in Australia. So in Australia this was like $6. Here it's like $4. Um like if we're comparing like for like type of thing. Don't know how it's going to taste. It looks like it's [ __ ] made of plastic. The bread's like super white and [ __ ] Anyway, I'll let you know. Okay, grinders. It's now the the the I just forgot how to speak English. It's the next morning. I just woke up. Okay. Well, not technically. That's that's false. That's wrong. I woke up about an hour ago. I've already done 27 minutes of Chinese study as you can see from my little Anky screenshot here. All production practice. Haven't done anything else yet. We're about to go out and grab some food. Wow. I have I have completely lost control of my mouth. I am struggling to say any English word at this moment. Uh sleeping here was wasn't bad actually. There wasn't too much noise. Like I don't think I actually noticed any noise which is surprising. Usually that's the main thing with hotels. So pretty much everything has been a complete disaster so far. My wife's Eim is still not set up. So we're going to have to figure that one out today. Uh I've got an Eim that's working because I'm just awesome like that. Uh so yeah, let's find some food and figure this out. Okay, so we've just ordered some food and we're waiting for it now. It is hot as balls outside and Hong Kong is kind of interesting cuz like you live in this weird state of between like English and Chinese. >> We just finished eating. The the food here is quite interesting. It's like this weird mix between, you know, British style and Chinese food. I I'm not sure if it's the good mix or not. Like I'm definitely not used to it overall. But anyway, so was looking into some of the stats of Hong Kong here. So apparently it's like 53% of people here speak English and roughly a equal amount speak Mandarin Chinese and then obviously everyone speaks Cantonese. So, it it it does feel a lot like I'm literally living in the uh the Chinese suburb of Sydney. Looks like we finally found the area where the food is. So, we went to the first restaurant we saw, ate there, then we walked around the corner, and then there's like a billion more restaurants. So, bad timing on our part. So, we're now we're just sorting out SIM card issues that she's got. Um it's pretty much it. Nothing special. got those very old style Hong Kong houses, the ones that I always see in movies, you know, with like the air con hanging outside and all that type of stuff. Okay, so we've been walking for about 30 minutes and now we're just at the Hong Kong Science Museum. Um, no particular reason, just seemed like a cool location to go to. Leisure and Culture Services Department, Hong Kong Science Museum. Permanent expeditions ex exhibitions. Goddamn English. Okay, grinders. I'm currently in I don't know, some type of mirror room. Look, I can finally see the back of my head. It's really bad. So, it turns out after the uh Japanese were defeated by the Americans, you know, obviously they surrendered after being nuclear bombed. Uh the British wormed their way back into Hong Kong and took back over again. But when they actually lost Hong Kong, what happened was that there was like an 18-day battle here, and the British troops that were here fought obviously against the the Japanese invasion, but they had no backup from the British government. What the [ __ ] were the British government doing at that time? Okay, so I've just got back to the hotel room. It's it's pretty late right now. I think it's about like 1000 p.m. or something here. Uh, in any case, I've done 21,000 steps as you can see there. Did a lot of walking today. A lot of sweating. A lot of sweating and walking. And I did 39 minutes of production practice. So I did actually some reviews while for example my wife went ahead and just quickly brought something or you know we were just taking a quick break. I did some reviews with an Anky just doing my production practice. I actually did have one instance today of shocking a local but I did not have the camera ready. I wasn't like I don't walk around just with my camera out filming every instance and and it was basically just I just asked the the shopkeeper while we're purchasing something if she had like if the bag was free, you know, uh and she was just a little bit shocked about that, you know, just responded, "Oh, how long you've been living in China?" And I was like, "I'm not from China, you know, I I live in Sydney. I just learned Chinese, blah, blah, you know, just do my whole little spill." And that was pretty much it. Unfortunately, didn't record it, so you guys don't get to enjoy it and go, "Oh my god, evil dear, you're so [ __ ] fluent. This is absolutely amazing. Can you please have my children?" You know, none of that gets to happen. Unfortunately, I'm just terrible at filming. Uh, so pretty much what I got to do now is I'm going to spend 1 hour on Lingo Pie just to keep that moving forward. And that's pretty much it. I won't have time for anything else today. And in fact, I'm going to do that off camera now. So, you're just going to have to trust me on that one. And I guess I can show you guys next time simply due to the fact that I need to get this stuff uploaded. It's already been like 2 days of filming and I haven't uploaded yet. So that's pretty much it. I hope you guys have enjoyed this vlog and I'll see you all in the next