Waiting

Today I went to apply for my HK identity card. To pass the time, I watched the people sitting around me: a little boy jumping up and down because he was cold, a student editing her thesis with a big fat blue marker, an elderly couple readjusting the tote bag sitting between them, an impatient man muttering under his breath behind me, a small girl playing with a rubiks cube, a couple dressed all in black and carrying briefcases arguing with an official, two Filipina women holding hands and laughing, a Western man with a large floppy hat running across the hall, a teenager folding a page in a newspaper with some Canto pop star...

Sam and I went to the HK Science Museum today, which turned out to be a strange, eclectic mix. It was a hands-on museum and there were many experiments to try. My favorites included a television green-screen room where you created a tv show, the random mirror fun house, fossils of dinosaurs right next to a giant airplane, the fitness test where you see how high you can jump, the floating magic ball, the updated, tech-y version of listening with a cup and string, watching sound waves as you spoke into a telephone, riding on a bicycle using GPS, and more.