Dear jumjum...
The last time I landed at the HK airport, my mobile data wasn't working (I later found out that my phone bill was unpaid, thanks to bank account complications), and I was bored to tears waiting for the bus. I realised that I was waiting right under a take-off flight path, and became interested to see if the planes took off at regular intervals, since HK is such a busy airport. I used the position of a vehicle flyover relative to my position as a point to start timing once the plane flew past it. At the same time, I also tested my counting accuracy by counting the seconds and minutes in my head and comparing it with the timer on my phone.
The data recorded. The last one was way off because the bus had arrived and I was occupied with loading my luggage.
When I got on the bus, I started thinking about how I like to time everything. In my first year I timed how long it takes to go to church from the bus station, and how long it takes to get to the nearest town, Hang Hau- so that I can plan ahead and be exactly on time. Unfortunately, that sort of backfires whenever there is a long queue at the bus station. I also like to time the different routes I can take to a destination to figure out the most efficient path. However, I usually don't write it down and forget it before I can do the comparison.
Below are two routes from Hang Hau to my hall- the taxi drivers either take one or the other, and I could never decide which to ask them to take. The blue route seems longer but more direct since it's on the main road, the red one is more windy... And now I know!
*atm*
