Unique New Year 2008 Hong Kong Fireworks (and the scholar ship)

So for New Year Eve yesterday, I met up with Nancy who's working as a counselor for the scholar ship. What an amazing experience, a semester at sea (almost) circumnavigating the globe! This is their route map starting in Hong Kong and ending in Amsterdam 4 months later:

In September they go from Amsterdam back to Hong Kong via the Panama canal.

As appealing as a position on this boat for the Sep 08 voyage is to me, I really feel like it's not right for me at this stage of my life. No more uprootedness for me, thankyou.

So, after hotpot, some great local desserts, then walking around massive flows of pedestrians, the closest view of the fireworks we could get was unfortunately in between big high-rises, offering just a tiny window to the fireworks. The whole time we were like "is this it?" "This must only be the introduction, the warmup." But then it ended, with an air of dissapointment surrounding us and the hundreds of thousand other revelers around us.

Then I checked out Youtube, from where you can get several different perspectives of Dec 31st, from several different cameras of ordinary HK citizens. Talk about postmodernist pluralism. Turns out this was what we missed!