Well, here I am, finally in Hong Kong. The last couple of days have been an amazing experience, I'll try to outline some of the thing I've done since I arrived.

The flight out was good, I chose to take a window seat, though I'm not sure why - it was dark the whole of the time I was there, and I was sitting next to 2 guys who slept through most of the flight. That said, I got quite a lot of sleep, which was good considering the huge day I had before me.
Chek Lap Kok airport in Hong Kong is quite a long way out from the city itself, and as we flew in at 6AM, I saw these lights hovering in the air on one side of the plane. By the time I got out to the bus, it was a little lighter, at I could see that those lights were in fact on top of some massive, steep hills. And that next to these huge hills were enourmous blocks of flats. Imagine, for example, that someone took all the tall apartments that you find in Melbourne, then plonked them down in Ferntree Gully. Except imagine that everything is stretched to twice its height. That's kinda what housing in Hong Kong is like.
After sucessfully negotiating the airport bus and finding my way to my hostel (very clean, nice, small rooms), I decided to walk from Mong Kok to the tip of Kowloon (for those of you not in the know, Kowloon is a Peninsula just across the harbour from the island of Hong Kong). It took me half an hour or so to make the 3km walk through the world's most densely populated area, though the time of morning (around 7:30) meant that things weren't to busy. Once at Tsim Sha Tsui, at the bottom of the peninsula, I took the famous Star Ferry across the Hong Kong island, with the intention of exploring/going to a tourist information bureau. I headed toward The Center, a skyscraper in eastern Hong Kong, where my guidebook said the tourism bureau was. Turns out it had moved, and was now in a Subway station on the Eastern end of the island, in Causeway Bay. Oh well, it gave me my first chance to take the (incredibly cheap and efficient) MTR (mass transit railway). So I went to the tourism place, got some good info for my travels today (more on that later) and chilled out in Victoria Park, where I walked on a pebble path (stones laid into concrete that you walk on in your socks for a kinda foot massage thing - mostly old people from what I saw, all it did to my feet was make them slightly uncomfortable) and watched cats (There must be thousands of cats living in Hong Kong - you shouldn't touch them. 'cos of the danger of diseases, but I think that the government sets them free just to make the city a cuter place :P). Returning to Mong Kok (the of Kowloon area where I'm staying), I booked into my hostel, then went for a wonder. The streets of this city are amazing. I said before how incredibly dense Kowloon is, well this density comes from the absolute forest of 20-40 story highrise apartments (of all ages, with buildings from the 50s right through to now, usually right next to each other), and it results in the most amazing shopping you could ever imagine - I went into shopping centres with more than 10 stories, including one, Langham place, with an atrium that's 13 stories high. I went into buildings that sould appear to to be normal residential highrises until you realise that the first 4 floors are taken up by dozens and dozens of stores that sell mobile phones and other electronics (and none of those electronics stores are more than 2*2 metres square). You begin to see different commerical 'districts' - like we have place in Melbourne where camera stores or jewellers are concentrated - except in Kowloon it's more like 'the model toy district' or 'the goldfish district' (I'm serious - there's a street which is just wall-to-wall live fish in clear plastic bags full of water) In the evening, I got lost looking for a supermarket and went back home to bed.