PCCW Single Device Wi-Fi service is a piece of turd. I swear. From last night straight through to today I could not get an IP address for my laptop. It kept declaring self-assigned IP which doesn’t let you connect to the internet. Considering I’m paying a considerable amount for this service I consider myself utterly cheated. Good thing I’m leaving soon.
I really needed some internet (because apparently I can’t live without it) so I set off to Starbucks where I could’ve possibly gotten a connection. If there were any seats. It was so terribly warm out and I just wanted some air con. Is that too much to ask?
Thankfully, there is a public library near my place so I am now here, nestled in the far back corner of the students’ study room leeching off the Hongkong Government’s free Wi-Fi. The room is considerably packed, which is weird considering it’s now the summer holidays in Hongkong and I have no idea why all these students are here and presumably studying.
It’s even weirder that nobody’s on a laptop except me. Wouldn’t have this situation in the Ngee Ann library. Oh no. In the Ngee Ann library there’d be hoards of Engineering students on their Windows laptops playing DotA. I must say I haven’t seen this many highlighters in a central location in quite a while.
Yet another weird experience in my otherwise completely boring trip to Hongkong.


