Lucywu: Shopping in HK

Tuesday, February 15, 2011

Shopping in HK

This article is so funny:

http://www.cnngo.com/hong-kong/shop/why-are-hong-kong-people-afraid-online-shopping-441145

It's about how Hong Kong people are afraid of online shopping and would order things online but meet the seller in person to exchange the goods. This is not to save on shipping but to check out the credibility of the seller and the condition of the goods. I guess this is a by-product of a really good public transportation system. I guess I was worried about the condition of the goods when I first started online shopping of used stuff. But got over it really quickly since it was so much more convenient than having to go find it in a store.

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I am a geotechnical engineer working in Hong Kong. I recently graduated from Stanford's M.S. program in civil engineering - geomechanics in March 2011. I did my undergrad at MIT, also in civil engineering. This blog contains stuff about my every day life, thoughts, things I want to share, etc.

Highlights of this blog:

- I started this blog in May 2007 when I decided to do an internship in Germany and didn't feel like writing personal letters to my friends and family about my experiences in Europe.

- After that summer, I spent my junior year on an exchange program with the University of Cambridge where I also studied civil engineering.

- Coming back to MIT for my senior year, I spent a good part of it in a class called D-Lab where we learn about appropriate technologies for developing countries.

- In January 2009, I went to Sierra Leone to field test some of these technologies that we explored over the semester.

- I finished my studies at MIT in June 2009 and am now at Stanford.

- I spent a quarter of my first year at Stanford working on a tsunami evacuation project for Padang, Indonesia. I spent Summer 2010 in West Sumatra continuing this project.

- I am now working in Hong Kong at a design firm as a geotechnical engineer.