building on a diet

So Jess and I find some of the apartment buildings here in Hong Kong fascinating. And the fascinating part isn't that they're tall. Tall buildings are a dime a dozen here. The fascinating part is that they're roughly 1-3 apartments wide, with an elevator, and ascend fifty some odd stories into the sky. They're so skinny!

I have this really evil image in my head of a ginormous hand coming out of the clouds and giving the little toothpick structures a flick. They just look so breakable!

In all seriousness, these anorexic buildings don't like they can survive any type of a flick, much less an earthquake like their neighbor just experienced.

(Don't worry - we're staying in the dorms at Robert Blake College on the University of Hong Kong campus. Pretty much it looks like a motel you'd find somewhere in the desert between Las Vegas and Reno, and ascends three tall stories into the sky. I know you were stressed - but we're safely in 1972. Don't worry about it.)