I’m going to apologize now for how sloppy this may have been written. I don’t have much time to re-read everything so pardon the bad spelling punctuation and run on sentences.

Yesterday was a busy but great day. I was feeling pretty tired from the day before because we went to “Time Square” (Named After NY’s Time Square) and walked around Hong Kong for a few hours looking at all the street shops. It was nothing like New York’s time square the only similarity was the name. At 8pm we met up with the Sony BMG people for a dinner on the 21^st floor of a building overlooking Hong Kong. It was an Italian restaurant and they ordered Chicken Quesadilla as appetizers (it was obviously authentic). I had something simple like pizza because my stomach was bothering me from the chicken feet soup we had earlier in the day (Not Joking).  At midnight we had a scheduled rehearsal at the venue. We were there for about an hour and a half and I didn’t get to bed until almost 3am. Luckily we didn’t have too much going on and our lunch plans we cancelled because of the typhoon. I sat around for a while and relaxed then ventured out of the hotel for a bit but couldn’t go too far because we had to leave at 4:30 to go the venue to do an additional sound check.  At the venue we had some meet and greets to do with fans and label/Hennessy people. One thing I’ve noticed when traveling to other countries is the people that put on the shows always buy us American food. When we were in Athens Greece they gave us a list of all the Chili’s TGI Fridays, KFC’s in our area and in Asia they bring McDonalds, Starbucks, Seven Eleven items and other typical American chains to the venues. I appreciate that they go out of their way to do it I just find it funny. Even with the horrible weather from the Typhoon that was headed our way we had a great turnout. We were told it sold out but because of the weather it wasn’t full. There were probably 800 or more people there and they were all really excited and in to it. As soon as we hit the stage the crowed got very loud and screamed our name. Someone in the front row made a sign that said “Until June”. They knew everyone and I could see them singing all the words the entire show. Earlier that day one of the head guys at Hennessy asked Josh to sing a song in Chinese and play it on the piano. Unfortunately he couldn’t rehearse the song so he sang it a capella. Our label gal Roslyn from Sony Hong Kong wrote out all the words phonetically and Josh memorized them. After our last song sleepless Josh sang the song and everyone went absolutely crazy and began singing it with him. Even after Josh finished the crowed continued and we walked off stage and they kept singing it. Josh Daniel and I all agreed it was one of our better shows if not the best period. We left the show early because the after party and events were canceled because of the weather. We got back to the hotel around 11:15 which was SUPER early compared to the rest of the evenings. Brian had made some friends in Guangzhou that lived in Hong Kong so Josh and I joined Brian and went to the SOHO district (Named after NY too). We were advised by the hotel that it probably wasn’t a good idea because a lot of the cabs were not running because of the weather but we figured it was out last night in Hong Kong so why not. We got a cab and he took us to what he thought was the correct address. Turns out it wasn’t even close and we walked a few hundred yards and got lost. It was pouring down rain and the wind was crazy. We were soaked and lost for at least 45 min. We finally asked some people for help and found the place. We was a pretty cool bar and we met some interesting people. Josh and I spoke to too brothers who were doing photography in Hong Kong. Everyone was super nice and we had a great time. The weather started getting really bad and we figured we should probably get going before the worst part of the Typhoon was going to hut at 2am.  We were lucky and found one of very  few cabs on the road and headed back to the hotel.  

We were scheduled to leave this morning for Taipei Taiwan at 10 AM. Unfortunately  weather cancelled all the flights until 2 PM. We got a new flight at 4:30 which didn’t leave until 6:30 so we hung out in the Business lounge and stuffed our selves with free beverages and drinks.  I’m on the plane right now writing this, I think it’s only a 90 minute flight but we got the great business class seats with the beds like we had on the Flight from LAX. Got to close my laptop landing in Taipei now.

2 HOURS LATER.

We just arrived in Taipei Taiwan about an hour ago. We’re staying at the Shangri-La Hotel near the Taipei 101 building. They gave each of us a “Plaza Suite” which is probably 2 times larger maybe more than my apartment. It has two bathrooms incase I don’t want to walk to the bedroom one while I’m lounging in my robe in the living room.

We talked about going to the Taipei 101 building to the observation deck in the morning after we get breakfast delivered to our rooms then after that we may get massages.

I should mention how kind everyone has been to us. Everyone at Hennessy and Sony BMG have been very kind to us and have treated us a lot better than we deserve to be treated.

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