I arrived in Hong Kong, pretty exhausted after a 21 hr or so journey (including layovers) and then spending the "night" (0:00 - 05:30) on a bench at the Hong Kong airport -- the budget and mid range hotels were all full-- and have yet to reunite with my luggage (which will be sent to the address i'll be staying at over the next couple nights in Macau, by China Eastern) since their flight from LA to Shanghai was late and i, and a girl from HK, returning from a summer internship to Disney World Orlando, FL, barely managed to catch the flight to HK, even after jogging the whole distance and being sped through the corridors and security by helpful China Eastern and Shanghai Security Staff -- so we did catch it but only just, with only a couple min to spare before the gate closed! --20 min after we landed on the LA-Shanghai flight which was about 2 hrs late-- it also arrived late in LA for unknown reasons). 

The image for your mind: after the security check point (didn't have to remove my boots but did remove the laptop from my backpack, the 3 security personel saying in Chinese "quick", "run quick" and one of them miming running motions, while another one helped me put on my heavy backpack i told them (in Chinese) that i understood-- due to fatigue i also kept saying "yes" in Japanese-- after effect of my month as an uchideshi Aikido student throughout last May and once said "thank you" in German for no reason other than fatigue) i was half jogging-running to the gate, came across some free baggage carts a few meters out of the way, grabbed one, put my plastic bag (of Denver postcards, T-shirt, Broncos cap and old down coat) in the cart and kept --running now that i had the extra stability of a cart to lean on-- as soon as i came to one of those moving walkways, stopped (while moving) and took off my super heavy backpack, threw it in the cart and went back to running a little faster now, until i got to the gate!

Therefore, however, there wasn't enough time for the luggage to be transfered so they'll bring it to my address at a Friend's place in Macau which is where i'm heading off to right now!  (Via high speed catamaran water-jet Ferry)