Sounds like you have it all sorted out after 4 months on line!! Hell, you probably even know what MTR line to get on to make it to TST!
Sorry to say I couldn't scan your entire post, as my bullsh!tometer tripped a CB when it was trying to work out this..
had the most awsome weekend out on CX re: the festival with free airport express tickets to get there, free food, entertainment
Once you come down of your big jet, international airline, mega bucks hormone rush, and realise that a pint of milk cost US$3, then you may have a more realistic view of things. Sooner (hopefully) or later, you will realise that you are the only little ray of sunshine in the cockpit. Why? Because all the rest of us are off the laughing gas, and just breathing whatever happens to drift over from the mainland.
Hope this doesn't sound too harsh, but you don't know sh!t from shoepolish yet!