Saturday, December 30, 2006 at 1:06 AM
been mega long since i last posted. so i realised. first and foremost, i am practically never ever, say again, never again, travelling with my family (other than the odac family) overseas again. NEVER EVER. because lotsa things would be screwed up, timings will be screwed, people will be delayed, tempers will rise. turns out that hongkong didn't change much since i last been there. still the well, bleak, concrete city that i remembered. pollution is still as bad if not worse, vietnam smells like paradise compared to hongkong. everything's quite cramped up, with the poor and the rich living together. the contrast of the place is quite amazing. behind the glittering skyline of skyscrapers, there are green hills. a couple of streets from where you see a couple of rolls royces parked, you see beggars begging for money. its quite sad. Singapore ain't even close to the hustle and bustle of hongkong. people walking fast to work, running to catch mtrs, ferries, blah blah. even packing themselves like sardines. everything's so frantic, it seems dull.totally didn't understand the tour guides during the china tour with my limited cantonese, which were mostly phrases used for scolding. after you go there a couple of times, you mostly get used to the things there, the food, weather, people. but there's always something new. dog bak kwa and walking in your trunks to the hot springs in the mountains were quite new. china is quite a sad country too, pollution is even worse. rivers replaced by sand, dusty roads, heaps of rubbish all over the place. and of course there are the poor people. a woman feeding her infant with rice from a dustbin. quite a pitiful sight for anyone.