This & That with Myself

I was so surprise how unfamiliar Kuala Lumpur is to me. I am a total stranger to my home country’s capital city (as much as I don’t know how to use a camera phone).

Last trip to KL was probably the strangest trip to me ever. I was informed to get my US visa last Saturday, so I flew back to KL on Sunday and planned to fly back on Tuesday. I thought how stupid my act was, going back to Malaysia without going home? But well…

It turned out getting a US visa was a long process, so I got to stay in KL a couple more days. Instead of heading back to JB, I asked my family to come over and stayed with me! Friends and family, only a few days trip so it was impossible to spend my time with both, tough decision indeed, but I finally pick my family

I was very happy walking around downtown KL with my parents and sister, it was like turn back time to when I was little. I was so curious about every building that I passed by, even some construction areas. I asked so many questions and my finger hardly ever stop pointing around. My mouth just couldn’t shut the f*ck up because I had missed out so much- with my family and KL.

Then, all of the sudden, I was on the airplane again. Alone.

But lonely? No, it is a good feeling to leave, because there are so much ahead of me. I am very blessed to have something good to fall on behind me and so much to expect in front of me. And I have to agree with the fortune teller, I am very very blessed!

I was in HongKong for 2 days, ah, thank god I got my visa done so I am back to SZ now.

So early morning I caught the ferry to Zhong Gang Cheng （中港城) Port in KowLoon, after got my things done in the morning, hoping that my visa would have problem so I could stay a day in Hong Kong. At the port in SZ, the delay of ferry put me a step closer to my wish!

After a 50 mins ride on ferry, I entered KowLoon bay and I was surrounded with all these tall and inspired architect design buildings, as expected. Seeing a view that I had always seen on Hong Kong TV drama, surprisingly, no special feeling at all.

Once I arrived in HongKong, my roaming system was not working! Another step closer to my wish…It took me 10 mins to find a public phone at the port, I used my only coin to dial my Hong Kong company representative’s number, praying it would get through, ah, at that moment, I missed my Amazon credit card like hell!

While waiting for someone to pick me up, I was watching Chelsea vs Arsenal games in front of Hoi Lau Shan (许留山）thinking how stupid was the whole arrangement, I could probably get there myself and got my visa. But well, all these trouble put me a step closer to my wish again.

And Yes, after taking ferry, taxi, subway and ferry again, I didn’t get my visa done Well Hong Kong, I had 5 hrs for you from now on.

You usually can’t expect much from a business trip besides awesome food and good hotel. Schedule is very tight and you don’t even have time to organize. All I could do was try to walk as much as possible. I stayed at Prince（太子),really close to Mong Kok (旺角）mainly some affordable restaurant and shopping. I walked around that areas at night and tried out many food on the streets. Yummy and pricy! Nothing’s really cheap out here except fashion. And people were everywhere, they walked fast and well trained; you will never bump into anyone, unless he/she is a trourist.

KowLoon is somewhat like New York City, I would say esp areas around Time Square in NYC, where buildings are very old but the few lower levels look morden and new. So if you never look up to the sky, you never realize the city is aging.

Next morning I woke up very early, tried to experience the everyday life of these people. I went for breakfast, hooped on crowded subway, and walked as fast as everyone else. I took off at Mong Kok and started walking along Nathan’s Road (弥敦道）to 尖沙咀。

Along my journey were shops, people, buses, taxi, neon signs, food…and it kept repeating block after block. All of the sudden, I got lost and walked into an area full of Indians, which reminded me of Chong Qin Forest the movie, ha.

People here are absolutely fast pace and fashionable, they are percise when they talk becoz there’s not much time. They OT like hell and only enjoy 5-7 days a year annual leave. Privacy is priceless in a pack city like this, and the people are ageless here because of their busy working life, fashion and make up.

At night, I was lucky to have a chance for "road tour" with my bosses around Hong Kong, Kow Loon and Sam Gai. And I had already been to the airport, so I pretty much done with this city I guess. Nothing too exciting and nothing to special, or maybe just nothing amaze me yet.

But somehow Hong Kong makes me miss Bangkok very much, a city where people do have a life and culture.

Long wait and disappointment.

Am I repeating the same mistake?

(反省中。。。)

平衡心理也必须给自己一段时间，静下心来，思考对策。

A good explaination from my siaogor, who is a native Chinese (Yes, I am not a so call native!)

Follow-up to my last post, the different classes are still very clear in China society. The class, is not in term of race and gender, but how much you earn. This is part of the society changes in China, moving from conservative to a more open minded path. I should try to understand and adapt.

At first I was thinking maybe other people will feel the unfairness like I do, but apparently, they are all used to the class system, you will make them feel even more uneasy if you break the system.

I personally don’t think this class system is going to work for good; I hope it will change graduately towards an equal society. Well, an equal society might never ever exist, but "the class system" should not be permitted under the law.

So, I get back to my meeting room to have my meals again and continue to have my "da zha xie" (crab) regularly.

Gee….

I am just trying to eat like a regular people.

It has been too weird; everyday I will have my lunch and dinner in the meeting room the workers from kitchen will bring the food and soup in for me and some others high management levels people.

So even when I was alone, they would send me my meals twice a days to the meeting room. When it gets busy, I won’t even step out from the office for 12 hours, because I can do everything inside the office, even taking my meals.

I have come to a point that I can’t stand this anymore and try to change. I had proposed to eat in the cafeteria a few times but there were all rejected. Until today, I was all by myself again and I strongly urged my president’s assistant to let me eat in the cafeteria because I couldn’t stand the bad circulation in the meeting room.

And YAAY, I finally made it to eat outside. Like majority of the people. But then, I realized the kitchen had prepared "specialty" for my meals, so still, I had to stay in the kitchen and finished my meal because it is not a good idea to let 400++ people to see me eating a better meal than them.

I felt disgust; but I have no one to point to or turn to. Maybe it is just a silly idea from me to oppose my privilege being in a higher position, but this make me think about my country. Where privilege legitimately exist and it will only brings hurt and pain to the people.

Ah, I am just being sentimental I guess.

I have done absolutely nothing.

Hey! Long time no see, a day with no memory.

No talking.

It can be quite a pleasant moment.