Hong Kong trip, Part 2 of Part 3
Hong Kong trip, day 3. 30 April 2009
Shifu and Shi shu will be flying in at different timings today. We will rendezvous with them in the hotel at night. The rest of the day, we went to Hong Kong Island. We bought tickets to the peak. Tickets? Yeap. Tickets to take the old tram up to the peak together with tickets for the wax museum. If i didn't remember wrongly, different sections of the tram, back then were categorise for different classes of people. High class, middle class, blah blah.
The scenery was fascinating, as i made my way to the top. Of course, i would have wanted to walk up but well, time will fly and there are still different sections of Hong Kong i wanna visit, so oh well, got the spent the time wisely.
We went over to the wax museum first. Nothing much to talk about, just that we pose some poses with the wax figure and took some pics of it. Some wax figures looks so alike to the real personel, while others don't.
After that, we walk around the peak, the air is cooling, reminds me of my 2nd army taiwan trip. When we have enough of the cool air, it's time to go somewhere else. Took the tram down. My head rushes with blood as well, due to the g-force i suppose. I forgot to mention, part of the tracks were situated at damn steep slope, which has an angle of more than 45 degrees. Well, perhaps that explain the funny feeling i felt on my head.
Went over to causeway bay via the electric trams. One of another "antique". Causeway bay, they say it's equivalent to orchard road. There sure is a lot of people walking around. We simply just anyhow walk, and walk.
Finally at night, we return to our hotel and rendezvous with shifu and shishu.
Hong Kong trip, day 4. 1 May 2009
Today met up with all the shi shu gong for breakfast. Dim sum. Yum yum. But today, i felt funny, felt feverish and i keep sneezing. Somehow, the fear struck. During this point of time, the world is in unrest due to the swine flu. Due to the fact that even Al did not feel well during the afternoon, we rest in hotel the whole day.
We keep drinking water, and get more rest than usual. We gotta get well, 2 reasons, don't want to tio fever or else hong kan. 2nd, the next day, we gotta perform our wushu.
At night, sis sms me, told me that Hong Kong got its 1st swine flu case. After a bout of getting 1st-hand information. It is the metropark hotel in hong kong island at wanchai district that was involved.
Well, i just hope matters don't get worse or i might be force to fly back to SG at an earlier date.
Hong Kong trip, day 5. 2 May 2009
Luckily, i felt better today. AL on the other hand still don't feel too good, but better than yesterday. Today, the different wushu clubs will come together to celebrate tan gong dan, one of the gods' birthday(i suppose). They will be doing something like chingay, parading through parts of the streets, and eventually arriving at tan gong's temple. We get a view on their lion dance, and their wushu as some young kids perform. The lion dance is like WOW, 3 persons standing on top of one another. Of course, we can't achieve that yet, but we can do it for 2 persons, and AL and I are training it now. Hahaha.
As we were travelling in scorching sun, we decided to have a rest in the hotel after the morning's event. The whole afternoon, rest, and rehydrate in the hotel. We got important business at night. Perform well, and show them that our shifu shi shu-s thought us well.
Night time arrive. We suit up for our mini-performance and get to the restaurant where everyone is gathered. AL still don't feel well. Due to the some miscommunciation barriers, our performance list got corked up. Other than that, both AL and I hasn't been keeping fit due to the fact that we are busy with exams. AL perform "双飞蝴蝶掌"first, before i perform "九环大刀". AL starts to feel more unwell, but in the end, we perform "对打", kinda due to the fact that we did not even have the time to argue about the performance listings.
After "对打", AL felt funny. He told us he was breathless. It got all of us worried, yao nan, me, shifu, shi shu and our hong kong shi shu gong. This is the 1st time i ever see him that shagged out. After some time, he felt better, and all of us were relieve. I hope our efforts, especially AL did not went wasted, it's not for ourselves, it's for our club name. It also got me to think about this situation. If ever, there were members who don't feel well, i will have to keep a close watch on them. Job as a senior, can't escape it.
Well, after the performance, we get to EAT! That's right. For the past 2 days, our hong kong hosts has been kind to blan ja us food. Yaonan, AL and me sure save a lot. If not for the treat, i guess all 3 of us will be going to ATM to start withdrawing money. Hahaha.
Halfway through the dinner, whereby they are also having an auction session. Someone got drunk. People tried to get him out, but don't know for whatever reason. He is still inside. Then he start to hit people. Impress with AL's "双飞蝴蝶掌", he say out "蝴蝶掌"in cantonese and hit someone's stomach. This will later become a joke between all of us, shifu, shi shu-s, AL, Yn and myself. Beside being a joke, Shifu was happy, cause he actually took notice of our pattern and in his drunk state, use it.
The joke don't end there. Immediately, someone call his gang to come up and in less than 5 mins, people start appearing at the restaurant. After some talks, a fight starts. More and more people involve. More space involve. It end up hitting the back of my chair, and i look at it. The 1st time i ever see a fight happening, right in front of my eyes. If i take a step forward, i will be engulf in the fight.
Somehow, my brain just starts assessing the situation. I look at the fight, look at my table. Yn, don't know self-defense, a little girl, a kid, don't wanna her to get hurt if fight gets bigger. Immediately, i told AL and Yn to stand up and move back some more, and somehow, the little girl and his brother follow. My eyes just fixed on to the fight. Any problems, i will be the 1st one to get hit plus to intercept them. My brain just keep calm, eyes still fixing on the situation, on high alert.
Well, lucky enough, the fight starts to stop and when things starts to calm down, someone stand ON MY CHAIR and shouted "mou si mou si"(没事没事) in cantonese. After that, he stands on yn's chair and did the same thing. We continuing eating but not for long. Many nice food were serve to us, but too bad, we have to leave the restaurant. Got reports about hk police who are on the way. We waited downstairs, and as Singaporeans, wanted to kaypo and watch show, but some other guests from the dinner recommend us not to stay so we decided to go back to the hotel and have a rest.
Well, back at hotel, AAR. We tried our best to perform. Shifu, shi shu-s understand. The joke over 双飞蝴蝶掌 and the situation when 1 drunkard starts to misbehave. It can happen at our anniversary dinner, and AL and I, are expected to know how to keep the situation under control.
Hmm, and 1 more thing, hk police are more efficient. Haha, the rest of the comments, it's best that i keep it to myself.
Ok, this is a long one. I shall stop here.
End of Hong Kong trip, Part 2 of Part 3
posted by WL @ 11:43 pm
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