First Day in Kuala Lumpur

Met Shirley and her family at 10:00am at her hotel lobby. Fei Gor drove us around. First, we went to Zoo Negara. Meal Time for the hosts.

The next place we went to was Melaka. It took two hours to go there. Melaka was an old city in Malaysia. Recently, the tourist industry has grown rapidly. We could see the old part and the new part of the city.

The old part...

...and the newly developed part.

We had a ride on the revolving 'Gyro Tower', enjoyed the bird's eye view from the tower...

Today ended with a loud 'bang' of a gun shoot. A guy shot a bird down from the sky with a big rifle next to the car park. He would have a big dinner in the evening.

Kuala Lumpur trip

It took four hours to Malaysia by plane. We reached Kuala Lumpur at about 3:40pm. Then we took an airbus to KL Central, the journey was about an hour. We then walked to the Monorail station from KL Central, bought two stored value tickets for RM 20 each. Finally we arrived at Jalan Bukit Bintang at about 5:20, Great! Very smooth journey :-)

Nightmare started when we arrived at Bukit Bitang. It was crowded and busy at that time of the day. I had a rather rough map on my hand but no idea about the direction. I asked a lady at an open store which sold souvenires. She did not know where the hotel was. So we tried to walk around the area to look for the hotel. We walked past a five-star hotel. I stopped and asked a man with uniform who was supposed to be working there, assumed that he must have known. He pointed at a light brown building in the front. We were happy and thanked him. When we reached the hotel and found out it was wrong. We looked for Royale Bintang and it was Royale Chulan. Arrrrrrgh!!! Stupidly, we spent one and a half hour walking around the area and finally reached the hotel exhaustedly.

Don't laugh at the signs in China

In my old posts, I have laughed at the signs in mainland China. After 1997, Hong Kong is getting closer to her mother land in some way - English standard. I saw this sign on the wall of a club house of a private housing estate in Hong Kong. Pay attention to the English version.

In the dictionary: 'beware' means to be wary of, or cautious of...

Examples such as: beware of the dog; beware of his waspish wit; beware of the icy patches on the road; or in Hong Kong, we always see 'beware of pickpockets', on the bus.

I don't see why we have to 'beware of our own property' Will our own property attacks us or harm us? :-)

A new 'era' - no plastic bags

Starts from today, if we go to the supermarkets or chain stores, we have to bring our own shopping bags. If not, we will be charged 50 cents for each bag. I support protecting the environment. I am not very very keen on protecting the environment I admitted, but to a certain extent, I am.

I don't like the idea of taking our own bags to shop because I can reuse the plastic bags from the supermarket for putting rubbish in. I always ask,'What do people use to put their rubbish?' If people do not have plastic bags from the supermarket, they will buy plastic rubbish bags.

So, that is my point. I use plastic bags from the supermarket at least I can reuse them. If I don't have plastic bags from the supermarket, I have to buy plastic bags for only one purpose - to put rubbish in. In this case, we are not protecting the environment by fulfilling the demand of one of the 4 R's of Recycling - reuse. Can somebody work it out for me?

Being nostalgic

The other day I went past Yaumatei area and saw a police station very familiar to me. It seemed I had walked past the front door before. It must have happened long long time ago when I was very small.

Do you recognise this place?

7.1

At 6 o'clock in the morning on 1st July, 1997, there came a scene that would never fade out from my mind. It was raining, the invisibility was very low. An army truck was driving towards me. It was close but not clear. On the truck there were two lines of Chinese Army standing by the sides with their hands holding on the bars. I couldn't see their face clearly but I was sure there was

no facial expressions. It was a sad and unwelcome scene to me. The first group of Chinese Army started to move to Hong Kong from China on the first day of the handover.

This afternoon I joined the 7.1 rally. When I was walking, there was something on my mind. If someone asked me what I walked for, what would be my answer? Yeah, what did I walk for? I did not belong to any group particularly. I walked because I was not happy about the ruling of the SAR on the whole. I walked because I was not happy these twelve years. The government is 'shit' and it has been running by a bunch of incapable idiots with dumb minds. Donald Tsang is a joke. That was why I walked.

Shake hands with your neighbour

I was on the fly over today. It was the stunning scene in front of me.

I wonder how you feel if you live next to a high way. I think Hong Kong is the only place in the world you can see this scene. The flat is so close that you can really shake hands with the people living there while you are driving past :-) Or imagine when you open the window with a huge container right in front of you. It's not funny, it's the reality.

Once I heard an incident, don't know it was a joke or not. A car broke down on a fly-over on Hong Kong Island, where the flat and the fly-over is much closer than this one. The driver knocked on the window of the flat and asked for help. He asked the people in the flat to phone for him. (I think it happened long before mobile phones became popular)