You are at the Central station HK , the queue forms in neat but
crowded rows, 25 individuals in a row and you see a sea of rows
after rows. The platform crowd controllers clap their paddles
telling you to line up within the boundarylines drawn on the
platform, so that passengers can alight first. The trains come in
within a minute of each other-one leaving the next one arrives!
Efficient super clock work!- that is how the MTR
functions in Hongkong. We pack in body to body stacked together,
catching our breaths from air pockets of space here and there as
the train rushes us through to reach our destination.
Two stops later on the Chai Wan line and you are at Causeway Bay.
to meet a few ex-colleagues for a couple of drinks .The small bar
is packed but you are just killing time -whilst you wait again in
line for dinner at super Star Seafood on the 10th floor of Times
Square. You have been booked for the 7.30 dinner and you arrive at
7.28, though with booking you wait till 8.30 before you get your
table with 4 friends who flew in earlier from Singapore.
They complain:” so hot! so hot! aiyo why so many people , why must
wait when we already booked? why so slow? ...why so many people
queueing to get in ? ” You feel like telling them …” grumble
grumble grumble all the time so Singaporean why can’t be patient
and just shut up?” You are tired after a hard day’s work at
IFC but still manage a weak smile to be polite…they
are friends afterall…
After two hours of hearing your Singaporean friends grumble and
complain about the population and too many foreigners in Singapore
etc…you are bored with their grumbles…you wanna get home …away from
them as soon as possible. Next week, another batch of old
classmates visiting you and worse want to stay with you at your
apartment! Maybe this group might not grumble so much about
Singapore and instead enjoy HK!
Likely is intoxicated by politicans or some folks in sg who
loves to stir up or provoke stance. Many political officials
previously loves provocation and engagement, too good life, so they
passed sg this 'invaluable' know-how probably, but you are abit
unfortunate to meet this particular one that was intoxicated
deeply. The best is to recommend Pureland to them, that place has
no way they would erupt discomforting senses 