I'm in HK, and I am having a very complex feeling. This is where I grew up as a little kid. It has been many years, and lots of things have changed. This is a very busy city. HK is no longer as big as I thought when I was small. Driving in HK will make you feel like MTR has lied to you for many years. I once thought number of stations can be used as an unit of measuring the distance between two places, but once I started driving, I realize HK is really not that big, and driving is not too big of a deal. The lanes are even wider than Vancouver, maybe because of the monster buses here. Just that the road signs are crazy, like asking you to answer a multiple choice question A B C D in a split second, otherwise you'll miss the route, but no worry, just drive on and it will ask you again somewhere later.
Even the churches here are weird. I heard today that some church would use Octopus to track your attendence for 3 monthes before you can join one of their fellowships. That's rediculous don't you think? but I guess the system must be there for a reason...
HK has a pretty side too, I realized that a few days ago when I was at the Peak. I saw HK beneath me, so beautiful, bagging you to stay. It reminds me of Satan in the bible asking Jesus, "I'll give you everything, if you bent your knees in front of me, wahaha..."
HK doesn't give me peace.
Voices in my head are arguing, but I'm not listening. They usually sound like...
L: "What are you doing here? come back to Vancouver!"
R: "What are you doing in Vancouver? You're still young, why do you waste your life like that?"
L: "Waste? I can't imagine you living in HK. Working from dawn to dust in a bag of dirty polluted air, is that Life?"
R: "Those so-call high quality of life are for the retired. You're young, you should get out there and challenge yourself! Train yourself to be tough!"
L: "Why? I can live my relax life in Vancouver, why stay in HK? I can find work in Vancouver, and live my life my way"
R: "Then what to do with your family in HK? They sent you to Vancouver for a better environment to grow up, and how are you going to repay them? They have sacrificed so much to get you there when you were small, and now that you have finished school and all, and you're sayig you're not coming back?"
L: "True... but HK doesn't fit me."
R: "How would you know? Look at how many of your friends have returned to HK and live their life happily."
L: "I don't drink, I don't sing Karaoke, I don't shop, I don't like going to China for massage therpy and spa... They all seem to enjoy those only."
R: "Look at how advanced we are... the bus are Air Condition'ed, and the HDTVs are free here. Vancouver? You're kidding me. The bus are slow, old, and stinky. The HDTV channels are so expensive, and your mobile phone service sucks! Don't start me on the old fashion Malls and buildings you had there..."
L: "So? I can live with that..."
R: "Come live in a city, don't stay at that little village you call Vancouver!"
L: "Shut up! I love Vancouver."
R: "You shut up, you have no choice! You're still young, just come back and you will become one of your friends who stayed in HK living happily"
L: "I don't want to become one of them! I don't want to become the mean HK ppl"
R: "You are one of us... you already are one of us. You think you're so nice and honest? Look, you just asked for some fake invoice for free parking at the mall the other day! and remember that time how you cheat your way to..."
L: "Shut up, I didn't want to do those at all! I... just don't wanna buy $200+ of useless stuff"
R: "Look, you're one of us."
L: "No, I'm not! I'll never be like you!"
R: "Don't you say that, and look at how responsible you are as a son. Now that your parents are getting older, you would abandon them in HK, and ask them to take care of themselves??"
L: "What? they can come and live here in Vancouver"
R: "OH please... You know that's not possible. They don't like Vancouver as much as you do! They are proudly HK Chinese, living in HK, China"
L: "sigh..."
R: "Stop wasting time, decide soon. Look, everyone's already busy working. Look at you! Playing LYK like there's no tomorrow. What's your plan now? What're u going to do? Where are you going to stay?"
L: "AH! ask me later!"
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See? That's why I don't listen to them.
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發表於 2008-5-7 20:49
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