Hong Kong, Macau Here We Come!

It seems to me that my birth-town is never short of drama.  While Cynthia and I was making our way out of the airport, somewhere on the other side of the immigration area, an attempted theft took place rather dramatically as accounted by my mother. Gossip works wonder when stories from different eye witnesses miraculously form the story that is passed around to everyone nearby.

One man was robbed inside one of the shops in the airport and immediately, he gave chase to the thief who took away his wallet and passport. Not wanting to lose sight of the thief, the victim without a second thought dropped his luggage and backpack. He managed to grab the backpack of the thief and riped that off the running thief. He then grab the jacket of the thief and that too went off. Soon, the victim was close enough to deliver not one, not two, but three good punches onto the thief’s body. At this point, I am not sure who was the victim, or who became the victim. After pinning the thief onto the ground, he yelled for the police (to the extend of why there weren’t any police around). A few bystanders helped to pin down the thief and the victim retraced his path of destruction and regained his abandoned belongings. As dramatic as it was just minutes ago, the thief was taken away in handcuffs by the police.

We took a bus from the airport to home. Bus drivers in Hong Kong have this superb skill in tackling the sharp bends and small roundabouts with such a blazing speed. The empty beer cans were rolling incessantly from one end of the bus to another. One luggage was thrown out of the designated area and crashed onto the front side of the bus. The owner quickly put it back only to see it thrown out of the rack another time, and another time. Empty food wrappers hovered above the bus floor fueled by some circular invisible forces. I kept staring at the empty beer cans, a special light beer that I have not seen in Singapore. I felt thirsty and I am suppose to be on a detox trip.

Familiar places and there are so much to do here. In just 4 hours’ time, I will have to get up and catch a ferry to Macau. It certainly sounds like fun.

Stay tuned.