Ska jag flyga hem till dej
I en rosa helikopter
Ja då flyger jag till dej varje dag
I en rosa helikopter
Hela vägen hem till dej
I en rosa helikopter
Ja då flyger jag genom stjärnova till dej"
- Peaches, 'Rosa Helikopter'
Wednesday, middle of the week. Many things going on in HK right about now. My brother and sister are still here, acting like tourists they are and I've been joining them to some of their tourist activities. It's all been good fun! It's nice to have them around albeit I'll be happier once they're gone. Hah, this is not because I don't like their company - quite the opposite - but I do yearn to get back to my routines. It's been 5 weeks now of breaking routines. First, my friend Toni came here for two weeks, then I left to Finland for two weeks, and now my brother and sister are here for two weeks... All really great but disrupting my normal life.
In 5 weeks I haven't gone to the gym once, nor have I played any badminton. I haven't been doing any of the stuff I'd normally do on evenings, my weekends are spent differently, etc. Breaking routines is a good thing sometimes but in such a prolonged period it starts to be troublesome.
Plus of course I miss the privacy of my home. While I don't mind company, sharing my home with a number of people makes living a bit different. It's hard to put in words exactly but I suppose it should be easy to imagine.
Anyway...
Weekend was nice. We did a lot of touring of HK (mostly with the excuse of shopping) and also went to see the Big Buddha statue in Ngong Ping.
There is a walking path/road to the Buddha-statue and our original plan was to take it. Weather was excellent albeit really hot, and we thought it'd be awesome to see the sceneries and enjoy a refreshing outdoor day. We didn't, however, bring a map with us, thinking the trail would be clearly marked.
We headed out to the boiling hot summer day. Until then, we had mostly had cool and a bit rainy days but now it was sunny and hot. Well, having enough water with us provided the proper means to avoid dehydration and we expected to be walking in the shades quite a lot since much of the trail would be in the forest-covered mountain sides.
We never found the trail.
We were however, as we later learned, in the right direction - just not in exactly the right place. We walked for 1-1½ hours under the hot sun, realizing our mistake of underestimating the task ahead of us. Sweating and quickly running out of water, we decided to just wait for the next bus. So, in the end we got to the statue on a bus. All's well when end's well.
I had never been to the statue before though it is quite close to Tung Chung. I had been waiting for a suitable visitors to arrive so I could take them there. This is tactics I've implemented to avoid seeing the local sights too many times.
The Big Buddha will be featured later on in a Hong Kong Sights-segment, so I won't go into details of the place now.
That was Saturday.
On Sunday we mostly did some shopping. Or, they did shopping and I watched and followed. The day also included some new places like Kowloon Bay and it's new shopping mall "MegaBox" where I hadn't been before.
I have to wonder about Hong Kong's huge amount of big shopping malls. It seems that all, even the smallest, districts have their mega-mall's and shopping centers. With the excellent transportation systems this city has, it would be easy to imagine people would mostly go shopping to central locations like Causeway Bay, Tsim Sha Tsui, Mong Kok, and so on. However, it seems that even the most remote shopping mall has thousands and thousands of visitors all the time! 7.5 million locals and adding the thousands of tourists every day is a lot people, sure, but seriously... I just can't understand it. Where do all these shoppers come from!!??
That was Sunday.
Monday I took a day off to go to Ocean Park with Chi, my brother and my sister. What a day! For a long time, the weather forecasts predicted a day of rain for us but turns out luck was on our side that day and we saw no rain.
Ocean Park is one of the mentionable amusement parks in Hong Kong. Like the name suggests it is marine-life centered and aside from different kinds of rides, there is a clear emphasis on presenting marine-life in different kinds of aquariums and terrariums. The number of rides can't compete with the big amusement parks of the world (or even the bigger ones in Finland) but the few they have are of high quality and fun!
Though we didn't get any rain, it was a cloudy day and humid as hell! No dry-heat here. Actually, instead of being nice and cool, it was a quite sweat-filled day as well. But I had really good time there!
I need to upload some pictures from the past 6 weeks or so. I'll do that later.
That was Monday.
Since then I've been at work more or less normally - another routine I actually look forward to normalizing again. This irregular life has make my sleep irregular, and with such irregularity comes sleep-deprivation and tiredness.
"True abysmal black eternal hate." - Markus Takala
I can go on without much sleep for quite a long time, but in the last 1½ weeks, I've only had one night of proper sleep. It's starting to show. But I don't care. I won't even complain about it. It's a price I pay happily. Yet, I don't like being tired: it makes my head feel heavy and slow. And I don't like being slow.
Anyhow, off now to do some work.
"A man may fight for many things. His country, his friends, his principles, the glistening ear on the cheek of a golden child. But personally, I'd mud-wrestle my own mother for a ton of cash, an amusing clock and a sack of French porn." - Blackadder
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