Dongguan and HK

26 May 2009 - 13 June 2009




Today is the first day I am alone in HK. It is being a joyful and interesting experience for me since arrival.




Let's start from the first day. The first evening of just rushing to take SQ flight. A Non-budget flight since I travelled oversea. It was a completely different experience too. With on flight food and drinks. Comfort though I was not lucky enough to be upgraded to business class. Travelling alone is just such a different experience. There is element of uncertainity as to be going to a foreign land. Not only that, I am going to a place that I have last being for some years already. Say around 5-6 years. Well the nice thing is there is a reply to a SMS that I dun know why did I send. Well, there was a reply that came back. It was a nice SMS gift. Somehow, despite all, I still will think about her. How ironic and at times I feel it may not be appropiate. Well, guess it is just tied in into other things along the way, my guess. Well, guess a blur blur walk and a meal made some difference.




Things are quite simple in HK. Just eat, tour around. walk around with my dad. Eating dessert and still my dad thinks I am in deep love for Black Seasame Paste. Well, long has he not knew that I already not impressed with that dessert already. Well, there were quite a bit of nice food around. 2 nights in HK, met up with the Lab people and some of my dad's friend. Also heard from their life and how life is so different. How the decision of shifting work place. Their inputs really help me to see how life is so different when moving to another place to work.




Friday till Sunday will be a completely life experience from HK. I went to this place call Dong Guan. Before that went to Shenzhen. Went for a whole body message at this spa place. Quite cheap.....$400 Yuan for 2 person, Hot stone message plus free flow of drinks and food. Yum yum. It is just about SGD $80. Woah....it is much of a difference. It is a really great therapy...especially when I do have those aching shoulder muscle / ligaments. It was a great place to relax and rest too.




That is the first day in Shenzhen. First day in China. It has changed so much since the last time I was here. That was like 13 years ago. Now the town is full of tall buildings, big supermart, rapid development that makes it more expensive, in terms of land value, than Singapore. It truly is becoming a city. There are more and more spa being built. More and more executive luxurious condominium estate being built too. Interesting, more law enforcement is required in such a place. Also a place where Motorcycle is banned in Shenzhen. Something that is unique in other cities around some countries including China too. Safety and much many more are into consideration with motorcycle, or bicycle are common transportation that can be used.





Second day will be a day spent at Dongguan. Morning is a nice yum cha (typically HK), especially busy during a dumpling festival. Morning is still in HK, Sha tim while in the afternoon will be a tour in a plastic/rubber part manufacturing company. One of the director is my dad's friend. Some of interesting background but also a life of "yi qi" too. As I listened to his stories, I just start to be re-ignited about finding out what to do. Also pursuing what I really want to do. Also as I too wonder why it seems so easy for others to find their direction, while I struggle to find mine. While I struggle to pursue to the place I destined to go. What to do too. Anyway, it has being nice to listen to people life story. Things are so different when it is the top level and the normal level enjoyment. What comes before that is also the amount of stress and decision making encounters that can be countless and immeasurable. That is accompany with years of experiences and learning too. Perhaps that is the journey that I will need to learn to embark on. Now come the other side of life.

The other side of life. This comes as a completely realistics yet different experience of the other side of life. This is when one does not encounter such lifestyle in real life. Also the social circle that I am with hardly place me in that type of situation. I am in somewhere glad that I am not in situation of such tight situation. So what is the situation. There are sensitive yet open things like say walking past Red Lantern District, Booking a hotel room with a opposite gender, going to Underground Pub to .? . ....also going to those KTV to enjoy yourself. So what is the one of the key factor such a different lifestyle, perhaps the driving nature will be money. Also is the other side of life would be one that is like mostly low-storied buildings town. Also where there isn't a clear distinction of districts. There is also an interesting that there are fine lines of boundaries between towns too. One side of the river bridge can be upgraded and nice while the other side is still under-developed. As the difference also shows the power of economics, the economics of money too.

Hence the attraction / temptation of money with a growing importance of money. How it can create ways to earn them fast and drive people towards that too. How it seems so different when one whom work toward wanting to be boss without the knowledge of how it should be. Well that is something that I dun wish to elaborate too much on it. But truly the entertainment sector is one area that some group of people via certain means can earn lots of money, and then go back to their hometown to live on. This does highlights the following.

The growing gap of rich and poor together with the core entertainment as a high revenue means an easy way to make money. Simple but I will elaborate later when the opportunity arises.

The difference between sitting beside someone, and really in contact with someone. How it reinforce certain thinking. In the same time, though it may satisfy certain deep deep desire which are rooted in old issues. There are a couple of things that I learned and reinforce too. One of it is I have sensitive senses. Yup that is true and it was increased during a period of time that at this moment I can't remember when. So this is one loophole that I am glad it is not exploited yet. Well it will kept this way till there is going to be another situation that reckon a change in policy. Well those that I know, either they wouldn't exploit or they will not read this blog at all, directly or indirectly.

Second is there is really only fun and though it is fulfilling in certain ways, however in the mind, I know that is something more than that. Well, it just helps to focus things and also to fill up myself that I have being always double-minded about. Well, I hope there is a long term solution or paradigm shift. Well, I guess it may be bound to the first love I guess. It may be the very first and best. And all the journey is a preparation for me to be a real blessing to the S.O.

Thirdly, the wierd and questionable thing is I still think about this person. A meal, the first at the person's place; does it really make a difference? Or perhaps like some says, the more one invest, the more vested one is in. So perhaps that is one main factor. Though the other one is, the higher the grape, the harder the jump, the sweeter one thing the grape is. Anyway the experience in DG just solidify certain aspect that will attract me from the visual senses. Anyway, hopefully I can find some interesting things in HK to buy back...and also well now is the important cross-road for me too. To either find a work in Singapore or to work oversea. A people-orientated or a routine orientated. Well let things decide as I try to apply for the same job again. Allied Educator-Counselling. So I have to decide decisively too. Let just keep things at it is.