HK HK HK *muaks*

being a cantonese who grew up with tonnes of HK canto dramas.... It feels like I know HK at the back of my hands... HK has always been an image of a place where pple are vibrant and aggressively fighting for themselves (in a good way). I love that atmosphere where pple are always on the move, got that "never say die spirit", the HK that i used to know.... (from my previous visits) have its pple talking NON-stop... everywhere they are, they are actively chatting away.... There's just so much vibrancy in the air that gives you that extra push to shop for another 6hrs after you 10hr marathon... =)

but this trip has brought new things to light.... (or perhaps i've "grown up" and started to notice them only now). When I look at the pple around, they seemed to be talking less, smiling less and alot less cheery.... and the retail market is infested with lots of mainland chinese tenants, storeholders, sales executives that the true HK experience is kinda lost.

I dun wan to be buying my curry fishball from a mainland chinese who does not grow up with eating it, I wan to buy it from the HK pple itself! I'm there to EAT what the HK eats... not helping them to promote foreign labour.... (i got especially upset when they charged us extra $$ because we're not locals and their signages were super UNCLEAR, it never happened when it was the true blue HK pple who did this biz).

I dun wan to be drinking herbel tea from a nice looking SHOP which looks SOOO commericalised and charges 60% more for the same drink that i can get from a neighboury shop with small time owners.... the flavour of HK is in its PPLE. plus i can tell that the herbal drink is mass produced and possibly kept in some fridge for days if the stock is not sold.... so where is the FRESHness garanteed?

Having said this.... I still feel very very much for them, everywhere that we go, we are reminded of how they live... in tiny houses to fit many pple, its even reflected in their Ikea showroom (Darling pls upload the photo). I can hardly imagine living in that tiny space and still function so efffectively.... My admiration goes out to their preservarence in holding on to their dreams and always trying to make it happen (eg. Andy Lau my fav male singer/actor used to be a hairdresser until he got enrolled into TVB for a small time actor.... hee... its so funny watching the older dramas of him and Tony Leung etc as guards in the olden court house).

My point is... HK pple dare to DREAM and they dare to LIVE their dream....

do we dare to dream? I'm only begining to have a dream.... hope i'm not too late =D