Tuesday, May 24, 2005
My last two travels to ShenZhen
Well, some quick words about my last two visits to Shenzhen.
May 1st: The first time An accompanied me for the tour. Instead of the usual places of shopping mall, we decided to go to see the Lianhua Shan park ( Lotus mountain park). There was a big yard for skating. Lying on the grasses, we enjoyed watching the skates. Two were extraordinary. An old man was sitting on grass and let the wind to take one by one his tadpole skate, they were quite small to be taken up by the wind immediately. Guess what? There were 220 in total with the last a bigger one in green- their mom Frog. I liked his humility. xixi... The other was a skate of birds, much bigger size, with different colors and around 30 in total. I liked this, too.
May 14th: The weather was unbearably hot. This time I went through Huanggang checkpoint instead of Luohu. I contacted a university mate who works in Shenzhen, the only guy I know in ShenZhen apart my cousin. He was strange, keeping push me to make shopping in Shenzhen, because in Shenzhen everything is much cheaper than HK. Yeah, I know that, but we are not so close kind of friends and I don't like to make personal shopping with guys I am not so familiar with. Then he pushed again, so I said I might check something for my father since I plan to go back Shanghai in June. We went to a Department store but I didn't find anything really interesting. So We kept circling the Men's floor. At the end I was bored and suggested we just sat down somewhere for a little chat, since after university we have never met each other. Finally, he took me to a local snacks place. At least, I got some good food.
Apart this little meeting with Xie, I saw something really horrible on the streets. There were boys, around 10 to 13, using finger-thick iron thread to force their necks, and then asked for few coins for their performance. The one, even forced his own face to bloody red. I was really horrified. Never seen this kind of things before. It was too barbaric and ugly.
In HK, Shenzhen is very notorious for its stealing and robbing. I tried to tell myself to feel more Shenzhen before I make any comment about I like or dislike this city. But this has really made a bad mark about Shenzhen.
On the way back HK, I have been questioned by the customs official about my frequent entrance into HK. I answered that I am doing a project in HK. haha, it sounded a perfect answer for the official. No further question, I entered HK once again.
by gattomatto
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