Silence Speaks

macau/zhuhai part I

ps i'm new at the photoscape thingy not like an old pro like sister and this is my virgin attempt at using the software so dun blame me if it ain't that nice.

day 1: reached T1. took some dumb photos with Mickey the pirate which i'm not gg to show simply bcos it looks dumb. and i dun look a day like 18 not to mention other faults. afternoon flight. Jetstar-ed to Macau. on the way; after the no electronic devices allowed for fear of hindering some navigating thingy signal went off,



i like nature and what it has to offer. if you know me well enough, one of my interests is to take photos of the sky and the beautiful clouds. and being high up in the sky, every other thing feels so small and insignificant. and the clouds are just simply amazing if you translate their beauty into mere electrons at work.

btw the flight there was pretty boring. the plane was naked as in bare of any entertainment. lucky i foretold this scene and brought a trusty book with me and the fact that it was only a 4-5 hours flight. reached macau at around 755pm and after the checking out and the usual procedure, our tour guide brought us out for dinner. it was 18C in Macau and it felt gooood.



bumpy ride on the road, but the dazzling lights were simply ... dazzling.

went through the customs to Zhuhai (part of China) and the same boring procedure of filling in the visa pass and pulling the luggage along. anyway got a shot of smth i thgt quite funny at that time bcos the first thought was UFOs. lol. but later it felt sorta insulting afterall visitors do sound more polite and essentially mean the same thing.



checked in into hotel and bedtime it soon was. regretfully forgot to take photos of the room but it was not bad to say the least. esp the design of the toilet!

day 2: breakfast was average. i think how good a hotel is shld take into consideration the breakfast buffet they set up in addition to the rooms itself.

anyway went for hot springs! what an experience. the place we went to boasted 80+ different springs but seriously i didn't get to see that many. no pictures for obvious reasons. we had to change in front of our lockers and in front of everybody else. it was quite awkward bcos even as you try to avoid your eyes, everything was just plain in front of you. and hard not to notice. excuse me for being conservative and chaste but hello, sights like sagging boobs or butts were smth that i didn't consider in my to-see lists when i signed up for this trip. the whole experience of changing into your swimsuit in front of everybody was a little disconcerting. and the Chinese were pretty oblivious to themselves and their environment. but it was an experience like i said. haha like what hot springs suggested, there were some hot and some cool ones around. nothing much worth mentioning except they were really gooood. the more memorable ones were one of which resurrected the deadman sea with super high saline content which increases the density of brine, a series of pools named after Julius Caesar and the fishes that eat dead skin. a vvvv tickling sensation and not to mention eerie when you see schools of fishes of variable sizes attacking towards you. we even saw some dead fishes afloat. wonder how they died. hongkong feet or stomped to death. lol after that, we re-grouped and discussed a bit. turns out there were more interesting pools around like a turkish one, a coffee one and i forgot what. so damn interesting but a pity time wasn't on our side.

lunch was at some village-y restaurant and one of our tour members; Will's father, unfortunately choked on a minuscule fish bone whilst eating the thousand bone fish, to which swallowing rice and drinking water did not help to pacify the problem. poor thing. our tour guide xq brought us to our next destination before bringing him to a doc. anyway our next destination was interesting. it used to be a famous official's house but made into a museum with wax figures.



different doorways that the people of China in the old times used to enter and sometimes depending on your status. interesting. the bottom one is the majestic one but it used to have 3 doorways but one of them was destroyed. the grade 4 onwards officials could enter from the centre doorway while the rest had to enter from the smaller ones.



i duno what it says but i think it's a brief history of the place. lol my chinese sucks.

the famous Zhuhai official and his two wives.



from left to right: first wife who is a chinese, famous zhuhai official, secret second wife from hawaii. damn cool right. btw just to share a tiny tidbit that i found interesting. the first wife bore 3 children for the guy but if i rmb correctly, none of whom descendants are still alive. the second Caucasian wife however bore him 16 kids. hahahahha cool right. and the reason why she was secret bcos she never stepped out of hawaii. and she used to be a princess in hawaii before marrying this guy. some of their descendants are still alive. they had a family tree going on in the house but another regret that i didn't take down.

inside the house where the famous official used to live:

check out the giant partition. coolio



and the really beautifully western-influenced design at the doors:



some giant pipe which i suspect is just an ornament:



then we hung around at the wax museum which i found nobody interesting enough to take pictures off. anyway after watching the wax museum (the movie starring paris hilton) i kinda creeped out after looking at the wax figures.

waited for the famous bian-lian aka change-face show in the outdoor theatre. almost died while waiting for the show to start. smokers were freely smoking and irregardless of the people surrounding them even as i blatantly waved my hands around to disperse the smoke. i could feel my lungs turning black and seriously in need of kidney dialysis. that was how bad it was. the change-face show was really gooood. it was simply amazing and looked like there was some magic involved. but after watching the prestige (starring christian bale and scarlett johansson) i realised magic was just physics. but even as my skepticism got the worse of me, i failed to see the trick or mechanism behind the mask. it was just so quick and flawless.

went for leg massage and it was really gooood. even better than the massage i got in bangkok the last time. the masseurs that attended to us were pretty young but they had blisters that showed off their experience. i've got a motherly masseur who did wonders to my legs. and the funny thing was weijie's masseur who looked like she was in her 20s but in fact she was the sum of weijie's age and mine thgt i was the younger sis. lol i seemed to get that compliment alot.

dinnered at some classy hotel/restaurant which served sumptuous delicacies which pleased everyone's palate. next up was an entertainment programme by the olympics acrobats of China. not sure if it was just an advertisement line or smth else. no flashes were allowed during the show as it may affect the acrobats' concentration. caught the usual gravity defying act, chair-stacking act, body-bending act, bowl-swirling act. but seriously, my sympathy went out to those performers on stage. most of them were young, and then already can do such impossible acts. just imagine the sheer hardships that they went through to where they are today was quite heartbreaking. and some of them looked like they had stunted growth due to their arduous training.

day 3 to be continued later, tmr or smth. blogger is having some probs now. and just when i got the hang of using photoscape and almost hooked on blogging. zzz toodles stay tune for more okay.

posted by wantington-ny @ 3:45 PM