Saturday, December 20, 2008

I'm home!!

Ahhh!!i'm back people!!it does feels good to leave the country for 6 days.Was back on thursday evening actually but i didnt have the energy to blog..was extremly tired.Yesterday..was suffering from a very bad headache.It hit me so badly i just feel like sleep all day.The weather in hong kong was dry and cold.I didn't brought my windbreaker..only brought a sweater which didnt really help.So everytime i step out of the bus to walk for a long distances or wait for someone outside i'll be jumping..seriously it was cold cause the the wind was blowing badly!!COLD!!
Well i can say this trip was the far most interesting one.Why?hehehe!!i'll tell you.Actually it was a bad experince.Macau and Zhuhai was just one bridge away..that makes it very near but we have to cross the China broder to get to Zhuhai.Thats when something happen.Everyone(20 people in my tour group i joined) was suppose to pay each RM30 to the tour agency and they will make a visa for us so things run smoothly when crossing the border.As i say my group was made up of 20 people, 5 from my family and the other 15 consists of 3 families which are related.SADLY, the in the 15 people..two families didnt want to pay,they insist of using the paper document instead..cause they want to save cost.if one person doesnt want to make a visa the agency wont do any for others.There saving cost cause their nephew and niece to get a bad experince for their first trip overseas.
There was two paper documents.Our tour leader was checking for any errors on every members identity document.THERE WAS ERROR!!One of the boys name wasnt on the list.BIG TROUBLE..no name means you cant pass.the other error was..the little girls date of birth was switched with her brother who's name wasnt on the list.Some got their names spelled wrongly.The tour leader said it was fine just go up to the broder passing counter and tell the person in charge about it. So we lined up according to the list.My family and i our names were in the second list.The first list members passed the border first leaving the boy who's names was not on the list standing waiting at the counter.For the second one..the little girl was first on the list.She just gave it the the guard on duty.The guard was questioning her,i can see she was really scared.After standing for 10 minutes the guard called for our tour leader.He said the girl's identification was wrong so she cant cross the broder.He said we have to change the list because if you have one error the rest cant cross the border. The brother and sister was taken upstairs to the broder office to make a new visa..which the total cost was 600 rmb(around RM300).It took us four hours to settle everything.Our local guide came..actually ther was two.I didnt know why.We went shopping after that..ahhahaha..after dinner.
The next day...It was time for us to leave and go back to Hong Kong.we had a different guide today,the other one who followed us yesterday,her name was xiao lor.She told us the other guide was not feeling well so she's replacing her.We had our lunch at 11am and was in the hovercraft station at 11.45am.Our boarding time was at 2pm.All of us was waiting..i went to sleep on the chair.I got up later and saw the tour leader and the local tour guide going in and out of the station with their sour face.At 1.30pm we were suppose to get ready to get in the hovercraft but we still arent moving.I needed to pee..ahhaha!!so i just quickly ran to the toilet with my sis.Coming back i saw my brother, he told me that people are fighting over there and asked us not to go.i thought it was a joke..well my brother has really really bad jokes sometimes.It was true this time.A group of people was crouded near the place i was sitting before.My mum was stading quite near there..where's my dad?I looked around terrified, then i saw him throwing something in the dustbin...what happend?
So the truth was, there was a fight between our tour leader and local guide.The local guide wants our tour leader to collect 300 rmb each because we didnt visit 3 more places.Those three places where shops selling things like herbs and creams.Local giudes there wont get paid by taking us visitors around.So the only way to get money out of os is to take us to those shops selling things like i mention above.Everything we buy from any shop we've been to, they'll get comission out of it.In this case, we didt visit 3 more shops..but one only.The tour leader didnt want to give her any.So they started to quarrel.It's her problem she could have took us to have a visit pass few hours but she didnt.With them quarrelling, we missed our 2 pm bording.The tour giude wanted to bought tickets and just leave but the counter said there wasnt any left.IT was 2.40pm..we missed another one.The fight started when on of the people working at the ticket counter told our tour leader the tickets were in xiao lor's bag and she told them not to sell any tickets to us.YUP!!She had it all along..my tour leader was furious!!HE grabbed her arm s from the back and called the tour member to help him.My dad and a lady went to help.My dad tried to hold her back and the lady try to grab her bag and take out our tickets.
Xiao lor's size was plum and she was strong.My dad got a deep cut on his thumb and a few scratches on his hand and the lady had few scratches on her hand too.Sadly they didnt manage to get the tickets.Xiao lor started to sceam and cursed at them.She walked out of the station calling the local tour guide yesterday..it was her elder sis.Ken our tour leader called the police for protection in case if anything happend.Zhuhai is not really a safe place..many underground things are done there and the ladies..are horrible!!There as fierce as a tiger and wont let you go easily.The police came in a swift, ken and xiao lor was arguing again.Only this time it was louder.People stared to gather there.I was sitting on a bench with my family..scared and i was praying.praying we all get out of there quickly and not going to the police station.Then somebody came..
A lady with bright pink top with a furious look on her face.She came to her sister and joined in the situation.Her elder sister was shouting,cursing and blaming us.She blamed us for hitting her sister which clearly wasnt true.She wasnt at the there and there was cctv around.The shouting got louder..i was really scared..all of us were.The police man wasnt really helping.He suggests us to apologise to her and go or things will never work out.So we did, but her elder sister didnt accept it.Ken paid her some money i think at lease 500rmb and above.We left immediately,boarding the 3pm hovercraft.
After that day,nothing bad happend.my family and i were having fun in Hong KOng DIsney Land.IT was fun, but dont compare it with US or Japan..is a whole different story.Pictures..if you want to see more i'll let you see them after i develop.

Sorry if there is any spelling errors.

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