Monday, September 8, 2008

I'm kaisu but not Kaisee in Macau Trip

A trip to Kowloon and Hongkong, my curiousity to see things that different from other countries. Now I understood how my grandmother land, she born and lived there for few years' before touching down to Singapura. In Hongkong things are much expensive, and building is high and nice, understood very expensive living in Hongkong.
In Kowloon city this bathtub wasn't big, somehow it's comfortable to sit and take a shower. I hasn't see this in France and Singapura yet!! Although my grandmother has gone to heaven for so many years', I had learned many things from her. Now I understood between kowloon and Hongkong isn't the same way of living and working. We book this Chung King Mansion hotel from the internet, actually well known place a movie film were taken there. Its crowded with different races, the streets is very busy with tourists, and shops closed very late at night. If you can't speak contonese it will be harder to handle if you're in trouble. In general in the city some of the big shops able to speak English. We had a good time in Kowloon although it's polluted, it's a great trip knowing how people lived and worked in the city. Dark lane and busy night lifestyle. We just enjoyed the cantonese foods, tim sums, wanton noodles and peking ducks. It's fantastic and delicious!!. We go crazy staring at all the shops, eyeing at many things. Electronics is great in HongKong.In the evening very busy and polluted. We ate our break-fast in one of the 4 stars hotel in kowloon, it's expensive!! . To stay in the guest house hotel, 3 of us and there we see the rat running around the corridor at night. Just a bed, bathroom and air-conditioner, the air in the room is filled with dust, we locked our laggage at time!!. I make a complained and finally got a better room to sleep. Taxi fares is cheap with euronotes!!Hongkong building is very tall, the night lifestyle is great!! The harbour is filled with stock!!



Macau is not far, just catch a boat trip. Mr Lion paid us the trip in first class seat for 3 of us. I don't see any different in the first class seat, a simple noodles soup or sandwiches served by the hostess. Arrived Macau by boat trip isn't bad at all! Day fare is cheaper than night fare. I saw so many chinese people from china heading to casinos, and we just to have some fun and visited the best part of Macau by feets but sometime by taxi fare. Well! my big bag got from Hongkong city, isn't branded but trendy it has their own style. In Hongkong good for shopping and eating!! Once my future euronotes and singdollars filled in this bag, Frenchtosh will be shock to see how the Singaporean being so kaisu and not kaisee.We stayed in the 4 stars hotel, knowing my dead mother Ah Mah from Macau liked Macau portugese cake and biscuit. We'll enjoyed the cakes, and Frenchtosh mentioned it's so cheap, if he stayed in Macau, he will eat everyday. Hotel drinks isn't expensive, the cocktail drink is great!!. The foods is yummy yummy, and not expensive. We ate in the casinos, and I lost in the casnio too!! My bag is very big, waiting for the coming years to fill up with fresh clean notes!! Allo! it's not a channel or LV bag, do you know in Hongkong you can find cantonese designers. I had seen few shops many bags, very nice and trendy look. Frenchtosh had got a nice jacket suit with good buttons meaning on it!! I liked to shop in Hongkong very much, unfortunately we didn't stay long enough, but will visit Hongkong again!!. You see my bag is bigger than my body. Frenchtosh will be shock to see if one day I fill up with all the dollars notes!! Well! I would like to fill up 100singdollar notes and 500euronotes, not the yuan notes!! Motateng in cantonese word, as I had mentioned to ESMOD that, china has most of things espescially silk and cotton textile, once the door is open, the dragon and tigre is coming out. That's how to be rich!! The ancestor way of doing and saving each thing. I liked to be in Macau, and to bring my mother spirit back to her homeland.
We bought biscuits freshly baked in Macau.

Is nice to walk around, I felt like I'm back to my homeland.
Catholic cementry in Macau.



Story of Ah Mah from Macau, Hongkong and Singapura!

Ah Mah Vision and Ah Mah gong. Cantonese Supersitious way of life. The colors and month is very important to us. Learn to respect an adult, you will be blessed for good luck and good fortune. Everything is real, the ghost is often there, dream can tell you what is going to happen, and the moon is very important to us. The month is also important to us, if we thinked of doing a business project or moving a new home. There a chinese ancient book to read your birthmark future.

Ah Mah gong, you must go to this beach and wash your sin, and wash away the evil things. This sea water will brings your wish comes true. Marine Parade and Katong Beach in Singapura.

Gong is a canotnese word, it mean "Say".

Ah Mah gong, you got to know how to swim, and learn things at young age. Ah Mah gong, the sea wave can bring you away to another island. Take a shower in the sea can wash away your sin, and chase away the evil things. Sea water can brings you luck, if you make a wish. Ah Mah gong, you must not swim during the period of 7 months, to avoid dead spirit calling for the next person. Ah Mah gong, you must learned to swim, and have to becareful the wave and the months. Ah Mah has gone to heaven, but all of us still can remember her stories given to us.

Actullay Ah Mah were born in GongDong, but ath the age of 3 she moved Macau raised by my grandmother. My grandmother were born in Hong Kong never married at all. My grandmother is very tall and beautiful. My grandmother liked me alot, and she loves to tell stories. The stories of ghost and chinese tradition events. And my Ah Mah used to tell stories to one of my sister lived in Melbourne. Knowing Ah Mah, her lifestyle between Hongkong and Macau. My mother used to played with a portuguese girl, came from a rich family. She used to go to church, believing the catholic style, but my grandmother wasn't a catholic. At the age of 16, Ah Mah fell in love with a portugese man in Macau. My grandmother were afraid to lived alone, and she asked Ah Mah to get married to a man that, match make by her. She said, either you married a rich handicap man, or a poor handsome man. Ah Mah married to my father born from Gongdong. Knowing my grandfather has a land in china. Who robbed the land in china, there's a story in it. After Ah Mah got married, Ah Pak brings Ah Mah to Singapura. Actually Ah Pah has land and a shop in Malaysia. His business is dealing with bicylces, cleaning and repairation motor cars. His brother wasn't rich, and Ah Pah gave away his land and shop to his brother in Malaysia. Since Ah Pah got married to Ah Mah, he want to gives Ah Mah a good lifestyle than moved to Singapura. Ah Mah had a maid at home, she called her ah mah chaire. Ah Mah Chaire do all the housework and educated children. Ah Pah used to travelled to Malaysia for business. He taught a japanese man how to be rich in Malaysia. Car tyres that rubber planation in malaysia. Just like all chinese men, good in business without going to a business school. It's an ancient brain storm, that brings forwards to the next generation. That's why chinese often liked to talk business, and to get rich very fast!! Ah Mah gong, She only can remebered her sister got killed during the japanese war. Her sister were supposed to visit her in Singapura, but due to the war, she got killed on her boatship. The bomb drop just like "A drop of water". From that onward, Ah Mah didn't want any of her children to married to a japanese man. Ah Pak is very intelligent dealing business with indonesia and malaysian people, he spoke in bahasa malayeu. Ah Pak favourite thing is his birds. Burong kakatua and kissing birds, beside that he liked to change new car. Ah Pak liked to buy diamonds and jade for Ah Mah, to pleased her when he's away for business. My grandmother often tell us stories, and my mother taught us how to be smart to do things by ourselves, at early age 3 years old. Washing, cooking and sewing a cloth by ourselves. Just cut 2 holes without a zip, using our lady fingers to touch everything. Now I trainned my dog to be smarter, after we had lost our first expensive dog in this pool. Cantonese supersitious, a dog must be well taken cared. Never chase a dog away, if you ever do that, you will be bad luck for years!! When a dog died, we have to return 9 life, it's a supersitious way of life for cantonese people.