Last Friday night, I went to my 'canteen' -- Tai Hing (Mongkok cheap branch) to have dinner and met these 4 Israeli who needed help with their meal orders and so I did a cameo for the restaurant as the 10-minute waiter and placed orders for them as well as recommended the goose drumsticks and suckling pigs. It was really fun and meaningful to have helped them and they really loved the food! This is what truly matters! They told me that they are on a 10-day trip and it was their 5th day, I bid them goodbye after that and went to teach my evening class. Coincidently, I went to Jordan the next day and I ran into them again!!! They were walking down Nathan Road and going into camera shops for some money-draining actions! I kindly reminded them to be careful in those shops as they often mark up the price once they know you were foreigners and they immediately told me they had experienced a 60% premium price, they also knew about Fortress and Broadway but they said they found bargaining down from 60% exciting and would like to practise more, so I left them with my wishes and went to teach my afternoon lessons.
Saturday night was Earth Hour 2011, and after having Indian dinner with my sis at Aladin Mess in Causeway Bay, we went across to Time Square to wait for the lights-out. Strangely, there was no sign of any off-light shows, so we hurried to World Trade Centre behind Sogo and when the saw the huge screen saying that the time was 8:32pm, which means the Earth Hour had already begun, everywhere was still glowing with light bulbs like day time!
Once again, I was disappointed. I was expecting not-so-many Hong Kong people would switch off their lights and not to join in since the experience in Tsim Sha Tsui last year but I wasn't expecting ZERO difference! On the bus home looking back at the Victoria Harbour, it was darKER in Central and Tsim Sha Tsui, but it was not dark at all.
When will most Hong Kong people care about climate change? Earth Hour Hong Kong wasn't promoting enough, TVs didn't show any ads and the government didn't help.
Today, I donated some money to Red Cross to the needy in Japan and some to OPS for saving the ocean. Let's hope that both Japan and the oceans can be saved.
Resources:
Food and Restaurant: Tai Hing @ Locky's English Playground
http://lockyep.blogspot.com/2010/05/food-and-restaurant-tai-hing.html
Event: Earth Hour 2011 this Saturday!!!! @ Locky's English Playground
http://lockyep.blogspot.com/2011/03/event-earth-hour-2011-this-saturday.html
Environment: Earth Hour 2010 (add-ons) @ Locky's English Playground
http://lockyep.blogspot.com/2010/02/environment-earth-hour-2010-add-ons.html
Hong Kong Earth Hour 2011 @ YouTube
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=oFGa2sFfGqw
Documentary: The Cove @ Locky's English Playground
http://lockyep.blogspot.com/2011/01/documentary-cove.html
Locky, your story with the Israeli sounds very interesting. I had a similiar experience in Janurary this year. I had to speak all-day English (actually it was Chinglish) with my English pen-friend while I showed her around HK Island. I found that it was hard to do so especially my English has not been good, but it was really impressive to me and with great fun.
ReplyDeleteI like that very much. Well, hope you enjoy yourself this weekend. I can imagine how much pressure you had for doing so many things at the same time. You are absolutely a busy guy. By the way, one of the most successful event held by HK -- Ruby 7 just showed on the past weekend can also release pressure. I found it was very exciting.
Glad you went to watch Rugby 7, lots of foreigners there to talk to, but mostly drunk afterwards I suppose. The encounter with the Israeli, is a nice and fun one. Making people happy makes me happy.
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