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Xmas in Guangzhou Yes I went to Guangzhou )gz) on xmas day. I told my travel mate, ºgo to Guangzhou, in China ppl dont celebrate xmas so we wont have the same crowd and mess as in Hong Kong and Macau.º True or not Outside the provincial bus station, there were a long queue waiting for taxi, but thereºs not even one Gz taxi coming. Yet nearby some taxis from other cities were pulling down, touting for customers to their respective cities. I decicided to take metro. Metro station is right in front of the bus station. On its ground roads and sky roads, the traffic is flowing at high speed, like water pouring down from the milky way. The countless skysrapers are the grey, solemn backdrop. The city has expanded to mega scale, now with 5 metro lines. Itºs already 1030pm and I thought it must be quiet. Yet...after walking down thru the long long corrida, we saw people queue b4 the ticketing machine )2 out of 3 didnt work properly that day). Humans are also like water flowing in and out of the metro. Most of them are under 40 love birds in pair, or families. Some holding gifts with a sweet smile. That reminded me of the xmas tree in the bus station, the 1st I ever saw in my countryºs public space. Almost 11pm and almost every train was filled up immdly. At the metro exit, vendors were selling xmas themed plastic flashes, glittering in red, yellow. Some parents were buying for their and some boys for their girls. Their faces shone with the artificial flashing. Finally we made our way into Shamian, Guangzhouºs famous inter island hosting main consulates and many heritage western style buildings. S. Chinaºs 1st 5 star hotel White Swan is here looking over the Pearl River, dotted by exquisite restaurants and bars. Itºs chilly in this late witer night, but throngs and throngs of people were walking leisurely on this western atmospheric island. For what, sure, for xmas! My partner wanted to take a look at the night scene so we went out ard mid night to one of the discos at a popular plaza. There in the well lighted plaza decorated by several mega screens on the high tower,chilly wind gushed by, workers were uninstalling a huge stage. Apparently a gala show was here b4. Suddently,we heard some noise, itºs a huge group of young ppl releasing their complaint for being unable to enter the disco. Girls were in careful madeup, boys trying to look as handsome as Japanese or Korean stars. Right at the entrace of the disco, security guards were blocking away those unhappy teens and tweens. Thisºs a Friday night. If not for xmas, how could it be that... Workers still worked on the unstallation, chills blew on. The night yet was never nighty. Occasionally drunk guys shouted out angrily and unintentionally. Two boys with golden dyed hair stromped on the floor with their own bodies, while their friends were trying to support them. They were drunk, fm the xmas drinking spree. The boy, collapsing on the cold marble floor, just kept repeating, ºIm sorry, sorry,sorry...º Not far, four sat on a poleºs foot, talking gently... Amazing or sorry, China was celebrating xmas in the open for the 1st time, as Chinese media said. When we walked back to the hotel 2pm something, through the cityºs famous shopping pedestrian street, a sport fashion shop was still lit up, carton boxes piled at doorway, waiting to be arranged onto its shelves. Still, two guys were passing by, carrying and squeezing their drunk friend in the twoºs middle. This guy, though drunk, could walk under his friendsº support, with some soberness. |
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DVC, Cn babies like coming to welcome cny, not 4 xmas.. konh hei fat choi. A happy, energetic year of tiger to u.
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