The high-energy warning ahead, this article, is just four unlike, half immersed in memories, half travel notes, and may need to add a few grams of chatter. I originally wanted to participate in the essay writing. As a result, I suddenly turned around and found that it was almost over. I was confident that I could finish it before twelve o'clock, and the pattern was broken.
But since I started, I didn't continue, which is not in line with my mild obsessive-compulsive personality.
1.
About Hong Kong, it has always been a familiar and unfamiliar place. My hometown is a small city with mountains and seas. A generation ago, like dandelions floating in the sea breeze, they spread to various places, mostly Hong Kong and Thailand. Several of my relatives who don't know their names have settled in Hong Kong. My father also has friends doing business in Hong Kong, and some people around him set foot on a land separated by a river at a very young age.
All my childhood memories are also closely related to Hong Kong TV. Primary school is a public school, and my home is not far from the school. I go home for dinner at noon every day. Our family ate around the small table in front of the TV and watched TVB TV series. I came home from school in the afternoon, just in time for Jade TV to play Japanese cartoons. My mother wouldn't let me watch TV when it was time to do my homework, so I secretly took advantage of her to go shopping and watch a little digital Tyrannosaurus or seeds with my eyes open.
Habitually, I think the names of local RTHK and Jade TV are more familiar than TVB and ATV. Accordingly, Cantonese is a natural understanding skill for me.
But it was not until I graduated from high school and went home to work that I found the opportunity to set foot in this city that has always existed in my mind. Passing through the long customs corridor, separated by bright glass, Shenzhen is in the back and Hong Kong is in the front. I have an indescribable sense of uncertainty, which suddenly jumps to my heart and makes me want to move on, but I am only timid.
People who are not long in themselves will always suddenly recall something at a certain moment, just like opening a childhood diary in the afternoon.
2.
Hong Kong scenery comes with its own filter. Yellow zebra crossing, taxis with red dates, pink or sky-blue street signs, white characters, green or lemon yellow double-decker buses, the traffic lights on the sidewalk seem to be bigger than anything I have ever seen since I was a child, with alternating lights, particularly bright colors and bright contrast.
The first time I went to Hong Kong, I really had no experience. I didn't do the raiders, underestimating the consequences of not having a cell phone signal and WIFI after going abroad. I thought if I couldn't find the way, I would look up the map in a shop with WIFI. Even before I went through the customs, I never thought about the first stop of my trip. In the end, my trip was basically stuck in Mong Kok and Central.
Fortunately, some guide maps were intercepted the night before yesterday, and the subway station will have signs indicating scenic spots, so that you can't find any direction like a headless fly, and you can find a McDonald's in Mong Kok. The WIFI in the store finally touched my heart a little bit for the rest of my life. However, I can't find anything delicious that isn't cut in advance. I feel a little wronged, but I can't help it. However, I just walked into a snack bar in Central, where noodles and milk tea are delicious! Fish noodles are ordinary bamboo tube noodles, which can be seen everywhere in Guangzhou, but the sauce poured on the noodles is really different from Guangfu, thicker and more fragrant.
At the first stop, I went to Wong Tai Sin Temple. After the first lottery in my life, I went to cancel my visa. Two people asked me whether I should explain it in vernacular or mandarin. I confidently chose Cantonese. An old man explained it in Cantonese. She asked me what constellation I was. I suddenly lost my mind. Monkeys in Chaoshan dialect, Mandarin and English flashed through my mind, but I just couldn't remember how to say monkeys in vernacular. Finally, she asked me where I was. "Aunt Ma ~" The old man patted his thigh, which was not unexpected. "You have a bad career this year, be careful of the workplace villain." I still stubbornly kept that signature, lying quietly in my wallet, like an amulet. Although a year of prayer and inquiry has passed, my career and life have not improved. But in my heart, I always believe that it carries an ominous answer and will eventually point me in the right direction.
Then I spent most of my time wandering around Mong Kok. From this corner to that corner, I wandered aimlessly around the store, and girls in gray or blue school skirts passed by. My eyes rested on their uniform shoes and ankle-high white socks. At the end of the day, I found a bus stop and found a bus to go to Star Ferry Pier. I spent a few Hong Kong dollars on the boat and watched Victoria Harbour getting closer and closer. At that time, it was already afternoon, and the building with a semi-oval roof was white, calm and peaceful.
In fact, compared with Macau, for a cash-strapped person, Hong Kong really feels that there is nothing to see, mainly sightseeing and eating. After all, buses are free and Disney is expensive. But Hong Kong is still a lovely and interesting city for me.
3.
Hong Kong is a lovely and interesting city. This cuteness and fun is not reflected in the optimism or natural humor of the people in this city, but in the fact that this city contains all the people who set foot on this land and always seems too quiet. In Hong Kong, I took the subway, bus and cruise ship. Although I only visited a few small places all day, all kinds of people passed me by, including blondes studying in Hong Kong, Indian Asan riding a motorcycle and wearing a headscarf, and Muslims wearing small round hats who flocked out of the mosque just after church. They naturally walk in the street, eat, sleep and go to the toilet in this land, and I naturally look at them, and I won't feel the sense of wandering that they will leave sooner or later.
The quietness of Hong Kong is a kind of tacit silence. I used to be a quiet person, but I think this city is quieter than people. Walking in every corner of Mong Kok, there are crowded shops next to it, but I didn't hear too much noise or loud music coming from the shops. Occasionally, grandparents meet on the road. They greeted each other gently and went on their own way. Everyone is doing their own thing silently, walking their own way, as if walking is walking. There is nothing to say to each other, and there is no need to worry too much about each other, an absolutely peaceful silence.
Perhaps it is because it faces the sea and has experienced all kinds of things. Like the sea, it is quiet and tolerant.