It all started with 8 but one preferred Bogor and so there will 3. Another on biz trip, the 3rd one cannot go (don’t know why but suspect no visa), the 4th don’t know where to go and so there were 4. These 4 heroes from Water Margin then made its plan to Zhuhai, the Sea of Pigs (ooh….should be Pearls, soon you find out why pearls and not pigs). When I said plan we really plan.
2 days before the journey we had a post-trip meeting, wah pian so serious men, don’t pray, pray. Meeting supposed to start at 4.30p at McCafe, Great World City. Lee Heng was there at 4.30pm sharp (now you know who was the most excited one), 5pm LCK walked in followed by Billy. I was the late one at 5.30pm. Before I could warm my seat, LH had to go and 15 minutes later Billy. What a plan? So what did we discuss? Money, transport, golf courses, itinerary…………&*^%$#@!.
Woke up at 4am on a warm Saturday morning, 8 Nov 2008, for Billy to pick me up at 4.40am (this LCK don’t know why picked a flight at 6.30am departure). I guess he was training all of us to wait up early for the next 3 days. Reached LCK’s house at 4.55am, wa lau wife, mother, daughter all waiting to send him off. Hello LCK kena wear chastity belt or not, I asked? Shee……
As planned, arrived at airport Terminal 1 at 5.10am and checked in. Still got plenty of time to take breakfast, supposed to take noodle but one wise crack suggested Burger King. Ok, lah (and soon I regretted). 3 of us ordered the same breakfast set except for this wise crack and he got into some kind of a tiff with of all kind of people, a female Chinese nationalist. Food and beverage came, took one bite and the wise crack said his order wrong. Ya loh, must be revenge by the Chinese girl. She came, uttered some words, with a flicked of her fingers and LH’s cup of hot coffee came flying and landed of all places on my ‘tee tee’. Luckily wearing a thick blue jean but still hot inside, you know. @#$%^&*()+_)(*, I want to see your manager thinking maybe get a free meal, tan ku ku ok. And so I flew all the way from Singapore to the Sea of Pearls with the coffee aroma of Burger King. Guess who is the wise crack who gave me this special flavour?
Landed in Hong Kong, wah quite cooling men, siok like Kunming weather. Settled our transit via ferry to Zhuhai, still got plenty of time and so ‘chor tai tee’ until we reached our destination. Alamak, it’s damned cold men with the strong wind coming from the sea. Hello, why nobody check the weather before coming? Of course, none of us brought a sweater. Quickly jumped into a cab. Ferry point to hotel, Nanyang Seascape (nan yang hai chin) was about 30 minutes. Can’t wait to check-in. Wow, the room very big leh, can play 18 holes in there. I like it and so are the rest. ‘Ok, 15 minutes later to wait at lobby to take lunch’ said LCK. He must be real hungry, don’t give me chance to remove the coffee. What do you think the first thing we or rather I will do after lunch?
If you think crooked you were all wrong. I went to Lotus Road to hunt for a pair of jean. I thought maybe I can claim it back from LCK (now you know who the wise crack was) but alas he claimed innocence.
Wow!!! we saw many pearls walking around but there are pigs too. Found and bought a pair of Chinese-made Armani jean but the 3 nowhere to be found. I guessed I know where they are, look for the ‘Pearls’. And there I found all 3 surrounding a pretty mei mei drinking tsing tao beer. In Zhuhai, they have these drinking stalls lining up the entire street with a pretty girl manning the drink stall. You can play cards with her or if you like by yourself, dice also can. All you need to do it to pay for your drink, beer, juices or soft one. Strictly no hanky panky, just young innocent girls doing a decent business. 1 after another they drank, mesmerised by this pretty pearls. ‘Hey, you guys already drank a dozen, we need to go I’m still with my coffee’, I heard myself uttering these words. While walking back we scouted around checking which good restaurant to eat, settled on one and so back to hotel. ‘Everyone to fall in at 6.30pm at the lobby for dinner’ shouted LCK.
It was really cold with the fierce wind blowing, yet we chose eating in the open air area (asked for it, still cold while eating). It was a ‘big fish big meat’ dinner with roast goose, pigeon, crabs, prawns, garoupa…..I can’t remember the rest but it was a sumptuous dinner. An enjoyable meal if not for the frequent harassment from young girls to buy their flowers, sings us a song and so on……
What a meal and so what’s next?
Me, LCK and LH wanted to go for our favourite activity. Billy had no choice but to follow. We went hunting pub after pub after pub for one particular one. LCK told us his friend said this one the best, it has got everything there which others may not have. And it’s true. There in front of us, it was BIG, men. Wow, so many people watching.
…………………. To continue in the next episode.
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