Desolance

Countdown

Well, Jenny and I decided that we would stick to countdown in Causeway Bay to experience how it would be like. We stayed home and watched TV, went out shopping till like 8pm – had dinner came home and felt sleepy! Imagine that!  Anyway we headed out at 11.30pm from my apartment and realised that all the streets were clogged with people. There were barricades all over the area and traffic was uni-directional. There were practically no place along the vicinity that you can stop and chat or watch the crowd. So Times Square is like the central stage area and barricades segment the road and open spaces into animal-like pens where people have been sitting since like 4pm I would guess. The countdown came, both of us were along the street parallel to the mall. We could not see anything much and we did hear the countdown. And after that everybody started going home! It’s such an anti-climax almost as if people came for that sole purpose. There were no drunk people jumping around, no drinks sessions. Almost as if people came for a uni-purpose. Almost task-like… So there you go, that was our countdown to 08 here in Hong Kong. Jenny and I tried to get some soy bean drinks in a small shop and I was like totally pissed off with that grumpy old waiter whom refused to take our order because it did not meet minimum spending! Can you beat that?!