Macau Madness
A year ago, Ariel and I went
to Macau for two weeks.. Yeah it was crazy and all but here are some of
the things that we got to do that made it so memorable:
1. Upon
arrival at the Macau airport, the two of us got held up at the gates by
the guards on duty.. Long story but we got in nonetheless after some
time of confusion. But just to make things clear, we didn't get held up
because Ariel looked like a terrorist! LOL. Although that might have
been the reason why we got stopped in the first place by the guards who
RANDOMLY choose from the arrivals whose possessions to check.
2.
One of the nicest things about Macau are their buses. Air-conditioned,
automated, and organized, they made getting around the place quite easy.
Since we were staying in Taipa, which is a bridge across the main Macau
area, the bus we were riding on our first bus trip alone went across
the bridge... Then... Someone shouted (which we so did not understand),
the bus stopped, and the people were all pushing to get out of the bus!!
Waaa!!! We went along with them, a bit panicky ourselves only to find
out that there was just something wrong with the engine and we just had
to transfer buses. LOL. Of all the buses, it just had to be our bus. It
was great standing there in the middle of the bridge since you don't
normally get to stand there. Too bad we didn't even think of taking our
picture to commemorate being stranded.
3. We helped out in the
kitchen for lunch one Sunday! Woohoo! That was quite an experience for
someone who doesn't really cook, doesn't really do the dishes, doesn't
even set the table most of the time.. (okay, I'm not THAT lazy.. LOL)
Which leads me to...
4. I cut myself with the knife I was using
to.. Hmm... Slice onions?! I really can't remember what I was preparing
then but I definitely cut myself. Why do I remember? Coz it hurt. LOL.
5. Since we just had to have internet.. We walked three hours just
looking for a computer shop! LOL. It turned out that everyone there
probably had their own internet connections at home or at the hotels or
at the universities.. We finally found one near Senado square though.
Whew! But not before tiring our feet out for the night.
6. We
almost slept outside for the night LOL. There was something wrong with
the keys to the apartment we were staying in with Ma'am Celine and
family. And when they were in Hong Kong for the night, we almost didn't
get in... Until..
7. We devised a way to open the gate with..
Chopsticks! LOL. For some weird reason, I was carrying chopsticks in my
bag. And thank goodness for my uber thin wrists that we got to open the
steel gate covering the door and was mercifully saved from staying out
all night in the FREEZING COLD. (Yes, it was super freaking cold that
time that even when we were safe inside, I still slept with my shoes on.
LOL)
8. Since we were often on kitchen duty, it was also our
duty to be able to communicate with the resident apartment keeper (for
lack of a better term coz I can't think of any at the moment..) when the
sink got clogged. Unfortunately for us, he doesn't speak much english.
But since we were incredibly brilliant, we thought of taking a picture
of the clogged sink with our camera phone and showed it to resident
apartment keeper. Lo and behold! He understood! And soon we had the sink
back in action and a thousand plus peso bill (once converted) in our
hands. Just for the sink?! Waaaaaa... Thank goodness it doesn't cost
that much to get a sink fixed around here. Liquid sosa lang ata katapat
nun dito e hehehe. O kaya mainit na tubig.
9. On one of those
days when we were roaming around looking for architectural firms, we got
on a bus that included where we had to go to in its stops.
Unfortunately, we didn't know that it already passed that stop and so on
we rode until the bus was empty and the driver left his seat. Huh?
Where were we? And that's the story of how we accidentally got to go to
the border between Macau and China. But we never got to cross waaaa.
10. And the last but certainly not the least of our experiences, since
these 10 are actually still quite a few compared to the numerous
memorable experiences we had (I think Ariel and I actually had our first
almost-fight in Macau due to very obvious personality differences
hahaha), on our first Sunday there, we got to hear mass. In Portuguese.
:)
