Archive for August 27th, 2008
Musings
I haven’t been updating this blog for a while becuase I’ve been travelling a fair deal (and so not around much to eat).
There’s something I must get off my chest. On Saturday, C and I went to the computer fair, and there were so many ugly incidents of uncivilised behaviour that isjust unfortunate.
We left home at around noon, hoping to be early birds to the computer fair. We got up a cab downstairs but ran into a massive jam right outside Victoria Park. Apparently there was a major accident in Admiralty that caused traffic to back up all the way to North Point. We got off and headed for the MTR station instead, and ran into what seemed like thousands of like-minded people. I’ve never seen Tin Hau MTR quite so packed on a Saturday afternoon, truth be told.
Right as the train pulled into the platform, the people around me pushed their way into the train, blatently ignoring the passengers desperate to get out. Those passengers have right of way, damnit! The most infruiating must have been when an old lady in her 70s or 80s who was trying to exit, and couldn’t “fight” the mad rush in the opposite direction. We could see her trying her best to push her way out, and these middle-aged men and women not caring a least bit. C saw that she was about to fall, and grabbed on to her, making sure she was safely into the station before we got on.
We got to Wanchai in a short bit, and joined thousands of others making the trek to the computer fair. Seeing the crowds, we knew it was going to be a long wait. We essentially queued from Central Plaza, all the way through snaking barricades within the convention center. At one point, we had to take the escalator to the basement parking lot as part of the process.
As we were about to head down towards the escalator, the noticed some people ahead of us shifting the barricades so they could skip past the queues at the parking lot, and because they were so fast, they got away with it. I was incensed. The people ahead of them put in a good half an hour in line, and those behind them (like us) are fully intending to pay our dues. Am I just naive in believing in fair play?
Perhaps this kinds of behavior ruined my day. After the long trek to the computer fair, C and I walked out empty handed.
