Macau, a Home Away From Home (part 3)

Lastly you know what I love most about the place? It is the friends I met there. Yeah! My colleagues are very nice to us, we always went outside to do barbecue in the park. They roast lots of foods. Wow! I love the sausages, meat, even marshmallows…. They roast it. I love playing basketball with them thinking I might lose weight. They play so good. We always go to karaoke and sing dozens of songs while drinking and playing the dice thing. I really don’t know the name of the game but it’s all about guessing the numbers and if you lose you have to drink.
They became my family there. I love them so much and miss them. I remember Hei. We we’re talking about the rent of the house in Macau. He’s not that good in English but I like him because he still tries to talk to me in English. He said that it is cheap to rent an old hold house in Macau but the “ young house” is very expensive. Woah! I really used all the stopping power I have just to stop myself from laughing. You know why? Because if they hear you saying the wrong English or pronunciations, they won’t laugh at you, unlike here in the Philippines. I miss them so much……

Macau, a Home Away From Home (part 2)

I always complain things about that place but as I spend time with the place… I start to fell in love with it. It is a very simple place to live with. I still remember that we only eat McDonalds because their crew can speak English and their food is cheap. I love their burgers except that they don’t have spaghetti and rice. In their KFC, rice is not included in their meal, you need to order it separately. That was my first and last time to order rice because whiles we we’re eating it I realized that I can buy one and a half kilos of rice in the Philippines equivalent to their one cup of rice. Then as we continue living there we discovered things. We discovered the Thai restaurant that serves good food (take note they have English translation of their menu).
I love buying things in their grocery. It’s cheap but they don’t sell shampoo in a sachet that’s why if you buy a shampoo not good for your hair….You have to suffer for almost a couple of months They also sell lots of fruits. I love their fruits so much. It is cheap and fresh. I remember that there is one fruit stall where we prohibit ourselves from touching it. Because she will say thing in a mad way that in our comprehension we have no choice but to buy it or else you will die… Hahahaaha. I love seeing their culture and the way they live. Old people there are so sweet with each other. They walk at night, play badminton and do some exercise.

Macau, a Home Away From Home (part 1)

There is no place as home. It is a place that you are very much comfortable. Most of the time we miss our home when we a far from it. I remember during my first time to go in foreign land. I feel excited that you will go out of the country for the first time in my life. Guess what? My excitement fades the very first moment I rode the bus. The sound from a recorded voice telling the next bus stop in a language that I can’t understand is so annoying. Then we went to a restaurant to eat and everything was written in Chinese character thank God there was a picture for me to be able to pick the food that I am capable of swallowing. (As time passes by my friend and I discovered few restaurant that serves good food with English translation of the food. My first impression is not good. Everything feels so irritating. I don’t know why. Then the first time I went outside with our HR is so tiring. You know why? I didn’t know that in Macau you have to walk far and so fast. Unfortunately I was wearing my step in with 2 inches heels. I really feel tired most of all I can’t walk faster than they do. That’s why when I came to the Philippines I always complain to Bri that he walks so slow. Of course they are all wearing rubber shoes including my co-filipino workers who have been there for almost couple of months.
I don’t find there sea beautiful. I really love seas. Don’t know why but every time I look at it I feel so peaceful. Their sea is not that beautiful until one day I saw it so beautiful to the point that you can’t stop yourself on staring at it. I started to appreciate it that every time our shuttle bus passing that part I feel excited of how the water will will look like for that day. Then I started to appreciate the long bridge. The bridge has something that you feel like you’re flying to the sky. I used to dream of seeing the golden bridge. I love that view that I seen from a movie. But that bridge of Macau is also different. I know from that moment that when my contracts end the first thing I will miss is that bridge. It is just like I become part of it because everyday I have to pass him.