Mondays are great for exploring because we end by the early afternoon and it's the start of a new week, which I find goes by too quickly as the days go by. So we decided to follow a walking trail and go around Shatin like tourists, to Che Kung Temple, the old Hakka houses of Tsang Tai Uk, the Hong Kong Heritage Museum and Sha Tin Park. It was a great experience, and it is rather amazing how watching a little boy get his hair cut by his mother at Tsang Tai Uk can tug at your heartstrings. Qi thinks I go around exploring too much, when I could be in the room sleeping or resting since I have to wake up early on Mondays, Tuesdays and Wednesdays, but I can't help but have that mentality that there's so much in Hong Kong to do and see that I shouldn't quite be wasting my time in the room. Although, she happens to be right sometimes when I just drop dead in the middle of the day from exhaustion.
I loved every bit of being at the Happy Valley Racecourse. Wednesday nights are racing nights, and there's this unexplainable buzzing in the air once you step into the racecourse. You breathe in the cold night air and stare into the blinding lights of the stands, watch people buy cheap beer and place their bets, gawk at rich tycoons including famous celebrity Eric Tsang place their bets and take their places in their private viewing rooms, shout in excitement when the horses start racing, and watch faces of delight or disappointment as the colourful horses cross the finish line and the bright screen flash the results. We didn't bet of course, although Henri did an Academy Award winning short video that cracked me up till my sides ached. But it was absolute fun taking in the scene and pretending to be part of it all.
