When a Mission turns to be an Odyssey

Hong Kong
17. Nov. 2011
2 Min. Lesezeit

Aktualisiert: 5. Okt. 2020

Its was the first day of Wai’ s wise wild wet weekend. Wet because the Rain hasnt stopt the whole day, because of me and because of the fact, that Hongkong redidents do not have days off very often. Its by far not the end of the Wet Season here in the City and an Umbrella is the biggest gift. Don’t mess with Wai’ s Umbrella unless you are a Bus, Truck or Ninja. This is how we dived into the Streets of Mong Kok.

And don’t mess with Luke when it comes down to buy something super expensive like a new Camera or even just a Lens. Wai means that I totally fit into Hongkong’ s frenzy of shopping and eating. A new Camera was needed. The Mission began, an Odyssey it became. A Successful one. But it did not look like it first.

Well, as you might know, there are floods in thailand. therefore it was impossible for Sony to keep deliver their fancy new Cameras that were my main Target. So I decided to Check what is actually broken with my old, old precious Camera. The well educated Boy behind the Counter of the Repaircenter told me, that the Body was fine, but the lens, yeah, the lens was broken. A new one required to be purchased.

After two hours of questing through the crowds of Mong Kok, the Shopping-Capital of Hongkong, we’ e found a lens – THE LENS. This is what its price says it is. Well, it was a fancy 18-200 Zooming wide-angled Masterpiece and the last of its kind in maybe the whole city. So I took it, because I definitely want to take pictures again.

Its not a Camera with a lens anymore. Its now a Lens with a Camera attached to it.

Now we’ re sitting here, right after our fantastic self cooked Spacks-Bolo. Her Legs on my Hips and my Laptop topping the sculpture. It just came in my mind that Wai torn her ligaments back in Tibet … She is still complaining some pain sometimes, the rest is fine. Tomorrow we’ ll go to Macau to win a million dollars. Wai says that shes very lucky.

we’ ll see.