how we perceive beauty
this was written last march 4 while im still in hongkong.
it is the tail-end of my stay here in hongkong. i should have been back home a week ago but complications with my workload here prevented me from doing so.
it was sad that i wasn't able to go home last saturday. i was actually walking at nathan road in hongkong during the time my supposed flight home was in the air...
but i was here for work not for anything else... so i dealt with it.
along with the extended stay was a transfer to a different residence. from the busy, urban lifestyle that is at eaton hotel in nathan road, i transferred to a laid-back, quiet lifestyle of hongkong sports residence in sha tin, new territories. eaton hotel, apparently was fully-booked and couldn't extend my stay... so off i go to far-away sha tin.
the first couple of days were terrible. i really couldn't hide my disappointment in the place. there was really no place to go! its very unlike in nathan road where there are tons of place to go to. the place was quiet. it was sort of a country club where you can have membership to avail of the sports facilities available (and there are a lot of sport facilities available here... a lot... the complete facility for sports, i mean it).
and the cold weather in that place is actually harder for a guy coming from a tropical country like me. it is widely thought of that the temperature in that place is 2 degrees lower than in the rest of hongkong.
but it kinda grew on me. the other night, i walked on a very well lighted road outside of the sports facility. it stretched towards the banks of the shing mun river. that place is really beautiful. its like one of those lovely streets in paris where you can easily fall in love. on the opposite banks of the river is the treasure floating restaurant where it illuminates the whole surroundings.
what is actually beautiful and what is not, does not really refer to aesthetics or what one has that the other does not have. beauty comes from within us and how we reflect it on everybody and everything around.
it is the tail-end of my stay here in hongkong. i should have been back home a week ago but complications with my workload here prevented me from doing so.
it was sad that i wasn't able to go home last saturday. i was actually walking at nathan road in hongkong during the time my supposed flight home was in the air...
but i was here for work not for anything else... so i dealt with it.
along with the extended stay was a transfer to a different residence. from the busy, urban lifestyle that is at eaton hotel in nathan road, i transferred to a laid-back, quiet lifestyle of hongkong sports residence in sha tin, new territories. eaton hotel, apparently was fully-booked and couldn't extend my stay... so off i go to far-away sha tin.
the first couple of days were terrible. i really couldn't hide my disappointment in the place. there was really no place to go! its very unlike in nathan road where there are tons of place to go to. the place was quiet. it was sort of a country club where you can have membership to avail of the sports facilities available (and there are a lot of sport facilities available here... a lot... the complete facility for sports, i mean it).
and the cold weather in that place is actually harder for a guy coming from a tropical country like me. it is widely thought of that the temperature in that place is 2 degrees lower than in the rest of hongkong.
but it kinda grew on me. the other night, i walked on a very well lighted road outside of the sports facility. it stretched towards the banks of the shing mun river. that place is really beautiful. its like one of those lovely streets in paris where you can easily fall in love. on the opposite banks of the river is the treasure floating restaurant where it illuminates the whole surroundings.
what is actually beautiful and what is not, does not really refer to aesthetics or what one has that the other does not have. beauty comes from within us and how we reflect it on everybody and everything around.
posted by jones at 4:44 PM
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