Walking Macao in Dec. 08
Monday, May 18, 2009 10:55PM
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This was a simple one-day-outing ... with benefits.
Most importantly, I met Weigo Lee again who, since I last saw him over ten years ago, has become a stage director. Weigo and his wife Peggy who works for the Macau Academy for Performing Arts, were so super-kind as to not only let me crash at their place but to waste an entire day on me and give me a tour of the town. Peggy is a Macau native and it was as entertaining (joking about the greed-for-money inducing Feng Shui of the local casinos) as it was insightful (local history, changes in social climate before and after the handover, ethnic make-up, bladibla) to walk around and talk about the small and big differences between HK and Macau.
My luck, there was an exhibition on about Peking Opera costumes (that included a guard who tailed us with a very convincing "Don't-take-pictures-or-I'll rip-off-your-arm-and-make-you-swallow-it-attitude"). I could not imagine better company to see it with than stage-minded Weigo and Peggy. They're dry sense of humor and rich knowledge of the subject at hand made the exhibition the absolute highlight of the trip (apart from the food, the food, and did I mention "the food"?).
OK, that's a tiny white lie because I know one other person i would have loved to have with me at that exhibition - Karin Chiu, costume designer from HK and friend extraordinaire. But, alas, she was stuck in Beijing at the time.
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