Home Sweet Home

Despite the care-free and laid-back way of life that most experience whilst travelling, there is something comforting about routine and the mundane.

We got home last night at a little after 1 a.m. Yes, the journey from Macau International Airport took a lot longer than planned due to a variety of reasons.

First of all, the airport bus, which was supposed to run on a frequency of 10-15 minutes, showed up an hour after we'd missed the first one. Luckily we were right at the front of the queue and managed to get a couple of seats on the bus. As for the 20 or so individuals who had to stand the whole 40 minute ride, crammed in like a can of sardines, it must've been a different story.

By the time we got to the ferry terminal it was around 10:45, by which time the ticket counters for the Kowloon ferries had already closed. We had no choice but to buy tickets over to Hong Kong side, but to our dismay, the next available seats were on the 1 a.m. boat. We had the option to get on the 11:30 ferry, but only via the deluxe seats, which costed about HK$100 more per ticket. I wasn't in the mood to get home at 3 in the morning so I suggested to Trigger that we should just go along with the pricey option.

Fortunately, we didn't have enough cash on us to pay for them. So we made our way back over to the ATM to get more cash. I say fortunate because along the way, we were stopped by a lady asking us if we were interested in some 11:30 regulare fare tickets. Naturally, she was gonna make a little profit from this transaction. It was a better deal than the deluxe one, so we condoned her touting livelihood and quickly handed over the money.

No wonder there weren't any tickets until the 1 a.m. ride. Scums like her had bought up all the tickets and were touting them right by the ticket counters.

Anyhow, we made arrived at the HK Macau Ferry Terminal at around 12:40, jumped on the Mong Kok mini-bus that was waiting outside, and got home 3 hours later than anticipated. The price for trying to save money by flying with AirAsia.

I'll figure out a way to upload the mobile photos on a gallery of some sort later. Buddhistson arrive tonight and I need to get the place ready for them to crash at.