Out and about
Sunday, 2 February 2020 22:38![[personal profile]](https://www.dreamwidth.org/img/silk/identity/user.png){kind=small}
elusivekToday was a super lazy day. I tried the rebel life and slept at 2am last night (or, this morning), and this morning woke up at 9ish. Much about the same amount of time for me. I usually sleep at midnight and wake up at 6ish.
Frankie got his shots, then I went out and about for some photo opportunities and my manicure appointment.
The streets are not so empty today, not like the photos I see from friends from a couple days earlier, but the shops are all empty. People are going to cry about no business and ask the government for monetary help (another long and stupid story, political, so nah, I'm not commenting on that). So, I'll show you around the short route I took today.
The landmark "Ruins of St. Paul." I've told this story many times, and I'll tell this story again. As a kid, I was told this Ruins (facade) was a miracle of God. There were 2 fires (I do not recall the years now; easy to Google that) and the facade miraculously remained. Then I grew up to understand the world more. Sorry to be crude, but when I grew up, I was all Fuck That. Coz... THE ENTIRE STRUCTURE WAS BUILT OF WOOD, ONLY THE FACADE WAS MADE OF STONE, OF COURSE IT SURVIVED FIRES!!!!!!!!! You'll notice unlike any proper church, the steps do not align with the facade. That's because the first fire did actually destroy the whole building, and then when it was rebuilt (I forgot the real reason why) but somehow they recalculated the coordinates or whatever and thus the church was aligned that way.
The guy is Father Matteo Ricci, Italian Jesuit priest, one of the first foreigners to actually master the Chinese language, first foreigner granted permission to be buried in Beijing, brought Western knowledge to China, translated China literature to Latin, blah blah blah. Google that. We have (or had? I dunno if it still exists) a school named after him.
(What a bad guide of me to just tell you to Google stuff, LOL)
The left is one of the access to the Museum of Macau, but on the Fort side. Closed because of the Coronavirus, all public facilities are closed (meh).
On the right is some decrepit old abandoned piece of land with the wall that remained. I don't walk down that path (this is the second time I've walked past this in my life.... seriously), I don't even remember if I ever saw the building behind it.
The building on the left is the place to handle your social security matters... but the social security matters in Macau is not as important as the identification bureau matters. I don't know why they can't all work out these things in the same place, but, well...
On the right is the path along the Cultural Conservation bureau (or something along that name or function)
Basically all the same place; on the left is the stairs going down from the social security place/cultural conservation bureau.
On the right is a building, now tastely called the Albergue Square or cultural something. Used to be either an Old People's Home or a Hospice (not quite sure of my history, sorry). There is now a restaurant there which, coming to think of it, I should go there more often now.
I have no idea what the building on the left is. But I wanted to show you the funny thing in Macau... you can have an absolutely occidental building/structure, but in the middle there is an oriental signage (look above the main entrance)
On the right is a signage pointing people to the St. Lazarus parish. From the blue building (I think) to the yellow and the last white one, these are all in the St Lazarus parish.
(And apart from my not knowing my history well, I also don't know my religion/bible well. When was Lazarus promoted to a Saint? Or is that a different Lazarus? I thought Jesus just raised him from the dead and that's it. Did something more happen?)
(and it's time for you to tell me, "Google it" LOL)
And of course, my manicure today. Dark green this month. My usual girl wasn't there today (probably stuck in China) and the owner of the place did my manicure... I know it's part of their jobs to be chatty and stuff... but... I don't really like to chat LOL.... She asked me why I didn't want to do a nice design, I said I'm lazy. She said "you basically don't have to do anything!" I replied yeah true, but if I have a very cute design, then I have to think about dressing up somewhat matching my manicure for the next 4-6 weeks, and I'm lazy about that. I don't get it. Their place was so busy today, she just barely had time to finish my manicure before having the next client, shouldn't she be happy that I'm doing a plain job?
Frankie got his shots, then I went out and about for some photo opportunities and my manicure appointment.
The streets are not so empty today, not like the photos I see from friends from a couple days earlier, but the shops are all empty. People are going to cry about no business and ask the government for monetary help (another long and stupid story, political, so nah, I'm not commenting on that). So, I'll show you around the short route I took today.
The landmark "Ruins of St. Paul." I've told this story many times, and I'll tell this story again. As a kid, I was told this Ruins (facade) was a miracle of God. There were 2 fires (I do not recall the years now; easy to Google that) and the facade miraculously remained. Then I grew up to understand the world more. Sorry to be crude, but when I grew up, I was all Fuck That. Coz... THE ENTIRE STRUCTURE WAS BUILT OF WOOD, ONLY THE FACADE WAS MADE OF STONE, OF COURSE IT SURVIVED FIRES!!!!!!!!! You'll notice unlike any proper church, the steps do not align with the facade. That's because the first fire did actually destroy the whole building, and then when it was rebuilt (I forgot the real reason why) but somehow they recalculated the coordinates or whatever and thus the church was aligned that way.
The guy is Father Matteo Ricci, Italian Jesuit priest, one of the first foreigners to actually master the Chinese language, first foreigner granted permission to be buried in Beijing, brought Western knowledge to China, translated China literature to Latin, blah blah blah. Google that. We have (or had? I dunno if it still exists) a school named after him.
(What a bad guide of me to just tell you to Google stuff, LOL)
The left is one of the access to the Museum of Macau, but on the Fort side. Closed because of the Coronavirus, all public facilities are closed (meh).
On the right is some decrepit old abandoned piece of land with the wall that remained. I don't walk down that path (this is the second time I've walked past this in my life.... seriously), I don't even remember if I ever saw the building behind it.
The building on the left is the place to handle your social security matters... but the social security matters in Macau is not as important as the identification bureau matters. I don't know why they can't all work out these things in the same place, but, well...
On the right is the path along the Cultural Conservation bureau (or something along that name or function)
Basically all the same place; on the left is the stairs going down from the social security place/cultural conservation bureau.
On the right is a building, now tastely called the Albergue Square or cultural something. Used to be either an Old People's Home or a Hospice (not quite sure of my history, sorry). There is now a restaurant there which, coming to think of it, I should go there more often now.
I have no idea what the building on the left is. But I wanted to show you the funny thing in Macau... you can have an absolutely occidental building/structure, but in the middle there is an oriental signage (look above the main entrance)
On the right is a signage pointing people to the St. Lazarus parish. From the blue building (I think) to the yellow and the last white one, these are all in the St Lazarus parish.
(And apart from my not knowing my history well, I also don't know my religion/bible well. When was Lazarus promoted to a Saint? Or is that a different Lazarus? I thought Jesus just raised him from the dead and that's it. Did something more happen?)
(and it's time for you to tell me, "Google it" LOL)
And of course, my manicure today. Dark green this month. My usual girl wasn't there today (probably stuck in China) and the owner of the place did my manicure... I know it's part of their jobs to be chatty and stuff... but... I don't really like to chat LOL.... She asked me why I didn't want to do a nice design, I said I'm lazy. She said "you basically don't have to do anything!" I replied yeah true, but if I have a very cute design, then I have to think about dressing up somewhat matching my manicure for the next 4-6 weeks, and I'm lazy about that. I don't get it. Their place was so busy today, she just barely had time to finish my manicure before having the next client, shouldn't she be happy that I'm doing a plain job?
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