Guangzhou.

Welcome to October.

Yesterday was a public holiday – National Day – so I didn’t have to go to work (all hail the almighty). But my uncle in Guangzhou decided to give me a call and invite me over to his place for dinner. Since Guangzhou was about 2 and a half hours away by train(s), I grabbed my documents and headed north. In total I only had to change trains twice and I managed to get to Guangzhou, which is quite amazing considering if I were to go to Central by the MTR I would have to change trains 3 times!

It was nice seeing this uncle since the last time I saw him was 3 years ago (Refer to this post – yes, it’s that same uncle), and how times have changed. The last time I saw him his daughter (i.e. my cousin) wasn’t married yet, but this time round she’s already got a kid! We had a very good chat and by the end of the night, I officially have another 2 more concerned parties about my lack of love life (my uncle and his wife).

I headed out from Guangzhou at 9.30pm and got home at about 12. So in total I was on the trains for 5 hours (to and fro) – which was actually longer than the amount of time I actually spent in Guangzhou! Too bad I didn’t have enough time to see Ron there, but I’m quite sure this won’t be my last time to Guangzhou anyway.

Oh did I mention that I took the high speed rail? Nowadays the high speed rail is about the de facto choice of train you can take between Guangzhou and Shenzhen, and a direct train without any stops in between would take you only 50 minutes – it’s amazing considering 20 years ago you probably would still be in Shenzhen territories after 50 minutes on the train!