Hong Kong impression

There’s no better choice but spending time Hong Kong to burn up my remaining paid vacations, at least in my planning. I previously had no plan going outward, however staying at home for 7 straight days seems super boring for a man. I finally decided to walk out to a place not so China but most convenient for a Chinese passport holder. HK seems to be the least suitable place but there’s no other choices.

It turned out to be somewhat correct: there’s not so much to do in Hong Kong: people go Hong Kong mainly for shopping but I have nothing to buy except some Amiibos for Splatoon. I still hate that time when I had to follow my parents’ footsteps, stepping into and stepping out of stores one by one without stop. The only interesting places I visited are “The Peak”, so called highest place in Hong Kong Island, which in fact one can never get to the real top since antenna towers are built there, restricting people’s visit; and another place is Disneyland, which seems to be a tourist point suitable for small kids but, in fact, turned out to be an unexpected encounter.

It’s a Small World, located in a corner of the Disneyland Park, is a large castle beautifully painted. I went to that place just because other entertainment facilities are too crowded. And inside that castle, there’s several boats for people to sit on, and boats are arranged to floating inside the castle in a circuit. Once the boat starts its journey, there will be Disney characters playing music for you, at both side of the stream. There seems nothing surprising for normal people since the music played is so well-known and actually, it is usually heard on water spray vehicles on the road, or encoded inside toys for children. Only one song is played, It’s a Small World, from the beginning to the end.

I was quite surprised why I was moved to tears during this 10 minutes journey in this small world. But I was clear that it wat exactly what I wanted. Those Disney characters are allocated into different continents, playing the music in their own culture style. You can imagine it would be hardly possible for people to play songs synchronously in a distributed way: how did they made this? There’s one belief beneath this performance: one wish buried in everyone’s mind, and everyone composed them to the song It’s a Small World. This powerful belief is presented in diverse culture performance by Disney characters inside the castle. What a magnificent performance.

Every characters appear to be friendly and inclusive to coming tourists: in order to reflect cultures they would offer the best of their part. I was moved, since I was a single visitor and nobody accompanied me, I felt love from the smiles of puppets. The union of this inclusiveness is enlarged by the simple symphony, and I really wanted to join that orchestra.

Disneyland itself is such a unique place highlighting inclusiveness: here one can encounter tourists from different continents of the world and nobody feels awkward. One has no reason to feel shy here because there’s no monotonous judge of beauty. All visitors here are beautiful. I didn’t realize I was also beautiful there, though in normal days I doubted myself a lot: am I too shy to speak to girls? Am I attractiveless to other girls? Am I a miserable indoor boy who knows nothing but playing Splatoon after work and in weekends? Totally not. Everyone, including me, are at their best state as long as they are proud of themselves.

During the whole year in 2018, I really did great jobs. I jumped out of the scope of internal technical stack and learned frontend development skills. I cooperated with others greatly as a team player. Besides that, I shipped the rankit v0.2.1 and started learning DevOps and .Net Core by myself. The most important thing is, I did a great job in IELTS test, especially in speaking. The only regret is that, I felt no love from others. As long as I lived in the context of Chinese, I would doubt my lifestyle a lot.

However this trip to Disneyland inspired me that in no reason I should question myself unless I give up my lifestyle. It is diversity that makes our world beautiful and different lifegoals would make every of us meaningful and unique to each other. Otherwise, no symphony can be composed that magnificently and everything will become monotonous.

So in the new year of 2019, I wish I could become the person I had wanted to be, a reliable and accountable SDE II, a knowledgeable society observer and a respectable internet guru (really?!). And to achieve that goal needs constant learning efforts, but occasionally, one would revisit It’s a Small World to regain that inclusiveness.