QuinDao, a northern city where has China beer fest (8/12~ 8/27), will hold windsurfing/ sailing contest in Bejing Olympic Game, and has a western-style seashore with 2 stories villas along the coast. This has been included in my retire residence list after Santorini (Greece) and LA.
Written on 2006/07/11
(Due to the fact that this is an international blog site, I'll try to add in English translation eventually for my overseas readers.)
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Ha! Actually I didn't mean to be so sentimental, it looked a bit pretentious indeed...
Anyway, I thought I'd be chilled out on my ocean-facing balcony all the time reading, drinking beers, enjoying the sun shine and a quiet time of my own, but as soon as I walked into Zi-Li dive shop, the plan got totally changed...
The auntie in the shop recognized me and called the nickname they gave to me before (I felt so touched), then Bro Bin (my dive coach friend) welcomed me with his big smile and asked his 14 yo son Kay took me to surf and instructed me. Later on coach Jeff showed us a cool surf trick and Kay's younger bro Yo-Chen also played with us in the water. Meanwhile my coworker Daphne and her cousin came to join us, plus 17 yo coach Wang, people from OK hill hotel- Sing, Lin, and Wei, the whole group of people were just having as much fun as we can doing body surf and no one felt like coming out of water until sun down.
That night we were invited by Wei to OK hill hotel to see his strip show. He FINALLY looked like a "professional" striper after putting on those fluorescent pants and top and starting swinging along with the music (Have you seen a male striper with a beer belly? Then you know what I mean.) It was my first time watching male strip show in Taiwan, and I was actually a bit embarrassed to see a short half-naked taiwanese guy with his mid-aged body shape shaking his butt on the stage (Lord forgive me for being so honest). Daphne's cousin got invited to the stage but except for being asked to touch his chest/penis/butt, Wei took off her bikini from inside the top and also put a penis shaped vibrator (it's actually a water gun) on her hand. Arrrghhh... We all wondered who got benifits in this performance... the ladies, or the male striper and the audience down the stage? Fortunately at the second show the 17 yo coach Wang got invited to the stage, which finally made the show funnier. Wei took off Wang's clothes and cut out his underwear into a speedo (everytime Wei would do this to him so he got to buy new underwear all the time!), then put on a small bag on his privacy then took off the speedo, along with cousin's bikini Wei started to lead Wang to walk around the whole pub and swing their butt to the audience. Wang did all Wei's requests with his big shy smile in the whole performance and he indeed brought some screams and laughs. Wang is such a good boy.
The second day we drove a scooter to Nan-Wan (south bay) for a swim, where is more shallow, flat, and has less rocks and lower waves than ChuanFanShih (sailboat rock, where Zi-Li locates), while it's much busier and crowded with tourists. I intended to rent a surf board cuz the waves were so perfect for surfing but I didn't at the end. Instead I swam and took a nice short nap there. Later afternoon I popped in Zi-Li again but due to the big wave we couldn't go into the water. Lin asked Kay to teach him surfing so we all followed Lin to OK hill hotel's swimming pool to practice. The hotel just renewed its water slide from kiddie size to a 2 circled long tunnel, and in 10 secs it gets you from 2 story height to the bottom. Quite fun and pretty fast that you don't get stuck in the middle way. 12 yo Yo-Chen was so funny that he took a hula hoop into the pool and tried to mimic the trick "dolphin jumps over the fire ring". Kay was, on the other hand, pretty serious at teaching Lin how to flap and control the board, and I of course also tried to tap the tips and practiced aside privately.:P On the way back to Zi-Li Kay whined a bit, as a joke, about how busy he was been in his summer vacation, that he not only had to work in his dad's shop in the day time but also teaching us surfing for free in the evening. Nevertheless, I saw the passion, the enthusiasm, and the sence of achievement in his eyes to water sports and of being a young coach.
At night Bro Bin called to invite me to a folk bar for a drink and some music. Accidentally I was left alone with coach A-Yi, who's been too depressed (with life and work) to socialize with anyone, while suprisingly we had a close conversation with each other. Being in same zodiac sign, I totally understood the reason he lost his passion to life and everything. I guess C'est la Vie! and everyone of us is living on it, just like ocean waves no one can predict when it'll be on the "high" or when on the "low". Sometimes you can ride on the wave but sometimes you have to follow the flow. Altho it's so unpredictable, after the surge there'd always follow by tamed smooth rippes. The point here is, when surge comes you should bend down your head to pass thru it, otherwise you'd only drown yourself if breaking into it. This is what I learned from Bro Bin.
That night 3 bottles of 40% tequila stroke down 4 big guys. It was actually a drinking conference, where the head of Nan-Wan and the head of Sailboat rock (Bro Bin) were having a confrontation for the management of jet ski in kenting area and trying to reach an agreement so as to propose to government for a self-governed business. I was at first a bit embarrassed at joining in the "conference" accidentally, but eventually those Big Bros started to tease and laugh at each other like little boys for trying to cool down the fierce air they brought up, in addition Bro Bin even started to play guitar and everyone followed to sing along, the whole "serious conference" at last became a crazy drinking and singing party. I couldn't help appreciating, with all repect, those Big Bros' way of handling issues and their frank generous mind.
The third day I took Mom for a short biking, from sailboat rock to Eulanbi (goose nose cape). The bikes were voluntarily lented by the hotel lady as she learnt that we didn't rent a scooter for the rest of days. She's so nice and so as the family. The whole ride was pretty easy and relaxing. The road doesn't have steep slopes and only few shops and tourist cars were around. A lot of Go-Kart fields had been built in this area and since we never did it before, we both were pretty excited at giving it a try. The wheel is much heavier to control than my imagination, and I was actually a bit nervous at beginning. But after 1 round I'd got more familiar with the drive so I started to race fearlessly. I especially liked the curves where pulled you away from the axis and I'd always lean down a bit to against the pull which made me feel like a professional car racer.:P Too bad after 2 rounds a group of family came to join in, so the lanes got too busy to do the real race and I had to yield to a young girl who never drove and got freaked out even under the speed of 5km/hr. Poor girl.
That night before Mom left we had our dinner on our balcony at hotel, along with the sound of ocean waves and moonlight, we had a quality Mom-Daughter time and talks (Thanks to Mom's cooperation!:P) Guess we both would keep this moment in our memories forever.
(to be continued...)
哈 其實我根本就沒想到會寫成這麼感性 有點做作說...
Anyway, 本來以為去墾丁會是很chill out的自己一個人在陽台上曬太陽看書喝啤酒, 但是一走進自立大門計畫就完全改變了...
先是阿姨叫出了他們給我的綽號(超感動的說), 再來是彬哥的笑容熱情的迎接, 然後升國二的哥哥阿凱帶我玩沖浪板還很認真的指導, 又有帥哥阿傑來插花耍帥, 接著弟弟祐誠也跟著一起玩, 然後戴芬跟堂妹加入, 還有十七歲的王董及歐克的阿信阿林與小偉, 大家一路乘著沖浪板滑到岸邊, 玩到欲罷不能不亦樂乎, 天都黑了還不肯上岸.
晚上跟著彬哥去歐克捧小偉的場, 換上猛男裝的小偉金光閃閃的跟著節奏蹬阿蹬的, 第一次看台灣的猛男秀讓我有點尷尬加上三條線, 堂妹被小偉拉上去玩還被脫掉bikini, 摸來摸去老戲碼就算了竟然還拿成人玩具耍來耍去... 唉~~ 真不知道是女客玩猛男還是女客被猛男和全場玩... 還好後來古意的王董被拉上去充場面, 被脫褲子吊個小袋子還穿著堂妹的bikini向全場頂屁屁, 這才讓場子有點尖叫與笑聲. 可愛的王董真是個好孩子.
第二天騎機車去南灣(NanWan-south bay)游泳曬太陽, 還不小心打了個盹. 南灣有點太熱鬧了可海灘還不錯, 礁岩比船帆石(Chuanfanshih- sailboat rock)少浪頭也比較小, 沒租板子看別人玩害我一直心癢癢的. 晚上又跑去自立正巧阿林想跟阿凱學衝浪, 就跟著去歐克游泳池游泳玩滑水道. 別看那短短的滑水道還可以在裡面轉兩圈速度也頗快, 在飯店設施裡已經算酷了. 弟弟祐誠很好笑, 拿著呼拉圈在池裡玩海豚跳火圈, 哥哥則很認真的教阿林上浮板打水等基本動作(嘻嘻~我也偷偷學了幾招), 玩到吃晚飯才離開. 在回家的路上哥哥小小抱怨一下說, 暑假白天在店裡打工, 晚上還要免費教衝浪, 可真辛苦. 但我看見他眼底閃著一絲光芒, 是對水上活動的熱愛與當教練的權威與成就感吧!
晚上彬哥相邀去街上聽歌喝酒, 意外的與正在低潮期而不茍言笑的阿義哥有段心靈的對談. 我想人生就是如此吧, 高低起伏就像海上的浪, 有時候你可以隨心駕馭有時候你卻必須隨波逐流, 潮起潮落雖無法預測, 但大浪過後必有平靜順遂的海面, 重點是在大浪來襲時要低頭迎接, 一味的衝向浪頭只會折損板面或溺死自己. 這是我跟彬哥學的道理.
當晚三瓶40%的龍蛇蘭撂倒了四個江湖漢子, 把對經營方式沒有共識的火爆場面扭轉成開懷高歌並肩大合唱的歌舞派對. 即使是一件我們看起來很嚴肅的事情, 幾個大哥竟然可以像小男孩一樣在嘻笑怒罵間解決, 我不得不佩服江湖大哥們的功力之高, 不是我們四周那些衣冠楚楚高談擴論卻道貌岸然之輩所能及的. 當晚彬哥的吉他自彈自唱, 我給他打五個燈全亮.
媽媽後來也下來度假兩天, 所以第三天就一起騎腳踏車往鵝鸞鼻(Eluanbi)的方向走. 腳踏車是678的老闆娘好心看我們沒租車而借我們的, 他們一家真的很好很熱情. 從船帆石騎到鵝鸞鼻都是平坦的路面, 偶爾有些微上坡但還算好騎. 這段遊客不多也很少店家, 路兩旁都是樹叢或草地或矮丘, 很悠閒, 很寧靜, 很舒服. 過了貝殼砂島(Shadao-seashell bay)之後有很多小型賽車場(Go-Kart), 我們在鵝鸞鼻的上坡路面前折回後就選了一家賽車場試試身手. 我們可都是第一次玩, 一開始有點緊張但一圈之後就開始狂飆. 我頗喜歡轉彎時被引力向外拋的感覺, 還有直線加速的快感, 只可惜二圈之後就來了一大群家族把車道塞的滿滿的, 有點掃興.
當晚我們在面海的陽台上吃晚餐, 伴著浪濤聲及月光再來一段母女談心的對話(沒想到老媽配合的還不錯, 真是難為她了!:P), 這樣珍貴的時刻真是夫付何求阿!
最後一天充當自立小妹, 跟著去東邊海(半島東岸的海域)幫忙, 再回到店裡發呆等客人. 颱風外圍把風浪打的老大, 即使客人上門也只能婉拒. 靠天吃飯的人們阿! 也不能在乎什麼客戶服務了. 打完盹由彬哥帶著去找地方衝浪, 佳樂水(Jialeshuei)不行, 小灣(SiaoWan-small bay)也不行, 只能坐在沙灘上看這些教練大男孩們在浪牆上游來滑去, 玩的不亦樂乎. 也罷! 在墾丁, 腦袋很自然的會處於一種淨空狀態, 全身上下五臟六腑的動作都只剩下反射行為, 整個人不知不覺間就會呈現發呆姿態, 這倒也是人世間的一種享受.
本來早該在下午就去搭車, 卻怎麼都要坳到天黑了才肯離開. 雖然四年來都是一年才來上一次, 每年離開的時候卻都一樣, 簡短兩句掰掰再連絡及一個擁抱, 沒有離情沒有感傷看上去有點無情, 但墾丁就是這樣, 台灣最南岬的美麗被完善的保護著, 台灣人的熱情隨處可拾, 不虛華, 不矯情做作, 不用刻意對外宣傳, 很容易去但又不是那麼方便, 什麼都不留下也不帶走, 他就能給愛海愛自然的你如置身天堂般的享受.
Written on 2006/07/07
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