live forever

hainan men are lucky. you see tham laze around in coffee shops in the suburbs, while their women toil like a cow; selling vegie's along the road, tilling the land, mending the fences, taking care of the kids.....

"i want to be a man in hainan." ys said.

"but look, the women work so hard, they hardly look anything like a woman. you think you would be happy with having a wife looking like your plumber?"

"no problem, just go to haikou for some fun, you can get all the women you want."

they had a good round of golf in tongshan lake golf and country club. the weather was hot and humid, hotter than singapore and wetter then sentosa.

at nite they had huainan food, and did some massage in a 'registered' masssage parlor. marathon man asked for extra service, the gal from hupei said, no. simple and straight.

ys and david were keen in the helicopter style love making, which the guide said, the private club's ladies can offer - the buffet style, 100 styles for you to try.

marathon man had the itch but stopped putting up his hand when asked who wanted to try.

for the rest of their trip, they play golf in may flower, west coast, moonbay, taida. they also went down to boau, a small town where the asian economic forum is held every year, where the bund at the mouth of the 3 rivers and the sea presented a very unqiue geographical feature to the tourists, by the hordes, mainly from inland china, some of whom had never seen the sea in their lives. in sanya, they visited the yalong bay, a 13-km beach with pristine, flour-fine white beach, the tienya-haizhiao, a stretch of beach, nearby sanya, the nanshan cultural zone, where they marvelled at a taller-then-the-statue-of-liberty kuanyin statue, in luhuitou where a beautiful legend of ahhei(the li tribe's young hero) and the fairy-like damsel wove their love story, and the tonghai beach where the locals went chilling out.

back in haikou, marathon man witness a weird thing in wanlue park, a group of people throwing wide-neck bottles with white powder, tied to some strings into the sea, then hawling up small fishes inside the bottles.... how many ways you think you can catch a fish???

in wanlue park, the people take their time to enjoy the place though it's not a weekend, and though it's still office hour. a father bringing his only kid, to skate. the only boy of the family demanding to have the kite held up high for him to fly....

marathon man asked the father, "your son is a very cute, how old is he?"

"15."

to marathon man he looks big but very childish the way he demands things from his father.

"is he your only child."

"yes."

"what's your plan for him?"

"simple - everything i have, i give to him."

"no plan for him?"

"the plan is simple as i said - he can do whatever he wants, but i only do whatever that's pleasing to him."

"ah.... great father!"

"don't try to be sarcastic. you are young, are you married? have kids?"

"no."

"you don't know how precious kid to a family. now that we are allowed to have one only, he's more precious than my life."

"is life for procreation only?"

"you bet. else, what for?"

"then you might as well clone yourself, why get married?"

"clone? oh ya. i would go for that. but wonder whether my clone will be having the same mind as i?"

"probably same."

"oh... good. then why forbid it?"

"same body, same mind.... human individuals just hang on to life forever.... imagine, you will be so free to do anything, without the worry of vanishing from the world..."

"is that what GOD is all about?"

"may be, with experience as old as the age of the universe, HE should know all that's to be known, and do all that's imaginable!"

"my son - can do whatever he likes..... is like GOD also."