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1st July, 2004.
I am at the desk in the hotel now. My roomate is already alseep.I could hear the sound of the paper and pen's friction.

We got up at 6:30am, i was woken up by the packing noise from my roomate. After 30 minutes, i went downstairs and had the buffet breakfast. i feel that the variety of food is so little for a 5-star hotel. The colour of my tea was still grey after the 3rd time i had asked them to make another again. So i surrended to coffee.

We then went to the Forbidden City. there are heaps of houses that look alike: high red walls, yellow roof, blue painting decoration and dragon scuplture on stairs...etc. we went through the main houses from the main gate to the last gate.Everywhere was crowded with tourists, hawkers selling postcards and,perhaps thieves as well. the ground of the forbidden city was made by grey stone bricks. The roads in the middle which were walked by the kings are doomed and made in quarzite. beautiful but slippery.

there were 2 incidents that happaned during the time we were in the forbidden city have i never experienced before. Not happened on me but i was the witness.
I can surely say that all the corners were crowded with people like a sea of heads. But there was one little passage horizontally in front of one main house so crowded at that moment we were walking through. people were pushing, try to get close to take pics of the dragon chair (seated by the anciet kings). I was in the fringe of the crowd. Then i saw a cellphone dropped on the floor. I didnt pay much attention because it's not odd dropping things in a crowd. But then a local mainlander man pushed on me so hard and i fell on another tourist beside me. Both of us felt strange. Suddenly another man appeared hitting the man and the man ran off quickly and disappeared in somewhere else. then i heard the man who hit the ran-off man shouted to his mates:'he stole my phone...i caught him red handed...' and i was like wow!

i was pushed further out of the crowd so i decided to wait my cousin and her friend outside the crowd. Suddenly, i saw 3 big,strong and fat mainlander women shouting, my cousin's friend crying, a couple in our package tour shouting and yelling back, one mainlander women hit the wife and the wife hit back on her shoulder, then their daughters pulled the mum away... a lot of people were looking at us. The 3 bitches were still yelling so loud. Then our tour guide came, the 3 bitches yelled that my cousin's friend pinched her waist!The wife shouted that they chased and pinched my friend so she stood out for her...There were clear red marks on both of their arms. But the 3 bitches did not show any evidence. More people of us were yelling back to the 3 bitches. And one of the bitches said: FORGET IT! FORGET IT!LETS GO!But We wouldnt FORGET IT. I was the first one suggest to call the police and other people agreed. The tour guide and another old lady didnt want to because they said it would take time.However, the tour guide saw so many people put their foot down she could not object.Since the forbidden city was so huge that the longer we didnt take action, the higher chance we could not find the bitches again. So the HK guider and me followed the bitches and sneak some pics of them in case they disappeared so the police could arrest them in the exit. It was quite exciting! hehe, we disguised that the HK guider taking of me but actually sneaking pics of them...

One police came after 15 minutes and requested both of the parties to explain. He asked the bitch if she had hit 2 of them, she said :"definitely NO!!, Im 60 years old, how will i have energy to pinch them!!!"people in our party:" HOw come a little girl would pinch ur wrist."
"you bitch bully little girl"
"60 year old bitch wouldnt pinch people, u crazy?"
"i would pinch you to death" she repeated this sentence many times in front of the police many times...
finally, the Hk guider,the wife,the crying girl and the bitches were brought away by the police.

And we continued our tour.
They joined us again on lunch. She told us that one of the bitch cried and apologized after a few hours in the police station. But then went to another policeman and said:"THIS IS NOT FAIR<" They overheard and yelled again.