The Chinese way

As soon as I woke up this morning I cleared the curtains to greet the sun outside my window. Something unusual caught my eyes immediately. A woman carrying 2 dogs uphill, stopping every minute for a break and then continuing her climb up to the gate. I live way up in the hill and there is a compound below us with few houses that is only accessible by a private road that goes downhill.

My question is, why doesn't she let the dogs walk since obviously this dogs wanted to jump out of her grasps. It doesn't look like she's trying to do some lifting activities too, otherwise she would have done it in stationary position and not climbing uphill. She isn't that young either, in fact she have gray hairs and she look old. Dogs have four legs isn't it? Therefore, dogs are supposed to be good walkers. What's with this dog and dog owners in Hong Kong??? But whatever it is, I still don't get it!

In the afternoon, we went to Stanley for Miguel's playdate with a friend. We hang around the area for a while and then decided to drive down Shek O beach, 15 minutes away from Stanley. The beach is almost deserted except for a few tourists and some local kids on a school break. As we sat down the sand to relax, we saw this couple sitting on a beach chair. The woman wearing long sleeves, jeans and a cap and the guy is almost as covered up as his partner. We notice that they are sitting under a sunbrella which is under the shade of a very thick tree ...

Hubby: (upon seeing them, he asked me) " Could you give me any valid reason
why are they using sunbrella under the (shaded) tree ???
Me : Uhmm...sun protection the chinese way?
Hubby : it must be a quadruple sun protection,
Me : where's my phone, this one goes for the record,LOL!

Still,I don't get it!