E V E R Y D A Y . B E A U T I F U L . P U R P O S E F U L
January 31, 2011 Leave a comment
Supposed to name this road after its original estate owner “Alexander” – the clerk followed the traditional Chinese Right-to-Left writing sequence and misspelled the street name backward. Who knows, maybe the clerk did it in purpose. He must be upset that the westerners referred his family name as the “last name”. Gosh…imagine the same clerk went to work for the Registrar of Births! Poor 鬼佬 of the last century!
January 25, 2011 Leave a comment
While we were pondering where to go for our usual Sunday hike, Wenxu asked us about the surfing sites in Hong Kong. We did a quick check online and found out that there was a popular surfing site not far away from our home. It was mentioned on a local surfing website that winter is the best season to go surfing in Hong Kong (when the sea is most wavy). We decided to take a cab to “Big Wave Bay” (at Shek O Beach) to check out the place.
Big Wave Bay is indeed stunning – fine beaches, shallow water and beautiful eroded cliffs. Despite the cold winter season, we saw many surfers at the sea. Wenxu couldn’t resist the waves and he went to the nearby surf shop to rent a bright yellow surf board. (It was pretty cold but he enjoyed it!) Danielle stayed on the beach watching her cool darling doing stunts out in the sea. The rest of us took a strenuous long walk up the notorious “Dragon’s Back”! We didn’t managed to complete our hike – The sun was setting and we could barely take another step up the hill. (Harshad and I were breathless at mid way!) We decided to turn back and headed back down to the beach to catch our sunny couple! (This is a great place and we will be back for sure!)
January 25, 2011 Leave a comment
Danielle and Wenxu are in town this week and they lit up our house with so much warmth and joy! It is so good to have them around – Our house is so full of noise, laughters and food! Late nights suppers, DVD movies, PS3 Move sports-games, midnight Kinect dancing plus plenty of shopping! Last Sunday, Danielle even cooked us our favorite Hainanese Chicken Rice! (And I managed to get Danielle to buy my lens on her last night in HK! That gives me an excuse to get a new lens!)
January 17, 2011 Leave a comment
(Photo Taken: Seasonal Canvas Changeovers at The Center, Central Hong Kong – Finally, it is completed! It took me exactly one full year to complete this canvas collection. These photos were taken by my iPhone camera during my lunch breaks. It shows an annual rotation of seasons’ changeover of spring, summer, typhoon days, autumn and winter.)
January 17, 2011 Leave a comment
After a long 3-week absence, we resumed our weekend hike. Life is certainly quiet and lonely without Felicia and Elkan (and the Ho Family). Today, we hiked the Hong Kong Peak Trail (along Lugard Road). This is a very popular peak trail which offers one of the most exhilarating top views of Hong Kong. It was very cold and windy this afternoon. Despite the unbearable chilly winter wind, we saw a lot of hikers. Both of us managed to complete the 3.9km-loop in less than 1:30hr.
January 15, 2011 2 Comments
The new McDonald’s Mini Combos – get them at HKD10/each with every big combo meal. Don’t get too hung up by these evil yummy minis!
January 5, 2011 Leave a comment
It is a very special day today. It is my son’s first day in school. I called him before school and after school. My boy took it pretty well, except some minor complaints about the incredibly heavy school bag (why can’t school fix this “heavy school back issue?”) and expensive school meals which he paid today. Elkan enjoyed his first day – I am impressed! It is good that the school allows the parents to tag along on the first day – so these kids will be more ease and confident (and more independent) the next day.
Instead, I was more worried for Elkan’s teachers cos’ my kid will certainly (and very soon) terrorize her with all his amazing stunts and pranks. Afterall, he is the son of an ex-school prime prankster. (My mum is my best witness – I was so popular back then in school that my mum was “summoned” numerous times back to school to play psychiatrist to those poor mentally-beaten teachers. Well, I am just differently talented – some of those teachers weren’t taught properly how to handle someone like me!)
I always remember my first day in school. I cried quietly after my mum waved goodbye to me by the louver-glass windows. And everything went blank for me after that. Of course, I remember my scary form teacher and all the strange punishments I used to get in school. I tried every forms of their tortures – from facing the blackboard (breathing in those dreadful chalk power), standing on the floor / chair / table / outside the classroom, ruler beating on the palm, private caning on the ass in the principal’s office, ear-pulling / twisting / ticking, pinching of the shoulders, writing 50 / 100 / 500 lines of the same boring sentence, hair-pulling, duck-walk around the classroom, slap on the face and masking-taping of mouth. My god, maybe I should start engaging my lawyer to start suing those retired teachers and get a lucrative cut from their big fat pensions. Of course, no teachers in school dare to exercise those “inhumane children tortures” today – thanks to more law-savvy parents, 3G Network, mobile phone cameras and facebook. These punishments were extinct.
Let’s hope Elkan be merciful on his poor teachers (and us) so that we need not suffer the same fate as my poor mum. Psychiatrist’s job is painful, especially when we need to go back to school to heal the teacher’s broken minds. And hope this doesn’t run in the family…Elkan’s 3 other cousins are also in school today!
January 3, 2011 Leave a comment
(Photo Taken: Funny Billboard Headline, Kaohsiung, Taiwan – Wow, finally, we have a brand who is damn serious about our birdies! Boy, they can really talk cock! According to my Taiwanese friend, this billboard has been around for the past 10 years and this brand has many outlets in Taiwan, catering big size pants for bigger-sized men. Apparently, the copy and visual worked well!)
January 3, 2011 Leave a comment
(Photo Taken: 風吹沙, Kenting, Taiwan – Here comes the Year of the Hare!!!)
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