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
October 31, 2010 1 Comment
(Photo Taken: A package from Danielle Ong – It has been a long long time since I received a stamped-package from Singapore. Most of the time, I received DHL parcels. Really miss those stamp-collecting days when mum taught me how to soak them in warm water to separate the stamps from the envelop. In this digital era, stamp is a rare sight.)
October 30, 2010 Leave a comment
(Photo Taken: Central Pier, Hong Kong – An installation art of beer bottles. No idea what is the concept as it is still work in progress. Maybe Harshad should do a display with his Minute Maid bottles)
October 30, 2010 Leave a comment
(Photo Taken: 8:05pm, On board of the Star Ferry, in between Kowloon and Hong Kong Island – This is the best time to board the Star Ferry. You get to see the laser light-show on both sides of Hong Kong.)
October 29, 2010 Leave a comment
For some “boo-boo” reason, this is our 2nd trip to Disneyland in three days. Our first visit (on Wednesday night) was definitely more shocking and frightening – compared with what we went through tonight. You see, Halloween Nights only operate on Thursdays – Sundays. We were here on Wednesday night at 7pm (we rushed all the way on a HKD270-cab-fare only to find out that park was closing in 30 minutes). You can imagine the shock on our face when the ticket counter broke the news to us. The journey home was unbelievable painful and demoralising.
Finally, we returned tonight to redeem ourselves and the promise we made to Elkan – that we will bring him back to Disneyland before he flies back to Singapore. At 17-degree, it was pretty chilly but comfortable. Felicia and Elkan were here from 4pm to 12am! It was quite a different experience to roam the park at night without the big crowd. We were one of the last few wandering beings in the park… (Thankfully, we managed to take the last cab out of this remote place.) Disneyland is certainly more “Halloween-kid-friendly” than Ocean Park. At least, the English-speaking “ghosts” here are more polite and less rowdy. Really, who’s afraid of a cartoon ghost like Mickey and Snow White?
October 24, 2010 Leave a comment
(Photo Taken – In our kitchen – Heart-shaped vegetables and mushroom. Now, I know why Felicia’s dishes are so tasty and beautiful.)
October 24, 2010 Leave a comment
Felicia shook me up from my lazy Sunday morning sleep with her unusual exclamatory expression. “I thought it was a big fish but it looks like someone swimming out there in the sea! No, there are 3 of them!” Swimmers in these waters? No one in the right mind will do that. First, it is a busy shipping line, it is like jogging in the middle of an expressway (you will be extremely lucky if none of these boats hit you). Second, it is extremely risky to swim in these toxic waters. It is filled with raw sewage and chemical effluent. Lastly, if the first 2 reasons didn’t kill you – the strong unstable water current will drag you under. And even if you survive all the 3 risks, it is still illegal to swim in these waters. (Strange enough, the Police boat that went past 100m away didn’t spot them!)
I took out my “paparazzi lens” and zoomed in to the spot where Felicia pointed. There were really 3 swimmers out there. One of them seemed having trouble swimming and he was threading water for about 5 minutes. After a good 10-minute sighting, we lost sight of them as they swam behind the blocks of apartments.
October 23, 2010 Leave a comment
(Photo Taken: Canon’s Donate a Smile Booth at Causeway Bay, Hong Kong – Just step into this Photo-taking Booth and smile! The computer will then post an animated “avatar” of your smiling headshot on the giant screen outside. For every smile taken, Canon pledged to donate HK10 to WWF. See if you can spot Felicia, Tracy and me below.)
October 21, 2010 Leave a comment
The gloomy super typhoon may be heading our way but the atmosphere inside the auditorium is hot, sunny and GREASY! Hits after hits, “Grease” – the longest-running musical in the history of Broadway, rocked the hall with all its mighty pop hits and groovy dance routines! Men in tights and ladies in curls! Hot bods and sexy girls! Don’t you love the candy times in the 50s?
October 19, 2010 Leave a comment
(Photo Taken from NASA Satellite: At its current size and speed, Typhoon Megi (a Catfish name in Korean) is to-date the 15th and biggest typhoon of the year. It has already claimed at least 10 lives in the Philippines. A mother lost her grip of her young daughter in the rough sea after battling the typhoon for 3.5 hours. Right now, the weatherman is expecting it to land somewhere between Hong Kong and Macao this Friday. If it is a direct hit, this super typhoon may be north Asia Pacific’s largest typhoon since 1990.)
October 18, 2010 1 Comment
I am beginning to hate journalism. Like millions around the globe, I started each new hopeful day reading some of the most “hateful headlines” of the world. Death, wars, terrorism, economy crisis, protests, bombings, rapes, nuclear talks, murders, suicides, accidents, destruction, disasters, phony politicians, strikes, joblessness, racism, lies and paid propaganda.
Editors today failed to highlight the positive sides of life. Instead, some of these cheap newspapers went so low to entertain ourselves with those senseless men-made politics. Leaders who we appointed by faith failed to deliver stability, peace and better lives for their people. Instead, big power nations’ leaders are hiding behind their own masses of people to rage hatred for all sorts of one-sided righteousness. Of course, editors snowball these hateful sentiment with their “truth-reporting”. “Hatelines” occupy 364 days of the year, leaving the last day of the year “wishing for a better new year”.
The aftermath of the recent “Diaoyu Island” disputes disgusted me. Overnight, we saw protests on both China and Japan. It was like seeing the same old draggy sitcom over and over again. We witnessed “childish acts from these 2 nations” disfiguring each other on the world stage. They justified their ugly acts as “patriotism”. Now, 2 superpower leaders’ unresolved issue has became a 200 million people’s issue. (Hate to point this up again – whenever you have America, oil and land in the same equation, you get endless draggy disputes.) Right now, I am expecting another plotless American season on that North Korea / Iran Nuclear Talk. Oh yes, the Thai Red Shirts season may be back soon – this time with more pyrotechnics – “fertiliser bombs!”
We have certainly evolved tremendously throughout the past 100 years. We are still very much in wars. With better killing-machine and better justification. Better looking leaders, better choices of words / cover-stories and definitely superb usage of media. For whatever reasons we believe in, we are still heading nowhere in the next 100 years to come.
Really, it is getting disgusting. World leaders, editors and parents – please change the world by creating less hatelines. Get rid of those fulcrum politics and let the right leaders walk the talk. At least, let me have a better reason to explain to my young boy why his first newspaper is full of crappy tales.
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