Elkan Joe in Action!

October 31, 2009 Leave a comment

This is our 3rd Halloween in Hong Kong. Last year, Mummy Felicia made Elkan a "CHUA-E" suit. (Click Link: Halloween 2008) This year, Elkan got his wish fulfilled! Mummy dressed him up as his favourite movie character – Indiana Jones! Felicia spent 3 weeks sourcing those props – hat, boots, recycle brown bag, toy gun. She even made him a "soft whip"! Elkan was so excited about his whip, he told Felicia: "I will use my whip to round up WenLan (his sweetheart in school) and pull her into my arms!" (Man, how cheeky he is!)

Not sure how many of his classmates would know about "Indiana Jones" – Elkan looks more like a cowboy than a treasure hunter. It wasn’t as exciting as last year – many of the kids came in their home clothes. That is perfectly okay, cos’ in reality, there is only 1 spiderman and 1 superman. We need civilians in distress. Of all, I thought his teacher dressed best. She was one hot catwoman (maybe Elkan can lend her his whip!).

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King Cicada is 75th!

October 31, 2009 1 Comment

 

Straight from Tokyo, Kenneth (our 74th-75th Hong Kong Visitor) hopped in yesterday with his wife, Karen! What a perfect timing for a Friday gathering – King Bug meeting Flu Bug. (I was down with fever and was on MC yesterday – not H1N1.) His Grass-Shopper Wife was somehwere out there at Mong Kok. It was indeed a very short meeting… and they flew back today. Gotta miss them throughout winter. Sigh… I have to wait till summer before I meet this bug again.

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Celebrate the Living. Remembering the Dead.

October 29, 2009 Leave a comment

  

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I Can Show You the World

October 25, 2009 Leave a comment

We have a long weekend this week (Monday is a public holiday in Hong Kong). Since Felicia and Elkan haven’t been to Shenzhen, I decided to bring them cross the border and visit their most famous theme-park – Window of the World "世界之窗".

Built in 1994, "Window of the World 世界之窗" was one of the 3 famous little world theme-parks in greater China. The other two are located in Taiwan (Click Link: 小人国) and Beijing (Click Link: 北京世界公园). 

 
This park is bigger than what I have expected. It is about 400,000sqm big, showcasing 43 national minitures. It will be good to visit this park during winter – when the weather is more cooling and comfortable. This place promises excellent photo-opportunities. Especially for the first-timers. As this park was built more than 15 years ago, (judging its current conditions) I must say the management maintains this place very well. I am sure they did many renovations over the past 1 decade. No doubt, there are still rooms for improvements and updates. Especially for Singapore – it is time to put in our new landmarks like the Esplanade. Our Merlion presence here looks very 80s.  
 

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The 1st McDonald in China

October 25, 2009 Leave a comment

(Photo Taken: Shenzhen, Lao Jie – China’s 1st McDonald in 1990)

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Lady Alicia is Here!

October 25, 2009 Leave a comment

Our last meeting with Alicia was more than 15 months ago. We came to Hong Kong last June working on an event at Lan Kwai Fong. Since then, Alicia left the company and I moved to Hong Kong. It has been a long while since we last met. And on Saturday, Alicia was in town for just 1 day. We decided to gather at Shenzhen for our long weekend vacation.

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Belated Gifts From Taiwan

October 18, 2009 Leave a comment

Meijie just came back from his Taipei trip – with 2 big belated birthday gifts (one from Jinjie) for my little monster. And those were his favourite legos! (Sniff, sniff… my friends used to spoil me on my big day and now, it seems that my boy has stolen his old dad’s limelight!). Thank you all for spending so much on my little boy. Yes, Elkan is indeed very very happy!

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Bloody Wild Birthday Party

October 18, 2009 Leave a comment

This is the weekend party that I can’t afford to miss – 2 birthday parties in fact! One for Elkan (17th Oct) and the other for my dear friend Hong Fei (18th Oct)! Since their birthdays are only 1 day apart, we decided to start celebrating from 10pm 17th Oct to next morning 18th Oct 6am!  Now, that is indeed challenging! (Originally, I wanted to bring the whole gang to Shenzhen for a hot, sleazy karaoke bash for the 2 birthday boys! But I guess their mothers won’t be too please about my cool concept). Anyway, we certainly had a superb 8-hour of fun! I couldn’t last out as long as them – I knocked myself at 4-5am into my own symphony (of course, that turned off the gang and they decided to call off the party at about 6am).
 



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24 hours in Shanghai

October 18, 2009 Leave a comment

This must be the best time to be in Shanghai. Cool cozy Autumn weather with warm loving friends. It may be a short 24-hour stay but I have everything covered – right from the 1st minute I stepped out of Pudong Airport. A very well accomplished trip for both my business and personal agenda. Really, life can’t be any better for me! I had a great gathering with Cousin Yei & Summer, Echo, Johnny and Ming, Calvin and a couple more familiar faces at my old Shanghai office. It is just so wonderful to be able to do so much things within 24 hours.

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The Great Lighters of China

October 12, 2009 Leave a comment

(Photo Taken: Big Lighters – For really kiasu smokers and your 60th Birthday Candles!)

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