Venue: Causeway Bay to Central
Date: 1 July 09
Not much to say. Just want to post some pictures.
There were more than 100,000 people marched peacefully that day. I was so proud.
My favourite of the day :)
After all that… we went to eat SUSHI :D
Hahahahahahahahaha! Creative, eh?!
I LOVE WASABI!!!!!!!!!!!!!
Venue: Stanley beach
Date: 10 May 2009
The day wasn’t particularly beautiful - there were even patches of showers, but well, the “major” elements were there: the sun, the suffocating heat and the desire to spending a day at the beach.
The first thing we did after arriving at Stanley… we went to Taste. Haha, we came back out with one box supersized strawberries, 2 boxes of Sushi and 4 bottles of water. It’s a shame that you can’t really see those Sushi in the picture… SUSHI! I have already started to miss them.
There was the beach! :D Despite a few showers, it was packed with people!
Hmmmm, it’s not so easy to post pictures that I consider “appropriate for all” on here… we didn’t take many pictures then, the main reason was that, I was too lazy to move my arse. We all were too lazy, it was just too relaxing…
This is one of the best shot I took of the day. I assure you we all look better in real :D
The father was obviously having fun with the kid and the mum smiling sweetly :) It all looked really beautiful! To our surprised, we bumped into my colleague! With his girlfriend and brother (?)! :D Hong Kong is indeed small.
The time was passing by very slowly but still too quickly. We didn’t even have time for HAAGEN DAZS!!! Though we still had Green tea Frappuccino :D The little sparrow was stealing food :) Actually there were many sparrows dancing around…
I didn’t write for a while again, my reason for this is that, there are so many things going on in my life at the moment. I can’t complain about it, life is still very beautiful! Right now I’m sitting on the balcony, hearing the sound of the running tap water, the sun was shining right outside - the rain has gone, the sky is as clear as crystal.
Po, Yan and I had been real lazy, we didn’t manage to hike at all over the pass couples of months. It was on 9 May, when the sun was shining and the humidity in the air had finally evaporated under the mildly warm sun, it meant we had to go out. Here we came, Tai Mo Shan :D
This is the beautiful and hilarious trio. Joey the fly, Po the mask, Yan the Beatles lover. (Note: The Swineflu didn’t even attack Mexico yet - that is crazy Po with her fake cold!)
Just in case you’re wondering what happened… I assure you, I was wondering about the same thing too. With Yan running towards me with her distorted face and HK Po *yeahing* at the back. What a beautiful picture! (Actually I amaze at how energetic we really are!)
I bet Po would force me to post a really beautiful (and feminine) picture of her just so she could clear her name. HEY! SHE’S MY VERY BEAUTIFUL FRIEND! DON’T YOU DROOL OVER HER!
Tai Mo Shan (Foggy Mountain) really was breathtaking! I was stunned when I saw the view. I didn’t even know we had such a beautiful plain here in Hongkong!!!!! The last time when I saw such a plain was when I was in Germany then. As the name suggests, there is *forever* foggy, no matter how clear the weather is - trust me, it’s not because Hongkong is *forever* smoggy :p Being the highest mountain here, of course it’s crazily windy… and chill.
3 pictures taken on the mountain. Aw, suddenly I miss the mountain! (Fact #1: Po went back to the mountain top the week after this, she was smart! I want to go back again too!)
*warning: I’ll be posting extremely funny pictures here, if your heart is not up to the excitement, please stop reading. Thanks*
Hahahaha this is very Po-typical picture! HAHAHAHAHAH! She’s the Kungfu Master, I tell you that! We, every Chinese, can do Kungfu! Huh! Don’t you look down on us!
Well… we’re still young and imaginative, we love “dirty” snacks :D For the sake of carving my beautiful image inside of your head, I decided to NOT post all those thousands of crazy posing pictures of us girls here. Sorry but you have to be in the exclusive club (which only contains 3 members, bye bye)!
When you laugh too much after posing crazy poses… this is how you’re gonna look when others took your picture!
My friends had done a great job to entertain me that day… this is the final picture I’m gonna show in this entry, as you can see… hey, Po is not crazy :) She won’t just beat anyone up, you’re pretty safe!
Finally I got my Holga pictures from the traditional photo store (the one in Yau Ma Tei). Those stores are being ‘wiped out’, people use digital cameras now - too many really and we hardly develop pictures, er, not for me. I love *real* pictures.
It shocked me, when I got them.
They sucked. My pictures sucked!
Overexposed, underexposed, out of focus, shaking… here are some of my first-attempted Holga pictures.
These were supposed to be good pictures among the lot…. hm, I guess they are not as good as I’d wanted.
Haha, one of the best! Flowers! Could you imagine!
These pictures didn’t turn out quite as what I had in mind…. Hmmmmm.
I can’t quite manage the skill just yet. I’m giving myself 3 cartons of films to do whatever I want to with my toy camera. I am sure it’d be fun.
Right now I’m working on a project. Hold your breath and wait for my upload in the future!
A patch of irregular shaped blue sky finally appeared after having a long week of gray clouds. Po, Yan and I first decided we would go to Shek Tong Tsui, the old district, but we ended up going to the Railway Museum.
I made a detour to Kowloon Bay as I really wanted a Holga camera. Beautiful Holga! Unfortunately, the shop was closed owing to the public holiday. Geez, I will get it tomorrow!
Po, her sister, Jill, Yan and I met in Kowloon Tong railway station and headed to Tai Po Market, where was… damn, cloudy.
The museum was farther than we thought it was, thanks to the road signs we found our way easily. There were already many people when we arrived, families with kids, professional photographers with their models (and of course with super pro cameras too), students and idlers like us :)
Those were controls for the trains. The museum was located right next to the railway, it was cool to see the new trains passing by every once in a while.
The “old” tickets (they are older than I am, haha) were interesting to look at because, first, they are so small (I think I’ve even used those when I was younger… but where?) and second, there were only 4 main train stations, Yau Ma Tei, Kowloon Tong, Tai Po (served as a temporary train station) and Luo Wu (near Shen Zhen). Sometimes I wish I had collected those funny little things. Well, I’ve been collecting postcards :) You’re welcome to write me postcards, just ask for my address!
A bit of the used Railway. When I was very young, in China, I lived near a train station, from time to time, my friends and I wandered there and we walked on the tracks, aimlessly. Now the train station is closed but I don’t think it’s allowed to walk on the railway anymore.
It was a trolley for the workers to check on the trains. I love tracks, they are not rusty though, surprisingly! Do you love walking on the tracks too?
The very beautiful training “Sir Alexander” (it was the first train named after a person - Sir Alexander Grantham, one of the Governors in Hong Kong) and it’s heart.
Look at the parts of the train, I was totally captivated! The trip to the museum was definitely worth it. I thought it was small and plain, you know, nothing much to see, but hell no, it was so interesting and the trains were incredible!
Here comes the full picture of the “Sir Alexander”! It looks like a toy train in my opinion :p
Here is another train… haha I think you know why i took this picture. It looked just like the cartoon train :p HAHA so cute!!!!
Er, no need to explain what those are, yeah?
Another train which was not as lucky as “Sir Alexander”, this one didn’t have a name. The logo for KCR Railway was worth noting. The logo consist of 2 Chinese number “9” (九). It was very traditional. Now it’s just KCR, very boring and predictable (if you google KCRC you’ll see).
Checking out the old trains was another nice experience.
These were the first class seats. The seats were really comfortable :p The use of blue and orange colours were really smart. There was an ad stuck on the wall too, damn capitalism!
Let’s take a look at those beautifully coloured signs… the left one was written from right to left - very traditional; the right one… haha was so wrong! Not only the Chinese writing was wrong!!!!!
An aisle and the luggage compartment separated the first class from the second. Again, it was orange and blue (alluring and neat)!
Hah! Blue (jeans) and orange (seats)! The fans on the ceiling were so “elegant” - I am not so sure if it’s the right word to describe them. I pulled down a glass window, it really was heavy - I couldn’t pull it up, sorry!
The stain was old!
This museum really was lovely despite its size!
Saw this salon on our way to the train station, aw, it was so classic! You don’t see such a thing exist in the city anymore!
