Photo #200
 100+100, that's 200, right?For a mini celebration, may I ask for your footprint as a gift? Especially if you are anonymous, John Doe, Jane Doe, frequent visitor or silent visitor, just pop in and say hi, join the party, your footprints are the greatest souvenirs for this occasion ;-). Heading towards #300 now! Muchas Gracias/Merci beaucoup/Viele Dank/Ringraziarla/Dank u/Obrigado/спасибо/Takker De/Hvala/takk/謝謝/ありがとう/당신을 감사하십시오/شكرا Links: Post #1, Post #100 Tags: |
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Clear night sky, new moon, a very bright star...kind of romantic.
We do barbeque quite differently in HK, instead of using a grill and putting food on it, we use a 2-tine fork/skewer to grill our choice of food individually. It takes longer than western barbeque but we get to hang around with each other longer and everybody gets the chance to show off their skill (or no skill). As you can see from this (not so nice) photo, we wrapped some sweet potatoes and corns to be cooked by the fire as well. How do you do barbeque in your city?
Some psychedelic colors I spotted at the Big Wave Bay beach ;-)...nonono, I was and am absolutely sober...I have a whole week of work and study to do!
I took this photo at Big Wave Bay Beach yesterday. It was a relatively quiet weekend but you can still see lots of things going on...friends chatting, kids playing, and of course, people swimming. Big Wave Bay Beach is on the eastern coast of the HK island and is usually not as busy as other beaches for tourists such as the Repulse Bay. Sorry for the late post yesterday, I was there until past 11 pm ;-)
Have you ever wondered what's behind or around those fancy images you see in tourist guides? Well, in this night shot of Central you'll see what's really around those fancy sparkling lights and skyscrapers -- road works.
Ok, so we've got some bananas ;-), jade pendants, beach balls and teas, and here are our last stops. This is a part of the open-air market mainly with stalls selling home decorations, accessories such as cell phone covers. Feel free to browse and search through the piles of merchandise and pick the ones you like. 
A streetside stall selling tea leaves, herbal tea and medicinal tea ingredients including some dried flowers, dried fruits, dried melons, leaves and roots. The stall owner was really friendly to me (contrary to the banana old lady ;p) and gave me a big smile when I showed him the image on my camera. Look closer and you'll see some lavendar in the lower left corner.
These beach balls and toys were hung up high under the canopy of a toy store, and this is how kids see them when they look up.
Aren't these beautiful? I think so even if they are a bit of cliche. These are some inexpensive lucky charms and pendants made of jade (or some kind of semi-precious stones) at the Wanchai market. Look closer and you'll see some Chinese zodiac animals, the rabbit, ox, tiger, horse and etc. I got one of those by mail from my mom years ago when I was in Canada. She said according to Chinese zodiac, that was not a good year for me and the charm would do me good. I knew that actually meant she missed me and couldn't think of anything else for an independent daughter who never got homesick. Well, now that I'm back in HK, I am near mom and that's better than having all these lucky charms ;-)
I found this in a small street in Wanchai and at my first click an old lady, a street-side fruit vendor, came and stopped me. She definitely went bananas and said a bunch of things. Well, I was really going to compliment her on the artistic display matching the marks on the bananas with those on the wall! ;p
I found this rusty metal wall of a construction site perfect as a background for photograph. I like the orange red color......ok, perhaps I like it because I can shoot from across the street so that people wouldn't notice me ;p. I might have exaggerated, life in HK is hectic but certainly not quite on a Sunday, it's just slow shutter :-)
We don't have a beautiful song like "Moonlight in Vermont" to go with this but I think the moon, the crane and the top of a building rightly represent a mellow moment in hectic city life, or maybe "Beauty and the Beast" can be the theme song for this photo.
I took this around 10 pm Sunday night in Aberdeen, though the town is not really busy, there are a couple of fruit stalls which open till quite late. Being in a darker and quiet street, the bright lights and the colorful fruits look very attractive. The vendor is holding a