the (eight) dollar store
…with its individually-wrapped plastic fruit. (why wrap it in plastic? to keep it sanitary?)
lamma island
since I was relatively caught up on my reading, and the weather has finally warmed up, I grabbed a bus on saturday afternoon to aberdeen and took a wonderful boat ride out to lamma island (南丫岛), the third largest island in the area (after hong kong and lantau islands). Population of about 6000. yung shue wan (榕樹灣) port on lamma … Read More
stanley
I decided to hop on a bus yesterday and see where it takes me. after a gorgeous bus ride along the hill overlooking the south china sea (during which I passed a couple of beaches and repulse bay, apparently the residential playground of the rich, judging by the yachts all over the place), I ended up in stanley, on the … Read More
a couple of HKU pics
looking down over the pathway from the east gate of the uni: where my current course is being held, in meng wah complex: campus architecture is not the most… aesthetic, let’s say, but since there are palm trees I’ll learn to deal with it. I’m here a few weeks before the 2nd semester starts because of a special 3-week seminar … Read More
i heart pb & cm on toast
this pic is for G & K:
happy new year
Funny thing about New Year’s Eve. Last year it was Hong Kong. This year it was New York City. Flashback. 31 December 2005. I was limping along in a walking cast, facing the impossible task of navigating through half a million people on foot. The problem was that my hotel was way too central, being next to Hong Kong’s Victoria … Read More
crossing the border from HK to shenzhen
finally posted some pictures of the few days spent in hong kong over new year’s.
various lotions
as I was limping around hong kong (with my bum achilles) over new year’s my mom wanted to go in this department store, so while I waited I took some pictures. “lipsexy essence – to clear eye bags and dark circles – buy one get one free – nipple cream – the nipple back to pink color – pearl cream”