Scenes from my morning walk – Lugard Falls
Rantings from a guy who has 36 pairs of identical socks.
The French street artist INVADER has come to Hong Kong several times, but this last month he came ‘officially’ as part of an organized show at the PMQ gallery. There his works hung on well lit walls with tour guides and a gift shop, but that doesn’t mean he wasn’t busy again on the streets of the city.
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OVP 468X60 (set 1)
USA | 318.2 |
Brazil | 202 |
Nigeria | 173.6 |
Russia | 146 |
Japan | 127 |
Mexico | 119.7 |
Germany | 80.7 |
Iran | 77.5 |
France | 65.9 |
Italy | 60.9 |
England | 53 |
Korea | 50 |
Colombia | 47.7 |
Spain | 46.9 |
Argentina | 42.6 |
Algeria | 38.7 |
Ghana | 27 |
Australia | 23.5 |
Ivory Coast | 23.2 |
Cameroon | 20.5 |
Chile | 17.6 |
Holland | 16.7 |
Ecuador | 15.7 |
Belgium | 11.1 |
Greece | 10.8 |
Portugal | 10.4 |
Honduras | 8.5 |
Switzerland | 8.1 |
Hong Kong | 7.2 |
Costa Rica | 4.66 |
Croatia | 4.2 |
Bosnia-Herzegovina | 3.79 |
Uruguay | 3.2 |
Farm Direct is a new grocery selling locally grown hydroponic food in the center of Hong Kong. Given my interest in home hydroponics and my wife’s new found interest in food safety, following some rather silly stuff going on in the mainland, I went in to check out the crops. They had a few types of lettuce and bok choy on offer, both items I’m hoping to grow in my own home setup once I get off my butt and get it running. They also had a few imported things like blue berries and tomatoes, but I decided to go only with the fresh local stuff. I’m having my first salad tonight. Will see how it goes. If you want to check it out yourself, it’s at 425 Lockhart Road, at the border of Wanchai and Causeway Bay, just behind the Wanchai Fire Station. Here’s a neat video I found about their farm in Fanling. ]]>
Peak Tram station on Barker Road when I noticed something pretty odd. The cable that pulls the tram up to Victoria Peak was pulled off the tracks and laying on the road, in big segments.
Apparently this is “Spring Cleaning” week for the Peak Tram. Both carriages are in a state of repair at the stations, and the cable was hauled off and cut into smaller segments so that it could be trucked away.
Michael Palin, formerly one of the Monty Python crew and now a well-known world traveller and documentarian. He was in Hong Kong to promote his friends new opening at the Hong Kong Maritime Museum and also to do a book signing.
I managed to grab a few books, both Around the World in 80 Days and his recent book Brazil which I sent away as gifts. I also grabbed the Monty Python autobiography, which I had him sign to “The Dead Parrot”. He added “just resting” at the end. I then asked if he had seen the famous Nigerian Internet Scammer version of the Parrot Shop but he said he hadn’t. I told him to look it up on Youtube so maybe he’ll get around to it.
Pretty nice evening. Sometimes we do get some celebrities over here in this land of finance and shipping containers.
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UPDATE: Through a little URL sniffing I found this English-sign up page.
More and more I’m hearing folks ask me how do you sign up for Weibo in English, so I thought I’d make a quick little guide with the help of my translator (i.e. wife).
The easiest way to do this is to download Google Chrome and get the translation extension that will translate, on the fly, any webpage. Now the English-Chinese translations are never quite perfect, in fact, they’re usually quite a bit worse than say English-Spanish or English-French, but you can get the general idea of what is going on through those plug-ins that will do the translation for you.
If you don’t have Google Chrome, here is what the first two pages say when you get started with Weibo.
Goto http://www.weibo.com
Click the Blue button at the top right.