Outdoor restaurant
Tuesday, September 14, 2010
Monday, September 13, 2010
Sunday, September 12, 2010
Saturday, September 11, 2010
Burial: In McDonald's
For the weekend, a guilty pleasure.
Lowkey London dubstep meets the McDo scene in Wong Kar-wai's film Fallen Angels . . .
Lowkey London dubstep meets the McDo scene in Wong Kar-wai's film Fallen Angels . . .
Friday, September 10, 2010
Thursday, September 09, 2010
Moon watching tips for Mid-Autumn Festival 2010 (21-23 September 2010)
It's too soon to forecast if the nights will be cloud free, but here are the times of moonrise, transit and moonset during the Mid-Autumn Festival 2010: Hong Kong Observatory
Wednesday, September 08, 2010
Tuesday, September 07, 2010
Monday, September 06, 2010
Sunday, September 05, 2010
Tony Blair's book A Journey is a dark fantasy?
Back in the motherland, there is disagreement about where in the bookshop belongs the venal Tony Bliar's book, A Journey: Daily Telegraph
Saturday, September 04, 2010
Friday, September 03, 2010
Thursday, September 02, 2010
Wednesday, September 01, 2010
Tuesday, August 31, 2010
Monday, August 30, 2010
Sunday, August 29, 2010
Saturday, August 28, 2010
Friday, August 27, 2010
Thursday, August 26, 2010
Wednesday, August 25, 2010
Tuesday, August 24, 2010
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It's the 15th night of the seventh month in the traditional Chinese calendar: Hungry Ghost Festival.
Time to light some incense and burn paper offerings.
Manila hostage debacle
Philippine police say hostage rescue team ill-prepared: reuters
Other than that . . . what else is there to say except: condolences to the families, friends and colleagues of those who lost their lives in Manila.
Monday, August 23, 2010
Sunday, August 22, 2010
Hong Kong vs. Pakistan flood
Nifty, huh? To see what the Pakistan flood area would look like elsewhere on the planet, punch in the town/city of your choice: BBC Dimensions
Also: The Eastern Pacific Garbage Patch
Saturday, August 21, 2010
Charlie Chaplin: Modern Times
For the weekend, a guilty pleasure.
Chaplin and Paulette Goddard set off down the road to Happy Destiny . . .
Chaplin and Paulette Goddard set off down the road to Happy Destiny . . .
Friday, August 20, 2010
Pakistan: A Lifetime, Washed Away
Read this poignant article by Daniyal Mueendin and you may want to reach for a donation button: NYT
Here' s a couple:
Hong Kong msf donation online
Oxfam Hong Kong donation online
By the way, Hong Kong Government's Disaster Relief Fund has in the last couple of months approved grants for flood relief in Gansu province, China of approximately HK$22.33 million and is now seeking to provide a further HK$50 million.
To date, the Disaster Relief Fund has approved grants for relief in Pakistan of HK$5.3 million.
Now the impulse to aid "compatriots' is understandable.
But given the fact at leasteight million 15+ million Pakistanis are now wholly destitute, that many find themselves with little or no shelter, hungry, bereft of a safe supply of drinking water while vulnerable to water-borne diseases, that five million dollars is not going to go very far.
These are at leasteight million 15+ million people who have lost homes, chattels, property, and loved ones. Their infrastructure has been washed away and they are saddled with what is, in the main, a venal, corrupt, incompetent political class.
Eight million Fifteen plus million people are living among ruins, their own lives ruined. So, perhaps the DRF could look at quickly increasing the amount of money it is feeding to relief agencies who are on the ground in Pakistan.
Yes?
Here' s a couple:
Hong Kong msf donation online
Oxfam Hong Kong donation online
By the way, Hong Kong Government's Disaster Relief Fund has in the last couple of months approved grants for flood relief in Gansu province, China of approximately HK$22.33 million and is now seeking to provide a further HK$50 million.
To date, the Disaster Relief Fund has approved grants for relief in Pakistan of HK$5.3 million.
Now the impulse to aid "compatriots' is understandable.
But given the fact at least
These are at least
"The loss of property, however, is catastrophic. It is as if a neutron bomb exploded overhead, but instead of killing the people and leaving their houses intact, it piled trees upon the houses and swept away the villages and crops and animals, leaving the people alive."
Yes?
Thursday, August 19, 2010
Wednesday, August 18, 2010
Tuesday, August 17, 2010
Monday, August 16, 2010
Lifestyles of the Rich and Tyrannical
An occasional series.
South China Morning Post's edition on Sunday featured a front cover photo of the corrupt, brutal and murderously ruthless president of the broken country of Zimbabwe, Robert Mugabe.
Watched over by some of his own barrel-chested goons as well as sharply-dressed members of the Hong Kong Police VIP Protection Unit, Mugabe was apparently buying some shoes in a store in Harbour Centre, Tsim Sha Tsui.
The shopping tour followed a visit to Beijing for "talks" and Shanghai for the World Expo.
No mention of where he is staying, but probably it's a five-star hotel rather than the high-end property at House No 3, JC Castle, 18 Shan Tong Road, Tai Po. The house is one in in a development put together by the also unsavoury entertainment/property/darkside tycoon Albert Yeung.
Mugabe is reported to have paid HK$45.24 million (US$5.8m) in June, 2008 for the house in the New Territories. A daughter Bona is studying accountancy at City University of Hong Kong.
Mugabe is reported to be paid US$58,000 per year as president.
No mention in the SCMP of Mugabe's wife, "Gucci" Grace. Perhaps she's keeping a low profile. One wonders why. She was, after all, let off the hook by the Hong Kong Government last year after she decked a British photographer.
Mugabe and "Gucci" Grace are among a number of high-level Zimbabweans who are persona non grata in the EU and US.
But the world is wide and Mugabe is welcome in places like China and Hong Kong.
The author W Somerset Maugham once characterised the principality of Monaco on the Côte d'Azur as a "sunny place for shady people".
Mugabe's visit to Hong Kong, a place that has its own undoubted advantages and charms, is a reminder that it too is, among other things, also a sunny place for shady people.
South China Morning Post's edition on Sunday featured a front cover photo of the corrupt, brutal and murderously ruthless president of the broken country of Zimbabwe, Robert Mugabe.
Watched over by some of his own barrel-chested goons as well as sharply-dressed members of the Hong Kong Police VIP Protection Unit, Mugabe was apparently buying some shoes in a store in Harbour Centre, Tsim Sha Tsui.
The shopping tour followed a visit to Beijing for "talks" and Shanghai for the World Expo.
No mention of where he is staying, but probably it's a five-star hotel rather than the high-end property at House No 3, JC Castle, 18 Shan Tong Road, Tai Po. The house is one in in a development put together by the also unsavoury entertainment/property/darkside tycoon Albert Yeung.
Mugabe is reported to have paid HK$45.24 million (US$5.8m) in June, 2008 for the house in the New Territories. A daughter Bona is studying accountancy at City University of Hong Kong.
Mugabe is reported to be paid US$58,000 per year as president.
No mention in the SCMP of Mugabe's wife, "Gucci" Grace. Perhaps she's keeping a low profile. One wonders why. She was, after all, let off the hook by the Hong Kong Government last year after she decked a British photographer.
Mugabe and "Gucci" Grace are among a number of high-level Zimbabweans who are persona non grata in the EU and US.
But the world is wide and Mugabe is welcome in places like China and Hong Kong.
The author W Somerset Maugham once characterised the principality of Monaco on the Côte d'Azur as a "sunny place for shady people".
Mugabe's visit to Hong Kong, a place that has its own undoubted advantages and charms, is a reminder that it too is, among other things, also a sunny place for shady people.
Sunday, August 15, 2010
Roger Ebert: Traveler to the undiscovere'd country
American film critic Roger Ebert on Christopher Hitchens, illness, medicine, religion, and death: Roger Ebert
Ebert's title "Traveler to the undiscovere'd country" is inspired, of course, by a couple of lines in Hamlet's famous soliloquy in William Shakespeare's play The Tragedy of Hamlet, Prince of Denmark: Act III, Scene I
Ebert's title "Traveler to the undiscovere'd country" is inspired, of course, by a couple of lines in Hamlet's famous soliloquy in William Shakespeare's play The Tragedy of Hamlet, Prince of Denmark: Act III, Scene I
Saturday, August 14, 2010
Friday, August 13, 2010
Thursday, August 12, 2010
Wednesday, August 11, 2010
Tuesday, August 10, 2010
Monday, August 09, 2010
Saturday, August 07, 2010
Thursday, August 05, 2010
Sunglasses + syphilis
Who knew there was a connection between sunglasses and syphilis?
Mister B didn't.
But all is revealed . . . thanks to this great article about sunglasses (ancient and modern) in The Economist's lifestyle magazine: intelligent life
Mister B didn't.
But all is revealed . . . thanks to this great article about sunglasses (ancient and modern) in The Economist's lifestyle magazine: intelligent life
Sunday, August 01, 2010
Not Dark Yet
There have been no posts this past week because Mister B's trusty little camera (a Canon G7) has started having focusing problems, and so has Mister B.
Currently, both problems have no easy solutions.
Still, it's not dark yet.
For the meantime, posts are liable to be episodic at best.
Best wishes and thanks to you all.
Currently, both problems have no easy solutions.
Still, it's not dark yet.
For the meantime, posts are liable to be episodic at best.
Best wishes and thanks to you all.
Monday, July 26, 2010
Sunday, July 25, 2010
Saturday, July 24, 2010
Otis Spann: Good Morning Mister Blues
For the weekend, a guilty pleasure.
One of Mr B's favourite CDs, this is the title track . . .
Gulp! I just checked. . . the CD now retails at US$124.72
One of Mr B's favourite CDs, this is the title track . . .
Gulp! I just checked. . . the CD now retails at US$124.72
Friday, July 23, 2010
Thursday, July 22, 2010
Eye | Land | View
Wednesday, July 21, 2010
Tuesday, July 20, 2010
Monday, July 19, 2010
Sunday, July 18, 2010
Saturday, July 17, 2010
Rev. James Cleveland and Dr. Charles Fold: This Too Will Pass
For the weekend, a guilty pleasure.
In times of trials and tribulations . . .
In times of trials and tribulations . . .
Friday, July 16, 2010
Thursday, July 15, 2010
Wednesday, July 14, 2010
Tuesday, July 13, 2010
Monday, July 12, 2010
Sunday, July 11, 2010
Joyce Hor-Chung Lau: Hong Kong's art scene
Good overview of Hong Kong's art world. Make that the plastic arts (painting, calligraphy, installation, etc). The article appeared in the International Herald Tribunal late last week.
For ease of convenience, you can read it on the author's blog: joyceland
For ease of convenience, you can read it on the author's blog: joyceland
Saturday, July 10, 2010
Schubert: Death and the Maiden
For the weekend, a guilty pleasure.
Alban Berg Quartet, first part of first movement . . .
Alban Berg Quartet, first part of first movement . . .
Friday, July 09, 2010
Thursday, July 08, 2010
Michael Jackson: The "Thriller" Diaries
What's not to love? The inside story on the making of Michael Jackson's epic 1983 video, Thriller: vanity fair
This year the video was designated a national treasure by the Library of Congress, the first music video to be inducted into the National Film Registry. Glorious, just glorious: youtube
This year the video was designated a national treasure by the Library of Congress, the first music video to be inducted into the National Film Registry. Glorious, just glorious: youtube
Wednesday, July 07, 2010
Eye | Land | View
The Other Side
Far down the eastern end of Hong Kong island is Chaiwan. Up over the hill and and off to the left on the road to Shek O sits the massive public hospital Pamela Youde Nethersole Eastern Hospital (PYNEH).
Discussing its long name with a friend, we finally decided English speakers who are newly arrived probably call it "the Pamela Youde" whilst oldtimers surely refer to it as "the Nethersole'; whilst Cantonese speakers have no problem at all, they just call it "Eastern Hospital".
Tuesday, July 06, 2010
Monday, July 05, 2010
Sunday, July 04, 2010
Saturday, July 03, 2010
Richard and Linda Thompson: I Want To See The Bright Lights Tonight
For the weekend, a guilty pleasure.
What it says on the label . . .
What it says on the label . . .
Friday, July 02, 2010
Thursday, July 01, 2010
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