Category: events
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Lunar New Year Flower Market: part 1 年宵花市
We visited the Chinese New Year evening flower market at Victoria Park 维园年宵花市 in Hong Kong. This type of market or fair is an annual tradition in Southern China – 行年宵. I remember lugging a peach blossom tree home with my Dad many years ago at such a market. The practice is similar to the…
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Berlin: private cabaret in a museum
On the last evening of the meeting, the company organized a gala dinner at the Museum of Communications (Museum für Kommunikation Berlin at Leipziger Straße 16). The museum is beautiful but the content is really suitable for family with children. We had the whole museum to ourselves. We roamed leisurely champagne in hand, explored and…
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I am one year old !
My then new iMac Dear readers, thank you for visiting. This blog has been running for just a little bit over a year. Happy Birthday to me. This is the 170th post! How did I manage? The first post was put up on November 4, 2009 – “Hello World” was just a test. So was…
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Easter Eggs and Bunnies
At our hotel, we were provided with colorful easter eggs for breakfast. We also received a gift from the hotel – La Colomba (“the dove”, a traditional Italian easter cake). The cake with an outline of a bunny formed by sugar powder is quite effective. Easter gives the Swiss another chance to indulge on all things…
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100th-day Index and Statistics
To commemorate the 100th post which occured earlier this week, here are some blog statistics: There are a total of 101 posts, 95 comments, 15 categories, and 24 tags. Comments in facebook don’t show up here and are not counted. The blog received a total of 2,270 views as of today. The busiest day received 68 views…
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Moving Out of Edgewater
After day one, almost everything was wrapped or packed. The packing crew separated the stuff that was to be sent by air freight from those that was to be shipped by container. The final count of boxes was 283 !! (can you believe it ?), of which 7 were to be flown over. Don’t ask…