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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
Nahm @ Elements, Hong Kong
Nahm is the first restaurant we went to on this trip to Hong Kong. My sis took us there, it was convenient and the line was not too long. Indeed, our trip started on a high note, this restaurant is highly recommendable. I regretted not taking my camera with me since the food was not
Night views over Hong Kong
I just spent a 2-week vacation in Hong Kong (four days were actually spent in neighboring Macau). It has been a long while since I had 2 weeks off. More remarkable is the fact that I spent Chinese New Year there – I cannot remember when was my last CNY in HK. The highlights of
Classic Electronics: Das Model – Kraftwerk (1981)
[youtube=http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=OQIYEPe6DWY&w=510&h=316] Kraftwerk has to be one of my all-time favorite. This is one of the most melodic and widely sampled piece by Kraftwerk. They released a German and an English version, and it reached No.1 in the UK singles chart in February 1982. Coldplay sampled The Model’s melody, see you can hear it. [youtube=http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=W0uqLM1uj_k&w=510&h=316] I
