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Lantern Bug

# 2013-05-22 16:00:19, BWG
I found a cool insect in the yard, but before I could get my camera out it took off. A...

rainy season

# 2013-05-22 16:00:18, Hong Kong Paintings Ltd.
 

A wagyu heavy -- as well as heavy, period! -- dinner feast!

# 2013-05-22 11:07:35, WEBS OF SIGNIFICANCE
Wagyu meat heaven!    The wagyu being prepared as sukiyaki    The memories flood back as I see this photo and  I find myself wishing to have this dish again soon! :b Last week, I had the good fortune to be invited by a friend to what amounted to a veritable wagyu feast.  And bef...

Architart in wonderland

# 2013-05-22 09:31:13, sketches from the other side
One of the firms in my top ten list of architects I would like to work for is considering whether or not to open a Hong Kong office.

“There Is No Plan B”

# 2013-05-21 23:03:26, China Droll
I knew it was too soon to celebrate last year when the news came that there would be no rubbish incinerator on the island in the photo above. “They will never give up an opportunity to waste this much money” I nodded darkly to myself at the time, like some beach-dwelling Cassandra. Unfortunate...

…and the Black Rainstorm Signal is up

# 2013-05-21 21:54:57, Big Lychee, Various Sectors
A Family Planning Association of Hong Kong survey shows that 39% of women have fewer children than they would like, and zero- and one-child families outnumber two-child ones more than ever, at 23.4%, 37.5% and 32% of the total respectively; the South China Morning Post somehow interprets the data to...

Review: Howard Kaylan – Shell Shocked: My Life With the Turtles, Flo & Eddie, Frank Zappa

# 2013-05-21 21:53:20, Hongkie Town
Early in his freshman year at UCLA, Howard Kaylan told his father he was quitting college to make music. His parents were naturally livid but he promised them that if he didn’t have a hit record within 6 months, he’d go back to school.  It didn’t take 6 months for his first hit record, it [.....

Bring Me The Head Of Sergio Garcia

# 2013-05-21 21:02:31, Foamier
Golf, the game which pretends to be a sport, is introducing a ban on "belly-putting". Belly-putting is where golfers use their largest natural asset instead of their hands to control the putter, essentially anchoring it against their substantial gut and removing half of the difficulty of nudging a b...

From Wan Chai Gap to Wong Nai Chung Gap via Hong Kong Trail Stage 4 (Photo-essay)

# 2013-05-21 09:05:47, WEBS OF SIGNIFICANCE
Since I've been on more than 100 hikes in Hong Kong now, it stands to reason that I've gone on certain trails more than once.  But while some might expect that the trails I've decided to go on more than once are especially scenic or special, that's actually not the case with that which is covered b...

Business community, ordered to talk piffle, obeys

# 2013-05-20 22:40:38, Big Lychee, Various Sectors
It would be surprising if the Hong Kong General Chamber of Commerce, founded in 1861, were not pro-establishment. In many ways, it is the establishment, or at least a major traditional pillar of it. But during the journey from, say, 1970s colony to 2010s Special Administrative Region, Hong Kong’s ...

Hong Kong and racism

# 2013-05-20 09:30:37, sketches from the other side
The Washington Post reported that a survey examining economic freedom and racism

cringe-worthy moments

# 2013-05-20 01:30:43, sketches from the other side
Many years ago in more immature times my first boyfriend and I experienced a long, awkward breakup.

The PhD Industry

# 2013-05-19 22:46:00, ulaca
In a discussion with Kingley Amis and Brian Aldiss shortly before his death in 1963, CS Lewis described a DPhil thesis (as these things are called at Oxford) in an arts subject such as English Literature as “the discovery of the mare's nest by the pursuit of the red herring”. He goes on:“Matthew Arnold made the horrible prophesy tha...

Mercantile exchange dream collapses, not many hurt

# 2013-05-19 22:03:46, Big Lychee, Various Sectors
Then-Chief Executive Donald Tsang’s policy initiatives in the mid-late 2000s were so gut-wrenchingly awful they are best forgotten. Think Zhuhai bridge, Lok Ma Chau Loop, education hub, high-speed rail tunnel to Shenzhen, Islamic bonds hub, arbitration hub, wine hub, cooperation, partnership and a...

Hiking up (and down) Needle Hill on a hot and humid Sunday

# 2013-05-19 08:06:58, WEBS OF SIGNIFICANCE
Do we really want to go up that?! Yes, because by that point, one's already climbed up pretty high up Needle Hill already! And yes, there really are beautiful views to be had  atop the 532 meter hill that's  Hong Kong's joint 40th highest (with Mount Parker) Last week, a friend ...