In the photo, the 8 Snoopy dolls come from 7 places (cities or countries) in First number those in the first row from left top corner to the right as [1], [2], [3] and [4].
Next number those in the second row from left bottom corner to the right as [5], [6], [7] and [8].
Here are the 7 places of
A. China
B. Hong Kong
D.
F. Macau
G. Thailand
Take for example:
One of the answers is: [3] matches B. Well, the doll [3] 財神 comes from Hong Kong.
In this advertisement, the lovely dog is looking at a nice cup of green tea. Somehow when the lens of the camera zoom out, the cup turns out to be a roll of toilet paper with the aroma of green tea. What an extraordinary piece of advertisement!
This advertisement probably attracts people who like to drink green tea to buy home rolls of toilet paper of this kind and place them in the toilet. The paper brings fragrance into the toilet as well as to the body after use!
Beside Regal Riverside Hotel at Shatin, a narrow strip of park begins to stretch a long way to Shatin Wai. It gives people a green look when they walk along its footpaths. The trees here provide temporary shades for people and resting places for birds. I particularly like those trees with red leaves in February. I enjoy walking underneath them.
At several spots, there are benches only for people to sit because their arm-rests stop people from lying down to sleep. Creepers are growing on the semi-circular archway made right above each bench. These plants certainly give natural shade to people sitting underneath.
Frappuccino is a coffee drink from Starbucks. It was my first time tasting this kind of coffee this Monday, March 24th. At Tai Po market, Connie found herself thirsty, so she would like to buy something to drink from a nearby 7-eleven shop while Philip and my wife were queuing up for two bowls of Tau Fu Flower (豆腐花). I joined Connie-n-Abby team because I wanted to take care of Abby in her pram while Connie was finding a drink from the shop. It took almost 5 minutes before Connie found her bottle of drink because there were hundreds of selections. Abby was impatient in waiting for Connie at the doorway, but I tried to comfort her.
Soon I saw this 281-ml bottle of coffee in Connie’s hands. What? It was a bottle of coffee from Starbucks. Oh, dear! I never dreamt that even a 7-eleven shop could sell coffee drinks from this famous worldwide coffee shop. I asked Connie for the price. The answer was HK$15.9.
Let’s look at the bottle itself. It looks like a mini-milk bottle, roughly rectangular at the bottom and round at the top. Two plastic transparent labels with logo and words are stuck onto the front and hind faces.
I like the Starbucks-logo of a long-haired mermaid with a crown on her head. On the front label was written: “An irresistible taste experience from a creamy blend of aromatic Starbucks coffee and milk”.On the hind label there were brown letters “COFFEE” and words like, “Shake Well, Served Chilled or Over Ice”.
To impress the customers, the hind label adds:” For over 35 years, Starbucks has served some of the world’s finest coffees. Now you can enjoy our expertise outside the coffeehouse.
Starbucks Frappuccino is an artful blend of rich, deep-roasted Starbucks coffee and milk. Enjoy this silky smooth, irresistibly indulgent premium coffee experience.”
Of course the ingredients, the manufacturing name and address are listed on the label as well. It is a product of
Connie finished half of the bottle and passed it to me. I drank the rest. The taste was really silky, creamy and lovely. No doubt it is much better than soft-drinks.
The word “Foulwind” may mean “stormy and rough wind”. This cape near Fallen rocks have made the sea floor near the coast rugged and thus create strong currents of sea water. Waves after waves keep rushing in with white foams.
The sandy beach here is quite big, big enough to build several beach volley-ball courts. The fact that strong winds often come makes this beach not suitable for playing such a game.
Ying Ping and Ho Keung grasped the chance of a sunny day (September 6th) walking on the soft sand and together took a nice photo with this beautiful beach.
To promote (1) a dog’s drink
(2) a kind of tissue paper
(3) a brand of green tea
(4) a brand of green pea soup
(5) a kind of lemon drink in a restaurant
The photo shows an artificial tree which has been trimmed to a mushroom or bean-like tree. I don’t like this kind of man-decorated tree. It only fits the eyes of the man who trims it. I guess my readers agree with my comment on such a poor-looking tree.
Well we have Nature Study in schools. Here we have Artificial Study in the Garden of the Floating Restaurant!
A jetty was stretching out from the shore for athletes to embark the boats or to go ashore. Those men wearing orange T-shirts were service-men carrying boats out and lowering them to the river.
Soon I saw a 9-seater boat passing by with 8 people rowing. The hind one was holding a hand-held trumpet-like loudspeaker (not of an electrical one, but merely for shouting aloud). Most probably he was the instructor who gave orders or instructions during rowing.
This kind of rowing boats requires team work, skill, tactics and energy. It is not a simple game at all.
Today is cloudy, cool with very little rain, so it gives an ideal weather for such a healthy sports game.
On this homeward train yesterday, Abby was sitting in her pram, facing me. When she saw me, she was conditioned to ask me for my camera so that she could look at the photos inside. I turned on my camera and showed her some of the photos taken an hour ago. At one moment, I found this photo of Abby. I showed it to her and wanted to know how she reacted. Well, Abby closed her eyes, tightened them and imitated the blurred look of her face in the photo. My wife noticed Abby’s strange expression on her face and she wanted to know why. When I turned the camera screen towards her, she well understood that Abby was trying to make herself more or less look like the “Abby” in the photo. How interesting Abby was!
Yesterday night we had dinner in Sheung Shui. A waitress brought us some cans of soft-drinks. On a can of Coca-cola, instead of ordinary thin and thick strips, the bar codes were tailor-cut into the wavy outline of a bottle of Coke. It is really an amazingly good idea to have various shapes such as the outlines of a butterfly, cow, banana, strawberry, etc. etc. to go with the bar-codes in similar manner like the can of Coke here!
My recent discovery may be your old discovery!
The beauty of the next three wall-pictures can be seen here. They are of three themes: (1) A lady watering a tree
(2) A Baby like Abby holding onto a balloon
(3) A Red-hot face in a Desert
Maybe you would like give new titles to these pictures. Tell me if you would!
Before I left the lower strip of Ma Wan Park, I took closer shots of the wall pictures. The photo composition based on those pictures I liked at this very spot. I filled up the screen of my camera with the rich colours and ideas the artists wanted to convey.
The photos looked much better in this way because they were no longer wall pictures in nature but flat and normal pictures.
Yin Ping took a photo of the mileometer (see top photo) of their car which recorded the distance (33333 km) they travelled for a whole week on North Island as well as for a day on the northern part of South Island. The second photo shows Yin Ping sitting on the rocky shore of
The third photo shows the lower course of the river whose water was clear and slow-flowing. The sky was clear and the scenery was beautiful.
The last photo shows the motel Yin Ping and Ho Keung stayed in
Do you know why Abby pulled her face long like this in a park? Guess the reason:
(1) To scare people before her
(2) To make herself sad
(3) To attract people’s attention
(4) To rub cream on her face
(5) To show to people she was unhappy
這些黃色紫色的花是同一家族的, 其型態和形狀方面都一致, 只不過是顏色有分別而已. 這兩種顏色不同的花共通點是中心部份有黃色的柱頭, 而柱頭周圍是深褐色. 這個佈局正好吸引及引領蜜蜂飛向柱頭. 牠們身上部份的花粉, 在經過柱頭時候會留在柱頭上, 於是後者接受了蜜蜂帶來的花粉, 從而傳宗接代.
這張照片同時令我想起很久以前香港曾經舉辦過”平安小姐”選舉. 平安小姐所穿著的服裝顏色配搭正是黃紫兩色. 其實這個選舉目的是推動全港洗太平地, 創造一個清潔環境.
Here is the full list of the KFC colonel dolls. I have collected only 12 of them. It will be more interesting to find out the answers to the recent puzzle from this photo by yourself.
復活節快來臨, 樂富半露天廣場的舞台佈置得非常精緻. 台上, 有兩隻滑不留手的卡通兔子(以前我們常見的是有毛的白兔子), 有粉紅色的, 也有粉藍色的. 它們一隻精靈地望著我們, 一隻笑到連眼都睜不開.
在台的兩旁在不同高度放了美麗悅目的彩色蛋. 它們給我的感覺是像跳水運動員在高, 中, 低台準備跳水一樣.
現在我祝大家過一個快樂的復活節!
To her knowledge,
To the north-west of Bath not far away, we can find a bigger city called Bristol.
I like the classic building in the large photo because it will bring me back to Medieval Times of England with knights holding shields and swords on horsebacks. The beautiful shields hanging on the walls here attract my attention. The most modern thing on the tower is the clock which wakes everybody back to the present.
In the past before rice-cookers appear, cooking edible rice needed experience. Less water would turn rice too hard or rocky to eat. Overtime would burn the rice. Too much water would turn the rice into congee. Each time when the rice was taken out, we might have different facial expressions – smiling, frowning, dissatisfaction and depression. Rice-cookers are like saviours to everybody in the kitchen. When water is added to the right water-mark of the internal bowl of a rice-cooker plus the right amount of rice (the measuring cup given may help), one may have their arms crossed and simply do other things. Rice will be served right after a short period of time.
In the old days, rice-cookers did rice-cooking alone, but now they (西施電飯煲) are very different. They can be used to make congee, brown rice, cake, sushi, casserole and to steam food. There are other functions like keeping warm, reheat and timer.
With all these different options of cooking, making food in the kitchen seems easy to someone like me who knows nothing of cookery .
最近我被某免費報紙這版廣告吸引過來. 細看”南冰”兩字其實是指”南冰洋”. 嘩! 心裡覺得這麼遠運過來的深海魚一定很棒, 又大條, 又無污染, 應該吃落很美妙呀! 另外, 從廣告上已切開了的魚柳橫切面來看, 肉質厚, 加上雪白, 感覺很好. 魚塊疊在厚厚的滑蛋上好像一早戰勝了它.
今早, 我忍不住去試一試. 價錢是$19.5. 從櫃台接過來的南冰魚柳是瘦瘦的, 薄薄的一片, 切開去試, 味道普通得像平時的魚柳, 那裡有南冰洋的味兒呢? 這裡的滑蛋體積比魚大. 這時立即感覺: 希望愈大, 失望愈大. 我想”南冰洋”已經在我的幻想中消失到無影無踪.
最攪笑的事是其姊妹店(一粥麵)一模一樣的早餐卻要賣到$20,那有何道理要賣貴五毫子呢? 唯一的解釋是不用找續吧! 這店舖寫明魚柳是來自紐西蘭的!
Except on foggy days, Mega Box can be seen a long way from places on the opposite shore on Hong Kong Island such as North Point or Taikoo Shing because of its striking red colour. I took this photo when I was travelling on a tunnel-bus running on Kwun Tong By-pass. The building itself was really box-like. It seems to be assembled from rectangular blocks of different sizes. The most interesting thing about the building is that people can see its inside during night-time through the arch-like huge window from outside. This is similar to some gift boxes with transparent windows whixh let people see what is inside right away without opening them.
遠看原是綠色一片的山, 在一夜之間被無情的火一下子燒去大部分保護土壤的樹, 留下來的是一幅難看啡黑色的焦土, 了無生氣; 山下僅存的綠樹是劫後餘生的倖存者. 希望它們可以開枝散葉, 把這個山頭活化起來. 不過要將它變回原本的面貌非要十年八年不可.
我期望政府有關部門能積極推動植樹運動去加快綠化這個山頭就好了!
你是否喜歡這三款以Hello Kitty做賣相的杯麵嗎? 這裡款式有
(1) 忌廉雞湯麵 (聲稱有靚雞肉裏面)
(2) 海鮮湯麵 (相信海鮮味一定有, 不過海鮮就要以千分之幾來計算才準確)
(3) 擔擔麵 (內有惹味麻香肉粒)
這些新產品外表靚, 但裏面的麵是否好味要待考證.
記得上次搭UA機去美國時吃滾水泡的杯麵時, 感覺其味道普通. 如果這間航空公司供應這般美麗的香港製造杯麵的話, 相信加上前面大銀幕播放那悶得要死及黑沉沉的電影, 睡覺都會舒服一點!
政府落實興建的沙中線全長約17公里, 屬於重型鐵路系統, 由大圍至金鐘設有9個車站: 1. 大圍 2. 鑽石山 3. 啟德 4. 土瓜灣 5. 馬頭圍 6. 何文田 7. 紅磡 8. 會展 9. 金鐘
其中深色字的六個站為綜合轉車站, 乘客可在對面月台或上下月台轉車.
政府計劃分段完成沙中線, 預計2010年展開工程, 目標是2015年完成大圍至紅磡段, 並於2019年完成過海段.
沙中線啟用後, 由羅湖到金鐘車程約50分鐘, 落馬洲到金鐘約52分鐘; 而大圍至金鐘, 車程更會由目前29分鐘縮短至17分鐘.
另外行會批准進一步規劃觀塘線延線, 由現時觀塘線的油麻地站, 經延伸至黃埔, 全長約三公里, 預計2015年完成. 屆時由黃埔至旺角, 車程由25分鐘大幅減至5分鐘.
這裡有很久以前由KFC製造的十二個穿著不同國家民族服裝山度士上校公仔. 若果我們把這些公仔由上排最左一個開始以號數(1)至(6)去編號至最右面一個, 再由下排由左至右編號(7)至(12)的話, 你可否寫出其餘十一個國家彧地區名稱呢? 例如: 你答 (4) 美國
Throughout these days, blueberries become Abby‘s favourite fruit. She opens her eyes wide when she sees them. We always ask her if she wants some each time. She will nod her head immediately to show that she definitely wants some. We shall then say, “One, two”. Next we give her two blueberries. She holds them with one on each hand and eats slowly. The day before yesterday, we placed a box of blueberries before her. She was so clever to pick and push several blueberries into her mouth quickly first and with her left hand pressing onto the box to keep it firmly in place, her right hand went snatching for more.
Soon the box was taken away from her. At this moment, her mouth was full of blueberries and she was additionally holding two blueberries at her fingers, one at each hand.
Recently we learn from news that blueberries are good to the eyes, but today this fact is turned down. A doctor says that eating blueberries may be bad to patients who take medicine for treating Diabetes or Hypertension because blueberries may lower the clotting ability of the blood, thus increasing the risk of bleeding. At the same time, the blood pressure and the glucose content in the blood will lower and the patients may faint. The doctor believes that blueberries or its products do not affect healthy people. I think Abby does not have these kinds of threats at the moment. Eating some blueberries, but not too many may be desirable to Abby.
Does “An apple a day keeps the doctor away.” still hold nowadays? If yes, let Abby eat an apple every day and blueberries at times.
This is the On September 5th, 2007, Ho Keung, like an adventurer, dared to walk out with his video-camera on the bridge while Yin Ping held her digital camera recording his swinging-and-walking movements.
If I were there, I would rather take the role of Yin Ping. I never dare to walk out in mid-air like this though the swing bridge looks reliable. The feeling will be horrible when it swings. I guess by holding on to the supporting ropes at arm-level and walking dead slowly, it will be safer.
What happens when two people meet somewhere on the bridge? The bridge does not look broad enough for two people walk abreast.
這是一間航空公司的廣告, 直飛三藩市或洛杉磯, HK$5310起, 往紐約則HK$7420起, 兩者均可免費轉乘四程美國內陸航班, 聽落便宜, 但還未計算機場稅, 旅遊保費在內. 其中限制有:
(1) 訂購日期由昨天起至4月11日
(2) 旅程須於3月25日至5月31日期間出發及完成.
(3) 三藩市及洛杉磯機票最多可以停留14天, 另有其他優惠最多可以停留30天.
紐約機票最多可以停留30天.
(4) 旅遊出發地及回程目的地必須香港
(5) 回程出發地必須為此優惠的三個城市之一
廣告主體照片是美國自由女神像, 樣子嚴肅, 毫無笑容, 而較細的正是三藩市及洛杉磯的照片.
家裏有一個攪笑Snoopy板自由女神像.
請細看兩者有多少相似的地方呢?
