大老爺? 究竟這是什麼來的? 說真的其實它是一間港式茶餐廳, 食物款式有限, 管理混亂, 伙計連桌號也寫錯,要吃的當然被送到別人的枱去, 要打聽一番, 才知道伙計弄錯了. 食物味道尚算美味, 但等候的時間太耐, 肚子餓的話, 感覺難受. 下次若非有人請的話, 我不會再去光顧了! 現時的餐廳或食肆的名稱都是人物化, 例如: Daddy’s Kitchen, Mummy’s Kitchen,
大婆牛肉麵……
大型屋苑只叫做某街或某道幾多號就算了, 例如: 九龍塘的畢架山一號,
彩虹的清水灣道八號, 澳門的大潭山一號……
特別奇怪的名更有: 日出康城, 人人都不識讀的城中駅, Vista Paradiso, Sausalito………
如果的我是其住客或業主的話, 講出來都令人一頭霧水!
我從未見過這麼美的鐵屏風, 綫條簡單, 優美, 圖像編排細緻, 有現代氣息. 這是一幅美麗的圖畫. 前景是吐露港濺起水花的海濤, 背後是高崇的馬鞍山,
西方(右面)的紅太陽正下山, 東方(左面)的月亮在大片雲後也趕緊上場, 或圓或缺, 一切都很忙碌似的!
不止設計這屏風的設計師出色, 連馬鞍山公園的園藝家很細心地吊上幾許盆栽,加添一些田園氣息.
Abby一直以來, 見到任何一枝筆, 都伸出手仔表示她想要拿. 周圍的大人除乖乖地奉上該筆之外, 還急忙從口袋裏或手提袋裏, 找張大面積的紙給Abby在上面畫其大花面. Abby揸筆手勢認真正宗, 簡直令人驚歎不已! 正因為從來未有人教過她, 我們不明白她如何學到會這種技術. 另外Abby能辨別出那裏是筆咀, 永遠她都能將它向下, 在紙上畫出自己的內心世界
我們曾經三番四次將筆咀向着她遞去, 考驗她是否用筆頭寫字呢? 出乎意料之外, 她漫不經心的把筆調轉, 從來沒有發覺我們一干人等存心把她氣弄一翻! 佩服你, Abby!
At times, some big shopping centres in Recently this shopping centre brings in “Celebration on the Arrival of Autumn”.
Big drums are beaten and beautiful lanterns are hung. The decorations are all in Japanese style. What I like most are those beautiful fishes hanging in the air.
There are games for the visitors. Whenever a customer has bought articles from any shop in this shopping centre up to 100 dollars or more, he or she will be entitled the throw of 3 magnetic darts to a board with some circles. There is a Chinese word in the centre of each circle. Since I have a receipt from “Pizza Hut”, there is no harm in playing such a game. I am told that if all the three darts hit the “word” at the centre of any circle, the prize is a can of coffee drink. I aim at the circle in the centre of the board. Of the three darts, one hits the word, but the other two miss it, but still within the circle. There is no luck to me this time. I better practise more at home before I go to play the game next time!
Some of our Government Offices are centralized in Wanchai. The outstanding government buildings are the
The
These two buildings look like
It seems that the two departments have nothing in common. Actually, the recent policy of the Immigration Department allows people to live in Hong Kong from the Mainland China or elsewhere provided that they invest a large sum of money in commerce, finance or housing
In between these two buildings is the
Thanks to Philip who gives me this remarkable photo( the large one) . He took it on September 22nd, 2007. It shows a colourful brightly-lit dragon facing the clock tower of our old Railway Station in Tsimshatsui. Obviously it is one of the decorations for our Mid-Autumn Festival on September 25th. A Chinese girl and beautiful Bauhinias had added much life to this long dragon. I feel good when looking at this beautiful dragon. I believe it will bring to
I have not seen such big-sized 雞泡魚 before. They are hanging at the show-window of a Sushi shop (壽司店) at Shatin. Although they are not beautiful fish, they look very funny like balloons with mouths and fins added. The meat is good to eat except that it is poisonous in its internal organs.
I remember that I caught some 雞泡魚 at Lai Chi Kok Bay (荔枝角灣) when I was young. My father took me there and hired a sampan out to the waters in the middle of the Bay. We threw our fishing lines down with baits at their hooks and waited for the shaking movements of the fishing lines. We pulled suddenly and hard to hook the fishes. The usual fishes caught were these 雞泡魚 . Their sizes were relatively small at that time. My father asked me to throw them back to the sea because they were not edible. Usually there was a big boat serving as a floating restaurant (水上大牌檔) at the centre of this Bay. There congee (艇仔粥) with fish was sold. If people had any fish-catch, they might just row their sampans to this boat to have their fish cooked or boiled in congee.
I wish everyone a joyous Mid-Autumn Festival, has Good Health and enjoys every day to the full.
It should be a long list of names, but I mention a few here.
M.C. Kung, Shui Ching, Man Ying and Ming Tak
Leung Man-kin, Wong Him-ching
Daisy Mak and Bruce
Leonard and Mabel
Roger Chan, Rebecca Wat, Andy Poon, Chan Yin Man, Yu Kin Keung, Connie Wong
KK Poon and family, YC So and family
Lit, Vivianne, Dik, Daisy, Yun, Innes, Wai.
Yuen, Mr. Leung and Cheng
Mag, Diana, Amy, Catherine, Ella, Edith, Ho, Helen, Yvette,
Clarke, Siu, C.W. Ng, Yam, YL Tsang, WK Lam, SL Pun and wife,
M.Lee, Joanna, CM Chan………
Winnie, Fok, Fung and Apple, Alan and wife, CY Fung, KC Kwok…….
Hester, Shit Cham, Oi Lin, Tai Yiu, Man Fai, PH Chu, Patricia, Tak Sum,
Zita, King Yin, Kar Kit, Pak Leung……
Chan Chun Chung, TF Hui, Lau Kam Chuen, Ho Yiu Ming…….
Catherine Cheung, Jenny Sy, Sharon Fung, Yeda Hong, Moshea Tsang, Sherrien Sze,
Maxim Mak, Ivy Cheng, Amy Chow, Dorothy Kwok, Catherine Chen….
Henry Tung, Chan Ka Hing, Leung Wai Yin, Carrie Lau, Carrel Yu, Jacky Chan, Joey Leung, ....
The big photo shows a moon-cake for all of you.
The small photo shows the full moon in the sky.
This structure is inside Tai Po Waterfront Park which marks the return of Hong Kong to
Here are two photos for you to compare:
(1) A photo taken by me on April 9th, 2007.
(2) A photo on an MTR ticket
By clicking the word “Comment”, you can write your opinion on these photos!
You may write about the colour, composition and brightness of the photo, the feeling of seeing this structure and how much you know about it! Can it show the return of Hong Kong to
Abby has been taught how to give “cheers” to other people by pushing her bottle of water to strike at the glass of wine or cup of tea the person who says “Cheers” to her. On September 12th, we had dinner with her and we said “Cheers” to her, but this time, instead of drinks, we use “bread”, so two pieces of bread, equally big, met in the air. Of course, all the bread finally went into Abby’s mouth and ours. Crazy, weren’t we?
The photo shows a smashed tomato on the floor! One may expect to do some clean-up work and to see a waste of food! Well, let us watch it! The tomato will return to its original look in a few seconds’ time. You will wonder if it is a real tomato. Never is it!
This is an interesting toy bought from
The other kind of similar toy is a pig’s head. The strange look of the distorted head makes my daughter and her husband laugh a great deal, but not Abby. Maybe she is too small to see the fun and she has not seen a real pig before.
Another scene which strikes me in the head is the one the liquidized “Terminator” solidified back to its original size when it was chilled.
This kind of toys is sold by hawkers at the roadsides of
In recent years, McDonald attracts young fans (children), actually their parents, to buy its Happy Meals (開心樂園餐) by the promotion of their toys. On the other hand, KFC also issues toys which can be redeemed with the purchase of food, such as Doraemons which can perform different skills. More recently, the fast food shop promotes tiny Pandas.
MTR, having learned the lessons from McDonald and KFC, issued toys of their own with the combinations of cartoon figures and its facilities to promote their new tickets.
The most up-to-date toys that go with the MTR tickets are the cartoon figures in the series of “Keroro” in TVB.
Abby will get from me these three toys:
(1) An Electric Fan (movable) to reduce the heat from the Red-hot face of Giroro.
Promotion: Shops at MTR stations
(2) An Electric Torch to emit light with Tamama lying on the top of an MTR train.
Promotion: MTR trains
(3) A Safe for children to save their coins. Keroro is standing in front of the gates. When a coin is inserted, the gates will open. How interesting and educational this toy is! As a bonus, a Digital Clock shows the time at the front.
Sooner or later Abby will learn the virtue of saving money for future use!
Promotion : MTR Gate machines
Festival Walk was the nearest plaza to where we lived in the past. On Saturday mornings, around seven something , my wife and I would walk downhill to take breakfast at its KFC. The breakfast that we ate was composed of egg, a piece of chicken, a cake (鬆餅) and a cup of milk tea. It was too early to wake our children up at that time, so they did not come along. At times, we drove and parked our car at its basement. We ate quickly and went its Park-in shop to buy the things we needed, normally fruits. Good that the supermarket gave a ticket of free parking to any customer who spent 200 dollars there. It was a “Rushing” game to us. Having eaten our breakfast at the top floor, we sped down to the basement to snatch the daily articles we needed. My wife was responsible for household goods and food while I was collecting oranges and apples. The prices of goods we purchased were added to reach $200. The time-limit to us was only one hour.
The spacious and modern plaza itself was a comfortable place where we could stay away from the heat outside, but the shops normally sold very expensive articles. The plaza was truly a “Walk” for us!
It was a nice thing to eat breakfast at its KFC because sitting at its edge, we could look down at the skating ground. The most interesting time came when very small children first learn skating. They could sit on stools first and the instructors drew two lines, a certain distance apart, on the ground for them to practise going forward and backward.
We did not go to the cinema here because the ticket prices were too dear, but the Bank of East Asia was the one we often went to during Saturday mornings.
There are two interesting things that the photos here bring to me:
(1) Big photo - It is interesting and amazing to see flames and smoke coming up from the letters. I believe I cannot take a second picture similar to this.
(2) Small photo – There is a milestone inside Kowloon Tong Railway Station. It was written “4.5”. Should it be 4.5 kilometres or miles away from the terminus at Hung Hom or Tsimshatsui?
這是難得一見的鏡頭.Abby開始什麼都吃, 自然今次一定有她的份兒! 她曉得用舌頭去舐雪糕, 吃得尤其開心!
為什麼我要說這是難得一見的鏡頭呢?
遲些, 當Abby長大時, 咀巴大咗, 舌頭長咗, 吃雪糕時, 因要儀態, 動作慢咗, 滋味更濃咗!
相信很快, Abby滿咀邊雪糕的情景相信不會再發生了!
It is one-twelfth of a Paper-cake. At first when I saw the twelve slices put together, the whole piece looked very much like a CAKE! Throughout the evening, I did not open the gift because I was afraid that I could not put it back to the same shape as it was in the beginning. I urged my other colleagues to open it up. In fact, those who were eager to find out what it was inside the slice of cake had revealed the secret to me.
This morning, after I had taken some photos of the SLICE of Paper-cake from different angles, I untied the knot of the ribbon at the back of this little gift. The two ends of the ribbon went through two holes of the flaps (doors of the gift) which resemble those of a shoe. The purple flower had been sewn to the centre of the ribbon which had gone through another two holes at the edge of the top part of the slice of cake.
What a genius’ design!
Coming back to this gift, as the Master of Ceremony said, the wedding cake that Rita and Chris had cut was transformed into a Paper-cake in front of us. Each of us at the table would take one as a gift. To me, it looked like a Cocoon in Nature. One did not know what was inside until the hatching of an insect. Here there was no hatching process, but untying. The actual gift came out to be something of a flat bag for ladies. There was beautiful yellow lace with a zipper in the centre.
What is this gift going to be? You may guess here!
There are 3 options for you to consider:
1. a Tissue Paper Holder
2. a Bag for Coins
3. a Bag for Key-chains
The loveliest parts of the gift is that you can always see the two "hearts" at the "doors" of the slice of cake!
Two months ago, one day I received an e-mail from my student, Christopher Hui, asking me to save the date, September 16, 2007. It was a happy piece of news that he would marry Rita Chan and hold a Banquet on that night. Chris was a brilliant student in my class 2A, 88-89. He was invincible in all his tests and examinations because he always came first in class. He was a little plump like me at that time. He was always polite and wise in thought. I can’t remember if I selected him as the monitor or not, but surely enough he was the best choice.
One interesting thing was that he was always sweating and he wiped his sweat away from his forehead. I found him work with confidence and he never rushed in anything. He showed his intelligence at HKCEE with 8 distinctions and obtained very outstanding results in Advanced Level Examination with which he was given the Li Shiu Kee Scholarship and was able to go to
I learned yesterday that his wife, Rita, was a brilliant student of St. Paul Co-educational School. She got the same scholarship as Christopher did.
No doubt this couple is a perfect match. May I wish them live happily together forever!
I met Christopher’s sister,
Today, what I want to bring out to you is that Christopher has had a nice thought of ordering special stamps from the General Post Office with their wedding photos printed on and sending the invitation cards with these stamps to their guests. With these stamps, the happiness of this couple always lingers on in our hearts.
These three cartoon MTR tickets are more attractive than those Olympic 1 year Countdown tickets. The cartoon figures have appeared on TV screen for some time, but I have not seen the series of cartoons. The reason is simple as I lack of patience and interest. It was two months ago. I learned from Connie that Abby liked to touch the Keroro cartoon figure linking to the mobile phone of her friend, Winds, so I went in a nearby shop to find if I could buy a doll of this kind for Abby. To my disappointment, I could not find the green-faced Keroro, but the red-faced Giroro. I paid $6.8 for that doll and brought it home. Time came when Abby did visit us. The reaction from Abby when she first saw it was to push the red-faced Giroro away, never to look at it again. My heart sank a little. My next thought was that Abby was afraid to see either its red-hot angry face or the scar on its face.
I am glad that Abby is now able to distinguish the differences between “pretty” and “ugly”, “kind” and “fierce’. From the example of pushing the doll she dislikes away, Abby begins to give her opinions on whether she will “accept” or “reject”anything. She has started to make decision of her own, answering “yes” or “no” questions. One good point of Abby is that she often waits for the signal of “Permission” or “Objection” from her parents or people with authority when she wants to touch something new to her. She obeyed orders well and seldom rebels and carries out mischievous acts.
A nice girl indeed!
On This Tuesday, we were in Wanchai. I discovered this kind of shops on
On thing in common of these shops is that they have big shop-windows, so big that they are glass-walls opened publicly to the passers-by below. Looking up from the street, people right away know what business the shops are dealing with.
In the photo, the left-hand 4-storey building composes of 4 kinds of shops:
On the ground floor – a Jewelry shop
On the first floor – Hair saloon
On the second floor – Massage-service shop
On the third floor – a Spa shop
It is obvious that all these shops are run by the same person under the brand name, “Lifestyle”.
A lady can spend several hours in the same block of building and may walk out with another look!
The right-hand building is not beautiful as the previous one. The shop on the ground floor sells clothes. The one on the first floor, a hair-saloon too. The one on the second floor sells Mr. Samson’s T-shirts, toys and souvenirs. Strange enough, the top floor is a residential flat with no shop-windows.
To steak diners, they may find the information in this photo useful when they buy beef from shops or eating out at restaurants. These information sheets are found at the tables of a steak restaurant (an expert as it calls itself) in
It looks like a tall tree that supports the footbridge linking Victoria Park to the Central Library on Causeway Road. It must be the work of one of the artists in It is time for the SAR Government to beautify
The tiny yellow toy car fits Abby’s hands perfectly. It has been delivered from Shatin to Ma On Shan for some time. One may despite it because of its little size. Actually it is capable of running very fast with a pull at it a little backward or a press a little downward and then a release. It is the first time I see Abby play it so happily on a table in a restaurant. Abby knows the skill of pressing it with her little fingers on the ceiling, releasing it and the car goes swiftly forward. She enjoys looking at the movement of the car and laughs heartily. Those looking at her feel happy too because her laughs are so REAL.
Today when I began to eat my breakfast at a KFC, I noticed a man sitting not far away from me wearing an identical T-shirt which I wore during the school picnic on This T-shirt reminds me of a page of the “Graduation Book” of the S5 class of CCSC, 2006-2007. It was a shock to me when I found this page on the night I attended their Graduation Dinner.
The students of 5D, some of whom I had taught before, took the advantage of my distinct broad body in the photo and put their class name on my T-shirt as their notice board. I did not faint at that time. Clearly enough, I understood that they could not find a better place to put their class name and they did not want to spoil their specially-designed T-shirts with school ties. What a strange sight to them and to me in the photo!
Yesterday I took a photo of the Central Library on In
Leaders of the countries around the Pacific assembled at Each year when meetings of APEC (Asia-Pacific Economic Cooperation) are held, the host country of the meeting will invite their guest leaders to wear their national costumes. What we, ordinary people, interested in are the costumes the leaders will wear this year in
In the past, our old Chinese featured films were broadcasted by ATV or HKTVB after mid-night. People often said that they were old torn Cantonese films (粵語殘片) .I suppose the watchers at that time were those old people who slept late or those who could not sleep at night. Now that ATV broadcasts one Chinese featured film at about six each Sunday morning, it is a nice thing for older people who wake up early to watch such films. Not only these films can bring them memories of their old days, they also arouse the interest of the watchers to predict how the story will go on and what the actors and actress will say next. The watchers will feel very proud of themselves when the story goes on in the same way as they are thinking. You know, they have put themselves into the film already.
The famous actors and actress in the film (shown in the photo) are from left to right, Leung Shing Por (梁醒波), Yam Kim Fai (任劍輝) and Law Kim Long (羅劍郎).
It is unfortunate that Law Yim Hing (羅艷卿) did not act in the film.
How can they land on Shatin? No problem!They are found inside a glass-aquarium behind the show-window of a clinic inside a commercial centre at Shatin.
The milky-white corals (海葵) wave their tentacles in the water like a fan. With these movements, the corals can feed themselves with micro-organisms.
The coral fishes that come in pairs on the left are called (小丑魚). They often take shelter underneath the corals. Their beautiful colours attract my attention most of the time!
Abby is well-trained like a dolphin to perform certain skills. One of them is that when we say “Beautiful eyes”, she will blink her eyes several times. She enjoys doing this which narrows her eyes into two curves and her mouth to a small one. In the photo, she is sitting in front of her toys. Even an empty box of orange juice can be one of them. The topless paper-cap was one of the handicraft she made at a play group in a kindergarten at Kowloon Tong during summer vacation. Although, to some extent, it was made by herself, she prefers a real one to put on her head.
Earlier she was taught how to stack up blocks. Whenever she was successful in stacking one block on top of the other, she and the onlookers would clap. It was a good training to her so that she could face successes and failures. When she failed to stack up a block or the whole pile of blocks fell, she would not clap. People around her would say, “Never mind! Try again”. This was real encouragement!
I had a comfortable feeling when standing and looking at the modern arches above me at New Town Plaza, Shatin last Saturday. These arches have blinds that can be opened to let in more light when the sky is gloomy. On the other hand, when there is strong sunlight, the blinds can shield it off. This light-well really brings in adequate illumination to several floors in the daytime.
This plaza began its renovation a year or two ago and now it is turned into a modern one. The shops doing the same kind of business are arranged on the same floor so that customers need not go up and down floors.
Lots of people crowd into the plaza on Sundays and Saturdays. They go shopping or eating in its shops. These activities make the whole plaza very busy indeed.
What is that? Well, it is an old kind of cream sandwich biscuits (夾心餅) produced by the Garden Company Limited in Hong Kong. In Chinese, it is 時時食. It is a good brand-name because it reminds people that they may eat them at all times. My family grows up with these biscuits, simply because they are cheap. In the past, these biscuits, in several flavours, were wrapped up in transparent plastic packets, six in each.. They were sold at $0.8 at first, later $0.9 and then $1 per packet. Nowadays they are sold in colourful packets, more attractive than before! They are sold at 6 packets for $10 recently at a “Circle K” shop. It is around $1.66 per packet.
The tastes of these biscuits do not change at all. In the photo, the green packet of biscuits is in lemon-flavour while the orange one in cheese.
“Garden” was a
