There were moments that Abby won something back in her hands at CU on November 24th.
Please guess what she was holding in each of the three photos here. Let me call the top photo as Photo 1. The left-hand small one as Photo 2 and the right-hand small photo as Photo 3.
The answers will be announced later!
我在Mega Box, 見到一些塑膠製造的藝術品, 這是第一個. 請大家思考一下, 究竟這藝術品含意是甚麼呢?
這的確像一條自由發揮題目, 請大家多多發表意見!
避免先入為主, 我暫時不寫出我的看法, 稍後才貼上!
On September 2nd, 2007, Yin Ping and Ho Keung started their journey inland by Highway 1, northward from On the way to Rototua, they saw cattle on the green fields.
They saw the beautiful snow-clad mountain,
The next kind of tame animals came into sight was the deer. The deer farming and the beautiful surroundings were fascinating to Ho Keung’s couple.
在自己童年時代, 嚴冬在香港可以是攝氏四度附近, 手握著暖笠笠的熱維他奶, 像拿著暖水袋一樣, 可取暖, 又可飲進去, 把暖流傳到全身各部份. 那種感覺來得特別舒服. 今天這維他奶的廣告, 正好令我回味到當時的感覺, 暖在心! 那時的維他奶只買兩毫子, 麥精維他奶, 則三毫子. 當然後者好飲得多. 但有時為了慳錢, 都選擇了較便宜的普通維他奶.
以前的士多, 多數有一個暖櫃, 特別把維他奶烘熱起來. 相信是維他奶豆品公司供應的. 但漸漸這種飲熱維他奶的熱潮, 不知不覺地消失得無影無踪.
時至今日, 熱維他奶突然在七十一便利店出售, 真是可喜可賀. 今次又有驚喜, 來的是新口味, 是暖薑維他奶. 待我試飲之後, 再告訴大家知道!
On September 2nd, Yin Ping and Ho Keung drove their car via Legend has it that
Mount Victoria is part of the Wellington Town Belt, land set aside in 1841 by the colonial New Zealand Company for a “public recreation ground for the inhabitants of
(Extract from http://ww.newzealand.com/travel/...)
The photo proves that the extract is right! It was a bird-eye view from
The sea was really peaceful. The houses on the opposite bank were built irregularly on higher grounds.
Lower down
The ceremony was more or less the same as the one Connie attended last year. Speeches were given first. Then each degree-holder went up to the stage to shake hands with the Dean and had a photo taken. We tried to take a photo of Tony on the stage by our digital cameras, but it was a total failure because he was too far away from us as well as the lighting was too dim.
Anyway we were glad to see Tony’s success in obtaining his Master Degree through part-time studies. He has made a good effort for two years. Congratulations to him
Last Year on December 8th, we attended the 63rd Congregation for the Conferment of Degrees at Sir Run Run Shaw Hall. Connie received her Master Degree in Social Science. Before this official ceremony, the Faculty of Social Science held a smaller one in the morning. Many photos were taken. In the actual Congregation, after the speeches by the Dean of the
Connie took the course for 3 years by part-time. In one of the years, she was so lucky that she got a scholarship from HSBC. We should be proud of her brilliant academic performance as well as her outstanding writings and interviews with the sponsors.
The photos here have not been posted so far until today when Tony got his Master Degree too.
It seemed to Yin Ping and Ho Keung that Burger Kings were more than Mc Donalds in the New Zealand Capital. It was great fun that this Burger King Fast Food Shop (in the big photo) was inside the Bank of New Zealand. I guess it is a usual case that the customers of the Bank have to wait for a long time before they can be served by the bank tellers. It can be a nice thing to eat burgers there while waiting for their turns to meet the bank tellers.
Burger Kings at one time appeared in
This building of Bank of
Yin Ping and Ho Keung also passed by the
As it was getting dark, they returned to their motel. Out from the windows, they found the Chinese Embassy. The building was like several sandwiches stacked up, newly-built, but plain in outlook.
Early next morning, September 2nd, Ho Keung and Yin Ping returned to where the Parliament buildings were and took a few more photos of these buildings from other angles.
Yesterday was the Official Graduation Day for all degree holders at CU(Bachelor, Master and Doctor degree). Tony was sitting among those of the Master degree holders at the University Mall (林蔭大道). His mother was in the midst of the spectators behind. The ceremony was a simple one because only those of Honorary and Doctor degree holders could go up to the stage to accept their degrees. The rest of the degree holders stood up from their own seats when they were called upon to receive their degrees. Soon, light refreshments were served. If one had a good appetite, he/she could feed himself/herself to the full. Before our celebration dinner for Tony at our usual restaurant began, we brought Abby to see the biggest knitted bear in
Connie raised Abby up and held her in her arms so that Abby could be high enough by then to have a photo taken. We could tell Abby that she had once visited this Giant World (大人國) at Sunshine City with this photo. It was really a memorable moment for Abby and us all.
It is amazing to see such a big Santa Claus sitting outside the open platform next to Lok Fu Shopping Centre. The size of this Santa Claus is XXXXXXXXL. Well, I guess it has a height of 4 men.
Te Papa is the National Museum of New Zealand which was opened in 1998. The logo design of this museum looks like a finger-print of the thumb.
The museum has a great wall with two big windows displaying some advertisements. This wall is like half the logo of “Windows 視窗” in our computers several years ago. There are two big rocks at the front. Maybe they are meaningful to the New Zealanders.
The museum looks quite modern in outlook , but a car in display inside is an old fashioned one. I have never seen such kind of cars running on
One of the photos here shows the back of the museum. It looks very very big indeed.
I saw Abby cry three times: (1) As early as November 12th, Abby fell and bumped onto the wooden horse at the children’s play-site. She cried because she had hurt her lips with blood coming out. What a terrible scene of Abby with swollen lips (left photo)!
(2) On November 24th, Connie kissed Abby goodbye at CU and had to hurry to work. Abby felt uneasy for a little while. We distracted her attention by giving her a small bit of bread. Connie returned after a moment because she had taken with her Abby’s bottle of water. Abby noticed the re-appearance and re-disappearance of Connie. She felt unhappy again. Soon we went down to Chung Chi Canteen. On the way, Abby fell asleep and we took our lunch peacefully. After lunch, we moved to the beautiful corner of CU – Pond of water-lilies, Bamboo breeding ground and…..
Abby woke up, but cried annoyingly. She might not have enough sleep or she had missed the sight of Connie. Philip took photos of Tony at various spots and we had to keep an eye on Abby. Abby cried the most with tears in front of the railway station. Look at her tears that had arrived at her nose tip (top photo).
(3) On December 3rd, at home, Connie showed me that Abby’s coat had a hood of the two ears of a mouse. I wanted to take a photo of Abby in disguise of a mouse, so Connie pulled the hood up onto Abby’s head. At that moment, Abby wanted to cry to show that she disliked her head being wrapped up. Of course, after one click of my camera, the hood was quickly removed. Look at Abby’s unhappy face! I thought the tears were already at the edges of her eyes (right photo)!
To bring warmth to this Christmas, Sunshine City (新港城) invited the fastest knitter in Guinness Record (118 knits/minute), Miriam Tegels, a Dutch lady, to come to Hong Kong. She made, with the help of more than 100 workers knitting simultaneously, a 500 kg, 15-feet tall colourful bear. This bear was woven from 8000 knitting yarn balls in a month’s time. This bear looked pretty happy, lovely and cute. In front of it were some other smaller bears holding up two knitting needles. Surrounding the bears were a number of Christmas presents in different shapes. What a joyous atmosphere this shopping centre had brought to the people visiting it!
昨天是兩鐵(地鐵和九鐵)合併的好日子, 以後用港鐵為名, 英文名稱保留MTR.
合併的好處是所有車程一律減兩毫, 轉乘 (即以前地鐵轉九鐵, 或相反) 則優惠更多. 轉車不再需要出入閘了.
較早前, Tony替我買了兩張兩鐵首日合併紀念票. 於是昨天早上,我和太太開始試搭港鐵, 作半日遊.
首先乘馬鞍山線列車從第一城往大圍轉東鐵線列車往尖東, 拍了一輪火車發展史的圖片, 出閘步行至尖沙咀站過海往中環.
到了中環, 往嘉咸街拍一些古老建築物和新型中環中心, 便立即乘東涌線列車往東涌.
在東涌東薈城用午膳後, 乘東涌線列車返回南昌站轉乘西鐵線列車去屯門.
到達屯門, 往附近大型商場逛了約一句鐘, 又踏上列車返美孚站轉車返太子站再次轉車往九龍塘, 然後乘東鐵線列車北上往大圍轉車返第一城站.
這樣的港九新界離島半日遊總計用了約四個半鐘頭在乘車, 轉車(足足十次). 如果日日如是的話, 簡直是苦事.
Abby remembered she had played the slides here, so she walked towards them. There were different kinds of slides - short, long, and curved. She tried the latter two this time. Grandma took her to the top of the long yellow slide while Connie would help her down and protected her from falling off the slide.
Next Abby tried to slide down from the red curved slide. It was funny to see her bend a little bit towards the right in a swirling manner when she came down. Finally she arrived at the bottom of the slide while a bigger girl had already slid right behind her. Luckily she was not pushed down by her!
在以前的網綕中, 我曾提及中文大學中國文化研究院裏面有一錦鯉魚池. 這裏的錦鯉是一群富有天才的畫家.在牠們漫不經心, 自由自在遊弋的時候, 產生了一些漣漪. 霎時間, 那原本平靜如鏡的水面反射部份建築物的倒影被這突而其來的震盪盪出了一些令人驚鴻一瞥的 ”水彩” 畫面, 有幻覺感, 也有創作感.
今次我得到一個寶貴經驗是: 機會是一瞬即逝, 我要好好把握每一個呢!
After watching the computer-made 3 D film at one of the UA cinemas on the 11th floor, Tony and I explore the secrets of this mega BOX from floor to floor.There was an open space stretching from 8th floor down to the 5th floor. Beautiful decorations of Christmas were hanging. For the first time, I saw a Circular TV screen with a thousand bulbs surrounding it. The screen was broadcasting documentary films or advertisements rather than our Hong Kong TV programmes. These floors were linked up by escalators.
On the fifth floor, the big Christmas tree and the small house next to it were the targets of photo-taking by families and friends.
Various shops and department stores could be found further down from the fifth floor .
