This mass of cloud was intense, big enough to cover Tai Wai and Yuen Chau Kok. This photo was taken on July 23rd at sunset and the cloud covered most part of the photo. The buildings and even the hills looked comparatively small. Some surfaces of the cloud reflected the orange light of the setting sun while the others could not, so they looked grey and dull. The whole photo looked as if it were a water-coloured picture, not painted by you and me, but by nature.
It is astonishing that an Octopus Card can combine with a Visa Credit Card. How extraordinary it is! To me, an Octopus card should be an Octopus card whereas a Credit card is a Credit card alone. I can never dream of their “marriage”.
It is great news to those people who are users of both Octopus cards and Credit cards.
The advertisement says that this card can become a topic of conversation among the citizens of
Well, I don’t believe this. I myself need not apply one such card because I am not a customer of the bank nor I am a big spender who relies wholly on Credit cards.
Abby likes to open his grandma’s box of wristwatches to take a look. She picks them out of the box and put them back again. On July 8th, as usual, her target was again at grandma’s watches. This time, I put all the five watches onto her arms. Without the long sleeves of her overcoat, these watches would all slip away because her arms were so slim and the watches were meant for adult wrists.
The watches are neither ancient nor modern. They were in the 80’s or 90’s. Some of them are automatic, run by mechanics and some by dry cells. They all stop for lack of winding or electric power. They might have become Abby’s toys these days.
Sure enough, Abby needs not read or does not know “time” at the moment, but she has experienced the existence of such interesting clockwork of two or more hands moving round and round the face of a watch.
From Ho Keung and Yin Ping’s experience, there is no need to use water and colour to paint a picture.
The film “The Dark Knight” is on show recently in The film is about Batman, a famous star in
The film started with a Bank robbery. From this incident, the Clown showed much of his cold-bloodedness because he killed everyone of his crew after he had got the money. He escaped by a school-bus.
Next gangs of bad people were caught. It followed that some men of justice and the mayor were assassinated. Of course Batman was to intervene. There was one thing that I did not understand. Since the Batman had a chance to kill the Clown. Why didn’t he wipe him off, but let him live. I think the only reason is that the two important roles of Batman and the Clown cannot die, otherwise the Batman series cannot continue.
In this film, the Batman’s car looked great, but crashed. It was strange to see that a powerful motor-bike could be detached from it and Batman used it to continue his mission.
Another thing which attracted my attention was that part of filming was made in
The film lasts for 152 minutes. It is cheap ($70/ticket) when the ticket price is considered with the time of the show.
At the doorstep this Tuesday, Ho Keung and Yin Ping found a fog before them. The houses on the opposite side of the street, some twenty metres away, were covered with a white film of water vapour. They appeared to be pale and indistinct, but their outlines could still be seen. My wife and I, together with Connie and Philip, were familiar with these houses because when we woke up and looked out of the windows each morning, these houses were clearly in sight. It was dated back to summer, December, 2006. This avenue was lined with elegant houses on both sides and few cars were parked at the roadside.
At seven on this particular morning, the avenue looked quiet and mysterious. It would be great fun to walk along it, but driving needed much care.
Ever since my last report (two and a half months before) , there has been large progress at the building site. [1] One more crane has been erected. Now the two cranes are at work carrying loads of ready-to-lay liquid cement as well as other building materials such as wooden planks and steel bars to various spots.
[2] No more heavy trucks can reach the interior of the site because blocks and structures are growing. These trucks can only unload all necessary building materials at the outskirts of the site.
[3] Vertical bars are rising like new shots of plants growing from the ground. They will be the future pillars for supporting the blocks of hospital buildings.
[4] Building of different structures becomes complicated now. Here and there different function rooms are made. Some vertical troughs look like those for elevators (lifts) have been detected. Some mysterious passageways may have been designed and made in such a way that famous patients can enter or leave the hospital secretly without being noticed.
This foreground of this photo shows a pair of reddish pink flowers. I love this colour. The flowers behind are relatively small, but their colours are bright red, another lovable colour to me. These two kinds of flowers are completely different, in size and colour. Their leaves are also different in shapes and thickness. It is easy for me to distinguish which plant is the host and which is the guest. I love the lustre of the latter plant because the leaves look as if they have been waxed before. The background shows Abby and Connie walking by.
Which do you think is the Centre of Interest of the photo? The pink flowers/ the small red flowers/the leaves/ Abby/ Connie.
Today, I am happy to announce that I am able to take the photos of a beautiful butterfly landing on some red flowers. It is rare to see this kind of insects dancing among flowers in our garden. Most probably it is a fine day for butterflies to have a party after so many days of bad weather.
Can I take another batch of photos of other butterflies tomorrow? It is really a question!
I just know two terms about clouds:
[1] cirrus (feathery cloud high in the sky, delicate in appearance)
[2] cumulus (cloud made of rounded masses on a flat base).
Should the big clouds in the photo be cumulus and those light and small ones above them be cirrus?
These are the photos which represent three different fast-food restaurants in Hong Kong.If I name the photos from top to bottom as [1], [2] and [3], match these three photos with the following names of restaurants:
A. Fairwood B. Maxim’s C. McDonald D. Café de Coral E. KFC
We bought this lovely toy-car, around 20 dollars, from Jusco Department Store a few months ago. At the very beginning, we aimed at giving Abby this toy to play at our home, but, to our disappointment, she did not know how to press Keroro’s “head” down. It might be that she could not master the skill or she did not have the strength of pushing down the “head” with her tiny fingers. This plastic toy car is cheap, simple, mini and colourful. The details of a side-mirror, a front registration board with “Keroro”, a low windscreen, two big headlights, a flexible roof-top and wheel caps inter
est me most.
When the “head” of Keroro is pressed, the car will run forward for a distance of about 8 feet. It was last week that we found that Abby suddenly found interest in this little car. At first, she would run away when the car ran towards her. After some time, she did not run away any more, but would wait for the car to come. By now, not only she knows how to push the head down, but she never fails to move it by this pressing “mechanism”.
The following photos may be good as wallpapers for our computers. These sheep in New Zealand that walk about the grassland form nice pictures. There are more sheep than people in
These sheep have fluffy wool which is of high quality for export. The shearing of wool from a sheep is interesting. I saw such shearing in
Abby comes to her stepping-stone (our home) before she goes to On these few days she likes to pour out from a box the coins I store to pay tolls for tunnels. To her, coins are round heavy metals that can be poured out at one time and scattered round her feet. She does not know their values and that they can be used to buy toys, ice-cream and McDonald Harsh Browns.
Yesterday she learned from her Great Grandma that coins could be twisted round and round. Today when she pours out the coins, she remembers that little action of flipping or twisting of a coin, not skilful, but good enough to show that the image of a coin turning before her is still there in her mind. Good observation and memory, Abby!
The frog in the photo is beautiful. My first impression is: The more beautiful a frog is, the more poisonous it is. A frog is an expert in jumping. The red “springs” at the feet of this frog here come in attraction to our eyes because of its “colour” and the “brand” of the camera manufacturer.
The advertisement aims to give a message to the buyers of cameras that a frog can jump very high and that with the help of the technology (mechanisms) of the cameras, better photos can be taken. The “springs” are embedded in the cameras and they help to boost up the quality of the photos.
I learn that scientists in different countries are designing better and more stream-lined swim-suits for their athletes in the Olympic Games so that the athletes can swim faster than before. In that case, the swim-suits can be the “second” skin of the athletes. It is funny, isn’t it?
These beautiful-coloured cranes are swinging round and round. They fly in different directions to their destinations. I like this advertisement because of its diversity of colours and the beautiful patterns on the paper cranes. They represent the planes of a famous airline company. Which is it?
[A] Garude Indonesia (印尼航空) [B] Malaysia Airline (馬航)
[C] Philippines Airline (菲航) [D] Singapore Airline (新航)
[E] Thai Airways (泰航)
七月四日那天, 見到Abby照鏡, 她的心情簡直靚到”爆”. 在鏡的面前, Abby今次露出一個”得戚”的樣子, 好像很滿意自己的當時的衣著, 表現和狀態. Abby的太婆也喜歡照鏡的. 她在家裏幾時照鏡不得而知, 但她總在某些升降機裏對著鏡一般的金屬牆壁查看自己的頭髮是否很亂和衣服是否整齊.
這兩位女性不約而同地有習慣對著鏡子照個”飽”呢!
我從未寫過影評, 因甚少看電影, 以前一直工作忙, 戲票又貴, 加上不好意思把兒女留在家中由父母照顧而自己跑去看電影.全套戲”功夫熊貓”給我的感覺是”無得彈”.
以下是該卡通片的優點:
[1] 阿寶的造型非常生動, 親切可愛, 肥肥的肚腩, 給人們一個”梁醒波”身形的感覺. 阿寶打功夫的姿態非常有型, 有板有眼. 聽聞夢工場(DreamWorks)的動畫人員狂看”卧虎藏龍”, “英雄”等功夫片及港產動作片作參考, 所以片中的動作全是真功夫.
[2] 片中的風景很優美, 有深山, 有樹林, 有古城, 有宮殿, 有鄉鎮, 這些都是中國的
古代特色.
[3] 練武的過程很流暢, 細緻得來風趣.
[4] 眾武林高手與魔頭大豹在吊橋上的搏鬥都很刺激!
[5] 這套戲在香港上映, 特別邀請了一班歌星和明星配音 --- 他們有陳奕迅(Eason) 配阿寶, 另外有成龍, 房祖名, 何韻詩, 何超儀, 李璨琛. 估不到他們做粵語配音做得非常傳神, 對白又精彩絕倫, 又幽默, 非常好笑!
聽聞英文版有搞笑能手積伯克為主角配音, 還有德斯汀荷夫曼, 安祖蓮娜祖莉, 成龍等等. 相信在澳洲放映的版本一定是英語版.
麥噹噹最近為了配合"功夫熊貓"這套卡通片放映, 特別推出一連串片中角色造型公仔給顧客換購, 每個HK$8, 不過條件是要買其所謂超值套餐一個. 今次目的之一, 自然是換購那攪笑得來, 又可愛的功夫熊貓 – 阿寶啦! 原來這8元玩具還可以發聲的. 發出的聲音正是阿寶的笑聲 – “哈哈哈哈”!
其他還有另外七款的, 全部都是配角. 我自然換購主角做紀念!
A Panda can play Kung Fu. Wonderful! The DreamWorks (A film-maker, I guess) brings about this film to the audience of the world, young or old. My wife and I were among them in UA Cinema, Shatin, last Saturday, June 28th. The story of the film is simple. One day, a panda called Ah Bo (阿寶) who helped his father sell noodles each day, brought some noodles to the city to sell. He wanted to see what was going on at the meeting (舞林大會) of those animals who were good at Kung Fu, but the door was shut before him. After so many trials and failures of entering the site, he finally went in. The purpose of the meeting was to select the best Kung Fu fighter to beat the fierce cunning leopard (惡霸) called (大豹). The panda did not know any Kung Fu before, but miraculously, he was looked up to by the Kung Fu leaders. He was trained then on by the Kung Fu leader called 施福大師.
Kung Fu training was hard, but interesting to Ah Bo. The film shows the funny trainings in details. The Kung Fu leader 施福大師 used Chinese dumplings as rewards so as to train Kung Fu Panda to get them fast. In another training session, some cookies were placed at the top shelf in the kitchen. Ah Bo was able to get those cookies to feed himself because his Kung Fu had been upgraded.
On the other side, the mentioned leopard, 大豹, escaped from the prison and returned to the city. There were fierce fights between each of the five Kung Fu fighters namely, Tigress (飛虎女), Smart Monkey (靈猴), Fierce Mantis (螳螂大師), Red-crowned Crane (仙鶴大師) and Poisonous Snake (毒蛇大師) with the Leopard on a hanging bridge. The Leopard won and then Kung Fu Panda had to face him. No doubt Kung Fu Panda won finally and became the Hero of the city.
