May 10, 2006

  • CENTRAL TODAY

    This is so typical of HK: people crossing the road when red light is still on. Everyone always seems to be in a rush (for nothing?!) and so eager to reach the other side of road. We would dash across the road at any given chance regardless, sometimes, of the risk of getting run over by vehicles. This includes me. I am extremely impatient and walk really fast, even in 3" or 4" pumps. Ask me friends for proof!




    Theatre Lane, Central. These guys have been here for decades polishing shoes for lazy men. I remember my housemistress once used polishing shoes as a form of punishment: my friend Sarah was caught in her younger sister's room after lights-out. Her punishment was to polish all 16 pairs of shoes of girls in her sister's year. This is the same housemistress who, 2 years later, was drunk and set fire in her room and nearly destroyed the boarding house.



    Jardine House, formerly known as Connaught Centre, or 'building of a million a***holes' according to 's bro djzane. When I was in kindergarten (omg so ancient: 1983-1986) we were taught that it was the tallest building in HK. Now the record is in the hands, or should I say the steel and concrete, of IFC2.



    I  Hong Kong!


     

Comments (9)

  • you should work for the tourism board. hehe

  • the building looks so cool... especially the round windows. nice pics of HK.

  • the round windows are cool!

    i'm an impatient street crosser too. too often i push the button to cross the street and then cross before it turns green. and then by the time the cars stop, i'm already gone and they are wondering why the light is red! and man... people who walk slow REALLY bother me.

  • :sunny:

    no i ate alot ar!!! that fish and chips was my tea time, refreshment only.... hehee

    i off tmr ar, but going to ocean park...only one day off.. jar..staying 4 days in outport this wk.........wont see me online la...LOL

  • I love HK too......:wink:

  • awesome pictures as always....lovely...

    and as for your comment re regent street, I actually did walk down regent street to where i was going....nice shops along there dont you think?

    :goodjob:

  • Hahah building of a million A**holes!  Classic!

    Its interesting that you mention people in HK rushing to nowhere, giving no heed to the stop lights...Here is something I have consistenly observed over a few years...If I happen to be shopping somewhere, and I'll be walking out a door, or through a doorway, and there is an older asian woman headed in the same direction, they will inevitably speed up, and squeeze through the doorway a split second before I make it through the doorway --Thus causing me to trip on my step or have to stop for them.  I wonder if that has anything to do with the mindset of having to "rush" to places that are not really that important to be in disregarding others.  I do find it kinda rude when they shuffle past me all fast-like through a doorway--if they just wait a second, they would see I would hold the door open for them allowing them to pass through first!

    Ahh yes, Kindergarten...Those were the days.  Kinda long for that once again, but unfortunately I don't believe it reincarnation, so the grave better get ready cause here I come!:coolman:

  • i wanna go to hong kong after i go to tokyo hehe nice pics :)

  • believev it or not my dr always says thunderstorm and rains would make my nasal problem much worst!

    i hate storm!

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