I rode my brother's bike to Lau Fau Shan with my cameras today. It took me only 40 minutes to get there. Lau Fau Shan used to be farming a lot of oysters. Not anymore because of all the building in China across the bay. Now it relies on seafood trading and seafood restaurants. I bought from there a couple bottles of home-made oyster sauce, not oyster-flavored sauce.
First time at the racecourse. I wanted to go there for a long time but found no special reason. This time I went with a friend whose father is a member of the Jockey Club and he goes there every racing day. I placed 4 bets. I bought a win for one of the race and the horse got a second place. Only if I bet on place I would have got $150 from a $10 bet. The food of the Chinese restaurant is pretty good.
In the dark, a dim light bob encased in an artistic case becomes a bright and beautiful sun.
Nikon FM2, 50 mm F1.8, 1/30 sec
Fuji Superia 800
By STEPHEN OHLEMACHER, Associated Press Writer
WASHINGTON – Colin Powell, a Republican who was President Bush's first secretary of state, endorsed Democrat Barack Obama for president Sunday and criticized the tone of Republican John McCain's campaign.
Link: http://news.yahoo.com/s/ap/20081019/ap_on_el_pr/powell
I am using my handsome Nikon FM2 for film pictures. Some of them were positive films cross-processed. The picture is so solid and color so vibrant.
The second morning in HK. Since the big HK breakfast yesterday morning, and the bad news I got a few hours after that, my stomach refuses to take in any much food.
This morning I woke up at 5:30 again. Four hours of sleep two nights in a row. Not good for the mood nor the knotted stomach.
I went out with parents and brothers to visit my great grandma's grave in the morning. Only after an hour's commute we learned that the area where the grave was located was fenced off because of recent rockfalls. We can only do the ritual 10 feet away, not even being able to see the gravestone itself. As usual I stood behind my busy parents and brothers and responded when summoned.
I still can't take the humidity, although the peak time has already passed. We then went to a restaurant in Tsuen Wan for dim sum. I ordered a rice roll with roasted pork and a congee with pork and million-year eggs. The waitress came back with a congee with dried fish and peanuts, saying that they didn't have congee with pork and million-year eggs. Unfortunately, I don't like both pork and peanuts. But father was so nice to take it, and I managed myself with a few sips of the congee. The rice rolls were crap. The skin was too thick too coarse, the roasted pork is hardly any roasted and thinner than the skin. I was also feeling cold, where mom said she was not. This was an indication that I was sick.
So I called off the dinner with Sue and came home to take a nap. I took a walk to the West Rail station through the local streets I used to take during the twenty something years I lived there. I was expecting some sort of nostalgia, but there was not. The streets had been degraded to an big open market. A nasty one.
I took to the clinic where my grandma would bring me to when I got sick. There was a small garden lined with benches patients could sit on while waiting in the line. It still look the same. But that reminded of grandma.
Next I walked pass our old home. It was torn down some 12 years ago and replaced with a brand new property with a big and modern shopping mall. It has a nice and simple garden in the middle. I didn't bother to check out the shops. As I walked I tried to figure where our old home should be located.
Then it was the city hall where grandma used to bring me to ride my bike. At that time she needed to carry the bike up the footbridge to get there. After that I arrived at the bus terminal I took bus to school during the 6 years of secondary school. I always walked pass this place with my first love. It had never been a busy bus terminal and is still like a ghost town. But at this point, I gathered that I did not miss this place at all. All I miss is the people that I had acquired and loved.
Almost everything in this trip so far goes wrong. I planned to walk this trail with someone important to me, but it didn't work out. But one thing now I know. I am ready to move on. My home is where the girl I love is. But where is she?
The second presidential debate is generating intense interest among the public.
 Barack Obama is fighting back over attacks on his character |
More than six million people have e-mailed questions to the moderator, NBC news presenter Tom Brokaw, who will preside over the town hall-style debate in Nashville, Tennessee.
He will select only six or seven e-mailed questions, as well around a dozen from the studio audience of 80 uncommitted voters.
Mr McCain, who is widely viewed as having lost the first debate, has vowed to take the gloves off for this encounter.
Mr Obama, meanwhile, promised to fight back.
"We don't throw the first punch, but we'll throw the last," he told a syndicated radio show.
VW unveiled the 2010 GTI at the Paris Car Show. They finally add back the shoulder lines to make it more vicious. The steering wheel looks a lot hotter too.
The nose of the 2010 GTI looks a bit like its big brother 2008 Sirocco.
VW SiroccoThis morning I peeked out of the window and the peacock is perching next to my car again. It seemed to have noticed me and looked back. I got home in the afternoon to pack something, and the peacock is perching next to my car again. I am going to lock my car in the garage in the next couple of weeks while I am away.
