Darth Vader Toaster!

What about starting your day with a small dose of the power of the Dark Side?

$54.99 at the Star Wars Shop

Tai Pei

I use to keep a few frozen meals at work for dinner when I need to stay late. I got a couple of these frozen food from Market Basket with 2 for $4. Fried rice with chicken for one and shrimp for the other. I had the chicken tonight, and it turns out surprisingly good for frozen food. And it is authentic Chinese.

On Cranes Beach

Jaspard and Lisa

Trees stripped

I am always fascinated by the forms of tree branches when the leaves are gone. But I have never got satisfactory pictures with my digital cameras. In a not-so-cold pre-winter evening (still freezing temperatures) I shot with Kodak UltraMax 400 I got from CVS using my Nikon FM2. The photofinishing lab at a local CVS is surprisingly good at tuning evening colors!

The way back

A short flight from Newark to Boston, after the usual long haul from Hong Kong.

13 Sai Lau Street

We used to live on the third floor of 13 Sai Lau Street, Tsuen Wan. In 1998 a few city blocks were collected by the government for re-development. We had to move with compensation.

I went on a nostaglia trip of Tsuen Wan with Sue and ran into San Tung Uk museum. I hung out there a few times after school when it was still a ruin. It had be reconstructed and turned into a museum that try to reproduce the traditional Hakka walled village. Inside there is a small exhibit showing the development of Tsuen Wan as a town in the past couple centuries.

There is a picture taken from the roof of my old home in 1997. I can still remember the 7-11 my mom used to buy ice-shake at the corner of the picture. I am surprised I didn't have the idea to take a picture myself at that time.

The whole area had been torn down and is now a modern shopping mall + residential high-rises.

Lee Cheong Ivory Arts Fty.

A couple of weeks ago we went to Gold Coast and took pictures with a bunch of friends. We ran into a stall selling ivory sculptures. The old man saw my manual camera and told me he took his sculpture pictures with a film camera too. Then he showed us his sculptures using mammoth task and ivory, and patiently explained to us the composition of different sculptures, with full knowledge that we are not buying. A small piece of his ivory sculpture costs HK$3000!! He has a webpage for his sculptures here.

Nam San Wai revisited

It was a very good day. Beautiful weather, good company, terrific food and a peaceful night.