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Monthly Archives: February 2005

yi xing purple clay teapots (22-02-05)

27-Feb-05

i like looking at chinese pottery n teapots. actually, i like anything related to tea drinking (well…..i like to look and drink. doesn’t mean i know anything about it…)
hku had an exhibition on i-hsing teapots n calligraphy recently. i-hsing/yi xing teapots are meant to be the best because they are made out of this spcial [...]

stanley beach area and new purchases [20-02-05]

25-Feb-05

the other sunday, i went to visit an old family friend. they had a gorgeous house by the sea…
we had satay and fried meifan (rice noodles) ahhh…singaporean food is just so different from hong kong food. i really miss m’sia/sg style food. i think maybe hongkong food isn’t all it’s cracked up to be. i [...]

hk govt and fortune telling

20-Feb-05

this is a hilarious piece of news (especially the last paragraph)…
i go the link off a simon’s world blog entry. (the author is an aussie living in hk…..ahhhh…..identification~)
here is the text of the news article:
Ritual fortune-telling predicts good news for Hong Kong
HONG KONG : Superstitious Hong Kong breathed a sigh of relief [...]

starbucks and more uni shots

19-Feb-05

starbucks just opened on HKU the other day. there was a massive queue. i thought it was weird that some1 would wait that long just to try out something knew. starbucks couldn’t have had such a great reputation here, could it?
click here for a video of the que …lol. i was really bored.
but you can [...]

TST and a touch of uni (16-02-05)

18-Feb-05

nothng really much happened that sunday. we just went to church in tsim sha tsui…bumped into a friend…had dinner…
eh. i have some photos of HKU (hong kong university, or “kong u”) up too.
i was particulary pleased to see an original print (i think) of the carbolic smoke ball ad hanging in the law [...]