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On Dragon Boat Race 2010 @ Victoria Harbour

yopy — Wed, 28 Jul 2010 03:24:58 +0000

Dragon Boat Race at Victoria Harbour. It’s the biggest event dragon boat event for 2010.

I went on Sunday. A good day to practice my photo taking.

Bronze medal.

Gold Medal.

On Art in HK @ Tsuen Wan City Walk

yopy — Mon, 05 Jul 2010 03:07:52 +0000

We were bumming around Tsuen Wan City Walk after our dinner and came upon a small art expo by local artists.

I asked for permission to take some snapshots and they said yes…

On Hong Kong 1 July march (七一遊行)

yopy — Thu, 01 Jul 2010 15:25:07 +0000

Hong Kong 1 July march (七一遊行). Another first for me. An interesting day. A good day for photo opportunity.

Why do I go out to this political march??? Well, I treat this as an annual Hong Kong events. A good opportunity for me to understand further on the political party. After three years in Hong Kong, I am slowly able to distinguish which political party stand for what platform.

Will I join any political party? No…I don’t think so. I am not that type.

Funny thing is…I attract or attracted to some of the people from the opposition side. What can I say??? I am a rebellious guy myself. Anyway, enjoy the photos. Enough of my rambling.

On dragon boat race 2010 @ shatin

yopy — Thu, 17 Jun 2010 02:33:24 +0000

Dragon boat race at Shatin. Went to another dragon boat race, again. The weather – cloudy and on off rain.

At the Shatin race, I was able to get a closer look at the race whereas at Lamma Island, the race was way out at the sea.

Not really have jam packed crowd. Probably, the dark sky turn a lot people away.

Maybe next year, I might go out to Stanley. The atmosphere might be more party like. Over Shatin, it was serious business.

There are some who could not take the heat.

This team look so familiar. Were they at the Lamma Island 500???

On June 4th Candle Vigil @ Victoria Park

yopy — Sat, 05 Jun 2010 06:17:08 +0000

June 4th, 2010 candle vigil at Victoria. Well, another first for me.

After attending this event, I think the organizers need to learn something from DPP of Taiwan on how to run this kind of event.

The organizers really need to bring live music because every time when a speakers is up speaking. An emotional background music need to bring in the mood of the audience.

That couple hours you need bring out all the emotion of your audiences. You only do this once a year. You need to make them leave with something….so, they will be back next year.

That is my two cents. If your audience does not shed tears, it’s not a successful events. After all, this should be a sad political events.

On Bun Festival @ Cheung Chau 2010

yopy — Sat, 22 May 2010 05:17:50 +0000

Cheung Chau Bun Festival 2010. First time going to Cheung Chau at night to check out the Bun scrambling competition.

I was quite reluctant a couple years ago to check out the competition because it starts at 12.00 am. After the competition, we have to quite long lines for the ferry to bring us back to Central.

So, this year…I say..what the heck. Let give it a try and we reach home at about 2.30am.

Ping An (平安) buns.

Tons of people lining to buy the ping an buns.

Incense burning at the temple.

Chinese opera.

The bun tower.

And the competition begin.

On Dragon Boat Festival @ Lamma Island 2010

yopy — Mon, 17 May 2010 01:49:55 +0000

Lamma Island Dragon Boat Race. Finally, this year I make it there. I wanted to go last year but the ferry ride and getting early on a sunday morning…really…is a little tough.

But this year. I make myself get up at 8am and make myself there. Reach Lamma Island around 10.30am and started taking photos.

Playing with the sands.

Lining up for race.

Rowing out to the competition lane.

After the race.

No word for this one. Simply….stunning.

Having fun.

The hair makes me take this photo.

The yoga pose…hehehe..

On Watching Sky Lantern At Mui Wo

yopy — Mon, 29 Mar 2010 03:42:36 +0000

Mui Wo Hung Shing Festival was held last week, where they displayed water lantern and sky lantern. Took Mui Wo ferry from Central pier.

This is the sky lantern. Writing your wish on the lantern and hopefully it will come true.

I like this one. Wishing to hit lottery jackpot.

On the right side, wishing to be a millionaire before 30 years old

Again, wishing to win lottery jackpot, more holidays and winning in mahjong table.

The lantern as it floating up

Water Lantern. Floating on the water.

公仔糖 – It’s a candy. I don’t know the english term for it.

The making of 公仔糖.

An interesting night.

On watching my first stage play

On watching my first stage play

On hanging with Danny Choo

yopy — Sat, 20 Mar 2010 14:53:18 +0000

Danny Choo (left) and me. Danny Choo of dannychoo.com came to town from Tokyo and Dollfie World organized a little get-together. I went to take photo with him I am a fan of his blog.

Danny prepping his daughter.

I realized there are two groups of fans attending. One is the dollfie fans. They brought their daughters out to show off. The other is the fan of his blog which I am in that category.

Why? For me, stunning photos. Next, Life motivation story on his photo walk category. Some of those stories bring tear to my eyes. One of my favorite was photo walk 5. I have bookmarked it and read it every now and then.

Dollfieworld

Signing autograph…

Signing autograph on this guy tee.

On upgrading to WordPress 2.7

On upgrading to WordPress 2.7

On Yuan Xiao Jie 元宵节

yopy — Sun, 28 Feb 2010 10:16:00 +0000

We went out to take some photos during this 15th of the Lunar New Year (Yuan Xiao).

We went to the Hong Kong Piazza for these Lantern Light. Quite a lot people out at the Piazza.

This year, I really went out to take quite a bit of pixs for the chinese new year except the chinese new year fireworks.

I have not been successful on taking fireworks photos. But will practice more.