Wow, that is one really cool picture of HK.
February 2008 Archives
Came across this story that is very touching about the love of a husband who carved 6,000 steps for his wife in the mountain. Check the article out, contains photos as well: Chinese Man Shows World What Real Love is by Carving 6,000 Steps Up a Mountain for Wife (From Asian Offbeat)
Wow, he is 102 and still carries on what he does. Check the video, very inspiring: Helping China learn to read (From the Gaurdian)
Idea is there, but the Chinglish is too much, I cannot stop laughing! Check it out.
It was really cool, you know you are in HK, buildings, lights, people's underwear... ok, not the latter one. Mind you, it's a lot safer now landing in Chep Lap Kok and kind of boring. Kai Tak is special. There's a cool video I came across, and one clip, you look up and you see a huge boeing fly quite low past the highrises. Amazing, see for yourself.
All the way in Israel that is. Asian restaurants were protesting on the plans of the government to cut the number of visa to foreign chefs, saying that their aim is to train locally. Sushi and noodles are up next in upcoming strikes. I'm so surprised how popular Asian food is:
"Customers say they are shocked and can't live without South Asian food. [...]
I got annoyed with how some people view that Asian food is easy to cook, well, it is, but I grew up watching, learning and eating family home cooked Chinese dinner, and also the restaurant was a big part of my life when I was young. This irked me a little:
Government lawyer Shoshana Strauss told the Reuters news agency that "everyone can make Chinese food, it's not impossible to learn [...]
There is something missing, the chef/cook also needs to know culturally how food is made, you cannot just learn it, you grew up with it, as mentioned at the end of that article.
It's just like the health inspections, there are different ways of preparing food, you annot assume it's all done the same. Sushi are dealt with differently, you cannot check the temperature when you serve that. What about steak that are done rare? Chow mein are actually noodles, but they come dried, so they need to be soaked in boiling water, and needs to be cooled down. Health inspectors could not get around their head that you cannot just put them straight into the fridge, as the texture will not be as supple. That's just one example. Of course, there are common sense to how things should be stored. But little attention to different cultural ways would ease tension.
Check out the photos at the IBC flickr pool. If anyone has any more and you are on flickr, feel free to contribute. :)
Fingerprinting will be introduced next term by Griffith College to ensure attendance of international students, and comply with the immigration laws. I don't think that this method will help, if they already claim that the attendance is immaculate, there is no reason to implement this. The students themselves are obviously not happy, I found their student magazine editorial page, if it's not viewable here is what it said:
The international debate on fingerprinting students and storing their photographs has escalated recently. Latest figures show that two million children in 6,000 schools in the UK have been fingerprinted and the number is likely to touch six million this year as nearly 13,000 schools begin to use this method to grant students access to libraries and canteens. This month we have learnt that biometric fingerprinting systems have been introduced to our campus – is it the way forward or a step too far [...].
The first day of the Chinese Lumar New Year, Gong Hei Fat Choi!
... going to Disneyland Hong Kong. Not sure why, since we went to Disney World in Orlando Florida a few years back for Christmas. But here is what Disneyland in HK will be offering for CNY 2008:
I've only recently noticed another annoying Halifax ad, even though it has a Chinese guy in it. It's pointed out by BurntBreadBoy as well, and he has the vid link, I'm gonna link it here and yes, the big warning of crap ad that has a tune that gets stuck in your head, so you have been forewarned:
I also noticed the latest Crunch Nut ad, an Asian lady wins the nutty race. And there is no annoying tune in this one:
In keeping with CNY this week. For all those who have all those leftover lai sees from last few new years, here's a vid to make your own chinese lantern:
