iPhone 隨影。

I took these pictures with my iPhone on a moving bus/train on my way to China. :D

Considering these pictures should be shaky and blurry, it turned out not bad, eh? :D

The GIF is composed using the iPhone app: GIF快手. :)

我家的夜景

Even though summer was here just yesterday, Spring is still lingering here.  It's so foggy at night nowadays I simply feel sticky and suffocated.

Last night when I got off work, I couldn't help but use my iPhone to take a night scene near home.

Eerie, isn't it?

Faeries :)

The first thing that came to my mind when I took this picture was "Faeries!!" :)  We all need a little romantic escape from time to time no matter how adult / mature we want to appear. :)

Naturally Smiley foods

I was just talking about my happy smiley bruise yesterday, I just noticed I am inclined to taking pictures of smiley objects! :D 

I was just flipping through the pictures I took last year, found below 2 pictures with smiley faces. :)

I wish you all a happy smiley 2012 :) :) :)

三袋同堂 :D 3 bags!

Heheh. These are the bags I was carrying to visit my best friend, Liza this weekend. :D

From left to right: my tote bag, laptop bag and finally camera bag. :D I was ridding the ferry from San Francisco Pier to Sausalito this Saturday. It was such a relaxing 1/2 hour ride to the Marin County.

The ferry was quite packed here on the top deck which was an open deck. I would have gone up to the front if I wasn't too afraid of the sun and the wind. :D

I saw this structure as our ferrie approched the Sausalito pier. If I didn't remember wrongly, this was where Liza's wedding banquet was held back 5 years ago. :D

I am finally back to Mike's place now. So tired. It's not that bad feeling kind of tiredness, it's a relaxed kinda tiredness I am experiencing right now.

Tomorrow is gonna be a chill out day at home. Will update some more about the weekend then. :D

My Awsome New Camera!

I am just having fun with my newest camera, a Canon Ixus 210. :D

It has a few additional features to play with. One of my favorites is the 'miniature', a.k.a. Tilt Shift photo feature. :D

It turns ordinary picture into a fake miniature shot. :D It's quite fun.

Ordinary max zoom picture (because I took this picture from my 22/F flat. I must say the zoom quality of the camera is awesome too! :))

Now this picture is taken using the tilt shift feature. :D Can you feel that you are looking at a model driveway instead of zoom? :D

Here's a another miniature feel picture :D

The above pictures were all taken with the max zoom possible on my camera. They are taken on the 22nd floor actually. :D

I will show you the normal view from my home looking down the entrance of the drive way. :D

without zoom

tilt shifted

Max zoomed :)

The reason of Quiet Noise! :D

My friends bug me why I don't update my blog!!

Well, I must say it's all Old Lee's fault!! :D

She is rushing me to put up my picture for the June trip!! :D

I think as I grow older, I get more careless! :D Heheh

Instead of uploading, I somehow manage to delete my whole shutterfly.com picture site!!!!!

Well, I figured... since I need to start from scratch, I might as well just re-organize the whole site! (正所謂: 一不做, 二不休, 我咪把我所有旅遊相片 upload 上去囉!)

So! I wasn't being lazy last week, just that I have to concentrate on the photos! :D

Tram Maintanance Car

The other night, I O.T. until 2am, when I was waiting for my untrustworthy bus, I caught the tram maintance people at work.

This picture was so dreamy.

Somehow, my colleague gave me a cold can of coffee that night. The can kinda chilled my camera's lens. I think the result was kinda romantic.

After wiping off the mist from my camera, here is a clearer picture of the maintenance tram.

I have never seen this car during the day time, that's why I thought I must take a picture of it while it's working at 2am. :D

I love the tram. :) I ride it every chance I get. :) I remember when I was a kid, I always step on the bell on purpose. It created the infamous rustic "Ding Ding" sound I love.

Did you know lots of tourist would drop in their own foreign currencies into the fare box each year?

In April this year, the tram company had donated 10.6 tons worth of foreign coins to the ORBIS.

So people from the world, come and drop your coins in our little tram fare boxes. :D You might have already done your good deed of the day! :)

Sunset in Hong Kong

It's my day off yesterday. Since my office has moved away from Wanchai, I seldom able to see the sunset at the Victoria Harbor.

I think last night's sunset was extra lovely.

I took this picture with my trusty Nokia 5800 phone on the bus along the Easter Corridor Highway. :)

I think having a girls' night out with my old pal, Old Lau also put me in this good mood too. :)

We had a fun night. :D Stay tune for more. :D

Fun with GPS :D

Phone these days are so much fun! :D

Not only you can take pictures or videos, play games, and browse the internet, you can do many fun things with it too.

Today, I am gonna show you my phone's GPS in action. :D hehe

It's my favorite pass time on the bus after work now. :D hehe

北京油桃 Beijing "Oil" peach

Hehe..what do you see?? :D

I see a nipple on the peach!! :D

These are called Beijing Oil Peach (just a straight translation, probably not the real english name).

I think it's a cross between a Guava and a nectarine. It's not too sweet, not too sour, just right. It's not too soft and not too crunchy. :) It's also note too big and not too small. :D hehe

Delicious Strawberries.. Nom Nom Nom... :D

This year, there are tones and tones of strawberries being sold in Hong Kong. There are actually different harvests from different countries too.

I bought these ones for dinner the other night.

These small bite size ones are from Korea. $33 bucks for this bunch.

I bought another pack which was from USA, much bigger, like 1/2 my fist sized, $45 bucks for like 8 big ones...

Which ones do I like more? Well I kinda enjoy both. :D

To flash or not to flash.. that is the question...

yummy bbq pork! :D So vibrant and fresh. :D

Dead piece of pork! a corpse of a dead animal. :D

Can you imagine the above 2 boxes of bbq pork are of the same piece of pork? :D

I have never noticed such a big difference about flashing vs not flashing when taking pictures.

The top picture was taken with flash on my cell phone. Its color was closer to the color I saw with my naked eyes. The bottom picture was without flash and somehow it made the meat looked like a dead corpse.

BTW, these bbq pork were very very scrumptious! I bought it near work. I dare say these are the best bbq pork I have ever had, though I don't eat these often. :D

The texture of the pork was tender yet not too soft. The bbq taste of the pork was just right, not too sweet, not too salty.

I will definitely visit this store again, maybe try out their signature roasted goose next time! :)

Yau Wan Restaurant, Shop 6, 981F, King's Road, Quarry Bay

How to view my travel pictures?

My friends ask me, "where are your pictures from Tokyo?"

:D Well Here it is... :D

You can find the link on the right hand side of this blog. :)

My Royal Garden 我的御花園

Yesterday, on my day off, I decided to get my butt off from my chair and have a relaxing walk down in the Royal garden just at the back of my lodging. :D

I was delighted to find the flowers there were all blooming. I always complain that there is no clean flowers in Hong Kong due to the pollution, but it seems my Royal garden has not failed me.

Below is a video of the graceful movement of the green bug on the flower. :)

Can you find the little snail on the leaf?

東京攻略, Tokyo Invasion, Day 6

Last day, but nonetheless fun!! :D

Our flight was at 6pm-ish, so we had plenty of time in the morning to do our final roaming around. :)

I decided to go to the famous 築地市場 for the morning. It turns out to be an excellent location not to be missed! :) There were so much to see.

This post won't do its justice. :D But here's a brief recap of the market.

We didn't get to go into the inner market which all the insider of the business do their fish auctioning. But don't be mistaken, the outside market is nonetheless exciting! :)

Our first stop, an unagi shop. We had a slice of the cheapest unagi there. Don't be mistaken, however, cheap not necessary = bad. :D We also had a stick of grilled eel liver too! They were so good! :D

Fresh Roe! :D We bought a box for snacks! :D

There were free samples throughout the market! :D We obviously won't miss out on some! It was soooooo good! :D

Look at the big crab!!!! It's like.. HUGE! :D

After walking around there for a bit for almost 2 hours, it's time for lunch! :D We had choices of Ramen or sushi! :D Of course we chose the latter.

This is our Special set of Rice bowl (特別海鮮井). The prawn was as long as a chopstick! The bowl was huge!!! These sashimi were fresh from the fish market! You can't get sushi anywhere fresher than here!!

Mike and I both didn't like sea urchin before as we both had very bad experience in America. However, when we tried the urchin here, it was sweet, fresh, full of texture and creamy!! Its flavor practically exploded on our tongues!!!

I officially removed sea urchin from my black list of 'must avoid' food now!!!

Sadly, at noon, we had to turn back to pick up our luggage from the hotel and head to Narita airport bounded for Hong Kong.

The trip was short but sweet. When I have time, I should write some more post detailing the high points of this journey! :D That will be for future days... :D

東京攻略, Tokyo Invasion, Day 5

Wow! Time sure flies. If Mike didn't remind me that we are flying back to HKG tomorrow, I'd thought we still have one more full day in Japan. So tragic!

Here's a recap of what we did today. I need to write more in depth posts later on. :)

We set out to the anime god's museum, Ghibli Museum in the morning. It's located at Mitaka (三鷹).

We had the funnest time there!! Too bad we couldn't take too many pictures inside because picture taking was prohibited there. But of course, I managed to sneak a few when the staff wasn't looking.

This is pretty much one of the only few picture allowed spots at the museum. :D This is the famous robot of Laputa (天空之城), one of my favorite Ghibli anime productions.

After more than 2 hours wandering around the amusing museum, we decided to hit Ginza! The 'Union Square' of Tokyo!! This building is so fascinating, it's curved!

We even had some chestnut buns there too!! It's the best chestnut bun I have ever tasted. :P

Then, the high point of the evening, maybe even the high point of the whole trip, The Ninja Restaurant!!!

This restaurant warrants a whole individual post later!!! But here is the Ninja star cookie the restaurant is so famous for.

The meal was so amazing!! But Totoro urged us home because we have the fish market to go to early morning tomorrow.

That's it for tonight. :D Tomorrow is the last 1/2 day we have in Tokyo! Fun trip so far.

東京攻略, Tokyo Invasion, Day 4

Today, we visited the Tokyo Tower, 六本木, and Shibuya. :D What a fun day.

Tokyo Tower is fun coz I always love heights! :D

Not much trouble finding the tower after we exited the station. :) It's not that tall really, but it has its charm.

We can see the Mt. Fuji from the tower!!!

Walking through the see-through window. Don't you feel a bit vertigo? :D

After climbing the tower, we were both eager for some munchies. :D Mike treated me to a light sushi late lunch. It was so good. I will have to sort out all these restaurants later.

Can you imagine, real sushi in real Japan!?!?!

Then after lunch, we found 六 本 木 (Roppongi Hill)! We were under the famous space spider sculpture there. :) We went to an art museum there and had a little coffee break before we set out to 渋谷 (Shibuya).

Shibuya is a crazy place!! So many people!! If you think Causeway Bay on a weekend is crazy, Shibuya is 10 time more so!!!

Here Mike was enjoying some 'free hugs'. Me Asian, me no hug, so me didn't get any free hugu desu. :D

As I am not a person to forget about meals... I insisted on having dinner!! :D Shabu Shabu is on the menu tonight! :D I would show you some more picture of our meal later in my album. So stay tuned.

Above is the beef shabu shabu. Beef was tender, veggies were fresh.

Due to misunderstanding, we overestimated the portion. :D So we had another seafood pot we couldn't finish all. It was such a pity, coz the seafood was so good and the miso soup was so rich and it's sooooooo good!!