Little Paris

Monday, 26 February 2007

Lunar New Year Trip (2)

There is an vegetarian restaurant inside the Po Lin Temple. Interesting thing was there were 2 types of tickets. There were many people there having kind of oily vegetarian food!

Instead we had a break at the tea house in the Ngong Ping Village. They do serve large varieties of tea but the food selection is quite limited! Not really recommend to go there again!

We ordered freshly baked wife cake together with the tea.

A kind of Yellow Tea called Huoshan Hung Ya (tastes lightly lighter than Green Tea).

Happy Journey and a very good start of the new year!!

Sunday, 25 February 2007

Lunar New Year Holiday Trip (1)

After having a long break during Lunar New Year, it's time to write something about the holiday before I forget them!

We wanted to have some fun this year instead of doing the "Bai Lin" activities, so we headed to the Lautau Island to say hello to Buddha!

We had complimentary tickets from the hotel package bought with Novotel Hotel

I heard a gentleman said he started queuing around 11:30am when we were in the same Skyrail (that meant we saved about 3 hours waiting in the queue).

2:00pm Long queue indeed

2:30pm Beautiful Scenery

2:45 Some people walked up the hill! What an amazing journey!!

3:10pm Hey! Almost there!! It was very hot!

Friday, 16 February 2007

衣車駕到

小時候的家政功課是媽咪的功課。

從未想過一台衣車會在屋內出現。為了歡迎這個新成員，我把自己的Office從新整理一番。

這部衣車得來不易,是自己從九龍城的二手店搬回來的。一來新的衣車要二千幾，二來怕自己只是三分鐘熱度。（希望不是！）

我同老闆講我一定要買有說明書的，因為我連穿針都不懂。

最後他即場教我最基本的skills，就是這樣我過了一個很充實的下午！！

Wednesday, 24 January 2007

英國家後花園

BEFORE

AFTER

從討厭到迷上園藝只是短短幾年的事, 剛搬到舊居時,看到一個面積有半個籃球場大的花園(其實是一個廢墟)向我揮手時,我一點興奮都沒有.

由於不能支付昂貴的費用,只好請在讀園藝設計的日本朋友為我們設計一個容易打理的花園. 於是我們四人(日本朋友, 我, V先生和另一位朋友)花了整個復活節假期打造了一個簡單又別緻的花園. 在完成整個過程後,有以下的總結:

1. 第一次見到及殺左好多好蚯蚓 (在除草時不小心!)

2. 第一次鋪石仔路 (好似户外的修路工人)

3. 第一次種樹

4. 第一次wear boots for gardener (好重,因為有鐵保護雙腳)

5. 每個星期日要去gardening centre 入貨和除草 (星期一返工腰酸背痛)

6. 下次租/買屋一定要個小花園

我遲些會post D 相上blog.

上天可能知道我一個人照顧半個籃球場實在有點力不從心, 大發慈悲地把我從英國帶回香港,要我照顧一個小小的露台.

續……

Tuesday, 2 January 2007

除夕夜到了黃金海岸和朋友燒烤兼慶祝生日. 今年會不會是最後一年在香港倒數呢 ?

五年前的除夕夜和同學在倫敦的大笨鐘下倒數, 當日的混亂場面今日還歷歷在目. 為什麼英國人這麼的愛飲酒? 可能在酒精的濃度高得無法再高之下, 他們才能開懷大笑? 說真的, 真的不容易在英國找到常掛笑臉的人, 是因為天氣的問題? 還是別有原因? 上月在無上網無英文電視看的意大利行中看了一本令人發笑的書. 若你曾在Burberry 之國居住或者是想對林佰特有更多的了解. 試試在書店或網上找找這本書. 書名叫 “Watching the English”