每每从香港仔隧道回家，我都一定会路过跑马地天主教坟场。这是香港历史最悠久的天主教坟场，内有2万3千个坟墓。在这坟场外有一道对联。上面写着：

今夕吾軀歸故土‧他朝君體也相同。


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To commemorate her birthday , actress/vocalist, Julie Andrews made a special appearance at

Manhattan's Radio City Music Hall for the benefit of the AARP.

One of the musical numbers she performed was 'My Favorite Things' from the legendary

movie 'Sound Of Music'. Here are the lyrics she used:

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Twin Peaks -- a pair of hills rising in the verdant greenery of Tai Tam Country Park, The Twins (Ma Kong Shan) have garnered for themselves a formidable reputation, intimidating many a hiker and putting off numerous others.   Lying along Wilson Trail Stage 1, the hike over The Twins has earned a certain notoriety, being consistently described as " ( Read more... )

I did a morning hike with San yesterday, walking up the steep Wan Chai Gap to Stubbs Road, then a leisurely stroll to the Aberdeen Country Trail, passing both Aberdeen lower and upper reservoir and finished it off with a local breakfast of Congee and cheong fun at the Aberdeen town Centre. We even managed to do some marketing at Aberdeen market. ( Read more... )

One of the more challanging hikes in Hong Kong is this Pat Sin Leng (八仙嶺）which literally means "Ridge of the Eight Immortals".  Traversing eight mountain peaks each named after a different Immortal in ancient Chinese mythology （八仙过海）, it is a hike on storied soil.  Since late last year, especially after Aie Li conquered this hike together with the ( Read more... )

Heard this the other day and I don't wanna forget.

痴線蜘蛛啲蜘蛛絲黐住枝樹枝. 😜

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Our first day in Vancouver and my original plan was just to visit Stanley Park and chill for the rest of the day.

Turned out I saw much more than I had planned for, thanks to my super driver and energetic Husband. We set off for Stanley Park around 9:30 a.m. and were again pleasantly surprised by how neat and livable Vancouver city is. There were so ( Read more... )

And so our year end holiday started with a 12 hour flight, our first time taking Air Canada, and we landed in Vancouver with a difference of -20 deg from where we came from.

The flight was full but nonetheless very smooth. We love the touch screen TV and 2 meals with a snack in between was provided.

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Today was the perfect weather for hiking, cool and clear!  We met at 8:45 a.m. and reached the starting point of the trail around 9:30 a.m.

The starting point is the junction of Clearwater Bay and Sheung Sze Wan Road.


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Today I went to Shenzhen with Simon and Thelmis and their friend Catalina for furniture shopping. I had previously heard of people who went furniture hunting at Shenzhen but never knew where, so I was curious to find out. Simon drove all of us to Sheung Shui, parked the car there and we took the MTR to Luo Hu, just one stop away. There was no queue ( Read more... )