craving for shawarma. Shawarma Palace on Rideau. in case u're in ottawa, go grab a big combo plate and a chicken sandwich now. ask the guy for extra garlic sauce. u'll love it.

one of my colleagues worked at his relatives' shawarma restaurant. he told me the equipments are very expensive. i suggest him to go to shenzhen and take a look. they do make it there for a much cheaper price. maybe i can open one in hk in the future? just to satisfy my own craving? then i may need to hire some x for their original taste. hohoh.... that's a plan!



a woman putting her bare foot on a bus seat. a very common view u can see in hk. when u look at them, what will they do? they either look away and continue what they're doing as if nothing's wrong, or they'd swear at u. with a very outside chance, they'd back off and right their wrongs. further evidence is this kid who apparently is a hong kong baptist university student.
welcome to hk. this is one of the many welcome signs that hk is now officially part of mainland china where many of her citizens are not afraid to show off their infamous qualities. rejoice.


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Originally uploaded by hoyanov.
this' taken while waiting for the cable car on powell and market. $5 for each trip which lasts about 15 mins. they sure know how to make money. but the experience is unparalleled.. sort of.
hey kid, i have to wait until 28 to get on the cable car for the first time. even many locals never tried it. consider yourself lucky.

so the day has come. thierry henry calls it the time and leave for barca. heartbreaking. but in my opinion the worst is yet to come. that will be next summer when the boss also leave arsenal. i think that will be catastrophic.
anyhow, ppl come and go.

today i went to shenzhen with my parents for lunch with a family friend. after lunch we went to this gigantic book store next to the shenzhen library. there are wide range of topics there and the selection is hugh. the prices are reasonable, too. the store is very crowded as u can see ppl at every corner sitting on the ground and read.
that reminded me of the internet censorship in china.
the government filters out many websites and internet traffics that contain sensitive materials which may undermine its control, at the same time they allows accessibility of the remaining traffics to create a false sense among the ppl that they have seen the whole of the internet. added to the inability to doubt beyond what they can see, the majority of the mainland chinese are uninformed. i'm sickened by the fact that even the young generation, who are supposed to be well educated, still blindly support their government, or rather, the communist party's control over china.
it's common knowledge that china is the uprising economy, but really ppl, dont put your bet on yet.


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Originally uploaded by hoyanov.
in all fairness, i should also include this pic of don in steps of rome. didn't know don is good looking until this day. it's ok. any fortune teller'd agree that don will live a long life so he's still got a long while to enjoy his new handsome boy title.

tonight i went to the first MYOB class. the software is quite easy to use, but the problem is, i don't have the basic knowledge behind all those credit debit stuffs. loletta'd be laughing by now. "told you so!"
maybe i should go back to school and get my second degree.... accounting? hm... no way.

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Originally uploaded by hoyanov.
this picture was taken on top of a mountain in Banff, Alberta. it was early spring and the mountain was covered with snow. the temperature was about -15C and what do they advertise over there? drumstick..
maybe they can consider advertising ramens like those red hot spicy korean ones. or anything warm.

so today the weather forcast in hk is.. in one word, hot. and what am i going to do? let's go out for a walk, sweat, then go to the pool. don't worry i'll take a wash first b4 i jump into the pool. but i know most ppl dont. how i know? coz recently the pool water is a little salty, and i'm lucky if that's only sweat....


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Originally uploaded by Paleontour.
the picture says it all. against censorship on flickr.
in case u're not aware, flickr is a subsidiary of yahoo. it's meant to provide a photo storing and sharing community for free or a small fee. but like its mother company, flickr imposes self-censorship which deletes many of the users' photo due to various reasons. another issue is the SafeSearch feature. for more details, google flickr censorship or flickr safesearch.
flickr used to be behind its users. not any more. and i just paid for a pro account not long ago....


 

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