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Aug 31 - How to get
these speeds on your home (office) PC/Mac/laptop...
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Aug 30 - YSW Ferry Pier
and Bike Park these days. So clean & orderly for now, a
quite uncommon sight on Lamma.
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Aug 27 - Above Lamma,
Life & Scenes, Tree Sap, Bulbul, Turtlesss.
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Aug 26 - How to get
these speeds on your home PC/Mac/laptop without spending
a single extra dollar?
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Aug 25 - The discussion
about the YSW Bike Park is still hot and bubbling away.
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Aug 24 - What could it
be? No, it's not a kitchen implement! No manual or
instructions were included in the box.
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Aug 19 - "Steve, the
Moving Guy + a team of 4 strong & smiling assistants
immediately took charge."
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Aug 18 - Lamma
Spotlights of the Week, Aug 18, '15:
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Aug 13 - A few photos
of the pier clearance on 15/08/13.
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Aug 11 - Lamma
Spotlights of the Week, Aug 11, '15:
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Aug 10 - The
long-expected clearance of the YSW ferry pier: this Thu
10:30am! Safe your bikes and belongings!
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Aug 9 - ...brought to
you by the experienced people behind the YSW-Pak Kok-Aberdeen
ferry.
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Aug 6 - Some South
Lamma thoughts on the pending re-launch of The Baroque
on Lamma project.
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Aug 1 - That's the
verbatim reply I got in a Causeway Bay shop for AV
nerds.
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How to get these speeds on your home (office) PC/Mac/laptop during the day,
without setting up any hardware or spending a single extra dollar?
Yes, it's possible.
Read more...
YSW Ferry Pier and Bike Park these days. So clean & orderly for now, a quite
uncommon sight on Lamma. How long will it last? Where have all the
confiscated bikes/trolleys from the pier gone? Up to just below the
windturbine, locked up:
Lamma
Spotlights of the Week, Aug 27, '15:
Send me YOUR Spotlights!
How to get these speeds on your home PC/Mac/laptop without spending a single
extra dollar?
Read more...
The discussion about the YSW Bike Park is still hot and bubbling away with
undiminished fervour. The heated discussions have expanded now into
other areas of local concern.
Should we have a LEEP, or just a LEP? On an island with more than
67 nationalities (last count a few weeks ago), not only most expats
share environmental concerns, but the locals and indigenous Lammaites as
well.
Join the LEEP discussion in
one of the two major
Lamma Island Residents FB groups.
(The other, new, public, smaller, but totally spam-free group is
Lamma
Island Hong Kong. I help to admin it, with similar rules to our
13-year old, spam-free, free-speech
Lamma forum, e.g. No Personal Attacks!)
I bought something techie in Wanchai the other day. Unboxing it in my home
office, I
found this mysterious, intriguing device. What could it be? No, it's not a
kitchen implement! No manual or instructions
were included in the box.
Take a good guess and then
click here.
A
few words about the company that moved us from YSW to Pak Kok Village 2
years ago, by sampan like Stephen below. Steve, captain of Trade Winds, and
his company have been our goto movers for years. He's even become a major,
long-time main advertiser after our great experiences. Trade Winds has
become a major mover for Lammaites, moving to/from Lamma to/from almost
anywhere in world, handling all aspects.
The first moves he did for us around YSW were partially done by unicycle!
He's a former double silver medalist in the Unicon X games in Beijing and has
performed in numerous venues around HK. But don't worry, he's usually using
trolleys, VVs, boats and sampans for his Lamma moves these days!
Trade Winds comes highly recommended on Facebook by his Lamma clients, after
moving quite a number of my old and new neighbours. Let's hear from one of
them, earlier this year:
Stephen Bolton - Senior English Instructor at City U writes:
"They said they'd be there at 9:30, so naturally I thought that meant
11:00 Lamma Time. When my doorbell rang at 9:30, I was both shocked and
undressed!
Steve, the Moving Guy + a team of 4 strong &
smiling assistants immediately took charge, and my stuff was
wrapped and in boxes more efficiently and tidily than I had
managed to acquire it. Then I left Trade Winds at my house to
load their truck while I went off to my storage unit to pick up
a few extra boxes to include on the voyage.
I
phoned Steve from the storage place in Chai Wan to ask where he
was and he replied that he was already in Aberdeen with sampans
loaded & that he was just waiting for me to arrive! I was amazed
& I told him so. Steve replied, "What did I tell you? When
you work with Trade Winds, shit gets DONE!"
The nearly-blind sampan lady and her
navigator son, a spry 60 years old, managed the choppy waters
between Aberdeen and Yung Shue Wan like the professionals they
are, while Steve regaled me with stories of tycoon greed and fed
me hamburgers.
Hoisting the sofa must
have
been hellish, but was fun to watch.
I never thought moving could be fun - it's
famously as stressful as the death of a loved one - but this was
a good day. Thanks, Team Trade Winds for making it so!
And maybe this, because it tickles me: My
landlord, Lamma's famous Mr Chow (who may be the uncle of
Lamma's even more famous Chow Yun Fat), commented, 'Wah! You
plenty fyoonituture! Moving so fast! Me always thinking!'
Don't Worry, Mr. Chow .... I've got the
Trade Winds at my back!! So No Worries!!"
(Photos by Trade
Winds)
Lamma
Spotlights of the Week, Aug 18, '15:
Send me YOUR Spotlights!
Lamma
Spotlights of the Week, Aug 11, '15:
PHOTO |
Lammapocalypse |
by
Igor Nrznk |
VIDEO |
Rat Snake in the Garden |
by
Neil Fifer |
PERSON |
Nick
the Bookman |
by
Stefano Tordiglione |
WILDLIFE |
... and here is the Alien |
by
Rambler |
BIRD |
Sunbird |
by
Neil Fifer |
ARTWORK |
Pink Trees of YSW |
by
41hjf |
Our long-running Lamma Spotlights have two new categories: Person and
Bird of the Week!
Send me YOUR Spotlights!
The long-expected clearance of the YSW ferry
pier:
this Thu 10:30am!
Safe your bikes and belongings as there's no (official) way
of getting them back afterwards.
My photo above - YSW Bike Park just a few days
before the opening - has made the rounds of quite a wide variety
of Chin. online and offline media now, all without giving me any
credits. The new
HK Free Press was the only media who even bothered to
ask for permission, so they get a free story link here.
For research and comparison reasons, I shot
another picture of the Cheung Chau ferry pier bike parking
yesterday. They basically declared much of the entire
harbourfront an official "bike park", putting in simply a few,
cheap hoops and signs encouraging bike parking! It seems to be
working fine with several times more bikes than YSW!?
Brand-new Aberdeen-Cheung Chau ferry route,
brought to you by the experienced people behind the YSW-Pak Kok-Aberdeen
ferry, first sail on Saturday, 8/8/2015.
I've been visiting Cheung Chau on this new route the
next day, today, a Sunday morning, with special focus on bike
parking at another Outlying Island ferry pier.
P.S. A few more
pictures from "Tsui Wah 32" who actually took the maiden ferry
on Sat, 8/8, at 7:15am:
HK-iTalk
Some South Lamma thoughts on the re-launch of The Baroque on
Lamma
project, compiled by Southern Lammaite Megaen:
"As most readers of Lamma-zine know by now, the developers
who were thwarted just three and a half years ago in getting their
multi-billion dollar luxury plans off the ground are at it
again..."
Read more...
That's the verbatim reply I got in a Causeway Bay shop for AV nerds, asking
if their technician would help installing/configuring it (see above) on
Lamma. Despite their $500/half hour charges, they turned me down outright!
Too far, too remote!
We were looking to replace our ancient AV Receiver (2000), the centerpiece
of all our home audio/video needs. After some very knowledgeable and honest
consultations ("The cheaper one is good enough for all your needs!") from
several older, experienced sales guys, we got an Onkyo TX-NR646, with a nice
discount. Will it last for almost 15 years, like the last Onkyo?
Give me a few hours (or days, or weeks) trying to configure and optimise
many of the connections above; not a trivial task even for a former regional
IT/telecom manager. Will I need to invite one of the many Lamma techies for
dinner? ;~}
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