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						Aug 31 - How to get 
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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 
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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. 
				
	
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	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: 
					
	
	
				
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	How to get these speeds on your home PC/Mac/laptop without spending a single 
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	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. 
				
	
	
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				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 
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	Lamma 
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	Lamma 
	Spotlights of the Week, Aug 11, '15: 
					
						
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							 PHOTO  | 
							
							 
							Lammapocalypse  | 
							
							 by 
							Igor Nrznk  | 
						 
						
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							 VIDEO  | 
							
							 
							Rat Snake in the Garden  | 
							
							 by 
							Neil Fifer  | 
						 
						
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							PERSON  | 
							
							 Nick 
							the Bookman  | 
							
							 by 
							Stefano Tordiglione  | 
						 
						
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							WILDLIFE  | 
							
							 
							... and here is the Alien  | 
							
							 by 
							Rambler  | 
						 
						
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							 BIRD  | 
							
							 
							Sunbird  | 
							
							 by 
							Neil Fifer  | 
						 
						
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							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: 
				
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				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..." 
				
	
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	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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