Archive for August, 2008
Olympic Piazza
Sunday, August 17th, 2008
Macau
Sunday, August 17th, 2008
Stanley Market and Repulse Bay
Sunday, August 17th, 2008
Victoria Peak
Tuesday, August 12th, 2008More roasted goose! Views from Victoria Peak at night are stunning. I don’t know who Kelly Chen is, but they’ve got a Madame Tussauds wax figure of her here.
Victoria Peak
Tuesday, August 12th, 2008Stellar views from Victoria Peak.
Buddha
Tuesday, August 12th, 2008Evidently Pizza Hut is considered almost like fine dining here. The menus have lamb chops, mussels, and prosciutto pizza! If you haven’t noticed, there are people everywhere in the city.
Typhoon
Wednesday, August 6th, 2008Today was spent mostly indoors as all the local shops were closed due to a level 8 typhoon headed toward Hong Kong. The streets are never this empty, even at 3am. I did manage to find a wifi hotspot by leaning my laptop against the window…
Hong Kong pt2
Tuesday, August 5th, 2008Today was our first opportunity to visit the datacenter (or datacentre). It’s in a pretty industrial part of town as you can probably tell from the pics below, and there’s a few local restaurants that you probably don’t want to look in the kitchen. Despite that, the food is still great. The locals here use bamboo scaffolding, even on really tall skyscrapers which is pretty neat stuff.
