Magnificent Ting Kau Bridge of Hong Kong and a hotel recommendation 香港汀九橋與酒店建議


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幾年前到香港,為了省錢,入住郊區荃灣的一間酒店(帝景酒店),結果意外發現酒店就在一座宏偉的大橋-「汀九橋」邊。入住之後,我若是待在房間,就會盯著橋看,看車流,看橋的高聳,看廣闊的海景,實在是非常震撼。價格不”帝”,但景觀倒是很棒,如果你下次到香港,不圖方便,而且你熱愛大型工程建築的話,入住這間,保證你可以跟大橋共枕眠了。:)


A few years ago I went to Hong Kong for attending a conference and out of budget concerns I picked a hotel (Royal View Hotel) in a remote western region named Tsuen Wan. To my surprise, this hotel has a best view for observing the magnificent Ting Kau Bridge (see intro here). I did not know of this bridge before and the hotel was right beside the bridge or under it as the bridge surface is so high. My room has an excellent view of almost the whole bridge, so I stared at the bridge all the time if I was in the room. It is simply HUGE! 


If you are a fan of all kinds of big constructions, stay in this hotel and you can sleep with the bridge. The hotel room rate is quite reasonable, currently $850 HKD, a little past $100 USD. The price isn’t royal but the view is. Cheaper than those in core Hong Kong. So I show you the photos of the different faces of Ting Kau Bridge and its nearby area and lastly some shots of the room.


Here is a sketch for civil engineers (source):


http://academic.hep.com.cn/fsce/fileup/2095-2430/FIGURE/1673-7407-5-4-405/hcm0000361348.jpg


Macro Views


http://i.imgur.com/gRfYrDP.jpg


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http://i.imgur.com/qcxkLJS.jpg


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http://i.imgur.com/6RoPhDo.jpg 


Micro Views


http://i.imgur.com/FJ3KOr4.jpg


OMG, so high from the ground !!


http://i.imgur.com/V5EoWCg.jpg


http://i.imgur.com/MK5gsXH.jpg


http://i.imgur.com/eQpOG9H.jpg


See how small the DOUBLE-DECKER bus is !?


http://i.imgur.com/TooINrW.jpg


http://i.imgur.com/oefC4mq.jpg 


A Night View


http://i.imgur.com/LsKbIpY.jpg


The hotel and the room


Their have shuttle bus services to and from the subway station.


http://i.imgur.com/eCuswQB.jpg


http://i.imgur.com/tetUeYK.jpg


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http://i.imgur.com/r9Yw09p.jpg


Sleep with the Bridge


http://i.imgur.com/4zpFbGJ.jpg




Map of the hotel and the bridge


http://i.imgur.com/HSOJpWC.png 





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casual photos from the hustle and bustle daily life


Today is a really good day in Taipei. All sunny and the temperature rises in this almost winter season. I took my son out to run some errants and took several photos en route. When the sun light is strong, my lousy dumb phone can actually produce some good shots. Of course, not without the mind of a photographer behind the tiny phone lens… :) 


Put them into three themes to look like something formal. Hope you enjoy some of them. Enjoy the rest of your weekend!


                                     Corners of the Alley


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                                             Reflections    :)


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                                           Construction


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即將登場 - 致未來 introducing my coming #dearfuture writings


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在這短短一年之間,受到許多許多科技新發展的不斷衝擊

機器人,AI,物聯網,VR/AR,大數據,以及更多 …


其中,區塊鏈後發先至,最晚了解它,卻是衝擊最大,最為震撼的,

尤其,是加入了Steemit之後 …

至今已經超過五個月,在這裡接觸世界的前端,當然還有,一點點的玩耍


也才不久之前,各種新科技的訊息,交織,重組,再生,

不斷衝擊我容量有限的腦子常常我在生活的空隙裡,

腦中不斷飛速思考,元神飛到2050

但走在2016的當下,卻看似一個嗑藥的夢遊囈語者,

眼神呆滯地走在人群裡


有時我常常感到,我與身邊的路人,活在不同時空之中

不知為何,宇宙玄幻力量,讓平行時空交錯發生

不過,我看得到他們,他們卻都不看我

我若開口,他們就會用奇怪的眼神看我,張開口說不說話,眼神十分困惑

彷彿我是來自外星的生物,口中發出無意義的高頻刺耳聲響


或許此刻其實我正在一個精神病院的單人房,

穿著白色的束縛衣綁在床上,只有大腦還在運作

但無所謂,人類從來無法證明桶中之腦不存在

你也在桶子裡啊,笑我這瘋人院裡的,有道理嗎?


所以,為了開啟時空對話,為了讓我出院,為了讓他們離桶

受 @lemooljiang 時代的歌的啟發

決定繼續在這裡 實驗書寫

開啟新的系列文章 – 致未來

當然也要自創tag,#dearfuture

讓未來與過去對話,讓人文與科技對話

讓左腦與右腦,舊腦與新腦,古人與來人,逝者與來者,對話


敬請,不要期待。




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A little Santa Power bestowed on me by dear @wang and paying forward 施展王的聖誕小魔法


It is close to the wonderful Christmas time. Many posts have been surrounding this seasonal theme (like @good-karma ‘s Steem Advent Calendar 2016). I have a small magic experience to share with you too!


@wang is a famous user here, or at least used to be famous for welcoming newbie with automatic comment. I received a lot of support from him (I suppose it’s a him). For that I was grateful to write a Dear Wang Letter. For all these days, he is still with me and upvoting me that I almost forget about his existence. Lately, probably since one week ago, I surprisingly found out that @wang is following me upvoting! There might be some criteria to screen but mostly he follows my voting if he hasn’t cast the vote on that post and even to comments! (but smartly reduce to 1%). I have seen this before - he follows @sweetsssj too (following her makes more sense, huh? lol).


http://i.imgur.com/RMk2wZT.jpg

photo credit: pixabay


My Little Santa Power


I was excited because I cannot recall the last time when my vote can make a difference (i.e. bringing $0.00 to $0.01) … probably when Steem price is high enough with my SP only 2-3k. I love the feeling of making a difference because I have been there and really understand the feeling of seeing a lot of $0.00 popping out again and again (hence I keep proposing to extend payout shown to the 3rd decimal place and glad that busy will adopt this advice, from many).


So, I was given this magical Santa Power (SP) and I am always in the mood of finding deserving posts/comments to increase the number just a little bit (when they have already some amount, my power is larger)! But of course I did not squander it as I might lose it shall wang decide not to follow me. 


Yesterday I decided to make this post to feel a little bit more towards Christmas. So I browsed through new posts after 30 minutes without much payout for a lucky (from my perspective) receiver. I stop at @pilot ‘s snowy mountain post


http://i.imgur.com/fwIrnO8.png


It was a $0.01 and 17 votes post with a perfect theme - where else could Santa be? So I did my work to prepare the screenshots and all. And then … wave my magic Santa wand and vote! Viola!! I am the 18th voter, see the processing circle?


http://i.imgur.com/AwszndH.png


See how it turned 19 as @wang joined and made it $0.05. 5 times magic!! :)


http://i.imgur.com/u6rX4v4.png


One thing I also noticed along the way is that although @wang ‘follows’ me but his voting record in steemd always shows like I am following him … I really don’t mind at all! I am just so curious how he pulls it off. Maybe he is Santa on Steemit!? That’s just fun to share … 


http://i.imgur.com/36CIMd2.png


Then I continue to reward the most engaging comment by @ourlifestory and gave out $0.01 for his passionate comment! :)


http://i.imgur.com/1gWxUgx.png


Then nothing else I could do except enjoying my false sense of good deeds. Next morning (today) when I checked again and found out that the real Santas had come for @pilot ! And $0.05 became $15 and 90 votes!!


http://i.imgur.com/bXHpO2w.png


The real Santas being @berniesanders @nextgencrypto … including @wang of course, I can’t even see my name up there… What a big group of Steemit Santas!! Hoooo Hoooo Hoooo !! 


http://i.imgur.com/e3l64e5.png


Oh, of course, that means me and @wang both received good curation income (3 and 0.3 SP respectively). :)


You still have a few hours left to enter this trail of Santas! Check @pilot ‘s beautiful snow photos! Hear the jingle bells?


Fresh Powder on Mt. Hood Today


Pay It Forward to Busy


Receiving income from this post feels a little bit weird if you don’t somehow PAY IT FORWARD!! As I am craving for @busy.org ‘s Busy Donor Badge and I really support what they are doing there. I decide to donate all liquid income from this post to support them and make it to $20SBD (so I can get Bronze at least) if the amount is not enough. 


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親愛的CN區朋友,這篇談的是我如何從過去受到 @wang 的支持點讚,至今王的愛仍在,但已經快忘了它的存在。上周發現王開始跟著我點讚,甚至連comment都跟,這讓我非常興奮,因為我好久好久沒有「改變」的能力了!(把0.00變成至少0.01) 有了王跟著我,我點評論至少0.01,點帖至少0.04-0.05,如果已經有些金額,那效果更大!我很高興地到處找被忽略的帖來點,也不多浪費,以免王變心,哈哈!


昨天找到 @pilot 的雪山風景照,只有0.01,心想就是他了,聖誕老人嘛,當然要支持雪景美照啊!所以我們把它變成0.05,自己很高興,那也就夠了。沒想到今天去看,以bernie為首的一群「聖誕大鯨主」把那篇提升到$15了!真的是聖誕魔力降臨啊!雖然跟我們不必然有直接關係,但是這故事非常聖誕,不是嗎?


所以我就想把這篇的作者收入,全部貢獻給 busy 計畫,這是我很支持的一個方案,今天才公布捐贈者的未來可以在busy系統裡配戴徽章(鑽石/白金/金/銀/銅不同等級),我心想應該弄一枚來吧,但是最低的銅章也要捐贈(不是投資喔) $20 SBD,所以後來就想到結合這兩件事,「把愛傳出去」(PayItForward),但我可能會自己掏錢補足差額吧,20塊太難了,再請多多支持喔!先預祝大家聖誕快樂啦!:)


Thank you all for your support!!

Anyone can be a Santa if you want! May the SP (Santa Power) be with you!! 



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Too hot to say no ... 1010 Hunan Cuisine in Taipei


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I hope this dish has got your attention and aroused your appetite. Wanna know more? Or wanna try it? Come with me… 


1010 Hunan Cuisine is one of our favorite restaurants in town. Hunan cuisine, or aka Xiang cuisine, is one of China’s famous eight regional cuisines - famous for its hot spicy flavor, fresh aroma and deep color. This chain restaurant is quite young and hence looks fashionable and trendy, but their food is no less delicious at all! The name of the restaurant contains “1010“. Anything to do with digital? It turns out yes! They said that 1010 represents delicious molecules and also it means “ten complete and ten perfect” in Chinese saying which means perfect in every way. Aren’t they!? 


These photos were taken when we had a dinner in one of their stores in September. Yeah, I save it until today to share with you as I miss it so much. I will show you what dishes we ordered and all their photos but not flavors, sorry! You have to come to Taipei (or you can go to Hunan province too, they have authentic Hunan dishes for sure!). But let’s first introduce the almighty FISHHEAD of our first picture! So colorful, so red and green … so yummy! that’s our  #1 Steamed fish head with red & green minced peppers! They serve this dish with #2 handmade fish noddles on the side which you can add them into the fish head dish like this … oh,… great fish noddles now… 


http://i.imgur.com/p4jlRPe.jpg


Before we continue serving remaining great dishes. Let’s start over and do it formally. :)

Please have a look at the menu first, dear guests! It is cute and colorful!


http://i.imgur.com/oYOPVMm.png


Then, your dinner tonight has been arranged. Check the list here and all the prices (in TWD, roughly 33 to 1).



http://i.imgur.com/TsiSg2v.jpg

1. 1/2 Steamed fish head with red & green minced peppers  

2. Handmade fish noddles

3. Preserved tofu & pork intestine hot pot  

4. Dong-An chicken

5. Sauteed cabbage hunan style

6. Fairy rice pot

7. Fresh sugar cane juice

8. Warm chestnut purée soup with longan fruit


Okay then, let the feast begin!!


Next one is also a very very good spicy cuisine … serving #3 Preserved tofu & pork intestine hot pot!


http://i.imgur.com/Ze3wWn6.jpg


These two spicy brothers sitting together …


http://i.imgur.com/XHdWeJM.jpg


Are we missing something? Yeah, where are the rices!? We need rice to go with all these red monsters! hence the #6 Fairy rice pot. Yummy rice cooked in pots. You definitely need a lot of them.


http://i.imgur.com/q7eKcec.jpg


They offer not just spicy dishes okay? As delicious are #4 Dong-An chicken, a little bit sour with shredded ginger to compliment the other two hot dishes. Perfect! and #5 Sauteed cabbage hunan style. Always have vegetables. :)


http://i.imgur.com/sVsXrfZ.jpg


http://i.imgur.com/JhmD85j.jpg



Trust me, you definitely need a cold drink to quench your thirsty. Here we go. Serving #7 Fresh sugar cane juice


http://i.imgur.com/hUEQtBv.jpg

Always a pleasure to finish with a desert. Same here. Now serving #8 Warm chestnut purée soup with longan fruit.


http://i.imgur.com/dsx6ZN6.jpg


Now you are all satisfied… time to look around the place and digest.


http://i.imgur.com/loLxywC.jpg



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If you think we two can eat all these wonderful dishes, yeah we wish, but couldn’t. Besides, bring home the leftover spicy fish head and you get to enjoy this fantastic dish again - just heat it up and add some fresh vegetables and it smells like a whole new delicious dish again!! See how they were properly packed.


http://i.imgur.com/pxBe1aF.jpg


[CN version]


大家好!這次帶大家到台北我們最愛的湘菜餐廳「1010湘」來美食導覽一番。大家對於這些菜可能都太熟悉了,我就不像對老外那樣一一介紹了,剁椒魚頭、肥腸干鍋、東安仔雞… 實在要點菜都很難啊!這家餐廳是比較新的,但是這幾年也擴展得很快,估計是裝潢新穎、菜既保留湘菜美味又經過對台灣人口味調整,價格也算合理,自然生意蒸蒸日上了。這些辣菜打包回家,加熱後再加些青菜、麵條等進去,就像是一道新的菜,我們連吃了好幾餐都不厭煩啊!嗯,該找時間再去一趟了!:)


Hope you enjoy this HOT tour! See you next time!!


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隨筆詩 — 島嶼月夜 Poem - An Island Night


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在那個遙遠年代的盛夏,我們曾經如此年輕

在那個異國島嶼的沙灘,現在依然無比遙遠


當年一群人青春洋溢的歐洲長征冒險至今感覺彷如昨日

唯獨那個地中海邊的夜晚的妳我似乎仍停留在那個時空


那天就像之前每一天一樣精彩興奮歡樂與疲累

我們留宿於藍色海洋旁白色沙灘邊的一間小旅店

他們止不住遊玩的雀躍決定到月光下以鬼故事獻祭海神

在好幾輪的恐懼後妳示意我一起去踏浪說話


我還記得月光很美,海浪輕柔撲腳,似乎一切浪漫的元素都已齊備 …

除了,我的渾然未覺,心裡想著,妳不知道是想跟我說,誰跟誰的八卦?


而妳卻補上了除了我以外的最後一個浪漫元素,向我表白

我的腦中一片空白沒有狂喜,沒有悸動,沒有浪漫,沒有竊喜

心裡第一個念頭是,為什麼我們要離開那個海神獻典的歡樂現場?

而我,又要怎麼避免失去妳,這麼一個難得的朋友?


如果我是觀眾,一定對於這個傻男孩感到扼腕,為什麼偏偏不成就一個美好的浪漫夜晚?

女孩坦率,聰明而可愛,倆人既有友誼又興趣相投,一切一切都指向,yes I do


那也是我人生的重要一幕

我自此學會,愛情不是理性的,沒有一定誰跟誰就一定能在一起這種必然

我很喜歡妳,喜歡鬧妳,跟妳說話

妳總以一種我可以理解而你也理解我的理解的懶得理你的姿態對我,這是我們的相處模式

但我卻從未意識到,交往是我們之間友誼的一個可能性


回到那遙遠的異國夜晚

我笨拙地窮盡我能想到的所有話語告訴你我目前不適合開展一段新的情感

你的靜默與自嘲讓我幾乎想哭

我們草草結束了這一段踏浪回到旅店裡各自療傷

那一夜 我輾轉難眠


那時已經是我們學校生活的末期

旅行結束後不久大家順理成章地離開校園

然後順勢失去聯絡


再久一點關於人生各式固定戲碼套入那些曾經年輕的我們

留學 工作 結婚 生子 發財 生病 親人離開 不就這些

但我知道而且我也知道你知道如果我們沒有處理它

我們終將始終帶著這個遙遠的事件老去


後來臉書粗暴地介入很多人未及設防的人際關係網

我們未曾過多表示地就不得不成為臉書相連的好友

於是想像中我們都可以透過虛擬世界中的文字與圖像默默關心了多年前的老友


又是一個夜晚

在與兒子奮戰多時終於讓他滿意地倒下之後

我收到妳臉書的訊息 自我們成為臉友以來的第一次

沒有意外是個頗長的訊息


妳說正在整理舊信件發現好幾封當年未寄出的 給我的詩

於是想或許該是時候透過網路問候我是否安好

這次我已不再是那地中海沙灘上的呆頭少年

但對於我倆友情的感受卻一如當年再加一絲懷舊

或許這將是我這輩子最高興收過的臉書訊息


我好整以瑕地用兒子當了藉口說我改天再好好回

於是我們舉重若輕地結束這十多年來的第一次接觸


後來回些什麼其實已經不重要

重要的是我們應該都能夠放下了

放下那遙遠的年代裡那遙遠的島嶼夜晚

釋放那兩顆年輕敏感的心靈

把我們各自那隱晦缺角的部分悄悄填起


明天起我們都將會是


更圓滿的人




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