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Thanks! Will give that website a look (but NOT Taobao).

I'm not planning to be away for THAT long! 😅

I will be taking a social media break soon. Plan to be back before too long though. In the meantime, hope you folks will have TLs that won't be all negative and depressing!

My wish on his birthday is that he will live a good, long life and will be free for the bulk of it. 🙏

The (funny -- peculiar, maybe also haha) thing is that I love rollercoasters but this ride scares me more... probably because I imagine one spends a longer time at a high height on it than rollercoasters (which go much faster)! 😅

This is a key difference between Hong Kong and mainland China ... for now. The question is for how much longer, because I do think this is the future of religion in Hong Kong, eventually. GovHK likes to say freedom of religion is guaranteed in HK. Yeah, well, it's "guaranteed" in the mainland too.

I think you're thinking of the Naruto Whirlpools? Same sea but different bridge. (I think that one's the Onaruto Bridge, and it's to the east of the Seto Ohashi.)

Funassyi and cameraman on a scary looking (especially if you're an acrophobe!) amusement park ride on Washuzan, Okayama Prefecture, that looks out to the Seto Naikai (Seto Inland Sea), Seto Ohashi (Great Seto Bridge) and nearby islands.

Funassyi has said that it no longer accepts crazy TV jobs (that had it running from explosions, being parachuted from a plane, going deep-sea diving, etc.) but that doesn't mean it doesn't indulge in some pretty hair-raising activities from time to time still. E.g., 👇 from this past weekend.😅

Joshua Wong is 29 years old now, and still behind bars in Hong Kong.

Out of curiosity, had this person you disagreed ever seen Rothko works "in the flesh" rather than just in print, etc.? There are some art works that I do think are best appreciated in their original form/up close, where you can really behold their textures/size/etc.

Gui Minhai (aka Michael Gui) is one of five men associated with Hong Kong's Causeway Bay Books (which sold books on Chinese politics and politicians that were not available in mainland China) who were abducted by the Chinese authorities in late 2015. A Swedish citizen, he was abducted in Thailand.

"Do as I say, not as I do".

As in... Hong Kong is still more international/cosmopolitan than other Chinese cities.

1) 35% is not a small percentage;

2) Not thinking immigration is an important issue can be apathy/people not feeling strongly either way about it.

Economic boycotts can be a powerful thing if enough people take part.

Something I learnt from the Anti-Apartheid Movement, which began as the Boycott Movement, set up to persuade shoppers to boycott goods from apartheid South Africa.

(Oh, and sports boycotts can be effective too!)

Really DIU.

QT this post with someone you wish was still alive

(Second time that this meme has come my way; different answer given by me here... both film related.)

An 89 year old man. Arrested for threatening national security. The national there being the People's Republic of China. A very large and supposedly very powerful country.

In recent years, I've seen a number of "washed out" looking road signs and such here in Hong Kong, and wondered if the degradation was due to tear gas...

A few years ago The Lancet picked up an estimate from Bloomberg that ~90% of the HK population tasted tear gas during the 2019 pro-democracy protests. The article was filed under oncology because no one knows what happens when a city gets persistently tear gassed over a long stretch of time.

Except, with regards to the UK, it seems the left wing also isn't all that welcoming of immigrants!

It'd be a bigger win if there were demonstrations against certain other attendees, like Chinese Premier Li Qiang and Indian Prime Minister Narendra Modi, too!

Please don't tell me that that this was the first time that the European Parliament called for Gui Minhai's release!

"The streets are bustling, and the vibrancy is unmistakable." Really now?

Also, how "World City" is Hong Kong when 80% of the tabulated "tourism footfall" between January to August has been from just one country -- and, in fact, being domestic tourists (since Hong Kong is, ahem, part of China)?

Wang Xiangwei writing for Channel News Asia? SCMP no longer allowing his commentary?! 🙃

Share a TV show you love from the 1970s

youtu.be/4-UVN6KKTHk?...

Ummm... I think I'll leave them to you!😅

Yes, can't call him Wai Gor... 🤣

BTW, Google Translate had you wanting to drink something more "erotic" while DeepL translated it as "sensual". Think DeepL's more accurate, right? 😅

I wonder how a lot of those people who "discovered" Tony Leung Chiu-wai via "Shang Chi" and thought him a hunk (even then) would react to the younger versions of Wai Jai... 😝