豚王 Butao Ramen: Where the ramen frenzy is started at

Back in mid year 2010, a ramen frenzy has since started in Hong Kong, this is all began with one ramen (拉麵) restaurant they even began hype before their grand opening with the help of local TV show and gourmet columnist – Butao Ramen 豚王.

Butao Ramen, Causeway Bay

Butao Ramen, Central

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星巴克的光影流情

相信大家都不會不認識位於中環煤氣燈街(都爹利街Duddell Street)那間充滿懷舊香港特色、冰室裝飾的Starbucks。

Hong Kong Duddell Street Starbucks 中環都爹利街星巴克

Hong Kong Duddell Street Starbucks 中環都爹利街星巴克 (Photo credit: Wikipedia)

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鼎泰豐 Din Tai Fung

This food review is also available at Openrice.com (Read here)

Last few months I’ve paid a few visits to the popular Taiwanese chain – Din Tai Fung (鼎泰豐), the restaurant that’s famous for their juicy, handmade Xiao Long Bao (小籠包), in which the popularity of the chain has made the restaurant spawned outlets worldwide.

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This is Chris. This is ME.

This is Chris. This is ME.

PROLOGUE

Sorry for months of hiatus since my last blog. I was truly busy at work but in the mean time I am also hard at work preparing updates to my blog.

There’s lots of life events happened around me during the last 6 months, which has touched me and changed my view of things and how life should be lived.

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14 Tips for Designing a Highly Productive Home Office (GTD Friendly) (via The Couch Manager)

Nice found for some tips to tidy up your home office… umm or simply your desk at home. Do you have any good tips?

14 Tips for Designing a Highly Productive Home Office (GTD Friendly) UPDATE: I got a tweet from David Allen, the GTD author himself, saying this was "Very Cool" – made my day :) ********** I recently moved to a new apartment where I (finally!) got my own room to set up as a home office. I’ve been a hardcore follower of GTD for quite a while, so I wanted to make sure I take the lessons learned over the years from my personal experience, and design the perfect home office from the ground-up. For those who don’t know … Read More

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Lomography: Capturing daily life with style

My very first Lomography prints

On April, Lomography Hong Kong held a roadshow for the first time at Times Square. I have long been interested joining as a Lomographer since it’s product seen at CitySuper stores and the interest is further fueled with Instagram – the iPhone app and an Internet community sharing “lomo” like photos.

This exhibition gave me an opportunity to learn more about the Lomography community in Hong Kong and has landed me the first Lomo camera: The Lomo LC-A+. It’s a top-of-line Lomo camera at the time I purchased, now replaced by the flagship Lomo LC-Wide.

The Lomo LC-A+ camera is created in honor the very original Russian made Lomo LC-A camera debuted in 1984. With the camera, it’s most important feature is the Russian made lens, as subsequent models are with lens made in China (this might not view as a big deal to many, but it does has differences in terms of picture texture); besides the lens, it uses 35mm film, with 4-step focus selection, fully-automatic exposure detection and multiple exposure. Photos taken with this camera are famous for it’s slightly-dark-and-blurry edges and unexpected color textures.

I’ve chosen this camera over the other likes including the Diana-F or Sprocket Rocket because of: 1. It’s smaller size; 2. Ease of use; 3. the Multiple Exposure feature; 4. The ability to install an instant-back for instant photos; 5. and in terms of art I will have the unexpected colors for every pictures I took with this camera.

The Lomo LC-A+ camera is come packaged with a nice wooden “crate”, along with a very-thick Lomo LC-A+ book, cable release, and two rolls of 35mm film. Here’s some unboxing photos of my camera:

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Talking back to Lomography, what is it? In the world nowadays when almost everything’s being dominated by digital, people including me starting to miss the heritages: just like when people now wanted to preserve old buildings; that’s no exception to photos and that’s what Lomography’s all about – fronting the analogue film photography and it’s “unexpected” nature when taking photos. And there has “Ten Golden Rules” of Lomography:

  1. Take your camera everywhere you go
  2. Use it any time – day and night
  3. Lomography is not an interference in your life, but part of it
  4. Try the shot from the hip
  5. Approach the objects of your lomographic desire as close as possible
  6. Don’t think (william firebrace)
  7. Be fast
  8. You don’t have to know beforehand what you captured on film
  9. Afterwards either
  10. Don’t worry about any rules
To know more Lomography, visit the website www.lomography.com
At the mean time, view my first roll of photos taken with the LC-A+ here at Facebook.