Flower

I went to the Mong Kok flower market yesterday and got two plants (another orchid and aloe plant) as well as a beautiful set of yellow calla lilies.

So my picture for yesterday is of the plants section of the market which I always enjoy and usually end up coming home with something.  My husband nearly always come home with an orchid at least.

Today's picture is of the cut flowers I bought yesterday.

Sauerkraut

So today is supposed to be a great day off, the first one I have had in a little while after getting so busy with my life and also trying to do all these photos. However it doesn't seem to be turning out that way.  Our NAS drive is broken which has every TV/Movie we own on it, which means I can't watch anything today...so thats strike one.

I am starving as its 10am and I haven't eaten yet, but there isn't anything to eat except ketchup, mayo, tonic water, rotten bananas and some sauerkraut I am really proud of because I made it - strike two no food.  But here is my picture for today - the sauerkraut I made all by my lonesome!

Also the kitchen smells since the garbages needs to be taken out but I just can't be bothered to deal with that today.  So I guess I am not going into the kitchen at all today...probably a good thing.

Strike three is I feel really guilty for not having put up any photos for yesterday or the day before - but as no one seems to have noticed I am going to not care about that.  Also a friend pointed out last night that sometimes I post more than one photo - so I'll go with that.

Maybe today will turn out better than I thought, though without some food I doubt it.  Damn it I really didn't want to change out of my PJs and go to the store - but thats looking more likely.  I think I may wait until I am actually starving before doing that.

At least this means I can catch up on some reading (trying to find the silver lining somewhere!). Hopefully there will be a happier post soon :-)

Escalator

So my picture for today is part of the Hong Kong escalator.  Its actually a series of covered escalators that lead from Hong Kong station up a massively steep area - I've walked up it, its nooo fun!  The escalators are 800 metres - 2,600 ft - long with a climb of 135 metres - 443 ft.

Its actually a really cool escalator system (even if it is a little old).  It was built in 1993.  I think its the longest set of covered escalators in the world.

Flying Pigs and Winter

So I was walking down the midlevels stairs -which goes from Hong Kong station to midlevels (a really expensive area to live and a view of the harbour)- and I saw this billboard:

I chuckled to myself and thought this definitely needs to be my photo for today.  I especially thought it was funny considering this weekend I made pulled pork BBQ (which was easier than I thought it would be).

I have a new piece of art that is finally finished drying - so here it is:

Have a good day and beware of flying pigs!

Yesterday's photo and Storm in Hong Kong

So here is yesterday's photo I didn't have time to upload it yesterday.

Its a photo-shopped version of a photo I took recently.  I couldn't take something in Hong Kong because it has been pissing it down raining for 2 days straight.

Here is today's photo - from a storm last night:

My husband got an awesome photo of a lightening strike - that he posted on FB, but as anyone who knows me knows - I have not patience for that :-)

Fake Roses and What I Call Art

So today I wanted to take a picture of a gazebo full of fake roses that had been set up in the Elements mall (above Kowloon Station) - but it had already been taken down.  It was up for promoting Le Petit Prince (still not sure what that is) and it was hilarious.  I mean the whole gazebo was jam packed with bright crimson plastic roses meant to be in bloom - it could have been pretty, but firstly it was in a freaking mall and secondly it looked really fake and only got worse as you walked closer.  Also one corner of it must have had a lifetime supply of scented oil spilled on it or something because it had an overwhelming smell of rose oil - but only in that corner and not in the rest of the place...weird shit happens in malls here - I will try to get another example.

Anyways since I couldn't take a picture of that - I am going to be self serving and show off my new art.  There isn't much of it at the moment, more will come eventually (I do take requests as long as its abstract).

Horror Movie Moment

So last night there was a massive (okay not massive, but a big) thunder/lightening storm in Hong Kong.  The storm was mostly on the island side - we live on the Kowloon side - so we could watch most of it from our bedroom.  It was great, hubby and I stayed up later than usual watching lighting strike various points on the island, then hearing the thunder clap loudly around us.

After watching for a little while something slammed into the window.  It freaked me out to no end, and since we didn't have the light on all we saw was a blob.  Then the thunder clapped and the lightening lit up the sky and I had a total Silence of the Lambs moment when we saw...a freaking huge moth!  Its not like the thing could have flown here easily - we live on the 45th floor!  I made my husband check to make sure the windows were shut so the huge thing couldn't get in.  Hubby said I was letting my imagination get away with me being freaked out by just a moth on the other side of the glass - boy was he wrong - my imagination hadn't begun to get away with me.

The damn thing stayed there for ages (I don't even know when it left) trying to stay out of the pelting rain and storm.

I did have a little trouble sleeping with the moth on the window though as I was afraid that it would mutate, create acid saliva, bore a hole in our window, then attack me while I slept (don't laugh it could have happened).  Or it could have sonically called its other moth friends, beat their wings until the window shattered and they could all attack me to death while I slept. I kept hubby awake for a while longer with stories of mutant moths and my general demise by mutant moth(s) - until he lovingly told me to stop freaking myself out, and go to sleep as he had to be in early the next day and that there was absolutely no way that the moth could become a mutant to do any of the things I described. I stubbornly said he had no proof anything I said couldn't happened and got some snoring in response.

In the very early morning my husband felt the need to wake me up at some god forsaken time before he left for work to tell me that I was not dead and the moth was gone and there was no hole in our window from acid saliva - or anything else.  I said to fuck off and then replied that I could have figured those things at a more sensible time in the morning!

I personally hate moths and I think this picture is disgusting - but the story is interesting, or at least it seemed more interesting then anything I saw to take a picture of today.