Friday, November 26, 2010

Eating Hong Kong

At first, Barry was a bit scared of the food in Hong Kong, but then he cozied up to some horseshoe crabs.The crab seen escaping succeeded! I gasped at the short-lived drama.Usually, HK food makes people happy.
But sometimes there are stranger reactions. Food spectrum: from mobile softee...to razor clams at a Michelin star restaurant.called whatever this says. That fat tire man is clever.
And finally here is proof that Asia CAN do delicious desserts. Esthetically pleasing, well, perhaps not as much.


Monday, November 22, 2010

Movember

A strange thing has happened involving oddly red hair...on Barry's face! It is for Movember, a charity supporting prostate cancer and male depression through the growing of a mustache. (I guess Augustache was already taken). Anyway, you can support his Movember here. Above, Barry's Mo is shown eating manly sausage rolls. Below, ways we've found to camouflage it in pictures:
Below are the top five comments on Barry's Mustache so far (not all of which are mine):
1) Barry, how many colours of hair does your face grow at once? You're a roan cow!
2) Oh man, I flinched because I thought you might kiss me and I was scared of the pain.
3) No, I don't want to grow one, because look how bad Barry looks!
4) You keep adjusting it, but it's still crooked.
5) It's so itchy, I'm not sure I can last another 10 days.
Feel free to donate, more pics here.

Friday, November 12, 2010

HK2

Sorry Frank, but we found ourselves in Hong Kong again last weekend. Barry visited his friend,And I wanted to learn some funful English! This is how you well mount a sign. Well is not equivalent to safe.Hong Kong is fast paced, perhaps the fastest of them all.
So you have to take time to stop and smell the fish in bags.or the roses.but not the durians! This place forbids durians (only in designated areas), dogs, gambling, smoking and some other stuff:

Tuesday, November 9, 2010

Happy Deepagiving!

We recently celebrated Deepagiving, which is a combination of Thanksgiving and Deepavali. If you think about it, they are similar. Deepavali is the Indian Festival of Lights, Thanksgiving is the Festival of Eating with Indians and Pilgrims.Peacocks, turkeys, you see the similarity.Our friend Laura made festive hats for the pilgrims,
and the Indians.
This is what Deepagiving looks like. There are flashing lights and rugby (as close to football as available), and Indian flower decorations.

Sunday, October 31, 2010

Barry en Europe

Lately, Barry's work's taken him to some interesting places. Above, La Défense and required Dutch shots. Below, stereotypical French ones: Barry avec baguette, Pensevr, chien gâté.
In Paris, it appears Martians are a faux pas.But Engrish is available.Even back in Singapore, I suspect Barry might have had more fun than me in the last month...
But at least I enjoyed some Mexican food at a hawker centre.


Friday, October 22, 2010

Barry's Business

One of Barry's better business ideas is to sell Singapore's Fire Rhino to the world redneck market. That's right, this sweet ride comes fully equipped with manly fire-gear! Spray away your tailgaters and turn on your siren for road rage (where local laws permit). And did I mention it's called a Rhino?
Open door areas allow your mullet to blow in the wind! Now clearly it needs better rims. The scoop stays, but the lights need some mods. And voilà, Fire Rhino can compete with the Humvee, convertible Jeep, Ute (In Oz, the El Camino isn't yet dead), and any SUV with a snorkel!
Soft-top option extra. Anyway, while Barry's away on business, I'm having lots of fun: Though I admit I've made this mistake a couple of alarming times.And I'm sometimes too lazy to make coffee. Local kopi (strong coffee with sweetened condensed milk) is a great substitute.
However, since I'm not even close to mastering the straw/bag combo, I usually end up with the pour/spill combo instead.


Saturday, October 16, 2010

Hong Kong's Other Bits

Above, Hong Kong Blue Ice beer. Below, Labatt Blue, Labatt Ice. I'm just saying, don't you think the HK-Canada migration might have led to some idea sharing? Now onto more important things: In Hong Kong, don't eat your hamburger friends until outside the MTR.
No graphically illustrated spitting.
Here are some other specific rules, don't gamble while your clothes are drying.
Our hotel was also strict!
But the sweet brown taste of sticed conches shark's lip certainly makes up for it.