2010-09-27

Segway Owner Running off the Cliff

This is the saddest news about Segway.
The news went on and said this guy, Jimi Heselden, actually grew up in Leeds in UK. And Segway is ironically illegal in Britain except in private property. He donated 10 million pound to charity a week ago before he died.
It's interesting that he has to make Segway big in the US instead of UK. I remember seeing police riding a Segway up the steep Berkeley slope back in College.

London BT Tower Open since 1981

This news from Sep 15, 2010 saying the BT Tower is opening that weekend, which is the first time since 1981. News from Metro or Evening Standard in London.

The Moon Festival 2010

It was the moon festival 2010 on Sep 22nd. I bought a boxes of moon cakes. Both from the Mei-Xin brand, which seems to be the most popular brand in Hong Kong

Foster, Good Call

I was having a drink at a pub one night. My friend didn't know about Foster when I ordered Foster. I explained it's a thin beer.
Then I saw this ads on a phone booth the next day.

Getty Image Gallery - Love from London

There's a Getty Image Gallery which have ads like this all over tube stations. Featuring stars like Audrey Hepburn with pictures taken in London (not the girl in this picture). The show seems to run until October 7th. See here: http://www.gettyimagesgallery.com/

9 and 3/4 Platform

My friend came visit London, and I only got to meet him for a brief 5 minutes. After seeing him off, I went to visit 9 and 3/4 platform for the very first time. I read all the Harry Potter books and lived in London for one and a half year, before I actually visit 9and 3/4 platform at King's Cross Station on 30th August, 2010.

EpicWin on Game Magazine

Stumbled upon this iPhone app made by my friend Tak Fung. (He's the guy sitting at the left in my birthday party video). The magazine was either Edge, Develop, or Game (maybe MCV).
This game makes daily chore a RPG. You level up by completing things you have to do anyway.
By turning your life into RPG game, you can have thousands of hours of gameplay!
Check it out at: http://www.epicwinapp.com/

Desperate for a Degree? Better head for China

Finally get my photo stuff setup again.
This is a news from August 20th, 2010. It was some sort of public exam result day, and this was on the free newspaper called Metro in London.

2010-09-20

Central London according to Google China Map

The "translated" Chinese names become so difficult even I have trouble pronouncing the names, LOL.

2010-09-05

Farmville Today

4 million farmville coin. Probably the highest I will ever get.

2010-09-01

TV with subtitle in France

Second day in France, getting French TV with subtitle works already. And while I am typing this, WIFI and internet works too. We are probably one of the first ones to get internet, because everyone else seems to need to wait at least 2 weeks.

An almost 50 euro WinTV Mini stick from Hauppauge gets me 4 channels out of the 18 possible channels. =D

2010-08-30

Nice Côte d'Azur Aéroport

Free WIFI for 30 minutes at Nice airport in France today.
Update: It turns out, after 30 minutes, you just have to re-connect again to continue using WIFI. Nice is really nice. I started liking this place already. =D

2010-08-29

Full length Porn on YouTube Movies today

Full length movie with naked boobs and sex scene for free from YouTube. This seems like a new service from YouTube, and there wasn't any age restriction box that popped up to confirm my age.
What a world do we live in? OoO
The link: http://www.youtube.com/movies

2010-08-13

Belly pork with Mui Choy

And laksa, ice tea, and strawberry juice at Colindale

2010-07-31

London Fashion - Crazy Shirt

This gave me ideas of what to do with my shirt that are one size too small.
As seen in London Tube in July 2010

2010-07-30

Free Godiva chocalate

From Godiva at Regent street. Handed to passerbys on my way to work
in Soho London

2010-07-27

Carbonica

"Garanteed carbon offsetting" it said. =D

2010-07-25

Veggie Pitta at Nandos

With drinks, 11.05 pounds

Hong Kong Love Tissue

HK=Hong Kong?
れんあい=恋愛=Love.
Spotted 2010-07-22 in London

2010-07-23

Hawker London Style

As seen near Tottenham Court Road today

Ackee and Salt Fish

At Jerk City London today. 9 pound for the big dish, 14 pound total, good service. This is Carribean
food according to Yelp

London Ice-cream mini van

As seen near Tottenham Court Road, London today

2010-07-22

Crazy Fashion Today

London fashion never ceased to surprise me. This girl has long pink
+white+blue hair!

2010-07-18

Swiss Items in Farmville today

I don't know most of these swiss stuff listed. Will ask Seb tomorrow.

2010-07-17

Crazy T-Shirt

This is from S01E01 of IT Crowd. Is crazy t-shirt part of UK culture?

2010-07-06

Chinatown goodies

Chendol dessert (chendol+red bean) from Cheras Selangor. Coconut milk
+tapioca pearl. Pandan Mochi.

Storm Warrior in London

The Hong Kong movie Storm Warrior (Feng Yun, 风云, literally wind and
rain) is coming to London HMV July 12th 2010. As seen at Oxford Circus
tube in London today.

2010-07-05

What I got for 75 cans of CocaCola

They send you a DVD of the 2006 world cup when you don't win the
ticket to South Africa

3 years old 9V battery

This was made in March 2007. And this is how this 9 volt battery looks
like in July 2010.

2010-07-04

Street Graffiti Art

It says "MAKE TEA NOT WAR" at the lower right. I've seen a US version
before that says "make love not war" back in the States.

iTunes Festival London

There are more than a hundred people lining up at the Round House for
the iTunes Festival London

New PSN feature with Picasa and Facebook

Now you can link your Picasa account and PSN account together

Google.cn with New Way to Re-direct to Google.com.hk

I read a news at Japanese Engadget, about google.cn is not auto redirected to google.com.hk anymore. And people want to keep google research in China and all. Testing for myself, I headed to google.cn, and this is what I found (screenshot attached). Right-clicking or left-clicking the image will bring you to google.com.hk.
This will definitely be going down as an event in Internet history.

2010-07-01

The 99 pence China Cup

There's a story to this.
"Do you sell kitchen bin?" Bill asked.
"No." Later she added, "we are a kitchen shop."
"But there's no kitchen bin."
"We sell china."
"China?" thinking about People's Republic of China.
"China." She points to all the china wares.
"I am from China, and I was like..." *bewildered face*
"Because chinas were once from China long time ago... and they are now
once again made in China."
*laughed* and *bought a china cup*

Irish Burger O'Neill's

Classic Irish burger with side salad, 7.28 pound at O'Neill's London

2010-06-30

New cooking gadgets

2.99 pound for the timer and 9.99 pound for the scale. From Morrison.

Moules + Fries + Vanilla Cake 4.60 pound

Canteen food today

ZhongWen.com Chinese Chat

Discovered this ZhongWen.com with Chinese PinYin + Chinese Character Chat.
A great additional to http://xuezhongwen.net/chindict/chindict.php
xuezhongwen.net is a great place to practice typing PinYin with. xuezhongwen.net let you type Chinese through a browser on an English-only OS)
On PC, I personally recommend the PinYin IME from Google.

My First PS3 Video Edit

Check out the video at youtube.com/billhung

2010-06-29

Skype on 3G on iPhone

So Skype on 3G on iPhone is only free until the end of this year.

Sticky Rice in Lotus Leaves

For dinner last night

2010-06-28

Bill Hung's first encounter with Google Nexus One

Well, everything was very basic out of the box. I think I will wait.

Canteen Food today

Salmon + Soba + Veggie for 3.70 pound at work

Shrek on London phone booth

Bill Hung's watching Shrek 4 this Friday