At least they know who I am...

Finally a entryway worthy of my presence.
Very weird name for a lighting store though I have to say...

They know what I am...

I don't normally take pictures of stuff on or used by people. This one I just had to capture.


Now I just have to figure out where they are buy these from!

Bumpy Road... errr Escalator

So read the sign below...

Makes sense if I was anywhere near the street or a road. Thing is, this is a sign for an escalator inside a mall.

Now I know why I hate telemarketers so much!

Another of those ads that just makes you double take.

A gopher with a phone... I can only guess it is a visual metaphor for a telemarketer.

A place I do NOT want to shop

I have a nominee for creepiest mascot ever.

This one for a mall in downtown Hong Kong.

Logical Fashion

Want a bizarre clothing advertisement. Well here you go!

Vulcans selling outdoor gear.

Seriously what is up with this. Do the Chinese even watch Star Trek?

So if you start seeing hipsters in Vulcan ears we know where they got the idea.

There are those that say...

One of the most hilarious and delightful discoveries I've made in Hong Kong was a public sculpture on display in a metro train station...


A bunch of "Stig sperm" floating around the roof...

For anyone unfamiliar is who or what the Stig it, he is the mascot/test driver for the British car show Top Gear. In reality the Stig has been a number of professional car drivers whose identity has been hidden by the jumpsuit and helmet combo above. However this "character" has proven so popular the show has maintained a running mythology about him.

In every episode the Stig is introduced as Top Gear's "tamed racecar driver" and than various silly facts are stated about him introed by the line "there are those that say". Well I have a new one totally in the spirit of this list.


"There are those that say the Stig met the love of his life in the form of a Hong Kong Metro Train, and their offspring can be seen to this day at Mong Kok East station."

Mind you they to me are more like what the Stig's genetic couriers should look like.

I think they were aiming for train tadpoles or fish.

All I know is I was laughing for a good 30 minutes after seeing them!

Local Toys

So the first rule of teaching is figure out your kids are into. As I'm in a totally new culture, I'm sorta back to square 1. So today I'd thought I'd do some homework.

I picked up one of the robot model kits that are very popular with upper primary boys.

I thought putting one of these together would be pretty easy. Man I was in for surprise. This is what I got out of the box...

Two hours later I ended up with this rather handsome fellow.

I just can't get over how cool this guy is put together. It is fully posable but yet solid like an action figure. Yet he is made of many loose pieces adhered by no glue whats so ever.

Though he seems to be getting kind of mad at our prying into his business...

Oh no run!!!

Blubber 5 standing by

I couldn't resist combining two of our Hong Kong acquisitions toay. The first being my Red Army fighter helmet, and the second being our tissue whale dispenser cover. Put them together and you get blubber squadron member 5.


Normally our whale is Achoo. We picked him up about a month ago. His primary function it to dispense tissues from his blowhole. As we keep forgetting to pick up soft packaged tissues to fill him up with, Achoo has spare time to help protect our house.

My New Wheels (Pimp my 推车 part 0)

So I took my first official plunge into doing as the locals do. In this case I picked up the means of transport all the cool kids... errrr little old ladies are using for getting their things around.

Behold my new ride (well ride for my work stuff). This is my trolley or Tuiche 推车.

推车 are more common than cars and bikes (though not taxis). So now I am the proud owner of the most common means of transportation in Hong Kong.

Its even collapsible.
That said I think I can personalize these wheels a bit. At moment I could just blend into the crowd as just another little old lady... who is the wrong gender, different skin colour, and three times the size of all the other old ladies. I also think I can increase its functionality.

So stay tuned for my efforts to "pimp" my 推车...