It was the start of this year. I wanted to get a new pair of glasses. I want to get a good pair that look good, for obvious reason. It should be fun. I’m never into eyeglasses, but having done the search, I realize many people are very serious into this, with many more brands I’ve never heard of.
This Alain Mikli was a love at first sight. The 2-color frame is colored in opposite that left shell was dominated by red, but the right was by black. Inside’s color was completely opposite. It was most of his frame’s specialty that it was rarely symmetric. Even a model of 5 years it hardly loses its attention. The design has its price tag, but I like the way things are hand-made, distinctive from afar. Couple months ago I tried and loved this style, but thought I could find elsewhere, and forgot the place I tried. Then I’ve been to many places, even placed a deposit to order, and still couldn’t find it. I end up having the luck to get one @ official store. It was a relieve.
Alain Mikli started his business in frame design on the year I was born, well, long time ago. 
Outside Japan Pavilion
It wouldn’t be Expo if its pavilions look like a factory. Most of them look great. On the other hand the content inside may not be attractive as it looks. As my first post writes, here you have to think for yourself:
- Do you like to go to museums to explore lots of ideas (i.e. readings involved)?
- Are you more into Science world-kind-of interactive places that you can touch and play?
- Do you prefer enjoying a performance where it’ll present you a movie and tell you a story?
- Or, you simply look for something fascinating / cool, regardless of what that is?
I think the best way to describe the pavilions I visited is to tell you how much of these 4 points above. I’m more of a ideas-oriented person, thus I hope pavilions have some quality content to tell me, via any ways they think that best fit. My ratings are very personal obviously (in fact I found many contrasting comments online thus you really have to see that yourself, or go to www.expo.cn to check out). Ones that barely pass are worth a visit if you have spare time, whilst ones higher than 5 are worth to make some time to me.
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Huge... China Pavilion
Just returned from my first ever Expo last Saturday. To be honest if it were not hosted in China, I, with billion of Chinese, may not care or even know what Expo is about. But to say it short, if you plan to go because your gf wants to go, or you just want to check out how enormous the China pavilion is, I’ve got some good tips for you. First I’ll tell you how to prepare yourself before heading. Keep Reading »
I had a bad habit of losing things on my trip. Some are small unnecessary stuff while I happened to lose my phone twice (two different phones) during my trips. After my recent Singapore trip I thought I made it not to lose things, but I still forgot to bring a mobile hanger from my luggage. What’s strange is that, my Nokia charger just disappeared few days before my trip ended.
Initially I did think it’s missing, but think it won’t be possible to lose it in such a small room (not small but still it’s just a room). I searched for long but still couldn’t find it, so thought that it might’ve been the case that I even forgot to bring it to trip, even though I remembered I charged my phone once (was I hallucinated?). Anyway I figured a phone charger can be very expensive when lost, while worthless when you switched phone. I thought there should be plentiful in everyone’s home (I’ve got like 3 sony ericsson chargers with different plugs which is living @ my home useless), but too little value to place them on yahoo auction to sell. But u know what, they cost heck lot (like HKD50) and create much CO2, i.e. Feel bad buying one. Still I bought one that uses USB to charge my phone (just think it might be more useful), but the charging speed is so slow. So if you happen to have an obsolete nokia charger (newest model) let me buy from you, just to keep our environment slightly better.
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Just dropped by this place just now @ ifc that sells purely coffee and nothing much, at least no juice or sandwiches (there are some biscuits or cookies stuff). A regular caffe latte is more expensive than your local starbucks ($36 for 8oz, i.e. Short, but it’s a double) but what you get is some good barista skills there. A double espresso full of aroma without burnt flavour, rich in crema and a thick layer of milk foam. I say thick as it’s over an inch thick over a small 8oz glass. With the perfect warmth, I’ve only had similar glass of caffe latte @ my coffee class.
My only small complaint would be the use of glass over a regular coffee cup, yet it was used in my gf’s hot chocolate. Strange. So if you wonder how great it is, go check it out sometimes. Just once awhile for the guarantee great coffee w/o making a bet @ Pacific Coffee.
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平時少寫食兼且寫中文的我，今次想寫一下對這間特別餐廳的感想。又是星期五，一個頗難找地方吃飯的日子，本想來個簡單便飯，女友提議”蘭芳”，去吧。誰知夜了的蘭芳，只有炒飯沒有Signature茶餐麵食，隔離”南亞”都要等位，唯有再翻翻openrice。見到附近有間新的拉麵叫Mist，看過comments知道這間”名店”索價很高($100未連加一)，但又想知有什麼”巴閉”，於是去了一試。
等了十分鐘才有位，進去就覺得很奇怪，”這是一間拉麵店嗎？” 深啡色光滑桌子，桃紅色古典意大利真皮坐椅，西式吧枱，和任何我吃過的拉麵沒有任何關係，比一間Pizza Hut / Spaghetti House 還要西式的裝飾。打開餐牌是一個簡單的菜單。麵的選擇只有湯底加上去的鹽，味噌 ，豉油，還有個特別的梅+鹽。正路的我會選擇最後者，但是最後試了個簡單的鹽味，另加配料亦只有三樣，我就加了叉燒，糖心蛋(各10元)沒有紫菜。正餐是那麼簡單，但小吃，沙律，飲品，和甜品卻很多樣化。小吃有幾款不同的燒日本黑豚肉，菇類，數十元。飲品有啤酒，紅白酒，要個拉麵配杯紅酒的話，會否又另一番風味? Keep Reading »
SDCard - the exact card I have and destroyed
Few days ago, I dunno what did I do but my camer’as 4GB card, as shown as this one, stops co-operating with my camera. It fails to detect the card, but my Mac reads it fine. I formatted it a couple times, deleted partitions, but still didn’t do any good. Hell what us going on?
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I always complain (to no one, just murmuring) that websites with mobile version (ex. Openrice.com ha ha) didn’t do enough to detect our browsers that this Opera Mobile can not be detected at all (except Yahoo US). But now when I try to update my site, which can’t detect this never, I realize why. Here is the browser string:
Browser: Opera/9.80 (S60; SymbOS; Opera Mobi/447; U; en) Presto/2.4.18 Version/10.00
This string, if you don’t know what the heck is, is like the ID of your browser, just like the logo plates and / or the names that bear with a car. When you are driving around with a car, the logo in front tell others “oh it’s a Mercedes.” And it tells more, such as “C200″ tells you that is a C class with 2L engine. “SE” tells it’s a sedan not coupe. But of course not all cars show in such detail. Some just say “Hummer” and that’s it. And there’s no system inside / between manufacturers. Some models/cars reveal more, while rest do less.
This is exactly the same scenario for browser industry: there’s no system. Checking the spec from Opera site, the earlier Symbian Opera browsers would at least bear a word “Symbian,” but things changed. Now this Opera Mobile 10.0 shows “SymbOS”. Hey is that a spy? I guess so. But now my site finally supports this browsers and I’m happy, tho I rarely visit myself except post this.
Even with the more introduction of coffees lately to HK ppl, it’s still difficult to find a place with a standard cup of cafe latte w/ mild milk temperature around 70C. It’s natural that some takeout will be slightly hotter but for places like Pacific Coffee@Wanchai, where even when you ordered baristas with less hot milk and they refused to do so, these places should be banned. Luckily it wasn’t the case for Brunch Club@CWB featuring a good warm coffee for my needs. Keep Reading »
Old look of Yahoo.com, have you seen it before?
Ever been to a website where you feel lost?
“Wait there’s so much information there. What do I want to do here actually?”
“This is not what I expected.”
“How does this thing work? Do I have to read a manual?”
“Is the web guy out of his mind? How come I need to see a useless Flash *everytime* in order to see what I want? Does he want to brainwash me?”
Certainly the so-called “web designers” aren’t doing what s/he’s supposed to do. Maybe it was her/his boss that made the order. Anyway I think it’s time for our websites to have another “modernization” going. Keep Reading »
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