Tuesday, February 24, 2009
Saturday, February 07, 2009
Taipei in Pictures!
Entrance to the Taipei 101 Tower
Taipei 101 from the Sun Yet Sen Memorial
The Chang Kai Shek Memorial
The Gates of the Chang Kai Shek Memorial
Wednesday, January 07, 2009
NYC In Pictures (Pre-Christmas)
White Christmas, the Musical on Broadway
The Lights are always bright on Broadway!
Literally hundreds of Santa Claus around Time Square
Thursday, January 01, 2009
Back in New York City... and Montreal!
First of All, Merry Christmas and Happy New Year to everybody!!
Everybody tends to agree that 2008 was really a bad year for most people, whether it was financially, health related or just the general spirit of that year... 2009 looks bleak for investors but I think we might all end up being surprised of the outcome...
Yes, been back to Montreal for the holidays... outside the gloomy days, icestorms and the -16C temperature. But overall it's been great seeing everybody!! Especially since I felt my departure was a bit rushed! Sometime I feel a bit shameful of not having enough time to see everybody but at one point the only thing you can do is your best and that's it!
I know I whine a lot about Montreal when I talk about it, but there are many good things about it despite its weather.
1st - Food in Montreal compare to Hong Kong is amazing, sometime I'm seriously questioning the quality of the food I eat in HK, whereas in Montreal it's several time better! Of course I'm aware that I grew up there and that my view is purely subjective but then again isn't it the whole point of this blog?
2nd - The people in Montreal are friendlier and a lot less self-centered than anywhere else I have been before. People are polite, they wait in line, they help old people or disabled people, and they dont push people in the subway just because they are too lazy to come to work in advance in the morning.
3rd - Everything here just make sense, the shop organized in a coherent fashion and they are full of stuff that you might need! Stores are big and goods are really cheap in comparison !
4th - The roads are wide, building are spacious and there's not much people around so you dont wait anywhere if you go to the bank (unless they are giving out welfare check) or any normal restaurants!!
But I'm glad to finally go back to Hong Kong!! Resume my life with my amazing bamboo and my 1 1/2 apartment!!! Law school is really a great part of my life and way more interesting than I could have hoped, so I'm really thrilled to start this new semester!!!
The road back will be long haha, Montreal => Washington => New York => Tokyo => Hong Kong
At least everything will be by plane so I can't really complain!!!!
I have to go start packing for now and slowly prepare this frozen scenery for a more hospital climiate :o)
All the best for 2009 dear friends,
Francis
Everybody tends to agree that 2008 was really a bad year for most people, whether it was financially, health related or just the general spirit of that year... 2009 looks bleak for investors but I think we might all end up being surprised of the outcome...
Yes, been back to Montreal for the holidays... outside the gloomy days, icestorms and the -16C temperature. But overall it's been great seeing everybody!! Especially since I felt my departure was a bit rushed! Sometime I feel a bit shameful of not having enough time to see everybody but at one point the only thing you can do is your best and that's it!
I know I whine a lot about Montreal when I talk about it, but there are many good things about it despite its weather.
1st - Food in Montreal compare to Hong Kong is amazing, sometime I'm seriously questioning the quality of the food I eat in HK, whereas in Montreal it's several time better! Of course I'm aware that I grew up there and that my view is purely subjective but then again isn't it the whole point of this blog?
2nd - The people in Montreal are friendlier and a lot less self-centered than anywhere else I have been before. People are polite, they wait in line, they help old people or disabled people, and they dont push people in the subway just because they are too lazy to come to work in advance in the morning.
3rd - Everything here just make sense, the shop organized in a coherent fashion and they are full of stuff that you might need! Stores are big and goods are really cheap in comparison !
4th - The roads are wide, building are spacious and there's not much people around so you dont wait anywhere if you go to the bank (unless they are giving out welfare check) or any normal restaurants!!
But I'm glad to finally go back to Hong Kong!! Resume my life with my amazing bamboo and my 1 1/2 apartment!!! Law school is really a great part of my life and way more interesting than I could have hoped, so I'm really thrilled to start this new semester!!!
The road back will be long haha, Montreal => Washington => New York => Tokyo => Hong Kong
At least everything will be by plane so I can't really complain!!!!
I have to go start packing for now and slowly prepare this frozen scenery for a more hospital climiate :o)
All the best for 2009 dear friends,
Francis
Wednesday, October 22, 2008
Ni Hao, ni hao ma?
Hello everybody!
It's been indeed a long time since I wrote here. Life is busy, that sums it up pretty well. Assignments are coming in, only 5 weeks left for the 1st semester! It's amazing how time is flying so fast ! Been here already for two months now! Law school is really great, after 4 years of economic theories, it is really refreshing to be doing something that has real life, day-to-day, application! Also I've started to learn mandarin, it's a bit easier (at least for now) than I had expected, I guess trying to learn cantonese two years ago scared me off a bit, but now I have more interest (personal and profesional) to learn. Hong Kong is still warm around 30C even though we are almost at the end of October! Hopefully we'll get to see drop in temperature sometime soon, I'm getting tired of sweating around in HK.
Today I went to Shenzhen in mainland China! It's really amazing how much everything has improved in less than 2 years! It's becoming very modern, you could have sworn that your werent in the PRC anymore, which is quite an amazing feat in itself! It's really strange how different it still is from Hong Kong, you get a very different feeling even though most shops are similar and the language is most of the time the same. I've posted a small video and some pictures of the Dongmen area, which is the shopping district of Shenzhen!
It's been indeed a long time since I wrote here. Life is busy, that sums it up pretty well. Assignments are coming in, only 5 weeks left for the 1st semester! It's amazing how time is flying so fast ! Been here already for two months now! Law school is really great, after 4 years of economic theories, it is really refreshing to be doing something that has real life, day-to-day, application! Also I've started to learn mandarin, it's a bit easier (at least for now) than I had expected, I guess trying to learn cantonese two years ago scared me off a bit, but now I have more interest (personal and profesional) to learn. Hong Kong is still warm around 30C even though we are almost at the end of October! Hopefully we'll get to see drop in temperature sometime soon, I'm getting tired of sweating around in HK.
Today I went to Shenzhen in mainland China! It's really amazing how much everything has improved in less than 2 years! It's becoming very modern, you could have sworn that your werent in the PRC anymore, which is quite an amazing feat in itself! It's really strange how different it still is from Hong Kong, you get a very different feeling even though most shops are similar and the language is most of the time the same. I've posted a small video and some pictures of the Dongmen area, which is the shopping district of Shenzhen!
That's all for me for today!
Francis
Francis
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