Today I got in a taxi and this is the scene that greeted me. This guy is either very lonely and likes to keep in touch with his 6 wives, or he is one dodgy dude… 6 telephones and a regular taxi radio… and the thing is that on the short trip from Wan Chai to Central he was constantly answering calls from different phones, he has some kind of button below his stearing wheel that must direct which phone he talks to…
So if I could only speak Cantonese i could tell you all what dodgy business he was up too…
This is the resort I stayed at in Cha-Am about two hours drive from
Bangkok. As mentioned it is newly opened. The poolside bungalows have
jacuzi tubs and 48″ plasma tv, while the ‘superior rooms’ have very
nicely apointed rooms with 32″ tv DVD mini fridge kettle and free
Internet, which closed the deal for me.
The staff are a friendly and courteous if a little green. One thing
the resort lacks is a decent restaurant. With breaky included in the
room rate we were subjected to their extensive breakfast menu. The
choice was American breakfast, how would u like ur eggs? Funny thing
is I asked for an Ice coffee as it is stinking hot in Thailand this
time of year and who wants hot coffee. Well they said not possible,
they had coffee, they had ice, but ice coffee they did not have… I
did not push it… They will learn when they get their first batch of
euro trash tourists…
So if u are looking for a nice stylish place to stay in Cha-am check
out the Bann Pantai resort two thumbs up from me.
Oh by the way not much to do in Cha-am but since it is actually a
fishing village town at the end of the beach road is the fishing
docks. Here u will find a gaggle of restaurants serving seafood so
fresh that yes it is still alive. They have big concrete tanks that u
go pick what u want to eat then they cook it up for u. On Wednesday
lunch had a kilo of tiger prawns with fried rice, then Thursday dinner
had another kilo of prawns, the ones with the long claws and a big
juicy crab also with fried rice. And the damage B300/kilo yep less
than $10. Very good, very very good…
And here are some food pics that will make you hungry or maybe not depending on your taste they were taken in a local village market on afternoon near Bangkok
Blogged from iPhone….
It was a very yummy one… Wish u were here…
Sent with iPhone….
White Box Photography Ltd.
2A Hundred City Centre
7-17 Amoy Street
Wan Chai, H. K.
http://whitebox.hk
(852) 9277 1810
I shot this a few months ago for Fluid. It is hanging on the wall
outside Fat Angelos on the midlevels escalator.
White Box Photography Ltd.
2A Hundred City Centre
7-17 Amoy Street
Wan Chai, H. K.
http://whitebox.hk
(852) 9277 1810
For a long time I have been meaning to update our website and add some new photos to show the work we have done over the past year. Well I still have to get around to that, but in the meantime I thought it easier to just make a gallery with some of this recent work. So here it is White Box Photography Limited a selection of work from 2007. These images are all a collaboration effort, both Ike and I shot em…
White Box Photography Recent work.
Just working a wedding and the client didn’t arrange dinner for us so
have to pop down to the loby coffee shop for a quick bite. My hk$260
hamburger just arrived. It looks pretty tasty and since it is costing
my left nut… It had better be… Holy expensive hamburger…
UGH what a pile of shite that was… one of the worst bloody hamburgers I have ever eaten. Greasy and no flavour. Just meat, prepared without any thought to seasoning, in a bun, with lettuce and tomato and a basket of fries… I can say one thing, it all looked fancy, but the taste was shite… very dissapointed and with the bill coming to a grand total of HK$275 also very pissed off. So next time you are staying at the InterCon in TST and feel like having a Hamburger best to head to MacDonalds across the way, it tastes better and you will have saved $255..
Thanks to my friend Chris Jean at realthemes.com I am the first person
to be able blog pictures straight from my iPhone.
The camera on the iPhone is really not that good so I will try to
limit its uses to interesting things, like today when we are shooting Anusha
Dandekar of India Mtv fame…
Its raining in Hong Kong, and thanks to Chris Jean, I can now post to
this here blog staight from my iPhone. Chris of http://realthemes.com
has developed a WordPress tweak to acomplish this. Thanks Chris…
This picture was taken out the window of a photography studio on the 6th floor of Chai Wan Industrial bldg looking down to Wing Tai Road.
Ecovision World Environment Day 2006 at ARMANI BAR/HK Party Photos here…
Yesterday we were a proud sponsor of the World Environment Day celebration and exhibition of renowned artist “CIRO” … Roberto Cipollone (Ciro) was born in Pescara in 1947 where he spent his childhood and years as a young man around the foundry run by his father.
In 1970 he went to Holland were he lived for six years employed as a factory worker. Later on he commented on this period of his life with these words: In the factory where I worked in Holland I made ten thousand screws a day. It was a monotonous job, where any artistic strain was sacrificed. It represented for me a detachment from the world of the arts and this sharpened my desire to see beautiful things?
In 1977 he moved in Loppiano; near Florence, were he is living and working up to the present.
Here in 1982 he established and developed a Bottega Di Ciro- a medieval-like artistic workshop, where painting, sculpture, architecture, art and craftsmanship are in harmony.
For his work he employs several materials: wood, iron, stone, fabric, whatever waste material, which he considers as the richest of life. ‘The material I use is a clear and well oriented choice: it’s intentionally not precious. ItÂ’s value is hidden. I only try to let the object tell those humble stories which are still unknown.”
The title says it all. Hong Kong where couples tie the knot with all the trimmins and frills they can find…
