Timelapse Hong Kong

timelapse HONG KONG from Dreamer317 on Vimeo.

Please take a few minutes to watch this video.  Life in Hong Kong is beautiful, and I want to share it with you.  This is amazing, and similar to the timelapse at Coachella last year.

Emilie in Love

Getting back to work ain't easy these days.

This adorable Asia diary was brought to my attention by a friend.  The illustrations truly capture what it's like living in Hong Kong.  Take a moment to enjoy Emilie in Love

Bologne Lunch with a View

I've been meaning to try this place forevers. There's a location right by my friend's place in Central (technically Sheung Wan on that side of the street) and one close to work. Bologne is a Japanese restaurant, that makes Danish bread, located in Hong Kong?  I have no idea how this relates to bologne, but the bread is delish!

Rice Paper

Rice Paper is one of my favorite restaurants and more specifically, it has one of my favorite dishes: Veggie Curry.  I could drink it for days.  I also love the fresh baguettes.  It's a cute place with outdoor seating right on the harbor.  The other dishes are tasty too, but I don't usually stray from this curry :)

Sunday Funday Dim Sum

If there's one thing you know about Hong Kong, we've got got dim sum like whoa.

Saturday in Stanley

I get visitors so rarely here, which is a shame because I love to host.  But every now and again an unexpected visitor will surface...  like the mom of one of my besties!

Saturday at the Sevens: South Stand Streetfighter Edition

Day 2 at the 7s.  Dress up like Streetfighter?  Yeah, we can do that.

A Lesson in Rugby: My 1st HK 7s

For real deal info on the Hong Kong Rugby Sevens, you can check it out on wikipedia here.  But what you really need to know is it's 3 days of excessive drinking, visitors from all over, crazy costumes, oh yeah and rugby!  Imagine Halloween + Mardi Gras + the Superbowl on drugs and maybe you'll have a rough idea.

HK Style First Edition

 

Welcome to the newest series on the Jagolicious blog. Here we will explore the ever perplexing sense of Hong Kong Style. Is this look hot or not?

Standard Chartered Hong Kong Marathon, Half, and 10k

This pretty much says everything.

But if you want the whole story, keep going...

Hong Kong Trail Stages 7 & 8

I wish my iphoto wasn't being cranky and holding my other pictures from the weekend hostage.  Then I could add some interesting, non-training related pictures and posts!  Sorry, you'll have to suffer through more happy trails.

Last month, me, Creepster and Joebro scouted HK Trail stages 5 & 6 for the Green Power race.  So this time me and Joebro returned to complete stages 7 & 8.

Keep going, there's more!

Bo Lo Bao: The Wild Pineapple Bun of Sai Kung

After the jaunt on Sharp Island, our next stop was Sai Kung Cafe and Bakery, famous for it's bo lo bao or pineapple bun.

Yes, there's more!

Boxing Day (observed) Explorations: Sharp Island and an Abandoned Amusement Park

A day exploring new territory.

And all wearing vibrams! The only shoe for the job.

Boating, hiking, bushwacking and trespassing after the jump.

Bang Bang Pan Pan

Sunday Funday Part 2

After a shower and nap, it was dinner time!  Friends and visitors gathered around the table for DIY Okonomiyake at Bang Bang Pan Pan in Causeway Bay.

Feeding time after the jump!

Sunday Funday: Hiking Edition

My Friday and Saturday were packed with fun and adventure, so why stop there?  I'm a big fan of SUNDAY FUN-DAY!

the full report after the jump

Kicking off Jag Week - Post Race Disney Dim Sum

After surviving an early call time and 10k race, we needed something to eat! Last year we came back to Central and had to scramble to find a restaurant that could accommodate our group. It took a while and by that time we were hungry, tired, and cranky.

Since we were going to be on the Disneyland grounds anyway, I booked us a table for dim sum at the Disneyland Hotel. It's a beautiful place! You don't feel like you're in HK at all, except for all the mainland Chinese of course.

A few surprises... I lured friends by claiming this was part of my birthday celebration, but since a handful of us were celebrating birthdays around this time it's nicer to share in the wealth. Happy Birthday to Us!

Our crew, ran, fed, and ready for bed!

Everything we ate after the jump!

Unicef Run 2010

A quick timeout on the Thanksgiving cheer (those photos are on another camera) to get caught up on my blogging.

Check it out! Our post-race class photo!

This is the second year I've run the Unicef race around Disneyland, and the kick off to Jag Week 2010. A successful attempt at another year older, another year faster!

10 K
2009: 1:16:01
2010: 1:14:15

More pics and racy goodness after the jump.

A Thanksgiving Story, Continued

Thanksgiving officially kicked off on Wednesday at lunch.  My office here is very small, and I take much pleasure in treating my non-American co-workers to a traditional holiday meal. A deli nearby was serving a special Thanksgiving lunch, and the pumpkin pie was fresh and fantastic.

Since there is no time off here for Thanksgiving, my dinners were scheduled for Friday night.  So instead, on Thursday, we threw a surprise bday dinner for Ro on her 30th birthday.  Our happy crew is sporting the awkward prom photo pose in the pic above.

Dinner was at the adorable 208 restaurant, dangerously close to home. We had a nice room in the back to ourselves, and had lots and lots of food!  Ro was surprised and there was lots of love in the room.  Thanksgiving continues...

Oxfam Trailwalker 2010: Machines and Mechanics Edition

What I witnessed this weekend was absolutely humbling. Several of my friends participated in the local Oxfam Trailwalker race. That's 100 kilometers of hiking within one weekend for charity.

Since I am physically unprepared to handle such insanity, since training in Hong Kong during the summer would be a disaster for me, and since I don't have a whole lot of $$ to spare, I wanted to do some good, donate my time, and support my friends

more after the jump...

Art Jamming

For her birthday, Yan received the very thoughtful gift of the Artjam... for four! So, on one beautiful Sunday afternoon, Yan, Ailin, Hoi Ying, and I headed to TST for a creative experience.

I didn't have much time beforehand to plan out my masterpiece. So I went with a replication of a picture I took in White Sands, New Mexico. I'm glad I had decided this ahead of time, because our time slot at the studio was only 2 hours and it can be pretty stressful!

To add to the stress, our time slot coincided with some children's group... and you know how I feel about those little demons. The space was small, the aprons were weird and kept sliding off, and we really didn't have any surface area to spread out our paints and brushes. Despite all these challenges, the jam of art was such a wonderful experience.

I'm amazed at how fabulous all the paintings turned out to be. It felt good to mix colors, play with texture, transform an empty canvas. But I'm afraid these two hours in the artjamming studio fed us a false sense of artistic ability. It won't stop me from coming back though!

While the experience would have been more pleasant for me without a million little kiddos running around, I'm glad these kids are lucky enough to get the chance to do something fun and creative. These kids grow up in tight quarters and do not have to space to house piles and piles of toys, crayons, and all the things that American kids can have. There's no room to finger paint or make a mess, there's no back yard to hose them down. There's no Michael's or Joann's or Target to purchase fun crafty stuff, and the few crafty things available here are not cheap.

I read an article a while back about how HK is really behind in the art scene, especially in comparison to other big cities. And while this may be due to a different set of priorities (make money not art) or a different way of thinking (in the box not creatively), maybe there's just no room to be creative here.