junk

junk
Originally uploaded by little nemo in slumberland.

some junk in the harbour

susan and rachael

susan and rachael
Originally uploaded by little nemo in slumberland.

the sun was shining and we were on the ferry to kowloon and were not at work.

the main drag

nathan rd
Originally uploaded by little nemo in slumberland.

this street runs from the water all the way through kowloon. there are shops, but also other things. like parks for example.

yau ma tei

yau ma tei
Originally uploaded by little nemo in slumberland.

reclamation st

reclamation st
Originally uploaded by little nemo in slumberland.

more kowloon

sea

sea
Originally uploaded by little nemo in slumberland.

kate at sea

katesea
Originally uploaded by little nemo in slumberland.

inside the volcano

bamboo
Originally uploaded by little nemo in slumberland.

this is the sort of scaffolding we climb about on all day. the stuff that has been outside for a while can get brittle; the other day i fell though the scaffold when a cross piece broke under me. Fortunately i was holding on, as it was raining and the scaffold was quite slippery, i managed to catch myself and only fell through to shoulder height.

midnight express

hip hop
Originally uploaded by little nemo in slumberland.

they sell hip hop.

krush

krush
Originally uploaded by little nemo in slumberland.

i wish we had pictures of the queue. a lot of really, really, ridiculously good-looking people.

the kids are alright [2]

krush2
Originally uploaded by little nemo in slumberland.

at the dj krush gig in wan chai. i don't know if you can see it but the adidas girl has a great watch.

guesthouse

guesthouse
Originally uploaded by little nemo in slumberland.

underground

train
Originally uploaded by little nemo in slumberland.

"what if say we got food poisoning at the japanese casual restaurant and were too ill to catch the ferry home [but not too ill to shop]"
"i think they might get suspicious..."

meridian star

meridian star
Originally uploaded by little nemo in slumberland.

we arrived in tsim sha tsui, kowloon

solar star

solar star
Originally uploaded by little nemo in slumberland.

the sun was shining, we were shopping...

tim fung steam laundry

tim fung steam laundry
Originally uploaded by little nemo in slumberland.

laundry truck

the big thumbs up

thumb
Originally uploaded by little nemo in slumberland.

i don't know what the three words up the top are, but they seem positive...

champion, the wonder horse

steed
Originally uploaded by little nemo in slumberland.

homeless

homeless
Originally uploaded by little nemo in slumberland.

round the corner from kubrick bookshop in yau ma tei

better late than never.

apology
Originally uploaded by little nemo in slumberland.

6

6
Originally uploaded by little nemo in slumberland.

HK shopping again...

apres le deluge...

boat
Originally uploaded by little nemo in slumberland.

bleak house

commerce
Originally uploaded by little nemo in slumberland.

the derelict mall on the way to lunch

amsterdam

amsterdam
Originally uploaded by little nemo in slumberland.

palace

palace
Originally uploaded by little nemo in slumberland.

part of the project we are working on.

volcano

volcano
Originally uploaded by little nemo in slumberland.

this is a gift to the city of macau, apparently.

hourly

hourly
Originally uploaded by little nemo in slumberland.

there is a hotel called the virginia hourly hotel, also in kowloon. shoppong in hong kong is great fun; upstairs off the main shopping areas there are many micro malls; some, like trendy zone, are multi storey places with prominent entrances and escalators that take you into low-ceilinged labyrinths of tiny shops, others, like yau shing are shops that cluster around the stair and lift wells so that at each floor the lift opens out into a different shop, the only obvious sign at street level being a long queue for the lift. each mall tends to be devoted exclusively to a particular product type; trendy zone shops sell youth fashions, yau shing, AV equipment, there are others that just sell models and model kits, or mens fashion and formal wear. It's very convenient way to look for things, rather than the western model where the same mix of different franchise shops is repeated over and over again; granny mays, just jeans, homeart, wendy;s... ad nauseum.

i stayed overnight in hk last saturday and was woken at 5:45am by yelling and amplified voices booming off the surrounding buildings, i couldn't understand what the voices were saying [mostly cantonese] and when i looked out the window nathan rd was filled with people all running north. My first thought was that a terrible disaster had struck tsim sha tsui and everyone was desperately running for mong kok; the voises were telling them to keep calm and move north in an orderly fashion. as i woke up a little, i noticed that they had all managed to find appropriate running gear, in spite of the panic. Actually, they didn't seem all that panicked, and maybe there was no disaster after all.

26th hk marathon.

i could have entered had i not been so absorbed in my own shopping marathon...

emperor

emperor
Originally uploaded by little nemo in slumberland.

kowloon neon. world of exciting promises [and shopping]

shanghai st

shanghai st
Originally uploaded by little nemo in slumberland.

saw great japanese chef's knives but they were all right handed.

last ferry to central

hk night 3
Originally uploaded by little nemo in slumberland.

look; skyscrapers are scraping the sky.

ah, fashion

hk night2
Originally uploaded by little nemo in slumberland.

returning from a shopping frenzy in kowloon, all dressed up, and surely over the baggage limit for my return to australia.