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Dec 31 - Lamma
Spotlights of the Week, Dec 31:
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Dec 28 - What were your
favourite Lamma-zine stories this year? Any? Here are my
own, personal selections:
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Dec 27 - Advertising
and marketing your products and services, for free!
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Dec 26 - See the full
story in the SCMP print edition.
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Dec 25 - Click below to
see the whole cards.
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Dec 24 - A seasonal,
wall-sized Christmas Card from the same group of
graffiti artists - The Wild Ones - who painted
(legally)...
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Dec 23 - "Holly
Jolly Christmas and New Year Room Package and Candle
Light Dinner For Two."
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Dec 22 - Story and
pictures about a pilot project of rice planting and
harvesting on long abandoned S.
Lamma farmland.
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Dec 21 - Last day of
Lamma Chimneys ~ 'My Garden - My Friend' ~ Afternoon
breakfast
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Dec 20 - Masterpieces,
Every clicks donates, AmiBongo's fundraising family bike
tour, 'My Garden - My Friend' book,...
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Dec 19 - Jing Jing
means "Perfect Essence" in Chinese, often used as a
girl's name.
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Dec 18 - Debra Morris
is a former Artist of the Month and a long-time,
frequent Lamma Artwork of the Week contributor.
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Dec 16 - Good news for
us HK Electric customers! ...tariff would be frozen for
another year.
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Dec 13 - It's basically
tearing down and rebuilding of the YSW Library as a
3*1,000 sqft building.
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Dec 12 - Helena
Harrison:
"Transporting Christmas trees Lamma style"
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Dec 11 - Both posters
were done by professional artists, Harry Harrison and 3D
animator/ professor Mike Robinson.
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Dec 10 - Pick up this
free wall calendar from a table outside Lammadonna's,
err, District Councilor Yu Lai Fan's office.
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Dec 9 - Click for
Around HK Island Race, Nov 16, 2014 photo album.
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Dec 8 - Lamma
Spotlights of the Week, Dec 8: Lunchtime, Night at the
Beach, Wendy's Musings, Snail Fight, R.I.P. Mr.
DickStock.
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Dec 7 - 16 years of
Lamma Treasure Hunt, Sun, Dec 7, The Island Bar; for
Operation Santa Claus HK.
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Dec 6 - Awarded by the
Lamma Outrigger Canoe Club!
Click above for details.
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Dec 5 - "We love
Lamma's creative community, and getting folks together
for coffee and..."
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Dec 4 - Posters above
and below submitted by Harry Harrison. Plus a picture by
Frazer of the Treasure Hunt in 2000!
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Dec 3 - Project X can
be ridden in a few variations, the most...
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Dec 2 - Lamma
Spotlights of the Week, Dec 1.
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Dec 1 - One of us 3
Lamma-zine freeloaders, errr, Media representatives at
Clockenflap, became a center of attraction.
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Lamma Spotlights of the Week, Dec 31:
Umbrella Beauty @ YSW's Old Jetty, Traditional Chinese Archery, Executive
Coaching, Millipede, Tree Creature ~
by Karlo Vera Cruz, lyc hkfyg, Carole Lewis, Rambler, Us Ed Pencil.
What were your favourite Lamma-zine stories this year? Any?
Here are my own,
personal selections, just one story per month:
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Welcoming 2014 on Mt. Stenhouse
Jan 1 - Stone sign and
photo by the Ed Williams family... climbing Mt.
Stenhouse today. |
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Feb 28 - "...raise
the awareness on prevention of this nature of crime in
the Lamma Community." |
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Mar 1 -
"Party
Purpose: to drive out recently-awoken egg-layers, incl.
snakes, centipedes etc...." |
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Apr 1 - "How do two
ex-Lamma residents meet? Neither Jules Meaney nor Bike
Mike had ever encountered ... on Lamma." |
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May 25 - Last night in
the Dragon Saloon, err, The Island Bar... |
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Jun 19 - "Lamma
Island tends to attract birds of a feather - laid-
back types who enjoy nature..." |
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Jul 30 -
Ferocious strongman,
proud PhD scholar and cheerful beer keg delivery man,... |
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Aug 28 -
"This
spider just bit me, and then the orange-assed waspy
thing bit the spider." |
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Sep 24 - Lammaite
Pascale has been bitten by a bright green Bamboo Pit
Viper in the Yung Shue Long valley 4 days ago. |
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Oct 30 - Have you ever
missed the just leaving ferry... and it returned to pick
you up? |
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Nov 12 - Get a free
drink from me if you figure out the meaning of these 3
symbols! |
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Dec 9 - Click for
Around HK Island Race, Nov 16, 2014 photo album.
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All photos taken outside The Island Bar,
published on the
OSC
website.
First photo shot by Daniel Clarke, NOT me!
Plus the full story in the SCMP print edition
Click below to see the whole cards:
A seasonal, wall-sized Christmas Card from the same group of graffiti
artists - The Wild Ones - who painted (legally) the
Yung
Shue Wan Plaza,
Fountain
Head Bar, outside
back walls of Love's Dance Studio building,
plus other walls around YSW and all over Hong Kong.
P.S. It's been an eventful, sometimes Wild Year on Lamma Island!
Thanks for being a part of it. Click below for my slideshow of Lamma events
2014:
Jing Jing Bar:
Click above for a story and pictures about a pilot project of rice planting
and harvesting on a piece of long abandoned farmland in South Lamma.
Last day of Lamma Chimneys ~ 'My Garden - My Friend'
Afternoon breakfast &
Today Lunch Specials at LaLa mama's (click to enlarge)
Enjoying the last Lamma Chimneys outside Fa Fa House,
the organic restaurant/gardening shop (Fri-Mon)
Chin. bakery Tak Fook moving, no more rest. ~ New vinyl records shop outside
Bookworm Cafe on weekends (click to enlarge)
Lamma Spotlights of the Week, Dec 19:
Masterpieces, Every clicks donates, AmiBongo's fundraising family bike tour,
'My Garden - My Friend' book, H.K. Power, Aug '97;
by: Sean Creamer, Alain Jaquier, Bing N David Sanders, Rachel Sutherland.
Jing
Jing means "Perfect Essence" in Chinese, often used as a girl's
name. It's a fitting description for this Christmas Set above we enjoyed
there this evening. I helped Joyce, our cheerful host, to proofread,
format and print the Christmas menu above, so Lamma-Por and I were eager to
try it as soon as it became available, (Dec 18-26).
For a detailed review, see my frequently updated
Bar & Restaurants News.
Last night in
Banyan Bay Cafe (Cath's Bar):
Debra Morris is
a former
Artist of the Month ("My Lamma Monthly E-zine" #21 - Mon, Apr 28,
2003) and a long-time, frequent
Lamma Artwork of the Week contributor. More info and how to contact
her, maybe even buy one of her amazing paintings:
Bar & Restaurant News...
Good news for us HK Electric customers!
"HK Electric announced today that the net tariff would be frozen for
another year. All 560,000 HK Electric customers will enjoy the same net
tariff in 2015 as in 2013, averaging at 134.9 cents per unit of electricity.
Addressing a meeting of the Legislative Council's Economic Development
Panel, Mr. Wan Chi-tin, Managing Director of HK Electric said he is
delighted to have honoured the pledge of freezing the tariff for another
year. He remarked that last year when HK Electric announced the 2014-2018
Five Year Development Plan, the net tariffs were forecast to remain
unchanged for five years...
Mr. Wan stressed that HK Electric will strive to keep costs under control
as it continues to provide customers with a highly reliable electricity
supply and world-class services."
Read more...
Click to enlarge and view the whole e-newsletter.
"The "Green Hong Kong Green" (GHKG) programme,
jointly organised by HK Electric and The Conservancy Association
(CA), has raised public awareness on eco-friendliness, and has
deepened people's understanding and appreciation of local
eco-heritage resources. We are happy to see that the
eight eco-heritage routes
launched last year have attracted nearly 3,000 participants for
some 200 tours organised...
"Under the GHKG programme, eight eco-heritage
routes have been developed for Hong
Kong and Lamma Islands with education panels
installed en-route. Eco-maps and a
"Green HK Green App" featuring the major
characteristics and access information of the routes have been
produced for free.
"More than 150 eco-leaders have been trained
to conduct monthly tours. Interested parties can sign up with CA
for the tours, or they can make use of the tools developed to
plan their own tours. For details, simply download the "Green HK
Green App", browse CA's website at
www.cahk.org.hk or call 2728 6781."
View more HK Electric press releases, videos, newsletters,
publications...
The next next major development project, sometime after
completion of the YSW Ferry Pier Bike Park, is gazetted on
the notice board right now for the mandatory 14-day period,
till Dec 18:
It's basically tearing down and rebuilding of the Bike Park-adjacent YSW
Library as a 3*1,000 sqft building. It's already approved and
budgeted by the Islands District Council.
It's even got a very catchy and pretty short name already:
"The Yung Shue Wan Library cum Heritage and Cultural
Showroom"
This will obviously be a much larger, much more expensive and
much more time-consuming project than the little bike platform
they've been building for most of this year. And despite the new
name, it'll still be (mostly) a library on the upper two floors.
What should be displayed to Lamma visitors inside the future
Heritage and Cultural Showroom? What special, even unique
aspects of Lamma's Heritage and Culture would you like to see
displayed to the arriving tourists, just off the ferry pier? The
planned photos of Ye Olde Lamma won't be enough.
Any good (and bad) ideas?
Post them in our forum!
P.S. Dec 16: Artist's Impression of the future library
(note the bike-free ferry pier and the Bike Park platform in the
background, currently under construction):
Helena Harrison: "Transporting Christmas trees Lamma style"
 
Lamma event promotions are getting more and more professional. See these TWO
professional posters, plus extensive social media promos, even a
DJ computer animation, all for this Friday's DJ Night and fundraiser for Sue Shearman's
current cancer treatment.
Both posters were done by professional artists,
Harry Harrison and 3D animator/professor
Mike Robinson.
There's even a "new DJ mix uploaded! A taste of what I might play this
Friday night at Lamma Grill" on MixCloud, a kind of homage to DJ
Homei's friend, famous Lamma DJ
Barnaby
Bruce:
Balearic Barney - Mixed by DJ Homei. I'm listening to this "cloudcast"
right now while typing these words and like it a lot! It's #41 in their
charts now, Top Ten soon?
"Yung Shue Wan is
one of the most prosperous areas on Lamma Island. It is famous
for European and seafood cuisine. The day and night scenes of
Yung Shue Wan are spectacular."
No Lamma Calendar this year, so where to get a calendar with at least a few
Lamma images, ideally for free? I've got a tip for you:
Pick up this wall calendar above from the table outside Lammadonna's, err,
District Councilor Yu Lai Fan's office (just beyond Lamma Gourmet and Cath's
Bar).
It's produced by the Outlying Islands District Council and features touristy
photos of HK's islands, including Lamma.
Some of the photos are the same as last year's and their quality is not
quite up to professional wall calendar (or
Lamma Photo of the Week) standards, but hey, it's free and has
some Feng Shui advice thrown in!
Plus it comes with a little Cantonese soup recipe booklet, produced by the
DAB, with a foreword by Lammadonna! A sure collector's item!?
 
 
 
 
 
 
 
Click for
Around HK Island Race, Nov 16, 2014 photo album
Many thanks to fellow Nikonian Jean Gorguet for lending
me his long bird watching lens, err, Lamma Outrigger watching lens for the
day!
Here's my most popular long-distance photo (most Facebook
Likes), a "sea change": 3 paddlers swimming up to the canoe
after jumping off the support boat, replacing 3 exhausted
paddlers. Click to enlarge, Like or Comment:
Lamma Spotlights of the Week, Dec 8:
Lunchtime, Night at the Beach, Wendy's Musings, Fighting for a Snail, R.I.P.
Mr. DickStock by: Ronald Sastrawan, Simon Kay, Wendy, Rambler, Lamma Gung.
Lamma Spotlights Archive Gallery
16 years of Lamma
Treasure Hunt, Sun, Dec 7,
The Island Bar;
for Operation Santa Claus
HK
Plus a picture by Frazer of the (almost) first Treasure Hunt in 2000!
Many of these Lammaites still live here or have spread around the world.
Click above to locate some of your friends & acquaintances, 14 years ago.
For more my photos of the last 10 years,
you can search for "Treasure Hunt" at the top of this website.
Awarded by the Lamma Outrigger Canoe Club! Click above for details.
Megan Tanner will host this market in her
family's flat and garden. She writes:
"We love Lamma's creative community, and
getting folks together for coffee and some craft-appreciation in
the December sunshine is always gonna be a great idea. With this
in mind, we are very happy to announce that the next Hung Shing
Ye Handcraft market will be held on Saturday December the 6th,
from 12noon until 5pm.
Watch this space for updates on the stalls
and artists we'll have joining us this time around, and please
do get in touch if you'd like to contribute your craftiness to
the afternoon!"
 Signed
on so far: Hand Made Market
Acts Of Kindness
Lynne the Storyteller's Over the Moon
Catchasa scarves; Stephanie Mae's upcycling
Artsy Party Faces, Abigail Wong's artworks, Grahame Collins
Photography
Sam Chun's upcycled jewelry
MicroGardens/new book 'My Garden-My Friend'
Donations for Medecins Sans Frontieres, etc.
Plus loads of food and drinks:
"Mincepies! Jams! Chutneys! Yoghurt Cheese Balls! Vanilla
Sugar! Dukkah! Pesto! Lemon Curd! Almond Butter!" ... plus
Tony the Coffee Guy!
More details, links and info...
Posters above and below submitted by Harry Harrison
What Is the
Lamma Island Treasure Hunt? (Website)
Plus my photo galleries of most former Treasure Hunts:
  
(Photos by
Pk101)
HKMBA website:
"Upon arrival at Lamma's Yung Shue Wan ferry pier, a quick
dodgem ride through the bustling narrow streets will lead you up
the hill to our first stop at Tai Peng Village. Here we will
split into two groups. The more hardcore riders will tackle
Project X while the leisurely group will enjoy the 'Cable' Roads
and village paths looping back eventually to Yung Shue Wan Main
Street.
Project X can be ridden in a few variations, the most
popular starts with undulating technical singletrack resulting
in a difficult climb of rock gardens and switchbacks. A short
breather at the top and then a 4 minute adrenaline rush of steep
boulder fields and dusty singletrack. Choose your line wisely,
the obvious route just may be the most difficult.
Some of the local riders will be on hand to support the
ride and offer advice on how to approach specific sections."
Find out more about mountainbiking and its dangers on Lamma and why I won't
be joining this Sunday's, Dec 7,
Rock up 'n' Ride. ;-)
Lamma Spotlights of the Week, Dec 1:
View from The Peak, The Lamma Islanders' Message to Criminals! Clockenflap
2014 photo galleries, Lamma Fun Day Cobra, Wild at Art Mandala Workshop;
by Yumiko Ueno, The Expats, Clockenflap, Mike Middleton, Katie Flowers.
One of us 3 Lamma-zine freeloaders, errr, Media representatives at
Clockenflap,
became a center of attraction. This scene even appeared on the live YouTube
feed of the festival!
I'm looking forward to Nick's review and the full story behind this
picture... (Twitter photo submitted by Heather)
What we know so far, from Heather:
"This was at Dan Deacon on the Replay stage on Sunday.
Dan picked two random audience members to start a dance-off and one just
happened to be Nick (who was trying to write it all down at the same time).
He called them 'Guy in the shiny pants' and 'Older version
of guy in the shiny pants with long beard'. (It was a great set
- ask Nick about it!)"
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