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Jul 30 - We're really
spoilt and blessed with a sunset-facing harbour in Yung
Shue Wan.
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Jul 29 -
"Fortunately, our residents are smart enough not to fall
into the trap and hung up the phone."
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Jul 28 - As the Lamma
Calendar goes into its 5th year of publication...
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Jul 27 - "Property
development project 'Baroque on Lamma' returns!"
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Jul 24 - Lamma
Spotlights of the Week, July 22, 2015, including Primary
School Children.
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Jul 23 - Plus a look
back in ancient history, when the Lamma-zine was still a
monthly publication, 10+ years ago.
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Jul 22 - Rarely have we
seen a storm centered right over Lamma for hours, like
this morning.
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Jul 18 - Getting your
neighbours together for a chat and a few drinks is as
easy as creating a Facebook Event.
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Jul 17 - NEWS all over
this website, forums, Facebook, any print media,
anything, anywhere...
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Jul 16 - It's a still
small, but friendly, helpful, non-commercial and
spam-free Facebook group...
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Jul 14 - Click for more
pictures and beery discussions...
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Jul 9 - The ferry co.
has applied for higher fares for this ferry route,
around 8.33%.
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Jul 8 - Lamma
Spotlights of the Week, July 8, '15.
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Jul 7 - Our monthly
Police Corner, written by our Police Chief, Ms. Camas
TUNG.
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Jul 6 - Webcam shots
from YSW Ferry Pier.
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Jul 5 - Free curry
buffet and drinks attracted on/off-islanders, including
yours truly.
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Jul 4 - Walking through
Sok Kwu Wan Main Street, on our way to look at a
flat,...
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Jul 1 - Our
long-running Lamma Spotlights have 2 new categories:
Person and Bird of the Week!
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So many great sunrises and sunsets these days, we're really spoilt and
blessed with a sunset-facing harbour in Yung Shue Wan and quite a number of
sunset-facing bars & restaurants along the beach. Time to get creative with
our sunset shots to set them apart from all the other fantastic shots!
It started with this shot by Lamma Photo of the Week regular Ronald
Sastrawan, using the
Snapseed mobile app, adding some colours:
My own shot of the same sunset is far less colourful. I couldn't even hold
my camera straight, a beginner's mistake, and had to rotate the photo
afterwards!
Clicked while holding my camera the wrong way:
 
Way too much zoom!
A panorama from my mobile phone looks kind of OK, but blurry and "not
special":
FINALLY, an (almost) acceptable shot! Patience paid off!
P.S. Plus my latest sunset photo gallery, shot today from the
Lamma to Aberdeen ferry.
TUNG Hei-man, Camas
OC Lamma Island & Peng Chau - Cheung Chau Division:
"There is a rising trend of telephone
deceptions in the past few weeks. Many residents living on the
outlying islands have received phone calls from fraudsters who
claim to be staff of an express courier and requested the
residents to provide personal information or deposit money to
claim the parcels under their names. The fraudsters often speak
in Chinese (Cantonese or Mandarin).
Fortunately, our residents are smart enough
not to fall into the trap and hung up the phone without
believing the fraudsters.
While police are conducting investigations to
try and locate the culprits, I hope all of you can protect
yourselves from this kind of crime. Prevention is always better
than cure. In a nutshell, be cautious when receiving phone calls
from strangers, especially anyone who claims to be the staff of
an express courier.
The following key points should be noted:"
Read more...
Deb Lindsay writes:
"Lamma Calendar 2016 - CALLING ALL PHOTOGRAPHERS!
As the Lamma Calendar goes into its 5th year of publication, we're once
again looking for photo submissions for the calendar pages. To submit your
photos to the publisher for consideration, photos must be submitted by
DEADLINE 31st August 2015:"
More info...
Who'll replace my January photo in the last Lamma Calendar?
Quite a lot of great photographers on Lamma, submit your best photos now
(even if they've been a Lamma Photo of the Week before).
(Source: Apple Daily), WhatsApped from a Chinese relative.
Translated by HK Real News:
"Property development project 'Baroque on Lamma', rejected by Town Planning
Board 3 years ago, returns!"
A look back in ancient history, when the Lamma-zine was still a monthly
publication, 10+ years ago. Click for Lamma-zine 1-33:
For the technically minded amongst our readers, some forum stats:
 It's
the rainy/typhoon season, but rarely have we seen a storm centered right
over Lamma for hours, like this morning. This was the Cloud-to-Ground
Lightning map of the
HK Observatory
this morning, just after 8am, smack middle of the commute to HK Island for
many Lammaites.
Numerous modems, laptops and various other electronics were blown out (even
entire flats) and sometimes destroyed, not just fuses blown. Even
the
2 only ATMs on Lamma went out of order. Our only bank HSBC in YSW is
closed today, open only on Tue/Thu/Fri. Our sole
Octopus-add-value facility (YSW ferry pier) stopped working, too.
The
commuter ferries to town were very rough, but there was only a Yellow
Rainstorm warning up for all of (almost lightning-free) HK, so no chance for
a day off work.
Living on Lamma has its many challenges: sometimes only
mobile Internet, seasickness on ferries, no money from ATMs, no
Octopus-adding-value, debris and leaves all over our paths, wet trips by
foot or bike only (no public or private transport!), the occasional flat
leaks and mozzies going crazy for our blood in this weather... and during
most sunrises/sunsets even during great weather... ;~}
But we have a WONDERFUL, MARVELOUS
Bike Park for you now, just opened at the YSW Ferry Pier! Visit
soon, bring your bike(s) on the ferry, lots of space in our new park!
 Getting your neighbours together for a chat and a few drinks is as easy as
creating a Facebook Event these days and inviting them; just a few minutes
online, no calls, paper stuff or anything complicated or
time-consuming! For the numerous Lammaites not on Facebook, msg, call, email
or face-to-face!
My comments after my own Facebook event tonight:
"Thank you to all my Pak Kok neighbours, old and brand-new, who joined us
for our first Meet Your Neighbours get-together in Mrs. Chan's, lasting till
after midnight!
Let's do it again after the summer break next month, expect another FB
invitation from me by then."
This is a newsfeed test at the top of this website, with my up-to-date links
to the latest LAMMA-RELATED NEWS all over this Lamma community website,
forums, Facebook, any print media, anything, anywhere...
Useful?
Any improvement ideas?
Summer sunsets are awesome - by Sean Creamer
Exactly one year ago,
Sean Creamer posted this photo on my Facebook
Timeline, showing a panoramic YSW sunset and me lurking in the
shadows.
The photo spread and has been selected by an Admin (not me) to become the
header of the brand-new
Lamma
Island Hong Kong Facebook group.
It's a still small, but friendly, helpful,
non-commercial and spam-free group from and for Lammaites, started and
moderated only by current Lammaites.
It's kind of like a baby version of our 13-year-old
Lamma forums, but on Facebook. Both co-exist happily, no
competition, supporting each other, growing together.
For free Lamma classifieds, I'd recommend to use my 13
year-old, spam-free
free classifieds forum or these Facebook groups:
Lamma Island Marketplace and
Lamma Mama.
Click for more pictures and beery discussions...
The ferry co. has applied for higher fares for this ferry route, around
8.33%. Click above for the bilingual survey by Lammadonna (Yu Lai
Fan), which has also been distributed to North Lamma residents today.
Fill it in, Chin. or English, and return it, in person at her office just
after Cath's Bar and Lamma Gourmet, or by fax (?!), or
via email.
Lamma Spotlights of the Week,
July 8, '15:
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PHOTO |
Top
of Mt. Stenhouse |
by
Harry |
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VIDEO |
DJI Phantom 2 |
by
Yuriy Shamray |
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PERSON |
Homo
Heidelbergensis |
by
Theo Chalmers |
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WILDLIFE |
What's This? |
by
Rambler |
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BIRD |
White-breasted Kingfisher |
by
Guy R.H. Miller |
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ARTWORK |
Fragile |
by
Debra Morris |
Our long-running Lamma Spotlights have two new categories:
Person and Bird of the Week!
Should we add a Lamma Pet of the Week? Anything else?
Tell me
and send me YOUR Spotlights!
Our monthly Police Corner, written by our Police Chief, Ms. Camas
TUNG (3rd from left), in English & Chinese:
The Good Citizen Award 2015 - Safe Cycling
Click above to find out more...
It doesn't happen every year, but it's not the first time that two friends
and frequent volunteers of this website are getting married to each other.
Congratulations to photographer Grahame and face painter Abigail
(it says so on their marriage license!), getting hitched today in a civil
ceremony in the Beer Garden!
 Free
curry buffet and drinks attracted on- and off-islanders, including yours
truly. But I was too busy chatting all afternoon to take advantage of the
buffet, except the bottle of Dom Perignon 1993!
The Beer Garden is a cozy, leafy, private place to have a drink or get
married; even on a Sunday afternoon almost no tourist guests, as this place
is off Main Street! (Photo by Paul Bayne)
I managed to get a few WhatsApp msgs from the Civil Celebrant, not wanting
to bother the happy couple before their honeymoon in Boracay. Afterwards
they'll return to their "exile" on "4 swimming pools!" Park Island,
the squeaky-clean anti-Lamma/Super Discovery Bay as I choose to call it.
By the way, here's a (staged) photo from Grahame's
stag party a few days earlier.
 Jacky
Miu - "Civil Celebrant of Marriages" - did a great, fun,
cheerful and easy-going job, very appropriate for his very first Lamma
wedding:
"Thank you, Lamma-Gung, for your great idea. I suggest to mention that
Lamma is a very scenic place for tourists, yet a romantic place for lovers
too.
This story is about a newly wedded couple who has chosen to celebrate
their Marriage in Lamma - a place where they knew each other, started their
romance, and now sealed their commitment to each other. For them, Lamma is
exceptionally meaningful, with so many great places, cheerful friends and,
most importantly, fond memories.
 This
is why they've chosen to celebrate their Wedding here, so every time when
they visit Lamma again, they are reminded of their romantic story as well as
their commitment to each other!
I am a solicitor, with 20 years of legal qualification, but I'm an
in-house lawyer. So I do this Celebrant services on weekends and after
office hours only, and I don't take any other legal cases, just do Celebrant
Services for external clients."
Plus a
few more photos? Yes? I thought you'd never ask! A few snapshots
from L-G, the occasional Wedding Photographer:
P.S. July 20: If you can see Grahame's Facebook page, here's his own
Wedding - Honeymoon 2015 album
("Sincere thanks to all who made this a very special day.")
Walking through Sok Kwu Wan Main Street, on our way to look at a flat, this
and similar posters on a building caught our attention. So after a guided
tour of the 1/F flat (more about our Southern flat hunting
here &
here), we joined the July 4th party on the rooftop of the same
building; invited by Megaen as a +2. She's the Lamma-zine's new South Lamma
Correspondent (see Jun 23).
The YSW-Aberdeen ferry broke down completely due to "mechanical poblems", so
we waited for a long time for the next scheduled (tiny backup) ferry. But
the trip was free this time!
 Yes, the few Americans and their good friends living in South Lamma are a
cheerful and friendly bunch! Thank you for all the hospitality and cheerful
company, Bill & friends!
Happy early birthday to Bill! See his new, cheerful avatar with an uncanny
resemblance. He blew out his
cake's candles several days early today, celebrating together with AMERICA!
Lamma Spotlights of the Week,
June 30, '15:
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PHOTO |
View
from the YSW Library |
by
Gareth Gay |
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VIDEO |
Aberdeen Dragonboat Races |
by
DJ Clark |
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PERSON |
Tanya
the Pirate |
by
Tanya Piratay |
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WEBSITE |
HK
Less Traveled: Lamma |
by
Yip Ho Fai |
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WILDLIFE |
Dragonfly |
by
TrashKen |
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BIRD |
Black-eared Kite |
by
Guy R.H. Miller |
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ARTWORK |
Untitled |
by
Abigail Wong |
Our long-running Lamma Spotlights have two new categories: Person and Bird of the Week!
Should we add a Lamma Pet of the Week???
Tell me
and send me YOUR Spotlights!
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