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Pak Kok Pier
Progress
Sep 12 -
Good progress so far, will it really take almost 3 years to complete and
open?
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SunseToday
Sep 10 -
Plus my best result from playing around with my sunset photo.
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Sep 30:
Pak Kok home office village
houses at sunset; most of them
contain home offices, fully
dependant on reasonable Internet
connectivity.
[Rant-alert on] Since
moving to Lamma almost 20 years
ago, we've been hoping that the
sole Internet Broadband provider
PCCW will improve their fixed
6Mbps broadband service. Instead
they've halved the speed to
3Mbps max. (slowest in HK, no
fibre connection to Internet
backbone, just ancient, medium-speed microwave linkage
for the entire island).
At the same time they've more
than doubled the cost for their
monopoly's subscribers. Now the
HK Govt. has agreed to pay them
for finally installing an
undersea fibre connection to HK
Island. But they'll take 6 YEARS
to install it and then they'll
only connect to the entrances of
only 13 villages (excluding the
few privileged villages already
getting 30Mbps Netvigator). From there
it'll still be using the ancient
copper phone wires to provide a
measly 20Mbps to the houses!
We might all be using 7G
wireless Internet by the time we
get fibre broadband in 6+ years.
In the meantime, more and more
people are abandoning broadband
altogether and using 4G
exclusively. 5G is just becoming
available this year in some
villages from several telecom
providers.
The Lamma-zine will upgrade as
soon as available, but we're
pretty happy so far with our 4G
Wifi hotspot (see below, record
speed so far), publishing and
updating the Lamma-zine almost
daily. Up to 30x the speed at
half the price of PCCW
broadband, but traffic and
weather-dependant. [Rant-alert
off]
More info and discussion...
P.S.
OFCA:
"The Lamma Island project
involves the laying of submarine
optical fiber cables and traffic
and environmental assessments
are required, so it takes a long
time to prepare and complete
related works.
Nonetheless,
the company must be based on
contract conditions on or before
the first quarter of 2026.
OFCA will closely monitor the
company's construction. The
company can complete the project
and provide services to the
villagers as soon as possible."
P.S. II:
Conflicting info from HK Govt.:
Could it be 2022?
Sep 29:
 
 
Photo by Samantha Leigh
of
Phoenix Artisan Collective;
DeepDreaming AI
processing in Google's computing
cloud by
Lamma Gung Art & Photography.
Sep 26:
From the seemingly ancient days
when
Lamma Events & Happenings
were still bountiful, wildly
joyous and happening almost
daily, pre-Covid-19.
Case in
point, this cheerful
Mid-Autumn Festival 2011
in the YSW Football Pitch with
many free, public performances.
Here we see a favourite local
band (The Curs,
full of Laudable Lamma
Luminaries) receiving a little
plastic flag for performing
their rousing, feel-good songs.
Their mock displays of unbridled
joy about receiving this flag as
reward (no fee) for performing
inspired me to create a few
DeepDreams via Google's cloud AI
programs:
 
More about these graphics and
comments from Lammaites:
Unbridled Joy!
Sep 22:
Lamma Matthew:
"The 5th and final in the Apple
Daily's series of stories on
Lamma's unique culture and
characters. This time about
Uncle Yeung and his popular
lizard. The stories are all in
Cantonese only but in my view
are all really good, showing
Lamma in an authentic,
contemporary and positive way.
As far as I can recall none of
them even come close to using
the popular hippy angle."
Links to all 5 recent Lamma
stories & videos in
Apple Daily newspaper
(in Chin., use auto-translate
plug-in in your web browser for
English version):
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About
Uncle Yeung and
his popular lizard mascot.
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Great story about Lamma
resident,
Jim, who busks
most weekends on the path to
Hung Shing Ye beach singing
English and Chinese songs &
playing multiple
instruments.
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A
touching story about
Lamma Brand's JC
and his family.
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Story on
22 Cafe @ Green
Cottage.
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Story on why Lamma doesn't
have any
chain stores
like 711, Wellcome.
Sep 18:
Flying high above Yung Shue Wan,
another great drone photo from
Mark Malby's Mute Planet!
It's a photo bubble and you can
look in all directions by
clicking above.
Zooming out on Mark's Planet
Lamma:
Sep 15:
The
premiere of the interactive
drama "Smart Power Alliance",
commissioned by HK Electric and
produced by iStage, will go live
on the Happy Green Campaign
Facebook page on 10 October
2020.
Media release from HK Electric:
"With Hong Kong going all-out to
tackle the COVID-19 pandemic and
schools getting ready to start a
very different academic year, HK
Electric's Happy Green
Campaign is launching a
trio of new e-learning tools to
meet the online learning needs
of students.
The
trio includes an
animation series, an interactive
drama and a virtual guided tour,
which enable students to know
and experience more about
Smart Power for Smart
City
even if they are required to
learn from home.
Rolling out today (15 September
2020) was the first episode of
the animation series
Smart City Takes Action,
casting the Happy Green
Campaign's spokesmen
Green Kid & Family, who
illustrate how everyone can take
actions to save energy, protect
the environment and live
low-carbon.
The six-episode
series will cover the different
aspects of a smart city and be
launched in phases on the
campaign's Facebook page with
games, quizzes, worksheets and
competitions to add fun and
encourage interaction...."
Happy Green Campaign:
"Supported by the Smart
Power Education Fund,
HK Electric's Happy Green
Campaign promotes energy
efficiency, renewable energy and
low-carbon lifestyle among the
public, in particular the
younger generations.
In
2020, "Happy Green Campaign"
continues to organise various
educational activities on the
theme of "Smart Power for Smart
City". For more details,
please visit here.
"
Sep 12:
Some of the pier's pillars have
been anchored into the seabed
and the first steel girders for
the future walkway are appearing
pretty quickly. Good progress so
far, will it really take almost
3 years to complete and open?
The Aberdeen-Pak Kok ferry
continuing its route to Yung
Shue Wan, a mere 10 minutes from
Pak Kok.
P.S. Sep 14:
Just in, drone photo by Mark
Malby!
Sep 11:
"A playful romp through
world history, Cowries to
Crypto provides an entertaining
account of the creation of
money, from the earliest forms
of barter to the introduction of
coins, paper notes and digital
currencies.
Beautifully narrated
through a series of witty
illustrations (by
Harry Harrison),
this extraordinary book tells
the tale of how money came to
be."
My favourite illustration from
this highly recommended book
(HK$158.40): Chasing crypto
currencies.
Sep 10:
Plus my best result from playing
around with my sunset photo.
It's even more colourful, but I
prefer the original, of course.
Sep 8:
Great in-depth story, interview
and video in Apple Daily
about the head honcho (& family)
of YSW's 2 Lamma Brand shops,
one of them self-service:
Lamma Brand story &
video.
Iconic
photo above also by Apple Daily)
If you encounter a guy looking
quite a bit like the
Lamma-Gung avatar
wearing a worldwide-exclusive,
custom-printed-by-Lamma-Brand
"Lamma-zine" baseball cap, say
hello and I might invite you for
a drink!
Here's an extremely cute mini
painting by a local artist in a
wooden frame which I couldn't
resist buying from JC's main
shop on YSW Main St.
Besides
an eclectic, often hand-made
variety of arts & crafts,
they've also got a wide
selection of really creative,
JC-designed
Lamma-themed T-shirts
and souvenirs! Check out his
shops'
Facebook page.
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