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Fireworks Ferry Schedule

Dec 31 - "Special Ferry Services Arrangement On 31 December 2023."

Nick the Bookman: 21 Years on Lamma.com.hk

Dec 30 - Nick has been the most frequently featured personality.

LAMMA 2024: Unleash the Thrill!

Dec 29 - "LAMMA is gearing up to its most extraordinary..."

Xmas Song of Lamma Island

Dec 25 - "...enjoy Lamma Island, share joy and gather..."

Very Happy Holidays

Dec 24 - ...from Lamma.com.hk

Where to Shop & Eat Until NY

Dec 23 - Opening hours of some YSW restaurants & shops.

Xmas by 生活。南丫 Together Lamma

Dec 20 - Christmas Picnic with Piacere Winds & Xmas Lamma Pop-up.

Shot 6 Times!

Dec 19 - My 6th free Covid-19 shot yesterday. But I didn't even get a free coffee for my 6 stamps!

Wall Calendar 2024

Dec 13 - AI-assisted images created for a group popup exhibition in an abandoned house.

YSW Xmas Photos & Videos

Dec 10 - "The most glorious day on Lamma Island this Saturday!"

Folk Festival & Christmas Market

Dec 6 - Market Stalls, Charity Giving & a visit from Santa.

Nick's Uncensored Funday '23 Review

Dec 1 - The uncensored, unedited comments from Nick's notebook.

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Dec 31:  Fireworks Ferry Schedule

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Dec 30:  Nick the Bookman:
                 21 Years on Lamma.com.hk

Laudable Lamma Luminary Nick has been the most frequently featured personality on this website.

For year's end, I've collected his major appearances over the last 21 years, including his writings about many diverse topics, but most prominently his amazing music reviews.

This also serves as a little odyssey through 2 vibrant decades of this website. Enjoy:

'02 Sep 13 The Book, Man
  Oct 2 Nick the Bookman & DJ & Concert Critic
  Oct 18 Winners of our Coolest Online Identity competition!
  Nov 18 'Psychedelic as Hell!'
'03 Feb 12 'Fa-a-ark, Fo-wock...Fa-a-ark, Fo-wock…'
'04 Sep 8 'If Hong Kong were the United States, then Lamma Island would be San Francisco.'
  Oct 15 Lonely Planet Filming Nick
  Dec 11 Nick's Big 5-0 Party!
  Dec 15 C U N L Years?
'05 Mar 5 Gandalf on Mushrooms
  Jun 10 Nick's Big Night Out
'06 Feb 24 Nick the Bookman - Historic Photos Discovered
'08 Dec 12 Here Come the Robots...
'09 Nov 19 Flock'n'clap Highlights
'10 Feb 24 'Best Wedding I've Ever Witnessed'
  May 9 'From Ululating Squeaks to Germanic Guttural Growls and Roars'
'11 Apr 19 Lammaniacs & His Bobness in HK
  Jul 22 Nick the TVman
  Dec 24 Flocking & Clapping @ West Kowloon
'12 Mar 2 Two Weddings and a Funeral
'13 Jun 28 Gravitic Lividity in the SpaceTimeContinuum
  Dec 12 The Encyclo-delic Bearded Selectah
'14 May 28 Voodoo-riffic, Swamp-a-delic Purple Haze
  Jun 5 It's a "Starless and Bible-Black" Night
  Jul 24 How's Nick These Days?
  Sep 18 Keyboard Short-Circuited by the Tears of a Clown
  Nov 4 Halloween DJ Night
  Dec 1 Nick's Clockenflapping
'15 Jan 21 'Dick & Sue Will Be Pissed to Miss This Gig!'
  Jan 31 'My life is analog. Random chaos.'
  May 2 ShelterBoxing @ Island Bar
'16 Apr 10 Nick Loves Selfies
  Jun 18 Nick the Bookman: 'I'm a Lamma Man!'
  Jul 13 Touristy Girls & Nick the Bookman
  Jul 22 'Groovealicious Melodies vs. Götterdämmerung Tempest'
  Sep 6 'Jeezly Goobers!'
  Oct 20 The Hunter, the Bookman and the Hip & Happy Hippy
  Nov 8 Nick Had To Wear A Suit and Give a Speech
  Nov 16 Floccinaucinihilipilificators
'17 Jul 2 DOWN & UP
  Jul 19 'The Niceness of Lamma Folk'
  Sep 13 Nick & Peter's Psychedelic Selfie
  Nov 18 Bizarrely Fascinatingly Oddballily Brilliant
'18 Mar 19 Föllakzoid: 'Veering between mind-expanding wonderment and mind-numbing exasperation.'
  Nov 21 'I Believe In...'
'19 May 28 Lamma's Da Vinci
'20 Jan 27 Nick the YouTube Star
  Apr 29 Professors Visiting
  Sep 29 'Old Nick' the Bookman
'21 Jan 25 Nick & Bernie
  Apr 7 Nick's Antique Name Card
  Nov 28 Nick the Promoter
'22 Jun 19 Nick's SCMPost Magazine Profile
  Oct 30 Nick & Naomi @ Halloween
'23 Nov 6 Photogenic Nick
  Dec 1 Nick's Uncensored Funday '23 Review

Music reviews @ Lamma forums

Music reviews @ Nick's Website (1993-2016)

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Dec 29:  LAMMA 2024: Unleash the Thrill!

LAMMA 2024: Unleash the Thrill -
Win a POLARIS Sportsman 570!

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Dec 25:  Xmas Song of Lamma Island 南丫島鐘聲

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Dec 24:  Very Happy Holidays

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Dec 23:  Where to Shop & Eat Until NY

Opening hours of some YSW restaurants & shops between Christmas and New Year, as far as known.

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Dec 20:  Xmas by 生活。南丫 Together Lamma

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Dec 19:  Shot 6 Times!

My 6th free Covid-19 shot yesterday. But I didn't even get a free shot of coffee for my 6 stamps! Maybe after 8 or 10 shots?

The leaflet with all the "Very Common Side Effects" (more than 1 in 10 people) makes me kind of "disappointed" (and happy!) that I've never experienced any side effect yet so far!

On the other hand, I suffered a single-day nasty Covid attack with 39-degree fever earlier this year, just weeks after the public mask mandate had finally been lifted, after almost 3 years. I might have become a serious hospitalised patient without the shots?

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Dec 13:  Wall Calendar 2024

My Wall Calendar 2024:
AI-assisted images created for a group popup exhibition in an abandoned house earlier this year. ALL the images were based on my single photo of the empty exhibition room. Click on any picture to enlarge and view the other monthly images.

Like it? Want one or a few? $126 is the pure printing cost, no profit for me. It can also be personalised, for example a different text on the cover. Free personal delivery anywhere in HK, preferably close to an MTR station. Email me.

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Dec 10:  YSW Xmas Photos & Videos

Video by Jeffrey De Ramos, photo from Katie Flowers. She writes: "The most glorious day on Lamma Island this Saturday! Bands on in all the bars, all kinds of dance in the bars and streets!

Swing dance, HKMorris, Irish dancers too! Music from Shetland, Cape Breton, Yung Shue Wan, many Lamma and off-Lamma folk musicians of all kinds and the whole day culminated in an array of jams in Beer Shack HK and Banyan Bay Cafe!

So proud of this island! Thanks Aleks and Sean and Dave Wilkinson for pulling it all together!"

Dec 6:  Folk Festival & Christmas Market

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Dec 1:  Nick's Uncensored Funday '23 Review

Click above to read the uncensored, unedited comments by Nick written in his notebook.
Nick has lost it by now, so there only remains a digital record of the review by this totally tech/Internet-free person.


P.S. The Funday raised raised a record-breaking HK$246,304 at the 20th Lamma Fun Day! Children Welfare Scheme writes:

"Thank you again to all the volunteers, musicians, auction donors, runners, bakers, cooks, market stallholders, sponsors, Lamma restaurants and businesses and EVERYONE that contributed to the event's success."

 
 
 

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