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Moving Soon?
Dec 20
- Are you moving to/from/on Lamma soon? We can highly recommend....
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Stumbling Randomly
Dec 17 - Stumbling
Randomly through Pak Kok on a recent warm December day.
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Jan 22: Tai Peng Sprinkling
Man
Lamma's local celebrity
Tai Peng Man,
created by Chris, in the
Tai Peng Community Garden
has been out of order for quite
some time. Now he's sprinkling
again, watering the lily pond on
demand. Don't resist the urge to
press the Big Button when
walking by!
I also couldn't resist a few
"creative experiments" with the
photo by senior TPGC member
Geoff Smith:
(click to enlarge)
Jan 18: Do You Like Going in Circles?
Do you like
going around in circles?
How about doing
it on the ocean off Power
Station Beach?
In a real
dragonboat?
With old and new
Lamma friends? With drinks, plus
BBQ (next Sun, Jan
27) afterwards?
Stop by at PS
Beach this or next Sunday and
have a try; you might love it!
Claudia
writes:
"Training #1, last weekend:
8.02 km - moving time 55 mins,
max. speed 13.4km/hr (men boat)
Great turnout and great rack!"
Jan 15: Porcine Vandals @
Tai Peng Garden
Geoff Smith
("Visual Storyteller" in the
Closed (apply to join!)
Lamma Gardeners FB
group) writes:
"Porcine vandals are a real
headache in the Tai Peng Community Garden, so I'm
building a big beautiful wall on
the southern border. Call it a
fence or bamboo slats if you
wish, the important point is
that the pigs are going to pay
for it."
Group members replied:
"Don't worry all
democratically minded TaiPengers
support you!! Make TPCG GREAT
again!!"
"They're bringing oinks,
they're bringing grunts and some
of them, some of them are
probably good pigs."
(Tai Shan pigs, photo by Guy
Miller)
Geoff replies:
"Don't be too complacent -
there are about 4,000 of these
crossing into the garden every
week."
"Yet more ungulate mayhem,
so I have declared a State of
Emergency. All able-bodied Tai
Peng residents are to report for
wall-building duties at 6am
tomorrow."
This topic erupted all over
Lamma Facebook groups. Here's
one after this story in HK Free
Press was published:
Introduce hunters or natural
predators to curb Hong Kong's
wild pig population, says
lawmaker
Comments in the Closed
Lamma Island Uncensored
group (apply to join if
you live here).
P.S. All
Jan 10: Beware of Online Deception
Warning leaflets distributed by
the Lamma Police, see above.
It's become such a growing
problem all over HK with
increasing financial losses, the
police has even set up an
Anti-Deception Coordination
Centre.
This Centre is a great resource
with fun illustrations, check it
out!
   
Jan 4: Generative
Adversial Networks
Art Machines: International
Symposium on Computational Media
Art
Recognise anybody? Ex-Lammaite
Ellen Pearlman
presenting her
Artificially Intelligent Brain
Opera!
I've
been dabbling in computer
graphics and
animation for 38 years,
exhibiting in quite a few art
galleries overseas, Hong Kong
and Lamma Island.
Recently, I've become addicted,
er, fascinated by generating
loads of Deep Dreams, using Deep
Learning AI neural networks. A
few of my recent creative
experiments:
https://deepdreamgenerator.com/u/lammagung
 
So when I heard about this
int'l, academic
Art Machines symposium
in CityU's School of Creative
Arts, I couldn't resist to
attend. I had to catch the very
first morning ferry, returning
on the last ferry tonight, a
first for semi-retired me, but
not for the fellow Lammaites I
met.
Very inspirational it was and I
learnt a lot about applying
Artificial Intelligence methods
in various art forms. Meeting
one current and one former Lammaite at
the symposium was a big surprise
as well. We're a very creative
lot here, but computer art is
still a rare, unappreciated
novelty on Lamma and in HK in
general.
Expect some new directions in
the weird stuff I like to
create, learning about the most
recent AI research in GANs
(Generative Adversial Networks).
P.S. Here's
some of my old stuff:
http://Lamma.com.hk/L-G
Dec 29: 3D-Printed Fridge
Magnets
Local products spotted on YSW
Main Street (where the former
"Policebox" had been located for
decades.)
Are high-tech design &
manufacturing processes coming
to our usually (weekdays) sleepy
fishing village?
Dec 25 ~
Christmas Day:
Delicious!
Christmas Set Lunch/Dinner @
Jing Jing Bar & Restaurant
(managed by
Joyce Ruzol) on YSW Main
Street, yesterday & today.
It's become our yearly
tradition, as we just love
Master Chef
Marlon Merlin's wonderful
food!
Click for more pictures and
comments:
Dec 24:
Merry Christmas & Happy Holidays!
Dec 22:
Moving Soon?
So many new people are moving
into our village these months,
slowly filling up the new
village houses built around our
home (11 at last count, within
the last and next few years, all
less than 100 metres away).
Are you moving to/from/on Lamma
soon? We can highly recommend our
own longtime movers who have moved
our lots-of-stuff household
several times in the last 10+
years.
Trade Winds Transport's
Steve Dressler
writes (after I posted this old
photo):
"Thanks
Lamma Gung
for jogging my memory!
That was a special day moving
boxes along the jetty on a
UNICYCLE! These days though, we
use mostly Sampans, Gaidos &
FOUR wheels to move you to or
from Lamma Island.
See
you soon along Lamma Main Street
where the Trade Winds have been
blowing since 1991...."
Contact them via their
website or
Facebook.
P.S.
Stories/photos from some of
their many Lamma moves:
Trade Winds at my Back!
Moving Like the Trade Winds...
Dec 21:
Christmas Menus
A few non-Chinese Lamma
restaurants are putting up
special Christmas menus. But so
far I've seen only
Jing Jing and
Blue Goose's Xmas menus.
What's happening in the others?
The menu we'll be enjoying
ourselves is being offered by
Jing Jing Bar & Restaurant,
like almost every year, prepared
by master chef Marlon
Merlin!
Call or click
below to reserve:
They even have a
fine video to
promote their cozy place,
produced by Nick Lamma:
Dec 20:
Choco Kindness vs. Satan Claus?
Two
Typically Lamma! events happening this
Sat,
Dec 22:
These two events happening
within just a few hours and a
few metres from each other on
YSW Main Street will offer
"light movement and breath
activation guided by live
chanting and Shamanic drumming -
Connection with self, music and
individual work and alignment"
and "festive carols galore
and jokes so bad they wouldn't
make it into a Poundsaver
Christmas cracker. Hosted by a
not very scary Satan, Gandhi and
some culturally diverse guests."
P.S. This photo
below looks like a
mini-exhibition at the beginning
of the YSW ferry pier, by
Lamma's most famous artist &
musician,
Harry Krishna
(click to find out his real
name).
He'll be performing tomorrow
this Sat in one of the two
events he designed the below
posters for. He even iPhoned
this artsy photo, a true
multi-talent:
Dec 17:
Stumbling Randomly
Stumbling Randomly
through Pak Kok on a warm
December day recently.
This is kind of an update of my
Dec 2016 photo album:
Dec 16:
LI-BAR-RY @ Ground Zero
A few close-up pre-sunset shots
from BEFORE
Ground Zero - Lamma Rave,
the "Thumping, Thundering Techno
Rave" yesterday.
Starting only after my bedtime,
I'd welcome night pictures from
actual ravers for the
Lamma-zine.
Dec 15:
Thundering Techno!
It's happening again tonight!
One of the DJs is a sought-after
Internet guru and has been
helping us with the upcoming
mobile version of this website.
Lamma Book Club
(such a harmless, unassuming
name for a Thundering Techno
Rave organizer) writes:
"Get ready for some thumping
thundering Techno on an amazing
location with magnificent ocean
views over Hong Kong; Ground
Zero!
We
will bring you a night of
banging Techno music by 6 DJ's,
the whopping 6000 watt L.B.C.
sound system and light show, a
stunning location, and a bunch
of HK's best ravers :)
The
location, Lamma Ground Zero is
ABSOLUTELY amazing. You will
want to be there! We will share
the location with going guests
on the morning of the 15th."
If you're still unclear about
the "secret location", it'll
happen in the same amazing
location as previous Lamma Raves
(NOT Jungle Boogies @ Open
Space!):
Dec 14:
Delicious Joint Art Exhibition
Last 3 days to visit the
Joint Art Exhibition at the
Lamma Art Collective.
These original artworks could
make unique, very special, but
affordable Christmas presents
for your art-loving friends!
Open tomorrow Saturday,
noon-6pm; Sunday, 12pm-8pm.
Famous Lamma Gourmet shop in
coloured pencil picture by Lamma
artist resident artist
#annbaldoni. Her artworks
are represented at the
exhibition, together with
several colourful Brazilian
artists.
Dec 4:
Think Greener, Dream Bigger
Proposed
building a green memorial park
at landfill, with the site
fuelled by biogas. Renovate
containers with solar panels to
be used as columbaria in the
memorial park.
HK Electric writes:
"4
Dec 2018 - On top of
promoting energy efficiency and
conservation, some teams taking
part in this year's HK Electric
"Green Energy Dreams Come
True" competition came up
with innovative projects
addressing both green and social
issues in Hong Kong.
Champion for 2018 was HKUGA
College. The team initiated an
energy-saving competition on
campus and installed solar
panels on the rooftop of the
school building to study the
effectiveness of energy
conservation and the use of
renewable energy:"
"First runner-up was Christian
Alliance SW Chan Memorial
College who proposed to turn a
landfill area into a memorial
park through greening. Besides
using biogas from the landfill
to power the site, they also
suggested converting cargo
containers into columbaria
powered by solar panels,
addressing the issues of land
shortage and conservation, as
well as the opposing views about
landfill and columbaria often
heard from the public.
Projects from HKSKH Bishop Hall
Secondary School and Leung Shek
Chee College both came third.
The former suggested using
remote sensors to monitor if
home appliances were switched
off to help the underprivileged
to save on energy, while the
latter produced an MTV featuring
a rap dance to promote green
messages on social media.
Now
in its fourth year, the
"Green Energy Come True"
competition has been encouraging
secondary school students to
promote energy efficiency,
renewable energy and energy
sustainability. This year, 13
teams and their green dream
proposals were short-listed.
Each team was allotted seed
money of up to HK$50,000 by HK
Electric and was paired with a
young engineer or professional
from the Company to act as their
mentor and guide, helping the
students to realise their
dreams...."
Produced a mobile greenhouse
powered by solar panels for
educational purpose.
Read more...
Dec 3:
Views from Ocean Park
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Just a few pictures from our
trip to
Ocean Park today...
P.S. I'm
getting too "mature" for their
craziest "Hair Raiser"
rollercoaster. First ride on it
ever today, but probably my last
ever as well! It's no fun
anymore, just violent shaking
and rattling! It took quite a
while for my queasy tummy to
settle down afterwards....
Back to my less violent
activities, like climbing up the
mast and/or jumping off the
Macau Tower again soon....
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