Mono Boss

Mono Boss, originally uploaded by Hina :-).

Dear You,
I miss you, do you miss me?
It's great to know you, try to reach me ok?
I'll be waiting for you.
Love,
Me

食呀食

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猛咁係度食

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Losing......

I'm beginning to lose the feeling of fire between relationships.

There is no point any more.

This is not what I want, but this little me is not even close enough to being able to make a difference.

Screen shot

Screen shot, originally uploaded by Hina :-).

One day, I bought a pack of candy, then i thought, why don't I make a film? And I did. Then, somehow I felt like making a screen shot of me holding the package. So I did too! And at last, I felt like blogging this photo, so there I did again! Bye.

I am..................................................

so inspired right now
so inspired right now
so inspired right now
so inspired right now
so inspired right now
so inspired right now
so inspired right now
so inspired right now
so inspired right now
so inspired right now
so inspired right now
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Jogger shows lightning, iPods don't mix

Thursday Jul 12 06:17 AEST

Here's a handy tip for joggers and lawnmowers: If you think you might get caught in a thunderstorm, leave your music player at home.

Doctors at Vancouver General Hospital in Canada said a 37-year-old jogger wearing an iPod was burned on his chest, neck and face after the man and a nearby tree were struck by lightning in 2005. The burns traced the path of the earphones, they said.

The patient's eardrums were ruptured and the tiny bones in his middle ears were dislocated, the doctors wrote in a letter to the New England Journal of Medicine.

The man's jawbone broke in four places and both jaw joints were dislocated, probably because the electric current made his jaw muscles contract violently, Eric Heffernan, Dr. Peter Munk and Dr. Luck Louis wrote in their letter.

The case parallels that of Colorado teen Jason Bunch, who was struck by lightning while mowing the lawn last year.

The 17-year-old suffered burns to his face and ears and also had his shirt set on fire.

In both cases, the metal in the earphones helped channel the current and cause the injuries, they said.

"Although the use of a device such as an iPod may not increase the chances of being struck by lightning, in this case, the combination of sweat and metal earphones directed the current to, and through, the patient's head," they said.

Heffernan said it's not just iPod headphones that pose a risk: "I think that this has the potential to occur with any sort of headphones," he said.

Two years later, more than half the unnamed patient's hearing is gone and he cannot hear high frequency sounds, even with hearing aids.

"He still jogs, and he bought a new iPod after the incident, but he leaves it at home now when he goes jogging," Heffernan, a radiologist, said.

The National Weather Service has estimated that a person's odds of being struck by lightning are 1 in 5000. About 10 percent of those who are struck die.

"I think the message should be that, in the event that you're jogging and get caught in a thunderstorm, make sure your iPod is not in contact with your skin and remove the earphones from your ear," Heffernan said.

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Ministry of Sound Sessions @ Solas 13th July!!!

Ministry of Sound Sessions represents the best in underground dance music, with album releases from esteemed artists such as Derrick Carter, Josh Wink, DJ Sneak and Green Velvet. It is at the forefront of the underground scene delivering dance music legends to the world's best clubs.

On the 13th July (Friday) Ministry of Sound Sessions will come to Hong Kong for one night only at Solas. Read on to find out how to get your hands on very limited tickets.

Event Details

Event Name: Ministry of Sound Sessions
Date: 13th July (Friday) 2007
Ministry of Sound Sessions Resident DJ: Dom Chung (UK)
Support DJs: Arun R. & Steve Bruce
Tickets: HK$200 in advance and HK$280 on the door
Venue: Solas, Ground Floor, The Centrium, 60 Wyndham Street, Central. Tel: 3162 3710.
Time: 11pm till late

Bookings Hotline: 8201-1027

Websites for more information visit: www.ministryofsound.com , www.solas.com.hk , www.hkclubbing.com .

Check out the latest CD releases under Ministry of Sound Sessions at this following link: http://www.ministryofsound.com/sites/sessions

Dom Chung Profile

At just 24 Dom could almost be classed as a veteran judging by the standards he’s set so far in the DJing community. Being the youngest person to do a Radio One Guest Mix at only 18 years old, after he was personally asked by Seb Fontaine, Dom’s profile has soared through the roof since and he is now one of the brightest up and coming names in the club scene. Famed for his impeccable mixing and vast record collection Dom has built up a firm following over the years.

Having built his trade through his residency at legendary UK Clubbing institution Chibuku Shake Shake, he has proved time and time again that he knows how to rock the dance floor with his electronic house vibe where he is equally at home warming up the floor or smashing it late on regularly appearing on the same bill as the Worlds leading names.

Through Dom’s high profile Chibuku residency more and more bookings began to come his way as he gained the attention of Europe’s leading promoters and venues, securing regular high profile gigs at Festivals such as Creamfields and Homelands and leading venues such as Fabric and Ministry Of Sound as well as more and more European bookings.

It wasn’t long before Ministry took him all full time, securing him as Sessions Tour resident which has since seen Dom travel the world regularly playing the Worlds best venues.

Support DJs

DJ Arun R. aka Guru Profile

DJ Guru has been at the decks for over 5 years now. His style has developed into what has become a fresh sound for House music that is currently highly sought after by clubs and venues in Hong Kong. The niche factor is his varied and unique taste of music that influences his live sets. The last year and half has seen Arun making solid coverage of prime venues in Hong Kong, taking up several residencies, as well as visits to China, and overseas invitations for the next year.

While working as a Resident DJ for HKClubbing.com, he has established himself in various recognized venues around Hong Kong, pushing out the funky sounds of dance music. 2007 has started off as a promising year for Guru with new residencies at two of Hong’s Kong most acclaimed venues, FINDS and Aqua Spirit (globally acclaimed venue), and an invitation to play at India’s largest nightclub, Elevate (Ranked 35th in the World by DJ Magazine).

House music is currently his focus: he can take his crowds through captivating journeys of eclectic funk, melodic progressions, and groovy electro. His music has also attracted various organizers to book him for unique events at art galleries, fashion events and private parties for names such as ‘Kookai’, ‘Miss Sixty’, ‘Energie’, ‘Bombay Sapphire’ and ‘Bacardi’. Even publications such as JUICE and BEATS Magazines are chasing him for blurbs on various music scenes in HK. He is also one of the organizers and support DJs for Hed Kandi in Hong Kong. Current residencies in Hong Kong: Aqua spirit / FINDS / Gecko Lounge / Solas. With a growing reputation and a thirst for fresh music, Guru has now put aside time to work on his own productions as well as collaborations with other artists.

DJ Steve Bruce Profile

Steve Bruce started his DJ career back in the early-80s as a mobile DJ spinning at weddings, bah mitzvahs & 16th birthday parties, trying to get away with spinning the then underground jazz-funk & rare-groove music he loved, to a mainstream crowd. You can’t keep a good man down though, and Steve rapidly progressed to better things.

In London he ran the notorious ‘TOP OF THE POPS’ parties in Mayfair and was a regular DJ at 'LES TEAROOMS DES ARTISTES', a popular post MINISTRY OF SOUND after-party club that ran for many years in Clapham, south London.

Steve has lived in Hong Kong for the past ten years and during this time he has been a regular at many of Hong Kong’s top venues including, SOLAS, KEE Club, 1/5, AQUA Spirit, LOFT 9, YUMLA, FINDS & CLUB 97 as well as playing regularly around the Asia region.

His funky eclectic style covers many musical genres from BOSSA NOVA, through RARE-GROOVES, UNDERGROUND DISCO, BROKEN BEATS & OLD-SKOOL HIP-HOP, but he is best known for his SOULFUL HOUSE sets. His sets are noted for their musically-knowledgeable, yet unpretentious content. Steve cites NORMAN JAY, GILLES PETERSON & DIMITRI FROM PARIS as his biggest DJ influences.

Steve has been behind some of the most successful regular nights in Hong Kong over the years including his long-running ‘SOULUTION’ night , ‘HARD TIMES - The Recession Sessions’ at METRO bar, ‘Hong Kong Eclectic’ at ELEMENTS bar and ‘Deano Martino’, a weekly jazz/lounge night at 1/5 which was voted one of the top 5 best bars in the world by Conde Nast Traveler.

The evening was so successful that EMI co-launched a CD under the ‘Deano Martino’ umbrella, featuring a selection of music chosen by Steve and the other members of the Deano Martino DJ line-up.

Steve has been invited to DJ at private parties for RONNIE WOOD of the ROLLING STONES, BUENA VISTA SOCIAL CLUB artists RUEBEN GONZALEZ & IBRAHIM FERRER & R&B artist CRAIG DAVID and has played alongside many international DJ’s including Norman Jay, Lisa Loud, BARGROOVES head honcho Ben Sowton, PACHA Ibiza resident Graham Sahara and FIERCE ANGELS Mark Doyle.

Steve was the Friday night resident at the legendary CLUB 97 in Hong Kong for over 2 years before moving to SOLAS ( www.solas.com.hk ) in his new position as Launch Music Director and then Friday night resident, running his successful ‘SOULUTION’ night.

He also works regularly with UK-based SEAMLESS RECORDINGS ( www.seamlessrecordings.co.uk ) promoting their BAR GROOVES & CITY LIFE compilation series’.

He is the first DJ in Asia to be sponsored by SEAMLESS.

Steve also works closely with LOVE DA RECORDS (www.love-da-records.com) in Hong Kong and in 2006 released his first commercial CD via Club 97 called ‘SOUNDS OF CLUB 97’ which spent the whole summer of 2006 in the HMV dance chart.

“Steve is an incredibly versatile DJ, with a deep understanding of the roots of dance music. His ability to read a crowd and to direct an atmosphere clearly demonstrates his gift for knowing what to play, and when”

About Solas Bar and Lounge

SOLAS’ is a Gaelic Word that translates as ‘light’ and ‘comfort’. Irish owned and managed, ‘SOLAS’ offers you the opportunity to experience slick Hong Kong style combined with modern Irish flair. Designed by award winning Hong Kong local architect, Kinney Chan, SOLAS occupies a 3,000 sq ft location smack-bang in the middle of the Central district of Hong Kong.

The traditional Irish pub with bric a brac, shamrocks and leprechauns is long dead and the SOLAS team aims to show Asia what Irish nightlife is all about in the 21st Century while still marinating the friendliness and fun that our people are known for all over the world. We hope you enjoy what SOLAS has to offer!

My friend in Pasir Ris Beach....

My friend in Pasir Ris Beach...., originally uploaded by Hina :-).

Just to recall my memory with my friend there. Thank you my baby!

Private Haircut and Styling

Private Salon Service
For bookings, call +852 82023068

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Sunset at Cafe del Mar

她扮男人年半騙倒全世界

Wow, that's crazy!!


她扮男人年半騙倒全世界 涉盜兄身分偷竊定罪 法官警方懵然 (明報) 06月 14日 星期四 05:05AM
【明報專訊】16歲少女於一年半內涉一直「女扮男生」，偷去在理工大學 念書的胞兄的身分證見工，獲永安百貨聘任為售貨員，其間「他」在公司偷竊被捕檢控上庭，過程中完全騙過拘捕「他」的警員法, 庭職員及法官，直至案件完結，「他」被判罰款，都無人發現其女兒身。這宗很普通的偷竊案年初經本報獨家報道後，被告的胞兄隨即被理大質詢，惟當時他仍然不知道其身分長期被胞妹盜用，更曾致電本報查詢，輾轉下才揭發事件。
案件昨日提堂。一頭短髮的女被告吳俊薇（現年18歲），昨日身穿粉紅色恤衫出庭，無論樣貌、聲線或打扮都像個小男生。她否認使用他人身分證、誤導警務人員及意圖妨礙司法公正罪，案件8月17日開審，控方將傳召4名證人，包括被親妹冒充身分的被告胞兄吳俊榮。
據曾經在法庭跟被告接觸的人形容，被告對上一次出庭，無論樣貌、聲音、打扮及行為均與男孩子無分別，因此得悉被告是女性後，感到十分驚訝。
以哥哥身分證見工 永安聘用
控罪指出，被告於2005年6月10日在北角英皇道東達中心4樓，無合理辯解而使用其兄吳俊榮的身分證，於今年1月6日在中環 海旁警署內誤導鄧姓警員，聲稱自己是其兄吳俊榮（21歲），以及被控於今年1月26日至2月23日期間，假冒兄長，作出傾向並意圖妨礙司法公正的作為。
據悉，首項控罪指被告涉嫌於05年間偷取兄長吳俊榮的身分證，同年6月10日使用該身分證假冒哥哥見工。其後，被告涉冒充兄長在中環永安分店兼職售貨員，在專櫃推銷產品，但店方一直無發現被告的真正身分。
直至去年12月2日，被告為了購買一個2080元的Polo袋，在永安百貨另一個專櫃內偷取9張共值450元的永安現金券，即日使用其中5張，在百貨公司內購買上述名牌袋。
專櫃職員後來發現失竊，永安職員隨即調查遺失現金券的號碼，查出被告使用有關現金券，同時被Polo的售貨員認出被告同在永安內工作。但被告當時向公司辯稱該批現金券屬於其嬸嬸，公司後來報警。
寓所搜現金券 仍未揭身分
被告於今年1月6日到中環海旁警署自首，被告涉仍向拘捕「他」的鄧姓警員自稱是「吳俊榮」。警方一直不虞有詐，至同日到被告寓所搜出4張永安現金券，仍未揭發被告的身分。
被告於同月20日遭落案起訴偷竊罪，26日首次上庭，當時「他」仍以「吳俊榮」的身分否認控罪，而法官、主控官、律師及警員無一發現被告是女性。
2月23日，被告在案件再次提訊時，仍在庭上聲稱自己是吳俊榮，承認偷竊罪，更透過代表律師指自己於理大就讀一年級，又指因為家貧才兼職售貨員，卻因一時貪念犯案。裁判官當時批評被告「不應注重物質」，判罰款500元。
當日，本報記者獨家報道有關案件，理大讀過本報的報道後，隨即向被告胞兄吳俊榮查問。在這一年多期間，吳一直不知道被偷取了身分證，經校方一問，他即致電本報要求澄清，據悉，後來他在輾轉間查問妹妹，才揭發事件並決定報警。控方昨日透露，吳俊榮將出庭指證被告。
【案件編號﹕ESCC 2700/07】

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"Azhanti High Lightning" Opening

This guy...... Simon Birch, his work touches my heart.
Have you ever had a feeling that, when you look into someone's work, you find your own feeling in it?
It sounds ridiculous, but is actually the truth.
A billion words.


Simon Birch, thank you!


























“Azhanti High Lightning”
A show to be presented at the Nanyang Academy of Fine Arts (NAFA), in support of the Singapore Arts Festival 2007
1 June - 5 July 2007
NAFA Gallery (Galleries 1 & 2)

Artist Simon Birch has created “Azhanti High Lightning”, one of the most ambitious multiple media projects ever undertaken at NAFA Gallery. The Gallery will be reconstructed into a dramatic, innovative and immersive piece of art for this show that will run from 1 June to 5 July 2007. This will also be Simon’s first institutional show as artist and curator. Leading Hong Kong photographer Wing Shya will also contribute additional work. NAFA is pleased to be presenting the event as part of the visual arts programme at the Singapore Arts Festival (SAF) 2007, in support of a call by the National Arts Council for cross promotion and collaboration from the various arts/education institutions within the civic district.

The NAFA Gallery will be converted into seven parts representing the seven stages of life from birth until death. The viewer will be led through blackened rooms representing a journey that interplays visual and auditory installations including sculpture, live performance, a 360 degree film theatre, paintings and photography.

The title of the show, “Azhanti High Lightning,” is the name of a fictional space craft. It is intended to represent the space we inhabit, where we exist as a product of chance and circumstance, or perhaps as a product of design; where the only thing that is certain is an end. (Please refer to Annex 2 for more details)

Bridget Tracy Tan, Director of Art & Corporate Knowledge said, "So much has been emphasised about the divide between art and technology, as though the two were mutually exclusive, in as much as 'tradition' and 'innovation' appear unable to successfully mix and bring about substantive progress in art-making today. The contemporary age is not just media specific, as contemporary historians and critics may offer. Azhanti High Lightning as a multiple media installation that assimilates art-objects from paintings and the sculptural to photography, film and video, reinforces to us the compound nature of our aesthetic sensibility.”

She added, “We receive and appreciate art in so many different ways, all of which inform and enrich each other considerably. When an ambitious project of such a scale comes to us full pelt in all directions, we are forced to reckon with our instincts: our fears, our passions, our reactive emotions, our flight or fight. An aesthetic intervention is precisely that, something that enters our space (as we enter theirs) and brings us to an altered state of being extraordinarily alive. All art should aspire to have this energy, this spirit."

Simon Birch explains, “It’s a great opportunity to curate at a space such as this. To be able to execute the freedom of my imagination in such an impressive gallery is very exciting. The theme for the show is about sudden and unexpected change, change that has a lasting affect on the individual or an entire culture. It is about evolution and inevitability. I believe the theme also has much resonance in contemporary Asian society and universally in the life of the individual.”

The exhibition will consist of seven distinct areas housed within the main 50-meter long gallery at NAFA (combining both galleries 1 & 2). To achieve this, the artist has fabricated what can be described as a film set. Within the gallery space is a series of interlocking rooms ranging in size from a few meters square to the largest being 81-meters square and 4.2-meters tall, and displays ranging from sculpture, live performance, a 360 degree film theatre, paintings and photography. Please refer to Annex 3 for images (high-resolution file for these images are available upon request).

The exhibition is presented in collaboration with NEC, Helutrans Artmove, 10 Chancery Lane Gallery and DHL Express. NEC is sponsoring the use of its projectors to put on view the visual dynamics intrinsic to the fast paced, ultra sensitive concept of the works, while Helutrans Artmove is sponsoring the local handling and freight movement.

DHL Express, as the official logistics provider for the Azhanti High Lighting Exhibition, has made it possible for visitors to be greeted by a sculpture of the head of Galactacus. An introduction to the exhibition, the head sets the scene for the whole exhibition, representing the first figure to enter earth’s atmosphere. DHL strongly believes that such platforms play an important part in remaking Singapore into a more culturally-vibrant city, and support will continue to grow for such aspirations and innovative collaborations with the aim of bringing more talents closer to our community.

10 Chancery Lane Gallery is a supporting organisation in this project through funding and administration in Hong Kong, and represents the artists Simon Birch and Wing Shya. 10 Chancery Lane Gallery is a driving force in contemporary culture in Hong Kong and is one of the city’s most popular private galleries. The gallery is international in scope and represents artists from Asia and the West. Its exhibition programme includes a complete spectrum of media - paintings, photography, sculpture, performance, installations and digital production.

The Singapore Arts Festival is one of the leading international arts festivals known for its bold and innovative artistic collaborations at the cutting-edge of contemporary arts with a distinctive Asian flavour. Established as a national celebration for the arts, the Festival offers a myriad showcase of world-class and internationally-acclaimed arts productions, and has a strong trademark for presenting several world and Asian premieres. The Festival turns 30 and sees its 21st edition this year. In the last 30 years, it has played a catalytic and strategic role in developing audiences, professionalising arts practice, spawning new interests and creating spin-offs for the arts.


Everybody in Singapore should go there and have a look.
Everybody not in Singapore...... should also go there and have a look, like me!
:-)

In the absence of sound......

Do you have the feeling of the atmosphere?

I've made it a long way...

After such a long time, I've made it back here again, understand it or not, I'll make it there too.

More updates very soon.