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TK: veut voyager et travailler partout du monde. Quand il a de temps libre, apprendre des langues étrangères est son passe-temps favori. Son rêve est de se déplacer chaque an ou deux, dans un nouvel endroit en oeuvrant comme pigiste. Lire son blogue ici. He is trying to earn more than a few bucks, so that he could work anywhere in the world and be a vagabond extraordinaire with enough dough to sustain his globetrotting efforts. To read more of his rants, click here. You could write to him at: guyazn < a t] gmail [dot} com


tuya - LOVE

Monday, February 2nd, 2009

Continuing but twisting the theme on Valentine started here, whoever sketched this piece “我愛北角” (wo ai bei jiao) inside a metro station, loves North Point (北角), a neighbourhood in the Northeastern part of Hong Kong Island.

ai (愛): verb or noun, meaning like or love.

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Happy new year x2

Monday, January 26th, 2009

Flowers, Victoria Park Chinese New Year Fair, Jan 2009

In Hong Kong, we bought flowers, we bought Hui Chun (揮春) or Chun Tie (春貼) - the lucky messages in black on a red background. Ah ha, it’s the year of the Ox for the Vietnamese, Koreans, and many other Asians which include of course the Chinese. Only 5$CAD a piece for the Hui Chun, not a bad deal if it brings you prosperity for the rest of the year in times of uncertainty! Nouvel an lunaire est fêté parmi certains asiatiques comme les vietnamiens, les coréens, et bien sûr, les chinois. Les fleurs aux couleurs vivantes et les voeux écrits en noir sur un fond rouge - Hui Chun (揮春), soulignent ce marché-ci à Hong Kong. À tous/To All: Gong xi fa cai (恭喜發財) - gagner beaucoup d’argent / earn lots of money!

"hui chun" stand, Victoria Park Chinese New Year Fair, Jan 2009

They’re (literally) building up culture in Hong Kong!

Monday, November 24th, 2008



>J’étais au Hong Kong Museum of Art 香港藝術館 pour une exposition sur les cheveux (voir les photos qui suivent), je me suis posé la question, ‘Est-ce que un gouvernement peut planifier un quartier culturel pour une ville de presque sept millions d’habitants?’

Tout dépend de votre définition de l’art et de la culture. Hong Kong, malgré son succès comme centre financier et comme ancienne porte principale de la République populaire de Chine, est assez anémique culturellement selon certains critiques.



The vast landmass reclaimed from sea in Kowloon, what in the future would be the West Kowloon Cultural District, is still undergoing quasi public consultation. Many people asked if arts and culture can be “planned” or “engineered”. Hong Kong is quite eager to shake off the image as a cultural dessert, which has been depicted in various local and international media. If art and culture document human experience, a city of close to seven million should be overflowed with culture. After all, that’s similar in size to Québec, and the latter has plenty of water, physically and culturally! (Un)sustainable development, environment, economy, non-business interest, creativity, cultivation and toruism and internaitonal statue are just some of the issues on people’s lips. What would you do if you are the Hong Kong government bureaucrats running the show? Yes, they want the cake and have it too! It will interesting to come back five, and ten years down the road to see the changes.

Miami au Guangdong? Or Shenzen in Florida?

Monday, November 3rd, 2008
DaJuYuan, Shenzhen

DaJuYuan, Shenzhen

If you are just looking at the few skyscrapers against the clear blue sky and brand name stores, with the somewhat present palm trees here and there, you would think that you are in Miami, Florida. Not! Meet Shenzhen, the (fishing) village turned special economic zone and up-and-coming, if not already there tier-one Chinese city.

Situated across the river from Hong Kong, the geographic location help propelled its rise in the past thirty years. Depends on how you play with the numbers, the per capita GDP of Shenzhen rivals that of better known heavy weights such as Beijing and Shanghai.

Selon certains urbanistes, l’avenir de la région de Hong Kong-Shenzhen a besoin de mettre ensemble des ressources de Hong Kong, Shenzhen et quand même Zhuhai et Macau, comme géographiquement la “San Francisco Bay Area” aux États-Unis. La raison d’être pour cette suggestion? La concurrence de Shanghai, la première ville chinoise au nom de population et d’économie. Autrement, lorsque Hong Kong & Shenzhen Bi-City Biennale of Urbanism / Architecture, il y a eu des oeuvres provisionnées par les militants-artistes traitées sur le sujet de développement urbain. Hong Kong est déjà la ville la plus densément peuplée du monde. Pour rendre la région plus performante et durable, le partage de ressources et d’infrastructures, etc., fait jaser beaucoup de monde. Chose certaine, la Chine veut répliquer des résultats de Shenzhen ailleurs, en améliorant la région encore.

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