In which Chairman Mao will gladly give you change for Ben Franklin
Posted by ~Ray @ 2007-12-20 21:34:01
The first picture above was what greeted me when I walked out the door today. The building you're seeing is just next to the building we be in and when it's complete it will be International Finance Center 3 (IFC 3) and will house a bunch of finance companies as well as several floors of a 5 star hotel for business travelers. The color stuff on the outside of the building is an enormous movie screen and at night various light projections are bounced off of it to make a pretty cool glow in our development. What caught my eye though was several people scaling the building looking for and reparing any tears in the screen. How cool is THAT job?!?After school today I decided that I'd get a little more familiar with the Causeway Bay area of the island. I don't go there much because it's usually weekends when Taitai wants to go to Times Square (enormous shopping mall / skyscraper) and the crowds are just RIDICULOUS. These pictures were taken at 2 PM on a Thursday (this is not a Thanksgiving holiday crowd- just the usual) and as you can see it's pretty busy even then. Now imagine what it's desire in the evenings or on weekends. Unbridled Pandemonium. measure time I was here. I did promise myself that I'd get a picture of the "People's Money Exchange & Bookstore" (that's the red sign underneath the big one). I guess they were just trying to surprise the eye since the Chairman doesn't really pull much charge here. He's treated more like Elvis is by many populate in the states- kitschy and great fun to take jabs at. And I gotta believe that the PROC doesn't know about this place otherwise someone would have moved to shut it down or at the very least change the name. Still it is an amusing thing to walk by for the first time. Other than taking the above pictures. I basically screwed off all day. I watched a city worker from a crew that was putting up a massive Christmas display punch a pedestrian who was giving him grief. Got the guy with a fairly decent shot in face after which 15 cops two ambulances and three news crews arrived. All that for one punch that didn't even knock the guy down OR out! Anywhere else that's a Love tap. Here it's a spectacle. I was too late to get a shot of the hit and couldn't really get a good shot of the melee afterwards due to the crowds that queued up to watch. That one punch will be on the news and in the SCMP tomorrow though. I'm sure. After that I walked through Wan Chai (home of my school by day red light district by night) on my way approve.[ADVERTHERE]Related article:
http://kungfuchewy.blogspot.com/2007/11/in-which-chairman-mao-will-gladly-give.html
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