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Last Saturday Cheung Fai brought me to see two shows:

1. "琴愿?你" 斯琴格日勒 at 星光現場 http://www.thestarlive.com/ where is the same venue as last week "The 2nd Hand Rose". However, this time the audience sitting area was different from last week. It was more formal with rows of chairs, when comparing with last week, audiences could not dance with the music. I think the administration of this venue is quite professional, the setting is flexible to be changed according to the style of different performers.

2. Bandshow competition at 愚公移山 where is a small musical place many underground music bands and alternative international performers would like to play there.

See more photos here: http://www.fotogb.com/bobpin/

Cheung Fai's gf (BJ girl) asked me why I took photos like the media photographer and I said it's my 職業病, I always did that in HK, hahaha. To be honest, here taking stage photos is very easy, nobody stop you to go in front of the stage if your photo gears looked professional.

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Believe or not, traffic jam in BJ last night, the bus driver turned off the engine and went to clean the front window...z z z z z

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After the hiking activity, we went to have lunch at a vegetarian restaurant in Holiday Inn, BJ. This is a very "exaggerated style" restaurant, the decoration and the dishes are very presentable but all are not matched when looking in detail. They use "dry ice" a lot. On the third photo, the fruits themselves are very cheap when buying at the street corner ($1~2), now looking very presentable. The food on the last photo is "false meat", again, imitation is a very strong ability in China.

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Yesterday 22.10.06 Cherry, her colleagues and me went to see "red leaves". BJ ppl said now is the best time to see this beautiful scenery in 香山 where located out of the west side of BJ. However, we didn't find any beautiful scenery we "expected". When we walked close to the red leaves trees, we found that the shape of leaves were broken and the color was not that attractive. I think we need to choose a better lighting condition to see this scenery, may be during sunset is better. Anyway, it was still a good hiking activity.

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Dear UST friends, see who I met last Saturday? It is unbelievable that Cherry and me haven't met for more than a year and now meet in BJ. She's now working as an IT audit professional in one of the big 4 audit companies in the world. Sure I don't know the details about her jobs, but I know this is the new profession after the e-commerce becomes popular in recent years.

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Last Saturday 21.10.06 Cheung Fai brought me to a place called Star Light Live House where different musical activities performed every night. That night a rock band called "Second Hand Rose" performing very exciting and interesting music and songs. Their music full of local cultural elements; 東北二人轉(相聲)的音樂元素. This made me couldn't stop taking out my camera and shot. It is very good that nobody stop you to take photos in such kind of events in BJ.

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It seems that here is not a place for luxury life but you can find warmth in the small communities. Simple life.

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Two more photos viewing from Yuen Ling's home. Very comfortable place in dusk moment.

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Pigeons flying exercise. My primary school was in Fortress Hill, North Point. I always watched pigeons flying outside when I lost my concentration in the class. I didn't know why they fly along a circular locus, repeat and repeat, non-stop.

Here is outside Yuen Ling's home in BJ, different groups of Pigeons flying along their loci without crashing together. It's long time without watching this scene in HK.

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Some more photos about this coffee shop.

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Met a new BJ friend who run a coffee shop called 等侍果佗. He told me the difficulties of his business and asked me opinions of improving the sitting area at the front entrance... I start to take photos there as my personal work and here are 3 of them.

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Last night I worked late and almost past the dinner time (~21:00). In BJ ppl don't clean up the tables in the restaurant during the later part of business time. On the way home I tried to find a clean small place to eat but all were messy. Finally found this small place in an opened area, no customer, only clean tables. I asked somebody whether they had been closed or not. Somebody shouted inside to ask the cook whether she still worked or not. Twenty minutes later a bowl of noodle was put in front of me. Obviously the kitchen was almost closed and the cook needed to prepare again the materials.

It was a 馬?肉麵 (really donkey meat?). The meat tasted like beef but rough, however, I like the texture of noodle, elastic and smooth. If you like 元茜 and herbs, you should be happy.

The noodle and a big bottle of Ying Gin beer only costed me $8 ($6 noodle and $2 beer)! Hahaha unbelievable.

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In BJ subway you can watch how the train driver working. That day many ppl (tourists?) clustered at the window of the front session to watch the driver and I was one of them. Then I took out my camera, ppl ran away when they saw my camera (?). I took few shots coz the fan putting there is interesting.

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Two naughty kids: Dawn (elder sister) and Dave

How come milk bottle is still required in that age?

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After spending half day to find a pro lab to process my pinhole film negatives, I found a good looking coffee shop next to this pro lab. I had no reason not to try it, right? The interior is very comfortable, many books on the shelves like a library. Oh, it is really called "Library-shop 1"

In order to protect my taste, I'd like to order a cup of ice coffee in any unfamiliar shop. It is really difficult to make it bad. Usually I'd like to have coffee; milk and syrup served in separated cups. Then taste the black coffee first, if not ok, add syrup, if still not ok then add milk, if still not ok...it is really not ok. However, it was really the case in this shop.

Usually I'd finish the cup even it is not good, however, I think it was really suck and harmful for my health. I decided to talk to the barrister. I had spent one hour to express my point of view and introduced Tsit Wing for him to buy coffee beans.

He gave me 10% off for the cup of coffee. Hahaha so cheap!

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Previous days I concentrated on taking pinhole photos, this morning I finally could pick up my DC and take some images for updating my blog.

Here is Joe's home where I live with him and a family coming from Singapore. Joe is the GM of Kiss n' Bake and also the big share holder of this company. Now I occupy a corner of his sitting room as my working place. Before I come it was very clean, now it becomes messy day by day. Hey buddies, potentially does it become my desk in rm1028 in the future?

This sitting room is also a children playground. There are two naughty, energetic and lovely kids (one boy and one girl). Everyday they play from 11~22.30, never stop laughing (and also crying). Their father is a great baker from Singapore who is employed as a chief baker of K n' B.

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This is friend's cake shop at a MTR entrance where I'll experiment coffee business for him. It is not a deluxe shopping place but wish it to be the spring in a desert in the future.