BBQ in 30 degree Celsius

Happy Birthday! Helena and Sufin!

Well, the above cake was not my product. It's purchased from MAXXM's But it looked great, right?

A simply birthday party one day after 6th Sept. Cheers！

Taste of first love / Macau Pudding

Thanks to the support of my friends, everytime we have party of different reasons, they always order my home-made Macau pudding. Rox is one of my friend who enjoys this simple cake very much. Other friends say the way she enjoys the cake likes having the taste of first love. Believe it?

Receipe of Macau Pudding 木糠布甸 (serve 10)

Ingredients:

Whipped cream 1000 ml

Evaporated milk 300 ml

Sugar 1 table spoon

Marie fingers 120 g

Oreo sandwich with the filling removed 120g

Cocoa powder 2 table spoon

Method:
1. Whip the cream until stand, add evaporated milk and whip till completely mixed.

2. Grind the two biscuit to powder form separately.

3. Lay powdered Marie fingers on the bottom of a pan.

4. Use spatula to lay a layer of whipped cream on the powdered Marie fingers.

5. Lay powdered Oreo as Step 3 and repeat Step 4. Use the two kinds of biscuits alternatively with whipped cream in between.

6. Finally sprinkle the cocoa powder on the top of the cream with the help of a sieve.

7. Put the pudding into freezer for three hours.

8. Serve chilled.

(This recipe is supplied by Rosana Lee, with reference from her relative's recipes.)

War of the bottom! 盤底爭奪戰

A cosy Japanese restaurant

I had no idea of the name and the location of this restaurant, just led by my friend, we bumped into this restaurant after a hectic evening. It was that simple and enjoyable to chat about anything, with a bottle of beer and a good friend.

Folks, happy birthday!

This was the birthday party of my painting friends, Kiki, Steve and Rosa. We had three cakes that night: Tiramisu, Macau pudding, and a cheesecake in Japanese style produced by our guest Polly. Full of surprise and fullness.

Guess who?

"The Last Supper"

Well, before the end of my happy vacation, friends joined together to have a nice dinner before we get into the hell again. Bless us!

Do it by improvisation

28 August 2007 - A day without planning

09.30

My mobile phone was overhelmed by a lad early in the morning. We promised to go to Macau to watch the muscial "Cats" in 28 December 2007 and the tickets were in such a great demand that no more left after the first day of sale on 27/8. He went to the ticket office at 8.00 a.m. in order to confirm the two tickets of us and I had to pay it by credit card. Yup, he is just a secondary three student. So, I hurried to the ticket office in Sham Shui Po at 9.30 a.m. and then signed my name and that's it.

10.00
Lok Yan School

Feeling a little bit stupid, and thinking about what could be done in this district. I went straight to Lok Yan School near Caritas Hospital, to retrieve my work once shown in late July. It is a special school for children who are frequent patients of hospital. Its campus is small but very warm, full of colourful posters and flowers.



I did not have very good preparation for this exhibition jointly organised by the school and HKUVA. I just sent an old work to it. Here is it just before I sent it back to my studio.



11.00
My studio, long time no see



18.30
"To be, or..." The Graduation Show of RMIT/HK Art School

It's been years of not joining openings of exhibitions. "To see and to be seen", but it's interesting to join one or two occasionally, may be I shifted my point of view on this kind of social gatherings. I met a few acquaintances and one of them tried verifying if she met me through SMS after the opening!

Well, it's good to view artworks in a relaxed way, better not after work and in a lighthearted mood.







19.50
"Another mountain man"/Stanley Wong's latest work
After working on tarpauline for years, Stanley showed his talents in photography again. This time, he switched his focus to Shanghai, another metropolitan of China.

Me in Miao dress

Guys are looking forwarding for the photos of me in Miao dress taken by my friend in the trip. Please don't scream in horror! I only think these beautiful dresses are solely for Miao, too!

Thanks to Mrs Liu, she helped me to dress up all these complicated dress in minutes!

Suni Csak Foto

A very simple blog of a lot of beautiful photographs.

Purple, green and red

I found this motorbike near my office, a very old style bike but the colours are stunning! They are so bright that bring me much excitement in this lot-of-work-and-boring-hot summer.

Dessert wine at €4

My painting friends were back from their art tour from Europe for 3 weeks already, but moods are still on the go.

There are plenty of photographs and videos for sharing, not only about the trip but also a lot of in-depth discussion sessions held after their visits to exhibition every day, and usually did not end till mid-night. Last Saturday night, a lot of established artist friends visited Gayload's studio for the treasure mentioned.

I enjoyed the wine while they were viewing the long video on discussion conceptual art and presentation of artforms. This bottle of dessert wine was great at taste, great at packaging and even great at price! Kiki said they found the last three on the shelf in the supermarket opposite to Movenpick in Kassel. Of course, they had the first two in their hotel rooms! I could only taste the last 25 ml when I arrived at the gathering late at 00.15. But it was really good!

Avril Lavinge in Concert at HK again

Thanks to my friend, I find it interesting to visit rock-n-roll concert of artist/performer like this Canadian girl. Last time when Avril was in HK, she held her concert at HK Conventional Centre and excited fans found it rather inconvenient to stand on the seat to view their idol. This time, organiser was smarter, going to a bigger venue (HK Asian Arena near HK International Airport) and sold lots of expensive standing tickets to people like us. Avril is still a very good performer on her own style of rock-n-roll, adding a lot of stage fun like dancers and hand-shaking time, but played on guitar on her own for only one song (fewer than last time, and everybody knows she can play guitar but not as good as her team of marvellous musicians).

The only pity was that I missed the guest performance before Avril was really on stage by 21.00. I think these guest performers did even better than Avril, as they are still in their budding stage in their star career rather than the world-wide fame of Avril gained throughout these years.

By the way, Avril's official page got a terrific music player of a number of her songs, enjoy~

Dreams of Venice

Believe it or not, I really miss Venice so much. Recently, my friend called me late at night when I fell asleep soundly. I picked up the phone and just said, "I'm back in HK (from Venice)" while I was still dreaming of the wonderful colourful Venice.

Everytime I viewed the photos taken in Venice, it's so real that I can smell the air of Venice...

Party (yes, again) after our art trip in Europe

My painting friends were back to HK after their exciting trip in Kassel, Venice, London and Paris. You know what London and Paris mean to me! The British Museum, Tate Gallery, Centre Pompidou and Monet Garden, I am rather envy of their trip, being able to travel to these wonderful Museums and places.

Well, they still put blame on me as I told them Kassel was really hot when I was over there, and then they suffered from a sudden temperature drop to 10 degree Celsius. They called me from Frankfurt after getting back from Kassel by train while I was in Guizhou (I really wonder how much this call was...) and told me that each of them bought a really decent and nice coat in Kassel at €99+! And after getting back to Frankfurt, they wore their warm coat in cafe while watching cute German girls stroll around the cities in their haternecks, slipdresses and mini-skirts.

Gaylord was very excited in trip, though actually some of us kept worrying about the influence of hot weather on him. Just like what he said, we are rather full after this trip, after viewing so many stimulating and even encouraging artworks.

Thanks to Emil, she organised all the trip for us, yes, including me, as she introduced the very helpful travel agency Mabel to me. That's why Emil received the latest MS-Paint artwork by Gaylord in the last Saturday gathering.



Another happy news is that one of Josephine's students got an offer from Faculty of Architecture CUHK. For some very interesting reason, his mom sent a bottle of 21 years Glenfiddich (single malt whisky) to Gaylord! That's really terrific! This is my first whisky and may be the last, too, as it really tastes so great that I don't know if there is another whisky that can replace it. 12 years Glenfiddich is good on rock but 21 years version is better to be taken straight. That's really an enjoyable moment to have a glass of wine with friends.

Party in Typhoon

Typhoon Pabuk brought us a half-day off. We had our party as promised gathering one month ago. Nice, red wine, macau pudding, dessert, hahaha~ I'm drunk!

Venice photo album

Venice

Guizhou Shidong scenery

Guizhou Shidong scenery

Album of exchange tour group

Exchange tour group

Album of Shidong Miao lives

Shidong Miao of Guizhou