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georgiapeach:
Nice!!
Here are some ways to add pics here, the Support Thread has lots of goodies.
How to attach a photo:
http://forum.realityfanforum.com/index.php/topic,12375.0.html
How to embed a photo:
http://forum.realityfanforum.com/index.php/topic,12374.0.html
TheZanies:
--- Quote from: georgiapeach on October 18, 2009, 07:57:30 PM ---
And if you think I can do PowerPoint or iMovie, you have a much inflated opinion of my skills! :lol3:
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I feel ya, GP. I swear I make the firm IT guy and all the paralegals cry - "Say, Claire, can you remind me for the 1524th time how to work this Lexis-Nexis thingie?" And Fred, the IT guy, stopped returning my calls :funny:
Neobie:
I've a feeling we're gonna uncover people crazier than me!
But here's one location I feel for, heck, it's five minutes away from my apartment!
Destination: Old Kennedy Town Police Quarters
Route Marker: Roadblock, Hong Kong TAR 11
Pictures taken: August 2007
This place used to serve as a police dormitory, but as I recall, it has been abandoned ever since I started going to kindergarten on the same hill (back in the early 1990s). For some reason the government never decided to demolish it, instead leasing it out for random film shoots like Hong Kong police/thief dramas.
The MTR (Hong Kong's subway) recently announced plans to extend the Island Line west, placing a station right about where the buildings stand. As of now, they're slated to be demolished the first half of next year, victims of Hong Kong's perpetual property boom.
Which brings us to the trip. With the three blocks doomed to the wrecking ball, security is tight and a couple of survey teams and construction workers mill about throughout the day. It's guarded by a gentle but firm Sikh, and apparently 'student wishing to take photographs of Hong Kong's cultural heritage before it is destroyed by the soulless government' didn't work very well as an alibi.
So I sneaked in by walking along/inside a drain and sliding down an unfenced concrete reinforcement wall behind the complex... strolled out nonchalantly through a workers' entrance when I was done!
Cocoa:
Just curious, Neobie, did you ever see the TAR All-Stars Team there in action? Im jealous! :jumpy:
Neobie:
It's one of my big :groan: moments... While Dustin/Kandice and Charla/Mirna were pulling junks across the model boat pond, I was in the library across the park on my laptop, reading about them escorted by Izad in Kuala Lumpur the day before.
No actual encounters or Dustin/Kandice would have beaten Oswald/Danny to the Pit Stop. :lol:
And all day I was listening to Westlife's version of Total Eclipse of the Heart: "Turn around, bright eyes..."
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