• Learn a New Lauguage Through Blogging

    I am learning Spanish and have come to know two language websites, namely, Italki and LiveMocha. I know a lot of friends through those sites. I help my friends in learning English and Chinese. I will use this blog as a forum for my friends and I to tell our experience in learning a new language and ways and means to improve the related language skills. Let's help each other. It is a win-win situation.

    Soy Brandon Zin de Hong Kong que es un territorio autonom¡o de China, pero antes era una colonia de Gran Bretaña. Estoy seim-retirado. Trabajando para una compañía en los Estados Unidos como consultor experto en asuntos con China. La razón por la que estoy estudiando Español es porque me gusta escuchar las canciones latinas, y no comprendo las letras. Si aprendo el idioma Español me entenderé las letras.

    我是洗百敦(假名),来自香港.自从回归后一国两制,社会稳定繁荣,生活不错.

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Hole-in-one (not me)

A couple of friends of mine and I went to Chang An, Dongguan, China for a round of golf yesterday. The weather was nice. It was warm and the golf course was beautiful. It was fun. What made it more fun was that one of my friends scored a hole-in-one. It was a 160 yards par 3 hole. My friend hit it with a utility wood. I saw the ball flying across a lake of 120 yards long straight at the flag. It looked like to me that the ball had rolled past the flag after it landed on the green. I was about to get ready to tee. Suddenly, one of the caddies yelled out hole-in-one. We were ecstatic and went high-fiving each other. Needless to say, we went out and partie afterward.

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My frined got an hole in one

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On the golf course

A double-decker literally flyover(s) a five storeys building

Hong Kong has a five storeys high flyover which comes down from the peak, passes through High Street (“the High Street Flyover”) between a bunch of high rise buildings along a two lane street and ends at Connaught Road in the western district. I think it is probably the highest and longest flyover built on the narrowest of streets in the world. The flyover amused me when I passed through it this morning. I took my Iphone out and took a few pictures intended for the entertainment for my friends of this blog.

When I thought of an interesting title for this post, I came up with the subject title. For educational I would like to share with my friends the meaning of the word literally, which probably is one of the most misused words in the English language.

According to Wiktionary, literally means:

  • word for word; not as an idiom or metaphor. When my sewing kit fell off the barn loft, I literally had to look for a needle in a haystack.

When I say “A double-decker literally flyover(s) the High Street Flyover”, there are two puns or “two literallys” in this sentence. Can you see the two puns? Please let me know by taking the poll below the pictures.

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The bus coming down from the peak (imagine)

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The bus passig through two high rise buildings
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The bus flying over a 5 storeys building (see the top right corner)

 

A walk up Mount Parker

Today was another beautiful day in Hong Kong. It was a balmy 23 degree centigrade during the day and unusually dry too. I capitalized on the nice weather and took a walk along the trail up the mountain behind my apartment building. The mountain is known as Mount Parker and the trail I walked is part of the trail which circles around the whole of HK island. It is not difficult to find mountains to trek in HK as they are everywhere. The mountains are mostly high and covered with forestations of trees of different species. Along the trail, it is not difficult to find beautiful and blossoming flowers despite the fact that it is now almost winter. When I got up to the top of the mountain, I could see the whole of eastern Hong Kong. I took a picture of the aerial view of that part of Hong Kong. You can see from the photo tall buildings clustering around each other. That is Hong Kong. Don’t underestimate those buildings, which may look like squatters to you. However, a lot of those flats at those buildings are worth millions of Hong Kong dollars (I live in one of them, but a small one). Hong Kong is well known for its expensive property prices. As a matter of a fact an apartment in Hong Kong just set a world record price for an apartment in October. The 6000 square feet (557 square meter) apartment was sold at an astronautical price (天价)of US$9,200 per square foot or US$99,000 per meter

 

 

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I on the trail

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An aerial of eastern HK