Entries for the ‘Hong Kong’ Category

Water Spout in Hong Kong

In Hong Kong, seeing a water spout is one true rare phenomenon. Just yesterday a rare spout was spotted just south of Hong Kong island which lasted for several minutes. Since records began in the 1959 this is only the 38th water spout recorded. Never seen one in real life myself but there must be [...]

Top Ten Sexist Swimming Pools

Number 10 - Koh Samui Resort, Thailand
Nothing spectacular at Number 10 except a wonderful view of the Thailand island scenary!

Number 9 - Oman Bustan Palace Intercontinental Muscat
After a 18 months re-development at the Oman Bustan Palace this 164m long luxury headed pool was built

Number 8 - Quincy Hotel, Singapore
Surrounded by glass this up market luxury [...]

Hong Kong Book Festival

The 20th Book Festival of Hong Kong kicks off today. This year’s festival is featuring a lot of modeling books from young modeling talents such as Kama and Chrissie Chau. As much as a hundred thousand copies of these will be made available during the event. A special area has also been marked off for [...]

A storm washed Hong Kong

Typhoon Molave stormed Hong Kong over the night of 19 July 2009. The estimated maximum wind speed near the eye of the storm is 145km/h while wind speed at where the clip was recorded reached at least 65.7km/h. A clip surely says more than some figures could. Take a look at the reporter below at [...]

Ice Cream Eating Competition

A few days ago there was an ice cream eating competition in Hong Kong. There were around 12 participants and a 12 year girl won it by eating 836 grams of ice cream in 3 minutes. To be honest this does not sound like anything at all! They should really get those competitve eaters (Kobayashi [...]

Not quite leaning tower of Shanghai

Late last week a thirteen floor apartment building toppled over in Shanghai. Surprisingly only one person was killed in the incident because the apartment was still in construction. It is widely speculated that the foundation of the complex was not lawfully constructed, reduced materials may have been used to save some construction cost. Others speculated [...]