Welcome to irishbornchinese.com's blog. This is specially for IBCs (Irish Born Chinese) to post articles with regards to IBC's life in Ireland and comment on articles posted. The real reason for this site is that I wanted to bring together all the 2nd generation IBCs, either hang out, or chat on irishbornchinese.com's message board. Here you can talk about almost anything, fun places to be, games, music etc. In the future (or sooner) I would like to be able to link up with other overseas born Chinese forums/sites. Of course, even if you are not an IBC, come join in the discussions/views, and send me your articles. "Let's get together." Enjoy! -- Vicky Lee Wei Kay (李韋岐)
Hong Kong Sky Elevator from Edwin Lee on Vimeo.
Riding Hong Kong's little-known observation elevator... before I got kicked out! Tough to find a clear day these days as you can see by the haze across the harbour.
Shot with Canon 7D with 70-200mm f/4 + polariser
Track: Briefcase by Tom Rothrock (Collateral soundtrack)
I didn't even know that. Saw it via this Beeb article about "EDF agrees £5.8bn sale of UK networks to Li Ka-Shing".
Just picked up a copy of IFI's programme for the month of August. As I was flicking through it, I was pleasantly surprised to see the Hong Kong Season will be on between August 3rd to 22nd. They even have McDull Kung Fu Ding Ding Dong for kids on Sunday (Aug 22nd).
August 3rd 18.30 Written By
August 4th 13.30, 18.30 Running Out of Time
August 5th 13.10, 18.20 Long Arm of the Law
August 7th 13.50 Storm Warriors
August 8th 13.40 Night and Fog
August 14th 14.00 Invisible Target
August 22nd 11.00 McDull Kung Fu Ding Ding Dong
Just noticed that the latest fashion with the girls in HK and Macau are short hammer pants, check this out to see what they are like. Guys are still either wearing pants that droop down or hip-hop gear (although bois are wearing the latter as well, you can seem them hanging around downtown Kowloon).
For foreign residents, this does not make for good reading...
Ireland granted just six citizenships per 1,000 foreign residents -- compared with more than 50 per 1000 in Sweden and Portugal, and an average of 23 across the EU.
(Source: Irish Independent)
Chinese characters originated from picture form, but this takes Chinese characters and art to a whole new level. Check them out...
I remember reading about Cowen mentioning about a town in Offaly to become the Chinese trading hub of Europe. Just this morning, I came across this article (The Westmeath Independent), and the early plans are huge! Of course, there are other countries to be considered as well, not just Ireland.
[...] the preliminary plans include a Chinese Palace, two five-star hotels, apartments, a six-hole golf course, a railway station, two bus stations, a medical centre and a fire-fighting centre.
Interesting... a European-equivalent of Hong Kong for "Your Country, Your Call".
Several ideas:-
[...]on June 30th we will have our first departure of Friendly Town trips, and we'd love to have you post about us again or perhaps repost some of our live tweets - @freshairfund. We have trips going to Southern & Central VT, New London area CT, Great Barrington, MA, Latham/Albany area, Ontario, Rochester area. Everyone is so excited that the children are coming into these homes and towns and that it's the first day visiting for summer 2010.
