I’ve been waiting several weeks to take this shot. The rain has finally abated (fingers crossed). For two days there have been blue skies.

The shot is not particularly dramatic, but I like the lines. This is part of the roof of the school building that holds my office and classroom.

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It has been raining, for the most part, for three solid weeks. Every weekend, for as long as I can remember, has been shrouded in grey clouds and foul weather.

The Dragon Boat Festival three day holiday saw me house-bound. While walking in the rain is considered romantic, it does get old. Fast.

I had to re-wash all the clothes hanging on the line. They had been there, half wet-half dry for so long they had begun to smell funky. Hopefully they will dry before the funkiness returns. Even if I had been able to go out during my days off I would have had little to wear. I haven’t descended to that stage where I go out in public attired like my or my friends fathers.

Here’s to sunny skies and a weekend at the beach.

I had a dozen better things to do last Saturday than go to Hong Kong, but go to Hong Kong I did. The guest house wanted a deposit on the rooms for our upcoming staff excursion. They didn’t mention they were unlicenced. Giving 3000 Hong Kong Dollars to an unlicenced Guest House is not the wisest move, so I didn’t.

As I sat in the bus station attached to the Kowloon MTR station, wondering if every former British colony is full of snotty people, I looked around for stuff to shoot. This sign grabbed my eye, probably because I like The Count and it’s Seasame Street-esque.

For The Captain and Tennille: The music.

Captured: May 31, 2008.

The hills around the China / New Territories Hong Kong border are covered in tombs. Much of the area is inaccessible, except on foot. The departed wanted to be buried in their homeland, China, but that practice was not permitted. They were interred by their loved ones as close as physically possible:On the green hills, next to the river that once divided a British colony and what was seen as a hostile nation. Barbed wire and video surveillance remain, as do the resting places the dead, still maintained by relatives granting a wish as best they could.

Captured: May 15, 2008.

To the photo geeks: If anyone knows how to cut-down on urban haze/smog, be it a filter or digital processing solution, please drop me a line.

Classmates, or, tong xue (同学）. Or friends,  pengyou (朋友). Here endeth the lesson.

Captured: April 14, 2008.

Outside my window. I’d rather watch this than Survivor, or the evil and vacant Tyra Banks on ANTM. big brother is another story.

Captured: May 2, 2008, Shenzhen, China