A metaphorical door...

Alice went to Mongkok for vinyl hunting and was surprised to see Wing Lo (羅金榮) doing his street performance. Wing Lo is a door to Alice because she bought 'Come Out and Play', a compilation indie CD several years ago and fell in love with Wing Lo's track, 非禮. Since that CD, Wing Lo appeared to have dropped out of the Hong Kong indie music radar.

But his song opened a door to great indie music for Alice.

It was great to hear him sang last night, and bought his CD. Hope Wing Lo will be back to the indie scene soon!

Outside a Taipei temple

Alice found this photo, taken with her little Golden Half. These pictures were taken outside the gates of a Taipei temple. She likes the incense offering urn and the mythical monster.

Slice of Life...

This is probably the only Pizza Hut in Hong Kong that gives out free wisdom...share a slice of LIFE!

What more can you ask for?

To get a slice of life, please visit the Pizza Hut at 28 Soy Street, Mongkok.

A building with one door and no windows...

Alice found this Tamkang University 淡江大學 building in Taipei extremely intimidating.

There is one entrance, but where are the windows? It is a huge blue box with no windows!

It looks very impressive from the outside, but Alice doesn't think she wants to be inside the building!

A giant door...

Alice took this photo for the steps to the giant door of National Chiang Kai-shek Memorial Hall in Taipei. In the good old days, every imperial Chinese architecture (or at least those official one) has to have an impressive set of steps. Ordinary people had to walk up those hundreds of steps to pay honor to the emperor or deities (or officials). These steps are supposed to humble the ordinary citizens and remind them the greatness of whoever is inside the building.

It was a very different mindset back then.

Testing kindergarten kids...

On the subject of kindergarten kids, this sign is taken outside another kindergarten in the same neighborhood.

'About 300 kindergarten students took the Cambridge Young Learners English Test, and their average score reached 86%'

WTF?! Alice always thought that attending kindergarten meant making friends, learning social skills, having fun, sharing (and fighting over) toys and breaking cookies! Now kindergartens are advertising their international test scores? FYI: A lot of parents in Hong Kong do send their kids to take the test, a test designed for second language learner. Seriously, testing our preschoolers? There is something wrong with our society and values.

Colorful kindergarten...

This is the door to a happy kindergarten. There is something slightly wrong though...Is that supposed to be modern art or peas in the pod?