"Menace" the mayor and other random images

January 11, 2009: Saw this crazy reflection in the window just before we moved from the other room.

Anyway some other random images. This building was across the road from our latest Hong Kong hotel room, a 9x6 foot box in a great location downtown:

I wonder how that overhang can remain, apparently completely unsupported.

If you ever go to Hong Kong and you need the cheapest clean hotel room in town (you probably will) then look no further than Mirador Mansion.

Don't be put off by its foreboding exterior, nor the maze of an Indian shopping mall on the lower floors (you have to go up 3 different flights of steps to reach the hotel part, but if you get lost don't miss the chance to stock up on Masala Munches). There are at least 20 guest houses here in one building, right near the harbour in downtown Kowloon, and they are without question the cheapest decent accommodation in the city.

Love the random 45 degree angles - this place would definitely be derelict by now in Australia or the UK.

How did they make those flowing concrete ballustrades eh? Pure 60s genius.

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A fire in TEDA. Big one it seemed. Sunday Times ambulance-chasing instinct apparently still lies dormant within me...

I scooped the fire trucks, too.

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Lastly, it's been too long, but anyway, i've been meaning to bring these posters to the outside world since we left Thailand.

Bangkok was having a mayoral election just before we left, and despite the election being decided months ago i absolutely must express my position. Lining the streets were literally thousands of posters for the various candidates - i think i mentioned this at the time - namely, Smirky, Sofftey and Menace. But it's always one candidate's poster repeated every 30 metres or so down an entire street, which greatly adds to the effect.

Here are a couple of Smirky's best efforts:

But Menace is the one you wanna meet - this is a man with a vision for the city:

The guy on the left is Sofftey. He was only in the shot to emphasise Menace's anger. But i'm sure Menace's anger needed no emphasising when the voters elected Sofftey. We knew Thai politics was in a bad way...

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