On account of I work on finishing a Java project and then go to a wedding, I don’t have time to write about certain things in full depth, but would note them here that I might do so later:
1 – ASUS Eee PC and associated accessories
2 – Nintendo DS R4 shenanigans
3 – Photos of Hong Kong
4 – Fake LEGO
5 – And a wedding too
And probably a few more bits and bobs, we shall see. Now, to finish that Java…
I arrived in Hong Kong around 8pm last night local time, which would be 1pm in the UK, after having been awake for 36 hours, getting a mighty numb bum on the 12 hour flight and watching many films and TV shows on the back of the seat in front of me.
The roads from the airport to where we are staying were eerily familiar, looking far too much like those in the UK, with identical road markings and street signs (English plus Chinese), not to mention road-side architecture. There are British style plug sockets too.
We (myself, Kitty, Kitty’s mum and grandfather, Elton (Kitty’s brother) and Food (Kitty’s tiniest uncle)) went to a ginormous restaurant with Kitty’s “fifth” uncle, her aunt and other uncle, cousins Ada and Kevin, and Kevin’s fiancé Cissy. There was much tasty food, so much that I could not eat more than one pudding, and then hundreds of terrifyingly huge fishies looking glum waiting to be eaten the next day.
Sweet sweet sleep came at last, around 1am, and now I am up again and go play outside. Photos were taken last night and when I get them off folk I shall post some here.
Update:
From left to right; Simon, Ada, Kitty and Elton.
Clockwise from left; Elton, Kitty’s “fifth” uncle, Kevin, Cissy, Kitty’s mum, Kitty’s aunt and other uncle, her grandfather, Food, Ada, Simon and Kitty.
This October just gone saw the fifth anniversary of Kitty and I getting together. For those who don’t know, we met by way of being flatmates during my second year of Philosophy at King’s College London. It was rather an impromptu situation, as the friends I originally planned to move in with had to cancel at the last minute. We found each other using a London students accommodation website and after only three weeks of living together, we hooked up…
So, to mark our fifth anniversary, I had the idea of recreating the room we did said hooking up in, the living room of that first house. But not just any old recreation, ho no; I would build it out of LEGO!
The first thing to do was to craft a maquette of said living room. In addition to my memory, I had two whole photographs to go on:
These being the photos that Kitty sent me in that very first email on 15th September 2002, telling me about a house that she and a couple other people needed, “ONE, just ONE person,” for…
So, after about a month, I had finished the sketch model, complete with firemen stand-ins for Kitty and myself:
The next step was to construct a 3D LDraw model. As I’ve written before, Bricksmith is my weapon of choice for doing this on the Mac, but there is plenty of other software for other platforms.