欣 is a Hong Kong writer and poet who lives in Los Angeles.
Glutter’s Hong Kong
I went around my neighbourhood and took photos of the Chinese New Year preparations with my mobile. Then sent it to my photoblog throughout the day.
This is the 100 plus photos I ended up with:
Yan Sham-Shackleton is a Hong Kong writer who lives in Los Angeles. This is her old blog Glutter written mostly in Hong Kong from 2003 to 2007. Although it was a personal blog, Yan focused a lot on free speech issues and democratic movement in Hong Kong. She moved to the US in 2007. View more posts
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Yan,
Thank you so much for posting all your photos. This, I am sure will be the closest thing for me to visiting HK at New Year’s. But I feel like I got a chance to share in this one!
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Kung hei fat choi!!!! Wish you 心想事成，身體健康，要乜有乜，長搵長有 :p
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Happy Year of the Rooster
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Happy Chinese New Year, Yan! The photos are greeeaaat! The festivity atmosphere is practically non-existent in Canberra! Your photos brought much joy and temporary relief to me.
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Hi!
Thanks! I am really glad it gave you guys the impression of what it’s like. It did it’s job! That was what I was hoping to do. So pleased it worked!!
Someone: Sum Sheung Si Sing, Sun Tai Ken Hong, Yiu mud yaw muud, then the last one. NO IDEA!! Although that’s pretty good for me, I say!
yan
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happy new year!
Love the colours in the photos, was that really Winnie the Pooh and Piglet in one of them? lol…thanks for putting them up.
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Happy New Year! hope the year of the Rooster is a good one for you.
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