Andre

If you are a hardcore biker and always annoyed by the traffic in Hong Kong, scared to share the lane with the tram and don't want to ride in the middle of the night, just wait for the next typhoon to hit the city. With most inner-city areas still pretty safe, just make sure you got a mountain bike to jump the occassional garbage.

Central, 7.34pm - Typhoon Nuri

In high-density places like Hong Kong, where advertisement is everywhere, you get the occasional surprise where you wonder if that was intention or someone didn't check the result after a botched planning. The MTR is known for allowing advertisement on virtually every inch of their stations to milk every cent out of their deals.

I wonder though if this one was intentional, the guy supposed to jump out of the garbage.

Poor people of Tung Chung: sweating away in the hot summer temperatures, they are too far on the outskirts of Hong Kong and their place is too young (not taking into account the tiny fishing village it once was) as a town to have a public swimming pool; the nearest public one would be in Tsing Yi. Locals have resorted to play in the CityGate Outlets' shopping mall fountain and (most) children come fully prepared with the right swim gear.

To seemingly taunt them even more, each time the Tung Chung population decides to visit the city by MTR, they will pass an Olympic swimming pool mock-up in the Central MTR station:

However, a public pool project is under way for Tung Chung so in just a few years time - eternity for a child - cooling off options won't be limited to in- and outdoor shopping mall activities anymore (poor parents).

Hong Kong's Causeway Bay MTR station had a bomb scare just hours before the opening ceremony of the 2008 Summer Olympics in Beijing, China. Hong Kong is host to the equestrian events.

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What a great sight: 9am on a Wednesday in the heart of Causeway Bay and it's virtually empty. Usually at this time it would be the morning rush hour making it impossible to even stand at the place I took this picture but thanks to Tropical Storm Kammuri which by now has turned into a typoon signalled at number 8 on the local scale, most people stay at home as everything but emergency services, limited public transportation and some die-hard private shops remain open. If the signal stays up until past noon, the rest of the day will be off as well.