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	<title>Comme les Chinois</title>
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		<title>Re-visiting Ge&#8217;an, my ancestral village</title>
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		<pubDate>Sun, 15 Jan 2012 08:52:09 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Cedric Sam</dc:creator>
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		<description><![CDATA[My French cousin Olivier was in Hong Kong, so we decided to go up together to our ancestral village of Ge&#8217;an (葛岸村/Got&#8217;ngon in Cantonese), up in the Pearl River Delta, just kilometers south of Guangzhou (Canton). Ge&#8217;an is now completely gobbled up by the city of Foshan (佛山市/Fotsan), a satellite of the provincial capital. It [...]]]></description>
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<p>My French cousin Olivier was in Hong Kong, so we decided to go up together to our ancestral village of Ge&#8217;an (葛岸村/Got&#8217;ngon in Cantonese), up in the Pearl River Delta, just kilometers south of Guangzhou (Canton). Ge&#8217;an is now completely gobbled up by the city of Foshan (佛山市/Fotsan), a satellite of the provincial capital. It is in Lecong Town (樂從鎮) of Shunde District (順德區/Shundak) in Foshan City.</p>
<p><a href="http://commeleschinois.ca/2008/09/02/ge-an-my-ancestral-village-in-guangdong/">I visited our village for the first time in 2005</a>, and more recently talked about it <a href="http://commeleschinois.ca/2008/09/02/ge-an-my-ancestral-village-in-guangdong/">on this blog back in 2008</a>. The town changed a lot in 6 years, and so did I. I didn&#8217;t live in South China and my Cantonese was not up to today&#8217;s level. I couldn&#8217;t properly communicate with Uncle Chi Tong (my dad&#8217;s cousin). For instance, I only fully understood this time around that this uncle, who was slightly younger than my dad was actually born here. He immigrated to Madagascar before turning 2, and grew up in Hong Kong afterwards.</p>
<p>My grandpa was apparently the more adventurous one, of the two brothers who lived under this house. Uncle Chi Tong&#8217;s father stayed in China until the mid-1950s, before joining his brother in Tananarive (now Antananarivo), Madagascar, to operate in the grocery store business.</p>
<p>Our family later left Madagascar entirely. The younger brother (my paternal grandfather) joined my dad in Canada. The older brother went to Hong Kong. Unwittingly, my mom&#8217;s family also comes from the agglomeration of Foshan, but after passing through Vietnam&#8230;</p>
<p>My cousin initiated the trip, because he had never travelled to China before, let alone visit his ancestral village. My impressions was that the house will one day crumble, but that it was very well preserved despite not having anyone live there for about half a century (maybe squatters?). The home even had some wiring for electricity, so it may have been less than half a century.</p>
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<p>So, we went inside the house, and unlike last time, even ventured on the top floor. We must say that the house is in pretty bad shape, and that the walls are cracking all over the place. Non-renovated wood floors in subtropical climate equals accelerated decay. There were pots stored, chairs and other simple furniture like stools and some chairs and drawers. I thought we should&#8217;ve taken something, because we wouldn&#8217;t have a chance to go back soon. But we didn&#8217;t, perhaps too busy taking photos.</p>
<p>The house could&#8217;ve been anymore, since there were no indication that it was ours, except that we knew the address. But we picked up some pieces of paper from my uncle&#8217;s parents&#8217; drawers clearly identifying our family. There were letters to Tananarive that were never sent (the address on the envelope was in French! Which is probably pretty neat for South Chinese peasants of the time), my grand-aunt&#8217;s talc powder and some of my uncle&#8217;s official papers (he was surprised to find them too) with passport-size photos of his family members.</p>
<p>Also, we found dog shit all over the place, and there were some small paper cups left near a bottle of moonshine. There were also construction materials left near the house&#8217;s entrance, perhaps by workers who thought the house abandoned (as it was so).</p>
<p>Surely now with the improved state of public transportation in the region, we could find our way back there pretty easily. A metro line was just built between Guangzhou and Foshan, and the travel time between Central in Hong Kong to Foshan a tiny two hours, if you don&#8217;t count the time at the border and waiting between trains. Yep.</p>

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		<title>Être chinois au Québec…un trailer</title>
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		<pubDate>Sun, 20 Nov 2011 04:22:38 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Cedric Sam</dc:creator>
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		<description><![CDATA[Eh oui, une bande-annonce (préliminaire, on imagine) est sortie pour le film Être chinois au Québec (titre temporaire), road-trip de Bethany Or et Parker Mah.]]></description>
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<p>Eh oui, une bande-annonce (préliminaire, on imagine) est sortie pour le film <em>Être chinois au Québec</em> (titre temporaire), road-trip de <a href="http://commeleschinois.ca/2008/02/17/regarde-les-chinois-bethany-or/">Bethany Or</a> et <a href="http://www.eyedea.ca/">Parker Mah</a>.</p>

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		<title>67e édition du tournoi de volleyball invitation chinois d&#8217;Amérique du Nord à Montréal</title>
		<link>http://commeleschinois.ca/2011/08/25/67e-edition-du-tournoi-de-volleyball-invitation-chinois-damerique-du-nord-a-montreal/</link>
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		<pubDate>Thu, 25 Aug 2011 02:12:26 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Cedric Sam</dc:creator>
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		<description><![CDATA[Mon frère participera avec son équipe à un grand tournoi de volleyball qui réunira à Montréal plus de 1500 joueurs d&#8217;origine chinoise de partout en Amérique du Nord, lors de la fin de semaine de la fête du travail. L&#8217;histoire de cet événement est très intéressante. Le tournoi avait d&#8217;abord été fondé par des travailleurs [...]]]></description>
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<p>Mon frère participera avec son équipe à <a href="http://montreal.nacivt.com/">un grand tournoi de volleyball</a> qui réunira à Montréal plus de 1500 joueurs d&#8217;origine chinoise de partout en Amérique du Nord, lors de la fin de semaine de la fête du travail.</p>
<p><a href="http://www.nacivt.com/about.html">L&#8217;histoire de cet événement</a> est très intéressante. Le tournoi avait d&#8217;abord été fondé par des travailleurs d&#8217;origine chinoise de Boston et de Providence en 1935. Des équipes de partout aux États-Unis et au Canada ont joint la compétition au fil des années. En 1986, Montréal a accueilli son premier tournoi, marquant le début d&#8217;une rotation entre six villes.</p>
<p>Le fait qui frappe le plus? Pour être admise au tournoi, deux-tiers des joueurs d&#8217;une équipe doivent être &#8220;100% chinois&#8221;.</p>
<p>J&#8217;étais déjà assez fasciné lorsque mon frère m&#8217;a dit que le tournoi avait réquisitionné le <a href="http://www.congresmtl.com/">Palais des congrès de Montréal</a>. Ce n&#8217;est pas quelque chose qui m&#8217;attire d&#8217;emblée (étant tellement un grand sportif), mais je ressens une certaine fierté de savoir que Montréal a une communauté chinoise jeune (que je ne connais pas vraiment), et qui a les reins assez solides pour organiser un événement d&#8217;une telle ampleur.</p>

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		<title>Être Chinois au Québec</title>
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		<pubDate>Sun, 07 Aug 2011 14:48:00 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Cedric Sam</dc:creator>
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		<description><![CDATA[Some of my old friends in Montreal have been working on a documentary about Chinese people in Quebec. They interviewed people ranging from new immigrants to people with up to four generations in Quebec/Canada. (Read their blog Être Chinois au Québec) Depuis plusieurs semaines, quelques-uns de mes vieux amis à Montréal s&#8217;affairaient sur un projet [...]]]></description>
			<content:encoded><![CDATA[<p><a href="http://www.flickr.com/photos/smurfmatic/6019691502/" title="Avec @bethany_or @thought_cast @malguy @multimonde pour un doc sur les Chinois du Québec #chinoisqc) by Cedric Sam, on Flickr"><img src="http://farm7.static.flickr.com/6150/6019691502_eb48803a8a.jpg" width="500" height="375" alt="Avec @bethany_or @thought_cast @malguy @multimonde pour un doc sur les Chinois du Québec #chinoisqc)"></a></p>
<p><em>Some of my old friends in Montreal have been working on a documentary about Chinese people in Quebec. They interviewed people ranging from new immigrants to people with up to four generations in Quebec/Canada.</em>  (<a href="http://etrechinoisauquebec.net/">Read their blog <em>Être Chinois au Québec</em></a>)</p>
<p>Depuis plusieurs semaines, quelques-uns de mes vieux amis à Montréal s&#8217;affairaient sur un projet de film documentaire sur les Chinois au Québec. (<a href="http://etrechinoisauquebec.net/">Voir leur blogue <em>Être Chinois au Québec</em></a>)</p>
<p>Dans le temps, <a href="http://www.eyedea.ca/">Parker</a> et Bethany (premier et troisième à partir de la droite sur la photo) et moi faisions partie d&#8217;une sorte de club social chinois, qui se réunissait parfois pour des soirées mah jong (plus Settlers of Catan, et des quantités variables d&#8217;alcool et de bouffe) ou des aventures culinaires dans <a href="http://commeleschinois.ca/2009/04/13/montreals-other-chinatown-in-2009/">le second Chinatown de Montréal</a>.</p>
<p>Je suis vraiment content de les avoir retrouvés sur ce projet (une amie de l&#8217;époque a aussi fait la recherche). L&#8217;idée de faire un tel film vient de William Dere et <a href="http://www.pmm.qc.ca/english/spip.php?article37">Malcolm Guy</a>, connus pour avoir travaillé ensemble sur <a href="http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=w4Hq-_oaP1I">La Montagne d&#8217;Or</a> (Moving the Mountain) il y a presque vingt ans, un docu qui parlait entre autres de la taxe d&#8217;entrée qui toucha les immigrants d&#8217;origine chinoise au Canada jusqu&#8217;en 1947.</p>
<p><iframe width="480" height="390" src="http://www.youtube.com/embed/w4Hq-_oaP1I" frameborder="0" allowfullscreen></iframe><br />
<em>Le film précédent de William Dere et Malcolm Guy, La Montagne d&#8217;Or</em></p>
<p>Samedi, l&#8217;équipe de William et Malcolm nous a filmés et interviewé ensemble, notre ancien &#8220;club social chinois&#8221;, avec quelques additions. Nous étions au Mon Nan, un restaurant chinois, style cantonais (dont la spécialité est un canard de pékin, trois cuissons). Dimanche, ça a été un peu plus intime, lorsque l&#8217;équipe et moi sommes rencontrés à Côte-des-Neiges, un quartier où j&#8217;ai grandi &#8212; non pas comme résident, mais comme étudiant du Cégep.</p>
<p>Tout au long des entrevues, j&#8217;ai mis de l&#8217;avant cette idée que la télévision et le cinéma québécois francophone n&#8217;était pas représentatif de la minorité chinoise et/ou asiatique. C&#8217;est une constatation que j&#8217;ai eu pour plusieurs années déjà, et c&#8217;est qu&#8217;en général, les visages asiatiques à la télé faisaient abstraction des gens comme moi, nés et grandis au Québec, quelque peu fier du (précieux) bagage accumulé au fil des années. Je constate par exemple que les seuls asiatiques des grandes séries télévisées récentes au Québec sont largement des petites Chinoises adoptées par des familles québécoises (Annie et ses hommes, Les hauts et les bas de Sophie Paquin, Les Bougon, 30 vies) ou des gangsters (Casino). Bon, je n&#8217;ai pas tout ratissé, mais je suis quand même persuadé que pas tous les Asiatiques ou Chinois au Québec sont adoptés, quand même!</p>
<p>L&#8217;autre, c&#8217;était dans les médias d&#8217;information. En particulier, dans ceux que je regarde (ou regardais, lorsque je vivais à Montréal), manquent énormément d&#8217;Asiatiques à des postes névralgiques. Pendant que les Anglais ont des Asiats comme anchor (Andrew Chang à CBC Montréal) ou comme journaliste couvrant les Canadiens (John Lu à TSN), je ne peux imaginer du tout la même chose se produire dans le Canada français. (La presse écrite n&#8217;y échappe pas, si on fait le tour dans les grands quotidiens montréalais, par exemple.)</p>
<p>Je pensais aussi qu&#8217;en général, je n&#8217;ai pas vécu de racisme, étant donné que je parlais français aussi bien que tout le monde, et que je prends les choses généralement relax. Je pense que le vrai problème est plus dans l&#8217;inclusion de nos minorités dans la sphère publique, ce qui veut dire en politique, dans les médias, et dans nos institutions publiques. Bon, c&#8217;est dit. Et j&#8217;espère qu&#8217;on en verra un peu de ça bien découpé dans le film.</p>

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		<title>L&#8217;importance du scandale Guo Meimei + Croix-Rouge chinoise</title>
		<link>http://commeleschinois.ca/2011/07/08/limportance-du-scandale-guo-meimei-et-de-la-croix-rouge-chinoise/</link>
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		<pubDate>Fri, 08 Jul 2011 03:27:06 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Cedric Sam</dc:creator>
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		<description><![CDATA[Au départ, l&#8217;histoire de Guo Meimei (郭美美) peut paraître anodine. Une belle fille, d&#8217;à peine vingt ans, prend des photos d&#8217;elle bien accôtée sur de belles voitures. Elle parle sans retenue de son style de vie flamboyant. La shit a pogné la fan lorsqu&#8217;elle a weiboyé il y a déjà plus de deux semaines qu&#8217;elle [...]]]></description>
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<p>Au départ, l&#8217;histoire de Guo Meimei (郭美美) peut paraître anodine. Une belle fille, d&#8217;à peine vingt ans, prend des photos d&#8217;elle bien accôtée sur de belles voitures. Elle parle sans retenue de son style de vie flamboyant.</p>
<p>La shit a pogné la fan lorsqu&#8217;elle a <a href="http://weibo.com/">weibo</a>yé il y a déjà plus de deux semaines <a href="http://www.chinadaily.com.cn/cndy/2011-06/24/content_12764702.htm">qu&#8217;elle est une des dirigeantes de la portion commerciale de la Croix-Rouge de Chine</a> (qui n&#8217;a rien à voir avec la Croix-Rouge internationale, contrairement à celles de la plupart des pays). Quoi? Qu&#8217;est-ce qu&#8217;une jeune femme qui devrait encore être à l&#8217;université fait-elle à se vanter d&#8217;être en haut dans la hiérarchie d&#8217;une des plus grandes sociétés charitables de la République populaire de Chine? Était-ce la <a href="http://cmp.hku.hk/newswire/#558f9289da74f198c07d97a7663282d7">maîtresse d&#8217;un (vrai) dirigeant de la Croix-Rouge</a>?</p>
<p><a href="http://www.google.com.hk/search?hl=en&#038;safe=off&#038;q=%E9%83%AD%E7%BE%8E%E7%BE%8Ebaby&#038;um=1&#038;ie=UTF-8&#038;tbm=isch&#038;source=og&#038;sa=N&#038;tab=wi&#038;biw=1135&#038;bih=563"><img src="http://commeleschinois.ca/wp-content/uploads/2011/07/guomeimei_maserati.jpg" alt="" title="Guo Meimei + Maserati" width="400" height="535" class="aligncenter size-full wp-image-1446" /></a></p>
<p>Elle a depuis effacé tous les messages compromettants de <a href="http://weibo.com/1741865482">son compte Weibo</a> et nié tout lien avec l&#8217;organisme. Pourtant, la tempête médiatique continue de faire rage et sa vie d&#8217;adolescente passée la vingtaine reste bien étalée au vu et sû de ses <a href="http://weibo.com/1741865482/fans">460 000 suiveux</a>.</p>
<p>Cette histoire est importante parce qu&#8217;elle constitue l&#8217;exemple parfait de la crise de crédibilité que vivent les organisations en Chine, qu&#8217;elles soient <a href="http://fr.wikipedia.org/wiki/Scandale_du_lait_frelat%C3%A9_en_2008">commerciales</a> ou caritatives. Si les gens de plus en plus riches en Chine veulent donner de l&#8217;argent pour une bonne cause, à qui le donneront-ils, si même la Croix-Rouge peut être corrompue? Celle-ci gère des sommes astronomiques, elle qui a donné <a href="http://www.chinadaily.com.cn/china/2011-05/06/content_12461333.htm">2,8 milliards $US en 2011</a> à la province du Sichuan.</p>
<p>Les gens ordinaires, la classe moyenne, veulent connaître la vérité. Peut-être qu&#8217;à l&#8217;étranger, on s&#8217;inquiète pour les droits de l&#8217;homme ceci, et la démocratie cela. Mais ce qui est encore plus important à mes yeux, c&#8217;est la confiance. La confiance qu&#8217;on a pour ses institutions, la confiance qu&#8217;on a pour ses voisins. Dans la vie ordinaire des gens, de pouvoir <em>truster</em> que ce qu&#8217;on achète au supermarché est vraiment ce qui est indiqué sur la boîte, c&#8217;est ce qui importe vraiment. Faut commencer au niveau micro.</p>
<p>Alors ils se branchent sur leur Weibo via leur téléphone mobile et consultent les médias en ligne pour savoir s&#8217;ils ont été crossés par la Croix-Rouge (qui devrait peut-être apprendre de son synonyme international). Le portail QQ a même consacré <a href="http://view.news.qq.com/zt2011/GMM2/index.htm">une page spéciale pour la jolie demoiselle</a>.</p>
<p>(<a href="http://www.chinasmack.com/2011/stories/guo-meimei-red-cross-controversy-pissing-off-chinese-netizens.html">Voici un bon récapitulatif de toute l&#8217;histoire, via ChinaSmack.</a>)</p>

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		<title>Comment est-ce que j&#8217;écoute la série Canadiens-Bruins à Hong Kong ?</title>
		<link>http://commeleschinois.ca/2011/04/17/comment-est-ce-que-jecoute-la-serie-canadiens-bruins-a-hong-kong/</link>
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		<pubDate>Sat, 16 Apr 2011 23:48:14 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Cedric Sam</dc:creator>
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		<description><![CDATA[Je me lève à 7h du mat, j&#8217;allume NHL Gamecenter Live sur mon téléphone, et je regarde le Twitter en même temps. Comme NHL.com n&#8217;offre que des feeds américains, j&#8217;y vais all-in avec l&#8217;offre de NESN. C&#8217;est beau de les entendre rager. Je me fais des toasts et me prends un thé.]]></description>
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<p>Je me lève à 7h du mat, j&#8217;allume NHL Gamecenter Live sur mon téléphone, et je regarde le Twitter en même temps.</p>
<p>Comme NHL.com n&#8217;offre que des feeds américains, j&#8217;y vais all-in avec l&#8217;offre de <a href="http://www.nesn.com/">NESN</a>. <img src='http://commeleschinois.ca/wp-includes/images/smilies/icon_smile.gif' alt=':)' class='wp-smiley' />  C&#8217;est beau de les entendre rager.</p>
<p>Je me fais des toasts et me prends un thé.</p>

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		<title>The Chinese Canadian vote, poll by poll</title>
		<link>http://commeleschinois.ca/2011/04/14/the-chinese-canadian-vote-poll-by-poll/</link>
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		<pubDate>Thu, 14 Apr 2011 15:44:08 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Cedric Sam</dc:creator>
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		<description><![CDATA[Aside from being the proud owner of CommeLesChinois.ca, I am also a computer/media/data specialist. Recently, I launched an updated version of my election maps with Cyberpresse. The map was designed using results by polling division from previous elections, the smallest available division for electoral results. Each of these polls has about 200-500 people living in [...]]]></description>
			<content:encoded><![CDATA[<p>Aside from being the proud owner of <a href="http://commeleschinois.ca/">CommeLesChinois.ca</a>, I am also a computer/media/data specialist. Recently, I launched <a href="http://www.cyberpresse.ca/actualites/elections-federales/canada-2008/">an updated version of my election maps with Cyberpresse</a>. The map was designed using <a href="http://elections.ca/scripts/resval/ovr_40ge.asp?prov=&#038;lang=e">results by polling division</a> from previous elections, the smallest available division for electoral results. Each of these polls has about 200-500 people living in them, and you can basically know what your block (if you live in the city) tends to vote for.</p>
<p>The consequence is voyeurism for political junkies. And I also like to go play with the maps, and decided to assemble a bunch of interesting ridings with relatively a strong proportion of Canadians of Chinese origin living in them. For that, I used <a href="http://www.punditsguide.ca/">Pundits&#8217; Guide</a>&#8216;s fantastic tool for finding <a href="http://www.punditsguide.ca/census">census data divided by riding</a>.</p>
<p>I found that the <a href="http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Richmond_(electoral_district)">Richmond</a> riding, south of Vancouver was in fact the most &#8220;Chinese&#8221; (based on the 2006 census), with 50.2% of the population declared to be Chinese. The 2008 map is not in fact interesting, but juxtaposed with the 2006, shows the dramatic shift from Liberals (rep. by former cabinet minister <a href="http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Raymond_Chan">Raymond Chan</a>) to the Conservatives (<a href="http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Alice_Wong">Alice Wong</a>). 2006 was when the Liberals lost power to Stephen Harper&#8217;s Conservatives.</p>
<p><a href="http://www.flickr.com/photos/smurfmatic/5618848659/" title="Richmond 2006 by Cedric Sam, on Flickr"><img src="http://farm6.static.flickr.com/5262/5618848659_b77114eb0c.jpg" width="500" height="321" alt="Richmond 2006"></a><br />
<em>Richmond in 2006&#8230;</em></p>
<p><a href="http://www.flickr.com/photos/smurfmatic/5618848225/" title="Richmond 2008 by Cedric Sam, on Flickr"><img src="http://farm6.static.flickr.com/5147/5618848225_e33f0ec6b6.jpg" width="500" height="341" alt="Richmond 2008"></a><br />
<em>&#8230;and in 2008</em></p>
<p>Some ridings were won or lost by a hair. In the Vancouver area, the closest race happened in <a href="http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Vancouver_South">Vancouver South</a>, the third most Chinese riding of the country (43.7%), where the MP is a Liberal, former health minister Ujjal Dosanjh. He won the last election by 20 votes.</p>
<p>The map by polls succeeds in showing that the vote was in fact hugely clustered among neighbourhoods. I don&#8217;t know the geography of Vancouver very well, but I&#8217;m almost certain that the strong groupings of red and blue (deeper the color, larger the margin of victory in a polling division) represent opposed socio-economical groups.</p>
<p><a href="http://www.flickr.com/photos/smurfmatic/5619437978/" title="Vancouver South by Cedric Sam, on Flickr"><img src="http://farm6.static.flickr.com/5109/5619437978_13ace343d7.jpg" width="500" height="283" alt="Vancouver South"></a><br />
<em>Vancouver South in 2008</em></p>
<p><a href="http://www.flickr.com/photos/smurfmatic/5618845865/" title="Brossard--La Prairie by Cedric Sam, on Flickr"><img src="http://farm6.static.flickr.com/5063/5618845865_9896dbca7d.jpg" width="500" height="339" alt="Brossard--La Prairie"></a><br />
<em>Brossard&#8211;La Prairie in 2008</em></p>
<p>The Montreal region&#8217;s most Chinese riding comes at a lowly 32nd position, with Westmount&#8211;Ville-Marie, a largely downtown riding. <a href="http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Brossard%E2%80%94La_Prairie">Brossard&#8211;La Prairie</a> on the South Shore is in fact what people in Montreal recognize as the &#8220;Asian suburb&#8221;. With 7.5% Chinese, it is still a far cry from Toronto or Vancouver&#8217;s suburbs.</p>
<p>The contrast in the map is striking, but expected. The northern portion of the riding is Brossard, where a large Asian population lives and where the Liberal vote is concentrated. La Prairie to the south tends to be typical &#8220;450&#8243;, middle-class French Canadian, seems to be voting Bloc. The race for this suburban riding was won by as little as 69 votes.</p>
<p><a href="http://www.flickr.com/photos/smurfmatic/5618847871/" title="Oak Ridges--Markham by Cedric Sam, on Flickr"><img src="http://farm6.static.flickr.com/5261/5618847871_d1852ac112.jpg" width="500" height="313" alt="Oak Ridges--Markham"></a><br />
<em>Oak Ridges&#8211;Markham in 2008</em></p>
<p><a href="http://www.flickr.com/photos/smurfmatic/5618845315/" title="Markham--Unionville by Cedric Sam, on Flickr"><img src="http://farm6.static.flickr.com/5187/5618845315_563eab0a9d.jpg" width="500" height="313" alt="Markham--Unionville"></a><br />
<em>Markham&#8211;Unionville in 2008</em></p>
<p>In some other cases, the municipalities are split over different ridings. Markham, with one of the largest Chinese populations in the Toronto area, is comprised within the ridings of Oak Ridges&#8211;Markham (Conservative) and Markham&#8211;Unionville (Liberal).</p>
<p>(Fellow Montrealer living in Hong Kong Christopher DeWolf also wrote <a href="http://www.urbanphoto.net/blog/2011/04/11/how-canada-votes-street-by-street/">a post on his website Urbanphoto.net</a> about the use of this map for street by street vote analysis.)</p>
<p><em><a href="http://www.cyberpresse.ca/actualites/elections-federales/canada-2008/">More on Cyberpresse&#8230;</a></em></p>

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		<title>Emoi: Lifestyle design made in China</title>
		<link>http://commeleschinois.ca/2011/03/07/emoi-lifestyle-design-made-in-china/</link>
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		<pubDate>Sun, 06 Mar 2011 16:22:08 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Cedric Sam</dc:creator>
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		<description><![CDATA[If you are familiar with Muji, you will understand what aesthetics Emoi is referring to. I was travelling to Shenzhen this weekend and stayed a night at the city&#8217;s YHA Youth Hostel located in an art and culture district called OCT-LOFT (if you know 798, it&#8217;s kinda Shenzhen&#8217;s equivalent of it). In short, I was [...]]]></description>
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<p>If you are familiar with <a href="http://www.muji.com/">Muji</a>, you will understand what aesthetics <a href="http://emoi.com/">Emoi</a> is referring to. I was travelling to Shenzhen this weekend and stayed a night at the city&#8217;s YHA Youth Hostel located in an art and culture district called <a href="http://www.octproperties.com/loft/">OCT-LOFT</a> (if you know 798, it&#8217;s kinda Shenzhen&#8217;s equivalent of it).</p>
<p>In short, I was walking down one of alleys during the evening and saw this brightly lit shop with large windows and very minimalistic counters reminiscent of a Apple and Ikea. It was called <a href="http://emoi.com/">emoi</a>, which translates in French as &#8220;ruckus&#8221;. As many of my friends know, I&#8217;ve been looking for a new bag for months, and it seems like emoi had the answer to my quest. I liked the style and I liked the design. I particularly stuck on the <a href="http://www.emoi.cn/C125?keyword=%E6%96%9C%E6%8C%8E%E5%8C%85">wool felt bags</a>, because I never saw bags made with such a material and that were not necessarily a women&#8217;s bags/handbag.</p>
<p>It was the first time I encountered this brand, but at least two of my (designer) classmates had bought products from emoi.  One of them had a wool felt wallet, which ages very nicely, like a fleece sweater would. I guess that even if not unique, one of the nice thing to see is that it is a domestic store, from mainland China. We will perhaps see more and more of these original stores made in China, and before long, Chinese companies will help drive design and innovation internationally.</p>

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		<title>Kam Kuen Food 金卷: Lamma condiment shop opened by Montrealers</title>
		<link>http://commeleschinois.ca/2011/01/17/kam-kuen-lamma-condiment-shop-opened-by-montrealers/</link>
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		<pubDate>Mon, 17 Jan 2011 14:42:39 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Cedric Sam</dc:creator>
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		<description><![CDATA[I always thought I was the only Lamma resident of Chinese origin from Montreal. Well, that&#8217;s no longer the case. You might think that in an overcrowded city of seven million people like Hong Kong, you would not know your neighbours. This is not true on Lamma Island, a sparsely populated locality of about 6,000 [...]]]></description>
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<p>I always thought I was the only Lamma resident of Chinese origin from Montreal. Well, that&#8217;s no longer the case.</p>
<p>You might think that in an overcrowded city of seven million people like Hong Kong, you would not know your neighbours. This is not true on <a href="http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Lamma_Island">Lamma Island</a>, a sparsely populated locality of about 6,000 people, where it was in fact my cross-balcony neighbour who tipped me on other Montrealers living on Lamma.</p>
<p>I wanted to make a fresh dish of tofu tonight, and needed to buy a good chili oil. I remembered about the Chinese condiments shop on the main street that my neighbour was telling me about, stopped there on my way home, found the chili oil I wanted, and started chatting with the two owners, who confirmed their Montreal origin. In fact, they were as surprised as I was originally, saying how small the world is.</p>
<p>The lady said she grew up in Montreal, and finished her university there. I was told they were even of one of Lamma&#8217;s old families. Montreal has a tiny Chinese community compared with Toronto (or even Calgary, a much smaller city) and it&#8217;s always remarkable to find other Montrealers settling back here in Hong Kong. Some like actress <a href="http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Christy_Chung">Christy Chung</a> (鍾麗緹) and Cantopop singer <a href="http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Denise_Ho">Denise Ho</a> (何韻詩) even achieved household-name level of success here.</p>
<p>I&#8217;ll have to chat longer with these newly found Lamma-Montrealers next time. This island is definitely a place where you can&#8217;t possibly be anonymous in your immediate physical environment.</p>
<p>They are called <strong>Kam Kuen (金卷)</strong>, Golden Roll in English, and are situated on the main street, next door to Green Cottage cafe, and diagonally across from Emily&#8217;s ice cream parlour. The small pot of chili oil with garlic was HK$20 (CA$2.54), and they said that they had a new variety of chili oil that also contains dried shrimp (蝦米) and smelled just like it &#8212; grandma would probably like it. Now that I know that the owners have a Montreal connection, I can probably feel good about buying tourist stuff from Lamma to bring back to my folks back home (it&#8217;s all made by hand in their shop)&#8230; <strong>G/F 32A, Yung Shue Wan Main Street, Lamma Island. Phone: +852 29820812</strong></p>
<p>&#8230;now, how exactly can you use chili oil? With wonton noodles is a good idea, and stir-frys too. But tonight, it was, like I said, for cold tofu:</p>
<p><a href="http://www.flickr.com/photos/smurfmatic/5363040091/" title="Bloc de tofu by Cedric Sam, on Flickr"><img src="http://farm6.static.flickr.com/5046/5363040091_ce6bd44e67.jpg" width="500" height="376" alt="Bloc de tofu" /></a></p>
<p><a href="http://www.flickr.com/photos/smurfmatic/5363630912/" title="Sauce pimentée faite sur l'île de Lamma... par des Hongkongais d'origine montréalaise ! by Cedric Sam, on Flickr"><img src="http://farm6.static.flickr.com/5002/5363630912_db3d548181.jpg" width="376" height="500" alt="Sauce pimentée faite sur l'île de Lamma... par des Hongkongais d'origine montréalaise !" /></a></p>
<p><a href="http://www.flickr.com/photos/smurfmatic/5363150321/" title="Tofu chinois frais et huile pimentée by Cedric Sam, on Flickr"><img src="http://farm6.static.flickr.com/5122/5363150321_9177590666.jpg" width="500" height="376" alt="Tofu chinois frais et huile pimentée" /></a></p>

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		<title>Dim sum à deux mondes opposés</title>
		<link>http://commeleschinois.ca/2011/01/02/dim-sum-a-deux-mondes-opposes/</link>
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		<pubDate>Sat, 01 Jan 2011 16:00:33 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Cedric Sam</dc:creator>
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		<description><![CDATA[新興食家 San Hing Sek Ka, Kennedy Town, Hong Kong Tong Por, Ville Saint-Laurent, Montréal]]></description>
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<em><a href="http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=hy0pKF-TfUY">新興食家 San Hing Sek Ka, Kennedy Town, Hong Kong</a></em></p>
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<em><a href="http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=yLeDsKwbcNA">Tong Por, Ville Saint-Laurent, Montréal</a></em></p>

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		<title>Inside Swatow Plaza</title>
		<link>http://commeleschinois.ca/2011/01/01/inside-swatow-plaza/</link>
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		<pubDate>Sat, 01 Jan 2011 09:46:55 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Cedric Sam</dc:creator>
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		<description><![CDATA[Swatow Plaza opened about five months ago on Boulevard St-Laurent in Montreal&#8217;s Chinatown. It took three years to build, but its biggest would-be tenants have yet to move in, such as the Japanese restaurant on the ground floor, and a Chinese restaurant at its very top. In the meanwhile, small boutiques are occupying the first [...]]]></description>
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<p>Swatow Plaza opened about five months ago on Boulevard St-Laurent in Montreal&#8217;s Chinatown. <a href="http://commeleschinois.ca/2010/07/29/la-construction-de-la-nouvelle-plaza-swatow-de-2007-a-2010/">It took three years to build</a>, but its biggest would-be tenants have yet to move in, such as the Japanese restaurant on the ground floor, and a Chinese restaurant at its very top.</p>
<p>In the meanwhile, small boutiques are occupying the first floor. The alleys are wide and shops are arranged in alcoves. My impression <a href="http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=dUy_KMZUDgA">upon visiting on a Thursday night</a> before Christmas was that the boutique area on the first floor had too many people behind the counter than people shopping. Being on a first floor when the second and ground floor didn&#8217;t have shops open added to the awkwardness.</p>

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		<title>Foggy morning on the ferry</title>
		<link>http://commeleschinois.ca/2010/12/19/foggy-morning-on-the-ferry/</link>
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		<pubDate>Sun, 19 Dec 2010 06:33:13 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Cedric Sam</dc:creator>
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		<description><![CDATA[The day before the very cold two days in Hong Kong (13℃ during the day and 7℃ at night in urban areas), there was an episode of fog for most of the day of Tuesday&#8230;]]></description>
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<p><a href="http://www.flickr.com/photos/smurfmatic/5259630239/" title="IMGP8572 by Cedric Sam, on Flickr"><img src="http://farm6.static.flickr.com/5082/5259630239_7daa5c1c41.jpg" width="500" height="334" alt="IMGP8572" /></a></p>
<p>The day before the very cold two days in Hong Kong (13℃ during the day and 7℃ at night in urban areas), there was an episode of fog for most of the day of Tuesday&#8230;</p>

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		<title>Sina Weibo, juste un clone chinois de Twitter ? Pas si vite&#8230;</title>
		<link>http://commeleschinois.ca/2010/12/06/sina-weibo-juste-un-clone-chinois-de-twitter-pas-si-vite/</link>
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		<pubDate>Mon, 06 Dec 2010 09:30:48 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Cedric Sam</dc:creator>
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		<description><![CDATA[Sina Weibo, en avez-vous déjà entendu parler ? Ce réseau de micro-blogues du style Twitter compte déjà 40 million d&#8217;utilisateurs en à peu près 18 mois d&#8217;existence, surtout répartis en Chine continentale. Jeudi dernier, j&#8217;ai publié un billet sur mon blogue The Rice Cooker qui comparait Twitter et son émule chinois. En termes de contenu, [...]]]></description>
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<p><a href="http://t.sina.com.cn/">Sina Weibo</a>, en avez-vous déjà entendu parler ? Ce réseau de micro-blogues du style <a href="http://twitter.com/">Twitter</a> compte déjà 40 million d&#8217;utilisateurs en à peu près 18 mois d&#8217;existence, surtout répartis en Chine continentale. Jeudi dernier, <a href="http://jmsc.hku.hk/blogs/ricecooker/2010/12/02/sina-weibo-and-twitter-comparing-data-and-conversation-structures/">j&#8217;ai publié un billet</a> sur mon blogue <a href="http://jmsc.hku.hk/blogs/ricecooker/">The Rice Cooker</a> qui comparait Twitter et son émule chinois.</p>
<p>En termes de contenu, la langue chinoise écrite est beaucoup plus compacte que les langues basées sur l&#8217;alphabet romain : un ou deux caractères chinois représentent à peu près un mot dans une langue européenne. C&#8217;est évident qu&#8217;à cause de ça, Weibo ressemble étrangement à un service de blogue sur le <em>speed</em>.</p>
<p>L&#8217;interface de Weibo est elle-même beaucoup mieux pensée que celle de Twitter, reprenant justement des idées du blogue en format long (avec des commentaires attachés aux articles) et puis un système de &laquo; retweet &raquo; qui permet beaucoup facilement de remonter la discussion sur un sujet en particulier.</p>
<p>Le fait de faire elle-même le <em>hosting</em> des photos fait également une grosse différence dans la circulation d&#8217;information. Le contenu de Weibo est très peu politique et très très orientée sur les personnes riches et célèbres (évidemment), mais a tout de même vu émerger des histoires intéressantes comme l&#8217;<a href="http://cmp.hku.hk/2010/10/12/8021/">incident de Yihuang</a>. Qian Gang, directeur du <a href="http://cmp.hku.hk/">China Media Project</a> à HKU, a près de 1.8 million de lecteurs abonnés à son micro-blog sur QQ.com.</p>
<p>Sina, la compagnie derrière Weibo (qui signifie &laquo; micro-blog &raquo; en chinois), est un géant de l&#8217;Internet en Chine (et dans la sinosphère), offrant aussi des services de blogues et de portail. Plutôt méconnues en Occident, ces compagnies (comme Tencent, avec son produit de messagerie instantanée QQ) copient au départ ce qui sort de Silicon Valley, mais finissent inévitablement par innover et améliorer. Leur incroyable volume d&#8217;utilisateurs font également de leurs produits des véhicules publicitaires hors-pair. Sina Weibo embauche d&#8217;ailleurs des célébrités pour que ceux-ci aient leurs micro-blogues sur leur réseau, plutôt que <a href="http://t.qq.com/">celui de QQ</a>.</p>
<p>La montée de Sina et Tencent dans le domaine des micro-blogues n&#8217;est pas une coïncidence : ils ont tous deux été lancées l&#8217;année dernière, dans les mois qui ont suivi le bloquage de Twitter et de son clone chinois le plus populaire, <a href="http://fanfou.com/">Fanfou.com</a>. Ce dernier est justement <a href="http://www.google.com/hostednews/afp/article/ALeqM5jdOJaDf00HHsJZbIIkwztM5VglGQ?docId=CNG.66f68c0742f30ea582dc3640f544f237.a1">revenu</a> du royaumme des sites perdus la semaine dernière.</p>

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		<title>Found: 1970s Hong Kong Tourist Association Official Guidebook</title>
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		<pubDate>Sun, 05 Dec 2010 06:05:16 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Cedric Sam</dc:creator>
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		<description><![CDATA[Hong Kong Tourism Association Official Guidebook (circa 1977) Before leaving for Hong Kong, I brought with me this copy of an &#8220;official guidebook&#8221; distributed by the Hong Kong Tourist Association (香港旅遊協會), the precursor of the Hong Kong Tourism Board (香港旅遊發展局). My dad had given it to me some time ago when he was digging up [...]]]></description>
			<content:encoded><![CDATA[<p><a href="http://www.flickr.com/photos/smurfmatic/5232265062/" title="1978 HK Tourism Association Official Guidebook by Cedric Sam, on Flickr"><img src="http://farm6.static.flickr.com/5089/5232265062_20e9700038.jpg" width="500" height="334" alt="1978 HK Tourism Association Official Guidebook" /></a><br />
<em>Hong Kong Tourism Association Official Guidebook (circa 1977)</em></p>
<p>Before leaving for Hong Kong, I brought with me this copy of an &#8220;official guidebook&#8221; distributed by the Hong Kong Tourist Association (香港旅遊協會), the precursor of the Hong Kong Tourism Board (香港旅遊發展局). My dad had given it to me some time ago when he was digging up his junk, and presumably picked it up when he and my mom got married in 1977, at the <a href="http://www.cityu.edu.hk/CIVCAL/book/lee_gardens.html">Lee Gardens Hotel</a>, where the Manulife Plaza now stands (<a href="http://wikimapia.org/1237911/The-Lee-Gardens-Manulife-Plaza">see map</a>).</p>
<p>Flipping through it, I saw that the exchange rate was HK$4.70 for each US$1, compared with the HK$7.77 pegged rate today. It was during a short period of nine years <a href="http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Hong_Kong_dollar#History">when the Hong Kong dollar floated</a>.</p>
<p><a href="http://www.flickr.com/photos/smurfmatic/5231694309/" title="1978 HK Tourism Association Official Guidebook by Cedric Sam, on Flickr"><img src="http://farm6.static.flickr.com/5006/5231694309_ac88631ee5.jpg" width="500" height="334" alt="1978 HK Tourism Association Official Guidebook" /></a><br />
<em>Lee Gardens Hotel, Causeway Bay, Hong Kong (circa 1973)</em></p>
<p><a href="http://www.flickr.com/photos/smurfmatic/5231704685/" title="Hong Kong Island in the 1970s by Cedric Sam, on Flickr"><img src="http://farm6.static.flickr.com/5167/5231704685_06efc296e4.jpg" width="500" height="334" alt="Hong Kong Island in the 1970s" /></a><br />
<em>View of the Harbour in late 1973</em></p>
<p><a href="http://www.flickr.com/photos/smurfmatic/5232291540/" title="1977 HK Tourism Association Official Guidebook by Cedric Sam, on Flickr"><img src="http://farm6.static.flickr.com/5206/5232291540_fa2c9bae9e.jpg" width="500" height="334" alt="1977 HK Tourism Association Official Guidebook" /></a><br />
<em>&#8220;Because only Pan Am fly the new Boeing 747SP&#8221;</em></p>
<p><a href="http://www.flickr.com/photos/smurfmatic/5231710131/" title="Hong Kong Tourist Association Official Guidebook (1976-77) by Cedric Sam, on Flickr"><img src="http://farm6.static.flickr.com/5045/5231710131_1ee0aa529e.jpg" width="500" height="334" alt="Hong Kong Tourist Association Official Guidebook (1976-77)" /></a><br />
<em>Visit places like <a href="http://www.google.com/search?q=tiger+balm+gardens">Tiger Balm Gardens</a> in Tai Hang</em></p>
<p><strong>And now the racier parts</strong></p>
<p><a href="http://www.flickr.com/photos/smurfmatic/5232306308/" title="Hong Kong Night Life by Cedric Sam, on Flickr"><img src="http://farm6.static.flickr.com/5163/5232306308_b25cb45a99.jpg" width="500" height="334" alt="Hong Kong Night Life" /></a><br />
<em>Hong Kong Night Life</em></p>
<p><a href="http://www.flickr.com/photos/smurfmatic/5232310066/" title="Escort / call-girl ads in a 1970s HK Tourism Association Official Guidebook by Cedric Sam, on Flickr"><img src="http://farm6.static.flickr.com/5090/5232310066_87d89fbd4a.jpg" width="500" height="334" alt="Escort / call-girl ads in a 1970s HK Tourism Association Official Guidebook" /></a><br />
<em>54 D&#8217;Aguilar Street, that&#8217;s at the middle of today&#8217;s Lan Kwai Fong</em></p>
<p>Do I need to say that this is an official guidebook produced for and endorsed by a government-funded organisation?</p>
<p><strong>Advertisement</strong></p>
<p><a href="http://www.flickr.com/photos/smurfmatic/5231734465/" title="1970s camera advertisement by Cedric Sam, on Flickr"><img src="http://farm6.static.flickr.com/5129/5231734465_baedcdf4dc.jpg" width="500" height="334" alt="1970s camera advertisement" /></a><br />
<em>The <a href="http://www.mir.com.my/rb/photography/hardwares/classics/nikkormat/elseries/index.htm">Nikkormat EL</a> was Nikon&#8217;s first electronic camera&#8230;</em></p>
<p><a href="http://www.flickr.com/photos/smurfmatic/5232332004/" title="1970s camera advertisement by Cedric Sam, on Flickr"><img src="http://farm6.static.flickr.com/5203/5232332004_69648cdefe.jpg" width="500" height="334" alt="1970s camera advertisement" /></a><br />
<em>&#8230;but my dad was actually a fan of <a href="http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Minolta">Minolta</a> and had one similar to the one in this advert. On the right, Braun also made <a href="http://super8arena.com/braun-nizo-2056-p-184.html">video cameras</a> with sound&#8230;</em></p>
<p><a href="http://www.flickr.com/photos/smurfmatic/5231744437/" title="1974-78 HK Tourism Association Official Guidebook by Cedric Sam, on Flickr"><img src="http://farm6.static.flickr.com/5167/5231744437_bc7d635ed6.jpg" width="500" height="334" alt="1974-78 HK Tourism Association Official Guidebook" /></a><br />
<em>Wearing real fur in the 1970s was still very politically correct. I mean, look at this, it&#8217;s imported from Scandinavia!</em></p>
<p><strong>The Dark Side</strong></p>
<p><a href="http://www.flickr.com/photos/smurfmatic/5232342042/" title="Kowloon in the 1970s by Cedric Sam, on Flickr"><img src="http://farm6.static.flickr.com/5009/5232342042_724fa2ecd6.jpg" width="500" height="334" alt="Kowloon in the 1970s" /></a><br />
<em><a href="http://www.flickr.com/photos/smurfmatic/5232342042/lightbox/">View of Kowloon</a> in the 1970s</em></p>
<p><a href="http://www.flickr.com/photos/smurfmatic/5231760497/" title="1974-77 HK Tourism Association Official Guidebook by Cedric Sam, on Flickr"><img src="http://farm6.static.flickr.com/5082/5231760497_56a814d457.jpg" width="500" height="334" alt="1974-77 HK Tourism Association Official Guidebook" /></a><br />
<em>&#8220;Public transport in the 80s.&#8221; The Cross-Harbour tunnel and the MTR were still just a project&#8230; Wikipedia has a <a href="http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/File:MIS_route_map_eng.svg">clearer map</a> of the first MTR line that would open in 1979 between Central (Chater) and Kwun Tong. Other retro station names: Waterloo (Yau Ma Tei) and Argyle (Mong Kok).</em></p>
<p><a href="http://www.flickr.com/photos/smurfmatic/5231754985/" title="1974-77 HK Tourism Association Official Guidebook by Cedric Sam, on Flickr"><img src="http://farm6.static.flickr.com/5088/5231754985_09cb97064b.jpg" width="500" height="334" alt="1974-77 HK Tourism Association Official Guidebook" /></a><br />
<em>Finally, we found that the publishers of the booklet, Kwun Tong based <a href="http://www.hkpc.org/index.php?option=com_k2&#038;view=item&#038;id=59747:a-o-a-offset-press-limited&#038;Itemid=223&#038;lang=zh_TW">A-O-A Offset Press Limited</a> is in business!</em></p>

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		<title>Central Pier #4 (Lamma) made into a giant advertisement and launch party for Cartier</title>
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		<pubDate>Sat, 27 Nov 2010 08:15:11 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Cedric Sam</dc:creator>
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		<description><![CDATA[We have no idea what this is for, but in about two weeks, they built this giant red box on top of the Lamma pier (#4) in Central, Hong Kong. We theorized half-jokingly that it was perhaps a deluxe stripper&#8217;s club, because the flashiness just points to that. We finally had our answer this Friday [...]]]></description>
			<content:encoded><![CDATA[<p><a href="http://www.flickr.com/photos/smurfmatic/5210605959/" title="Central Piers #4 Lamma - Cartier by Cedric Sam, on Flickr"><img src="http://farm5.static.flickr.com/4110/5210605959_994a79d57f.jpg" width="500" height="334" alt="Central Piers #4 Lamma - Cartier" /></a></p>
<p>We have no idea what this is for, but in about two weeks, they built this giant red box on top of the Lamma pier (#4) in Central, Hong Kong. We theorized half-jokingly that it was perhaps a deluxe stripper&#8217;s club, because the flashiness just points to that.</p>
<p>We finally had our answer this Friday night when what looked like an exclusive party was in the process of being hosted on top of the pier to the least anti-glamour outlying island of Lamma.</p>
<p>In general, this blog approves of urban development, but this is just wrong and a total eyesore &#8212; I was told that they were going to add such 2/F levels to all the other piers who don&#8217;t already have one. We wonder if they are going to take it down any time, or it&#8217;s going to stay there to forever block our ever-receding harbour&#8217;s view.</p>
<p><a href="http://www.flickr.com/photos/smurfmatic/5210607759/" title="Central Piers #4 Lamma - Cartier by Cedric Sam, on Flickr"><img src="http://farm6.static.flickr.com/5282/5210607759_cc03407729.jpg" width="334" height="500" alt="Central Piers #4 Lamma - Cartier" /></a></p>
<p><a href="http://www.flickr.com/photos/smurfmatic/5211209476/" title="Central Piers #4 Lamma - Cartier by Cedric Sam, on Flickr"><img src="http://farm6.static.flickr.com/5245/5211209476_28e721c8a3.jpg" width="334" height="500" alt="Central Piers #4 Lamma - Cartier" /></a></p>

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