Baba Kaps Doxology

Just-in-case some of you haven’t gotten-it .. I REALLY LOVE and I REALLY ENJOY the experience of International Travel.  I snapped the below photograph as I was leaving New Delhi for Hong Kong late Sunday evening on May 12th. I wanted to share the below photograph with you since some of you will NEVER get to look up at such exotic destinations on your Departing-Flights-Board in a Major International Airport such as New Delhi.

My flight on the above Board was Hong Kong .. the 4th departing flight up-from-the-bottom just below Paris. What a ‘thrill’ it still is for me at age 76 years and a lifetime of international travel to see the above exotic destinations AND to be going to one of them.

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I don’t know what you think of China.  Many things I am positive. Do you think of China as modern?  Do you think of China as being progressive and ahead-of-the-times? Do you think of China as being somewhat non-religious? Do you think of China as being a nation of Atheists?  I snapped the below two photographs in an elevator in one of the high-rise super-modern buildings in Kowloon.

I wonder how many of you .. IF any of you .. ‘will-get-it’ when you look-over the above and the below photos.

PERSONALLY I WAS SHOCKED WHEN ..

I noticed that there was NOT a 13th Floor in the building!  Do you think the Chinese feel that the Number 13 might be ‘unlucky’? Does this fit-in with how you feel about the Chinese?

“Talk about making-something-out-of-nothing-at-all Captain!  You are pushing-the-envelope here!” .. “Really? Wait until you see the photos below of two soda-pop bottles ‘masquerading’ as Vitamin ‘C’! ”
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TEA PLANTATIONS IN INDIA !

The ABOVE you have seen!

BUT TEA IN DOWNTOWN KOWLOON ?

WELL AFTER ALL .. KOWLOON IS IN CHINA ! CHINA IS FAMOUS FOR TEA!  ODD MAYBE but as the Tea Plantations in India were beautiful .. Tea sure is BEAUTIFUL in DOWNTOWN KOWLOON isn’t it?  So WHY NOT Tea Plants in beautiful downtown Kowloon?

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In the below photo notice the tan-colored building directly above and behind the bus .. also notice the sky-scraper in the fog.

The below photo was taken from the 9th floor of my YMCA and is one of my favorite photos of Hong Kong Island and City.  In it you will see the tan-colored building and the sky-scraper in the fog I mention above.  This just ties-together my YMCA and the above photos of the tea plants.

I really enjoy this view.

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You seemingly always have cruise ships docked in Kowloon.

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Silly huh?  This Lemon Flavored Vitamin ‘C’ drink was wonderful when I was ‘forcing’ fluids with the head-cold I caught.

So? What is it I am supposed to do when these inanimate objects keep saying .. “Dad! Take a photo of at least one or two of us!”

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Inanimate objects?  So?  What is it I am supposed to do when human-animate-beings ask me to .. “Take my picture!”  It began with the first gentleman below.

Then his buddy ‘joined-in’ for a photo.

YOU TOO WOULD BE SMILING if you too were looking at the LARGEST RUBBER DUCKY THAT I HAVE EVER SEEN .. GO FIGURE!

This thing was ENORMOUS!

“Captain?” .. “Yes.” .. “Time to quit-while-you’re ahead.” .. “Oh yes!”

SMILES .. Cap

I am going to begin this Post with ..

A FAVORITE photo taken in Kowloon back in September of 2011.

NOW A FAVORITE photo taken this trip!  ’THEY’ wanted to ‘shoot’ us below .. so to be a good-sport I agreed to ‘sit’ for a photo.

SO I ‘SHOT’ THEM right back!  When I get-it-going!  I GET-IT-GOING!

The above two photos were taken in my MOST FAVORITE RESTAURANT IN KOWLOON .. so TOO was the below photo!

In the above photo notice the number 4 on the left showing it is at table number 4 .. a different table from the below photo.

Then ‘I caught’ a lady shooting a photo. Actually I caught a lady beginning to shoot a photo with her cell-phone!  First .. I STOPPED HER!  Then I pointed out to her the above .. and the below signs!

THEN I pulled out my camera and SHOWED THE LADY MY TWO ABOVE PHOTOS of the ‘NO PHOTO’ signs.

THEN I SHOWED THE POOR LADY MY PHOTO OF SINGAPORE-RICE-NOODLES BELOW.

AND THEN SHE BEGAN TO GIGGLE !

She got-it .. me with all of my photos of the ‘NO PHOTOS’ signs and many others ..

So I shot a photo of her and showed it to her!

THEN THE OWNER APPEARED! And THE OWNER SAID .. “See the sign.” .. (see the number 2 on the right .. it’s a sign NO PHOTOS at table number 2).

SO I ‘SHOT’ THE OWNER! And he began to giggle!

And I ‘shot’ him again ..

And I ‘shot’ him (a ‘candid’) again ..

And I ‘shot’ him (another ‘candid’) yet again !

And YES!  Again I ‘shot’ THE MAN .. I HAD-IT-GOING AND I WAS GOING ALL-THE-WAY TO THE END-OF-THE-LINE!  You are looking back towards the entrance. The kitchen is to the right.

THEN I ‘SHOT’ THE COOK !

THEN I ‘SHOT’ THE LADY CASHIER !

THEN I ‘SHOT’ MY TWO WAITERS !

THEN I ‘SHOT-UP-THE-PLACE’ !

More Singapore-Rice-Noodles!

NO NO NO PHOTOS AT TABLE 7 EITHER ..

Moving-Right-Along!

NO NO NO PHOTOS AT TABLE 8 EITHER!

In the back straight ahead of you is a small ‘temple’ in the corner.

Below you see a closer view of the small ‘temple’ in the corner ..

From the street you see the below ..

As you walk into the restaurant .. this is your view. Way back at the far end of the restaurant you again see the small ‘temple’ I have mentioned above.

As you enter .. to your left you have the kitchen where THE ACTION IS!

NO NO NO PHOTOS at table number 11 either!

WELL THERE YOU HAVE IT !

I ‘SHOT-THE-DICKENS’ OUT OF MY MOST 

FAVORITE RESTAURANT IN KOWLOON!

SMILES !  Cap ..

THANKS MIKE 99654 for your phone call this Wednesday afternoon! It was nice to visit and to get you to check out my other web site ..  the one I call .. Blogspot.  You can see on Blogspot that there are a LOT of photos on my other web site.

Some ‘Itches Scratched’.

SLEEPING WITH PATTI!

(I knew Patti would chortle at reading this! BUT it is true!) 

As you all would imagine .. living outside of the country for almost four months one ‘misses’ certain other things.

RED MEAT!

I do NOT eat much RED MEAT even when I am home BUT .. after four months without so much as a ‘taste’ of RED MEAT .. I get ‘hungry’ for it.

Yesterday .. as I have already written several times .. without stopping anywhere after I landed in Anchorage and picked up my baggage and was met by Patti .. Patti and I went directly to one of our favorite ‘steak houses’ .. ‘The Cattle Company’.  We two ‘split’ a small .. 8 ounce steak.

Today .. Patti and I went to a restaurant named ‘Pipers’.. out by Anchorage International Airport .. and .. I ate an 8 ounce patty of top grade ground beef.

Both of these RED MEAT meals tasted very good to me!  Both were VERY GOOD.

CAESAR SALADS!

Yesterday .. at ‘The Cattle Company’ and today at ‘Pipers’ .. we also ate CAESAR SALADS.  We ate two (2) Caesar Salads each day.

POPCORN!

Today I enjoyed-my-way through a large bowl of Orville Redenbacher’s Gourmet Popcorn.

TUNA FISH SALAD!

Canned tuna fish mixed with Costco’s Four Bean Salad and Sauerkraut are a staple of my eating plan here in the U.S. and one I SORELY missed during the past four months.

COSTCO KIRKLAND BRAND Chocolate Weight Loss Shakes.  I mix one 11 oz can of this with two quarts of water and gulp down a lot of LIQUID.  When home I drink quantum quantities of liquid. I also drink Gatorade mixed with water.

A QUALITY BED!

You have seen over the past four months the many times that I ‘doubled up’ the thin mattresses they tend to have in India. OH YES I did have some good mattresses overseas .. but in general .. they are not the nice thick high quality mattresses we have here in the U.S.

A CLOTHES WASHER / DRYER!

What a luxury these simple two things are!

MY WATERPIK DENTAL IRRIGATOR!

Oh how I missed being able to rinse between-my-teeth with a jet of pressurized water.

TELEVISION SPORTS PLAYOFF GAMES!

Ice Hockey and Pro Basketball (The NBA) games.

TWO HOUR PHONE CALLS with Grosser Behr and Kleiner Behr.  Some of you know Grosser Behr as our-man ‘Zilla!

50 F (10 C) TEMPERATURES!

Jeevan Lal told me it is 48 C (118 F) in Agra Cantt now. I live in Alaska because I can DRESS for the cold and NOT for heat.

AH YES.  I just ‘made-something out of nothing.’

SMILES .. Cap

How about the below ‘scenery’ ..

 Just being home in Alaska ‘scratches an itch’!