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1. Alberto Giacometti : "Walking Man I" $104 million - Sotheby, London, 2010 2. Damien Hirst : "For the love of God", 2006 $100 million - Private sale, August 2007 3. Unknown artist : "The Guennol Lioness", c.3000 b.c. $57.2 million - Sotheby's NY, December 5th 2007 4. Constantin Brancusi : "Madame L.R" $ 37.2 million Christie's auction, 23 February 2009 5. Pablo Picasso : "Tete de femme (Dora Maar)", 1941 $29.1 million Sotheby's NY, November 2007 6. Unknown artist : "Artemis and the stag", 1st century b.c.- 1st century a.c. $28.6 million Sotheby's NY, June 2007 7. Constantini Brancusi : "Bird in space", 1922-23 $27.5 million Christie's NY, May 2005 8. Alberto Giacometti : "Grande Femme debut", 1959/60 $27.5 million Christie's NY, May 2008 9. David Smith : "Cubi XXVIII", 1965 $23.5 million Sotheby's NY, November ...

cute little mozart and teresa teng paintings ...love it a lot

  Workers are seen at the Seed Cathedral, part of the UK Pavilion at the Shanghai World Expo site. The 20-meter-high cube-like Seed Cathedral will be covered by 60,000 slim, transparent acrylic rods, which will quiver in the breeze, according to the official website of Shanghai Expo. (REUTERS/China Daily) --> Stunning !

As populations rise, it’s getting harder and harder to find green space. Toronto is fighting that with their newly appointed Green Roof by-law.   The Green Roof by-law makes it mandatory for any new building to be topped with at least 50% green area. The Toronto by-law was decided on a 36-2 vote, which is a great step for eco-friendly living.   “Toronto’s by-law provides a new opportunity to strengthen the emerging practice of integrated green building design,” said, Steven W. Peck, President of Green Roofs for Healthy Cities, which supported the by-law against pressure from developers opposed to the policy. “The by-law breaks new ground on how to structure a mandatory green roof requirement and the construction standard also contains important best practices that may prove to be a model for other cities,” he added.    http://www.trendhunter.com/trends/Green-roof-law-toronto a very nice policy...maybe HK should have it

a new breed of caravan that is completely self-sufficient and runs on solar power... There is a 40 watt 12 volt solar panel in the roof that comes out and opens into a nice gazebo while all the while charging up the electronics inside like the four burner stove in the kitchenette, the on-board computer and wireless Internet connection GPS system and the lights. The caravan runs on gas or diesel or electric power as it’s fuel source and retails for $69,000.00 US.  www.verdier.ca   Super cool~

  my little cactus..got flower!! nice~ =)

"The Holocaust teaches us that nature, even in its cruelest moments, is benign in comparison with man when he loses his moral compass and his reason." - Samuel Pisar

Could hot cocoa be the next "wonder drug" for high blood pressure? Harvard researchers praise stunningly simple discovery!     According to recent estimates, nearly 1-in-3 American adults has high blood pressure. But for the Kuna Indians living on a group of islands off the Caribbean coast of Panama , hypertension doesn't even exist. In fact, after age 60, the average blood pressure for Kuna Indian islanders is a perfect 110/70. Is it because they eat less salt? No. Kuna Indians eat as much, if not more salt, than people in the U.S. Is it due to their genes? No. Kuna Indians who move away from the islands are just as likely to suffer from high blood pressure as anyone else! So what makes these folks practically "immune" to hypertension -- and lets them enjoy much lower death rates from heart attacks, strokes, diabetes, and cancer? Harvard researchers were stunned to discover it's because they drink about 5 cups of cocoa each day. That's right, ...

A fascinating place..有指九龍城寨在拆毀之前有50,000多名居民；以城寨面積0.026平方公里推算，城寨人口密度為每平方公里1,923,077人，是全 世界人口最密集的地方，更有以「三不管」來形容當地複雜的管轄問題。..A very unique and special history of HK...   A brief history of the kowloon walled city… extracted from < 從九龍寨城到九龍寨城公園> 蕭國健教授撰 and from wiki  http://zh.wikipedia.org/wiki/%E4%B9%9D%E9%BE%8D%E5%AF%A8%E5%9F%8E 清康熙七年（1668）始於九龍半島上設置塾台，二十一年（1682 ）改為汛地，惟設置則甚簡陋其時內之村落，可考者有官富村、衙前村、九龍村、莆岡村、及古瑾村。 清嘉慶十五年（1810 ），於濱海處建九龍砲台，並將原九龍汛改稱九龍海口汛，營寨為一以木柵環繞之兵營。其時境內人口日增，可考之村落有衙前村、牛眠村、古瑾村、九龍寨、蒲岡村、牛池灣村、九龍仔、尖沙頭、土瓜灣、二黃店村、及赤磡村。 清道光二十年（1840 ），英人威脅日增，除舊有九龍砲台及九龍海口汛外，並於其東南面濱海之尖沙咀及官涌兩處，建造砲台，增兵防守。 鴉片戰爭後，港島割讓與英國；九龍半島之軍事地位，更為重要。道光二十三年，於九龍砲台背後增建九龍寨城。 建築寨城快速地進行。因是，九龍寨城能於四年期間內完成。時維道光二十七年（1847）三月。 道光二十七年（1847），因城外居民多欲遷入城內居住，城外挖砌濠溝，增強守衛。寨城建成後，移大鵬協副將率兵駐守。城內共駐兵二百五十名。 咸豐四年（1854）七月二十六日，羅亞添率惠州天地會起義軍攻陷寨城，七月初七日，知縣黃光周、協同副將張玉堂、都司譚蛟等率兵收復寨城。 咸豐七年（1857）四月，英軍襲擊寨城，劫持大鵬協副將，其後放回。 光緒二十四年（1898），英人租借新界，為期九十九年。其初，寨城內仍有清廷官員駐守，在城內各 司其事。翌年，英政府於接收新界時，以...

There's one sentence in the book that get on my nerves --- " 死亡 , 本身就是教育 . 誠如孔子言：「未知生，焉知死」但是 , 不懂得死也同樣不能理解生的意思 ."   季路問事鬼神。子曰：未能事人，焉能事鬼？曰：敢問死。曰：未知生，焉知死？《 論 語 ‧ 先 進 》 生 的 學 問 尚 且 難 以 把 握 ， 更 何 況 死 的 學 問 呢 ? 不 深 究 生 的 學 問 ， 又 如 何 能 知 曉 死 的 學 問 呢 ? 知道死亡 , 理解死亡，就能知道如何活。正如現代德國哲學大思想家 Heidegger 說：「人生是邁向死亡的歷程」 ... .