DON'T TRY TO CLIMB THIS THING!!!!!! It's NOT SOLID. A little English boy tried to climb it this afternoon, when me and MK was puttering around in there putting the final touches, and one of the rocks gave way. I deliberately didn't use cement for a reason. That concrete looks GROSS. and I cleared away too much of it!
The C's were kind to take back their pipes, and the wire fence logs, and left the tiles... leaving it to look so much better!.... And planted plants strategically all around the garden.... they creeped around the rocks, like the trees of the Amazon around ancient cities in the Amazon or even the ruins of some old abandoned highway of Northern Alberta with ancient forests, or even European trees that survived well in Edmonton. And evolved into a new sterioded cyborg version of European Trees (lack of water, and extreme cold, tended to have mutate Canadians into Golems of concrete.)
Bejing's trees are also solid like that. I bet if you took a saw to it, the tree just smiles at you and laughs, and takes a swat and bats you to the sun, and then you see a giant flash of light star like in Japanese cartoons and it says ding (a diamon shaped flash).
Infact the Hades tree which is now officially DEAD, as the secondary trunk was trimmed down..... Is petrified like that. Apparently years ago from the cut marks someone tried to cut down but failed. As I found lots of broken rotary blades rusting in the trash.
So I noticed bees now flying in there, Wonder if the Frogs still habitat that place. If so it's now a fortress, like some ancient greek ruins with bits of carved rocks sticking up. Or what not.
So like planting, now comes the waiting part.
In the future, the church plans to ask the FHDC for premission to remove the Hades Tree, because the "wonderful" job the previous cutter did, it might eventually rot where the cut was, and like crash on something during a typhoon, damaging stuff or people or something...
Anyways, now that more or less the rocks are where they should be and the plants are growing, and evetually through molecular dispersion or whatever. won't that be something. Most of the newer plants however needed to be planted in pots. (because one of the C's demanded we don't plant, in the yard, another C who rented it was ok, and another C said this, another C said that).
Lamma is Crezy (just read Memoirs of a Ice Cream lady). Wow. and I though my "therapy" Writing angry posts about the CPC, that negates everything I do good, when I post with such brain dead idiocy and bigtory (my other posts here, what can I say.... I'm the Village Idiot, I say idiotic ignorant things).
But let this post and some more of my posts over at CPC impolsion serve proof that I do CARE about things. Enough to be STUPID and angry and ignorant.... There's a old hockey (insert your favorite sport here in lieu of hockey) coach's saying. If Gary Bettman hears nothing but silence then he KNOWS he's in trouble, he rather have people boo and hiss at him. Or "It's a good thing Don Cherry is angry. It shows he cares".
Anyways, don't climb the wall, somehow someone shortened the wall down. It used to be very high, (and thus more stronger (weights holding down), that's what I based my "engineering on"... It was only intended for people presumably the Philopeno patrons of c-7 to sit on. (vectoring the weight DOWNWARD and stationary). not as a Parkor prop (sideways force vector), or a climber play ground (again sideways force vector), or a VV bumper!
Anyways now to let nature take it's course!...... end of journal.
Statistics: Posted by Vanoclamma — Wed Feb 15, 2012 1:40 am
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Anyways, I am most unhappy, because I wasn't able to go full throttel upon my return from Shanghai (because I 1) Caught a nasty cold from my boss-partner-roomate-uncle-etc 2) see 1, 3) I went to a trade show in Wenzhou (of all places, (that is currently facing a very fucked up (like REALLY GONG SHOW, melting crisis which has reached as far as Shenzhen and spreading!, well duh, this is what you get when you use the Hutts from Star Wars (those slug like gangsters), as bankers... There is so much smog like so much you can taste battery acid dryed chalk, and (well lick a mad magazine (you can get them at Purple Cow), and tell me what you taste.
Then I breathed that in Wenzhou. (Poor poor children who have to live in that, their hormones, their growth. Breaks the heart. Anyways, I was getting over that for two weeks while trying to do what I could with the garden. with the time I had left. And when I built the frontal rock wall, I wheezed and coughed ALOT!! so if you live in Hong Kong, take care of the nature please! don't take it for granted, it's NOT always like this in parts of the world, especially in China. And if you smoke, please quit. Like respect the fact you have all this CLEAN air, you could do this in China, and REALLY feel the hurt. what with 50 guys smoking in a restraunt. Like I was a smoker, but I didn't chain smoke THAT much, normally one or two would do it, and my body wouldn't even respond to another king sized. but what uncles (those business partners), just puff away. and puff away, and puff away. Honestly how does Team China, win the olympics. By all measures of science, they should be coughing out nasty nasty fluids.... I go to pick up a rock, my back hurts, (the lungs back area, the doctor says when he wants you to cough). I get all dizzy, hacking out my avoleas.
So here's the progress report. Finally moved all the crappy construction stuff to the back wall (there's a water thingamabob there installed BEFORE I left. So I decided just throw the shit back there, throw a tarp over (there is lots of black netting all around the church's walls seemingly discarded. So I can throw it back there.
(If there was a pond.... I competed the rock wall at last for the front, This will prevent dogs from crapping in there, however the cats have claimed this as their own private litter box now. Frogs bounce around in there (most likely have been eaten by the cats. :_(. Well it is an Ecosystem I'm trying to build again. But if the frogs still survived, I hoped none were injured in the construction of the wall. If they survived their borders are now secure. The wall looks like a machine gun bunker thing. nest... ha ha ha. I didn't use cement, because cement is gross. SO BECAREFUL when you sit on it. ( it seem solid ehough though), gravity pulling the rock down, but don't skate board do ollies on it, (besids you can't it's too uneven). Most likely as c-5 becomes MORE of a Cantina, like place.... more will sit there. So yah, just be aware it is LOOSE rocks, but they seem sturdy enough. Will be working THROUGH the night, lots of Off spray is needed.
I dabbed some of the white fungus off the recovering tree. As hard as to believe, the hades tree is growing back and quite healthy.... It has the potential of growing a second trunk. here's to hoping... The Fungus will be back.... but also here's to hoping that the tree takes this time to do some rapid growth. so that these do side branch grows back. The Hades trunk, however as creepy as it looks like a Baba Yaga (Slavic Mythical wicked witch), claw. The Tree is home to many creatures.
Although I wish I had more time to do a through job, such as reset the land, at least I got it looking less Ghettoish.
Like one thing I enjoyed about this project was opening up more and more land, and although psychosomatic I only Pretend or THINK there is a pocket or cavity of air. Or it's less of a mind eye sore that the land is opened up. That was cool. As if I could breath more, or coughed up some slime, and could get a hit of air. I was hoping that this would have a similar effect on you guys also.
But yea, a fish pond would have really kicked ass in there. But alas, who knows what was buried in there and it goes in the water, and goes in the fish, and that's be animal cruelty. or something....
but a fish pond would have worked, and brought a kind of eco touch to the decorations that c-5 was putting in, the nice Like how she puts down the bamboo drapes. It would have gone nice with the biological homelessness... epecially if they stringed some lanterns from the tree to store, on a branch or perhaps decorated the dead tree with lights or something. remember it's trying to be a weekened cantina....
now the BIG question.... when the church eventually moves venues, what will become of the yard? (that's why I put the walls there so you can't just drive up to it and dump shit in it. so you have to perhaps lift up buliding crap, (if you're trying to store and salvage it), making it a real bitch, and discourage people from drumping in HIS yard.
Dammit I would have loved to get to the planting phase..........so close.... soo very very close. Like 99.9% competed. Is like you're a footballer Goalie, and your fingers slipppppppppp because it's wet, or if only you went a degree futher. Then you lose the World Cup.
Or you're a Calgary Flame, and the puck you clearly goes in. DOESN'T in allowing Tampa to win the stanley Cup....
Anyways, what is left, I'm going to use the long stones I salvaged as divy up the land (so the caretaker can go in and water them I'd use the tiles, but they're too fragile to be steped on (they're thin China, ones). The round stones will be used to complete the other wall.
In the mean time, at least that ugly eyesore isn't there anymore. Still a pond like Buddy said, would have gone very well. more biology touch to relax by. :_(
WEll thanks for the cheers.... please enjoy the "park", for what I COULD do.
Who am I kidding. I screwed it all up. It looks HEDIOUSSSSSSSSSSS
If I was an IA (Industrial Arts), teacher I'd give myself a big fat -F. It doesn't look like like I envisioned....and when I move to my home in Calgary, I'd further screw it all up. I'm like homer Simpson making the BBQ pit.... Why must life be so hard. Why do I have to fail at every attempt at Masonry........... (because we are all amatuers, with out years and years of training. Like my only experience at gardening was just pruning trees, and cutting grass. I can see myself in Eden and heaven how, I'm trying to mean well do some gardening and then it's all broken, with tire tracks all over the lush Elsyum fields (golfing), mutant trees that mutate... Gah. Oh well. Back to old drawing board.
For Sha Poians I really really messed up.
Statistics: Posted by Vanoclamma — Mon Nov 14, 2011 2:48 pm
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I spent after noon, shooting the Breeze with the Gungster, and some drunk expats at Auntie H's store. (normally I don't drink. Yeah I know it's hard to believe with my nonsensical posts Im usually 100% "really me" (anti-peer pressure (ie. drugs), campaign used in Canada). They were kind of aggrivated that I was mining for more trash... (I seemed to have found some strange metallic object. (still un removable, needs more quarrying), and more cement blobs. Dabby (DAB+"Y" Candidates's intials). Do you think contractors improving Lamma WON'T leave this porridge of stone puke all over this precious land? THat morons like me have to break up and clean up. And when I try to dispose of it, then VV drivers want to kick my ass, and when I "try to dump it into the sea as they suggest then the police kicks my ass with fines...... Which a starving La Bohemian bum like me, can't afford. like really right?
Anyways back to the patrons at c-5, they beckoned me..... to drink with them, and enjoy a dish of corn beef with peppers in them......(again, somehow my Axe Pole arm quarrying rocks and trash was intrupting. And one of them was on a two night bender, according to the more sober one (his "road man" (a Space cowboy (psychodelic tripper term for "sober one" trip sitter), Not wanting to say no to the drinks, as well they know where I worked, and I really can't continue working in the pit without some bad vibes. I took up the offer. Auntie Halo Halo latter laughed that night when I tried to get some more drinks, and told me not ot drink.
So nothing really to report.... I only managed to quarry a few more inches. But had a great time talking with the Gungster, about comtemporary issues on Lamma, ie the Dog Killer, the Bookman's "Take over HK" protest against Da man, (When our Chinese compatriots on the Mainland figure out how to do that and they most likely won't because they can't access this website a bunch of peace loving peace lovers on a harmless Island, and one of them is crazy enough to play with garbage (me), anyways when out Chiense Compatriots are able to figure out that if they just stopped working one or so days, Uncle Hu's system goes crazy). *knock knock* 'cuse me fans. there's someone at the *zzzzzzzzzzzzzaaaaaaaaaaappppppp* (Burning fat boy flesh (aka my code name by the locals. I still prefer you guys to call me nothing by ignoring my cries for childish attention).
"Comrade Vanoc loves China. There is nothing wrong with China" Go back to work.
Statistics: Posted by Vanoclamma — Mon Oct 17, 2011 10:35 pm
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That plot you're guerilla-gardening belongs to Mr C who lives just across the path on the G/F, correct?
We were looking at their rooftop flat a few months back when we were considering to move. One of the most dangerous rooftops, without any ledge, wall or anything to stop you from falling off the edge....
Mr C, being an avid gardener himself - see all the pretty, well-maintained, daily-watered bushes around their two-floor old-style Chinese house - must have been wondering about somebody gardening in his long-abandoned plot, taking it over without permission. But once you've talked to him, he was probably happy to let you finish and do the work for him for free, no? As long as you're not planting (which he'll probably want to do himself as soon as you're finished), which would indicate a long-term occupancy, he should be OK, I think? I hope he'll give great thanks to you, as you well deserve them!
As this little plot is just outside Myrna's C-5 Pinoy Store in the Red House, a new favourite place of mine, your beautification will be appreciated not only by Mr C, but all the people from different nationalities sitting outside C-5 most nights, some even playing guitar and generally having a good time, especially on Sundays after the basketball league games.
Writing this long post made me hungry, almost time to pick up another home-cooked takeaway lunch from C-5's proprietor "Halo-Halo Myrna", named after her famous smoothie, a meal in itself, full of goodies .... Entering the shop, you can greet her and order at the same time by simply saying "Halo-Halo!"
Statistics: Posted by Lamma-Gung — Fri Oct 14, 2011 8:22 am
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