Last Friday Part I

So there I was, scratching my head off trying to think of a t-shirt design for a pizza company, yeah, it hurts your head more than when you are studying economics. Take a moment and draw a sketch of a t-shirt design for Pizza Hut that has to be fun, hype, fresh, young; convey the tastiness of a pizza. It's hard eh? For a non-shopper like me who rarely goes shopping for anything and not to mention window shopping, it was tough. But working in Tailford Mitchell helps open up your mind and makes you pay more attention to your surroundings. In a way, it feels like living through the best trip in my life to Echigo Tsumari in Japan last summer again. So I decided to pay a visit to the museum after work.

But before we go to the Toledo Museum of Art, here's what me and B.O.B saw before lunch last Friday.
We saw an excavator (yes, they are called excavators) tearing down the building with an artificial arm before lunch. We stayed at the site for 45 minutes hoping they would tear down the façade in front of us.

But I took my chances at Tony Packo's and tried the M.O.A.D. (pronounced Mo-Add), Give it a guess and I will give you the answers to what exactly is M.O.A.D. at the end of this entry.
Here's a clue, it was huge and hard to digest, but not all mothers are huge.

After lunch, it was torn down so all I have is a before and after picture of the site. It is rare for Hong Kongers to see the process of a building being torn down like that, what happens is it will be surrounded by bamboo scaffoldings. Yes, bamboo scaffolding, and yes they are so sturdy that nothing happens when typhoon number 8 at the speed of 63-177km/h hits Hong Kong. Anyways, a green net is wrapped around the scaffoldings so you can't make out what's happening inside the construction. This also keeps the dust within the confines of the building.
Farewell, Theo's Taverna.


Then at 4pm, U.S. Brig Niagara passed through the Martin Luther King, Jr., Bridge. I won't give you a history lecture, but here are some interesting facts.
- It was sunk deliberately in 1820 so that she would be preserved.
- In 1913, it was raised for restoration
- Won the Battle of Lake Erie in 1812
- flew a flag that reads "Don't give up the ship"