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Here is a picture of me, and my favorite singer/songwriter, the very talented Sarah Slean. For more on Sarah Slean, click
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A little bit about myself, I graduated from Rochester Institute of Technology back in February of 2001, with a major in computer science. I spent a few years looking for a job, and in August of 2006, I was hired by the City of Rochester. I spent a little over 5 months at the Public Safety Training Facility, but I was not able to complete all my studies, and resigned from the city government. I'm currently working to get another job with the city.
Fairport, New York, is a suburb of Rochester, and is part of the New York Finger Lakes Region. The town of Perinton, where the village of Fairport is located in, has a population of 43,000 in 1998. Fairport is an old Erie Canel village. Many of the village's early history was related to the canel. Now days, Fairport holds an annual Canel Days festival in early June, which attracts a large number of people from around the state.
Originally called Northfield in 1790, the town was renamed Perinton, after an early surveyer and settler, Glover Perrin, in 1812. The Erie Canal was completed in 1825, and at that time, its western end was located in Bushnell's Basin, in southwestern Perinton. The village of Fairport became more important than Bushnell's Basin, the hamlet of Egypt, and Fullam's Basin, which are all located in the town of Perinton, and along the banks of the Erie Canal, with the exception of Egypt. This is because of the Fairport-Perinton Road, which provided a route for farmers from the north to transport their goods to the canal, travelling through the village of Fairport.
Hong Kong, Great Britain | The Coat of Arm of British Hong Kong | Hong Kong, China (after June 30, 1997) |
I moved to the United States in the summer of 1990 with my family from Hong Kong. One of the main reason for the move was the Tiananmen Square Massacre on June 4th, 1989. My family was worry about the 1997 hand-over of the Royal Crown Colony of Hong Kong from Great Britain to China. As a matter of fact, a mass immigration wave was triggered by the Tiananmen Square Massacre, because people were worry that after the hand-over, the Chinese communist government may send in troops to supress the democratic and free society that Hong Kong has enjoyed for over fifty years. Troops might also be sent in, in retaliation for the massive demonstrations against the Chinese communist rule after the Tiananmen Square Massacre. For eight years, between 1989 and 1997, a large number of people with valuable technical and business skills immigrated to countries like the U.S.A., Canada, England, Australia, New Zealand, and Singapore. But the years since the hand-over have shown that China has decided to keep its hands off Hong Kong. I was in Hong Kong in the summer of 1997 to witness the hand over ceremony, attended by the president of China, Jiang ZeMan, Prince Charles of England, and Britain's Prime Minister Tony Blair. And even though Chinese troops were sent into Hong Kong to replace the "retreating" British, no conflicts ever occurred. And up to this day, Hong Kong remains an autonomous region, and China has assume a fairly hand-off policy against Hong Kong. In 1999, a lesser known city, the Portugese colony of Macau, was handed over back to China. That event was also peaceful.
I travelled back to Hong Kong and China in the summer of 2001. It was sort of a sight-seeing/relatives-visiting type of trip.
HONG KONG, summer of 2001. Here is a picture of the Hong Kong skyline. This is the heart of Hong Kong. It's where businesses' headquarters, government buildings, and military commands are located. If there is a capital for the city of Hong Kong, this is it. Also, the eastern half of the Victoria Harbour is seen in the center, and the eastern Kowloon peninsula is seen on the upper left of the picture. | |
Hong Kong's night time skyline. | |
A close up view of the Hong Kong Conference and Exhibition centre in the "middle" of the harbour. The picture below pinpoints some of the important buildings in this picture. | |
Same as above, but with some important buildings identified. The tallest building in Hong Kong, which is also the second tallest building in Asia, is pointed out in the upper right hand corner of this picture. And for those of you with bank accounts at HSBC, here is its headquarter. | |
In this picture is the mansion (see arrows) where Hong Kong governors lived, until 1997. The last governor to live in the mansion was the right honourable Christopher Francis Patten. Currently, the Chief Executive of Hong Kong, Tung Chee Hwa (Tung is his last name), is living in the mansion. Click here for a listing of all 28 governors. | |
A picture of the (former) Prince of Wales Naval Centre. It's now used by the Chinese People's Liberation Army's (PLA) navy. | |
This is the big budda statue located on Lantau Island, west of Hong Kong Island. |
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Modified Saturday, March 24, 2007. 22:04