Victoria Peak is a beautiful vantage point in Hong Kong, but boy is that a steep ride up!
tram to Victoria Peak from Mary Qin on Vimeo.
chugging up the slope from Mary Qin on Vimeo.
So this is how the tram mechanism works!
tram pulley from Mary Qin on Vimeo.
And then the descent, offering beautiful views of the harbor.
descending from Victoria Peak from Mary Qin on Vimeo.
Taking a ride on the Tiger Sky Tower on Sentosa Island, back when I was in Singapore!
sentosa tiger sky tower from Mary Qin on Vimeo.
I would love to have a nice, large, fancy aquarium like this one. 🙂
my dream aquarium from Mary Qin on Vimeo.
Their little legs are so knobbly and unstable! There’s something very cute about their awkwardness. 🙂
baby goats from Mary Qin on Vimeo.
firetrucks from Mary Qin on Vimeo.
firetruck > ambulance from Mary Qin on Vimeo.
firetruck passing ambulance from Mary Qin on Vimeo.
You know how catnip makes cats go crazy (in a good, happy way)? Well, this tree apparently is just as good-tasting to elephants as catnip is to cats. When I went elephant-riding, my elephant tried to break off some to eat, but that was a sturdy branch.
elephant catnip from Mary Qin on Vimeo.
We somehow decided to try spinning the air hockey paddles as tops and they turned out to be really good! Note how well they self-correct and save themselves from spinning out of control multiple times. Maybe top tips should be round instead of pointy.
stable top from Mary Qin on Vimeo.
I’m tempted to put some water in the center. Wouldn’t that be cool?
air hockey top from Mary Qin on Vimeo.
When I got my very own crystal cabin going up to Ngong Ping, I couldn’t resist lying down on the ground and enjoying the feeling of floating (kinda).
lying down in crystal cabin from Mary Qin on Vimeo.
When I was in Thailand, I wrote about the day I found a bunch of clams on the beach. Then I posted some videos of them burrowing into the sand. Here now are videos of the two that I took back to the hostel, climbing around, burrowing, and otherwise doing amusing things. I’m not the only one to find this fascinating, am I?
sea snail and clam blending into the sand from Mary Qin on Vimeo.
happy clam from Mary Qin on Vimeo.
(Yeah, I know, it’s slow going. But check out how the sea snail flips itself over and burrows away, whereas the clam goes in tip first and squeezes its shell.)
It just glides so smoothly. But out of water, it finds it’s no match for gravity:
Part claw, part… lotus? You decide:
Based on the previous video, now can you find the part of the clam that is sticking out?
And then the grand finale! The clam is so happy it burrows a little, then thrusts itself out of the sand. Meanwhile, the sea snail decides to come out to play too.
A little show at the LA County Fair. I wonder how many times those guys have flipped over in one of those things…
gravedigger monster truck from Mary Qin on Vimeo.
