Hong Kong's burning

The pinstripe suits are all still wandering around with stupefied looks on their faces, and the words "money", "cutbacks" and "savings" are on everyone's lips, but that didn't stop Hong Kong from lighting up for National Day yesterday. The city was on fire, literally, with a firework display that lasted... 23 minutes! I wonder how much cash was burnt...

It was beautiful though, I have to admit. And we were extremely lucky to have been invited to watch it all from J+J's friend Alan's 72nd floor flat on the harbourfront, which allowed us to actually be almost higher than the fireworks themselves. Nice. My favourite bit, though, strangely, was not the display, but seeing the IFC surrounded by smoke. It really was just like in a film... See for yourself (you might notice that I got a bit carried away with the blurry effect, it looked very arty at the time...oh well):