Hong Kong welcomed in the New Year with a massive fireworks display enjoyed by throngs of people on both sides of the iconic Victoria Harbour. Happy New Year!
Starting 2018 with a bang, the traditional New Year’s Eve fireworks will continue the current trend of bigger is better as the display will stretch 1.1km along Victoria Harbour. Launched from barges on the harbour as well as the rooftops of five buildings on Hong Kong Island the display will be to quote the HKTB “Dazzling our skyline with vibrant colors”.
This year’s countdown celebrations will mercifully be the final event in the drawn out year long series, where much was spent and little of merit organised to celebrate the 20th anniversary of the establishment of the Hong Kong SAR.
For the first time the display, synchronised with music composed by Chiu Tsang Hei, will feature a European fireworks maker. The “Magical Stardust” segment mimicking dancing fairies scattering magical stardust over Victoria Harbour starts at around the 6 minute mark and is meant to signify New Year’s blessings to the city.
The shooting stars will start at 11pm for you to make a New Year’s wish and if you have braved the multitudes in Tsim Sha Tsui you might be able to see a performance by Australian performing arts group “Strange Fruit” near the Star Ferry from 10pm.
Hong Kong New Year Countdown Celebrations 2018 Date: Midnight, 31 December, 2018 Venue: Victoria Harbour Tickets: Free
Hong Kong welcomed in 2017 with a vibrant firework display on the iconic Victoria Harbour. The traditional 8 minute display extended to 10 minutes included a ’20 gun salute’ to announce the start of the year of the 20th anniversary celebrations for the founding of the Hong Kong SAR.
Hong Kong, in IFC and ICC, already has two giant penises masquerading as gateposts to Victoria Harbour. Now we have a butt plug too. I guess it’s appropriate with China already having ball gagged the media and the transcendent one hand-cuffing elected legislators who stand up against the rape of Hong Kong by the CCP.
To salve it’s obviously fragile ego New World is to destroy the feng shui of the Tsim Sha Tsui waterfront with a butt plug style building that just screams of insecurity.
You do have to wonder if the government department chief who approved the design is blind. Then again, even a blind man could see that the building is so out of character with the rest of Tsim Sha Tsui that it must destroy the feng shui of the harbour.
In that location New World you could have built something iconic and low-level to complement the harbour and enhance the skyline… But your ceo’s insecurity and fragile ego required the stroking of a tall ugly building to match the other tall dicks in the city.
New World, your new monstrosity is like the child standing alone and ignored by all who screams and screams for attention “Hey look I have a big dick too.” Yeah, maybe you do, but it looks more like a giant anal plug and will become the most reviled building in the city. No only because it destroys the harmony and beauty of our city and harbour, but for the giant shadow of corruption that it will cast over the city. The interests of the rich connected few trumping the benefits and wishes of the majority.
Not that New World give a shit about that… as long as the money rolls in and they can scream “Look at me, my butt plug is as big as your penis!”
Kung Hei Fat Choi
The clouds were low, but the rain held off and Two Seventy Degrees Rooftop Bar By Harlan Goldstein with it’s stunning view across Victoria Harbour offered a great vantage point for the Chinese New Year fireworks
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Cross-harbour Race 2021 Date: 12 December, 2021 Venue: Victoria Harbour Tickets: Online registration is open until 22 November at www.hkharbourrace.com