Brisbane - Spring Hills

norman.ho

These are some recent snap shorts of Brisbane.  Spring Hills is part of the Brisbane CBD (central bussiness district) located at the north side of Bristane.  Brisbane is the third largest city in Australia, there is a good Asian migrant community who choose to live here.  Its the third largest city in Australia, next to Melbourn and a lot quieter when comparing to Sydney.
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8 R# l+ P6 D% u' d& UArial view of Brisbane CBD:
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The popular St John Cathedral: 9 f  G+ u+ |5 _+ v: y- w, D
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China Town:
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0 \- K1 r3 s& e  zAnd no, there aint no kangaroo running around the streets, except this one # X% y8 v: Z: ~: H2 _6 ~+ d/ N

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And when you are craving for good food:
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Arial view of some resort islands:   
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蕪茗

在空中鳥瞰城市
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  |8 g) [5 |- o1 E公仔箱論壇那裡也有中國城啊
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不過
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chowold2

中國是日不落國﹐當然是四海都有中國人呢。TVBNOW 含有熱門話題，最新最快電視，軟體，遊戲，電影，動漫及日常生活及興趣交流等資訊。7 U- L6 n( Q4 [6 \
這個中國城還真的不錯﹐很清潔很靚。
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norman.ho

3# chowold2
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. G! a3 u' [+ S+ r# QAh, there is a story to this:  Yes, there used to be a lot people defacing the city walls and open space with ugly or even rude graffiti,  so the local council engaged some of those who could do a good painting and called them street artists, they spray paint on these public space with some tasteful paintings, some of them are quite good.  I think among the graffiters, they have some mutual respect to each others work, if the painting is good, others would leave it alone.  So now even some private owner engage the graffiti painter to paint on their garage door so it won't get tagged with ugly signs.: h2 h& y5 x6 S2 v: [: Q! h
I suppose it is one way of solving the problem.  A win win situation.

playlord

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比凡事都禁制來得好

norman.ho

I forgot to apologize to our viewers that I can't write good Chinese, but I can read most of them. Thanks to our mod who would accept English for posting to this forum.
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chowold2

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這好像給錢黑社會份子﹐要他們保護一樣﹐你可以安全,但要接受他們.

norman.ho

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Firstly, I do not condone defacing public properties.  I am glad that when I visited HK, I didn't see much of it.TVBNOW 含有熱門話題，最新最快電視，軟體，遊戲，電影，動漫及日常生活及興趣交流等資訊。) x) |, V0 |* Z4 {
Now to answer you comment:
+ j/ \" B) T, g0 C9 H) F2 g( ftvb now,tvbnow,bttvbYes, the graffiti painters who were engaged by the local council or private owners do get paid a small amount of money to do the work.
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bchew

Brisbane - a big country town, however it has grown rapidly and now has a big city style all of its own.

norman.ho

Oops, there is an update to one of the photos, this is not a kangaroo sculpture at all, but it did look like a traveling kangaroo to me:( R& m# s, i% s$ x3 D

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' F8 ?% J) [- Z$ Ftvb now,tvbnow,bttvbThe sculpture was done by an artest called Cezary Stulgis who studied in both the Brisbane University of Technology and Jan Matejko Academy of Fine Arts, Faculty of Sculpture, Krakow, Poland.
# |5 M8 v5 J) e  X: D5.39.217.76The sculpture is actually a dog and the tree trunk in his backpack represents the last tree on earth, and there is a large square hole though the torso only visible from the front and back, containing a ball. The ball represents the life force or energy.
; o3 t% T! w, F& k( Dtvb now,tvbnow,bttvbThis piece was commissioned by the owner of the apartment building behind it.