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Sunday, Jul. 24, 2011 10:13 p.m.

Folly for a flyover
A folly (i.e. useless building built only for decoration purpose. Can be found in English gardens and landscapes.) has been built under A12 flyover in Hackney Wick beside Lea Navigation Canal. All construction materials are leftovers from the Olympic construction site nearby, and after the festival ends the materials will be reused in various places near the canal. Inside the folly is a cafe selling bagel, drinks and 'McFolly' and next to it is a a semi-open theatre under the flyover where films are shown at night. There are also boats for hire at the temporary pier.

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Lea Canal was beautiful today. I walked from Hackney Wick to Walthamstow Marsh, then took a bus to Liverpool Street for the new installation at Barbican.
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I think we urgently need architectural/urbanism education in Hong Kong. When will parents understand that learning is not about how much money you spend on ECA or how many hours their kids spend on classes every week, but more about the attitude and a curious mind? If a child doesn't read, why not start with learning about the birds and trees we see every day? Or how about comparing the mouths of a grouper and a sole fish and think about why they are different when you go to a restaurant?

In a December 2005 interview with Simon Mayo on BBC Radio Five Live, Attenborough stated that he considers himself an agnostic. When asked whether his observation of the natural world has given him faith in a creator, he generally responds with some version of this story, making reference to the Loa loa parasitic worm:

My response is that when Creationists talk about God creating every individual species as a separate act, they always instance hummingbirds, or orchids, sunflowers and beautiful things. But I tend to think instead of a parasitic worm that is boring through the eye of a boy sitting on the bank of a river in West Africa, [a worm] that's going to make him blind. And [I ask them], 'Are you telling me that the God you believe in, who you also say is an all-merciful God, who cares for each one of us individually, are you saying that God created this worm that can live in no other way than in an innocent child's eyeball? Because that doesn't seem to me to coincide with a God who's full of mercy'.

David Attenborough is amazing. I think I saw this episode on TV before.

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