About Me

I’m a law student and photographic hobbyist studying abroad in Hong Kong for the semester. You can follow the journey here. Thanks for coming.

New York (Abbr. NY or N.Y.) is a state of the northeast United States. It was admitted as one of the original Thirteen Colonies in 1788. First explored by Samuel de Champlain and Henry Hudson, the region was claimed by the Dutch in 1624 but fell to the English in 1664-1667. The building of the Erie Canal and railroad lines in the 1820s and 1830s led to development of the western part of the state and great economic prosperity, establishing New York City as the financial center of the nation. Albany is the capital and New York City the largest city. Population: 19,300,000.

Gwailo (鬼佬; Cantonese gwai2 lou2, pronounced [kʷɐ̌i lǒu]; sometimes also spelled Gweilo) is a very common Cantonese slang term for foreigners, and has a long history of racially deprecatory use.^[1] Nowadays, Gwailo is simply a Cantonese word used to refer to Caucasians. If there is some racially deprecatory meaning or it is expressive of hate, it is shown by the addition of the adjective, sei (死, jyutping: sei2, meaning dead or damned) or as a prefix: seigwailo (死鬼佬). The female equivalent is seigweipor (死鬼婆).