Those who read my previous post realize that I don’t like the many casinos in Macau.
Certainly, these casinos generate a lot of revenue and GDP for Macau which has a small population.
Many of the residents there work for the casinos and some depend indirectly on the casinos.
I dislike gambling very much and the other vices it supports.
Up on the hill, there is a line of old cannons protecting Macau from sea attacks. Now they are obsolete.
Here are a couple of pictures I took – with the cannon pointing towards one of the casinos.
The casino was specially designed to be like a lotus flower; the external shape of which is quite interesting.
In fact, the firm which I worked for before retirement was responsible for the design of this special building.
The photos taken with the cannon pointing at the casino has a special meaning – they express my dislike of the casinos!
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I share your distaste of casinos, and the bad habits they encourage, Michael. But, as always, I am really loving your gift for great photography.
Great to hear from you again; thanks a lot for the encouraging words!
Love the metaphor, Sir! Classic!
Thank you!
I, too, am not a fan of casinos but I love your photos! 🙂
Thanks Linda for the kind words!
I don’t like casinos either Michael, but the building is quite extraordinary.
Leslie
Very specially shaped, a challenge for the architect and engineer!
I bet it was a nightmare to build, but extraordinary when finished.
Leslie
Definitely not easy to build!
Great juxtaposition – and I share your sentiments.
Great that you concur!
That cannon aimed at the casino is not doing it any favors. Classic, yet extreme, Feng Shui “cure” if you don’t like your neighbors or you want to take power away from a business: literally aim a cannon at it!
Haha, bad feng shui!
I love these photos.
Am pleased that you love them!
Nice shots Michael. 🙂
Thank you, Laurie!
😁👍
😀 Sharp Shot Michael 😉
Thank you!
i’m no fan of casino either but the building is beautiful! 🙂
yeah, fantastic!
This is a funny photo. Funny for your distaste for casinos and the cannon pointing at it. 8) I’m not a casino fan either. So, fire that cannon – so to speak.
Haha!
Clever!
Thank you!
Haha..!! I don’t like casinos either. And I sure love this very cannon in particular. Nice ‘duo’. 😀
Glad that we have the same “dislikes”!
That canon was there long before that casino was built, along with the many other Canons that point at various other buildings….
Yes, of course …..
I agree with you, casino should be bomb and demolish its destroy a lot of family and the beauty of natural of the island.
A lot of the money laundering is done in casinos too.
Gambling makes us think we can take unrealistic chances with not just money but life itself!
Interesting. I understand the importance of the lotus in the east and that it probably has many “stylized” representations, but fro afar, I would not have “seen” the lotus.
🙂
(Dislike casinos too.)
(They’re the world’s perfect money laundering machine, and curiously with Mexico so high on the drug trafficking chart, casinos have sprung out of the ground like mushrooms in the past few years)
😦
Money laundering is a great problem.
I like the lotus being associated with Zen.
And I think it is the only flower to have a strong association, and only in Asia. Other parts of the world have flowers but never that strong. Tulips for the Turks or the Dutch maybe?
Quite true!
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Haha!
My mother was a kindergarten teacher, consequently two things
were particularly true about my childhood: Each minute was a teachable one, and everything
we bought was on sale.
Haha, it so happened that my mom was a kindergarten teacher too!