Dim Gai Ah?

Here is my first song in Cantonese. Enjoy.

Man and Submarine

Recently I read in a Mainland newspaper that a migrant worker near Beijing built his own submarine. According to the article, the submarine was about 20ft long and made mostly of cheap metal barrels. He apparently bought the rest of the materials – pressure meters, monitoring cameras, and so on – at junk shops. The machine took him more than a year to build, and it cost him the equivalent of a year’s salary, around 4,000 USD. The article said that when he tested the submarine out it promptly sank.

I’ve found some other pictures, however, that show him operating the submarine!

So did it not sink? Or maybe it worked on the surface, but something went wrong when he submerged? I don’t know.

In any case, I like to think of him smiling underwater in his submarine, gliding through the murky water. Apparently he has also built a head massager, a washing machine, and a shoe polisher.