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Hong Kong Queen's PierWhen i was watching tv on one of the live debate yesterday, there were a number of advocates who wanted to protect the Queen’s Pier in Central, they lived there for two months and wanted the government to change their plan to preserve a dock which was built a little over 50 years ago. Hong Kong Institue of Architects Chairman Bernard Lam said the pier has historical value. The structure of the pier consists of tiled concrete base and pillars. Assistant Professor of Department of Architecture of University of Hong Kong, Lee Ho-yin, said the pier does not have particular architectural value. (http://jmsc.hku.hk/hkstories/content/view/79/844/) Perhaps you will question why do i quote these information, but i'm trying to express this is professional opinion base on personal evaluation. If you have a strong emotion attached to any of this location, you properly going to miss it more than other. And you can easily find another professional opinion which will suggest otherwise. These advocates mainly are students in their very early 20's, suggesting how important it is to preserve the dock, because they are fluently used by TV drama and other ceremonies. Several issues are linked here to demonstrate how immature the Hong Kong political culture are. If you believe in representative / democracy election, you should have voice out your concern to your Area Council, and let them voice out your concern on your behalf at the legislature. Secondly, you are only presenting a small group of minority who are interested in preserving, but the majority of citizens may agree to demolish the Pier, so how representing is your group. Thirdly, who are you really representing? The Citizen? NGO? And lastly, what kind of impact will affect your life if the Pier is preserved and if it is demolished? You may never worked, studied or traveled to that part of the city during the day, and never understand how the government system works in order to remain as one of the a tax free cities in the world. But should your interest in preserving the Pier greater than the benefit to entertain the general public once the new project is completed. And what make you think and consider your suggestion is more appropriate than other professionals, who have proposed their proposal to the government?
July 19 Windows Mobile 6Background information. Windows Mobile 6 for short WM6, is a new Operating system for PDA phone. For newer models, there are a lot of official updates to WM6, but for my year old Dopod 838, life ain't the same. Story. After some serious searching, I finally got myself with a 838 WM6 rom last thursday july 12, 07 to upgrade my phone, can't believe another week has passed like that, today is July 19. Anyhow, i forgot to bring the cable back to the office on thursday and accidentally reseted my phone, so i got no contact on my phone for two days, since i'm in macau, no one really call me here, so it wasn't a problem at all. when i'm heading back to hk on friday, for some reason, i also forgot to bring the cable back to hk, so i have to borrow one from one of my best friends Chris. my other best friend leslie used to have an O2, then a 838 as well, but he decided the LG chocolate limited edition is more attractive, so he changed, and finally got himself a nokin 6300 with $400 back!!... I followed the instruction and started to flash (upgrade) my phone, up to 96%, either my laptop went to sleep or the stupid screen saver pops up, i got disconnected.... and i don't know what to do, cause my PDA windows won't start...... after spending 1 days reading information about how to overcome this situation, i was able to get my phone back to the normal stage... (sometime, no change is better) after all the time spent, i went back to square one..... i learn my lesson in a hard way and decided if i'm going to do anything, it better be done back here in macau..... so i synced my contact back....... on monday, after spending another couple hours trying, reading and testing, at 12:15, i have announced the successful completion of WM6 upgrade on my PDA phone. it works much faster than the previous version, and during the next two days, i have also tested 5 different versions including a simplified chinese.. the interface of the phone is much nicer.... July 16 passport part 3the final decision was to head up to Zhuihai and came back, so i woke up in the morning, walked to the bus station and took the bus to the border gate, there ain't much ppl on the street or on the bus at 9:15
exiting Macau was not a problem using my ID, nor to enter China with my "return to village card"...
it took about 30 mins to become standing on the China soil, there is an underground shopping center just outside the border, and my plan was to walk around before i return to Macau.... however, at 945 in the morning, not too many stores are open, so for my personal safety, i decided to come back at once to avoid any kidnap, robberty, or hijack...
so i presented my passport to the Custom Officer and waiting in front of the desk, the CO (Customer office) went over my passport and seems like he was searching for something, then he asked "do you have the return to village card", i replied "yes", he said "it is better if you present that piece of document as well"
I guess "custom" are different in different country. of course, my entry is accepted and gained a one month stay in Macau....
July 13 web links for HK Movie Theater!!- for broadway and AMC cinemas www.cityline.com.hk for UA cinemaswww.mclcinemas.com for JP, Knohill and TKOsometime, you really feel that you have to thank you your friend in action than just saying thanks... here is one to hellojan..... she pops out four links for the theaters in hk, which u can make an online reservation without the trouble of going to line up and get cooked until the heat....
July 12 passport story 2the folks at HR told me that i have to go back to hk and enter macau with my passport, i guess by now, u all know how i got in!!.. but at the same time, there are two solutions floating in my head... one solution is to get a ferry ticket at $130, get my seat for the ferry, go to the dock level, but come back in the arrival side without boarding the ship, actually there is no restriction to prohibit this from happening... the other solution is to go to china and then enter back with the passport after thinking the potential benefit of heading to hk and come back, to buy a ticket without going to hk or to take the FREE shuttle to the border gate, the choice is obvious. however, such a short trip took much longer than i have anticipated... stay tune for the part 3 of passport story..... July 10 passport storydue to working permit, i need to use my passport to apply for it... HR told me to leave it with them, so they can go do the paper work... i make an appointment at 10:30, but i was a little late, they told me i can get it back before the end of the day. no one called me about the status until 6:30, and i did left the office at 6:00, and the by time they have called, i was half way home.. The guy asked me if i'm interested to go back to the office to pick them up, i think the option is simple, and i told the guys, i will be there tmr morning. I went there this morning, and no one seems to be in the office, they left me no contact number, so i have to come back to the office and send them an email... finally got the passport back, but nothing has been done, because i need to use my passport to enter macau.... so what is ahead of me is a "out of the country" run... this is the part 1 of the passport story..... 30 yrs high!!http://www.thestar.com/Business/article/233947 July 09 New Seven Wonders of WorldDo you know what are the seven wonders of world.... 1. Petra 2. Christ the Redeemer 3. Machu Picchu 4. Colosseum 5. Chicken Itza 6. Taj Mahal 7. Great Wall joke 2After numerous rounds of "We don't even know if Osama is still alive,"
Osama himself decided to send George Bush a letter in his own
handwriting to let him know he was still in the game. Bush opened the letter and it appeared to contain a single line of coded message: 370HSSV-0773H. Bush was baffled, so he faxed it to Condi Rice. Condi and her aides had no clue either, so they sent it to the FBI. No one could solve it at the FBI so it went to the CIA, then to the NSA. With no clue as to its meaning they eventually asked Britain's MI-6 for help. Within a minute MI-6 cabled the White House with this reply: "Tell the President he's holding the message upside down." Joke!!This man had
just settled into his seat next to the window on the plane when another man sat
down in the aisle seat and put his black Labrador Retriever in the middle seat
next to the man. The first man looks quizzically at the dog and asks why the
dog is allowed on the plane. The man explained that he is a DEA agent and the
dog is a "sniffing dog". His name is Sniffer and he's the best there
is. I'll show you once we get airborne, when I put him to work." July 03 savenothing in this world is more important than having money in the bank... no matter how much u have on hand, cash is the most important factor of all... |
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