Feb. 26, 2008 had became a big day for me, as one of my final interview with HR and on March 3, I’m back to HQ....

for the past 6 months, i have worked in the casino with shift work that change quite often, i do met a bunch of friends there, and hopefully will still have contact with them...

I’ve been trying to catch up my life with friends and relatives, but once you on a rotation with day off during the weekday, it become very difficult.... 

i spent 2 and a half month to reach the lvl 70 in World of Warcraft, which is a normal standard and some I’ve heard it only took them a month.....  for those who like RPG, i am strongly recommended, but if you don't have a girlfriend or wife to take care, it consumes more time than you can afford....

my wii been sitting closely to the TV without running a single game since late October, since i pick up WOW....... warning, wow is deadly...

back to the office for the third day and finally find a time slot to resume my blog, as i have mentioned before, u must be quite bored at work in order to start writing on ur blog....  to cow, no wonder your blog is so up-to-date.....

I’m back….

When 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.

The Queen's Pier was a traditional landing point for British governors and royalty when they arrived on Hong Kong Island during colonial times. Queen Elizabeth II landed there in 1975. Prince Charles and Diana, Princess of Wales, also landed there in November 1989. The pier was also a public pier. Pleasure crafts were allowed to dock.Some Hong Kongers also take pleasure in fishing at the pier. (http://jmsc.hku.hk/hkstories/content/view/79/844/)

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?

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."
 The plane takes off, and once it has leveled out, the agent says "Watch this” He tells Sniffer to "search". The dog jumps down, walks along the aisle, and sits very purposefully next to a woman for a several seconds.
Sniffer then returns to its seat and puts one paw on the agent's arm. The agent says "Good boy", and he turns to the man and says: "That woman is in possession of marijuana, so I 'm making a note of her seat number and the authorities will apprehend her when we land."
 "That's neat" replies the first man. Once again, the agent sends Sniffer to search the aisles. The Lab sniffs about, sits down beside a man for a few seconds, returns to its seat, and this time, he places TWO paws on the agents arm. The agent says, "That man is carrying cocaine, so again, I'm making a note of his seat number for the police."
 "I like it!" says his seatmate. The agent then told Sniffer to "search" again. Sniffer walked up and down the aisles for a little while, sat downfor a moment, and then came racing back to the agent, jumped into the middle seat and proceeded to poop all over the place.
 The first man is really grossed out by this behavior and can't figure out how or why a well-trained dog would act like that, so he asks the agent “What's going on?"
 The agent nervously replied, "He just found a bomb!"

July 1 mean a lot to me, not because of the change over from British Government to HK Government, because i'm a Canadian....  and of course we have to respect it highness statutory holiday status....

I watched the hand over in 1997 over live broadcast on TV, i also have the tape (yes, we use VCR in 1997) for those who don't know what it is or even used one, good for u... never realize i will be here in Macau when they are celebrating the 10th anniversary. (actually will be in HK over the weekend)

for those of you don't realize most of the HK Museums have an open door on july 1 and july 2... u have to get the ticket in advance from any box office in HK.... and i have to say, downloading MP3 from HK Government website is the fastest, 10 sec for one 4M MP3 file.....

there are a series of Documentary from TVB about the 10th anniversary, man in his early 30's with 48 stores gone bankruptcy; a depressed husband suicided because of the depreciation from the property they bought in 97; an owner of a nightclub in TST red light district closed his club; an actress who won the 2nd running up title of Miss HK .....

there are mean interesting stories happened over the past ten years.. for me, I started in casino since 1997…. What is your story?