8 posts from 2006

I find this some what useful. Although, I wish there were more specialized and quick recipes (tips).

Repost from: Vinko's Thought's On...

This afternoon I was sitting at a McDonald's restaurant in Causeway Bay, Hong Kong, having my Big Mac™. All of a sudden a young kid, about 6 years old, came to my table, without saying anything, he just took a french fried and begin eating it. To say the least I was very surprise.

I am even more surprise that it was a local Chinese boy who did this. As my readers may know, I had always had the impression that local Hong Kong people are shy and not talkative. The action of this young boy is totally out of character for the typical Hong Kong children.

Don't get me wrong, I think this sort of openness is a good thing. Although, I thihnk the boy may not have simply took the french fried and started eating it. May be he should have asked.

On the other hand, I don't think young children, for that matter adult, should be eating things given by strangers.

What this incident actually points out may be the lack of education and teachings Hong Kong parents have on their children now a days.

Well I am not exactly reading this book, I purchased the "beta" second edition in PDF format. So that's the one I recommend.

If you could get someone in your life to start a blog, who would it be and why?

I would love to get my mom to start a Blog. She is totally unfamiliar with computers, but she had been asking me to show her how.

Unfortunately, she lives 6 months of the year in Toronto and I currently lives in Hong Kong.

Of course if I do show her how I would definitely start her off on the Macintosh.

I think that she will have a lot of fun with a Blog. She is not that good in English, but she can also do it in Chinese. The only problem would be, that I will need to find her a pen input device [method] on the Mac for her to write in Chinese. Since i do not know how to use the various different Chinese keyboard input methods.

I believe VOX and the Mac will definitely get her there, my only problem now will have to wait until September when she comes to Hong Kong for six months.

What's the most extreme weather you've been in? A memorable storm? Heat wave? Or something else?

I guess the worst storm I had ever experienced was a Signal 10 typhoon in Hong Kong 3 years ago (2003).

While living in Hong Kong one normally gets used to typhoons, but the one 3 years ago the typhoon landed in Hong Kong within a few 100km.

In the past the Hong Kong Observatory (HKO) would be accused of "crying wolf"; raising typhoon signals when the weather appears to be fine, and lowering them just in time for everyone to get back to work.

Please allow me to explain. The law in Hong Kong states that during typhoon signal of 8 and above all schools will be closed, and signal 10 and above all businesses are closed. The law also states that everyone have to return to work within 2 hours after a typhoon signal had been lowered.

In the past the HKO frequently raises the typhoon signal to 8 and above in the mornings and some time during the normal rush hours. The latter would cause chaos since parents will have to figure a way to pick up their kids who are either at school or on their way to school.

The HKO also frequently lowers the typhoon signal at noon or just before rush hour begins in the morning. This was mainly due to complaints of businesses who accuses the HKO for lowering the typhoon signal not early enough for staff to return to work or raising the typhoon signal too soon that staff do not get to work in the mornings.

So now a days when HKO raises typhoon signals, the average Hong Kong citizens still have to second guess them and try to decide whether to go to work or pick up their kids.

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Having been through the whole process from the initial discussion to the final implementation of GST in Canada, I cannot believe I will have to go through this in Hong Kong.

I was so adamant about this that I created a web page on my site to document the process of the HKSAR (Hong Kong Special Administration Region) government on the subject.

I also wrote about it in my regular Blog, Thoughts On... plus created an online petition to collect signatures from every consumers (where they live in Hong Kong or just visiting) who feel the same way as I do.

So if you agree with me I need your help by signing the petition and to help spread the word.

I called this the "Thoughts on... (Satellite)" blog, because from time to time I plan on adding teasers to articles on my [current] main Blog.

So you can either wait for these teasers or go directly to my main Blog for my articles.

In either case I hope you enjoy my small contribution to the web (content) community.