Relief ! 賑災！

No word can describe my feeling of the earthquake and tsunami in South-Southeast Asia.

I just want you to support the relief work of Medecins Sans Frontieres. Why I just call Medecins Sans Frontieres (MSF)? It's because I found MSF is too low-profile to be broadly described by the HongKong mass-media and even HK bloggers, so I do the job here! Actually, they have already begun the aid operation in Aceh, Indonesia. MSF also delievered a full charter with 30 tons to Sri Lanka, for support of local hospitals. They will likely start aid in other affected countries after assessments.

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To know more about their relief work and download donation forms, please visit:
www.msf.org.hk

It's not the matter of whether to make a donation or which organization to support, but simply your support or awareness. They count!


任何文字、言語都難以表達我對這次南亞、東南亞的地震海嘯的感受。

在此，我唯有呼籲各位支持無國界醫生的救援工作。為什麼只說無國界醫生？ 因為香港的傳媒，以至博客Blogger大都提及了紅十字會、宣明會和樂施會等知 名組織捐款方法，相信很多人都知道了，但好像沒有太多人「理會」無國界醫生。其實無國界醫生已在印尼的亞齊省的重災區展開救援工作了，也運了一批醫療物資 到斯里蘭卡，亦對其他受災國進行評估，有需要就會立即開展救援工作。

請到 www.msf.org.hk了解他們詳細的賑災工作及下載捐款表格。

無論你會否捐款或捐款到哪個組織，你的支持或關注都是很重要！

That's service

Also, that's long-forgotten.

Yesterday, I drove the car to the DCH service centre for regular chassis cleaning and anti-rust inspection. The service isn't free but necessary for every vehicles.

Actually, I missed a document that may be needed for this service and I should pay for the re-issue of the doc. However, the service guy said I don't need to pay for that because the doc is used only when the anti-rust maintanence is taken. One more suprise after I got the car back. They have cleaned my car, which used to be dusty and painted with bird's ... something!

That's what should service be - Giving the best to customer and caring the customer. Customers feel it and you have their loyalty. Other industries in HK, do you copy?

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CAR..e

Driving a car is much easier than owning a car.

When you are just the driver, only 2 things in your mind - drive safely and get somewhere smoothly. When you're the owner, however, you have to care tons of stuffs, such as licence, insurance and maintenance. All of these things not only takes your times, but also money.

I'm not a car owner but my dad is. I become the "acting owner" of that old Civic during my dad's busy time. Besides suffering the pain of a real owner, this acting owner has one more difficulty - authorization for handling the document issues. I'm now waiting for his authorization letter to the licence renewal from somewhere outside HK. Otherwise, throw the car away. Ha!

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That works in GMail

sPaM is unavoidable but it should be "manageable". In GMail, it has a special folder, trapping all SPAM suspects. I find this very friendly. It doesn't mess up with your inbox but you can still recover some real mail from them. My choice of using GMail is correct.

My another mail account in Sina, though, upgrades the storage limit with user homepage and photo album, Spam control is still lousy. The so-called Spam action there is just marking those email addresses of junk source. Wait a minute, those addresses are auto-generated. How many possibilities can it track?

Cattle Depot Book Fair 牛棚書展

The Front Door of Cattle Depot	Introduction by itself
View Inside the depot	Keep our history in ever-changing environment
Free Drawing available for all visitors	No doubt, I should fill the space of the board :-)
One of the main showroom - OneA Space	Is cultural industry in HK like this - flying alone?
Flea market in the depot

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JOINING HANDS . SAVING LIVES | RWANDA 1994. SUDAN 2004 攜手‧救援 | 盧旺達1994‧蘇丹2004 圖片展

日期 Date 4/11 - 14/11
地點 Venue 尖沙咀星光行商務印書館 Commercial Press Bookstore, Star House, TST.

香港紅十字會,無國界醫生香港辦事處及樂施會合辦
Co-organised by Hong Kong Red Cross, Medecins Sans Frontieres Hong Kong and Oxfam Hong Kong


相關活動
COLLATERAL ACTIVITIES:
3:00pm 4/11 (Thu)
圖片展開幕記者會
Press conference and the kick-off ceremony

現場將設長途電話直擊訪問身在蘇丹達爾富爾的無國界醫生工作人員
Real-time Telephone Interview with MSF aid worker in Darfur

7:00pm 12/11 (Fri)
救援工作分享會
Humanitarian Aid Workers' Sharing Session:

人道工作者分享在盧旺達及蘇丹人道危機期間經驗及感受
Aid Workers' sharing on work experiences and feelings during the Rwanda and Sudan humanitarian crisis

講者: 紅十字國際委員會東亞區代表任浩先生、無國界醫生比利時布魯塞爾總部行動主管施托康先生、無國界醫生香港辦事處總幹事溫達德先生
Speakers: Mr. Ren Hao (Delegate for East Asia Region ,International Committee of the Red Cross); Mr. Christopher Stokes (Operations Director of the MSF Headquarters in Brussels); Mr. Dick van der Tak ( Executive Director of MSF-HK)

*以英語及普通話進行 In English or Putonghua

3:00pm 14/11 (Sun)
討論及分享會
Discussion and sharing session:

講座: 非洲衝突何來? A talk on the Nature of Conflict in Africa
講者: 香港大學語言學系 博艾敦博士
Speaker: Dr Adams Bodomo, Department of Linguistics, HKU

人道工作書籍推介會
Publications on humanitarian work
講者:主辦機構代表
Speakers: representatives of the three agencies

查詢及登記出席活動 Enquiry & registration : 3120 5275, 2802 0021, 2338 8277

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Map of "Convenience"

That's not a map of convenience stores, but a map of "body-convenient". Yes (or no), that's the Toilet Map!

Who invents this map? A taxi driver in Shanghai.

Why? Simple! It's because people need it anytime, anywhere.

Any impact? Drastic! Many publishers rushes to print it out and many people
bought it (according to mainland's People Daily, the first edition with 70,000
copies were sold out).

Two implicaitons here:

1. This "convenient" tale gives us a positive implication that none in the world is nothing, as long as we have keep the life, keep the world interesting.
2. Everything (seemed) little thing matters!

I have just checked the online yellow page, no toilet found! If you do, please specify.

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Old news' new

I discovered some old facts about www.blogger.com:

1. Blogger.com is supported by Google
2. There's another kind of blog, audio-blog, also from Blogger.com
   That's http://www.audioblogger.com

Audio-Blog isn't a new technique but a blog with audio files (e.g. mp3). Bloggers doesn't need a computer to make a post, but mobile phone. They just need to dial to a specific number (possible to blogger) and speak.

Yes, I'm not sure whole picture because I don't have a chance to try.

However, in the backend, I believe blogger.com staff paid great effort of hanlding massive phone calls and then add them to blogs. Anyway, I will stay tune of the audioblog movement.

P.S.: I think of a old Commercial Radio programme - "Absence of Driver" 無人駕駛

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幸福的機制

幸福是一種標準，還是一種方向？
我希望幸福是一種方向。

如果幸福是有機制的，可以計算出來的 ...
我覺得這是可悲的，人最美的地方是用心，不是計較。

幸福究竟是什麼？
我寧願永遠沒答案，這才是最幸福。

Fly Away

Fly away
不管留下了多少眼淚堅持下去的動力還在
Nothing I will be afraid

清晨的微風 如此的平凡 看似簡單
霧氣驅散 溫柔的陽光中慢慢醒了過來
準備面對挑戰 在新的世紀
該拋開過去 是好是壞 要放得開
往夢想的路沒有想像中簡單 我還要更勇敢
回憶就像漩渦它將我拉走 時間的鐘響起 我不該逗留

Fly away
不管未來有多困難 我仍然能感覺心跳還在
Nothing I will be afraid

I got lost today because of this & that, but this song have just lifted me up.

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