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Let’s all have a safe and peaceful year.

While most people around the world celebrated the coming of the new year by partying and watching fireworks, we in Hong Kong celebrated by marching through downtown, demanding full democracy. The organizers estimated that 100,000 people joined the rally this time.

The demonstration was scheduled to start from Victoria Park at 3pm. We couldn’t make it on time, so we decided to skip straight to Wan Chai MTR station. We joined the rally at around 4pm.

Some people say that the objective for this rally is not as clear as the one back on July 1st, 2003. I don’t think so; in July people protested against a lot of things, including Article 23, “Cargate” Leung, government’s handling of SARS, and so on. This time around, there is only one objective: start the political reform process, to achieve full democracy ASAP.

I’m sure this is the wish of most Hong Kong people.