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The Obligatory Kung Hei Fat Choi

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Happy Chinese New Year!

Wanted: Notebook

I’ve lost my notebook, probably while in Beijing (I just came back to Hong Kong last night). It is a Fujitsu LifeBook S-6130, serial number A031004453, WiFi MAC address 00:04:23:77:7E:1F, Ethernet MAC address 00:0B:5D:21:87:EE. It was bought on September 14, 2003. If anybody knows anything about it please either contact me directly or report it to the Hong Kong Police, thanks.

Update 19/02/2006 Added Ethernet MAC address

My Chinese is gooder than you

This must be some kind of New Year’s joke.

I received my Common Recruitment Exam results last Saturday. I passed all three papers, including Chinese. Which is great, but I haven’t studied any Chinese since Primary 4.

What does this say about the declining language proficiency level in Hong Kong?

2006 Goals

  • Sleep before 12am every night
  • Get into shape: eat well + regular excercise
  • Really implement Getting Things Done
  • Finish the Personal MBA
  • Grow existing investments by 15%
  • Save 50% of income

Should be enough for a year…

To Those Real Estate Agents Standing Outside Hong Kong Airport Express Station

Look. As you could probably see as I tugged my luggage off my taxi, I was there because I had a flight to catch, and therefore probably had no interest at that point in time in inspecting your hottest property in town. And as you could probably judge from my pace of walking, I did not have much time, if any, to entertain you.

Therefore, blocking the footpath between me and the entrance to the station would probably not raise my interest in your apartment deal. No, instead you just made me bloody furious and I am not sorry for bumping into you in full force together with my 20kg piece of luggage.

Unbelievable Cinematic Experience

No, this is not about some exciting new home-theatre technology…

Went to watch the new Willy Wonka movie with Sharon today (great fun movie BTW). Amazingly, not a single mobile phone rang during the entire movie. Actually apart from the occasional laughter, the audience were dead quiet. No chatter, nothing. Yes, we are in Hong Kong.

I think it was more than a decade ago when I watched an entire movie inside a cinema, without noise. Were we simply lucky or are the tides turning?

More flying

So after I came back from LinuxWorld San Francisco last week, exhausted, I had to fly up here to Beijing immediately to chair a meeting.

I shall be back in Hong Kong any minute (once they manage to book my flight). Then I’ll be in Singapore next week, and Colombo, Sri Lanka the next.

When will this crazy travelling end? I’ve said it many times and I’ll say it again: I don’t like flying. Please do not envy me. Flying around to so many different places for business is no fun. Trust me.

Finally got my stuff packed; leaving in any minute. I’ll be in San Francisco for a week for LinuxWorld. Sharon’s going as well.

The Next Few Weeks

I’m still trying to work out my travelling schedule for the next few weeks. It appears that I’m wanted to be in Singapore and in Cambodia at the same time, plus some other little conflicts. It’s gonna be a mess.

Busy busy busy

Have been very busy this week, so very few updates. Oh, and earlier this week I received that green envelope from the Inland Revenue Department for the first time…




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