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Is that difficult to understand June 4th incident?

It is ridiculous that many "famous" peole try to blur the June 4th incident so as to protect their own interest (from Mainland). In the end, facts are the facts. No matter the students and public gathering in Tiananmen square were right or wrong, the military control, killing the armless with guns and tanks were the FACTS which can never be changed!

Same as many people in HK, I have witnessed the killings on TV. Admit it or not, it is true and it is the facts I can never forget. Truth will not get blurry by time...

潘小濤﹕「六四」真相那麼難明嗎？

(明報)2009年6月10日星期三 05:05

【明報專訊】近日，部分曾積極支持八九民運的知名人士，包括前民建聯立法會議員程介南、勞聯前立法會議員李啟明、資深校長戴希立等，被問及是否支持平反六四時，均拒絕表態支持，李啟明更說現時真相仍不清晰，難下定論。原以為這是簡單得像「阿媽是不是女人」的問題，為何20年後竟變成「真相未明、難下定論」呢？

那麼，我先把事件真相寫出來。1989年6月3日晚10時許，20多萬全副武裝的解放軍，在坦克開路下，從四方八面殺向天安門廣場。由於軍隊接到死命令，必須在6月4日清晨趕到廣場清場，因此軍人沿途開槍，其中，從城西的木樨地、五棵松推進的第三十八軍最兇殘，在復興門、長安街等大開殺戒，坦克也輾死輾傷不少學生及平民。

在槍聲及坦克履帶下，一場中國近代史上最大規模、波及範圍最廣的波瀾壯闊民主運動，持續51天後，戛然而止。

是非對錯不是一目了然嗎？

傷亡人數呢？民間估計，有800至3000人遇難，而天安門母親、在血案中痛失愛子的丁子霖教授，蒐集到186人死亡名單，當中的人民大學學生程仁興，在天安門廣場被士兵槍殺。中國官方曾公布，241人死亡（包括士兵），7000多人受傷；而資深新華社記者張萬舒援引當時中國紅十字會黨組書記譚雲鶴說，死亡727人，其中學生平民713人，官兵14人。

還有什麼真相未明呢？說這些話的人，不是語焉不詳，就是說學生領袖也有錯，錯過了避免流血的時機，又或事涉中共內部鬥爭。我倒想問一下，當日軍攻破南京前，中國守軍最高長官唐生智率先棄城逃跑，群龍無首的中國軍隊，不是投降被殺，就是逃生時互相踐踏而死。毋庸置疑，唐生智是失職的懦夫，罪該萬死，但唐生智棄城丟兵，能減輕日軍在南京屠城的罪孽嗎？即使像日本右翼所說，南京沒死一個中國人，但會改變日軍侵華的性質嗎？

同理，無論北京的學生及其領袖是否有錯，無論是否如官方所說只死了200多人，出動幾十萬野戰軍槍殺手無寸鐵的平民，是非對錯，不是一目了然嗎？所謂真相未明，或許只是他們的眼睛和良心，被利益蒙蔽而已。20周年，他們對慘案由原來的黑白分明，說成模糊不清；再過20年，會否倒退到顛倒黑白呢？

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June 05

「薪火相傳、接好民主棒」

Hongkongers are seens as "materialistic" and very distant from any political issues. We don't care about any politics and honestly we cannot change anything even we do care. Then what can we do is to focus on our own wellingness... working hard and earn more to secure our life in our own way and of cos enjoy the life with what we earned.

This is the 20th year of the June 4th incident.

Each year since 1990, the Alliance in Support of Democratic Movements in China have organised candlelight vigils there in memory of June 4th incident. Every year, tens of thousands of participants with candles fill several football pitches, to remember those who lost their lives and to demand vindication for those who sufferred persecution.

This is the 20th year of the June 4th incident and it is so touching to see so many hongkong people participated in the June 4th candlelight vigils last night. The weahter in this week is not good but it was excellent yesterday even the weather forecast said it will have heavy rain! I am so proud to see so many people joining the event and I am so proud that HK can still be the only place of China to organize this event.

I was there and it was just waves and waves of people...

On the way, there were also people organizing signing to speak out that our SAR head Donald Tsang is NOT representing us! he is not elected by HK people so he canNOT say anything on behalf of us!

We can hardly get inside. The organizer said there were 150,000 people joined and this is the highest record of this candlelight vigil. All the grassland, football and bastketball courts are filled with people.

Althought it was very crowded and hot, people also brought their kids because they believe that we have to let our next generations know the truth. We have to keep demanding the China gov't admit what they have done, release those still kept in jail/ home arrest and move towards the real democracy!!

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May 27

The Life List - 750 things to do in Hong Kong before you die.

The Life List - 750 things to do in Hong Kong before you die

Source: HK Magazine

Date: Sept,2008

Bucket lists aren’t just for terminally ill codgers in bad movies. For the 750th issue of HK Magazine, we’ve drawn up an extensive inventory for you to check your life against before the final curtain. Whether it’s eating dim sum at 7-11 or paragliding over Shek O, here are 750 things everyone in this busy city has to put aside their everyday business to make time for—just as we’ve put aside our usual features and listings this week.

Culture Course

The quintessential Hong Kong experience.

1. Have your fortune read by the oldest looking fortune-teller at Wong Tai Sin Temple
2. Watch all of Stephen Chow’s movies
3. Try to figure out what “sweep the street” means in Mong Kok slang, and then go do it
4. Learn a Cantonese opera song and join in the live music performance in Temple Street
5. Keep your Chinese doctor’s hand-written perscription stuck to the fridge
6. Watch “Mr. Hong Kong”
7. Burn pictures of your ex on a sidewalk during Hungry Ghost Festival
8. Pretend to be a triad
9. Learn Chinese chess
10. Watch old people gambling with traditional Chinese games at public parks. If you stay long enough they might teach you how to play.
11. Borrow the whole Doraemon cartoon series from a public library
12. Start a moody, “everyone hates me” Xanga blog
13. Join the Facebook group “I heart HK” (or create one)
14. Believe anything your feng shui master says.
15. Be a member of an indie band and curse Cantopop
16. ...But download a Cantopop ringtone anyway
17. Explore Wan Chai market. Smell the love.
18. Spend a night in Chungking Mansions with your backpack
19. Tell everyone you are single during Lunar New Year to avoid giving out laisee
20. Never sit on a warm MTR seat
21. Live in a caged home for a night in Sham Shui Po
22. Read “Old Master Q” cartoons and try to get all the jokes
23. Play mahjong with strangers at a parlor and pretend you are an undercover policeman when you lose
24. Play liar dice in a bar that sells bowls of peanuts for $60
25. Have your photo taken at a party and find it weeks later in a magazine
26. Open an art gallery with your retirement fund
27. Use smiley faces even when you are e-mailing your boss
28. Go speed dating. Make up a new job for every person that you meet.
29. Throw a party outside the Cultural Centre
30. Wash your utensils in hot tea before you eat at a teahouse
31. Name your child after a fruit
32. Bleach your hair blonde, especially if you’re a teenager
33. Get photographed by a tabloid magazine and watch as they fabricate an entire story about you
34. Seduce someone via SMS, then send them a Dear John text a day later
35. Stay awake during an entire art film at Broadway Cinematheque
36. Write a poem in an upstairs revolutionary café
37. End every English sentence with “la” or “ar”
38. Walk past the Museum of Art. Never actually go inside.
39. Photograph every dish you eat at every restaurant you go to. Post a review on openrice.com, even if it’s a Big Mac.
40. Jump in with the impromptu performance artists along Sai Yeung Choi Street South
41. Make a wish at the Lam Tsuen Wishing Trees
42. Intern at HK Magazine
43. Attempt to sleep with starlets and upload your DIY sex tape on YouTube
44. Watch a lion dance put on by firemen
45. Eat worm jelly to experience Fujian culture at Mun Nam Restaurant
46. Count the number of buddhas inside the 10,000 Buddha Temple
47. Misspell “Wellcome”
48. Finally finish your leftover mooncakes by Christmas.
49. Do a watercolor of the smoggy harborfront and find that you have to buy extra tubes of gray paint
50. Announce your phobia of chicken feather dusters
51. Claim you were stopped by a modeling agent in Causeway Bay when shopping the other day
52. Learn to grind your own soya bean milk • Soak 300g of soya beans in water for six hours. • Drain the beans. • Pour the beans and three cups of water into a blender until finely blended. • Use a piece of cheesecloth to drain the liquid and throw away the residue. Boil the liquid over medium heat. • Then cook for 10 minutes over low heat. • Add sugar or salt to taste, and ta-da! Your very own batch of soya milk.

53. Meet a blind date under the Tsim Sha Tsui Star Ferry clock tower
54. Grudgingly share your table with a stranger in a cha chaan teng.
55. Call your pet, child or boy/girlfriend “BB” loudly in public

56. Drink twenty-four herbs tea while listening to 24 Herbs.

57. Wear a Mickey Mouse t-shirt to Ocean Park
58. Make a short film set in your cramped flat and submit it to www.ifva.com

59. Sing karaoke around the clock at Red Box or Green Box
60. Be a bartender at the Fringe Club
61. Rent and re-watch all the old TVB dramas
62. Spend a whole Sunday going on open tours of houses on sale at the Peak
63. Get drunk at Artwalk, then expound obnoxiously on the artworks
64. Go to an all-you-can-eat buffet at a dodgy karaoke bar and get food poisoning
65. Pick a mobile phone number with as many 8s in it as possible
66. Get the first-row seat at a pop concert
67. ...And start crying when Andy Lau comes on.
68. Teach English as a second language
69. Drink pu’er tea in a Starbucks cup
70. Savor a pineapple bun outside the Space Museum
71. Go on a date with a local celebrity
72. Become a local celebrity
73. Sit your kid down at the piano until they pass the Grade Eight exam
74. Talk to a local artist at Cattle Depot Artists Village
75. Have a temporary obsession with anything from Japan or Korea
76. Belly dance outside Times Square
77. Gossip loudly about your friends in Tsui Wah, Café Landmark or Yung Kee (location depending on your age and gender)
78. Read the free newspaper of the person standing in front of you on the MTR
79. Join a poon choi dinner in Tai Po uninvited
80. Pronounce Louis Vuitton as “Louise Veeton” and Pucci as “Poo-See”
81. Practice your English or Cantonese with the ABCs in Lan Kwai Fong
82. Munch on a cheeseburger at the Chi Lin Nunnery
83. Take everything the tabloids say as the truth
84. Attempt to define “Hong Kong Culture” every time you’re drunk

To be continued, full list here: http://hk-magazine.com/feature/life-list-750-things-do-hong-kong-you-die

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May 22

Swine flu @ Japan

This is a picture of the students all wearing masks.

When I first looked at this photo from newspaper, I found it funny but also sad. The swine flu is attaching Japan, besides Tokyo, there are more cities found confirmed H1N1 cases. My colleauge who is visiting Japan said that he was the only one who didn't wear a mask on the plane!! It should be scary... and uneasy feelling.

This reminds me the very tough and difficult situation in year 2003 SARS in Hong Kong.

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May 10

nice weather and great hiking - Tai Tam resourvior

Today, the weather is great, 27 degree with sun and breeze. we took a bus up to the mountain and then walked down hill... passed 3 resouviors and they are quite dry as the summer and rainny season is just arrived. When the water filled the resourviors, the scenery will be even better.

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April 30

Erik is getting better and better on photography

Many friends of mine know that I love taking pictures. I can take hundred of pictures in a trip (or even a day!) Also, I love to be in the picture too... However, Erik is not a very good photographer, many times one single position/ background has to re-take several times.

We even had a "competiton" while we were just sitting on the side of the pier last year. We competed on who can take a picture of this "little stand" better. Remeber the focus should be this stand... This one is from Erik... it is okay...

Hey here come to mine... yeah~ i think mine is better as i was also the judge.

After my intensive training, Erik improves a lot... here are some great pics he took in BJ~

he tried to focus the flower and the great wall is burry...

this one he focused the great wall and the flowers is burry

They are really good and i used them as my desktop on my computer at work too~

of cos, there are still some "not that good" ones, hehee

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April 20

My favorite Japanese Sake “上善如水”

This is my favorite Japanese sake“上善如水” (no English name)... or i can say the only alcohol i like.

I am not a drinking person and cannot take much alcohol (most people know when they see my face turn scary-red after just a sip of beer!) I don't like beer as they are mostly bitter - except Hogarden (which taste better). Red wine is good when they are really good or else it is just x!#@$!#@%$ hard to describe. However, i don't know why there are still a lot of people thinks i drink a lot.

Anyway, i really like this sake and today accidentally I found out the name of this sake is actually from a Chinese old wisdom - Tao Te Ching 道德经 from 老子 - a very famous teacher. He said： <<上善若水 - 水善利万物而不争>> Water is like Infinity, it gives itself to all things without distinction or judgment and settles into the lowest places without deliberation.

　　In dwelling, live in harmony with the land.

　　In meditation, remember your oneness with the Infinite.

　　In dealing with others, do not judge.

　　In communicating, relate the truth.

　　In governing, be fair.

　　In daily life, be in harmony with all things and at peace with all people.

　　In action, be mindful that there is a time and a season for all things.

　　Avoid judging and its legacy contention and flow in the peace and harmony of the oneness of humanity.

原著 - 《道德经》第8章：上善若水。水善利万物而不争，处众人之所恶，故几于道。居善地，心善渊，与善仁，言善信，政善治，事善能，动善时。夫唯不争，故无尤。

经典解读 - 宋王安石《老子注》说：“水之性善利万物，万物因水而生。然水之性至柔至弱，故曰不争。众人好高而恶卑，而水处众人之所恶也。”

It is interesting that the Japanese sake was originated by the yellow wine from China and now they have the famous brand of sake also named after a Chinese wisdom. The meaning of Chinese wisdom saying is deep and it takes time to digest...

Chinese wisdom is always like a piece of "art", everyone interpret the same saying a bit differently. Even the same person might see the the same saying differently and have a different take-out after time is changed orwe experience something different in our life.

Let's don't make “上善如水” complicated... The best thing to digest “上善如水” will be with sashimi~

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March 22

Korea street food - Tteokbokki

This Korea biz trip I tried something new! I saw quite a lot of street vendors and they were popular... as a person who is curious of anything new and risky, i did try with my korean colleagues~

At the vendor, besides this rice cake in red soup, they usually have some deep fried stuffs (like Japanese tempura), some sushi rolls, pig lungs and some rice noodle inside pig intestines... well...i tried all of them!

Tteokbokki (Stir Fried Rice Cake)
Rice cakes are stir-fried with carrots, bamboo shoots, mushrooms, and cucumbers and stewed in scary red sauce/ soup. Anyway I know Korean loves Kimchi and everything looks similar to kimchi. Although it may sound unappetizing, the taste is very good. It is very popular at street vendors.

Gimbap (Rice Wrapped in Seaweed) Gimbap
Gimbap (usually spelled Kimbap) is Korea's most popular and nutritious convenience meal. You can find it sold everywhere: picnics, schoolchildren's lunch boxes, street venders, and convenience stores.

Sundae (Korean Sausage) Sundae
The small and large intestines of pigs are salted and stuffed with a mixture of

pig's blood, rice, green onions, garlic, minced pork, and vermicelli before

being steamed. SOUND SCARY huh?! The sausage is sliced when served

and some steamed lung and liver slices usually accompany it.

The pojangmacha (street vendor) is one of the best places to grab a quick snack or pass the night away drinking with friends. The types of food they serve can usually be eaten quickly while standing up (although someplaces have cheap chairs or benches) or take with you.

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February 28

Appetizer in Beijing

In Beijing, there are always some appetizer in lunch and dinner and they are usually cold dishes. They always serve raw cucumber (whole one) as one of the cold dishes. This time, i found a new cold dish (maybe new to me only).

It was a small turnip... it looked very raw and not very attactive. However, I like adventure so i tried before all the foreigners at the table who looked so hesitated.

suprisingly, it tasted great, very watery, fresh and crunchy... i like it. Everyone of us at the table took one and they all liked it~

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Lego in Beijing

I have been to Beijing quite a few times. As we all know, China is huge and i am already get used to the big hotel rooms and huge bed (which can fit 5-6 people easily). This is a typical hotel room i stayed this time... with the bathroom bigger than my bedroom in HK.