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My first autumn in Hong Kong. A new beginning for my chapter.

The moon – taken somewhere in Kowloon City.

The night view – from the Mei Tung Estate toward Kowloon City.

Kooloon City Park – the night was filled with parents and their kids enjoying the lantern and neon lights.

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After submitting my HK Id application to the Immigration, we went to check out Soho.

On our way up to Soho.

Old police station. Now a national heritage.

On the street next to the police station. Narrow….

The view from atop the escalator.

As we were coming down from Soho. This is a wet market at Lynnhurst Terrace.

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From palm M505 to Sj33 Clie..to another 2 clie pda to my last clie Tj-37 pda and now to Dopod 818pro. I have been quite a die-hard palm fan and in the end, I have to move over to PPC.

After tinkering with my ppc pda phone, I realized ppc does have its strong points. For me, the most important was the inter-changeable battery. During my clie time, my pda will never last more than 12 hours (maybe my battery or the pda had problem). It very tough when you are on the move and your pda battery is getting low. I need to find a place to charge or I do not use it. In addition, the longer you used the pda, the lithium battery on palm (or on any other pda or phone) will deteriorate. Palm people never ever did understand this problem.

However, this 818pro PDA battery last about 2 1/2 days and I can change my battery. Wow…..Next, off course is Skype. In palm, I have to use mundu to integrate msn and yahoo messenger but not skype.

What I don’t like about ppc? I do not like ppc is syncing with ms outlook. MS Outlook is not strong contact management software. The back-up system. I do not know how to back-up yet, whereas palm is done automatically via the palm desktop software.

Overall, for now, ppc does have more pros than cons. I can duplicate 90% of my application from palm to ppc. The only thing that I am looking for is mahjong game. I used to have PK Mahjong on my palm that I usually played when I am sitting in my toilet bowl….

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Is it so hard to print some damn fucking [tag]business card[/tag] in [tag]Hong Kong[/tag]? Apparently yes.

I went to this company [tag]www.n-card.org[/tag] at the corner of Nathan Rd. and Nelson St to print some biz card. I give them the layout on Friday 14 Sept around 4 pm. They promised to get it done by Monday Sept 17.

I went there on Monday at around 3.30pm. They told me my biz card is not ready and what did I do? Nothing….I told them I need it by today and they promised to call me….I hv been in malaysia for too fucking long. I forget that I need to get piss off on this shit. Hong Kong always talked about service and speed. So far, it’s a fucking myth to me……

Two fucking days and they can’t print my biz card. I went to couple places that does biz card and they told me I have to wait 3 days because they send it to an offset printer. Same goes to N-card.org, they claimed to they send it to an offset printer,too. I can only said…WHAT THE FUCK!!!…We are in the age of digital printing. I can goes to any [tag]digital printing[/tag] shop in [tag]Kuala Lumpur[/tag] and I get my biz card in 2 hours. Hong Kong……still in the age of offset printing…

My first post in my blog that I really get pissed off and my first time on using some many f*** words….I was piss at myself and by these motherfuckers…

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My bro-in-law invited me to go watch a small stage play at Hong Kong Arts Centre Mcaulay Studio. It’s my time in over 10 years to watch any play ever. During my Los Angeles time, I hv seen Ms. Saigon, Phantom and couple other I forgot the names.

But this one is quite different. It’s being done in a small stage with probably 150 people seating capacity. I called this play as R rated with hard/strong language (a lot of f&**&* language in cantonese).

For me, I felt a little uncomfortable with the small stage. When the actors/actress came close within 2 feet in front me, I don’t know how to react. Should look at his/her facial expression, chest/boob or what…?? This is one situation I felt a little weird.

Next, I found it a little surprise that its was a full house. I always thought Taiwan have a better stage play scene than Hong Kong. I have never attended any in KL. Don’t ask me why?

A lesson that I learned from this, these guys and gals on stage were able to filter out all the audience reaction and concentrate on the job. Something I need to do when I am trading the market.

Overall, it’s a good experience, the script is quite good and hopefully as time goes-by I will continue to attend some of this small stage plays to give my support.

You can check out their official Wuhoifai and their blog

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My first time to Hong Kong social/networking events. I was a little nervous because I really don’t know what to expect. I was kinda of surprise flickr would host this kinda of events. They reserved the entire restaurant/bar. They provide free flowing beers, sodas and some finger food. Not cheap for a get-to-know your customer events.

I don’t hv any picture because my digital camera ran out of battery. But the guy sat next to me offer to send me some pix. Guess what…he never did. So, I can only provide a free booklet that flickr gave out as free token.

At this event, I realize…probably this particular event, there are 2 sectors of audience. One is the strictly cantonese speaking and the others is the bilingual but prefer to speak english. Not that much of culture shock but a good first outing experience for me.

I met Angus at 852signal.com. We chat couple time through email before I came over to Hong Kong. Finally, I met the man. You should check out his 852signal.com because he is putting a lot of effort on talking about Hong Kong web 2.0 scenes. Also, maybe down the road, I could be a contributor in his blog magazine. Who knows… Anyway, Angus keeps up the good work.

I am looking forward for the next event. If will be fun for a KL kampong boy like me….

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I am happy today because I have been approved by the Immigration of Hong Kong to obtain my dependent visa. I have been issued an entry visa where I need to re-enter Hong Kong before 7.dec.2007.

So, this paved the way of a new beginning.

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