Wildfire in Moscow

The Moscow Wildfire enveloped the City, the blanket of smog is an acrid, choking haze that is hazardous to our health. I am afraid there will be flights divisions a the International Airport. The pictures shows the same picture from the window on Monday and Today.

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The Hottest Moscow in last 150 years

After so many years, I had a chance to visit Red Square and the landmark Rym Department store which is just 5 minutes on foot away from one of my customers.

The weather is very hot and in fact I had experienced the Temperature of 41 degree C in Moscow Train station!. That is the Highest in the past 150 years in Russia!!

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Why HK people are ranked 2nd Longest Life Expectancy in this World?

There are different sources of data to tell what country has the longest average Life expectancy. Well, the U.S. Bureau of the Census provides statistics, Okinawa has the longest average life expectancy, at 81.2 years, as of 2005. The shortest is found in Angola, at 36.6. Some other report told us that residents of Andorra, a tiny mountain nation in the Pyrenees between France and Spain, are expected to live to the ripe old age of 83.5. How about USA!? Babies born in the United States in 2005 are expected to live an average of 77.9 years, according to a 2007 study by the national Centers for Disease Control and Prevention's National Center for Health Statistics.. Actually, the United States ranks behind 41 other countries. As many of US Citizen are spoiled by the Over Sized Fast Food and their way going to work by car.


According to UN and WHO, People of Hong Kong is the 2nd longest life on earth after Okinawa, has long been endowed with high life expectancies. In 2002, there were 34.7 people 100 years or older per 100,000 residents, the highest life expectancy of any area in the world. Still, while Okinawa may feature the highest population of centenarians -- people who are 100 years of age or older – Japan is ranked second in life expectancy with an average of 82. Reason is that they are still living in rather primitives way, I watched Discovery movies on plant that Old woman of 90 years old walks up hills for harvest on the fruit and carry down the hill everyday…
Some Data 2 years ago showed with HK men expected to live an average of 79.5 years and women to 85.6 years.
The figure for women for the first time puts Hong Kong narrowly ahead of Japan, where women’s life expectancy is now 85.5 years, and Spain, where expectancy is 83.8 years.
Hong Kong is also the top place for male life expectancy, ahead of Iceland at 78.9 years, Switzerland at 78.6 years.
So far I do not know who is the country that people will live longest.
Anyway, This Is not the main point I am trying to talk about as there is different way to translate the data and also there are so many mobile citizen in Hong Kong. So I am not surprises that HK people is amongst the top 2nd Longest Life Expectancy City on Earth. WHY?
HONG KONG: It may be one of the world’s most polluted, noisy and stressful cities, but people in Hong Kong can expect to live longer than anyone else on the planet?
Beside the health consciousness of HK people., being Most of us are coming from Guang Dong , who buys the ideas of Magic of Soups… We drink more than anybody on soup than the people on the other part of the World.
The Soup take up to 98% of water and essence of Food that was made by boiling hours with ingredient of either vegetable, lean meat, or black Chicken, and many other Chinese herbs…We usually drink the soup rather than eating the ingredient. The soup cleans our stomach, intestines, and they way soup goes down our from mouth to stomach, it give you great favour and it works like a sleeping pill… It calms your mind too!
Hong Kong people drink a lot of soup, as you know we have a lot of Bow Yi Lai (who keep more than one wife or two) I had a friend who come home to drink 2nd wife soup during lunch and his first wife’s during dinner… The 2nd Wife soup is usually well prepared with better material and specially boil with heartily effort… In order to get a better impression from her Husband.
Do not forget that there are probably 300,000 men who has a mistress (Yi Lai or 2nd Wife) in China, irregular or irregular one, Registered or yet-to-registered one…hmmm!
Do not quote my number as this is purely my personal data collection by survey on friend and friend of friends…
So my conclusion is The Reason why the long life expectancy of Hong Kong People is because of the SOUP…


"What kind of Soup Today?" Is the standard Question when we ask the Waiters in the Chinese restaurant…


Let’s Cheer with Soup!!


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Rolex, ST Dupont and Montagut, the Survival kit for HK Snob in 80's

I am afraid most of the post 50s’ will understand these three brands in Hong Kong…
Well, we can see that these are the most prominent men’s item or accessories for those snobs in the 80’s.
Rolex watch , Dupont lighter, Dupont slim ball pen and a Montagut shirt was once the most popular wearing for cheap snob in Hong Kong in the 80’s.

We call these “Life –Saving-Three-Treasures” in a Hong Kong Colloquial way. This was the survival kits when they lost money in Macau casino as they could turn their Rolex and Dupont Lighter in the pawn shop in front of the casino and they could immediately enter the casino to try the luck again.


Rolex is durable, even it was dropped, it would not likely go damages, thanks for the good Rolex double shock absorber for protection.
Dupont lighter was popular with the famous Crystal clear “Ding” when the lighter is open with click if your fingers, as in the night club or so called the Fish-Ball-Club, it was dim, no one could see you were using a gold plated Lighter, but once they could hear the Ding” well, it was the Dupont lighter. You know that those street side watch smith had to know how to tune up the Sound of the Dupont to be louder and more clearer… this is an Symbol for being a Snob!
Montagut, a French knitting wear a Polo like Tee-shit claimed to be using the latest knitting technology that it does not wrinkle, as you know at that time those snobs did not know even if they had tomorrow again. They would go for street fighting and the blood of their enermy might stain on his shirt, they could just wash it under water and hang it up wait for overnight and they could wear again next morning.

These kind of snob earned a living either from the dirty money of the prostitutes, gambling, and drugs trafficking, fighter for the black society, street fighter...


Of course I may be a bit talking over he line that there may have certain decent gentlemen dressed up with these items.. but god knows, at that period of time, people are money-minded, they look at your accessories displayed on your body to determine your income status.
 So what is the most popular Rolex for them, a boy-sized two tone, yellow gold and stainless steel version, best is embedded with some small diamond at the dial, the brownish red dial is the best seller at that time… it was about HKD$1,980 in 1976 and HKD$9,600 in 1986.

Only the head man in charge of the gangster could afford to use a Rolex Date Day yellow solid gold watch,,, well of course they do not have the culture to wear what so call Audemars Piguet or any Patek Philippe! No way…no one recognized it at all!


Dupont lighter is the standard large size gold plated one. As they never use silver as they are classified “ Cheap” it was selling about HKD$900.00 for gold plated and HKD$500 for Silver. No one could afford to use Solid gold Dupont as the Sound is not beautiful…


Dupont pen will be something like the attached picture shown, slim one, ball pen of course.
This is one of the Fashion wear of the HK Snob bewteen 1976-1986….

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Flextronics Recognized for its “Employee Care” Efforts in China

Flextronics is a good CSR Company model and it was selected winner of the prestigious Golden Bee Award that recognizes a company for protecting the rights and interests of its employees while promoting career progression opportunities.
Out of about 1,200 submissions, only 350 local & international companies were nominated. Flextronics emerged to win the “Employee Care” category. The prestigious award was organized by WTO Tribune, a publication that focuses on Corporate Social Responsibility research and training. The award was also co-sponsored by the Society of HR Management (SHRM), CSR Europe, and Japan's Council for Better Corporate Citizenship.
Flextronics was selected based on its successful partnership with the Culture and Communications Center for Facilitators (CCCF), a local non-governmental organization (NGO). The collaboration aims to help China's migrant workers discover and fulfill their potential and aspirations, overcome the challenges from living and working in a new environment, and come up with effective ways for meeting their emotional and developmental needs. The CCCF also aims to help migrant workers develop self-respect, dignity, and a sense of belonging; so they can be empowered to develop the means to reach their aspirations and to contribute to their communities.
The award was received by Richard Wong, VP of Global CSR and Employee Relations. "I am proud to be on the stage with the world renowned companies such as Tyco, Intel, Emerson, Bank of China, BASF and Standard Chartered Bank. This prestigious award is a testament to our efforts in delivering our corporate social responsibility promise to build communities inside and around Flextronics to ensure a sustainable environment." Richard said.
Flextronics is the World 2nd EMS after Foxconn, running 40B revenue a year. The have about 150,000 staff, the largest one is in Doumen of Zhu Hai, about 50,000 workers scattered 20 buildings. They are the Contract manufacturer for Microsoft, Dell, Apple, Nokia, Motolora, X-box, Sony Ericsson…etc. Flextronics Management is quite Open to all kind of talent from all races, they promote multi national harmony. They have staff from USA, Europe, India, China, Malaysia and wouldn’t be surprise that they may overtake Foxconn in one day to become the world’s largest EMS company AGAIN.

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iPad

I feel a bit guity to own this piece of toy though it is wonderful to play with as There are made entirely by Foxconn. There were12 lives committed suicide in this company in Long Hua Foxconn factory in Shenzhen this year partly due to stress, pressure on thir work, partly due to their inmature thought about human relationship handling as they are all Post 80's youth. Hope that they lives of these 11 Peoples (1 of them survived) would ring up the bells of Foxconn Top management seriously looking into improvement on the working environment and would reduce the long working hours! Foxconn Taiwan is the work No,1 largest EMS (Electronics Manufacturing Service) in the world, they have probably 800,000 staff with factoris in Shenzhen Yantai, Shan Shi, Chung Xiang, manuacturer for Apple, Dell and Nokia products...followed by Flextronics Singapore, Jabil USA... HK Snob

My Bond Card Holder

My Card Holder has been using for more than 8 years. made in USA by ACM US Pat. 6412627. It carries the HKID card, ViSA cards.
Has been modified with installation with GPS system to track where It goes, Finger print sensor sysetm for unlock, a mini paint spraying system in case someone tries to open the lock more than 3 attempts in failure. An high Voltage pulse to destroy the data in the card if someone breaks it!

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Enjoy Your Job!

When people resigns, there must had certain reason.

From my experience as service manager for 12 years, these are some of the excuses they told me.

He could not go on trip too frequently.

They do not know when the assignment could be completed and come back HK.

Some one told me that he has no time with girl friend.

They can not carry on further study as they are not in HK.

They thought they are underpaid.

One can not see the career path, he could not see when he could be a service manager or able to be a manager within say 5-10 years.

They are being ignored in the company.

They want to change to other job in the company.

They compared their income with other departments, found out that they are being underpaid!

They did not like the boss’s management style.

There is no travel allowance.

Plus other 50 reasons….
Look at this lady…something we should learn from her.  She enjoys the job!

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What man does not like about woman.

1. Women pretending they are chaste.

2. Women criticize other females negatively.
3. Women’s jealousy.
4 Man To be treated as an emotional support besides a financial supporter.

5. Man being suspected has the third one.

6. Women want all the spare time of their men to be devoted to them only.
7. Women’s emotionality.
8 .Women’s never-ending shopping.

9. Women’s talkativeness.

10. Women demonstrates their superiority over men.

11. Women’s fake orgasm.

This is my personal thought about what man dislikes about woman...and of course, nobody is perfect, and partners should learn to compromise and be patient toward each other.

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Woman's Heart

The doctor, after an examination, sighed and said, 'I've got some bad news. You have breast cancer, and you'd best put your affairs in order.'
The woman was shocked, but managed to compose herself and walk into the waiting room where her daughter had been waiting.
'Well, daughter, we women celebrate when things are good, and we celebrate when things don't go so well. In this case, things aren't well. I have cancer. So, let's head to the club and have a martini.'
After 3 or 4 martinis, the two were feeling a little less somber. There were some laughs and more martinis.

They were eventually approached by some of the woman's old friends, who were curious as to what the two were celebrating.

The woman told her friends they were drinking to her impending end, 'I've been diagnosed with AIDS.'

The friends were aghast, gave the woman their condolences and beat a hasty retreat.

After the friends left, the woman's daughter leaned over and whispered, 'Momma, I thought you said you were dying of cancer, and you just told your friends you were dying of AIDS! Why did you do that?'


'Because I don't want any of those bitches sleeping with your father after I'm gone.'

Why Employees leave the Company!?

Most of the companies face with the people leaving the company for better prospect, or pay of better working environment, or better respect they can get.
Early this year, Kumar, a senior software designer, got an offer from a prestigious international firm to work in its India operations developing specialized software. He was thrilled by the offer.

He had heard a lot about the CEO. The salary was excellent which is about two times the same offer from other local firms. The company had all the right systems in place employee-friendly human resources policies, a brand new office and the very best technologies even a canteen that served food like the Shangri-la Hotel.

Kumar was sent abroad for some technical training with some of the senior staff working more than 15 years in the company. "My learning curve is the sharpest it's ever been," he said soon after he joined.

Less than four months after he joined, Kumar decided walked out of the job.

Why did this talented employee leave?

Kumar quit for the same reason that drives many good people away.

The answer lies in one of the largest studies undertaken by the Gallup Organization. The study surveyed over a million employees and 80,000 managers and was published in a book called "First Break All The Rules". It came up with this surprising finding: Immediate boss is the reason people stay and thrive in an organization. And he’s the reason why people leave... "People leave managers not companies."

Mostly manager drives people away? HR experts say that of all the abuses, employees find humiliation the most intolerable. Many manager is micromanaging their employees, never tell them what to do whereby give them freeway and chances to make mistakes, and after that blame them not smart enough, every one tends to make mistake ,bigger manager makes bigger mistake naturally.
Two weeks ago, there is a Secondary school teacher ended her life jumping from the window of her school. Just because she could not stand the intangible pressure from school master who scolded her not able sell more lunch boxes to her students! The life of a professional teacher in Hong Kong is valued of a few lunch boxes!
This is the stress that only your staff knows, but not you, You can blame them for their low EQ! But how has such a high EQ since they are borne?

There are a lot good managers work for the same company for more than 30 years., they are the best of the bunch…They will make use of themselves a model for their younger employees as a way to measure their performance. The worst part of it is that they expect the same deliverables as they are!

They earn Hundred Thousands a year whilst you earn few millions, how can you expect they produce the same output as yours?

As the manager ha the supreme power to judge that his employee is doing right or wrong. Once he asks is the bird alive or dead in his hand, his employee answer “Alive”, then he could squeezed and suffocated the bird to dead. On the other hand, if the answer “Dead”, he would open his finger and set free the bird… The employer side is always on the leeward side. This is one of the reasons they feel frustrates they have no way to ask the same question to his superiors.
Different managers can stress out employees in different ways - by being too controlling, too suspicious, too pushy, too critical, but they forget that workers are not fixed assets, they are free agents. When this goes on too long, an employee will quit - often over a trivial issue.
Talented men leave. Dead wood doesn't.

"Jack Welch of GE once said. A company's value lies "between the ears of its employees
 
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From Thought to Snob

A long time ago, there was an Emperor who told his horseman that if he could ride on his horse and cover as much land as he could, then the Emperor would give him all the area of land he has covered. Sure enough, the horseman quickly jumped onto his horse and rode as fast as possible to cover as much land area as he could. He kept on riding and riding, whipping the horse to go as fast as possible. When he was hungry or tired, he did not stop because he wanted to cover as much area as possible.
Came to a point when he had covered a substantial area and knowing that would be his land, he was exhausted and was dying. Then he asked himself, "Why did I push myself so hard to cover so much land area? Now I am dying and I only need a very small area like 6 Feet by 2 feet to bury myself."

The above story resembles with the journey of our Life.

We push very hard everyday to make more money, to gain power and public recognition. We may have neglected our health, ignore the time with our family and to appreciate the beautiful things surrounding us, hardly had time to build our hobby.
One day while we grow old and we look back, we will realize that we actually don't really need that much, but by then we cannot turn back as we can not make the clock run anti-clockwise!
Life is not just about making money, acquiring power or recognition.
Life is definitely not just about work! Work is only needed as to change for bread and butter (no Margarine) as we have to eat for life. Life is about we have to breathe and be having good eye sight to appreciate beautiful things, golden ear like mine to tell the minute different of the right speaker that has been out tuned causing loss of the rocking double bass.
Take it easy, as I told my colleague we are being cursed by customer with many word starts with “F” in front of their staff for late products delivery, watch them and take it as it is. I used to comfort myself hey, there is no pain. Let them curse till they are tired and they will stop. Who is losing their dignity, not me, but they!
Watch your thoughts; they become words.
Watch your words; they become actions.

Watch your actions; they become habits.

Watch your habits; they become character.

Watch your character; it becomes your destiny.
Watch your destiny, you will become A Snob.
Be happy man, when the sky falls, it is time to catch the lark!
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All about Woman

Over the past 30 years dealing with all kind of people , I think I had managed to probe and test how the woman thinks, and That is an important clue for you to make another move to approach a woman. There are thousand websites teaching you how to pickup a lady, from my experience on all the stupid things I had made and repeated problem in dealing with woman, I think I have something we can share with you.

Key points
1.  Try to pick the most beautiful one than normal or average one,
many would think that is impossible but they are usually the “ Easiest”

2. You should have confidence and make the right attack,
all my woman is taller than me on bare foot.
The Height is not an issue or obstacle for dating.

3. Don’t tell lie, whenever I meet new girl, I will try to tell her that I have 4 wives and if she still does not stop the dialogue on the conversation. That would be high chance you could make it... and this save time too!

4. Do not think that woman like you money… they sometime hate that.
Try to be low key and it is stupid to take out the 1 inch stack of bank note from your purse,
if she likes your money only, you should beware.

There is something about woman that you should take note.
1. All women like surprises.  women believe they should be surprised at least once a week.

2. All women have fantasies.
A man should take the time to find out her fantasy and create a real fantasy for her.

3. Women want a man to be gentle always.

4. Women want to be told they're beautiful perpetually,
then after a time tell them they're sexy,
after a while tell them they are beautiful.

5. Woman not to refrain lies or flattery, like her Fart smells like a special kind of perfumes…

6. Women want their man to notice when another man tries to pick them up,
but refrain from jealousy.

7. Women will alter their appearance with a new hairstyle or buy something for themselves.

8. They like flowers, create all kind of reasons to give her,
she must say don't waste money, but she will keep it in her heart forever.

9. They all like Diamond, not the small one of course.

10. They like seeing movie “Pearl harbor, Titanic, Top Gun, Beautiful woman, not Iron Man, Blackhawk or Saw VI...

11. They don’t like man finishes and immediate pull out... keep tarrying for 2 more minutes...

10 ways present yourself as “attractive” to woman.
1. Be confident on what you are. Trust your outlook. Charisma that counts.

2. Have a sense of humor, no dirty jokes!

3. Show Good manners.

4. Be respectful.

5. Be sensitive.

6. Be controversial.

7. Ask her what she wants and likes.

8. Tell her about one time your feelings got hurt.

9. Kiss her softly, and then kiss her passionately.

10. Murmur at her ear saying “I love you!” Always!

9 ways to repulse a woman

1. Tell her her dress does not fit her.
2. Look at another woman while talking to her.
3. Show her that you have no direction in your life.
4. Be too proud of your qualities, (like your car, your clothes and your job!)5. Drink too much or have a serious addiction.
6. Heavy smokers.
7. Insult her style, friends or family.
8. Don’t spray too much Cologne, that attracts flies, not women.
9. Third party's underwear found under your pillows!!






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Smiling keeps Your Face Look Younger!

When I got my China Re-entry Card, I asked to the officer while she passed me the new card as attached on the Bottom one, "Am I Looking Younger than ten years ago!?  She looked at it, Smiled and said " Not bad!"


The Top one was my China Re-entry Card I got on year 2,000. and the Bottom one was I got on 28 Apr after I retuned from Shan Dong of China...


Look at that I am Old, Very Old Already, but my face does look that Old!


In the past 10 years my life has changed, I become more positive on my life, I smile and I make all kind of jokes to all women I met. Not Dirty Jokes!, They like to listen to them and I wouldn't like to stop telling them. I love them, and mesmerizing some of them...They keep my life yonuger, they keep me working harder as to pay for the extra expenses...


How is your life? do you feel bore? Do you feel stressed? How many Seconds you can get into sound sleep after you lie down in bed!?  Or Minutes, or Hours!?
Once I lie down on bed, I will go asleep in 10 seconds, the 11th second I will find me wake up the morning after... Had Some dreams sometimes. If you find your day boring, that is endangering  your life, everyday would be a hard day and if one day you can not tell jokes to the woman, or they wouldn't able to laught after your telling her... That is your problem... do think about it what's gone wrong with our life.

Keep smiling!

PS. Strange to see that the last digit of the Card number is "1" instead of "0", so there might be having problem when you use the card for opening bank account and or properties purchase in China.



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How fun My Life Could be!

Enjoy your life while you can. Don’t wait until we can not even walk just to be sorry and to be regret.
As long as it is physically possible visit places you wish to visit, have you heard about the book “1000 places you have to go before you die”…!? How many places you have been there, 10 or 22? Is that all Life Is for? Working all days long, screaming the subordinates on the mistake that you had had made before…Scolding the Material Control manager they did not do the work properly and cause the delay of the product to customers? Believing that you may not be as good a style is, as least not as good experience as they are in their role of works! Try to wear their shoes and be a good man to see their difficulties! Don’t yell all the days and shoot up you blood pressure to 180 mm Hg!
When there is opportunity, get together with your old school mates, ex-wife, classmates, old friend and relative for a chat, drinks and dinner and share their joys with yours. Close your gnikcuf Note Book PC and leave home at Five to play with you kids sometimes…
Money kept in the bank may not really be yours even there are made up of 11 digits... this is numbers only. When it is time to spend, just spend it. Treat yourself as well as you are getting old. Share your money with the one you love… or mistress 2nd, 3rd, 4th do not care... as they are borne to enter to your world to share with your life…
If you Pass TSL goldsmith and see a nude diamond of emerald cut with size of your finger tip, go and buy it and send to your most beloved one, who care she is a woman just met for three days, your mother, sister or even a man….Just do it for the sake of ten seconds of pleasure and happiness to see their gesture of Satisfaction, mesmerizing on you, as you may have time to do it just once… before you will leave no traces in this Universe…
Whenever you  feel like to eat, just goes and eat. It is most important thing to keep you happy. If food that are goof for health, eat often but that is not everything. If things are not good for health, eat less once in a while but do not abstain from them totally.
Treat sickness with Optimism. Whenever you are rich or poor, everyone has to get through the human life process; Birth, Aging, sickness, and death.
There is no exception as that is life. Do not afraid or worry when n you are sick, leave your body to the doctor and Let the God/nature to handle your life, But you must in charge your moods! Settle the outstanding issues; leave you things to your beloved. And you can leave it without any regret. Our kids will make their own future… Do not worry about them…
Don’t worry about it, if you had too much money do not know where to go, just send them to the Red Cross, Oxfam, Sowers Action, Green Power, or China to support the earthquake recovery programme, if there is still some money, give it to the beggar who has been fortressed in the corner of the street, but you had never give him a dime and pretended not able to see him, walked faster to show that you was a professional manager in a hurry, damned so busy with the coming meetings…
You have done enough that kind of shows already! It is time for you to do something of real actions, give your donations or pension fund all to the charity firm! Money is related sin and money is dirty* use it all today to help the poor people that really needs them! There are a lot sacred hearts waiting to say “thank you” to you! Make a day the greatest day you could experience wouldn't be kind to you?
If you know you will die in 50 days, that would be very nice! Make a prank to bank I called “How Shit the Bank Could be”, go and use your credit limit to buy something memorable for your best Friend! Make her a surprise, and leave the bill to the gnikcuf bank manager to write off after your death!

HK Snob


PS, under microscope, the bank note is contaminated with Millions of bateria!

April Fool's Day Hoax

Sweden’s most famous April Fool’s Day hoax occurred on April 1, 1962. At the time, STV (Sveriges Television) was the only television channel in Sweden, and it broadcast in black and white.

The station announced that their “technical expert,” Kjell Stensson, was going to describe a process that would allow people to view color images on their existing black-and-white sets.

The broadcast cut to Stensson sitting in front of a television set in the studio. He began to explain how the process worked. His discussion was highly technical, going into details about the prismatic nature of light and the phenomenon of “double slit interference.” But at last he arrived at the main point. Researchers, he said, had recently discovered that a fine-meshed screen placed in front of a black-and-white television screen would cause the light to bend in such a way that it would appear as if the image was in color.

Stensson told viewers they could experience the effect at home with the help of some simple, readily accessible materials. Nylon stockings, it turned out, were the perfect fabric to use as a fine-meshed screen. So all viewers had to do, Stensson said, was to cut open a pair of stockings and tape them over the screen of their television set. The image on the television should suddenly appear to be in color.

Stensson cautioned that the viewer would have to be seated at the correct distance from the screen in order to get the full effect. Also, it might be necessary to “move your head very carefully” back and forth, in order to align the color spectrum.

Thousands of viewers later admitted they had fallen for the hoax. Many Swedes today report that they remember their parents (their fathers in particular) rushing through the house trying to find nylon stockings to place over the TV set.

STV attempted its first color broadcast four years later, in 1966. Regular color broadcasts were begun in Sweden on April 1, 1970.

A Quiz

Quiz 1:
If you knew a woman who was pregnant, who had 8 kids already, three who were deaf, two who were blind, one mentally retarded, and she had syphilis, would you recommend that she have an abortion?
Read the next question before looking at the response for this one.

Quiz 2:
It is time to elect a new world leader, and only your vote counts.
Here are the facts about the three candidates.

Candidate A:
Associates with crooked politicians, and consults with astrologists.
He's had two mistresses. He also chain smokes and drinks 8 to 10 Martinis a day.

Candidate B:
He was kicked out of office twice, sleeps until noon, used opium in college and drinks a quart of whiskey every evening. 


Candidate C:
He is a decorated war hero. He's a vegetarian, doesn't smoke, drinks an occasional beer and never committed adultery.


Which of these candidates would be our choice?

Decide first... No peeking, and then scroll down for the response.



Candidate A is Franklin D. Roosevelt.


Candidate B is Winston Churchill.


Candidate C is Adolf Hitler.

And, by the way, on your answer to the abortion question:


If you said YES, you just killed Ludwig Van Beethoven.
Pretty interesting isn't it? Don't judge someone from his clothes!

The moral is :
Amateurs ... Built the ark, Professionals ... Built the Titanic


Forwarded from a close friend.

HK Snob

Too big to fail!?

Forget about getting a job as a police officer in Indonesia's Papua if you have had your penis enlarged. You won't get it, according to local media reports citing the Papua police chief. An applicant "will be asked whether or not his vital organ has been enlarged," said Papua police chief Bekto Suprapto, quoted on local website.


"If he has, he will be considered unfit to join the police or the military."The ban was applied since the unnatural size causes "hindrance during training," said police spokesman Zainuri Lubis in Jakarta, quoted by news portal Detik.com.


Indonesia's remote easternmost province is home to Papuan tribes, many of whom are known for wearing penis gourds. A low-level separatist insurgency has waged in the resources-rich part of Indonesia for decades and there is a heavy police and military presence there. Papuans use a local technique to achieve the enlargement, according to a sexologist quoted by local newspaper Jakarta Globe, wrapping the penis with leaves from the "gatal-gatal" (itchy) tree so that it swells up "like it has been stung by a bee," the expert said.


Wanna try? do not waste your time and money on that as old saying said, “It is not the length, it is not the size, it is how many times you can make it rise!”


Go for healthy life style, quit smoking, be proactive and positive for your life, be smart and make yourself a bit high EQ in handling problem and issues… eat light diet, a glass of warm water every morning…exercise regularly, I am sure you can have a better sex life!


HK Snob

Marriage

FUTURE
A woman worries about the future until she gets a husband.
A man never worries about the future at all until he gets a wife.


SUCCESS
A successful man is one who makes more money 10 times than his wife can spend.
A successful woman is one who can find such a man.

MARRIAGE
A woman marries a man expecting he will change, but he doesn't.
A man marries a woman expecting that she won't change, but she does.

Only a Snob and Slut would be the perfect match for marriage... Other combination will likely come into failure, tourture, or later relief through divorce!

He has a good marriage and he will be a poet,  a bad marriage makes him to be a Philosopher!


HK Snob

Cha Chaan Tang Culture

Attached is one of the order sheet in a Cha Chaan Tang in Tsim Sha Tsim, They do not use hand held device to take order, they ue some code taken manually

The slip contains the following informations:
Two cups of Milk tea
Two Pineapple Buns
One bowl of Chee Chai Noodles
One plate of vegatarian Rice (set lunch)

But I still do not understand what the " S" mean... will find out next time visiting the restaurant.
This is more or less the way they run business for many decades. This order slip is readable one as I have seen some that are totally illigible...The Cha Chaan Tang culture will carry on as they have all kinds of Customers expectation.
Fast, reasonable price, variety in food selection, no tippings, freindly environment, they will nto kick ou out after you finished you food.

HK Snob

Koh Samui

Koh Samui is the third largest island of Thailand after Phuket and Koh Chang and one of the most popular destinations for travelers. In recent years it developed to a tropical beach resort but still maintained its charm and has everything to offer - from coconut tree fringed beaches to tropical jungles to a vibrant nightlife. Popular beaches are Chaweng, Lamai, Bophut & Maenam.
There are a lot of fun sport and tourist spot: Buddha, Waterfall, Ko kart, Thai boxing, Scuba Diving, Butterfly farm, snake farm, resort...etc...
This is one of the picture taken by Patrick Tang... an HK Famous food chain restaurant Operation Manager.

HK Snob

Sex stimulant in Hotels of China

China is an Ancient country of a few thousand years of histories, we had a few unpleasant monarch of empire ruling the country, China name with “Centre of Country” that has been implicated that we are the centre of the world, and the origin of all mankind. China has no historical record of conquering other countries except Genghis Khan who had been running to the western and took up some smaller regions as part of his kingdom.

Most of falling of the empire was either the King was too old, too much mesmerized with woman and had no time to take care the country, or greedy relative son or brother that would like to remove his king for overtaking the whole country.

Some of the kings had 3,000 mistresses and they had even no chance to see the king in her entire life. One of the ways to attract the king was to pave some salt along the corridor from the palace to her room by the eunuchs as bribees. After the King would rely on where the sheep goes to determine with whom he would sleep with the night.

There are also many dirty tricks to please the king, all kings of unproven stories about how to make false orgasm, well prepare pussy that had been rinsed with certain herbal medicine to offer natural contraction as an added on pleasant, certain two balls linked with tiny strings inserter into the vagina to create extra friction and stimulus to the kings’ sexual organ. Nowadays, I am sure that only in Hotel of China had these tiny toys for most of the guests, they include Electric power tiny vibrators that is used to act as a stimulator on your penis. Individual packed oil for woman and man to create more blood circulation as a foreplay treatment. Cleaning gels as a after-sex treatment, Special stimulus liquid contained condom ….You can get it from any hotel of 4 stars or 5 starts in cities of China… This is a selection of one of the hotel in Shan Dong!

HK Snob

Celebration of Songkran Festival in Little Bangkok

 There is a celebration of Songkran Festival in Kowloon City Hong Kong. Starting from five pm Today, there are a few hundred Thais made they way to celebration of Songkran Festival in Kowloon City. They Throw water to each other happily, a pity that even Bangkok has withdraw this SongKran Festival this time because of the Red Shirt Protestor Riot on 14 Apr. (Thai New year) Kowloon City is the Little Bangkok in Hong Kong. Since the very first Thai Restaurant Thai Wah established in 1985, more and more Thai made their way to sell their Thai Cuisine there, now there are over 50 Thai restaurants there, early one was Thai Wah, Wong Chun Chun, Wong Lam lam are the famous one. I have been spending a lot of time eating there and my favourite Thai Dished is Yam Pha Dou Foo! ( deep fried minced cat fish served with peanut, dried shrimp, cashew nuts and topped up with some vinegar, chili and sugar.. That is the greatest Thai dish!! Yummy!

My wife (She2nd) used to go there for most of her time meeting friends and eating there,.. nowadays there are a lot Thai Bars…
Hong Kong has every things you got... not even in Bangkok!

HK Snob

Peace in Thailand

Recently the Thai Incident troubles me as first wife is Thai and the second is Thai too, both of they are now in Thailand. I am closely listening to the news on papers and Yahoo that worries me...though both of them in not in Bangkok. And my first beloved daughter got a scholarship for an exchange student programme and she will fly to Australia for University studying for 1 month next week, I hope there will be no trouble in the Airport.
I still remembered that I was trapped in Chiangmai for two weeks as the last Red Shirts protectors occupied the Bangkok Airport 2 years ago.
Yesterday, there were over 500 causalities including 18 deaths…! That is the worst for past 18 years. Thai political turmoil is really giving most of the Hong Kong people some kind of psychronogical contamination that pull them back for visiting Thailand. Thailand is used to be one of the most favorite tourist spots as HK people love to eat their food and like to share their smile. The City of Angels is now requiring the King to put his hand to stop this or there would be more damages to Thai economy and worst effect is the damages of the tourists that may take years to re-gain the confidence to go again.
Peace is a blessing, and as most of the HK people are lucky as we never have this kind of riot since 1967… may peace will stay in HK and Thailand forever whereby my two families are there!

HK Snob

The Landlord is a Dinorsaur In Hong Kong

When some of the new building hits a sky high 70,000 dollar per square foot in Hong Kong recently whereby only some of Mainland Chinese and local foreign speculators could pay for that. Their one bottle of red wine could possibly value someone ‘s annual income..! There are numerous people who cannot afford but have to stay in some of the illegal structure or building in Hong Kong. In HK, there are 200,000 unauthorized building works, these are some of them in the picture I took two days ago in Yau Ma Tei!

Only people can enjoy slightly the so called prosperity in Hong Kong of your personal annual income is more than US$500,000 (USD$64,000) or above. That is an equivalent of an ordinary manager in Hong Kong.

When the Government of Hong Kong is trying to register an unreasonable low hourly wage of HKD$20, that is a estimated monthly salary of HKD$4,160 which is a minimum rent for a 150 square foot cubicle in the area shown in the picture… leaving nothing in their hands for food, travelling and cloths… Is this kind of life be expected in the Richest Country in Asia…!??

May the one who is holding a bottle of 1959 Latour in the left hand and on the other hand holding a microphone at media radio to Bullshit the amount of HKD20.00 as the minimum wage?


HKD$33.00 an hour looks like more humane… In my mind… HKD$40.00 is minimum wages….however, we have to prepare the next coming side effect:


1. The illegal foreign low cost workers, immigration control should alert.


2. Short term of lay off for some short-sighted business man.


3. A loading increase to the worker says two men to work for three men!


4. The Negotiation of rental fare between the shop keeper and the landlords.


5. The Government should consider issue a new law to control the rent after the two years contracts. Now there is no such control and the landlord and estate developers is like a Dinosaur who can eat up the whole country’s economy!

Dinosaur's life style is to eat and to breed... a lot... but they need a lot of food to get their stomach stuffed!

May the Dinosaurs go extinct soon. Hunger is the killer for them.

HK Snob

Guan Yu

Guan Yu is widely referred to as Emperor Guan (關帝), short for his Daoist title Saintly Emperor Guan, and as Guan Gong, literally "Lord Guan." Temples and shrines dedicated exclusively to Guan Yu can be found in parts of Mainland China, Hong Kong, Macau, Taiwan, and other places with Chinese influence such as Vietnam, Thailand, South Korea, and Japan. Some of these temples, such as the Emperor Guan Temple in Xiezhou (解州), Shanxi, were built exactly in the layout of a palace, befitting his status as an "emperor". In Hong Kong, stories were told that even the Police station has a Guan Yu statue whereby, the constable would make worship before the work order is executed. There have been many Hong Kong Movies showing these kind of worship, funny is that the black society or triad has also believe that the same Kwan Yu will protect them from accident and or being hurt in fighting with the gangster and or policeman. And they would have special ritual celebration when new gangster would swear in front of it that they will serve with the truth and faith of his own.


Well, this is the one I took in a Hong Kong famous Cantonese Restaurant. I still feel puzzled why they have to put such a big statue at the reception?… to scarce away those who will not pay the Chow!??

HK Snob

Chui Wah, the best Cha Chaan Teng in Hong Kong?

Chui Wah Restaurant is a Chain Store Cha Chaan Teng in Hong Kong.
Well, if you like to try the local Cantinese Style of Milk Tea, Coffee and Noodles, This is your Choice.

You Can Find one right at Tsim Sha Tsui Exit D, after the exit, turn to your left and you can see it...
Minimum Expense is about HKD$36 for a set lunch.


My favourite dish is Swiss Chicken on fried Instant noodles, the Curry Beef with Rice. Wanton noodles and Coffee!

Hk Snob

Oceanna Italian Restaurant and Oyster bar

Oceanna is situated the Same Building as of The Cantonese Restaurant, G26, G/Floor, K11, 18 Hanoi Road , Tsim Sha Tsui, Kowloon, Tel 25061323.


It is a small, simple decoration embedded Italian Restaurant, very easy to assess, just 1 minute from the Tsim Sha Tsui MTR Exit to Hanoi Road. The Food is not expensive but rather decent, spacious, good service, with smile from the people around you. They serve Buffet light lunch for those ladies who does not want to stuff up their stomach and a selection of Oyster for the people who like to go for it like I. It is a place for a lunch before your next shopping trip starts at Tsim Sha Tsui.

HK Snob

Hong Kong People and their spending Behaviour

Recent survey shows that the after-90’s has 33% of HK total population, after-80’s is approximately 18% , X Generation is 32%, Baby Boomers 37%.

After-90’s people are generally having less confidence in dealing people, 60% of them claim that they do not feel confident to complete their target in life. They do not take risk, dare not make any decision without consulting their friends and or parents. These group of people tend to go for entertainment with friends for gathering, Karaoke and dinner where they spend an average of HKD$1,500 a month.

After-80’s is typically those people who spend minimum 3 hours on internet everyday, two times more than those after-90’s. They read comment and posting their comment on someone’s blogs. Reading celebrity or their idol’s blogs is their interests and habit after work. As Hong Hong is second to Korea with the most number of Bloggers, many of them belongs to this age group. Their buying behavior is more or less affected by the chatters and friends on internet. Gradually they form a trend and pattern on their buying habit and lose their instrinic personal preference. So whenever someone like a movie star wears a stylish jean, they follow. Andy Lau wears a Explorer II in the movie, they will try to follow and buy regardless if that piece of Tool Watch is good for his uses or not!

Recently we had recruited a young engineer, during the interviews we had highlighted the necessity and importance to go China is part of the job, after a couple of days, he returned call saying that their parents do not allow him to go far away from Home…
When I was young, I tried all the way I could to look for job that could travel, In fact I had been working on Merchant vessel that left Home for 12 months. During the contract, we hardly had chance to come back Home town HK. I had visited more than 20 Countries and 60 different cities in three years when I was less than 26 years old, we are coming from two different worlds. Who from the after-90’s can take up this challenge working on a Ship!??? Give me a name?

I think their parent has spoiled them all. These kid and his parent are shorter sighted. If you do not go China for your future, what else you can do in Hong Kong unless you are very smart…What is the different in working in HK and China… I can not see the reason what parents stop them to take the job…

X-Generation is more practical, they spend more on work that on entertainment, they are more active in the investment in stock market. Since they are more money-minded, they spend less time with families. They are big spender, whenever the are on vacation, they go out for extravagant dinner and enterainment., they like Piaget, Cartier, Panerai watch…Louis Vitton, Polo sort of things.
 Baby Boomers

After years of hard working, they have experienced all kind of ups and downs, they know what really matter is families and children. They believe the Fate and spend time understand the mysterious side of life. They plan their retirement life early, they would like to go for cruises with their beloved one whenever they could afford. They go hiking and exercise regularly, they use durable goods instead fashionable products, and they know what value is and more to go to Chow Tai Fook for jeweler goods and less on shoes and shirts. In order to attract this market group, the products has to be durable.. They Like Rolex, do appreciate a good watch like PP, AP, VC and Jaeger. They Like Dunhill products… I am one of them....

HK Snob

Minimum Wages in Hong Kong proposed HKD$20.00!

Gini's Index shows that Hong Kong is having a lot of rich people plus a large amount of poor people, and some average middle class. Ratio is something like 1 rich, 6 poor and 3 middle class,

Recent Gini Index of Hong Kong is 0.52 which is very High, and it's 2nd in the world after Mexico!

Last week, one of the Funktional senior officials in Hong Kong told us that the minimum Hourly wages should be HKD$20.00! (USD$2.59)

That is an equilvalent amount of money filling up Red Envelop for distributing to people who is not a close friend of yours in Chinese New year.
A Breakfast for a double egg, a thin toast with a slash of magarine (plastic Butter) and a cup of diluted coffee in Fast food Shop.
Three copies of Apple newspaper.
Four packs of Nissin Instant Noodles.
10 sticks of Cigarettes that helps you shorten your life by half an hour,
A piece of Tooth brush
Two way Bus fare from Tuen Wan to Tsim Sha Tsui.
Half the price of a lunch in Chui Wah Cha Chaan Tang Restaurant.
A Green tea Icescream in Beppu Japanese Restaurant
Four Pieces of Cocktail Bun in Maxim Bakery.
...

So I think that Senior official has never eaten anything in the fast food shop, nor he had never entered into any of the supermarket to see what he can buy for his stomach with merely HKD$20.00. On the other hand His Suit is probably cost the one year salary of the worker under this Minimum wages scheme... Bakka!

There is a better illustration on the situation of Gini's Index of 0.522 in Hong Kong....

Here it goes....

Vs...

HK Snob