Cassette Vs CD

 The question of whether a cassette deck musical performance is better than a CD is subjective and depends on personal preferences and the specific context. Both cassette decks and CDs have their own unique characteristics and qualities.

Cassettes were popular in the past due to their portability and ease of use. They have a warm and somewhat nostalgic sound that some people find appealing. However, cassettes are prone to degradation over time, 30 to 40 years and their sound quality is generally considered lower compared to CDs. Cassettes can suffer from hiss, wow and flutter, and frequency response limitations.

 

However, Cassette sound is more analogue than CD, is more live and dynamic in terms of musical toen quality, especially using top class cassette decks such as Nakamichi 1000 ZXL, Dragon, Tanberg 3014 or Revox B225, B710 MK II…. If you have listed to them then you may know what I am trying to say.

 

On the other hand, CD format provides a higher level of audio fidelity and a more accurate reproduction of the original recording. They offer a wider dynamic range, lower noise floor, and better frequency response compared to cassette tapes. However all musical prime storage is in form or tape, the quality of the sound is analogue, after conversion into CD, it is becoming Digital which is different with cassette tape. CDs are also more durable and resistant to degradation, making them a more reliable medium for long-term storage.

In terms of convenience and accessibility, CDs are generally more convenient to use than cassettes. CDs allow for easy skipping between tracks and quick access to specific songs. They also provide a rather high level of audio quality when played on a good CD player or a high-quality audio system.

Ultimately, in my personal opinion, whether a cassette deck musical performance is better than a CD comes down to personal taste and the specific characteristics of the audio equipment being used. Some people may prefer the warm and analog sound of cassettes, while others may prioritize the higher fidelity and convenience of CDs.

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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