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These three Hong Kong Developer Tycoons had just blew invested HK$60B HK$6B on two pieces of land.

Two were arm in arm, showing support to the gay community. Good for them!

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Been there. Evolution. It’s called a shaved monkey. – The Inca sun god, on the man God designed.

Intelligent Design. NOT. WORTH. DISCUSSING. Nonetheless, funny article.

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I helped a partner of the firm to transfer 14 pictures he took w/ his mobile phone onto our corporate network and print them out.
That mobile phone takes no memory card, otherwise sticking the card into a card reader would be the easiest way to get the pictures onto a computer. Mind you, my Nokia [...]

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I was told that earphones with asymmetric wires, like those Japanese earphones, are bad news. You get different volumes on the two ear pieces, because of the slightly different physical lengths in the electric paths causing difference in resistance in the two channels. Hearsay has it that a friend even confirmed the existence of some [...]

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My uncle, who is involved in the redecoration of a famous club house near Causeway Bay, told me this story.
A guy who was absolutely smooth talking, was trying to sell to my uncle his service for a special technique for demolition of indoor structures. He said he was previously involved with the works and was [...]

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Public housing is a privilege, no question about that.
Now this Mr Yuen has proved over and over again that he is reckless and can’t help himself from being antisocial. (He threw a glass bottle out of his window, which could have killed someone, and went to jail for four months.)
Should the privilege of public housing [...]

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Like anyone is going to sing the lyric “I am Aaron Kwok…” at karaokes. Loser.

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I received this email a few days ago.
bq.. To: (A bunch of people)
Subject: Karaoke at CEO, XX Sept 2005, 7:00 p.m.
Dear All,
Let’s party!!
Please let me know whether you will join or not.
Thanks.
Regards
[Name removed to protect the guilty party]
I was engaged for other matter so I couldn’t go. Afterwards I gathered more information from a friend [...]

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Went windows shopping for a bit last night at Tuen Mun Town Centre. I didn’t care enough about this loser of a phone at the local Broadway to check out the price.
You can still pick up the old brush metal iPod mini. The iPod nano however is nowhere in sight.

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A (thinking to himself): Why am I stuck with this boring dude here? I hate dead air. Hey look at his thick glasses and poor fashion taste, he must be a geek, or a psycho, or a dirty pervert.
A: Hey dude, is that your camera? Nice! Why are you carrying it?
B (thinking to himself): Not [...]

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I borrowed a hardback copy from the local public library. Big heavy and nice to read.
There are a few main characters, in no particular order:-

A lawyer who turned into a secret agent/special force;
Another secret agent/special force/lawyer;
Old rich guy who turned into a jungle surviving expert;
Two secret agents/special forces who know it all;
A few faceless nameless [...]

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Opera is now free. No ads, just free beer.

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The Lingnan University is just down the road from where we live. I think this small liberal art university is excellent and very promising.
A couple of weeks back I paid the Lingnan library a visit with my JULAC card. It is spacious and very nice.
One may apply for a External Reader Card for an annual [...]

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I’d always like to watch and cheer friends spending good money to get good stuff. I did just that this afternoon.
Say this after me: E-TI-MO-TIC.
My Shure E3c are nice, but this is this much better.

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Last night I bummed into a friend, who teaches at a primary school in Tin Shui Wai. She told me that the workload is extremely heavy, and the hours are long. Hers is a full day school, and she doesn’t leave the school until 7-ish, nearly every school day of the week. I was always [...]

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Got it back, as good as new.

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They are all Professors.
In my alta mater, we had a few lecturers (whom we addressed by “Dr” if they held a PhD) in our department, and one professor in the school of engineering.
I suspect it’s a UK-US cultural thing.
When I tried to visit HKU’s website to find out how they do it, all I got [...]

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Everybody is showing off their toys.
Here is a set of Doraemon toys. They belong to a colleague.

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Stopped for two weeks, due to sickness and bad weather (the pool closes whenever there is a thunder/lightning warning).
Exercise time 42’07”, 474KCal, in zone 41’17”, average HR 131BPM.
I was taking it easy, so the slightly higher heart rate probably indicated worse fitness due to lack of PT.

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Bought a couple of imation DVD-RAMs at HK$27 each. They come in this funky case/caddy, but to use them with my LG burner I have to take the disc out from the case, the design of the mechanism seems to be an afterthought.
Read/write speed is surprisingly good as CD writing goes. Supposed to last 100 [...]

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