2010

Here's the year 2010
I have posted a photo of the fireworks on IFC in 2009. It can be found in my earlier post in 2009. I watched the fireworks on TV this year, same as every year :-) No way I would go out to see it. It was too crowded and difficult to find the way back.
Here's the photo I found in the newspaper on the web.

A voluntary work

The first guest in the conference

On Saturday, I worked as a volunteer in a health conference for the Centre of Research and Promotion of Women's Health which was organized by the Chinese University of Hong Kong. The venue is at the Prince of Wales Hospital.

The work was simple and easy. In the morning, I helped put small gifts into plastic bags for the guests. In the afternoon, I helped served the guests when they arrived.

I have not been a volunteer for quite a long time. That was a job that I had never done before. Although it was simple, it was meaningful. I enjoyed being a helper there. The people I worked with were completely different from my own field. It gave me a good opportunity to talk to people in different walks of life. I am not an outgoing person. I think I need this kind of training - talking and working with strangers :-) I think I will do it again when I have the chance in future.

Transportantion

That was the lorry in front

A lorry stopped right in front of my bus at a traffic tonight. I was sitting at the front and saw the company name at the back of the lorry. Boy! Are someone playing tricks on words or what is happening in Hong Kong?

Cold

It's getting cold tonight. According to the Observatory, the temperature will be 12 degrees C tomorrow morning. The low temperature will last for a week. Well, to experience the first cold weather of the year, why not?

School Picnic

A photo with my colleague, Ms Ma

Had our School Picnic on a 'black Friday', thanked God everything was OK. The best thing today was the walk around Aberdeen Reservoir. Autumn is always my most favourite season and today is a typical Autumn day. High blue sky with breeze around, it was fantastic. The worst thing was eaten the barbeque food the students fired for me, charcoal outside and uncooked inside. Don't want to discourage them but to say the food was good. What a white lie! Felt a bit of stomach ache when I reached home.

It is a pity there are too many meetings after school, too much non-teaching duties. I can hardly squeeze some time out to know the students or chat with them. Today, at last, I could spend a day with them. But it is not enough, I wish I could stay with them more at school instead of wasting time having stupid meetings, doing stupid non-teaching work and discussing nonsense matter.

Hong Kong 'at last'

What made me write again after being lazy for more than a month? It's the picture above. It's what I saw today in the MTR. I remembered this Easter when we went to Taiwan, something impressed me when I stepped on the train was the seats for the needed people. I felt sad why Hong Kong did not have this service for those needed. Now I am happy to see it. At least, I won't feel shamed being a Hongkonger.

One more thing the MTR needs to do is to put a poster up telling people how to use the mobile phone like the one in Taiwan. I don't mind following others as long as it is for our good sake.

Mid-Autumn Festival

Today is the 15th day of August in the Chinese calendar. It is the Mid-Autumn Festival, also called the 'Moon Festival'.

Lanterns are very important at the festival. Traditionally, kids play lanterns on this day. Being nostalgic, we went to Western District this afternoon to see the traditional lanterns. There were quite a few shops close together to sell both old and new style lanterns. The shops form a tiny market. There you could find 'the lanterns of your childhood'. They were the rabbits, the fish, the star fruit and many others. The lantern shops made a manificent scene of the area. There was a large variety of different kinds of lanterns for you to choose.

Rabbits are the most significant traditional lanterns.

Star fruit - my favourite. My father could make it.

Gold fish again - very cute

When I was a kid, we could not afford to buy these kinds of lanterns. We could only play with cheap lanterns in cylindrical shape. However, our genius father could make us beautiful lanterns like the ones we saw in the shop. He made us rabbits and star fruit, etc. We are proud of our father and we still talk about it at time :-)