The first confirmed Swine Flu H1N1in Asia is reported in Hong Kong. This was carried from a Mexian visiting Hong Kong on 30Apr and he stayed at Metropark Hotel in Wanchai.
For those who misses the famous New York Fries from our food courts, New York Fries has finally arrived Hong Kong.
I read the news recently that Ani is missing in Hong Kong and I would like to give a hand to spread the words around to find her. Here is the information I extracted from Facebook. If you happens to have any information, please do contact her family.
I visited the Citygate Outlet recently and to my surprise, there are actually a lot of shops in this outlet. The Citygate Outlet is located in Tung Chung and very close to the airport. If you are on an evening flight home, I would suggest to visit this place in the afternoon as a last minute shopping.
For those visiting HK and wishes to visit to buy latest electroic / computer items, there is a Hong Kong Computer Festival 2008 - I.T. Show this weekend in Sham Shui Po District (enclosed the map for reference).
While I was waiting for the MTR, I saw an ad which has a very good Ngong Ping 360 offer. For HKD178, you will enjoy:
Well, it is the Mid-Autumn festival again but it does not feel like Autumn here in Hong Kong. Due to the Typhoon in Taiwan, it is estimated the temperature will be around 33c and it will be the hottest since the recording setting in 1969. It is forecasted that there will be periodic rain too but it won't hurt the chances to enjoy the moon and Fire Dragon dance at TaiHang. BTW, to allow people to enjoy the moon all night, public transportation such as MTR and buses will be running all night. So do enjoy the moon tonight.
This may be a bit out of topic. However, remember my post earlier that I bought the Celtics Championship T-Shirt last week in Hong Kong. When I open the package and wear it to work yesterday, I found the tags/labels that come with the T-Shirt.
In that label, it says that the colour of my t-shirt is WHITE/PURPLE. However, my t-shirt is GREY/GREEN. I do believe that WHITE/PURPLE represents the Lakers.
This makes me think that Adidas has made the Lakers Championship t-shirt and the labels before the finals are over. They are so cheap that they reuse those labels even though Celtics finally won the championship. What do you think?
Watched this awesome movie at the Grand Cinema last week. To tell you the truth, I don't have much clue about the Three Kingdoms Dynasty but this movie has extracted me to find out more about that era of the Chinese History.
From what I read from a lot of sites, the Battle of Red Cliff is the one of the most impressive battle where a much smaller troops won against the fierce army of Cao Cao. In Asia, this movie comes in 2 parts and I can't wait for the 2nd part of the movie at the end of this year.
Although I am from Canada, I have been a big Celtics fans since the Larry Bird era. I was so happy that the Celtics finally wins banner 17 this year with the new big 3.
iPhone 3G arrived Hong Kong yesterday and 1,500 lucky winners got their new phone yesterday.
From 3 Hong Kong, there are more than 60,000 customers reserved the iPhone 3G and Apple will be shipping more than 60,000 units to Hong Kong within a month.
There are rumors that those received their units yesterday can resell them with a price tag at HKD18,000 and that is a big return consider that the unit together with the plan is only costing around HKD8,000.
How luck those winners are.
Apple has announced the worldwide release of iPhone 3G on 11Jul and 3 Hong Kong has also announced their service plan recently in Hong Kong. See below:
In all plans, they will provide you with 500MB of data and I am not sure whether that will be sufficient for a 3G iPhone. Nonetheless, when you compare the 4 plans, I do believe the best available plan is $328. What's your view on this?
After heavy rains in the past 2 weeks, we finally have sunshine during this weekend. It is also the first time this year that the Hong Kong Observatory has issued the Very Hot Weather Warning iand it is now in force.
The highest temperature measured yesterday is 33.4C which is the highest this year and seems like it is going to last for a few days.
Please help those earthquake victims to rebuild their lives..... HSBC will match dollar to dollar donation from the public upto RMB4 million. So if you plan to donate to those victims, they will benefit more through HSBC.
Please find part of their announcement below or you can visit their official website:
The Hongkong Bank Foundation, HSBC's charitable arm is committing an additional RMB4 million to match donations from the public wishing to support recovery work in mainland China following the recent earthquake. The RMB4 million commitment from HSBC is in addition to the RMB10 million in funds donated by the Bank already.
The Bank has established a dedicated account to take donations from its employees, customers and the general public. Donations can be made at any HSBC or Hang Seng Bank ATM, at www.hsbc.com.hk or through any of the Bank's branches using the HSBC China Earthquake Relief account number 808-459085-001. The account will be open for donation collections until 31 May 2008.
You always wonder how a bank keep track of customer data and how secure those information are. Now you see that one of the biggest bank in the world just lost a server from a branch and almost 160,000 customer personal details may be exposed.
The following is from Hong Kong Standard Post:
On Wednesday, HSBC admitted it lost track of the server during renovations at its Kwun Tong branch on April 26.
Police said they are investigating the loss as a case of theft.
Data on the server includes account numbers, customer names, transaction amounts and transaction types, but no passwords or personal identification numbers.
"The server is protected by multiple layers of security. The risk of data leakage and fraudulent transactions resulting from the loss of the server is deemed very low," Cheng said. "HSBC will cover losses for customers but no compensation claims have been requested so far."
