I
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Travelling
I
love travelling a lot. I wish I have more time to
visit and appreciate all the different cities in
the world. Please visit here for my travel
diary and photo albums. I also like scuba diving,
I am a PADI
certified diver.
A Chinese proverb
says "To read ten thousand rolls of books,
it's better to travel ten thousand miles."
I hope to read ten thousand rolls of books and even
travel ten thousand miles" |
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Food
Well,
since neither my wife nor I are good cook, we enjoy
eating out and thus have built up a list of restaurants
in Hong Kong and elsewhere in the world. Read the reviews
here.
Hiking
I
like hiking and who needs an excuse to get away from
the concrete jungle anyway. Since 1998, I started organizing
many outings, you can read the hiking
log and the latest events. I continue to organize
many other events over the weekends.
Movies
During my spare
time, I like watching and writing
about movies. I used to make movie too, I am a founder
of the Cambridge
Movies Workshop. My favourite directors are Wong
Kar Wai (王家衛) and Krzysztof
Kieslowski (biography "Double
life second chance"). My favourite movies are
"Ashes
of time" (東邪西毒), "Days
of being wild" (阿飛正傳), "Crying
out love in the centre of the world", "Double
vie de Veronique, La" ("Double Life of Veronique, The"),
"Jean
de Florette", "Manon
des sources", "Cinema
Paradiso", "Les Miserables" (The movie and the musical),
"Life is beautiful", "Great Expectation" and "Happy
Together".
Reading
I like reading all sorts of books (business, history,
fiction, biography, self-improvement, short articles
etc). I wish I have more time to read. It is not easy
to find the time to sit down and enjoy a good book.
My favourite writer is 金庸 - (Prof. Louis Cha also known
as Jin Yong), I started reading his novel when I was
11 and finished all his wuxia stories by the time I
was 13. I was very honoured to be invited to the celebration
dinner in his honour on 22 June 2005 in Cambridge -
the day Prof. Cha received a honourary doctorate degree
from Cambridge University. Very happy to have spoken
to him and got his autograph.
A list of novels by 金庸
and 越女劍
Another favourite author is Professor
Richard Feymann, author of "What
do you care what other people think", "Meaning
of it all" and many other books, also his biography
"Surely,
you are joking Mr. Feymann". Visit my book
review site for reviews of all the books that my
friends and I read.
Community and networking
I'm an active member of the Executive Committee of The
Friends of Cambridge University in Hong Kong. The
Friends under Dr. David Li's leadership, provides scholarships
for promising Hong Kong students to study in Cambridge
University. We also organise regular events for our
fellow alumni in Hong Kong as well as seminars for the
local secondary school students. (Cambridge
alumni site).
I built and continue to maintain the alumni
site for The
Croucher Foundation which is a private trust set
up by the late Noel Croucher, one of the founders of
the Hong Kong Stock Exchange and a British businessman
in Hong Kong for over 70 years. The Foundation specializes
in promoting the standard of natural science, technology
and medicine in Hong Kong through awards and grants
to scientists based in and serving Hong Kong. Croucher
Foundation has kindly provided full financial support
during my PhD studies at Cambridge.
I also organise unofficial events for
McKinsey
alumni in Hong Kong.
Websites
Building websites during my spare time is one of my
hobbies. Click here
to see a list the sites, including alumni sites, hobby
sites.
Gadgets
I am a gadget lover, I have or had:
Notebook
PC |
Vaio
S16, IBM Think Pad T42, Vaio PCG-R505CT, IBM Think
Pad T20, Dell Latitude, Compaq 300 |
PDA |
PocketPC:
iPaq 3660, 3630
Palm OS: Clie PEG-N760C/G, Palm Vx, Palm V, Psion |
Smartphone |
Dopod 566, Mpx220,
Mio 8380 |
Digital
camera |
DSC-F77,
DCS-F55E |
Digital
video camera |
Sony
DCR-PC330E, DCR-TRV8E |
MP3
player |
WeWa
MP3 player |
Mobile
phone |
Nokia
6210, 6150, 6100 |
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