当年今日

2010.12.14 周二
好忙
预备周三到五的会
中午与 JT2 和 罗四海吃饭
听说罗四海已经对新玩具进行破坏
晚上忙了一个小时，一个人做人肉 sorter
下班后到华昌吃简单晚餐

2009.12.14
在家弄粥

2008.12.14 周日
在家弄了简单午餐
有朋友从西部回到上海

2007.12.14
晚上到了深圳

2006.12.14
在澳门工作
与 JT 和同事 VK 在澳门港湾餐厅吃晚饭
好像是我请客... :)

2005.12.14
在家看《爱在别乡的季节》
WTO 在进行中

2004.12.14
E+A+M+W 从曼谷休假完回香港
晚上从北京飞到上海

2002.12.14
人在曼谷
住在 Le Royal Meridien

2001.12.14
人在上海工作
晚上参加了大陆公司的圣诞晚宴

2000.12.14
休假
爬山 QB-Parkview
脚底按摩
K Wong & A Tse 结婚和饮宴大日子

1999.12.14
No record...

1998.12.14
跟酒肉朋友去 KK 玩

当年今日

2010.11.01 周一
在深圳工作
下午提前完工回家
晚上探望了老兄
朋友的朋友到深圳

2009.11.01 周日
酒肉朋友回上海
朋友的朋友到上海
北京第一雪
亚姐总决赛

2008.11.01 周六
西游记

2007.11.01 周四
同事 V关 请吃午饭（好像工作上有喜兴事）
晚上在 ctrip 开了一个账号

2006.11.01 周三
早一晚到澳门工作，这晚回香港

2005.11.01 周二
NOW在播旧电影
从前因，今日果。万般带不走，唯有孽随身。

2004.11.01 周一
乘 KA900 0805-1115 到北京工作

2003.11.01 周六
近游

2002.11.01 周五
无记录

2001.11.01 周四
同事 XH 在上海
Mail template 升级了
下午2点某大保险公司项目的 kickoff 会议

2000.11.01 周三
在北角上课 (e-marketplace bootcamp... smile...)
三色台项目完工晚餐

1997.11.01 周六
跟旧同事 JT1 和 BC 在欧游
那天从维也纳到了伦敦

当年今日

2010.09.09
上午9:09 在办公室
下午9:09 在乘18P回家（第一次）
酒肉朋友的好友到了涪陵
酒肉朋友2号到上海出差
酒肉朋友2号的朋友第一次到上海
酒肉朋友、酒肉朋友2号和酒肉朋友2号的朋友在正大广场新开的望湘园吃大茶饭

2009
上午9:09 在办公室
下午9:09 在生记食牛肉鱼球粥

2008 在澳门工作（图一），晚上与10个同事吃大餐，位位 $320

2007 在台北（三娇+千年蛋）（台湾同事带了我去基隆一日游，图二）

2006 在珠海休假

2005 阿乌在上海（9/5-11）

2004 在北京（前一天在上海掉了手机）

2003 在香港工作

2002 在深圳工作

2001 周日，在北京工作，早晚餐都在凯宾斯基搞定

2000 早上和中午帮忙酒肉朋友的结婚半套（注册），下午到大潭行山，晚上吃罗四海的喜筵

1999 同事陈皮结婚（是在2009年知道的）

当年今日

2010.08.07
九到十一点打球
然后钱、钱、钱、钱
一个人的午餐@莲香
无聊@蜗居
酒肉朋友2号在他乡延续他的故事

2009.08.07
是日立秋
与 ES 和 AC 三文治午餐
与 JT2 和 第一夫人喝酒和吃晚饭
听说阿乌有生日派对
http://shallwetalk.blogspot.com/2009/08/blog-post_08.html

2008.08.07
晚上下大雨
8月8日是奥运会开罗

2007.08.07
人在澳门
据说北京六月飞霜 http://shallwetalk.blogspot.com/2007/08/blog-post_07.html

2006.08.07
我的农历生日
人在湖南平江（图一）

2005.08.07
1300 高街 - 白汤、猪排饭、柠茶
1500 普洱茶
1700 街茶餐厅 - 多士、omelette、叉意、奶茶
1915 @老巢
2115 Lemon Coke Light

2004.08.07
阿乌的生日饭@越华会
有：我、乌、mo、ac、es、d、pom、女姐、千年蛋

2003.08.07
与现任老顶开会

2002.08.07
在深圳工作

2001.08.07
在北京工作

2000.08.07
在香港工作
1点与亚太领导开电话会议
4点有架构师的会议

大柵欄

很喜歡大柵欄這個老地方，最近級次去北京都會到那一游，四月出差時還出了點血...

http://shallwetalk.blogspot.com/2009/09/3_20.html

当年今日

2009.09.20 14:18 补充
（原文 http://shallwetalk.blogspot.com/2009/09/blog-post_20.html）


2009.09.20
Cold beer at 3am+

2008.09.20
在台湾野柳
http://shallwetalk.blogspot.com/2008/09/shall-we-talk.html
酒肉朋友的首席爱人在上海（9/14-21）

2007.09.20
在意大利
http://shallwetalk.blogspot.com/2007/10/once-upon-time-in-firenze.html

2006.09.20
在办公室拍了张咖啡机的照片（不记得是不是谁送的，女姐？阿虎？）（https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEiu82OMGnJfTzW8RFNY-QjUWyW1KzpLfGsx-k5uqjiHww7QpYIp4v5jPPQavr3_G33oKVRxlqy_A49-hb2dSTODhIcizGfjQNPIMOVswT8j3rTYl-f0D26u4mwwSFtvvQMM8LG4qw/s1600-h/c_0001-701031.jpg）
与酒肉朋友在太古城印度餐厅吃午餐，同时见到四女经过
http://shallwetalk.blogspot.com/2006/09/indian.html
http://shallwetalk.blogspot.com/2006/09/blog-post_115873270567890252.html
泰国政变
http://shallwetalk.blogspot.com/2006/09/blog-post_20.html

2005.09.20
老雀与朋友的第44次见面
我当天的餐单：

0730 Cereal+skim milk
1200 玉米肉粒饭、例汤、Horlick
1700 腿蛋通、奶茶
2100 白菜猪肉水饺、香蕉、参茶

2004.09.20
周一，乘 CA108 到北京，在香港机场碰到一中学同学（应该是怀孕了）

2003.09.20
我去了近游，早上回来，晚上跟 ES、AC、AnL 吃晚饭
酒肉朋友跟首席爱人在日本（9/17-24）
pom、乌、mo 休假（9/19-10/5）

2002.09.20
无纪录

2001.09.20
在北京忙项目事情

2000.09.20
在忙三色台的项目

当年今日

2008.09.05
* 终于正式宣布敝部门的地区领导人（来自枫叶国的老外） http://shallwetalk.blogspot.com/2008/09/personnel-announcement.html
* 酒肉朋友在上海的最后探戈... 俱往矣，数风流人物，还看今朝（很雷？！）

2007.09.05
* 会展市场活动的翌日

2006.09.05
* 大家终于终于归位，在办公室拍了张全街福！ http://shallwetalk.blogspot.com/2006/09/blog-post_06.html

2005.09.05
* 阿乌在上海出差
* 我当天的餐单（非常 hopeless...）：

0830 大家乐的百搭套餐 - 腿、肠、蛋、多士、腿通、奶茶
1030 Instant coffee
1300 咸鱼鸡粒炒饭、奶茶
1830 饼
1930 煲仔饭、奶茶

* 阿虎与蜜糖游非洲！
* 前一天罗四海请我和同事玛利到罗府吃饭 http://shallwetalk.blogspot.com/2005/09/interesting-dinner.html

2004.09.05
* 周日，无纪录 ，应该有回老巢吃饭
* 前一天跟 乌+Mo+ES+AC 到马交一游，第一次光顾里斯本地带餐厅

2003.09.05
* 在香港工作，跟现在的老板的老板的老板谈深圳一个跟教育培训有关的单子

2002.09.05
* 在深圳工作，当时的部门地区领导人到访，跟他来了个 EI，中午有午餐会议，MW 得到奖励

2001.09.05
* 在北京工作

2000.09.05
* 与旧同事（JL+F?+P2+阿虎）在北京楼吃午饭，有点到烤鸭！

1999.09.05
* 最后一天在印度（Goa）上课（8/29-9/5）

2004.06.05（续）

不冰的啤酒...

2004.06.05

马连道、谭鱼头等。

http://shallwetalk.blogspot.com/2009/05/blog-post_7458.html

水滚茶靚

今晚吃过简餐后回家，很想喝茶。

杯：是台湾天仁送的，2002年4月在台北上课，慕名到了天仁，买了两罐“春之茶”和一罐很贵的乌龙茶（里山茶？），他们送了一只马年杯，用到现在。

茶：是在北京马连道买的普洱茶（散装、熟茶），那天是2004年6月5日、周六，阿虎到北京出差（那时他在上海基地打滚），下午我建议到马连道看看，我们以前都没有去过。我们是从长城饭店出发，走两广路，是很远的。

普洱茶的标价是一两（50克）80元，我们轻轻地讲价，以50元成交，好像买了3罐，每罐 100克，我一罐，他一罐（孝敬他的老顶？还是蜜糖的阿妈？），另一罐是送了给我们当时的旧领导MW。他好像在那店还买了一个杯。

离开马连道后我们到了谭鱼头吃火锅，我们好像是差不多最后离开的客人。

同一天同事 VL 在香港结婚摆酒，我人在北京，参加不了盛事。

同一段时间，JT 回到香港度假（5/23-6/13）。

壶：是最近在珠海买的，我之前买了个紫砂的（http://shallwetalk.blogspot.com/2009/02/blog-post_03.html），后来买了两个“金”的（缎泥，http://shallwetalk.blogspot.com/2009/04/blog-post_3037.html），昨晚送了一个给大姐。我这个金牛茶壶今天是第一次正式用的，有打算好好的养。

大茶饭@北京

2009.04.12

午餐@霄云路干锅居

晚餐@沸腾鱼乡

大茶饭@北京

2009.04.11

午餐 @ 沸腾鱼乡

晚餐 @ 东直门内街（烤鱼）

大茶饭@北京

2009.04.10

午餐@从前门走过大栅栏后的一个小区

晚餐@皇城老妈

Beijing... stitched...

2009.04.15

From Hilton
taken with my Nikon D80 and AF 18-135mm DX
processed with Canon's Photo Stitch 3.1
resized/cropped with Photoshop and Microsoft Photo Editor

最美（尾）的一天

2009.04.15
@北京

蓝天
无云
一望无垠
有风

要在公司上班，有点遗憾... :)

无奈地也是在北京的最后一天...

又出血

2009.04.14
@北京

今天黄昏再闯大栅栏，在广德楼买了两个紫砂茶壶，价值不菲（对我来说）...

又要节衣缩食了...

全北京向上望

2007.10.27
@北京世贸天阶 The Place


http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=dproPfaRvA8

The longest days

Dear Mo,

Good catch... This is the revised edition. Can't claim it's error free though.

Ashes @ BJ
200.06.29 1:36am
(just [i] came back from Taishan/Shandong after a 8-hr bus trip, [ii] had bday celebration with some extended family members, [iii] had late snack at the jackpot cafe, [iv] came back to hotel now, well... isn't it an inn?)

__________________________________


A brief history of time:


6/24 Wed

Worked late in the office.

Around 9pm, some colleagues incl. KY asked people to go home as typhoon signal #8 would be hoisted by 11pm.

Shared taxi with a colleague. And on the way in the taxi, I spotted KY driving (overtaken by my taxi)... Small world...

Packed.

Worked.

Didn't sleep...


6/25 Thu

The sec arranged a meeting a 8:30am. She was clever enough to arrange a teleconf in case people wouldn't come to office.

And I joined. Boss was there, together with 2 techies. Quite disappointed that the 2 big sales didn't join. And couldn't reach them by mobile.

Well, the meeting wasn't too exciting, as we got an excited customer without a "ready" solution.

And after this had review meeting with Boss. Again, 3Q x 1000 times...

Waiting call from MM at 10:30am as we were supposed to talk about an event on 6/26. Didn't see any call.

Went out for b/f as I was hungry, particularly after the long nite.

Most shops were closed except a few. I picked a dim sum place and had "sticky chicken rice" and beef meat balls... Quite full.

Found that I should had a hair cut and so went down at 1pm.

Quite embarrassing...

I kept on fishing and had very BIG SWINGS while haircutting in progress... What a shame... to me... But then the guy managed to catch my rhythm...

Left home at 3pm+

Very strong wind & rain.

Dropped my big bag at Airport Express.

Was hungry.

After serious thinking, I went to the sushi place in IFC2. Again, it's quite good. Nobody there (well... just a few)... I ordered 6 dishes.

I left at 4:30pm and the flight leaving at 6:05pm. I thought I would be late...

And then... I rushed down and to airport. Got an sms that the flight would be delayed by 40 min.

So it's good.

And went to the gate. It's changed.

Went to the new gate. Not too many people. And got another SMS that it would be delayed.

I went on board at around 7:45pm and the flight would leave at 8:15pm. It's almost 2 hrs of delay.

And yet, it isn't too bad given the bad weather conditions and chaotic flight cancellations and delays in the airport.

Not sure when it was. Should be around 9pm+. The pilot said the weather condition was bad in BJ and we were not allowed to go into the BJ air zone. Our plane needed to hang around in Chang Sha region.

And... at around 11pm, we were told that we would land at Shanghai Pudong to re-fill the gas, change an assistant pilot and wait for signal from BJ. I sent SMS to several friends hoping that I could reach BJ hotel at 3pm.


6/26 Thu

After 12am, the pilot told us that the weather condition turned bad again in BJ. Ours was the 12th plane waiting at pudong airport to go to BJ...

Finally we left at 2:30am.

Landed BJ at around 4:30pm.

Cooler than I expected.

My first trip via T3. Very big.

Spent 20 min to wait for a connecting train, which was supposed to be 3 min.

And got my luggage and went down for taxi.

Very very very long queue. Should be 100-150 people lining up.

Not sure if it's the lack of taxi or what. This usually shouldnt be the case.

I took at taxi at around 5:30am and went to the hotel at 6am after much effort by the taxi driver.

Was supposed to sleep but I didn't.

Went out for a breakfast. Got a soya milk, tea egg and buns at 5.3 yuan. Prior to that I got 2 peaches at 7 yuan!!! I asked the guy if he could offer lower price but he just said he just earned 1 out of the 7. I dont believe though. So I just paid 7.

My internet connection didnt work properly when I first moved in. After breakfast I called the front desk and they sent a guy to help me. But then I found it is working now. The guy came and I opened the door and saw him holding 2 screwdrivers. I am not sure how he could help if I couldnt use the broadband in the room.

My condition wasn't too bad.

I was told that another gang of 10 people from my extended family took the last flight to BJ (7pm+, 6/25).

They waited in the plane, which was eventually cancelled at 1am+!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!

They would take an early flight today (6/26) to come to BJ.

And I just checked hkairport.com and still found some cancellations and delays of flight to BJ.

End of report
6/26 9:26am

(i am supposed to checkout at 11am, and take a coach to airport to pick up the gang for shan dong)

當年今日

2003.02.28 星期五
香港

晚上与 TC 在铜锣湾花生店喝酒。

2004.02.28 星期六
北京

與上海同事在沸腾鱼乡共進晚餐。

無獨有偶，我今天早上見面的客戶，正是他當天在北京的客戶的主要股東。

Small world... right?

Olympics highlight Beijing water woes

When west meets east...


_____________________________________

Olympics highlight Beijing water woes
Source: Yahoo!

http://news.yahoo.com/s/ap/20080227/ap_on_re_as/oly_beijing_water_woes


By HENRY SANDERSON, Associated Press Writer
Wed Feb 27, 1:28 PM ET

BEIJING - When 16,000 athletes and officials show up this summer, they will be able to turn the taps and get drinkable water — something few Beijing residents ever have enjoyed.

But to keep those taps flowing for the Olympics, the city is draining surrounding regions, depriving poor farmers of water.

Though the Chinese capital's filthy air makes headlines, water may be its most desperate environmental challenge. Explosive growth combined with a persistent drought mean the city of 17 million people is fast running out of water.

Meanwhile, rainfall has been below average since 1999. The result: Water resources per person are 1/30th of the world average, lower even than Israel.

"To ensure the supply for a short period of time shouldn't be a problem, but to keep the long-term sustainable use of resources is a challenge," said Ma Jun, an environmentalist who has written about China's water issues.

In an attempt to ease the water woes, China has turned to a grand engineering feat. Workers are digging up the countryside south of Beijing for a canal that will bring water from China's longest river, the Yangtze, and its tributaries to the arid north by 2010.

The first part of the project is being accelerated to meet anticipated demand from Olympic visitors. By April, the canal is to begin bringing 80 billion gallons a year — an amount equal to the annual water use of Tucson, Ariz. — from four reservoirs in nearby Hebei province.

"I think one of the things the Olympics is showing is it's desperation time and Beijing has the power," said James Nickum, an expert on Chinese water policy issues at Tokyo Jogakkan College in Japan.

In mountainous Chicheng county, about 70 miles northwest of Beijing, dried-out corn stalks stick out of the windblown earth. Farmers limit themselves to two buckets of water a day from icy wells. They are prohibited from tapping what's left in the local reservoir.

The farmers have been ordered to grow only corn, which requires less water but also fetches a lower price than rice or vegetables.

The government offered about $30 in compensation, but farmers say not everyone received it. Too poor to buy coal, they carry discarded corn stalks home on their backs for fuel to heat their homes.

"For two years we've haven't used water for rice, because it's been given to Beijing," said Yu Zhongxin, 56, of Ciyingzi, a village of small houses deep in the mountains by the Hei river, which feeds Beijing's main reservoir.

"But the individual interest submits to the state interests," he said. "I have no objection. I support it for the success of the 2008 Olympics. China must win!"

Sitting on the northeast edge of the arid north China plain, near no major river and 90 miles from the sea, Beijing has had water problems for more than a millennium. Sui dynasty emperors built one of the world's longest canals in the seventh century to bring rice from the fertile south to the capital.

In recent decades, rapid development, intensive agriculture and wealthier lifestyles have both drawn down and polluted the city's water supply.

"Very few people used toilets in the 1950s, but right now everyone uses toilets, uses showers, uses swimming pools, and fancy buildings use lots of water," said Dai Qing, a former journalist who has become one of China's most prominent environmental campaigners.

The last decade has seen the construction of water-guzzling projects across the city from landscaped gardens and artificial lakes to golf courses and parks, many spurred by the Olympics.

"We don't have water but no one mentions it, all the policy makers never mention that, just develop, develop," Dai said.

The city has spent around $3 billion since it won the Olympic bid in 2001. It has built wastewater treatment plants, moved water-intensive industries out of the city and cut down on pesticide and water use by farms. Near its main reservoir, the Miyun, it has closed polluting factories and relocated 15,000 residents to reduce household pollution.

Nearly all Olympic venues and the Olympic Village will use treated wastewater for heating systems and toilets. Recycled wastewater also will irrigate the Olympic Park, which will include a wooded area and an artificial lake.

But the rowing venue, built on the dried-out Chaobai river bed in Beijing's Shunyi district, will use precious water from the Miyun reservoir. Further, an eight-mile-long underground tunnel will divert water from the Wenyu River to keep the landscape green.

Rapid urban development dried out the Chaobai nine years ago. The groundwater in Shunyi dropped at twice the rate of the rest of Beijing from 2006 to 2007, according to the Ministry of Water Resources.

"From the beginning I was against the Olympics," Dai said. "There is not enough for water for us to hold Olympic Games, but they didn't listen."

Beijing's groundwater, which has fallen 76 feet in the last 50 years, is overexploited, experts warn. And construction has paved over the city, so rain drains away instead of soaking through the earth to replenish the groundwater.

A polluted and damaged ecosystem in turn creates less rain, so more water is needed to irrigate city parks and other greenery, said Wu Jisong, a senior adviser to the Beijing Olympic Games Organizing Committee and former director general of the Department of Water Resources.

Similarly, more recycled wastewater is now needed to feed Beijing's artificial lakes, said John Pan, a director at the Beijing Water Authority.

"We cannot blame nature," he said at a recent conference in Beijing. "We must realize that it is the human activity and destruction that has briefly affected the water circulation so we should find effective ways to solve the problem."

Easier said than done in a developing country focused on economic growth. But time appears to be running out.

Waste, fertilizer and pesticides so contaminated one of Beijing's two main reservoirs, that the city stopped using it for residential water or agriculture in 1997. The other reservoir, the Miyun, is down to one-third the water it had 10 years ago, despite government efforts to cut water use by farms and move industry out of the area.

A local farmer, Zhao Fuyin, said the water once lapped at the bases of the trees around the reservoir.

"It has been a government priority to preserve this area," said Zhao as he watched a couple of donkeys amble along the reservoir's dry slopes. "But the reservoir is just not enough."