@johnherbert

Award winning design engineer, based in Hong Kong. BEAM Professional since 2010

Hong Kong
Joined June 2008
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Jacob (Kam) and his Amazing MTR-HKGCC-Chairman Technicolour "Dream"-coat
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I want plenty of lapsaptungs around at least 😶🫣🤭
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That's not a hack, that's GenZ cretinery. First, you don't cross at Luohu, it's a zoo. Then if you're cheap enough to get off, exit and come again, you're a fool with too much time in your hands.
HK hack you may or may not know about: Many people choose to take the light blue MTR line from Admiralty to Shenzhen border (Luohu and Futian port) as an alternative to the buses and high speed rail One way ticket from Admiralty to the port costs about HKD 105 per person for first class. If you get off one stop before the port at Sheung Shui, you only get charged for HKD 40. You exit and re enter the MTR station and just take normal seat for literally one stop until any one of Luohu and Futian. You get charged HKD 20ish for this leg. Total would be 65ish, saving you 40 while literally taking 5 minutes more of your time Small money in absolute terms but great trick if you’re on a budget
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> every 500,000 people added to the Northern Metropolis means 500,000 people lost from the urban district 1. That's *districts, plural. 2. That in itself is a good thing. If young adults living with parents can suddenly (sic) afford to rent/buy their own place, it's a win.
潘焯鴻:港鐵金漆招牌佢有份打爛,佢在大陸管港鐵的時候爆出售樓貪腐醜聞,管理的舊綫鐵路訊號系統更新港鐵損失幾十億,大規模延誤,系統設計錯誤仍然懵懵吓施工,測試時撞車才發現,結果連做好的列車都要放喺倉庫! 而家做埋商會主席,竟然能夠說出這樣荒誕的邏輯 : 「北都長遠人口250萬人,是香港三份一市場規模,因此商機無限。」,咁樣嘅水平就退休返屋企睇TVB算啦,香港人口沒有膨脹的情況下,北都每增加50萬人,市區就要流失50萬人,換句話說北都增加的商機,都要在市區減滅! 商會主席應該有將個餅越做越大的思維,而唔係將一個已經做好嘅餅從一張枱搬到另一張枱!
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The biggest surprise I got after Covid is drivers in SZ (mostly EV) yielding to pedestrians. I've only kicked one car in 3 years, and it was a 粤Z plate...
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And balance is restored, cus I had a car try and occupy the space I was in the other day.
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And 'spitals, bruh. We need dem 'spitals.
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Tories overstate net zero cost by nearly £500bn in apparent spreadsheet error. Same error amplified by right-wing think-tanks, press It suited their ideological leanings. Future historians might say - planet earth was destroyed by a spreadsheet error. theguardian.com/politics/202…
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wow Northern metropolis will have 2.5 million residents??? someone needs to get going to building all the housing, and transport infrastructure
潘焯鴻:港鐵金漆招牌佢有份打爛,佢在大陸管港鐵的時候爆出售樓貪腐醜聞,管理的舊綫鐵路訊號系統更新港鐵損失幾十億,大規模延誤,系統設計錯誤仍然懵懵吓施工,測試時撞車才發現,結果連做好的列車都要放喺倉庫! 而家做埋商會主席,竟然能夠說出這樣荒誕的邏輯 : 「北都長遠人口250萬人,是香港三份一市場規模,因此商機無限。」,咁樣嘅水平就退休返屋企睇TVB算啦,香港人口沒有膨脹的情況下,北都每增加50萬人,市區就要流失50萬人,換句話說北都增加的商機,都要在市區減滅! 商會主席應該有將個餅越做越大的思維,而唔係將一個已經做好嘅餅從一張枱搬到另一張枱!
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Hey @BillGates, if flying is so terrible for the planet, why do you own two Gulfstream G650ER private jets and two Bombardier Challenger 350 jets?
Aviation is one of the hardest parts of the economy to decarbonize.
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another building defects video, found big leak under the sink trap clearly see it was been mis-threaded, cause fecking cheap unskilled labour - simple fix, undo and re-tighten correctly! #drainage #hongkong
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You literally fly on a private jet everywhere, liar
Aviation is one of the hardest parts of the economy to decarbonize.
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did you know... most trees in Hong Kong are very fashionable, they are into jewellery as shown here
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No, we are not about to have a plague outbreak in Hong Kong.
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Exceptional😂
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🚨 New hub alert 🚨 International hub for high-quality development of country's water sector
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Moved here for a job in 2016. Managed to survive and get PR. Time flies in HK. I didn't expect to keep my job on covid. That was a bonus.
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During Covid in HK there was a frenzy of loo roll runs, so much so that they were used as furniture until the gov but a limit on purchases & police hunted armed loo roll thieves.😂 thestandard.com.hk/editorial…
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Why didn't anyone notice sooner? Should have been a red flag another leaning tower, built at Queen Mary hospital thestandard.com.hk/news/arti…
3 apartment blocks in Hong Kong will be demolished and rebuilt after authorities uncovered a bribery scandal where the number and size of rebar used no longer matched building plans and structural columns were misaligned. 10 arrests and 205 prosecutions have been made so far.
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stunned the other day, a driver yielded ! didn't buy mark six that day, couldn't be that lucky twice. Road safety standards have dropped significantly #hongkong #roadsafety
Things should change for the good of everyone #hongkong #roadsafety
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