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Award winning design engineer, based in Hong Kong. BEAM Professional since 2010
Hong Kong
Joined June 2008
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Replying to @johnherbert
Jacob (Kam) and his Amazing MTR-HKGCC-Chairman Technicolour "Dream"-coat
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Replying to @TheGrouchHK @johnherbert
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.
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Replying to @johnherbert
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...
Replying to @TheGrouchHK @johnherbert
And balance is restored, cus I had a car try and occupy the space I was in the other day.
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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…
wow Northern metropolis will have 2.5 million residents???
someone needs to get going to building all the housing, and transport infrastructure
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?
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Replying to @thenuarebirth
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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Replying to @zatzi
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…
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…
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