HONG KONG PARK

To each person who is very dear to me:

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In the noon, on Monday the 23 of June at 2:00pm, I had to attend a meeting in Central District and the meeting place was quite near to Hong Kong Park. At 1:25pm, I had arrived the meeting place early for 35 minutes and I decided to go on a quick visit to Hong Kong Park. This park covers an area of 8 hectares, and has preserved a number of garrison buildings built between 1842 and 1910. There is a local artificial lake that I have been hoping to see, but my time was bound within 35 minutes, and it was rather limited.

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Layout Plan of Hong Kong Park

I want to share those pictures of where I spend some time on that noon. This is Hong Kong Park, the most popular park in Hong Kong. At the centre of the park, I saw an artificial lake and a waterfall, which were built on the site of a tennis court of the former garrison. Walking along the lakeside path, turtles and japan cyprinoids can be seen everywhere. Honestly, the lake was a must-see I thought while I was there.

Waterfall and Artificial Lake (1:35pm)

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Turtles were showing off in the sunshine (1:37pm)
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Japan Cyprinoids can be seen everywhere in the artificial lake (1:49pm)

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A 30-minute visit passed by quickly and I went back to the meeting place around at 1:57pm. I was dying for another visit at this park because some famous buildings such as the Flagstaff House, the Rawlinson House, the Wavell House, the Cassels Block and the like that I missed in that visit. All in all, it was a good to fill out my gap.

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I advise anyone who reads this to take a look at this Park.

Yours faithfully,

Ken Ngan

WRITE A BLOG FOR MY PEN-PAL IN JAKARTA

Dear friends

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I have a pen-pal in Jakarta and I am certainly willing to tell you something about her and the city in which she lives. My pen-pal is now living in Jakarta, it is the capital and largest city of Indonesia located on the northwest coast of the Java Island. Her name is Mega Vieri, actually she is a half-breed mixed with Chinese and Indonesian, she told me that her grandfather and grandmother are overseas chinese and living in Sumatera for several decades, her father was born in belitung island of sumatera, her mother is also a half breed mixed with indonesian and chinese....after her parents.....until to Mega Vieri.

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Mega Vieri is a christian and very religious.

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-She is Mega Vieri living in Jakarta.

With Best Wishes to her

Ken Ngan

STROLLING AND KEEPING FIT IN MORSE PARK

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From the SARS experience few years ago, everyone living in Hong Kong started to realize the importance of staying healthy. In my opinion, the best defence against diseases and overweight is to build a good body resistance. Apart from having a balanced diet, I think we need to get enough exercise to maintain the level of fitness of our body. As for this, I have been getting body erecise for 4 to 5 years long but I still keep my body fat. Anyway such doing will be best at my life.

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I used to stroll along the park at Monday's night enjoying in affluence and seeing those tropical plants. I like strolling with a FM radio along Morse Park sometimes or running along the boundary of the park. Morse Park is an urban park located nearby my home, it is in Wong Tai Sin in Kowloon. To be honest, Hong Kong government has provided many obvious improvements for public areas, there are many facilities like conservation corners, playground and football playgrounds,,, as well the designed gardens providing many tropical plants with public. For encouraging sake, I took a great deal of pictures showing the beautiful sides of Morse Park for your perusal and enjoyment.

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HISTORY OF MORSE PARK:

Morse Park occupied 15.8 hectares, is an urban park located in Wong Tai Sin in Kowloon. It was completed in 1967. The Park was named after Sir Arthur Morse, the head of The HongKong and Shanghai Banking Corporating during and after World War II.

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Beutiful Trees and Flowers in Morse Park:

Flourishing palm trees of great variety add charm and attraction to Morse Park. There are over 23 species of palm trees from various countries in Asia cultivated on the park's some 2,000m.sq. of green space. Morse Park shoud not be missed by tree lovers. Some trees showing below are introduced here for reference.
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(1)Liquidambar Formosana

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Description: Formosa Sweetgum (another name) has a wide, pyramidal shape when young but eventually grows to a rounded or irregular form, reaching 40 to 60 feet in height with a 35 to 45 foot spread. Young specimens may vary in form and be somewhat irregular. It has a more rounded crown than native sweetgum. The large, three-lobed leaves, purplish-red when young, are dark green through the growing season and in fall turn a beautiful yellow-red color in the south or red in the north. Branches are covered with characteristic corky projections. Formorsa sweetgum makes a nice park, campus or residential shade tree for large properties.
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(2) Bauhinia Variegata

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Description: It is a small to medium-sized tree growing to 10-12m tall, deciduous in the dry season. The leaves are 10-20cm long and broad, rounded, and bilobed at the base and apex. The flowers are conspicuous, bright pinkor white, 8-12 cm diameter, with five petals. The fruit is a pod 15-30cm long, containing several seeds. This is a very popular ornamental tree in subtropical and tropical climates, grown for its scented flowers.

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(3) Camellia Crapnelliana

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(Fruit of Camellia crapnelliana)

Description: Camellia crapnelliana is a 5-7 metre tall small tree with thickly leathery leaves and solitary and terminal flowers. In Hong Kong, it is distributed in Mount Parker and Mau Ping in Ma On Shan. It is also distributed in Guangxi, Fujian, Zhejiang.

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CONSERVATION CORNER:

In order to promote the conservation of wild birds, butterfilies and dragonflies, this area is designated as a Conservation Corner. To tie in with this aim, government is taking an ecological approach in our general horticultural maintenance. Apart from using less chemicals, HK Government plant more native minimum so as to preserve the habitats of wildlife.

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BUTTERFLY CORNER:

Government has specially opened up this in the park as a habitat of butterflies. Apart from using fewer chemicals and minimising the purning and removal of vegetation, our government has grown many plants such as Barleria cristata, Lantana camara, Gomphrena globosa and Ixora chinensis in this corner to attract butterflies. This corner provides butterflies with a habitat that is favourable for their growth and reproduction.

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All in all, a healthy body can only be achieved through a balanced diet, regular exercise, adequate rest and a happy stroll along the park neaby your home. Doing exercise and Taking a stroll after office will be important part of your life. By copy of this blog, you are cordially invited to stroll along the urban park nearby you, taking a breath and doing some exericses.
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Best Wishes here

RELIEF WORKS IN SICHUAN (BY OXFAM)

Dear friends

I received recently a message from Oxfam reporting the missions of helping Sichuan Earthquake in China, as you may know that the devasting earthquake in Sichuan has made life miserable for a great deal of people in the affected areas. It will be a good news that Oxfam's relief work and concern have let them know they are not alone after earthquake.

Below is an update of Oxfam's relief work in May

Since the earthquake, Oxfam's relief has reached almost all affected areas (85 townships and villages in 17 counties and cities) in Sichuan, Gansu and Shaanxi provinces including 200 tonnes of rice, 312,000 packs of milk, 61,700 bottles of cooking oil, 22,000 quilts, 1,750 tnets, 7,296 rolls of plastic sheets for temporary shelters and 64 temporary toilets in Miaoxian, Wenchuan, Qingchuan, Mianzhu, Shhifang city, Dujiangyan city, Anxian, Guangyan city, Wolong as well as Pengzhu in Sichuan.

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Apart from sending relief works and supports to the affected areas, Oxfam has a 5-year plan for the rehabilitation in Sichuan. They have set up an office in Chengdu City to plan, co-ordinate and implement their rehabilitation projects in the province. If you want to express your concern to those affected persons, you are welcome in making a donation to Oxfam because your support will be making a difference to those affected persons living scaur by bringing them hope and a sense of control through Oxfam relief works.

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Thank you for supporting this activity.

With Best Wishes

Ken Ngan

MY EXPERIENCE IN EXAMINATION

Dear Friends

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Before every examination or every presentation, there was a period for me to suffer. My feelings towards the papers and the complicated theories were those of remoteness and alienation. If it had not been for my future and myself, I would have thrown away all the books. Fortunately, up to the present, I have struggled through such tangle of examinations.

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Last Saturday, the day was in June the 7th, my school annouced the examination result to each student. I got a satisfactory result after I had checked against the results from the student's web mail, the world seemed to revive while I was seeing the marks. As a matter of fact, I did not work hardly for my examinations, I spent only one day on going through all notes, in fact: I merely cost 9 hours (say 9:30am to 6:30pm) to study all chapters before examination.

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Owing to the results (although they were not too bad), my attitude now towards examinations has changed. My aim is to do what my capacity can afford me to and to receive what I deserve. However, I do believe that a mere examination or certificate cannot determine one's ability.

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Thank you

Ken Ngan