My friend's wedding + Mid-Autumn Festival + Avenue of Stars

Dear friends

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Mid-Autumn Festival

Today is Mid-Autumn Festival, it is also known as "Moon Festival" and is a very popular East-Asian tradition of Chinese origin, dating back over 3,000 years to moon worship in China's Shang Dynasty that spread to neighbouring cultures like Japan, Taiwan, and Singapore. The Mid-Autumn Festival falls on the 15th day of the 8th lunar month of the Chinese calender, this year on today is 14 September 2008 in Gregorian calendar.

Wishing you and your family a happy moon cake festival!

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Yim's Wedding at Mid-Autumn Festival

In this year of Mid-Autumn Festival, it is very important and is a memorable day to one of my best friends, he chose his wedding on 14 September 2008 because he and his wife wanted having a memorable day and celebrating their wedding anniversary together with next Mid-Autumn Festival. His wife said Mid-Autumn Festival will be a reminder to her husband,....so therefore, he should know what shall he do next year.

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Avenue of Stars
After his wedding, we took a ramble at Avenue of Stars because this famous avenue is building at the nearby TST cultural center. The Avenue of Stars which is located at the Tsim Sha Tsui Promenade was given a glittering official opening on 27 April 2004. This avenue was opened to the public and visitors from all over the world from 28 April 2005 onwards. I took some pictures from there and now wanna share them with you, see the below pictures:

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Best Regards

I WILL ALWAYS BE THERE FOR YOU!

Dear friends;

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If you want to express your concern with your friend, or to say something to support and encourage your friend, how do you say this in English?

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A few weeks ago, my friend "Dick" who told me that he was so busy and tired of his current job, he said this at the job site at that moment,, I expressed my concern and spoke to him "Please don't give up, I will always be there for you!".

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One hour later, he phoned to me and asked where are you now?, I answered him "I am at office and will get off". He said then to me "I am waiting there for you, why don't you come here?". His words confused me because I should not promise him I would go there. ......He told me that you said you will always be there for me but I am still waiting for you".??????

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I got back to him, Yes, I said I will always be there for you, but I didn't say I will go there. It is a joke that has confused my friend by a sentence "I will always be there for you", the true meaning of this should be "I will give you my helping hand".

I will always be there for you 是我會永遠支持你, 而不是我會在那裡等你.

正因為這樣, 所以我無在那裡等佢是正常的.

Have you ever heard of the saying such as ......

Dear friends

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Have you ever heard of the saying "Life is more than money, and the body is more than anything"? The reason for me to write this article is mainly because I want to say something about your lives and the meaning of the above-mentioned doctrine.

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Here in Hong Kong has heaps of people who have for the most part been expecting to live in fat city, maybe they think "Money is more than Life", or than their family". In fact, people living at anywhere have to face piles of problems which are put in the classified human files. Those files housing the human problems like "Wealth", "School Work", "Plans to next generation", "Business and perspective"...etc.

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Human being is a complex animal in the world, the wild animals just live for subsistence and newborn. But people will want more. This morning, I heard a good story from my friend, she said that her father decided to believe Jesus before at extremity ,...The meaning of "at extremity" is the end of a man's life. Why should her father so interested in Jesus' Word? Maybe such doing was the weakness of human being. It is not difficult to be seen in the world, when a man sees himself to the last extremity, he should expect his family to walk with him and to show more care with him.

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My friend who felt happy because her aged father had believed in Jesus before his father died, as well his father had accepted a simple and formal baptism on the hospital's bed...so holy in him. Let's think of this problem and replan the weightiness of our files, or try to schedule those life files by priority. Our files shall not be housing only for wealth, school works, or plans to our next generation... we should file our religion, tendresse, righteousness and all of our love in them.

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Best regards

Why Go To Church?

Why do you go to church?

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(1) To meet your friends, (2) to hear the preacher, (3) to fulfill an obligation?

These reasons are not wrong, but they do not represent our highest motivation. Our primary reason must be to worship Christ.

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Frncois Fenelon was the court preacher for King Louis XIV of France in the 17th century. One Sunday when the king and his attendants arrived at the chapel for the regular service, no one else was there but the preacher. King Louis demanded, "What does this mean?" Fenelon replied, "I had published that you would not come to church today, in order that Your Majesty might see who serves God in truth and who flatters the king."

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Many people attended the church at Corinth, but evidently they had some wrong motives for coming. They favored one particular teacher over another. Consequently, they were divided into factions. Some lked Paul. Some Apollos. And some Peter. This led to bickering that disturbed the fellowship and the central focus of their worship.

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When we gather with God's people, let's not do so to be seen, nor to flatter the preacher. Let's be united in heart and keep Christ preeminent. Make worshiping Him your primary reason for going to church.

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I insighted something and wanna share the message with you:

Worship, praise, and adoration, All are due to Jesus' name; Freely give your heart's devotion, Constantly his love proclaim.

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Ken Ngan

D.I.M. Dingus

To all who are very dear to me:

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For the sake of letting you experience a remarkable achievement, I attach some pictures showing the small dingus "Super-ken 2000X" which was designed and built for giving a help to the youth of Kam Kong Memorial Church in their game plan in August. I was employed, as the Senior Executive Designer(高級執行設計師), to make this with an interim budget (around HK$1,500) and to complete this within 3 calender days.

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The working principle of this dingus that is quite simple and based on the game law of "First-Push-First-Talk". It is a tool to help discerning the applicant who is the first one to push the button during the answer game. Super-Ken 2000X is a series of Super-Ken 2000 made and designed by Mr. Ken Ngan (say undersigned). This dingus is a reliable and durable individual.
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Materials for Super-Ken 2000X are outlined below, they are these:
one (1 master panel) High Grade Anti-Flaming Plastic Cabinet;
Six (6 slave panels) High Grade Anti-Flaming Plastic Panels;
Signal Lamps (6, -2 red, 1 blue, 1 yellow, 1 green & 1 white) and push buttons (6);
Relays (12), Sockets (12) and Twist-Paired Cables (approx 20m);
Drilling Machine and Metal Drills and Hole saws (Dia 22mm, 28mm).
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(Signal lamps, twist-paired cables and alumin guide bars for relay brackets)

(6 nos of Anti-flamming cases and relays....)

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The drilling was done in two steps. First, drilling a locator hole on the top of the case. This hole should be just slightly smaller than the size of the pilot bit of the hole saw. Using the drilled locator hole as guides, using a sharp hole saw (dia 28mm) to enlarge the hole to 28mm....the standard size. Same steps for another 5. One push button and one signal lamp were flash mounted on the top and side of each case.

Signal Lamp was flash-mounted at the top, and push button at one side of each slave panel.

There are six slave panels ready for teams, each team can be classified by its colored lamp, e.g.: Yellow (team 1), Green (team 2), Red (team 3), White (team 4), Blue (team 5)..and also red (team 6).

Control Circuit of Super-Ken 2000X


I printed some labels as a token of Super-Ken 2000X and adhibited on the master panel.

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(This dingus can serve for 6 teams in the mean)
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As a Senior Executive Designer, I hope my effort can be making a great difference to the youth living with Jesus in the Kam Kong Memorial Church.

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Best Regards,

Ken Ngan

Oxfam Partner Certificate 樂施之友證書

Dear friends

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I am happy to let you know that I received an Oxfam Partner Certificate from "Oxfam Hong Kong" this morning. This certificate not only signifies the donaters a long-term partnership with Oxfam Hong Kong but also means that the Oxfam donators have brought real and lasting changes for thousands of poor people.
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I have been an Oxfam Partner for 2 years in the fight against poverty with Oxfam Hong Kong, and will keep my continuous support and encouragement to Oxfam Hong Kong in the forthcoming future. How about you?

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With my best wishes,

Ken Ngan

I'll remember the day

My friends

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Today I wanna discuss with all of yours about the question of "should the people be responsible for looking after their aged pets until their death". It has long been a problem to all of us.

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As in the Western culture, most of the people do take up their responsibilities for their aged pets, some favorers or the aged breeders are willing to keep a considerable sum of money for their pet even or create breeding contract to the third party so as to indemnify for their pet living. Such doing has been existing for over many years and it is not a rare case in foreign countries.

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Obviously, the meaning of "looking after" does not simply mean a constant supply of food and medical care, providing other with a place to sleep, as many of us tend to think. There is a lot more than that. To look after our pets, I think we have to understand them, to be friendly to them, to love and communicate with them.

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Maybe .........right after they were born, you bought your favorite pets from pet shop, and you have tried the best to look after them, to train them living and playing with other pets. I remember telling my friends about an unhappy matter and sharing my feeling with them. The unhappy matter was to face the painful decision which has been long making me regretful and that decision really made me cry after I sent it to pet hospital.

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I remember the year in 1988, my younger brother brought a dog from his friend, this dog was quite naughty in the beginning but was gnathonic at the end. I liked it very much because Little Pit was actually making a difference to my life and to my family. Until In 2001, it became an aged dog and lived with cancer haplessly. Its body looked like as thin as a lath and sent painful call for all night long. I was unwilling to face this scene as I could not make any help to my dog. It was a difficult decision but I made on 14th in February 2001.

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My Dog: Little Pit

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What else can I say? I just say to all people who shall be giving more time to take care of their pets, to play more with them as well when they are still living with you.
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With Best wishes to all breeders.

Ken

A plan to make a homemade incubator (1)

Dear friends,

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This pair is of wild caught origin, Geochelone Pardalis Tortose from South Africa, the male measures 7 Kg; with a straight carapace length (SCL) of 10.5 inches (265mm) and the female is 5.8Kg, 8.5 inches SCL (220mm). From the beginning a winter in 2005, the exact time should be in December in terms of my memory, this pair has been in captivity with other species of tortoises until to Year 2 (say 2007).

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In the pictures below show the male at left side, and the female at right

Pictures were taken in 2005
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At the first two years, this pair was put together with other species until their individual could not be accommodated in the breeding case.

This picture was taken in 2007

Many months ago, this male was found having the characteristic trailing behavior and such trail was lasting for a long time, the male tortoise was trailing the female one and attempting to breed with her. Such doing was like a young boy trailing a desired girl. I think it should be a foreboding of mating in the tortoise’s world.

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Starting from about 3 weeks ago, the male immobilized the female’s carapace and then mounted on her. During the period of their mating, the big male was making a rhythmic grunting call.
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In the three pictures below you can see the male mounting on the female carapace and starting their mating (See 1 and 2), the whole period of mating, the male (See 3) produces grunting call.

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I don’t know what I can do if they really lay eggs in the case. I searched some information from internet and reference books, and I will have a splendid plan to make a professional incubator for this pair. So far as I can see, a problem experienced by many tortoise breeders in warm climates is that the ambient temperature may exceed the incubator setting, resulting in an uncontrolled high temperature detrimental to the eggs.

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To minimize the risks or potential problems, I will be going to design and build a tortoise incubator which will be equipped with a sensitive probe and an electronic thermometer. Apart from keeping the right temperature, a proper control to the humidity and a reliable casing are also important to a homemade incubator.
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Let's look forward to the incubator!



Ken