I’m not quite a non-smoker yet. However, after two acupuncture sessions, I have cut down by 75% and my desire for smoking is greatly reduced. I have also managed to not rip anyone’s head off. No doubt my gf is appreciative of that fact. I have a third session today.

Coincidentally, latest BC column is now online, about my 30+ year love affair with smoking and why it’s time for me to quit.

My computer is acting odd lately. It seems I’ve picked up a virus somewhere along the line, the temp2.exe virus, despite having anti-virus software running. Scanning the system now. Argh. Odds are I picked up this little “friend” when attempting to download the complete collection of Edison Chen’s greatest tits hits so I suppose it serves me right.

Also having mouse trouble. I’ve got the Logitech MX Revolution. And every time I left click, the effect is that of double-clicking. Have gone through mouse settings, “slowed stuff down” in a matter of speaking, but the mousing is still sub prime. It leads to very annoying things like clicking on the “X” to close a window and having the window behind it close as well.

Stuff like this leads me back to smoking again.

Here is an odd one … in a few years, the MTR will build extensions of the rail system on Hong Kong island out to the southern part of the island, including Aberdeen. Given the route the system will take, it would seem a no-brainer to include a stop in Happy Valley. The roads in Happy Valley get extremely congested during rush hour and also on racing nights.

Apparently the MTR has decided that people in Happy Valley don’t want an MTR station and that if there is to be one, the Jockey Club should pay the more than HK$1 billion cost for it. The government Secretary for Transport and Housing, Eva Cheng, agrees. The Jockey Club has responded by saying that they are a non-profit organization and should not be funding a profit-making venture by a for-profit organization. Some have further responded by saying that since the head of the Jockey Club is also one of the heads of a bus company, he doesn’t want the train station because it would cut into bus company profits.

None of this makes any sense to me, except for that bit about business as usual in Hong Kong, in this case the government saying, “No one wants an MTR station in Happy Valley but give us a billion dollars and then who gives a fuck about what everyone else wants.”

Hongkie Town
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