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From: konrad@eecg.toronto.edu (Konrad Lei)
Subject: Re: The magazine of Tin Ha
Organization: University of Toronto
Distribution: soc.culture.hongkong
Date: 14 Apr 92 08:04:49 GMT

In article <1992Apr13.174814.24013@acsu.buffalo.edu> v999r377@ubvmsb.cc.buffalo.edu (J. Salleh) writes:
>In article <qfphbqn7@csv.warwick.ac.uk>, cstdxcq@warwick.ac.uk (Mark Leung) writes...
>>          I wonder if any of you have read the magazine of Tin Ha (100th).
>>I was really looking forward to seeing this edition but I am very disappointed
>>after I have read it. I thought that it would be very, very ,very interesting
>>and exciting but it is much behind my expectation. There are too many pages of
>>advertisements.

To be honest.  I am still buying only because I want to have the whole set.
It has been at the end of my comic list for a long time.  Why?  It is too
"commercial".

>>Also, I wonder how could 'Tin Wong' kill 'Kuen To Sun' so easily!

Simple, Mr. Ma needs another super-powerful-and-unbeatable fighter so that
there can be be another big fight so that "fung" and "wan" can use their
always-win-no-matter-how-deep-sh*t-they-are-in super power to beat this
yet-another-bad-guy.

>>Mark
>-------------------------------------------------------------------------
>Somehow I found that the endings of some Bad guys in Tin Ha, e.g. Hung Bar,
>Kuen To Sun, are not in real bad situation.  They usually weren't beaten to
>death, but finished in some less violent way.  I guess Ma Wing Sing doesn't
>want to put too much on revenge, rather, he stresses on the fate of the bad
>guys being finished by heavenly devine or destiny.
>
>Just an opinion.
>
>J.S. 

Another opinion.  Ma wants to put some moral in the story and didn't do
a good job.  I don't think he realizes that sometimes there is no need
for moral.  Just story is enough.

Konrad Lei
Newsgroups: soc.culture.hongkong
From: sworking@leland.Stanford.EDU (Scott Workinger)
Subject: Lecture and Workshop - Taoist Health Practice                   
Organization: DSG, Stanford University, CA 94305, USA
Date: Thu, 9 Apr 92 01:51:49 GMT

Education in Taoist Health Practice

In early China, Taoists were famed for their longevity.  This longevity 
was the consequence of health sciences developed in the various Taoist 
monasteries.  Three foundations of Taoist health practice are chi kung, 
diet, and meditation.  Chi kung builds the body's energy capacity and 
facilitates healthy circulation.  The science of diet tailors an 
individual's eating patterns to the person's individual character and 
current circumstances.  Meditation calms the mind, thus avoiding the de 
stabilizing effects of mental agitation.  

Unfortunately, access to Taoist health science has been very limited, 
especially in the United.States., and it is rare to meet individuals who 
are qualified to teach these practices.  Kwan Saihung will be offering
instruction in Taoist health practices in the San Francisco Bay area 
during the spring of this year.  

Kwan Saihung has pursued scholarly and martial studies through a long and 
eventful life.  Today, he occasionally emerges from retirement to teach 
Taoist health practices in the belief that the benefits of such practice 
should be made available to all individuals.


Lecture:  An Introduction to Taoist Health Practice

	Time:  Friday, May 8 at 7:30 PM. 
	Location:  Cypress Room, Second Floor, 
	Tressidor Student Union, Stanford University
	Cost:  Free

          
Workshop:  Foundations of Taoist Health Practice
	Beginning Taoist Yoga:  The Eight Brocades Exercises
	Diet:  Theory and Practice
	Chi Kung:  Basic exercises to open the meridians and strengthen 
		   the body
	Meditation:  Golden Light Meditation
	Time:  Friday, May 15 (evening), May 16, May 17
	Location:  To be announced (General vicinity of Palo Alto)
	What to Bring:  1) A black sash of polyester/cotton, 6 inches in 
			width and long enough to wrap around your waist 4
			times, 2) Water, 3) Notebook 4) Towel or pad, 
			5) Sitting cushion for meditation.
	
	Later workshops in the series will introduce progressively more 
	advanced theory and exercises.

Interested individuals may wish to review the book, "Scholar Warrior, An 
Introduction to the Tao in Everyday Life" by Deng Ming-Dao, 1990, 
HarperCollins.  The book, written by Kwan Saihung's senior student, 
describes several Taoist health practices.

To register for the workshop or to obtain further information, please 
contact:

	Mitchell Tsao	
	Tsao's Acupuncture and Herbal Clinic				
	36601 Newark Blvd.						
	Old Town Center #2						
	Newark, California 94560
	(510) 795-1410

	   <or>

	Scott Workinger
	Box 9767
	Stanford, Ca. 94309
	sworking@leland.stanford.edu




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From: v999r377@ubvmsb.cc.buffalo.edu (J. Salleh)
Newsgroups: soc.culture.hongkong
Subject: Re: I N S T A N T N O O D L E S
Date: 9 Apr 92 00:38:00 GMT
Organization: University at Buffalo
News-Software: VAX/VMS VNEWS 1.41

In article <RK7151.92Apr7175600@eve.albany.edu>, rk7151@csc.albany.edu (KWOK RAYMOND Y) writes...
>In article <lhf.702614682@cucs37.cs.cuhk.hk> lhf@cucs11.cs.cuhk.hk (Ho-Fung Leung) writes:
> 
>>   My favourite cooking method is as follows.  Boil the water in a electric
>>   rice cooker, dump the noodle AND the MSG (without the bag, of course) into
>>   the water, and cook for 2 minutes.  Then stir, switch off the rice cooker 
>> and
>>   leave it there for 10 minutes.  By the time you return the noodle has
>>   absorbed all the MSG and becomes so delicious that you can never forget...
>	
>	For my health, I reduce MSG usage. So I usually dump IN and MSG
>	into the pot, cook for sometime, then Goor-Leng-Hou. You can
>	cook and eat IN in less than 20 minutes.
>	This is my lunch today. :-(  :-(
> 
>	One thing about MSG, it makes you so thristy that you have to
>	drink a lot water.


      I read from 'Next' magazine that drink Coke or Pepsi when eating IN 
might help killing the thirsty effect.  It also works on any MSG added food 
stuff.  Can anyone verify it?


J.S.

>Ray
>-- 
>  Raymond Kwok Yin Lung	kwok@cs.albany.edu
>Freezing rain, mixed with snow, plus wind chilling, make me stay at home. What 
>can I do then? Study?? :-p  Sleep?? NO, cause I have slept too much already. 
>Study Geomancy?? Great!!
Newsgroups: soc.culture.hongkong
From: stevew@helios.unl.edu (Steve Wu)
Subject: Re: Breathing Sound of Yo-Yo Ma (was Re: HK singers)
Organization: University of Nebraska - Lincoln
Date: 14 Apr 92 02:40:39 GMT

fcc1@uhura.cc.rochester.edu (Fat-Chi Cheng) writes:

>In article <1992Apr14.000344.16144@galileo.cc.rochester.edu>, chng_ltd@uhura.cc.rochester.edu (Anna L. Cheng) writes:
>> 
>> I personally think Sandy Lam IS better than Sally Yeh.  Sally Yeh's breathing
>> sound is so loud when you listen to her songs,  it really annoys me heck of 
>> a lot.  

>Yo-Yo Ma also has a breathing noise "background" when he plays
>his cello.  Any commands?

>F.C. Cheng

  Really? I didn't notes that. In fact, I am thinking to get one of
his CD, but I haven't decided yet.

  steve
--
stevew@helios.unl.edu  |=| \ Fender / |=| ... smoke on the water, fire in
                       |=|   \    /   |=| the sky...   Smoke on the water.
stevew@hoss.unl.edu    |=|     \/     |=|     (36 bars guitar solo)
		      Deep purple, the best
From: chao@EUCLID.UOREGON.EDU (Kung M. Chao)
Newsgroups: soc.culture.hongkong
Subject: China soccer lost to US, this is natural!
Date: 6 Apr 92 18:24:49 GMT
Article-I.D.: .9204061824.AA23457


China lost to USA with a 0-5 on Sat. It was a surpise since I only expected a
0-2. Anyway USA was playing much better than China. The Chinese coach said
that the team only played 30-40% of their normal performance standard since
they just arrived from the long flight. Anyway when ever did China play 100%
in international games?
From: seow@ei.ecn.purdue.edu (Aik Siong Seow)
Newsgroups: soc.culture.hongkong
Subject: Re: Why does HK has a problem to independent?
Date: 6 Apr 92 13:49:06 GMT
Organization: Purdue University Engineering Computer Network

In article <1992Apr5.013609.28573@acsu.buffalo.edu> htchan@acsu.buffalo.edu (Huitung T. Chan) writes:
>pckyip@athena.mit.edu (Patrick C Yip) writes:
>>This arouses my criosity of how Singapore gets her water supply?
>>As I know, Singapore has much fewer reservoirs than HK does (although 
>>Singapore has a smaller population and is half as large as HK)
>According to an article I once read, at one time in the history,
>most of the fresh water in Singapore was imported at a low price,
>from Malaysia.  Purification processes were implemented before the the
>water was used.
>Due to possibly a series of unsolved border disputes, (in 197?)

Border disputes....? Where did you get this information?

>the Malay raised the price on fresh water. Meanwhile Singoporeans 
>was putting a lot of resources and effort to desaltify the 
>sea water, and since then, and with the proper maintainence of several 
>fresh water reservoirs, Singapore was ble to have a full supply of 
>its own fresh water with no further import of fresh water from other country.
>[i looked up a couple of texts, and encychopedia on Singapore, 
>I found no info whatsoever on its water supply.
>Perhaps readers from Singapore or Malaysia can verify this.]

Singapore is still obtaining its water supply from Johor ( the southern state
of the West Malaysia peninsula ). What we do is we process the raw water and 
then sell some of these water back to Johor. This way, there is a mutual 
contribution to both sides of the deal. As for our own water supply, we have
about ten reservoirs which serves as the water catchment area for the entire
island. However, these reservoirs do not have enough waterr to supply the whole
island, hence we still buy water from Malaysia.

** Chris **
From: jetho@bass.bu.edu (jet ho)
Newsgroups: soc.culture.hongkong
Subject: Re: HK driver licence
Date: 15 Apr 92 20:38:07 GMT
Reply-To: jetho@bass.bu.edu (jet ho)
Followup-To: soc.culture.hongkong
Distribution: usa
Organization: Boston University

The last word I heard about obtaining a HK license from a foreign license
is :

1)  Foreign driver's license with English translation 
    (Apply to licenses from non-English speaking countries)

2)  Produce proof of residence in a foreign country SIX months prior to
    getting the driver's license AND SIX months after the license is issued.
    Or, a foreign citizenship will do.

Your US driver's license should be eligible for Class 1 (Private Car) &
Class 2 (Light Goods Vehicles).  Be prepared to have photocopy to all
the proofs.  Check your passport if you have all the necessary stamps that
show your residence in that country.  My HK license was almost refused when
the officers found a Canadian immigration chop in my passport.  It took me
some cautious finding to locate another US immigration chop showing a later
date.  

It takes approximately one week to get the license.  In the mean time, they
may get away your US license.  Be prepared.  Check also if an international
license without accompanied by a US license is allowed to drive in HK.

Newsgroups: soc.culture.hongkong
From: yip@wsl.dec.com (Michael Yip (Lt Cmdr - Chief Test Pilot))
Subject: Re: Embassy question
Reply-To: yip@wsl.dec.com (Michael Yip (Lt Cmdr - Chief Test Pilot))
Organization: DEC Western Software Laboratory
Distribution: soc
Date: Mon, 13 Apr 92 17:37:33 GMT

In article <1992Apr10.220438.10739@bradley.bradley.edu>,
havok@buhub.bradley.edu (Jason Graff) writes:
> 
> This is probably a dumb question to anyone with experience on it, but
here goes:
> 
> Does anyone know if
> 
> 1. There's an embassy in the Chicago-area, and if YES,
> 
> 2. If they'd have documentation on economic statistics (GNP, exchange
rates,    	etc.)
> 
> If you know, either post here or mail me at
> 	havok@camelot.bradley.edu
> 
> THANK YOU!!!!!!!

Which embassy are you talking about?

Usually embassies are located in the nation's capital.  In the US,
all embassies are located in the Washington, D.C. area.  For many 
countries, there might however be Consulate-General in other major
cities, like NY, Los Angeles, Chicago, Atlanta, San Francisco, etc.

======================================================================
Michael E. Yip
Digital Equipment Corporation	Internet: yip@wsl.enet.dec.com
Western Software Laboratory	UUCP: ...decwrl!wsl.enet.dec.com!yip
======================================================================
Newsgroups: soc.culture.hongkong
From: leung@DSG.Tandem.COM (Steven Leung)
Subject: Re: Lai Ming
Organization: Tandem Computers
Date: Sat, 11 Apr 1992 16:20:13 GMT

In article <1992Apr11.124641.10996@bradford.ac.uk>, K.K.Soo@bradford.ac.uk (KK SOO) writes:
|> In article <1992Apr10.210157.29481@dsg.tandem.com> leung@DSG.Tandem.COM (Steven Leung) writes:
|> >The first person come to my mind that fits this description is Lowell.
|> 
|> TOTALLY agree !!!

But after reading the rest of your posting, looks like we come to this
conclusion for different reasons.

|> >He had quite a number of good songs, and his musical taste/background
|> >is pretty good. 
|> 
|> Wait a minute... as I know his musical background is not very well.
|> When he was in USA many years ago, he was just a singer in bar, etc.
|> Moreover, he didn't do a professional training in music.
|> Do you remember a bastard called 'Chau Kai Sung'? This guy had criticized
|> Lowell's qualifications many times in HK. He said Lo hadn't been taking
|> any course about music, etc. Then many people told Chau to get stuffed !

I don't know his formal music ed. background, I made the judgement based
on his songs. But as you said this bastard Chau's attack on him, you don't
seem to agree with the attack. I think especially in art, certain talents
are not necessarily "trainable." A piece of paper is meaningful only to
layman. The actual test lies in the real world.

|> >But his voice is just unbearable. I hope somebody
|> >would advise him to concentrate on composing and let other people
|> >to sing it. After all, we are living in a highly specialized
|> >world.
|> 
|> Although I don't quite agree with you that his voice is just 'unbearable'

Yeah, this is completely subjective.

|> (if fact I love this style). Actually he had composed a lot of songs to
|> other top singers (no more Lai Ming pls), such as
|> 
|> "Who's my best lover" - Ah Lam.
|> "Love is so sweet"    - Alan Tam.
|> 
|> BTW he has already moved his career to movie, and the best one I think is
|> "the story of autumn" - Chau Yum Fat "Sheun Tau Chak" :)
|> 
|> Fred
|> -- 
|> k.k.soo@bradford.ac.uk
|> Computer Science, University of Bradford, UK.

-- 
Steven
------
... This all sounds complicated, but it mostly does exactly
what you expect. It's just hard for us to explain what you
expect ...
				  - From "Programming Perl"
From: twong@civil.ubc.ca (Thomas Wong)
Subject: GIF Picture Posting - Guessing Game - chipic7.gif
Organization: Dept. of Civil Engineering, U.B.C., Vancouver, B.C., Canada
Date: Mon, 13 Apr 1992 16:43:47 GMT

Hello all. Sorry I've disappeared for a week. But I'm back!
So, on with our guessing game on these unknown pictures I have.
For those who is new here, we have a bunch of pictures of which
we (I) don't know the actors/actresses within but we need to
know in order to have a description in the index file of our
ftp archives sites before we can load them up there. Hence we
have this guessing game where paricipants of schk guess on
who is in the picture. The guess with the most votes wins and
we will use that description in the index file.

The picture is posted to alt.binaries.pictures and
alt.binaries.pictures.misc. Look for (chinese) in Subject: line.

The latest one is a scene from a movie I don't recognise.
Make your guesses on the actress on the left and right.

Since this seems tougher perhaps than before, I'll set the
deadling in two weeks (especially since people might go on
vacation over Easter). The deadline will be on...

Deadline: Midnight, Saturday,  April 25, 1992

Good luck!

Thomas.

Newsgroups: soc.culture.hongkong
From: mpoon@rose.uwaterloo.ca (Michael Poon)
Subject: Armani glasses, LV wallet, Dupont lighters...
Originator: mpoon@rose.waterloo.edu
Organization: University of Waterloo
Date: Sun, 12 Apr 1992 00:35:38 GMT

I haven't go back to H.K for six years and just wonder what are the 
"standard clothing" (brand names) that HK people are wearing now.  

Category	"standard"
--------	----------
eye-glasses	 Still Amari?
pen, pencil  	?          
Jacket		?
shirts		?
T-shirts	NORIPI!!!
Pants		?
Jeans		?
shoes		?
running shoes	?
socks		?
underwear	?
unbrella 	?
tie		?
belt		?
wallet		?

Other		"standard"
-----		----------
cellular	?
lighter		?
watches		?
raincoat	?
napkins 	?
swimsuits	?
Dolls		?
Stationary  	?

Any Idea?
Michael Poon
From: tychan@mosaic.unccvax.uncc.edu (Tik Yuen Chan)
Newsgroups: soc.culture.hongkong
Subject: Re: I N S T A N T N O O D L E S
Date: 11 Apr 92 20:56:31 GMT
Article-I.D.: unccvax.4576
Organization: University of NC at Charlotte

In article <lhf.702614682@cucs37.cs.cuhk.hk> lhf@cucs11.cs.cuhk.hk (Ho-Fung Leung) writes:
>My favourite cooking method is as follows.  Boil the water in a electric
>rice cooker, dump the noodle AND the MSG (without the bag, of course) into
>the water, and cook for 2 minutes.  Then stir, switch off the rice cooker and
>leave it there for 10 minutes.  By the time you return the noodle has
>absorbed all the MSG and becomes so delicious that you can never forget...

for more than 10 minutes, is it still called instant noodles?
From: gho@eniac.seas.upenn.edu (Grace Ho)
Newsgroups: soc.culture.hongkong
Subject: Opinions on singers
Date: 10 Apr 92 08:23:17 GMT
Organization: University of Pennsylvania



Hi, being an ABC and recently just started to listen
to chinese music, so far, i've come upon Andy Lau,
Alan Tam, Leslie Cheung, Anita Mui, Sally Yeh
and a few others.  One of the supposed big singers
that i haven't heard yet is Lai Ming and yet, it
seems like a lot of people don't like his music.
But, according to a magazine that i recently read,
they say that there's another big singer out there...more 
popular than Andy Lau, Lai Ming and Jackie Cheung : a guy
named Aaron Kwok.  What do people think about his music?
Is it worth listening to?  I'd really appreciate your comments
on him....and also....is Lai Ming really THAT bad?
Thanks....
Newsgroups: soc.culture.hongkong
From: alaw@beyond.caltech.edu (Alvin Law)
Subject: Re: Andy Lau's Concert
Organization: California Institute of Technology, Smogville, CA
	<1992Apr8.134500.3303@helios.physics.utoronto.ca>
Date: Wed, 8 Apr 1992 21:16:20 GMT

kanj@bullet.ecf.toronto.edu (KAN  JOHN KWOK LEUNG) writes:
>In article <73125@netnews.upenn.edu> gho@eniac.seas.upenn.edu (Grace Ho) writes:
>>
>>
>>I was wondering if anyone knew if Andy's going to come out
>>w/ a CD of his concert.  I saw his concert in Atlantic City
>>and he sang a Korean song that i really liked. Does anyone
>>have any idea what the name of this song is?  Thanks....

>>While on the subject of Andy's concert, how was it in the states and other
>>parts on Canada?
>In Toronto it wasn't too good.  It was held at Sky Dome
>where the acoustics was suppose to be terrible.  There were many free tickets
>given away, which meant that he didn't SELL too many tickets.  The view was
>terrible for most of the people.  But people did say it was funny when Andy
>started walking towards the audience and all the field level people sort of
>mobed him.  He couldn't more than five rows when the security had to pull him
>back up to the stage.

Did he use the whole SkyDome for the concert all the way up to the
fifth level (where Jose Canseco's famous homer landed)? It would be
very tough to fill up a stadium that hugh (60,000 capacity?) so I
though giving away free tickets would be kind of natural.

	Alvin




Newsgroups: soc.culture.hongkong
From: kwwma@descartes.waterloo.edu (Wallace Ma)
Subject: Schedule European Championships Sweden '92
Keywords: date
Organization: University of Waterloo
Date: Mon, 13 Apr 1992 17:05:20 GMT

Schedule European Championships Sweden '92

Date       Group   Match
-----------------------------------------------
June 10      1     Sweden       - France
June 11      1     Yugoslavia   - England
June 12      2     Holland      - Scotland
June 12      2     CIS          - Germany
June 14      1     France       - England
June 14      1     Sweden       - Yugoslavia
June 15      2     Scotland     - Germany
June 15      2     Holland      - CIS
June 17      1     Sweden       - England
June 17      1     France       - Yugoslavia
June 18      2     Scotland     - CIS
June 18      2     Holland      - Germany

Semi-finals:
June 21            nr.1 group 1 - nr.2 group 2
June 22            nr.1 group 2 - nr.2 group 1

Final:
June 26

----------------------------------------------


P.S. BTW, anybody knows will these matches (all or some) be
     broadcasted in Hong Kong. (i.e. TVB, ATV, Pearl,...)


                                        - Wallace Ma
Newsgroups: soc.culture.hongkong
From: leekfe@eecg.toronto.edu (Kim Fung Edward Lee)
Subject: Re: Lai Ming
Organization: University of Toronto
Date: 12 Apr 92 21:44:02 GMT

In article <1992Apr12.182925.1818@dartvax.dartmouth.edu> abs0@coos.dartmouth.edu (Kelvin Leung) writes:
>
>I agree with you that we shouldn't be complaining and laughing at others.  
>I personally am not a Lai Ming's fan.  Even so, I don't like to criticize him.
>Nonetheless, I think those people who complain might have a point too:
>if Lai Ming is not a good singer, why does he sing for money?  I agree we 
>should have sympathy for him.  However, if he isn't really good at singing, 
>why doesn't he find something else to do in which people appreciate?

	I personally do not like Lai Ming's singing a lot and
absoultely agree that his singing is not good. However, pls don't
forget that the entertainment business IS a BUSINESS. And pop singers
are, IMO, just people who, by any means, attract others to listen to
their songs, wheter or not they can sing well. And if anyone of these 
pop-singers are not competetive enough, not necessarily using the
singing skill as the common denominator of comparison, they'll
automatically be `flunked` out of the business. 

	And the main reason of Leon's success is the image set on him
through a few of the TVB series as a cool and good boy. This is merely
the issure of 'idol-worshiping'. And this kind of 
good-on-screen-image-then-some-nice-song-picking chemistry is really
a standard way towards a successful singing career. And admittedly,
Leon's last few albums did have some good songs, thanks to the nice
job on picking songs of the Producers. Dont' forget that no matter
how good the singer is, a bad job in picking songs just kills the
album.

	...And just to point out the fact that hot singers like Danny
Chan and Leslie Cheung sang badly live in early years too. Leon, IMO,
has the same problem : weak breath. Exercising the 'respiratory
system' is of utmost importance to Leon for him to solve his off-tone
problem. That's my coclusion of observing a few of his live singing
performances.

Any flames? :)

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