Monday, August 31, 2009

Meet X-Men and Spiderman at Disney Land

The Walt Disney Co. (DIS-N26.10-0.74-2.76%) said Monday it is buying Marvel Entertainment Inc. (MVL-N48.429.7725.28%) for $4-billion (U.S.) in cash and stock, bringing characters like Iron Man and Spider-Man into the family of Mickey Mouse and WALL-E.
Full story: http://www.theglobeandmail.com/globe-investor/disney-buys-marvel-for-4-billion/article1270467/


Have not been to Disney Land since 12 year-old, but now Spiderman, X-men, and Ironman, etc are joinng the Magic Kingdom will make me another reason to visit...hahahaha

Tuesday, August 25, 2009

Reader's Digest files prearranged bankruptcy

The publisher of Reader's Digest yesterday filed for Chapter 11 bankruptcy protection, carrying out its plan to cut debt and transfer ownership of the 87-year-old U.S. magazine and other businesses to a group of lenders.

Due to the shift from book reading to Internet browsing, the 87 year old needs to find itself an new owner. In the other words, the style of the book needs to be changed to catch up the new generation.

Thursday, July 23, 2009

Recession over, growth resumes: Bank of Canada

Canada's recession is over, and the country is beginning what will be a long reconstruction of the wealth destroyed by the financial crisis, the Bank of Canada said Thursday.

Hope the news can bring the employment back to the market.

Tuesday, July 14, 2009

觀塘銀都悄然落幕

【明報專訊】400人坐滿9點半放映場,門外小販售賣各式冷熱小食如同市集一樣。觀塘銀都戲院門外,鼎沸人聲成為絕響,「墟」場面早不復見。屹立觀塘接近46年,老戲院於上周三悄然結業。銀都告別,代表座位多影院少的舊式戲院,逐漸步向終結。

Full Story: http://news.mingpao.com/20090714/gza1.htm

Wednesday, June 24, 2009

A Stimulus Story

It is the month of April, on the shores of the Black Sea .
It is raining, and the little town looks totally deserted.
It is tough times, everybody is in debt, and everybody lives on credit.
Suddenly, a rich tourist comes to town.
He enters the only hotel, lays a 100 Euro note on the reception counter, and goes to inspect the rooms upstairs in order to pick one.
The hotel proprietor takes the 100 Euro note and runs to pay his debt to the butcher.
The Butcher takes the 100 Euro note, and runs to pay his debt to the pig grower.
The pig grower takes the 100 Euro note, and runs to pay his debt to the supplier of his feed and fuel.
The supplier of feed and fuel takes the 100 Euro note and runs to pay his debt to the town's prostitute that in these hard times, gave her "services" on credit.
The hooker runs to the hotel, and pays off her debt with the 100 Euro note to the hotel proprietor to pay for the rooms that she rented when she brought her clients there.
The hotel proprietor then lays the 100 Euro note back on the counter.
At that moment, the rich tourist comes down after inspecting the rooms, and takes his 100 Euro note, after saying that he did not like any of the rooms, and leaves town.
No one earned anything. However, the whole town is now without debt, and looks to the future with a lot of optimism.

And that, ladies and gentlemen, is how the United States Government is doing business today.

Wednesday, June 17, 2009

Canada is Failing History

As high school students across the country sit to write their final examinations this month, Canadians may be shocked to discover that few of them will be tested on what they know about Canada's history.

For more than a decade, the Dominion Institute has commissioned surveys chronicling the national malaise about Canada's history: Four in 10 Canadians cannot name our first prime minister or identify the year of Confederation. Young Canadians often know even less about our country's past than their parents or grandparents.

Full story: http://www.theglobeandmail.com/news/opinions/canada-is-failing-history/article1184615/


I think I am one of them who will fail that course as well...

The first PM is Sir John A. Macdonald...(just google it)

Tuesday, June 16, 2009

批判的年代

Eugene H. Peterson在其著的 The Message: The Bible in Contemporary Language 中說:



But it's trouble ahead if you think you have it made. What you have is all you'll ever get. And it's trouble ahead if you're satisfied with yourself. Yourself will not satisfy you for long. And it's trouble ahead if you think life's all fun and games. There'ssuffering to be met, and you're going to meet it. "There's trouble ahead when you live only for the approval of others, saying what flatters them, doing what indulges them. Popularity contests are not truth contests--look how many scoundrel preachers were approved by your ancestors! Your task is to be true, not popular.

蔡醫在第港九培靈研經會說:

...這也是個專講個人批判的年代,人們只知指指點點,去掉別人眼中的刺,自己置身事外,批評別人,叫人體無完膚。耶穌吩咐我們不可論斷,要先看自己眼中的梁木。也不可定人的罪,因為只有神才可以定罪。

Full story:http://www.hkbibleconference.org/sermon/sermon.php?yearto=2003&subjectto=92&topicto=825&topicto=825

To those who procliam themself as a matured Christian, stop the destruction and rebuild the broken relationship which you are commanded to do it. Don't just talk and think...is time to act!