成功之道,分享,享受生活

「分享」贏來滿足
各位先生女士，分享對我來說確實無比重要。我的住所是我家族為各成員興建的一座房屋，我和六個兄弟以及他們的家人同住。雖然我會獨自選擇經營項目，但在項目成功開展之後我會與家人分享。每讀到一篇好文章，如果我把這文章送給可能有興趣的朋友和家人閱讀，事後總覺得特別舒坦。
事實上，有好東西，趁自己用得着的時候與別人分享，那種滿足感不是比等到自己沒用處的時候才送給別人更強嗎？試想想，曾經多少次你恨不得馬上與人分享一個特別精彩的笑話或一齣電視喜劇？
成功的另一個重要先決條件是衝勁，一股推動你向目標進發的勁頭。一個成功的人面對困難永不會退縮，反而會加倍努力以達到目的。換句話說，一個人必須要有堅定的意志然後可以達至預期的目標。
意志堅定，成功就已經有保障。沒有意志，沒有奮鬥精神，任何人都不可能成功。相反，一個人只要有意志力，就算沒有任何其他資源，都一定會成功。
今天，我們可以從單車比賽名將蘭斯．阿姆斯特朗 （Lance Armstrong）身上得到啟發。阿姆斯特朗克服了睾丸癌，創造了環法大賽七連冠的奇迹。阿姆斯特朗專心致志於單車運動，他的意志確實值得我們的年青人學習，而年青人就是明日的希望。
時間當然也是成功的其中一個要素。工作繁多，時間有限，你自然應該要早起。無論前一天多晚睡，每日我必定早起，因為早晨清新的空氣有利思考，有助引發一些新的念頭。不過，你們不要誤會，我不是急性子，我不會因為希望省時而趁廚房正忙着為我做主菜的時候就先把甜品吃了。雖然如此，你可能因為花費太多時間或者因為拖延而失去機會。機會固然多，但機會不可能一次又一次地來敲你的門。在經歷過磨練之後，你將會知道該鼓起勇氣，當機會到來就牢牢把它抓住。我們都應該做樂觀的人，於每個難題裡都看到機遇；我們不應該做悲觀的人，不應於每次機遇中看到難題。
我們千萬不要被一些習慣負面悲觀思考的人擾亂我們的情緒，因為這種人會奪去你最美好的夢想。我們應永遠記住文字的力量，因為你聽到或者讀到的每一個訊息都會影響你的行動。你每做一件事，都要深信自己一定能成功；信心是你實現豐盛人生的基石。

享受生活旅途
這種行事的勇氣，將有助你簡化事情。我的意思是，當你有構思的時候，你一定要想一個理由將構思付諸行動，而不是去找一個理由按兵不動。有些人雖然很想去做一件事，但最後總會想出千百個理由，結論是不可行。其實，他們只需要找一個理由，證明構思是可行的。蕭伯納曾經說過：「你看見事情，你會問，為什麼是這樣？而我就夢想從未發生的事情，然後問，有何不可呢？」蕭伯納一生成就非凡，箇中道理還不夠明顯嗎？
一個成功的人，不一定孤單寂寞，終日爭權奪利。我素來堅信生活要平衡，在許多方面，生活平衡其實有助推動我在事業上達至成功。
因為我是個勤勞的生意人，我的太太自然要承受各種各樣的困難。她忍受孤單，無私奉獻；她給予我信心和力量，幫助我度過許多艱難的時刻。我的太太可以稱得上是我成功的主要原因。家庭生活對一個人在事業上的表現影響至深，所謂「每個男人的成就背後都有一個值得自豪的女人」，實不為過。
因為分享，成功自然會降臨在你身上。成功就是他人對你所作的努力表示贊同，顯示你的奉獻精神獲得嘉許，被視為是有益於社會。扶輪社的座右銘是「服務愈多、獲益愈大」，這就是成功之道。
作為扶輪社員，我有幸能遵循扶輪社的座右銘。誠如約翰．赫斯所說：「偉人有四個共同點。他們語調溫和、不怕勞苦、志向堅定，對自己的能力有無比的信心。」
「生活是旅途，不是終點。」不過，我們應該享受這旅途，不應該總是將快樂視為遙遠的目標。旅途上，我們難免不斷搜索、不斷刺探、不斷渴望，但我們同時應該要享受這旅途，而且一定要享受，不應總是問什麼時候才會到達。也許我們都應該首先成功做到這一點。
謝謝大家。
本文摘譯自夏利里拉集團主席夏利萊博士於本年十一月十四日在香港浸會大學之公開講座發表演說，題為─「成功之道」。

成功之道-信報財經新聞

承蒙浸會大學頒授榮譽工商管理博士學位，本人深感榮幸，謹此致謝。我對浸會大學有着深厚的感情，由開始認識到現在為止，我對浸大有許多美好的回憶。尤其使我感到欣喜的是，浸大在短短的時間內，已經發展成為香港最出色的大學之一，實在令人驚歎。

在座可能有人還記得，數個月前我曾經以「領導才能」為題，與大家分享我的個人心得。要成功就不能缺少領導才能，今天我要講的題目就是「成功之道」。許多人會埋怨成功總是與自己擦肩而過，而實際上大多數人都不會分析自己的事業發展方向去斷定這方向是否正確。我們必須記住，只有渴望成功的人才會獲得成功。

我可以肯定，你們當中許多人都接觸過不少以「成功」為題的書籍，由成功（也有不怎麼成功的）人士撰寫。這類書有如雨後春筍般遍地都是，記載着不同領域人士的成功事迹。這類書籍，除了一本之外，其餘我都沒讀過。原因是我的一位朋友送了我一本保羅．格蒂（Paul Getty）的成功故事，還力勸我一定要讀。大概因為盛情難卻，所以，在有關「成功」的芸芸眾書中我讀了這一本。

達成個人目標
讓我印象深刻的第一點是，保羅．格蒂對於「成功」的定義跟許多人的想法完全不一樣。大多數人都會將金錢視為是評量「成功」的主要指標，這種現象在香港尤為普遍。可是，我們必須記住，金錢並不是唯一的考慮因素。在各個不同的領域，例如文藝、醫學、建築、科學、體育等等，都有該領域的佼佼者。問題是，領域與領域之間的界別多不勝數，我們該如何簡單地為「成功」下定義？

要找答案，我們可以查閱《簡明牛津英文字典》。這本全球最成功的字典將 Success 解釋為：「成就、達成目標」，對我來說，「成功」就是達成個人定下的目標，就是那麼簡單。
你一定要設定目標，然後朝着目標進發。要能夠起步，一點點的運氣對你會有幫助，所謂：「好運是鍥而不捨的代名詞」，所以運氣並非純屬偶然。要達成目標，除了運氣，還需要努力付出、誠懇的態度、自發的精神、遠大的眼光以及抓住機遇的勇氣。

要有這許多因素，我們方可能談論成功。事實上，「成功」永遠都是一個指標，用來評量你在通過一切努力之後能否達到你當初所設定的目標。

我不會過分信命，但我肯定你們都明白，你個人的命運並不全是由你個人主宰着。命運並非偶然，而是一種選擇。命運不是等回來的，而是爭取得來的成果。

機會、機遇、一點點的運氣（你甚至可以稱之為神靈的安排），三者合起來決定了你的成敗。多年的經驗使我相信，我對這三個因素堅信不疑證明是正確的。

許多人似乎以為，這世上有開啟寶藏的通關密語，但事實上，成功之門不會因為「芝麻開門」這句咒語而打開。要達至成功，一定要靠努力和機會。在你感到沮喪之前，我應該提醒你，這世上有的是機會。我自己就已經完成了好幾個人生目標，也還有許多我希望完成的目標。也許我應該先談一談，到目前為止協助我達至成功的各種因素，好讓你們明白我的意思。

明修栈道, 暗渡陳倉

Today, I watched a TV programme in CCTV4. It was talking about one of the historical Chinese stories: Thirty-six Startagem "三十六計". Ther are thirty six stories in the Thirty-Six Stratagem. The programme talked about one of them. That is "Openly repair the gallery roads, but sneak through the passage of Chencang", in Chinese "明修栈道, 暗渡陳倉". I like the original passage in Chinese as follows.

“示之以动，利其静而有主，益动而巽。”from wikipedia

In there, 巽 is one of the symbols in "易經", which means wind. The whole passage means to do something silence to distract your enemy and move to your target as fast as wind. Why wind? Wind moves fast and silent.

Think how to apply in daily life.

Stagflation

Stagflation = Stagnation + Recession + Deflation

Our Shanghai Vacation Trip

I've just completed my Shanghai vacation trip yesterday. This trip started on 15 November. We stayed in Sofia Hotel at Nanking East Road. Sofia is not a top hotel but it is okay with its facilities such as breakfast. The room is quiet small indeed. But it is at the heart of shopping center in Shanghai, that is Nanking walker street (南京步行街) .

We stayed there for three nights that was starting as usual walking about the Nanking Street. Since we arrived there in the afternoon. We tried some wen tun. I think it is not expensive. At night, we went to my working place in the past, i.e. Xuhui district. Of course, I booked a table for two at the Shanghai old station restaurant (上海老飯店), that is the one you can see a train inside the restaurant. I was there once time before, everything seems no changes. What did we try? I recalled some appetizer such as smoking fishes (I don't know how to describe it in English), drank chicken, and a shrimp dishes, also spicy and sour soup. I should say it is not too bad. The restaurant itself, the interior is much attractive as it displays many antiques, and one of them shows a very interesting Chinese poem that we'd taken many picture of it.

Second day, as usual, we wake up late in the morning and had our breakfast at about 1030. Breakfast is in western style mainly and those serving people didn't hear our Chinese, of course, we were speaking in potungwah already and they liked us to speak English. The view at the restaurant is good as you can see street view of Nanking road, and some historical western style building.

We went out for lunch just after our breakfast. So every time, we went out for food, my feeling was full only. This time we went to another Shanghai restaurant called "王加沙" at Nanking Street West. The famous dishes is siu long bao, it just likes people who says how good a steak is, "the siu long bao is very juicy". There is a kind of very big siu long bao, it is served with a strew to drink the soup.

After the very nice meal, it had a biggest event of this trip. My wife went to shopping and would like to buy some clothes for her uncle's daugther wedding party. Where we go? We went to the infamous "茂名南路" where many boutique are there especially for traditional Chinese lady dress "kei po". We went to there by taxi and just get off at the Cathy Pacific cinema. We went to the most famous shop there called "金枝玉葉". The lady there was not very kind to us. They spoke loudly in Shanghais that we don't understand. The clothes is very beautiful. I think it is a kind of Art and of course the price is high as well. It costs about RMB1,500 in average. We went to another nearest shop "花樣年華". There were three saleswomen there. When you say there are three women, in Chinese, it means there is a market a.k.a very noisy. One of the sales was very aggressive, asking my wife to try almost six clothes. Every time, my wife changed the clothes and came out to have a look. They said something like "Very fit to your body, just like customized made, very nice... blah blah blah." Finally, we brought three clothes for about RMB3,000. One of it needed to be modified and we collected it in the following day.

We went back to hotel first and then came out again to meet our University friend and my ex-colleague and having dinner at yuen yuen restaurant (圓苑). It was a nice meal. I mean the environment was good. However, the food was too salty or too sweet. The old station restaurant at Xuhui is better.

Then, we started our third day in Shanghai. In the morning, we went to meet my ex-colleague for lunch and then went to bank trying to close my bank account. Unfortunately, I didn't bring my bank book so that they didn't allow me to close it but just took out all the money from the account. In the afternoon, we went to buy some souvenirs. We bought some Chinese style candy and a big piece of Chinese style "Kam Wah Ham".

That night, we went to "王寶和" to taste Shanghai Crab (大閘蟹). It was very delicous and really full. I think we shall go to Shanghai every year to taste this.

On last day, we went to "豫園" and tried "寧波湯圓". Then we went to Xin tin di for lunch. We flied back to Hong Kong in the afternoon. And of course, we tried "永和豆漿" first then we took Maglev that take only 7 minutes from Loong Yeung Station to the Airport.

This was our trip. Next station could be Soeul or Japan again.

Comments from Prof. Roubini about coming finanical market

I've just read RGM and found a new article from Prof. Roubini about his view on current economy crisis. His comments is same as before that there will be stagflation in 2009 or it will last for at least for 12 months from now. Bottom is not yet reached and the aggregate demand curve will drop due to drop in investment, commodities and wages. The article is titled "The Dismal Outlook for the US and Global Economy and the Financial Markets". It is worth to read. He has pointed out the future outlook, the environment is getting worser. He wrote the following:

So serious risks and vulnerabilities remain and the downside risks to financial markets will dominate over the next few months the positive news. So beware of those who tell you that we reached a bottom for risky financial assets. The same optimists told you that we reached a bottom and the worst was behind us after the rescue of the creditors of Bear Stearns in March, after the announcement of the possible bailout of Fannie and Freddie in July, after the actual bailout of Fannie and Freddie in September, after the bailout of AIG in mid September, after the TARP legislation was presented, after the latest G7 and EU action. In each case the optimists argued that the latest crisis and rescue policy response was “THE CATHARTIC” event that signaled the bottom of the crisis and the recovery of markets. They were wrong literally at least six times in a row as the crisis - as I consistently predicted here over the last year – became worse and worse. So enough of the excessive optimism that has been proven wrong at least six times in the last eight months alone.

I agree with him as I can see there are many so called optimists in Hong Kong predicting HSI will rise up to 17,000 within weeks after China anounced the 280 billion US stimulus plan. Unfortunately, I think some people trust that still.

However, the question that I am very interested to know is "How to invest during deflation?" During defaltion, everything's price drops.

Finally, I've found a blog telling some things about what to do during both inflation and deflation. In short, during deflation, property is the best. During inflation, cash is king, then gold could be considered. However, I don't know what is CD as mentioned in the article. Will find out what it is.

The following is list of investment during inflation and deflation mentioned in the blog.

Investment Themes For Hyperinflation

• In hyperinflation the last place one wants to be is in cash.
• Commodities in general are a standout.
• Gold is a standout.
• Precious metals are a standout.
• Property is a winner.
• Equities are a winner.
• Treasuries are distinct losers if not an outright short.
• Foreign currencies
• Energy

Investment Themes For Deflation

• In deflation, debt is the enemy.
• Risk is to be avoided.
• Cash is raised.
• Treasuries are sought out as a safe haven.
• CD ladders offer a good investment structure.
• Gold, acting as money does well.
• Select equity shorts or PUTs are a standout.
• Renting as opposed to owning a house should be considered.
• Currency plays

1 dollar GDP growth

Just read a daily report written by Mr Cho from Hong Kong Economic Journel. He said that 1 dollar (should be US dollar) GDP growth in first tier countries is equivalent to 4 to 5 dollars credits in financial market. In the past, a big portion of GDP growth was driven by credit in US. But now, in recession, GDP must drop and thus credit needs to be dropped too.

This means it is difficult to get money from the bank to buy things meaning difficult to do business.

Predictions about China Large Fiscal Stimulus

Government of China has announced the ten-stimulus plan on 9 Nov 2008 that will provide 4-trillion yuen (about US$586 billion) investment on infrastructure, low-cost housing, supporting rural villagers and reduces tax. The purpose is to ensure the eight percent growth rate in 2009. Some analysts said it was unneccessary since there was no financial problem happening in China. Simply the situation is not the same as in US. Some said it was good to have. Of course, in any case, you will say no, if someone buy you lunch.

These are predictions made by 林行止 today in Hong Kong Economic Journal on 11 Nov 2008.

第一、國際市場多項商品期貨的價格，必然由於國內再加大基建規模令需求大增而上升（油價聞聲升百分之三點八、黃銅升百分之八），那些內地有出產及生產的，因為本地需求轉殷、出口量下降，國際價格自然上揚；而若干內地無所出而必需從國際市場購買的，在供應不可能突增的條件下，價格亦必然攀升。值得注意的是，在眾多僅僅於三數個月前金融海嘯未至時供應管道出現嚴重的所謂「瓶頸問題」一度令價格飛漲的商品，其價格極可能在衰退陰影下再次飛躍。這種很快便會顯現的價格趨勢，為快將出現的通脹打好再度肆虐的基礎。

Point 1: Price of goods will rise again due to increase of demands. Although there is recession, trend of price is increasing and this establishes a ground for inflation.

第二、大量投入，可望維持失業率於「可接受」水平，內地的消費市場應該好轉，因為投入產生的乘數作用會推動總體經濟發展；今年第三季中國ＧＤＰ增幅百分之九，比今年首季增幅達百分之十點六固然大為遜色，較去年同期的百分之十點○一亦有所不如；第三季增幅為三年來首次跌落單位數字。如此增幅，是所有成熟經濟體系不敢想像的高速增長，但中國有就業人口太多（鄉民大量湧進城市找工作）必須解決的困難，保持高增長是唯一壓低失業率的途徑。

Point 2: Investement increases and then employment rate decreases. This helps to absort the massive man power generated from the villages (annually 240k? people from village to city not including new graduates) and avoid high employment rate.

第三、以中國的現行制度，自私人性很難滿足，因此貪腐之風極可能變本加厲，此次出台的「十措施」（十招），包括取消對中小企及對商業（其實是國營）銀行的貸款限制，雖是對症下藥，但「取消限制」等於增加貸款部門的酌情權，因此，這些措施不僅會形成更巨額的足以禍及日後經濟發展的「應收未收賬」問題，而且必然會令貪污之風更猖狂！

Point 3: Ease access to credits meaning money loaning is relaxed and this gives more chances corruption happening in China.

Finally

Finally, I am now waiting in the business class lounge in tao yuan international airport at Taipei. My flight will leave the airport at about 1600 and I have plenty of time to try beef soup noodle and meat dumpling. I also drink a can of taiwan beer.

This should be the last time to come to here for work. As usual, people in the hotel asked me the next trip to Taipei when I signed my credit card recipt. I replied them this time: "I don't know, and will call to book later on". In my mind, I think I am no longer need to book a room next time there. Perhaps, next time, I will come with my wife for vacation.

I would like to say thank to my colleague Fynn for his help. He spent his morning time helping me handling my bank account. This guy is special and he has many stories in his mind and those stories should be his real experience otherwise he should be a very creative people. Frankly, I asked him to write a book to record down all what he experience, and it should be very interesting to read.

It was nice to know and meet a Hong Kong people in Taipei who has been living there for three years. By the way, his favourite slang is "小你老母". He said many others, but this one was what I'd heard many times within every hour.

Another colleague that comes to my mind is yingtz who worked with me since I joined the company. I didn't know him until we went to Eastern Europe for an impossible mission. We had very good experience travelling different countries in that area. Yes, this was him to ask searching where was table dance in warsawa and we found one there. I can recall he enjoyed very much that night. We travelled together in most of my business trip.

After this journey, as predicted by the fortune teller in 2006 summer that I would be separated from the wife. I think this should end the curse. However, no pain no gain. After this journey, I've gained lot of new friend, met interesting people from different countries and definitely it has widen my eyes much.

The most important is that it is experience myself what it is in these places in the Earth. For me, it has been very unusal. I think this is life, and it is quite colorful whenever you look back someday. Have you experience your life yet?

Any much unusal thing is coming, I wishes to see what it is.

I'm really enjoy to work in this company but unfortunatly, there is no prefect thing. As someone reminded me this job by its nature not considering any technical skills is for someone who is single and not going to marry, young and pro-active. Pracitcally, this can only be done for a few years, one year is enough for me. I've heard some taiwan people would travel for this life until retriement. This is too exhausive. For us, the someone, finally, wants stable life.

Although we cannot control things to happen, we can positon ourselves to places that it looks stable. The rest should leave to your destiny. Again, I think I've made a good choice to join this ocmpany.

Say good bye to Taipei

Today is my last day with the taiwan based company. This company is very big and special that it gives me a ground not even to exploit what I've learned in my University studies, but also putting me to another levels which is what I feel. This also gives me a very good opportunity to me so that I can open my eyes to see the world. The world is really big and it is full of fun to explore it during my search on map database. I have been in many countries in Eastern Europe. Starting from Hong Kong, then I flied to Germany, visited Croatia, and ran to Warsawza. I was also been in Moscow, and Baltics, as well as Cluj, a city in Romainia. The most beautiful city is Praha in Czech. You can listen many good music there in some very old church. This is interesting without doubt as I didn't meet a friend of mine in my own city who has travelled for so many cities as I did.

More funny thing is that I have a chance to meet GIS specialist, Land Surveyor and spatial experts all over the world, perhaps, most in Eastern Europe. I've found that we have a common lanugages that other people cannot understand too. This is a good experience and I've found common thing happening in different part of the world that open source GIS system is growing very fast. Another common thing is that most map providers would use ESRI ArcGIS for data editing. This gives me a signal that ArcGIS is still a very powerful in map production.

This is not the end as another interesting experience is to build a car navigation system. Although I managed this kind of project or product before, this time was different as my counterpart was not usual. He was a Professor in Mathematics. I really admired his talent and ability. But there is nothing prefect in the world that smart people is normally stubborned or you can say they are difficult to communicate.

Sometimes, I felt people focused on talking more than real works.

Well, my next stop is the Government and hope I can see more and of course, I would like to apply what I've learned in data modeling, web mapping and other technologies in my works.

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中國的形勢很不妥. 很麻煩. 如沒有足夠的重藥, 未來三個月很可能出現工廠倒閉潮.

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12 simple ways to supercharge your brain

This is extraction from yahoo.com. I think I've done about four only. I drink apple juice during my flight time. I sleep very well. I always exercise my mind by blogging, reading books and listening music. I also practice tai chi that is a kind of mediation but just whenever I am in Hong Kong.

I may need to encourage my wife to encourage me to do the rest.

Here are some things you can begin doing as soon as today to begin the great brain tune up:

Eat Almonds
Almond is believed to improve memory. If a combination of almond oil and milk is taken together before going to bed or after getting up at morning, it strengthens our memory power. Almond milk is prepared by crushing the almonds without the outer cover and adding water and sugar to it.

Drink Apple Juice
Research from the University of Massachusetts Lowell (UML) indicates that apple juice increases the production of the essential neurotransmitter acetylcholine in the brain, resulting in an increased memory power.

Sleep well
Research indicates that the long-term memory is consolidated during sleep by replaying the images of the experiences of the day. These repeated playbacks program the subconscious mind to store these images and other related information.

Enjoy simple Pleasures
Stress drains our brainpower. A stress-ridden mind consumes much of our memory resources to leave us with a feeble mind. Make a habit to engage yourself in few simple pleasures everyday to dissolve stress from your mind. Some of these simple pleasures are good for your mind, body and soul.

• Enjoy music you love
• Play with your children
• Appreciate others
• Run few miles a day, bike or swim
• Start a blog
• Take a yoga class or Total Wellness routine

Exercise your mind
Just as physical exercise is essential for a strong body, mental exercise is equally essential for a sharp and agile mind. Have you noticed that children have far superior brainpower than an adult does? Children have playful minds. A playful mind exhibits superior memory power. Engage in some of the activities that require your mind to remain active and playful.

• Play scrabble or crossword puzzle
• Volunteer
• Interact with others
• Start a new hobby such as blogging, reading, painting, bird watching
• Learn new skill or a foreign language

Practice Yoga or Meditation
Yoga or Meditation relives stress. Stress is a known memory buster. With less stress, lower blood pressure, slower respiration, slower metabolism, and released muscle tension follows. All of these factors contribute significantly towards increases in our brainpower.

Reduce Sugar intake
Sugar is a non-food. It’s a form of carbohydrate that offers illusionary energy, only to cause a downhill slump once the initial burst has been worn off. Excess intake of sugar results in neurotic symptoms. Excess sugar is known to cause claustrophobia, memory loss and other neurotic disorders. Eat food without adding sugar. Stay away from sweet drinks or excess consumption of caffeine with sugar.

Eat whole wheat
The whole wheat germs contain lecithin. Lecithin helps ease the problem of the hardening of the arteries, which often impairs brain functioning.

Eat a light meal at night
A heavy meal at night causes tossing and turning and a prolonged emotional stress while at sleep. It’s wise to eat heavy meal during the day when our body is in motion to consume the heavy in-take. Eating a light meal with some fruits allows us to sleep well. A good night sleep strengthens our brainpower.

Develop imagination
Greeks mastered the principle of imagination and association to memorize everything. This technique requires one to develop a vivid and colorful imagination that can be linked to a known object. If you involve all your senses - touching, feeling, smelling, hearing and seeing in the imagination process, you can remember greater details of the event.

Control your temper
Bleached food, excess of starch or excess of white bread can lead to nerve grating effect. This results in a violent and some time depressive behavior. Eat fresh vegetables. Drink lots of water and meditate or practice yoga to relieve these toxic emotions of temper and stressful mood swings.

Take Vitamin B-complex
Vitamin B-complex strengthens memory power. Eat food and vegetables high in Vitamin B-complex. Stay away from the starch food or white bread, which depletes the Vitamin B-complex necessary for a healthy mind.

Reference: 12 simple ways to supercharge your brain

Stagflation, Stag-deflation

Prof. Roubini mentioned about Stag-deflation in his RGE Monitor web site. He said that in coming years or a period of time, not yet defined, there will be Stag-deflation. To understand what is Stag-deflation, then you may need to know how price level relates to output. According to Roubini, Stag-deflation means Stagnation and Deflation happen at the same time. This means low output and low price level. The effect to the society is low employment rate and price of good becomes cheaper. This is in constrast to Stagflation that means Stagnation and deflation happen at the same time. When this happens, price level increases but output stays at low level meaning low employment rate. This happens until economy becomes better, price rise again, and output rise again.

Therefore, to make output back to normal, companies shall cut cost and the most effective way is to cut headcount and layoff employees. Government needs to increase expense while Government needs money to spend. Officers in Hong Kong Government has indicated a big deficit next year. There are only three ways to increase Government income. 1. print more money, 2. rasie taxes, 3. borrow money. I think Hong Kong Government cannot go for 1 and 3. Will they increase tax to get money or just do nothing?

Let's see what happens.

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sustainable development of GIS in Hong Kong

What is sustainable development of GIS? It is about a framework or strategy or a pattern that can enable any potential GIS users to enjoy and make use of the power of GIS with indefinite future. Development of GIS is to solve daily geographical problem in the community, for example, production of digital map database, dissemination of map database, enable potential map database users to build up GIS, and enables them to perform analysis and discover geographic pattern with minimize efforts and resources. To understand how to make GIS development becomes a sustainable task, we shall have well-understand about what components are required to build a GIS system. Here, I am not talking about building a GIS software, but an application that can make use of GIS concept and technologies to solve geographic problem. In general, a GIS system is composed of software, hardware and human resources. Software means a GIS software that is available in the market that meets at least minimum requirements of your organization. Hardware is typically server based system or even a desktop hardware system. Human resources is about project management professional, GIS specialists and GIS programmer who understand very well about the software and hardware so that they can define methodology, schedule, technique as well as specifications to implement the GIS system.

To make thing becomes sustainable. One method is to enable those resources that we pour into the system becomes re-usable. Another method is to minimize the cost of spending for acquiring resources. To do this, we shall have technology. If we have technology in hand, and we can have sufficient skills to manipulate technology, technology itself can help us to minimize resources and ensure scalability with inexpensive components. In fact, this is not a new concept and it has been realized in Google search engine. Google is a technology company that they have capability to develop a invincible search engine and the entire system is scalable to a very large matrix with cheap machine and even free software, i.e. Linux.

The key to the road of sustainable is technology. Using technology is not a trival task to many people as it has risk embedded somewhere. Applying technology is not a straight forward thing that you can enjoy success within one month or even a year. Applying technology requires people immense into it and to keep thinking to tackle any obstacles in front.

In this case, it is obvious that to build a sustainable GIS system, one shall have technology, more than that is courage. In addition, one shall have knowledge to handle technology with open source software platform. Once people gains knowledge to open source software platform, it is about opening your potential to the sea of massive computing power as there is no longer restriction to run your server or program on Wintel machine. Operating system license could be lowered to nothing. As the level of gaining knowledge of an open source software platform that means to enable specialists and programmers not only to build new components/modules on it but also they can perform system tuning without asking your GIS vendors for changes and bug fixing without timetable and commitment.

However, in current technology in GIS, there are different architectures of it and it can server different purposes. In general, there are desktop GIS and web mapping. In recent years, GIS development on web mapping especially in open source arena is very popular and it has reached a mature point that can be depolyed for production use. There are many open source web map software in the market now and the most popular are including mapserver, geoserver, openlayer and ka-map. On the other hand, for desktop GIS, brandname software is still having their advantages.

In case in Hong Kong, the Government can start consider open-sources web mapping software so that it can lower resources and make GIS becomes an afforable and if it comes true, more and more people can use it.