Leglessbird Sharing

Dear Friends,

We are pleased to announce that Leglessbird now has a new look and a new structure equipped with a membership system, it provides a much better user experience for our friends to share their travel trips, restaurant experience, movies review and beyond. Thus, we wanted to wait for the new site to be up and running before sending out this month's sharing.

We are organising a travel sharing on Discovering Nepal on Wed 15 Nov at 7pm. Details can be found here. We are going to Nepal in Dec, anyone wants to join us can find out more detail about our package here.

Irene and Dominic

What are we up to?
Well, apart from more wedding banquet in Oct and more to be expected in Nov, I participated in an event jointly organised by HK Cambridge alumni club and St James Settlement to have fun together with mentally handicapped adults at the "Music Farm".

We enjoyed a very nice boat trip organised by the Warwick alumni club, visiting Grass Island, Tung Ping Chau and Kut O.

8 day Kathmandu, Pokhara, Dhampus Trek and Nargarkot
by guest write - Bonnie

Dhampus trek ? is one of the classic Himalayan trekking regions. We get through Hindu villages where we will be assured of a warm welcome; follow trails through oak and forest where the sound of the bird calls fill the air and camp in serene locations that afford magnificent views of the Annapurna Range. During the fall will allow us to see farmers harvesting rice and millet. We will climb couple of Himalayan hills up to over 1700 m for exceptional views of the Annapurnas and Machhapuchhare. All this in the company of our magnificent crew whose friendship, sense of humour and caring nature ensure that your trek is a memorable one.

Highlight of the tour:

This month, we want to share, not nice restaurant, good movie or good book, but a message on environment.

59th Minute

Dr. Jane Goodall recently came to Hong Kong again to deliver her lecture "Reason for hope", I once attended her talk in Hong Kong in 2005 on a similar topic. The message is loud and clear, we human are harming the very planet that we live on, the very precious resources that we depend on. The damage is now so extensive that we must do something to reverse it and we must act now and not tomorrow or wait for the next generation to suffer and take action.

Sharng the same message is David Suzuki, a Canadian environmentalist. I watched a TV program by him recently. He used this analogy to illustrate his point (a question that I used to use as a brain teaser)

• Imagine that you put one bacteria in a test tube full of food
• Such bacteria divides and doubles every minute
• Let's say, the test tube becomes full after 60 minutes

When was the test-tube half full?

The answer is 59th minute. And in fact, at 55th minute, the test tube was only around 3% full. If someone raises a question at 55th minute and talks about the danger of over-population and shortage of resources when they only occupy 3% of the space, most people would think that he is crazy and worries too much.

Today, if you ask around, many people believe we have passed the 59th Minute.

What has gone wrong? Is it already too late? Regardless of the answers to these questions, let's take action today!

Upcoming event - organised by Warwick Alumni Association
Art Appreciate Tour on 18 Nov 06 (Sat)
似與不似?遼寧省博物館藏齊白石精品
Likeness and Unlikeness: A Selection of Works by Qi Baishi
Date: 18 November 2006 (Saturday)
Time: 2:15pm- 4:15pm
Gathering point: B/F (Lecture Theatre), Hong Kong Museum of Art, Tsim Sha Tsui
Admission Fee: HK$10 (HK$7 for group ticket with over 20 people)
Mr. Marco Szeto, curator of Xubaizhai Gallery of the Hong Kong Museum of Art will give a 20-min briefing session.

Please contact Irene by Wed 15 Nov.