黃竹坑：地區工作常在我心

2008年7月1日星期二

藍色黃竹坑 WCH in Blue

How's it look like if WCH in blue? I share with you the following pictures:

這是上星期拍下的藍色黃竹坑，讓我想起以前寫的"送你一片藍"。見：
http://hk.myblog.yahoo.com/our_wch/searchblog_art?p=%E8%97%8D&my=1

又，回送一輪明月給一位網友：人造的燈光，不管多光多亮，顯得多麼醜陋!

And, it's a photo to a net friend. She sent me a similar picture last week. No matter how bright it is, the lamp is so ugly while comparing to the Moon.

背後是黃竹坑的新加坡國際學校.

The background is the Singapore International School in WCH.

2008年6月30日星期一

爭取南區地鐵隧道方案簽名 Signature Campaign for an Underground SIL

My party launched a signature campaign in Aberdeen yesterday to fight for an underground SIL, and we urged the SIL should be put into service before 2015.

The main reason of this proposal is that(borrow Mr Kam Nai Wai's phase) "we wanted to protect the beauty & silence of the Southern District. The proposal by the MTRC (which the MTR Line will be built in stilts) will certainly damage the environment and cause nuisance to residents!"(see:http://hk.myblog.yahoo.com/ah-kam/article?mid=321)

You could browse for the detailed reasons at http://hk.myblog.yahoo.com/our_wch/article?mid=3030&prev=2972&next=3008

We got heaven's blessing yesterday that it didn't rain when we were asking for support. The result is quite encouraing, we got more than 600 signatures in abound 3 hours.

I'm asking for your support to sign it online:　http://www.petitiononline.com/SouthMTR/

為爭取南區地鐵以隧道形式興建，並於2015年通車，昨天楊森、甘乃威、柴文瀚、羅健熙和我在香港仔中心的成都道舉行簽名運動。(可瀏覽甘乃威網誌，裡面有更多照片：http://hk.myblog.yahoo.com/ah-kam/article?mid=321)

我們爭取的理據，詳見：http://hk.myblog.yahoo.com/our_wch/article?mid=3030&prev=2972&next=3008

當天天公作美(天公好像總是對我作美，每到我負責舉辦一些活動時都"好俾面,唔落雨"，哈哈。)，市民反應非常踴躍，三個多小時裡我們就取得600多個簽名。

我們會繼續爭取，歡迎大家網上聯署：http://www.petitiononline.com/SouthMTR/

我面容憔悴了一點，因為前兩天著涼了。這兩天喉嚨發炎，乾咳且帶痰，睡也睡不好。

I don't look well because I caught cold last week. My throat is sitll dry and it gets irritation. Worse, it makes me cough and can't sleep well.

明天是七一，維園見！

As usual, we will have another 1 July March, see you there!

2008年6月27日星期五

不要怕 Don't be afraid

I would like to share a story with you today, a story always appear in my mind when I have to make serious decision. It's a story between a father and a son.

There were a father and a son lived in a remote village. The father gave a note to his son while the young man decided to go out to fight for his own dream. "Don't be afraid", the father wrote.

After some decades, the son returned his hometown. His father had passed away, but he left another note to his son: "Don't regret".

和大家分享一個貼在我中學時的一本日記簿裡故事，一個當我需下重要決定而猶豫不決時經常想起的故事：

話說一條偏僻的小山村裡，父親在年輕的兒子出城工作時，送給他一張紙條。兒子到城裡後，打開紙條，裡面寫著三個字：不要怕。

幾十年後，兒子告老回鄉，父親已經逝世，留下另一張紙條，裡面寫著四個字：不要後悔。

2008年6月26日星期四

黃竹坑配水庫 Wong Chuk Hang Reservoir

因收到南朗山道上面配水庫一個小個案，上星期再次特意上去看看那裡的設施：前陣子設施損壞，現應已維修；居民又指附近雜草叢生。

I went to the Wong Chuk Hang Reservoir last week to check the facility and to follow up a case which resident complaint the Reservoir is full of weeds.

早上有不少居民在此晨運，我上來時大約兩點半，上面空無一人，天氣好熱.....

前陣子損壞的設施果然已維修妥當。

Residents usually come here to do exercise in the morning. I arrived around 2:30pm , nobody there. It's quite hot.

The broken facility has been replaced by new one.

這裡就是居民所指雜草叢生，滋生蚊蟲的地點。

So, this is the place where resident complaints there is full of weeds.

回來時，碰上國際學校放學，出現了一陣子車龍。

There's a car queue at the Nam Long Shan Road while I going back to office, because the parents took up their children in the two international schools there.

2008年6月24日星期二

聯署支持以地下隧道興建南區地鐵：可行又可取的替代方案

http://www.petitiononline.com/SouthMTR/

要求盡快興建南區地鐵！我們認為：以地下隧道形式，而不是以高架橋興建南區地鐵是既可行又更可取的替代方案。

(參考我早前的跟進：http://hk.myblog.yahoo.com/our_wch/article?mid=2860　及http://hk.myblog.yahoo.com/our_wch/index?l=f&id=12)

致：香港鐵路有限公司行政總裁周松崗先生
　　香港特別行政局政府運輸及房屋局局長鄭汝樺女士

　　　　　　　　　　　架空鐵路　永無寧日

香港鐵路有限公司決定興建南港島線，我們對此非常歡迎，並深切希望南港島線能早日通車、方便南區居民。

惟對其提出的初步方案，我們亦深表關注。我們要求「以隧道形式興建南港島線」，反對「架空鐵路」的模式。原因如下：

　1) 影響安寧：
　　架空鐵路模式勢必構成噪音滋擾，嚴重影響南區素有安寧。隧道方案可解決此問題。

　2) 造成震盪：
　　鐵路沿線會造成強烈震盪情況，影響附近居民日常生活。隧道方案可避免這些影響。

　3) 破壞景觀：
　　南港島線以架空模式興建，猶如「火龍」般由海洋公園開始劃破黃竹坑，並伸延至鴨月利洲方始消失。南區現正有大量旅遊發展項目，日後每兩、三分鐘便有列車在架空路段經過，對南區景觀構成極大破壞！隧道方案可保南區漂亮美景。

　4) 忽視環保：
　　架空鐵路將需要大量砍伐樹木，使空氣質素變差；該處亦有不同雀鳥棲生，砍伐樹木將破壞生態環境；架空鐵路亦影響部份地區日光照射；以上各項，可見架空鐵路不能與區內自然環境配合；隧道方案可保育南區環境。

　5) 影響旅遊規劃：
　　南區已計劃多項發展計劃，並將以旅遊發展為南區之主軸，由黃竹坑至香港仔均有不同旅遊景點。架空鐵路方案破壞景觀和造成噪音，將會對旅遊發展造成不良影響。

　6) 影響樓宇結構：
　　現時建議在漁安苑地基下三米經過，屋苑居民極為擔心樓宇結構會因此被影響。若使用隧道方案，將可保障居民利益，釋除居民疑慮。

　7) 不便居民使用：
　　黃竹坑站擬設於黃竹坑村舊址，深灣居民（如雅濤閣、南濤閣）需要步行很長時間才能到達乘搭港鐵。若能以隧道興建，將能在地底連接深灣屋苑，方便居民使用。

我們支持盡快興建南港島線，並要求以隧道形式興建。

2008年6月23日星期一

推廣器官捐贈 Promotion of Organ Donation

Organ donation saves lives! I joined the Youth Committee of my party to promote the organ donation in Causeway Bay yesterday.

We Chinese have traditional thinking that we must preserve the whole body after we die, I think it's one of the main reasons that less people donate their organ in HK.

It seemed the above thinking is not dominating any more. I observed that people who knew what we were doing accepted the organ donation, especially for young people. They got our leaflets and came up to get the donation card.

The traditional way of thinking and attitude changes with time. Chinese people don't accept cremation some decades ago, but it's generally accepted. We still need to do a lot of work to make organ donation acceptable by the society, in order to help those who longing for the organ transplant operation.

上星期六帶團旅行，和陽光玩遊戲後，第二天下午就在羅鑼灣近SOGO幫民主黨青年委員會推廣器官損贈。幸好高樓大廈熟遮住了陽光，不致沐浴於陽光之下。