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Helping 116K People?
Oct 15 -
When I've answered a few questions from Facebook about local businesses...
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Lamma Phone Case
Oct 14
- "Lamma Island.
Eccentric, independent, and removed from the Hong Kong rat race."
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In Memoriam
Oct 1
- 7th anniversary of this traumatic accident off
Pak Kok.
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Oct 19: Around
Lamma Races
Lamma has been surrounded today,
41
"OC6, OC1, Surfski, Coastal
Rowers annual race around Lamma.
Morning and Afternoon races and
amazing BBQ afterwards. Hosted
by Lamma Outrigger Canoe Club"
Start picture from Lorraine
Cushnie, plus
a few more:
After the races, big BBQ and
after party at Power Station
beach! Results photo from
Claudia:
Plus my photo album from a past
race when I joined in on a
support boat all the way around
Lamma!
Oct 15: Helping
116K People?
When I've answered a few
questions from Facebook about
local businesses over the years,
I didn't realise that I was
actually helping over 116,000
people!
 Might Facebook's
blue-faced/haired avatar
exaggerate here a little bit to
stroke my fragile ego, which is
a major feature of most social
media? Is answering questions
about the cuisine and opening
hours of local restaurants
really "helping people"?
Well, I hope so! Supporting
local businesses in various ways
has always been a major aim of
the Lamma-zine! How can we help
yours today?
P.S. Should I
aspire for more badges beyond my
current 2?
Oct 14: Lamma
Phone Case
One of the businesses that
started out on Lamma, spreading
all over Hong Kong, becoming
very successful,
Yardley Brothers Beer,
has some of the best designs for
their bottles and marketing
materials, all designed by
Lamma's own
Ben Appleby.
One of their many fans made this
phone case. I liked especially
their description of Yardley's
birthplace:
"Lamma Island.
Eccentric,
independent, and removed from
the Hong Kong rat race."
Sounds like it might fit me
personally as well, escaping
from the corporate rat race on
HK Island to Lamma Island almost
2 decades ago.
Oct 11: Most
Liked Photo
My most popular photo on
Facebook of 2016:
 Tsui
Wah ferry arriving
from Aberdeen at Pak Kok ferry
pier, shot from my former flat's
rooftop.
There have been quite a few news
about this pier recently, from
small renovations to building
a new, side-docking pier over
the next 2 years.
Shortly before National Day,
this flag has been cemented into
a seabed rock, just off the
pier. It seems to be planned as
permanent, unlike the many
national flags at the pier
flying just for a few days
before/after National Day.
 
Oct 10: Feeling
Creative @ Jungle Home Office
Oct 9: Getting
Broadband Internet, Finally!
All of Lamma Island gets wired broadband Internet from
monopoly PCCW, a maximum of
3Mbps for almost all of the
island. In the last 20 years their
max. broadband speed on Lamma
has dropped to half and the cost
has almost doubled.
Just recently, an exorbitantly
pricey premium upgrade has been
launched at almost
$500/month,
available only in a few villages
in the Greater YSW Area.
In the meantime, our new village
house, completed several years
ago, hasn't even been connected
at all yet. PCCW promise to
connect us has moved from
end-Sep to next year!
No wonder they're losing many
Lamma customers and have only
recently become
more responsive when you
threaten to cancel their
broadband. After my long,
friendly rant to their phone
support the other day, finally
some action! I've just met their
guy today who was working on
installing the broadband cable
to our house.
In the meantime, this is the
off-peak-hours speed on my PC,
connecting to my phone's
standard 4G Wifi
Hotspot from a wireless PCCW
competitor. I'm still pretty
happy with this unlimited-data Hotspot for
$196/month, cheaper than PCCW's
max. 3Mbps broadband speed.
For more info and updates, see our
longtime Facebook group:
Faster Broadband For Lamma.
Oct 1: In
Memoriam
7th anniversary of this traumatic
accident off Pak Kok, a HKKF
regular commuter ferry shortly
before arriving at the YSW ferry
pier colliding with a HK
Electric staff ferry, losing 39
lives.
See Lamma forum's post:
Ferry collision 01/10/12,
plus many
Lamma-zine stories
of the aftermath,
plus
extensive coverage in the
SCM Post:
"On October 1, 2012, 39
people were killed and 101
injured when the passenger ferry
Sea Smooth and a Hong Kong
Electric Company vessel, the
Lamma IV, collided off the coast
of Lamma Island.
The Sea
Smooth had been ferrying
passengers from the island to
Central for the National Day
fireworks when the accident
occurred.
It was the
deadliest boat accident in Hong
Kong in 40 years, and the Lamma
IV captain served nine months in
jail for endangering the safety
of others at sea, but was
cleared of manslaughter charges.
The captain of the passenger
ferry Sea Smooth, Lai Sai-ming,
was sentenced to eight years in
prison for manslaughter."
Read more...
Rememberances were being held
tonight at Lamma Ferry Pier 4 in
Central and on Pak Kok Beach,
near the accident location.
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Tsui
Wah ferry
