Yes, I did it again. I lost my new Siemens SK65 bought just three months ago. When? On my way to tennis lesson this evening, I was running late. Where? Either in the taxi or in the changing room. It’s more likely in the taxi, yes, again. I am so upset, I really love this phone, and it’s just three-month new! Though I have a backup of my address book on my laptop that I didn’t lose any number, I lost all the SMS (text messages) saved. Don’t ask me why I care about those messages, I really miss them and my phone!

30 mins, that’s all it took to lose my HK$3,600 and this is for the asshole who switched off my phone when I called back: you would be in jail very soon!

To the taxi driver (LV 5271) who dropped me off at Sandy Bay at 18:51 today: if you return the phone to me, I would reward you with HK$3,000.

Good luck struck on our family lately. After my father won a 4th prize in Mark Six last month, my sister won it again tonight, first time for both of them! She told me she randomly selected these numbers, which form a V-shape pattern on the ticket, while waiting in queue: 12, 14, 25, 27, 32, 34. And the winning numbers are:

I figure that I should at least make some efforts to pick my own numbers from now on, since I never won anything with computer-generated numbers! Do I or anyone get a share of her $4,800? No, she found this sum too little to subsidize the newly-bought $30K LCD TV, not to mention the new flat … so, you better don’t ask her for a treat!

As there were no first prize winners for tonight’s draw, a giant jackpot of $43 million will be carried forward to the next draw. It is estimated that if there is only one winning unit for the first prize, the winner could take home $60 million, the second highest payout in the Mark Six history.

Update: How embarrassing, it turns out that it is just a 5th prize (HK$320) only …

You’d be surprised to know that I didn’t go to the Hong Kong Stadium to watch Manchester United play Hong Kong Team today, even when my sister got free tickets enough for every one in our family.

Not because I wasn’t interested in seeing ManU play, I am just not too enthusiastic about friendlies in general, especially when it involves a much weaker opponent like our so-called Hong Kong National Team. I could go on and go for hours why I think the sport of football fails in Hong Kong, but I’d rather talk about how much improvement I have made in my tennis game lately. I am hunger for more games and training. Anyhow my parents and sister went there, see photos on my flickr, they all said that the match was boring and I made the right choice.

As host & webmaster of HKU MUG, I’ve had the privilege to meet many fellow Mac lovers around the world. Tonight I was thrilled to meet another user group leader,David Feng, President of BeiMac - Beijing Macintosh User Group. David is visiting Hong Kong from July 12th to 14th, Bill and I took him to a buffet dinner at Park Lane Hotel tonight, and we enjoyed the food and chat on various Mac stuffs very much. BeiMac has been a huge success, it’s a long way for us to catch up!
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Happy Birthday to my best friend Bernice!!!

I can’t recall when was the last time she spent her birthday in Hong Kong, probably more than a decade ago! After tonight’s fun, I hope she’ll consider having it here every year! We started with a hot pot dinner in Tang Lun Street in Causeway Bay, followed by karaoke and drinks at Times Karaoke Space in Circle Tower in the same street. It’s a nice place, especially if you are gifted in singing and not shy to perform before a few dozens of strangers in its open lounge. I was quite drunk after having a mixture of different drinks.
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Got this email on July 1st from Free Stuff From Japan :

Congratulations you are one of the 7 prize winners this month. All you
have to do is to reply to this message with your postal address and we
will send out your prize. There is nothing else you need to do! If you
are wondering what prize you have won, I’m afraid that you’ll have to
wait until you receive it to find out. I hope you like surprises

Never got this luck in Mark Six … it turns out that the prize is a map of Japan, thanks Ian! Go register on the site now, as you see it is so easy to win!