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 Posted: Fri Nov 25, 2005 8:48 pm Post subject: Giving thanks... |
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| Cristobal de Lamma wrote: | We have a lot to be thankful for and most of the time we simply forget or ignore it.
Why not make a list of things?
E.g.: Reasons to give thanks...some can be funny, some can be sentimental and some a bit silly. Let's start:- Decent health to enjoy what you have
- No damn regressive Value-Added Tax
- A pint is HK$ 25
- Cheapest place to live in HK with decent air
- Medical clinic is competent, friendly and low-cost
- Good broadband service
- Beijing has left HK alone
- A wind turbine that makes me smile and want more
- I don't need to carry a gun
- Nice sunsets
- I have a roof with an ocean view
- Great Dim Sum every day except Chinese New Year
- I can ride a bicycle without looking out for cars
- No snow (unlike back home)!
- Beaches, even more than one...
- There actually are nice people on Lamma
- Salary tax that does not make me cry (unlike back home)
- Almost annual DickStock parties...uniquely Lamma
- Trees instead of concrete
- Birds wake me up instead of traffic
- No traffic jams
- No censor on Internet (Lamma-zine Blog not usually available in PRC)
- Fresh and affordable food
- Central is only 20 minutes away on fast ferry
- Police are courteous and good (unlike places in Africa I have been to)
- NO McDonalds
- Cheap telephone service so I can keep contact with family and friends
- Lamma Post Office is effective. (EMS to Germany in 2 days)
- Flooding? No worries
- Probably the best HSBC branch in all of HK
The list can go on and on... But really, we live on a resort island, most of us being healthy enough to enjoy all that we have. Living in HK, we have a chance to improve , to get a new opportunity, as many places are economically stagnant!
I never had to go to war because of a European politician/monarch who wanted to change the map (unlike multiple generations of my own family).
It is easy to forget the freedoms and luxuries we do have in our everyday scramble. But in the worldwide list of places, HK is near the top and lots of places I have been to would be at the bottom. Living on Lamma, we have much to be thankful for... |
Any more "funny, sentimental and/or a bit silly reasons" to give thanks for living on Lamma?
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