$5000

What could you do with HK$5000 ?

• Hire someone at HK$20 per hour, 8 hours a day, 6 days a week, for 5 weeks.
• Hire someone at HK$33 per hour, 8 hours a day, 6 days a week, for 3 weeks.
• Check the serum level of any cytokine you like (by ELISA test) for 40 patients.
• Buy 3 sets of Harrison's Principles of Internal Medicine.
  
• Subscribe New England Journal of Medicine for 18 months.
• Buy a new desktop computer for my office.
• Host 2 tables (i.e. 24 guests) in the annual dinner of our renal patient association.
  

Oh, it is also sufficient for saying farewell to some highly respected colleagues.

But, not for those who tries to govern every quark movement.

That needs HK$5001.

PS. As Albert Einstein said: When you are courting a nice girl an hour seems like a second. When you sit on a red-hot cinder a second seems like an hour. That's relativity.

No wonder why we all agree time is money.