Plan

For some inexplicable reasons, I was asked to attend a meeting with a dozen of extra-terrestrials.

The topic for discussion was simple: How should we plan our clinical service 10 or 15 years down the road?

Sounds grandiose, eh?

In fact it was grandiose. Instead of a small meeting between three of four key persons, I found myself in a conference of some two dozen people - representatives from duke to dustman, or from professor to (literally) porter, each voicing out their view or vision to the future.

Alas, how could we all have our own vision? Are we seeing mirage?

And, as I always say, if the The Grand Council (軍機處) of Emperor Yongzheng (雍正) had five members and the Politburo Standing Committee (中央政治局常委會) of our great country has nine, what's there to be so important to have a committee of more than a dozen?

PS. You may want to ask a philosophical question: If we have no idea what Hong Kong would become 10 or 15 years later, how are we going to plan the medical service accordingly?