Election

While we are considering who to vote for in the coming Chief Executive Election Committee Subsector Election, a classmate of mine said, "I could not find all 30 good candidates to vote for. As a result, I shall put up fewer votes so as to concentrate my support."

I must say I find this plan, to say the least, ingenuous.

Let's go through the considerations step by step:

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Let's consider a simple situation: There are 10 candidates running for 2 posts, and we can cast 2 votes.

Scenario #1: If we support 2 candidates and are strongly against the other 8, we should certainly vote for the 2 that we support.

Scenario #2: If we support 3 candidates, we should vote 2 of them who have the highest chance of winning.

(To be continued.)

茶錢

（餐桌閑話。）

太座：你知道，我醫院的門診部每年都有聖誕聯歡，籌辦的護士和文職人員都會找高級醫生贊助。今年，她們更嘗試打一些受訓中的醫生主意。老郭知道後很不高興，黑着臉對她們說：「唔好攪啲細嘅！」他對年輕醫生倒真不錯。

（按：老郭是她們的部門主管。）

區區：我倒不這樣想。

太座：為甚麼？

區區：贊助活動是和她們打好關係的好辦法。你想想，護士等不會為難有資歷的醫生，因為她們心裡明白，難保自己或家人對這醫生有事相求。但是，對年輕、受訓中的醫生來說，可以和護士等打通關係的便不外飲食資助。長遠而言，對他們的發展是大有好處。

Resource

"Japan doesn't have abundant natural resources. Our people are everything... it is more important for us to invest in people," said Ryoichi Mikitani

I believe Hong Kong is no different.

筆記術

Recently read: 奧野宣之《活用一輩子的讀書筆記術》。

It may not be the best book of the topic. Nonetheless, it convinces me that we need to take notes along with our reading.

Again

Shortly after returned from Chicago, I took part in the licensing examination arranged by the Medical Council.

It was a tiring two-day exercise. In the last session, I had the privilege of pairing up with our external examiner, who has the habit of saying a very piece of epilogue to each candidate when the examination is finished: Thank you. See you again.

I kept a polite smile - because I fully understand a candidate would need to see their examiner again only if they fail.

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Towards the end of our session, we met a particularly outstanding candidate. (In this case, outstanding means if the candidate were a schoolchild and we teachers, we would certainly ask him to get out of the classroom and stand there for the rest of the day.)

While the candidate was marching out of the examination hall with the standard epilogue, I turned and tole my new friend, "For god sake, I having nothing to thank him, and I certainly do not want to see him again..."

負責

我的一位同學最近說:

「某某人講大話、誠信破產、蓄意破壞香港的法治，莫視民主、自由等核心價值和國際標準，因此萬萬不能選他，萬萬不能讓他連任！」 這話容易說，可以贏得掌聲、可以保證選票，但這些說話不外乎口號 -- 空洞沒有內容的口號。我不愛喊口號。

別再空喊口了！香港需要一個有遠見、有承擔、不怕開罪權貴和既得利益集團的領袖。我們的選民都有敏銳的眼光、獨立的思考、邏輯的思維，可以踢開口號，為香港、為業界選擇出最優秀的領袖。

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說的不錯。所以當有人用了幾年的時間，非但不能把問題改善，反而令社會撕裂、民怨載道，便是時候改變了。

按：有人會說，社會上的種種問題，有許多宏觀因素，並非某人一己的過錯。唔，這樣說的話，希特拉夷平捷克，並非張伯倫之過；而那個特別漫長的五月，也跟任何一位總理無關。

競選

致參加特首選舉委員會競選的各位：

請不要繕述你們的施政理念、宏圖遠景；也不用解釋你將用甚麼準則去決定投票給哪一個特首候選人。你只要老實告訴我你將投票給誰便成。我清楚知道我支持甚麼人做特首。你們只是代表我投票，請不要騎劫我的意見。

一名普通市民