Issue: November 20, 2009 (Archive)

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Laptop down? Skip the coffee shop tantrum, give it a whack
With a click and a pop, my laptop stopped. (Try saying that six times very fast). I calmly waited for a few minutes - okay, it was a quarter of a nanosecond because I was panicking - and I tried again.

Quality runs in the family
Adrian Cheng Chi-kong, grandson of New World Group chairman Cheng Yu-tung, got married last weekend, with a lavish banquet held at the Hong Kong Convention and Exhibition Centre.

Graduates who fail the dress code
November is the time for graduation ceremonies, and I was recently invited to a friend's proud day. With their teachers, relatives and friends looking on, students donned robes and walked onto the stage to accept their diplomas.

New challenges in improved market
TVB's annual anniversary dinners are usually held around the time the station issues its year- end "sales round" invitation to leading advertisers to indicate their airtime-buying intentions for the coming year.

Should old ideals be long forgot
New Asia College, the oldest of the four colleges under the Chinese University of Hong Kong, celebrates its 60th anniversary this year. To mark the occasion, the alumni of the college enacted a play to cherish the memory of the New Asia spirit through the past six decades. Many New Asia alumni attended the performances last weekend.

Hero in Asian films is the poor sucker sitting in the audience
Watch out. Asian movie screens are about to be overrun by suspiciously good cops. I heard this from someone who wanted only to be identified as Movie Industry Source of Truth.

SFC turns again to safe hands
Socialite Annie Leong's autograph session for her latest cookbook was well attended by celebrities, and that's where I bumped into Securities and Futures Commission chairman Eddy Fong Ching.

The university as global enterprise
The vigorous promotion of some Hong Kong universities in the mainland has borne fruit in recent years. Many top mainland students are giving up famous institutions such as the Beijing University and Tsinghua University to come to Hong Kong to pursue their studies and broaden their horizons.

Divorce may simply be a case of dialing the wrong number
For centuries, bosses accused of breaking the law responded just the way you would expect from leaders - they blamed staff.

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