After more than a week of terrible and wet weather in Hong Kong, I went on a business trip to US, Washington State.

Well, the weather is kind of the same as back in Hong Kong. It’s been drizzling since I arrived in Seattle last night and today seems the same; grey and wet!

Departing rainy Hong Kong:

Landing in San Francisco:

From hotelroom, with threatening skies:

Well, my prediction seems to come true (see my post on 23 May on same topic).
Yesterday, Disney Hong Kong agreed to drop shark fin soup off their menu following a public outrage about it.

It took school children’s petitions, WWF involvement, English and Chinese media. Of course Disney had no choice and took the right business decision.

I like the Chinese explanation by Disney, which kind of evades the fact that they just budged after all the media hype about this:

Disney’s vice-president for public affairs, Irene Chan Man-tuen, said: “After careful consideration and a thorough review process, we were not able to identify an environmentally sustainable fishing source, leaving us no alternative except to remove shark’s fin soup from our wedding banquet menu.

(Quote taken from South China Morning Post)

Try this game, it drives you nuts. Catch all black squares as quick as you can. After a while you get totally disoriented.

Don’t try if you’ve any epileptic history…

http://www.laughingmyassoff.com/games/squares.html

This picture is taken by the hubble telescope. It’s a picture of some distant star cluster. Made me think of the all seeing eye of Sauron in Lord of the Rings.

Nice picture. If you like more of this, click here, which takes you to a Google search on the same.