User talk:Chan lap ming

Welcome to chan lap ming[1]'s Wiki page. As I've found so much information here I thought I would contribute to it. Though exactely what I'm still deciding.

Re: 上水

Hello Chan lap ming. I've kind of concentrated on supporting Man Utd this year because West Brom was relegated. But I'll still check where they are in the Championship and hope they can climb back up next season!

Oh yes, thanks for your comment on my talk page. I'll try to my best to help - for pictures, there are plenty at the Sheung Shui page on Wikimedia Commons - some of which I photographed. They show parts of the old market town Shek Wu Hui (see here for a page that concentrates on Shek Wu Hui. The photos there also show the housing estates developed and built during the 1980's and the 1990's - I'm guessing Sheung Shui in 1975 must have been a wholly rural area in a mass of paddyfields? I live in Woodland Crest for example, and it has 8 blocks of 9 floors (Block 1-3, 5-9 and floors 1-3 and 5-10), skipping out the unlucky fours. It overlooks the much changed Ng Tung River and I remember my mum took a photo of a very young me sitting by the windowsill overlooking the yet unchanged Ng Tung River in 1998 - the government started a river drainage project that successfully drained away water in case of floods because whenever there was a typhoon, the river would flood to the brim and start spilling onto the roads... I'm guessing the river did that as well when you were young! It won't happen now, concrete embankments have been built, so in a way it looks very unnatural, but some grass has been grown to "greenify" the river banks - they sort of work. Did you witness this every time there was a typhoon? Or were you somewhere else in Sheung Shui?

If you don't understand anything, you can paste the Chinese words and I'll try to help you, although my knowledge for Chinese characters are not excellent - I'm from Sha Tin College. They do have Mandarin classes there though, and they do help me keep up my level of Chinese! Okay, I'll quit the rambling for now - bye! typhoonchaser 12:37, 23 February 2007 (UTC)

Thanks for your response as well. If you need any help, just ask! And would you mind giving me the approximate place of where in Sheung Shui you lived before you left the place? A village name perhaps would be useful. It would be interesting to know, and I can look it up a map and see if I've been there before. typhoonchaser 16:05, 26 February 2007 (UTC)

Hello Steve - it's absolutely fine for you to edit in that section of my talk page, no problem with that. It's always good to ask around and learn how to fit into this bustling community of Wikipedia =)

Your mother said you lived near the cinema? Hmmm, I think there was a cinema, called the Hang Lok Cinema (行樂戲院). It has, unfortunately, been demolished... It's been rebuilt to Hang Lok Square, 行樂坊, now. Around it is the market town of Shek Wu Hui, very busy little town, many shops, it's really a nice place, I go there sometimes, just to have a walk around the streets, often with my family. I find the place quite old, as my family and I moved into high-rise ten-floor apartment buildings 11 years ago, and even at first the market town was quite old. Anyway - if you need any help or have anything to ask or want to tell me about something you found out, tell me! =P

Bye for now! And yes, Man Utd did dump Aston Villa out of the FA Cup, we're even in the semis now! typhoonchaser 14:13, 20 March 2007 (UTC)

Well there you go, there's your theatre! =P You can't have lived too far away from the cinema, I suppose, so I'm guessing you lived somewhere in Shek Wu Hui. Now it would be rather hard to locate the exact house, but... hehe. Anyway - just a reminder - for example, if ARTICLEX appears twice in an article, you need only link it once. Saw you added links to Pewsham - it's not incorrect, it's just that it's better to de-link them after they have been linked once. I have no idea why this was enforced, but that's just one of those wiki policies that are useful to know. Probably makes the article easier to read. Anyway, as I say, if you need any help or have any thing to tell me, do so! Bye! typhoonchaser 15:39, 21 March 2007 (UTC)

Sorry, I was busy the past few nights - it's Saturday now, so I can finally relax a little, hehe. Shek Wu Hui is 石湖墟 in Chinese - here is the Shek Wu Hui pedestrianisation website from the Transport Department - some pictures there. They aren't really clear though - there aren't too many pictures of Shek Wu Hui on the net, though you can try and dig some out. Most are found on the Commons - some of them I took. Shek Wu Hui's very near me, and I'm sure I can either take some more pictures of the whole place or dig some more pictures out! Oh, it would also be convenient if you could remember which street you lived near, or whether there were any streets there then! Hmmm, even Sheung Shui doesn't have many image links, not even in Chinese... Anyway, gotta go for dinner now. Bye! typhoonchaser 11:05, 24 March 2007 (UTC)