random thoughts thinking aloud

失望選舉年

三月台灣、九月香港、十一月美國，全年各地的選舉結果都令我失望，唉 ~~

立法會選舉

截至此刻，大部份選區和功能組別的結果已經宣佈，除了香港區因為民主派要求重數選票 ( 首次點票時蔡素玉僅勝何秀蘭 821 票 ) 和會計界未有定案。暫時「爆冷」當選的有新界東的「長毛」梁國雄和民建聯的李國英 ( 黃宏發和黃成智落選 )。醫學界的盧永樂也輸了。

今次選舉有不少投訴。首先新界東竟然出現票箱不足的情況，要暫停投票大約一小時。另外，今早聽商台節目時，受訪的李柱銘說小西灣的一個票站封票箱時，工作人員竟然要清場，不准各名單的代表甚至警員在場。

(Update 2004.09.13 @ 12:13)
蔡素玉 (74,659) 嬴了何秀蘭 (73,844)。李柱銘何來「告急」？他和楊森有超過 13 萬票！

Declaration of Trust

James To's signed declaration of trust is a bit too simple. Every solicitors' firm in Hong Kong has a standard form that can be printed on a single A4 paper. He just needed to call his own secretary to get a standard form printed for him, nice and tidy.

Of course, the more important question is whether it is appropriate for the Democratic Party to rent its property to its members and get the rental payment from the government, whilst the amount of rent might not be the open market value.

I have not changed my mind, though. I will still cast my vote for James To on 12 September, unless this "scandal" really destroys him. I do not want my vote wasted. You will not get my vote, Mr. Tsang.

新君王論

剛看完蔡子強所著的《新君王論》和《新君王論 II》。對此兩本書提起興趣完全是因為近日蔡子強在商台節目的表現。這兩本小書有參考價值，尤其對少看政治學書籍的我而言。還好我也擁有作者提及的一些參考書，例如 The Penguin Book of Twentieth Century Speeches 和 The Wicked Wit of Winston Churchill，就當是看那些作品的引言。

注意：第二集有不少與第一集重複的地方，值唔值得買實在有商榷餘地。

《君王論》(The Prince) 原文

The Political Compass

I am always puzzled when I am asked to categorise my political stance. Left, right, Liberal, Conservative, blah, blah, blah. Just tried the Political Compass and found out I am Left-Libertarian, similar to Nelson Medela.