Gifts from Hong Kong

People ask me what to buy when in HongKong. Theres a few things that one can buy:

-premium tea leaves
-dried seafood
-dried scallops snack
-wife's biscuits
-for the advernturous, roast goose
-egg rolls

Travel insurance: To buy or not to buy?

My wife and me have been debating recently about whether or not to buy travel insurance. My view is that why bother paying for something that may not happen, or probability of happening is small? Well, then again, I suppose we really have to look at the details. It depends on what sort of activity you will be doing while you are overseas, whether you can afford to lose your luggage, if the country you are going to is safe, whether medical there is expensive and chances of you contracting some disease.

What can possibly happen? If you think about it, lots:

Flight cancellations and delays
Natural disasters (eg.earthquakes in Indonesia)
HINI or similar
Diahrrohea after drinking the local water or street food
theft
injury (eg finger gets caught in taxi door)
damage to luggage or missing luggage
fall sick due to weather
freak accidents like something drop on you while on the streets (eg HongKong)
...........................

I will seriously consider buying travel insurance next time haha, if the premiums dont amount to much.

I came across an article the other day where MM Lee acknowledged that Singapore although we like to think of ourselves as a first world country, will find it challenging to become as environmentally conscious as the Japanese, as we have a long way to go when it comes to green habits such as recycling and caring for the environment. I can think of some more reasons why I find it embarassing to call ourselves a developed country:

1) Sometimes when you cross the street, you find that cars instead of slowing down for you, drive faster towards you instead.
2) After so many years, Singaporeans still do not queue up to enter the MRT trains. I was surprised that the Thais do. And the HongKong people are starting to.
3) Littering is still rampant. We just have many cleaners and heavy fines to offset it.
4) At zebra crossings, drivers seem to to think that pedestrians should look out for them, instead of the other way round.
5) Too many people pretending to fall asleep on the trains with a pregnant women standing in front of them.
6) Our customer service standard is simply 'fantastic'

Those who agree say aye!