World Clock Application

I have created a simple Java Swing application called World Clock in SourceForge.net. You can download the application at https://sourceforge.net/projects/worldclockapp/

By the simple application, users can check the foreign date/time at once without calculating by brain challengingly.

Pak Muslim Restaurant

今天午飯時間有空，可以走得老遠到評為葵涌區最佳食肆的穆斯林餐廳。

那是一間位置偏僻，裝修簡陋的茶餐廳。如果不是Open Rice 介紹與評分，基本上膚淺的我是不會走進去的。就算今天走到店前，我望著陰暗沉沉的店舖，我還是有一點猶疑。

進入餐廳時，看到除了意料之內的南亞裔顧客，原來也有不少的華人顧客。當我吃完約一時左右，餐廳便擠滿本地的客人。

這次我點了一缽咖哩羊肉Mutton Curry 配薄餅Rote ，另有跟小菜送的沙拉。羊肉很嫩很軟很滑，咖哩不是很辣但很美味，薄餅的質地不軟不硬，有質感，單吃已經感到滿足，點些青咖喱更是惹味。

不過，付賬的時候，我以為小菜$25 加薄餅$4 ，應該是$29 ，但是老闆說有兩份薄餅，所以是$33 。不知是溝通問題還是什麼，他說便是了。

Mark Six Analyst

Open Source in the world of software is amazing. Developers share and distribute source codes with each other. SourceForge is one of the well-known platforms.

I have registered my first Open Source project in SourceForge. The project is called Mark Six Analyst at https://sourceforge.net/projects/marksixanalyst/. It is a simple tool to forecast the result of Hong Kong lottery or so-called Mark Six by various statistics methods.

For the success of the project, I would like to thank Java, JavaDB (Apache Derby), Java Swing, Java Persistence API, TopLink, Hibernate Entity Manager, NetBeans and CsvReader. Because of them, developing a software application becomes rapidly quicker and the developed application becomes more stable and much easily maintained. Especially for Java Persistence API or called JPA, developers are less annoyed to handle entity EJBs and Object-Relational Mapping. It is helpful for developing an application with a database of complicated entity relationships.

On the other hand, after running the application, I found that no statistics method did better forecast than just Random. It implies that there is no winning method in gambling. I wish that all gamblers would understand this meaning.

No matter whether you are IT and like playing Mark Six, please access the SF.NET project and share your opinions. Thanks.

Round

《圓》
有限的長度
無始亦無終
生命雖有涯
幸福可無窮

Firework at Home

The last firework performance in Tuen Mun was held in 1996. 13 years later, there was a pyrotechnics display again in Tuen Mun tonight.


Firework Watching Ferry leaving from Tuen Mun Pier.

Firework Display at Castle Peak Bay is actually quite a good idea because the surface area of the bay is larger than that of Victoria Harbour. Will it be considered that the venue of Annual Firework Set changes to Tuen Mun Pier?