• Hong Kong Computer & Communications Festival 2008

Alright, here is the update from the previous entry

As mentioned, it took us about an hour to get from the middle of the queue till the ticket booths and into the Hong Kong Computer & Communications Festival 2008, or HKCCF 2008 itself.

Once we were done with the ticketing, we went to the upper floor which was the exhibition hall and here it was how the crowd like for that day.

Just before the main entrance, there were several counters where you can get yourself one copy of this which is the official booklet or rather say directory and advertisements.

Fine, I hardly understand what it was since it was all in Chinese ~ LoL! I gave up and just move into the hall after several flips with it. Immediately into the hall, it didn’t gave me any unique feeling since it was just like rather somehow Hall 1, 2, 3  ~ 5 of our local Malaysia Pikom PC Fair.

It was just almost that identical, isn’t?

On second thought, except for this which the showgirls were treated like celebrities for the event. We do have photographers in the event snapping show babes, but it isn’t till the level like this for Hongkies’. Interesting?

Wandering around in the hall and being sandwiched or stucked with the human traffic, I didn’t see many stuff that could attracts me. I saw this newly launched Acer Predator in several latest Hong Kong’s computer and IT magazines, this is how it looked like in life.

Ahhh… I’m stucked, any alternative route?

I’m not sure if this is a tradition or what, somehow I went to two major exhibitions in Hong Kong which were this HKCCF 2008 and 10th Ani-Com Games Hong Kong 2008. During both events, there was a competition on going. For this time HKCCF 2008, The 5th Hong Kong I.T. Image Girl Competition.

Okayz, nuff said… screeeeeeens ~ LoL

This was one of the very well decorated and lighted booth

Last but not least a show for overclocking with LN2 (liquid nitrogen).

That’s all for a summarized coverage of HKCCF 2008. Basically the hall is just about 1.5x size of our Malaysia Pikom PC Fair’s one hall. With the additional of the booths outside the hall, I guess the whole festival will fit in two halls of our Kuala Lumpur Convention Centre, definitely I guess we’ll lose on the number of visitors as compared with Hong Kong. It is just some sort of queue which I never experienced before in my life ~ haha.

Asked if I would come again? I will say, why not? Least for the babes

I’ll cover that in my next update, stay tune ~

• HKCCF 2008 Preview

It was the day after Typhoon Nuri landed at Hong Kong that my colleagues and I planned to visit Hong Kong Computer & Communications Festival 2008 or shortly known as HKCCF 2008. We only work half-day on Saturday and so we had our lunch after office hours before taking a cab to Hong Kong Convention and Exhibition Centre which located at Wan Chai district.

Alright, this is some sort of amazing queue that I ever experienced in my life. The cab dropped us at the main entrance of the centre but then we need to walk all the way to the end of the queue which I likely to called it as the entrance of the maze. Somehow we managed to slip in at the middle of the queue (shhh!!! ). Here it is like which at the middle of the queue.

Next we move zig-zag inside the centre.

At the end of the zig-zag, we reached at an escalator to go down and we felt weird about it as the entrance was on upper floor.

Our next reaction were… HAARRRRR??? A longer zig-zag at the car park???

We go up on the escalator again which we came down by the next escalator just now.

Guess what? More zig-zag… ZZZzzzzz

Finally… we reached at the ticket counter. Phews ~ it was about an hour of queue maze travelling…

Gotcha! HK$20 for entrance to HKCCF 2008 after the “dragon queue”. Lets head in to the real picture

…will be continue

• Hong Kong’s Typhoon Signal No.9

It was told by the weather forecast a day before that a Typhoon Nuri is coming straight to Hong Kong and preparing the people that Typhoon Signal No.8 will be hoisted. For anyone that doesn’t know, when Typhoon Signal No.8 and above hoisted (No.10 is the highest which is a disaster), all offices, shops and schools will be closed. Public transportation such as buses and trains will be at reduced service and frequency. It will be very unlucky for those who are coming or leaving Hong Kong by air planes, boats and ferries as the services will be halted due to the typhoon.

The weather seems to be very hot and calm at night. My colleagues and I thought tomorrow we will be seeing each other again in the office. It is not until 8.00am that they hoisted the Typhoon Signal no.8 which indicate most probably another lazy day off. I can felt the strong wind even inside the apartment which later the day at 3.00pm, they raised it to Typhoon Signal No.9 which has not been raised since 5 years ago. My colleague and I decided to go down to get some food. As most of the shops closed, we left choices of McDonalds, KFC and Pizza Hut only.

Lets have a look on the condition of the typhoon at Hong Kong

Could you notice the banners and umbrellas are flying? *Try notice the old lady on the right trying to hold her umbrella walking against the wind*

Another poor old lady which dragged a few feets behind trying to hold on her umbrella.

Usually during these typhoon, the public rubbish bin will always be filled with “failed” umbrellas. *Can notice the purple one lying on the street on the upper right? The previous old lady decided to give up *

Now this is something special and truly remarkable. My colleague trying to walk backwards using his back against the wind to protect our McDonalds than flying away

This is something which we would not experience in Malaysia.