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Worth an applause

Having flipped through every page of Varsity for the second time, I found that the magazine is moving towards excellence and professionalism.

The time I read my first issue has to be traced back to 1994. Though the impression is vague, I do remember its thickness and its paper quality. For a magazine distributed on-campus, thickness somehow reflects the richness of content. From social issues to personal profiles, from education to leisure, today’s thicker issue involves a wider variety of topics that gives readers greater accessibility to information not just confined to campus news.

The sequence of order and paper quality have improved as well. As a Time subscriber, I found that the systematic layout and desktop design of Varsity is striving to become a globally renowned magazine.

I do hope that readers from other tertiary institutions will have a chance to participate and contribute in the magazine, in addition to writing a few words to Letters to the Editor.

Fantastic pictures

I think you guys did a great job in this (November) issue. In particular, the story by Cran Sin and Tom Ho was fantastic. You did wonders in capturing the atmosphere of the issue. I liked the pictures very much. Keep it up!

More frequent buses

I would like to express my anger about the school bus services at the Chinese University.

There are a lot of additional buses from the KCR station to the main campus in the morning from 8 o’clock to 9 o’clock. However, for those who have to go to the New Asia College or the United College, they have to change buses. It is very inconvenient. I sometimes have to wait and I sometimes miss the bus. In no way could I know when the bus will leave. And if I miss the bus, my only choice would be to go to the Humanities Building on foot, if I don’t want to be late.

The other way of my going to the New Asia College is to catch the 8:15 a.m. bus. However, the queue is incredibly long and I have to be there at least 10 minutes earlier in order to catch that bus. I just wonder why there can’t be more buses from the KCR station to the New Asia College.

Besides, I hope that there could be more frequent bus services between 7:15 p.m. to 8:15 p.m. from the KCR station to the New Asia College.

Mix football, gambling

After the World Cup in 1998, and with more and more football matches being broadcast in Hong Kong, many people have been starting to guess the results of the games, and later this turned into football gambling.

Recently, the Jockey Club wanted to ask the government to legalese football gambling.

I personally think that football gambling is the same as horse racing. There are bookmakers in England, so why couldn’t we have bookmakers in Hong Kong, too?

Even if it is against the law, people still gamble secretly. Therefore, legalizing football gambling can actually prevent illegal gambling.

Football is a popular sport in Hong Kong and all over the world and I am a football fan, too. I really think that if I could bet on the results, watching football would become a lot more exciting.

Disturbing mobile phones

I would like to express my views on the use of mobile phones in Hong Kong through your column.

Mobile phones are now very common nowadays and almost everyone in Hong Kong has one. However, I think that most mobile phone owners are very selfish, and they always disturb others when they use their phones.

First, it is extremely annoying for people to turn on their mobiles when they are in cinemas. These people really anger me. If they have important phone calls that they can’t miss, why don’t they go home and wait for the calls? We watch movies for relaxation, why can’t those people give us a break?

The second most annoying thing people do with their mobiles is to talk loudly on the phones on public transportation. I still remember once I sat beside a man who talked on the phone for a whole hour on the bus. I was really disturbed by him. I think that mobile phones are only for important and urgent calls (I bet the mobile companies will kill me for saying that). If people want to have a nice chat with their friends, they should do it at home. I am not interested to hear details of another’s private life.

But the two things above are nothing when compared with the last one: talking on the phone during work. I don’t believe people can work and talk at the same time. If people talk when they work, they probably cannot concentrate. I was really shocked when I read in the newspaper that a doctor talked on his mobile when he was conducting an operation. I just don’t believe that the doctor could have performed well if he was actually chatting with someone happily.

Actually, I don’t hate mobile phones. And in fact I have one, too. But I just wonder why can’t people turn their mobile phones to the vibration mode so that they won’t disturb other people. I believe that mobile phones can make life more convenient if they’re used properly. So I beg all mobile phone users to be more considerate. Use your phone correctly.

J. Chung
Chai Wan

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