Please Help Save Lennox - Don't give up!

On Wednesday the 19th May 2010 Lennox, an American Bulldog Labrador cross, was taken from his family home by Belfast City Council as they believe he falls under the dangerous dogs act for Northern Ireland. The Council, without seeking any proper professional guidance declared Lennox to be a breed of "Pit Bull Type" and so they wish to kill him simply because he has the appearance of said breed. The Belfast City Council took Lennox from his loving family home using a wrongly addressed warrant and using copyright ADBA (American Dog Breeders Association) breed standards guide which the Council were never authorised to use, in doing so the Council broke international copyright laws and for doing so have recently been issued with a 'Cease & Desist' order from ADBA Inc.

Despite opposition and voices from around the world continuously plea for Lennox's release, Lennox, after being locked up for more than 10 months in disgusting, inhumane concrete environment, was ruled with a Death penalty by the District court last week. But there will be an appeal next week and you can still help!!! Sign your petition today on www.savelennoxpetition.co.uk, and you can file your complaint against Belfast Shitty Council (http://www.belfastcity.gov.uk/contactus/complaints.asp), lodge your complaint at The Department of Justice in Northern Ireland (DOJ) (http://www.nidirect.gov.uk/index/contacts?WT.ac=NIDBar-Contacts).

To find out more, visit www.savelennox.co.uk

.

Take further steps and please share this with your friends!!!

I sincerely hope Lennox will get to reunite with his family soon.

Tribute to Lung 2

When I met Lung he was at BU and I was a Junior in high school, about 3 hours drive outside Boston. I used to visit my brother, also at BU and lived in the same apartment building as Lung. So whenever I visited my bro over long weekends or Spring break, of course I didn't wanna hang out with my bro so instead hung out at Lung's apartment- a lot.

I wasn't close to Lung at the time. He had a Japanese girlfriend and they were always in their room. I was closer to his flatmates instead. I remember the guys never did their dishes and the kitchen sink was constantly overflowing with molded dishes with an incredibly terrible odor it was disgusting.

There was this one incident I can never forget. I was spending a weekend in Boston. A group of us went out to the HUB club, a 3-storey nightclub at downtown Boston with floor to ceiling glass overlooking a quiet street and a carpark across. We were wasted. I was super wasted. I had to do a toilet trip and I told this girl and Lung I'd be back. I came out from the lu and everyone was gone. I was underage, didn't know my way around and surrounded by strangers. I looked out of the window it had just started snowing! Then I saw them crossing the street and I rushed to get down from the stairs. I was tripping over with many people trying to hold me but I was scared!

Years later I'd still be complaining to Lung and he'd say I never told him where I went. I promised myself I must always know my way home no matter how drunk and then Lung would take the credit for teaching me a lesson and then we'd laugh about it.

In 1990 I graduated from high school and started my first year at BU. Naturally I moved into my brother's apartment and became Lung's neighbor. We didn't meet very often but occasionally we'd catch up over a meal or drink. We became much closer over the past 10-15 years, when I spent a few years living in Jakarta and Lung also spent a few years living in Hong Kong.

Lung may be weird to many but is the most down to earth person I have ever met and someone I trust completely. He has very high standards and lots of principles; he loves debates and gets loud and violent when drunk; he is also very lazy at times. Once he visited me in London and as most flights from Asia arrives London in the early morning hours, it's best to stay awake during the day so jetlag doesn't haunt you for the rest of your stay. We agreed to visit the Tower of London and as we were two stations from Tower Bridge, Lung decided we should return back to the hotel so we never made it to site seeing that trip. "Arrrgh Fxxk it" was his favorite phase when laziness kicks in.

Words cannot describe how heart-broken I am to loose such a dear loving friend. It's been close to 7 weeks since his departure and I still feel like picking up the phone to call and chat and share everything with him. I wish I had spent more time with him and regret to have taken things for granted. But I still strongly believe soon we'll meet again and until then, Lung is overlooking us from above, giving us his blessings.

I thank Lung's Mom and Dad for giving us such a remarkable friend. Though short it's been very special.

Take care and see you soon Lung.

Love,
Lana

Tribute to Lung 1

Lung left us 45 days ago on January 10, 2010. He had suffered from a ruptured aneurysm on the afternoon of January 6, and went into a coma soon after. He was diagnosed by several surgeons from Indonesia, Singapore and Hong Kong, all of which confirmed rupture had severely damaged his brain.

Doctor explained an aneurysm is a localized, blood-filled dilation (balloon-like bulge) of a blood vessel caused by disease or weakening of the vessel wall. 1 in 50,000 people can have this; 1/3 will die on the street, 1/3 in the hospital and 1/3 can recover. But of the 1/3 that recover very few recover well. Aneurysm is pure bad luck and has nothing to deal with lifestyle or drinking or smoking.

Lung’s last days were greeted by family and friends from many places from the around world. Though all deeply sadden with his passing, we all believe Lung is in a better place, adventuring, having fun in his own way and style.

I still miss you a great deal Lung and hope you're well.

Love you always.

Shanghai 3

The company has been developing web for ten years. It went from a team of 30 to close to 100 in 18 months without a proper structure. Transformation is all possible but first you gotta have a plan. Hiring blindly and going for the cheap labor is definitely not the way to go.

Web marketing is delicate and requires in-depth knowledge and expertise. Just because you got years of experience in developing websites does not make you a web marketer - not today anyways. We all know that today people no longer come to your website and take things as you said. It's about how convincing and how well you are able to engage your users. To be able to do that, you need to know your audience - inside out.

I was shocked to see most of the clients had limited audience profiles; at best there were basic demographics. I spent weeks in developing personas and customer journeys for the main clients. Once those are done everything becomes much easier: from site journeys to developing engaging content and planning for campaign and targeted media buy, all deriving from targeted profiling.

So your site is ready for launch, campaign all planned out and media set to go - do you have analytics in place to measure how well you will do? Do you have room for optimization so whatever doesn't work will get optimized?

Many companies are adopting the new process in pain - this applies to quite a few I have worked with or talked to here in Asia. Media buyers are still buying from experience and instinct; production team are used to delivery then close job. But we all know the web has become a continuous engagement process and using data to optimize is the only way to boost your business.

Good piece on friendship - from a dear friend. Thanks Becky!

Believe...That just because two people argue, it doesn't mean they don't love each other. And just because they don't argue, it doesn't mean they do love each other

Believe...That we don't have to change friends,if we understand that friends change.

Believe...That no matter how good a friend is, they're going to hurt you every once in a while and you must forgive them for that.

Believe...That true friendship continues to grow, even over the longest distance. same goes for true love.

Believe...That you should always leave loved ones with loving words..It may be the last time you see them.

Believe...That sometimes when I'm angry I have the right to be angry, but that doesn't give me the right to be cruel.

Believe...That no matter how bad your heart is broken the world doesn't stop for your grief.

Believe...That the people you care about most in life are taken from you too soon.

The happiest of people don't necessarily have the best of everything; they just make the most of everything

Hey boys and girls,

Attached please find the obituary for Lung to be appeared on Kompass (indo’s leading local paper) tomorrow morning (Jan 13). Ben is entrusting me to collect payments from Hong Kong. Let’s arrange later on when I am back in town.

I am also putting together a collection of Lung’s photos – for his family and friends. If anyone’s got fotos of Lung, please let me know or arrange to pass to me:

If electronic files, you can send to me via:
Email: send to me at lanaktng@yahoo.com
Facebook: upload, then send or tag to me; I can be found as Lana Ng Hong Kong

If true / printed copies please email me and I will forward you with a sending address or arrange for pick up. I guarantee to return them in tact to your designated address.

I would love to be able to collect all pictures within the next two weeks we are looking at Jan 27 as deadline.

I don’t know everyone's contact details so please pass this message around to whomever you feel appropriate. Mike, can you send this to Wilson?

Once again,

"Death leaves a heartache no one can heal, Love leaves a memory no one can steal."


Lung I miss you terribly but I believe you are now into new adventures and enjoying your trip, in your unique style no one can ever replace. I am sure you miss us as much as we miss you but soon, we will meet again and by then, you needa show me all of your favorite good places.

Love you always,
Lana

Shanghai 2

My 1st morning in Shanghai I woke up to heavy drilling and hammering noises. It was 7 am. My room was on the 3rd floor and turned out the building next door was getting renovated to be a service apartment. Similar to preps on Beijing Olympics, Shanghai construction work would have to stop by 1st quarter of 2010 before the Shanghai World Expo's opening in May. A friend later on told me she's awaken at dawn each day with the construction site next door - so I guess an extra hour is a blessing.

Just days before snow storm had hit Beijing pretty hard for the first time last year. No snow in Shanghai but it was very cold to me; about 10 degree Celsius during day, dropping to a few degrees at night. I had been away from cold countries for a long time and not acceptable to low temperature any more.

I studied the map Kevin had drawn for me the night before and headed out of the hotel. I was so happy to discover a Coffee Bean just around the corner and couldn't resist getting a Grande Cappuccino - just like I would do on any work morning in Hong Kong. This also became my daily routine in Shanghai. The coffee costs 29 Yuan vs HKD 31 from Pacific Coffee.

Office was just 15 minutes away by foot. The walk was ok, with lots of little local shops around on the way, mostly sold clothing, food, hair salons, massage parlous... and quite a few convenient stores. I had to cross one major intersection and suddenly my pollution index went up ten times which really reminded me of Jakarta, Bangkok and Manila.

The office was situated inside an old building. I walked 3 flights up to find the company sign next to a tinted glass door guarded by a security code system. Behind this glass door was what you would expect from a typical creative agency - client logos hanging on the side of the reception hall; inside small partitioned units, desktops or laptops on every desk surrounded by piles of files and documents.

I met up with my ex-boss and was told my first task was to develop processes for the company to transform from a web development company into a digital marketing company.