皇后大道東

羅大佑真係未卜先知，當年一首「皇后大道東」己經預言:

知己一聲拜拜遠去這都市
要靠偉大同志搞搞新意思
照買照賣樓花處處有單位
但是旺角可能要換換名字

有了屍爬及自由行之後，偉大同志們都說香港沒有他們早已玩完。
旺角火車站的確被改了名字。題外話：其實兩鐵合併，應該兩站一齊改名，不然只改歷史較短的地鐵站名才對！

Sports highlights: F1, MotoGP, NASCAR, T20 World Cup

Many sports competitions have started their 2014 seasons finally. Formula 1 started two weekends ago in Australia, which translates to a 3:30 am start time. I was not sure if I was gonna watch but I woke up without an alarm so I guess I wanted subconsciously. And it was not a bad race. To me, the major reason NOT to watch was that the 4-time defending champ Sebastian Vettel seemed to win every race. Not this one though 'coz something was wrong with his car early on. So did Lewis Hamilton's car. That left only 3 former champs competing with the rest of the field. Still, not too much competition up front: Nico Rosberg won for Mercedes easily. The local guy Daniel Ricciardo finished behind Rosberg and got the crowd really excited (However, he was disqualified because the fuel flow exceeded the rate allowed by the rule and his team refused to change after receiving warning from the officials. The owner of his team seemed really upset when things don't go in his favor. Oh yeah, his other driver is Vettel. To be honest, it's not fair when the governing body came up with rules against your team: e.g, favoring engine power over aerodynamics, which has been Red Bull's strength, but as a spectator I don't wanna see the same guy winning all the time. Anyway, saying things like this sounds just like a cry baby) And a rookie, Kevin Magnussen, finished third (bumped up to 2nd after Ricciardo's DQ) It's too early to tell if there's more parity this new season but I'm keeping my finger crossed.

Compared to F1, NASCAR seems like it's mid-season already with 5 races in the books, one exciting finish after another. Maybe the rule change was a good thing: it made the already-competitive drivers battled even harder for the win. And the normally nothing-goes-wrong #48 team got a flat tire late in the race while leading at the Fontana race. It ended with a Green-White-Checker finish: the same Toyota driver, Kyle Busch, won on Toyota's "home track" 2 years in a row.

MotoGP just had its first race of the 2014 season at Qatar last weekend. It was a duel between the young defending champ, Marc Marquez, and the legend, Valentino Rossi, at the end.

I didn't know it's a world cup year (Cricket Twenty20 that is) until my friend told me Hong Kong defeated Bangladesh during the last first-round group match. It's kinda like Australia upsetting England in the soccer world, I guess. And the result didn't affect which team advance to the next round (the latter did) Still, a win is a win. Looking forward to watching more 2nd round group and knockout stage matches!

Last but not least, the 2014 MLB season has also started, again, in Australia (Sydney Cricket Ground) with the Dodgers vs the D-backs at 1am PDT Saturday. This time I did set an alarm just to watch it and had to endure a ~40 min of rain delay! Since I was up after the game anyway, I ended up watching the Arsenal vs Chelsea game too. However, it's too sad for me to continue after the gunners went down 0-3 (the last one involved a red card that should not have been given. And it was given to the wrong player! How bizarre!)

Real Disasters

It seems like sad news of disasters came one after another: first it was Malaysia Airline 370 went missing. Then 100+ were missing after the mudslide in the Washington state. That really puts things in perspective. Losing 0-6 to Chelsea didn't seem that bad any more. The media misuses the word disastrous a bit too much.