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Onyx is leaving for HKG today for 3 months
Onyx,
Have a good and safe trip, work and enjoying hard! post heap of photos while you're in the region, remember coming back after your TDY and we'll will have a welcome home "lunch" for you as promised. 
We will miss you at all the meets in the next 12 weeks 
Last edited by birddog114 on Mon Feb 21, 2005 7:33 am, edited 1 time in total.
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Onyx,
Have a safe and pleasant trip, but enjoy every moment while you're there. g.
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Thank you all. I was hoping I could discreetly sneak past the fanfare.
 I'll still be online - posting as usual. If not, you can assume Mr Poon is pushing me too hard and it's time for the D70 convoy to come rescue me. 
I'll miss you all! You're like a second family to me, I've grown attached to this place. Catch y'all later!
Onyx - we will definately miss you (both here and at the meets) but you make sure you stay present on the forums. Have an awesome time and may it be full of great adventures and lots of learning! Have an excellent experience!!
Geoff.
Onyx,
Have a great time in Honkers... I'm sure you will find lots of photo ops there... Looking forward to seeing a few images on Pixspot... Cheers, John
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Bring us back something nice!!!
Erm.. by which I mean.. Have a great trip PlatinumWeaver / Dean
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Cheers Onyx! Have a great time (awesome!)
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Onyx
Hope you get the opportunity to have an awesome time. It's probably good you're there for so long since, with Mr Poon taking up much of your time, you won't be able to get out and about as much as someone who's there on hols. Up side is you'll get to great places that are a little more out of the way and have a chance to better capture the local colour. Have a great time. I look forward to seeing your shots. Cheers Peter
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Hey onyx, ok maybe i have missed something,uhm oh well but off to Hk mate, well you have a good time stay outa trouble and enjoy it. Well will be looking forward to the pics from such a bright light city as seen in other pics, so have a good trip mate.
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Onyx - have a great time - HK is one of my favourite cities - vibrant, great food and lots of photo opportunities - enjoy
 Chris
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Have fun mate! Should be a great experience for you, be sure to report in if you get the time.
 If you stay on for another 3 months I might see you there: HK micro-meet.
I've only been a member here since last year. I think I can safely say you are welcome to bring me back in your suitcase a 300VR, a 200 - 400 F2.8, and 85 F1.4 if you can squeeze it in there. :-p
Have a great time, take lots of photos and please ignore the sentance above (it's all in good humour)
Have a great and safe trip, dude.
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Can we hope for weekly updates from HK?
How about these topics as a suggestion:
photo ops girls food state of play in the camera business I'm sure it would be an interesting post each time. Hope you have a wonderful time.
He's now sitting comfy inside the 747-400 of Singapore Airlines with some beauti hostesses serving him meal and drinks, he'll be in HKG at midnight HKG time, transit at Changi, Singapore, he may lurking the forum with Inflight Services.
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I think he does.
We were trying to get on Birddog's network at one of the last meets. Producer & Editor @ GadgetGuy.com.au
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Yes, he may! but I don't think he has enough time in transit, between his landing time and boarding another flight to HKG is 1 hour gap in between, you guys travelled a lot and knew what I meant! Birddog114
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I love flying singapore...
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Guess what? If the Govt. allows Singapore flies from here to the US mainland, I bet you Qantas & UA or Air NZ will hard.Birddog114
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hehehe...
Seriously though that is good news.. Will be awesome if they do the straight (not via HNL) Sydney to LAX trip... thats where the inflight (and  ) will be niceNew page
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I'm talking direct fly from SYD-LAX with SQ not transit Singapore. Birddog114
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I know exactly what you mean! A direct SYD-LAX will be over 16hours and 16 hours of this is not good for my body. Where as ATM it's only SYD-SIN which is approximately 7 hours.
But whatever you do from Syd-LAX, you have to gain at least 13-16 hrs non stop. What's happened on your next trip from Syd to Europe? Syd- SIN 7 hours and SIN-Europe will be anothor 13 - 14 hours? Birddog114
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Personally I try to
as much as possible on long flights...
But when the wife is i might get a chance to do a bit of
 Cheers, John
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Great minds think alike huynhie Cheers, John
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SYD-LAX is 13.5 hours. LAX-SYD is 14.5 hours. All direct. g.
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Shouldn't they each be the same length of time?
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nope... prevailing westerlies
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You'd think so, but the winds bugger things up. Same with SYD-LHR and LHR-SYD, the new fangled Boeing aeroplane can do SYD-LHR non-stop but not LHR-SYD because of the headwind on the way back.
Quoted for truth!
Onyx,
Chryssine and I wish you a great stay in Honkers. As you know, she loves the place and your departure means the pressure is on me to take her back
We'll all miss you so have fun and we'll see you soon Regards
Joe
Chi, i know you've already gone, but enjoy your time over there, stay safe and don't go out late at night by yourself. I've seen some of the HK movies and it looks a really dangerous place, with samurai warriors, Mafia, Yakuza and Triad gangs all over the place and bent cops on the streets dealing in bad justice.
make sure you come back in one piece and on your own feet. See if you can pick up a wife for yourself too. There's lots of pretty Chinese girls over there. See ya soon, three months ain't that long. (Don't forget to mention to Mr Poon that he should open a Paris or London office with you as manager) Steve.
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Thanx for your kind remarks everyone. I am having a ball. The language barrier I'm encountering is a bit awkward, as I look like I should be able to speak Cantonese like the rest of em.
Singapore airlines rule! Anyone who's flown post 9/11 might appreciate this: on the Sng to HK segment, I got issued a metal knife with the cutlery set!!! I couldn't believe it!
Within Asia, all airlines don't care and the bad guy didn't pick any of these countries, flying into North America or Europe or Australia, there're problems. You'll never heard any terrosist in HKG or China mainland and I wish Australia go back its golden age without many enemies. Birddog114
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A metal knife ... A metal knife ... A metal knife ... A metal knife ... A metal knife ... g.
Gary Stark Nikon, Canon, Bronica .... stuff The people who want English to be the official language of the United States are uncomfortable with their leaders being fluent in it - US Pres. Bartlet
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