Sealing Cheng Notable Name of the Day 2167

Sealing Cheng (Ms), associate professor, Department of Anthropology, Faculty of Arts, The Chinese University of Hong Kong, Hong Kong

About Notable Names
Name Category: Creation; Phonetic-based

Jolovan Wham Notable Name of the Day 2166

Jolovan Wham (Mr), 38, a social worker from Singapore's Community Action Network, Singapore (reference)

About Notable Names
Name Category: Creation

Winsome Lee Notable Name of the Day 2165

Winsome Lee Hin-shin (Ms), forensic archaeologist, Kenyon International Emergency Services, a company based in Britain (reference)

  

Of Old English origin, and the meaning of Winsome is "agreeable".

About Notable Names
Name Category: Rare

Haston Liu Notable Name of the Day 2164

Haston Liu Wai-ming, dentist, Dental Association, Hong Kong (reference)

About Notable Names
Name Category: Creation; Substitution

Ludwig Tsoi Notable Name of the Day 2163

Ludwig Tsoi Chun-hing, medical doctor, honorary secretary, Federation of Medical Societies, Hong Kong (reference)

About Notable Names
Name Category: Rare

Are Lucky Draws Dishonest and Corrupt?

Paper One published its 20^th Anniversary Lucky Draw in The Standard on 16 November 2018. There is a list of about 450 people who each won a HK$10 McDonald’s voucher … and one (?) person who picked up the Top Six Prizes.

The one main winner named Rita Chan (and Ms Chan) appears extremely suspect (is this Ms Rita Chan associated in some way with Paper One?). The public have a right to know.

This blog noticed this strange oddity simply because of the Notable Names listed as $10 winners (e.g. Chelsia Chow, Hily Lee, Binty Wong, Zy Ho and Silinna Li to mention a few). In all, there were about 35 Notable Names from the 450 $10 winners, which will all be published on this blog in due course.

Back to the main point of this post ...

The Top Six Prizes were:

iPad Pro & Apple Pencil x 1pc (winner Rita Chan)

Macbook Pro 13” x 1pc (winner Rita Chan)

Nixon D750 kit set x 1pc (winner Rita Chan)

Apple Watch Series 3 x 1pc (winner Ms Chan)

Mont Blanc x 1pc (winner Rita Chan)

Fujifilm X-T20 Kit x 1pc (winner Rita Chan)

Congratulations Ms Rita Chan for avoiding the $10 McDonald’s voucher and instead 'managing' to pick up all Top Six Prizes of the Paper One 20^th Anniversary Lucky Draw. Who are you Ms Rita Chan? And what is your connection with Paper One? The Trade Promotion Competition Licence Number is 51103. 

Looking at the financial distribution of the Paper One prizes, we can say $4,500 are valued as 450 McDonald's vouchers and approximately $60,000 are valued as Six Top Prizes (assuming each Top Prize averages $10,000 in value). This means from a total value of $64,500 worth of prizes, a paltry 7% is distributed to 450 people and a huge wodge of 93% is given to just one person named Rita Chan or Ms Chan.

The ICAC (Independent Commission Against Corruption) could look into this, but will it ... ? Sadly, this is likely an indication of privilege and the unfair distribution of wealth found in Hong Kong society ... where the rich and privileged continue to be rich and privileged and the common people with little connections are just "fed meagre scraps" to keep them quiet, submissive and hardworking.

This all looks very suspicious, particularly when compared with the BOC Life Lucky Draw Campaign Winners List (also published in The Standard on 16 November 2018). Its Trade Promotion Competition Licence Number is 51234.

In the BOC Life Winners List, the distribution of winners appears to be more fair, honest and transparent. For instance, they had: 

One winner : Smartphone

Three winners: Tablet PC

Two winners: Hotel Spa Voucher

14 winners: Hotel Tea Voucher

multiple winners (about 127): Dining Voucher

multiple winners (about 254): Tea gift set


Reference

  

Paper One 20th Anniversary Lucky Draw -- Winners List

 

BOC Life Lucky Draw -- Winners List

Alva To Notable Name of the Day 2162

Alva To, vice-president and head of consulting for Greater China, Cushman & Wakefield, Hong Kong (reference)

Of Irish and Gaelic origin, and the meaning of Alva is "white".

About Notable Names
Name Category: Rare

Ivan Ho Notable Name of the Day 2161

Ivan Ho Man-yiu, member, Harbourfront Commission, Hong Kong

Play on Ivanhoe novel.

-->see also Lancelot Chan

About Notable Names
Name Category: Common but Creative; Literature based

Jeffie Lam Notable Name of the Day 2160

Jeffie Lam (Ms), senior reporter, SCMP, Hong Kong (reference)

About Notable Names
Name Category: Rare

Vega Wong Notable Name of the Day 2159

Vega Wong Sau-wai (Ms), assistant director, Home Affairs Department, HKSAR Government (reference)

Vega a girls' name is of Arabic origin, and its meaning is "falling vulture". Also the brightest star in the group of stars called Lyra.

About Notable Names
Name Category: Rare

Sulu Sou Notable Name of the Day 2158

Sulu Sou Ka-hou, lawmaker/legislator, government, Macau SAR (reference). 

About Notable Names
Name Category: Creation; Star Trek pop culture?

Queenie Lam Notable Name of the Day 2157

Queenie Lam Ching-chi, senior scientific officer, Hong Kong Observatory, Hong Kong (reference)

see other Queenie names found in Hong Kong

About Notable Names
Name Category: Rare; somewhat common in Hong Kong

Kanis Leung Notable Name of the Day 2156

Kanis Leung, reporter, SCMP, Hong Kong 

see other Kanis names at 0697 and 1199   

About Notable Names
Name Category: Creation; Substitution; somewhat common in Hong Kong?

Kinsley Ng 2155 Notable Name of the Day

Kinsley Ng Kwan-luff, 10, among the first passengers to travel on board the Vibrant Express – the MTR Corp’s train on the high-speed railway line - from Hong Kong to Shenzhen on 23 September 2018.

-->Kinsley means "king's meadow" and is an alternate form of Kingsley (Old English).

see 0799 Notable Name of the Day

About Notable Names
Name Category: Rare

Alpin Hong 2154 Notable Name of the Day

Alpin Hong, professional pianist, United States (reference: Musician Explains One Concept in 5 Levelsof Difficulty | WIRED)

The name is of Scottish and Gaelic origin, and the meaning of Alpin is "fair".

About Notable Names
Name Category: Rare

Jeny Yeung 2153 Notable Name of the Day

Jeny Yeung Mei-chun, commercial director, MTR Corporation, Hong Kong (reference)

-->About Notable Names
Name Category: Creation; Deletion