Paul's Word

This is Paul. I hope everyone has read my previous post on the blog. I have recently finished my internship with HKDCS during my summer holiday. The work which i did gave me a strong indication of such a field in my future is possible with the support of relevant course as well as everlasting keen interest on our lovely planet. Working with the dolphin gave me a wider prospective in knowing what has happen, what is happening and what will be happening among our dolphin living so close to us as a neighbour in our community.

The monitoring work gives a clear sense of the current situation of how dolphin is actively situated in our water. The work does not only tells us about dolphin but the everlasting problem associated with dolphin's habitat. It can also act as a part of an indicator towards our food web so that problem related to dolphin are be identified thoroughly through our long term monitoring scheme. Apart from that, this was raise my awareness towards protecting these organisms in a way that we as a human can live happily but at the same time to share our community with them because they also have the right to be here living, staying and exploiting resources.

I am happy to see our lovely dolphin thorughout my summer time. This has been an astonishing moment for me to meet relevant friends and people among HKDCS. These people not just protect our animal but they are willing to work with them because they truly believe in these animal so that they deserve a place in our community to stay.

I commit myself to protect these animal because they deserve a place to live among us!

我的快樂Summer Intern@HKDCS

我既Summer Intern終於都完結...呢兩個幾月係HKDCS做INTERN既體會同得著實在太多!

令 我對鯨豚特別係我地香港既中華白海豚同江豚有更深既了解~對香港地理了解多左~對香港既基建發展都多左了解~出海出海出海~~多過我呢一世仔未做 INTERN前出海既時間~~出海同做LAND-BASE 令我黑左好多~~黑到阿媽同美琪成日話我~~令我有機會去好多從來未去過既地方~~石壁~大澳~深屈~分流~大鴉洲~等等等等~~人生第一次參加大型既展 覽會~~做EXHIBITOR~~第一次去書展~~仲要係做參展商~~令我接觸到廣大市民~了解到唔到人對海豚保肓~環境保護等既睇法~~令我認識自己多 一點~~知道自己有咩不足既地方~~唔夠主動~~學野比較慢~~閱歷少~~寫字真係唔清唔楚...... : (

仲有!!!從海豚媽媽CH34睇到既母愛~~讓我深深體會到海豚既智慧係可等既高~~!同埋愛係無分物種既~~唔係我地人類獨有既特點~~我被呢份愛深深感動! ! !

更 重要既係~~認識到一班愛海豚~~愛自然~~愛香港既朋友~~係呢到~~我一定要多謝~~Samuel, Vincent, Perry, Ka Ying 你地包容, 耐性, 幫助同埋鼓勵 : )仲有阿Paul, Sylvia, 阿良同埋Dr. John Wang( 佢真係好勁!) 仲有仲有吳生~~好多謝你記得我個名~~仲講得岩~~阿謀~~好感動呀!!>< &吳太~~個次見到你聽到海豚聲後興奮既表現~~真係覺得你好似小朋友一樣咁可愛! ! ! : )仲仲有Mahler, 阿驅, Lucas, 阿金同埋一班香港自然探索學會既朋友~~雖然對你地認識唔深~~甚至可能連名都唔記得~~但係係書展同你地一齊努力既時光真係真係好快樂! ! !

講 左咁耐~~係時候到阿龍啦!世界真細少少少~~竟然俾我同你呢個失去聯絡差唔多十年既小學老友係HKDCS重遇, 成為INTERN PARTNER~~只能夠用兩個字形容! 奇妙! ! ! ! !同你係呢兩個幾月並肩作戰~~一齊TRIANING~~一齊做錯野~~放工一齊搵野食~~一齊哎肚餓~~早餐一齊食小學雞壽司~~兩個人食三個波仔 HAHA~~真係好開心! ! ! 多謝你! ! ! 阿龍!

最後想講~~雖然Intern完左~~但係唔代表我同HKDCS既關係完左~~日後有咩需要我既地方! 我都好願意參與架! ! !知道大家最近都為發生係香港發生係海豚身上既唔同事件而煩惱! ! !我只想講~~We work as a team! ! ! 再借利記既一句口號~"You'll never walk alone!" 我會盡我能力將呢兩個幾月所學, 所見, 所聽到既事實同真相~~從我身邊既人開始宣揚出去! !

咁多位朋友~~大家一齊加油! ! ! : )

We love dolphins!

It is right to protect our animals living on this planet before they become endanger and eventually become extinct. By knowing more about these animals, in this case the indo-pacific dolphins allows me to have a greater vision of how they exist in our planet as well as i could see clearly with my own eyes that majority of human development has cause massive damage to their surrounding environment and also towards their own health.

I hope to see them again and hope that our future generation has the opportunity to see it with their own eyes.

HKDCS@Hong Kong Book Fair 2011

HKDCS and SHKNE had held a booth in the Hong Kong Book Fair 2011 during 20/7 to 26/7. It was an interesting experience to me. It was my first time visiting Hong Kong Book Fair, I acted not only simply a visitor but also an exhibito and I passed my birthday there on the first day of the book fair. I never went to the book fair because I thought that the book fair must be crowded with people and boring. In fact, it really crowded with so many visitors but it's interesting because there are many types of books. I bought several books and I hope I can finishing reading them this summer.

The HK Book Fair provided me another chance to face the public. Different from the DRT Expo, it was not just introducing some conservation issues to the public, but in main focus, selling books to the visitors. (Of course the reason behind selling these books is also to promote environemtnal conservation to the public.) I was not only simply a visitor but I was also a salesperson. It was my first time to be a salesperson so I didn't know how to get start selling books to the visitors. I observed other salespersons like Vincent and Nekky and practiced so that I became more comfortable and initiative to talk to the visitors. The feeling of success when the visitors decided to buy books after I convinced them was so great. I knew my book selling skill was not good enough and I was not initiative enough. But I thought I had made improvement compared to DRT Expo. And I saw the importance of initiative from two top salesperson of our booth, Mr. Lau and Perry. I really need to learn from them.

Although being an exhibitor in the book fair was quite exhausting, I still enjoyed it. And I felt upset when it came to the end of the book fair. I would like to thanks everyone participating in our booth at the book fair for giving me such a great experience.


SHKNE's booth@Hong Kong Book Fair 2011












Top salesperson, Mr. Lau and his audiences.












Visitors were voicing out their concern by leaving their comments on our big banner.












Group Photo: Thank you all! I really enjoy to this week!











There are two weeks left for my intern. The coming week will be an exciting week because we will be full of manpower so that we will be divided into two team work on boat survey and land-based theodolite tracking. And we will have the boat survey in China Zhuhai on the last week. I am looking forward to sharing with you my feeling and experience in the coming two weeks! See you!

New intern at HKDCS

Hi all,

My name is Paul, i am a new intern from July and i wanted to share my little experience in this blog for the past 4 weeks.

I am glad that i had a chance in being part of the team and working as intern for HKDCS. The remarkable experience for the last 4 weeks puts me in a position where i started to involve in observation work, data calculation and organizing event. Alot has been happening throughtout the month of July and personally i learned alot and had experience different position with different duty at different time. Most of the work was new to me for insist it ranges from: a series of long term observation and monitoring work to calculating primary data and process them into a more representable form and more.

I particularly want to mention about Diving Expo. During that time, i had a feeling that i am so tiny in this world. From the moment i standing next to the skeleton of a Baleen whale i was tiny compare to the size of its head. When people ask me regarding this outstanding skeleton of a whale, i felt empty inside me because i could not tell much information about the whale rather keep repeating myself with the information i heard from others. I felt totally lack in details about this creature and i couldn't tell them more. I was limited with my knowledge at that moment and this has encouraged me that I should be able to answer them in full explanation as well as educate them through my understanding in this area of study.

Thank you team for answering my question and explaining it to me.

Half Way of My Intern & Dive. Expo.

Time flies, I am now on the half way of my internship. In the past 6 weeks, I see improvement myself progressively. But I also see my shortcomings.

I am now getting more comfortable on the boat. I got my first discovery of sighting of Chinese White Dolphin. However, I and Nekky made a big mistake when filling the survey effort data sheet. I still didn't do well enough to coordinate smoothly with my teammates (Sometimes in boat survey, I thought myself was acting as an individual, instead of acting as a team player.). And I didn't realize the importance of reading relevant readings, wasting valuable time in office.
Luckily, I am still on the half way, I still get time to improve, to turn my internship an invaluable experience.

Due to the intern and the lovely Chinese White Dolphin, I decided to buy the first DSLR in my life, D90 finally. And this is my favorite Chinese White Dolphin photo taken by myself with D90. The nurture of baby show the greatest love.
By the way, I have to thank Perry for borrowing me his 70-300mm lens so that I could take this photo.

Last Sunday, the Diving Resort & Travel Expo was over. The Expo provided me firsthand experience in promoting conservation issue to the general public. I gave the information about biology of dolphins and their conservation issue directly to the visitors. This really helped me to improve my communication skill and confidence in talking to others. However, I found myself not confident enough to talk with foreign and mainland people. I was not active enough to talk to those visitors. Sadly, I really missed a great chance in practicing my spoken English and Putonghua!

It also gave me a chance to see different responses from the general public on the conservation issue especially for those related to economic development such as 3^rd runway. Some people against it, a little support it and the majority of people seek for a balance between conservation and economic development. The balance between environmental protection and economic development is always a difficult question.

Moreover, it's happy to receive support from the general public. This let's know that the public understand what we are doing now and what's our purpose. No matter just a sentehnce of word, support form public is always an encouragement for those who work hard on environmental protection and conservation.

Thanks to the organization for giving us a big area to promote dolphin conservation.

intern exp ii =]

The third week of internship I have to read data about overview of finless porpoise and humpback dolphin, abundance estimated in HK waters, photo identification work and the survey procedure. Photo identification (photo ID) is one of the methods to monitor dolphins in a detail way and a safety way. Photo ID is to identify the characteristics of the shape dorsal fin and the dots on dorsal part. That can make me rich in knowledge of the field works.

Moreover, the locations of boat observation of Chinese white dolphin are North West Lantau and north east Lantau. I started to participate in being a data recorder and primary observer. I adapt to record the events faster than before and hence I feel more confident to handle the works.




resource: HKDCS    

The fourth week of internship I have to read data about abundance estimated in HK waters and the educational humpback dolphin PowerPoint. The PowerPoint is used for the education talk in school providing the updated information and knowledge to conserve Chinese white dolphins by public. This PowerPoint also inspires me about the presentation of the internship in CIE and the topic is about the concerning of the public.

        Moreover, the boat observation of Chinese white dolphin in West Lantau make me learn a lot. The west lantau is a hot spot of appearance of CWD. On that day, I started to record and be primary observer. But there are few group of the CWDs appeared at the same time. I cannot record the data immediately and accurately as that situation is the first time which I never meet. After that, I also miss the discovery of CWD because I find I cannot look accurately at the sea water when it is over 400m with binoculars. I cannot distinguish between CWD and waves when it just appear 1or 2 seconds. I also find that I am lack of confident to command to stop the boat when I cannot see it clearly. To sum up, I treasure this experience very much as it reveals me I am still not enough and need to work harder.