NEWS OF AU POSFORD, DAVID S.K. AU & ASSOCIATES, & CANWEST

issue 08

30th SEPTEMBER, 2013

INTERVIEW Cela Yip

KNOWLEDGE Caste system in

India

REPORT Hong Kong Looking

Ahead Part 2 of 2

EVENT ADC Cafe

ACTIVITIES ADC pennant

PEOPLE August birthday

celebration

ADC News

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Christian Life[Cela Yip]

INTERVIEWEE

Cela Yip

INTERVIEWER

Alan Cheng

ADC: Which department do you belong to?Cela: Structural Department.

A: How long have you been working at ADC?C: 2 years.

A: During these years, what is your day to day role?C : M y r o l e i n v o l e s p r e p a r i n g a n d s u b m i t t i n g d e t a i l d e s i g n s o f superstructure and foundation; site inspection; and attending regular project and site meetings.

A: What is the best thing about working at ADC in your opinion?C: I have the opportunity to work with different professionals. They are being helpful and willing to share with me generously their own experience and knowledge.

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INTERVIEW

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A: As the leader of Prayer Fellowship, what benefi t do you get out of it?C: I am very pleased that there is a fellowship group at our company, in which I could share with brothers and sisters my thoughts and feelings in Christ. Moreover, we support each other through prayers.

A: How do you spend your leisure time?C: As a Christian, I go to church regularly as well as take part in various church-related events. Just earlier this year, I had a Kingdom Culture Conference in Taiwan and a mission trip to Fuzhou, through both of which I have been brought closer to God and experienced a lot of from Him.

A: What event would you suggest ADC club to organise in the future?C: Overnight trip to hot spring & spa resort. - (A)

Who will be the next interviewee?Send your nomination to:dickens_sit@apcl.com.hk=

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The Brahmins , to sa feguard the i r societal privileges, provided intellectual justification for the caste system in quoting from the Vedas. According to these Hindu scriptures, when Brahma created the human being, he also created the caste system. From the mouth of Brahma came the Brahmins, their job being to preach. From his arms came the Kahstriyas, their task the protection of society. From his loins were born the Vaishyas whose job involved business. Finally, from his feet came the Shudras and they carried the weight of all society in performing their menial and filthy work.

By about 600 BC, the caste system was irrevocably fixed, with the Brahmins becoming the sky advisors to the government, the Kahatriyas making up the army and Vashiyas managing the trade and manufacture and the Shudras relegated to the fringes of society. The second and the third castes had prospered and they resented the suffocating control of the Brahmins over society. They salvation lay in the form of two new philosophies that latter became world religions - Jainism and Buddhism. The new religious offered equality and increased social mobility among all classes of society.

Caste in modern India: According to the letter of the Indian Constitution, it is illegal to discriminate or distinguish a person on the basis of his or her caste. A Harijan (Gandhi’s name for the Shudras meaning, literally, God’s people) leader B.R. Ambedkar was one of the key people involved in drafting the Constitution. Today, the politically correct term for Shudra is ‘Dalit’.

In metros, in day-to-day life, caste plays an insignifi cant role. In fact, with evolving lifestyles, it is now disappearing. But the caste system continues to have a strong hold in villages where 80 per cent of India’s population still lives. There the caste factor plays an important role at the time of marriages and during elections. The candidates in the villages are elected on the basis of their castes and not on the basis of the election manifestos. However, till date, traditional jobs continue to follow the caste system. - (A)

KNOWLEDGE

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The caste system is unique to Hindu society. Its origin can be traced back to the initial stages of civilisation. With the discovery of copper and iron, the nomadic tribes began to sow crops and with it arose the need for settlements. These nascent societies soon evolved manageable forms of local government and administration. They elected an administrator with the title of Raja. The Raja was supported by a council of ministers that were each accountable to local assemblies called Sabha and Samiti.

As trade grew in villages along the Ganga, the people with each society came to be recognised by their principal occupation. Some sociologists feel that the caste system sprang from this division of labour.

In our ancient language Sanskirt, the word for caste is ‘varna’ which, when translated, means colour. The fair-skinned Aryans who had conquered the dark-skinned Dravidians, who were the original occupants of the lands in the north, were at the upper end of this hierarchy. Eventually, therefore, the four-fold division of society came to be tired in with the colour of a person’s skin.

Brahmins : Tall and fair-skinned, with sharp features, they were accorded the duties of the priest and teacher.

Kshatriyas : The warrior caste bore the responsibility of maintaining law and order within the community and provided protection against invaders.

Vaishyas : The traders were of relatively darker skin and were also assigned menial tasks.

Shudras : As the social structure grew increasingly complex, a fourth class was gradually added to the list. The Shudras performed cleaning and sanitation work; and they removed and skinned dead animals. They lived on the outskirts of society, often on the boundaries of the village.

Initially, the caste system was fluid, enabling movement from one level to another, until an increasingly complicated social administration set out to curb this flexibility by decreeing that birth and death alone would determine one’s caste.

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Caste system in India

WRITER

Tarun Chopra

SOURCE

The Holy Cow and other Indian Stories

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Introduction

In the last issue, I talked about two areas of HK development that will bring business opportunities to us – Our Future Railway and Land Supply. In this article, I will give an introduction on the third issue – Waste Management.

Waste Management

Hong Kong, like many developed cities, is suffering from the problem of waste. About 18,000 tonnes of municipal solid waste (MSW) is generated in Hong Kong everyday, and this number is continuously growing. Currently, Hong Kong almost completely relies on landfi lls to dispose these municipal solid waste. The growing wasteload leads to a much earlier exhaustion of the landfills. So the Hong Kong government decided to develop various waste management facilities, including Integrated Various Management Facilities (IVMF), Organic Waste Treatment Facilities (OWTF), and Sludge Treatment Facilities (STF). While the STF has been almost completed, the IVMF and OWTF are still in process.

1) Integrated Waste Management Facilities (IWMF):

The purpose of IWMF is to reduce the bulk size of mixed MSW and to recover useful resources. It will decrease the landfi lling of waste signifi cantly, thereby extending the useable life of landfi lls and their extensions in Hong Kong.

Two potential sites for IWMF were proposed – the Tsang Tsui Ash Lagoons sites in Tuen Mun and the Shek Kwu Chau site to the south of Lantau Island. The fi rst phase of the IWMF will occupy an area of about 10 hectares.

Some social, recreational and educational community facilities are planned to be incorporated with the waste treatment facilities:

REPORT

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Hong Kong Looking Ahead - Part 2 of 2

WRITER

PK Tse

TRANSLATION

Iris Wang

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Tsang Tsui Ash Lagoons in Tuen Mun

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1. Educational Centre cum Waste Technology Museum

2. Eco-tourism Park

The expected completion date of IWMF is 2016 or 2018.

2) Organic Waste Treatment Facilities (OWTF):

The purpose of OWTF is to recycle the source-separated organic waste to useful products. Most of the target waste is food waste.

The proposed sites for the first and

second phase of the OWTF are located at Siu Ho Wan of North Lantau and Shaling at North District respectively.

The expected completion dates of Phase I and Phase II are 2014 and 2016/17 respectively.

Closing Remarks

New solutions for waste management may be planned in the future. Seizing the opportunities will be significant for us engineers. - (A)

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Process of Anaerobic Digestion

Shek Kwu Chau

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31st August, 2013

Friendly match

ADC vs Wong & Ouyany (HK) Ltd.

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ADC Cafe

PHOTOGRAPHER

Lester Lai

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EVENT

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ACTIVITIES

Propose your interest group to:

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PEOPLE

Marriages, Births & Newcomers

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issue 08

30th SEPTEMBER, 2013

Editorial committee:

Advisor

PK Tse

ChairmanDickens Sit

Translation Iris Wang

Graphics

Matthew Cheng

Public Relations

Alan Cheng

Your comments on this newsletter are welcome. Please send them to Dickens Sit: dicksens_sit@apcl.com.hk

Newcomers

Name Title Join Day

HUNG Kai-loi Clerk of Works 02-July-2013

Shum Chik-lai, Alvin Assistant Building Surveyor 02-July-2013

Li Yat Graduate Engineer 08-July-2013

Sung Pui-han, Farina Architectural Assistant 15-July-2013

Shek Nga-ting, Sana Assistant Building Surveyor 22-July-2013

YUEN Lin-yan, Kathy Quantity Surveyor 01-August-2013

Lam Wai-keung, Jackal Draftsman Trainee 12-August-2013

Chan Chi-ho, Sunny Associate Director 14-August-2013

Fung Kar-sing, Stanley Resident Engineer 26-August-2013

TANG Lok-sze, Roy Graduate Engineer 26-August-2013

YEUNG Yiu-ho, Arthur Assistant Buildng Surveyor 27-August-2013

CHAN Ho-pan, Sam Graduate Engineer 02-September-2013

LAW Tsz-kin, Chris Trainee 02-September-2013

YU Koon-yin, Alvin Graduate Engineer 16-September-2013

PANG Kwun-yeung, Tony Graduate Engineer 16-September-2013

NG Pui-shan, Michelle Quantity Surveyor 23-September-2013

Quali! cation

JULY CHENG Siu-lun, Alan

Registered Professional Engineer (Structural), Engineers Registration Board

YIP Chun-kit, Bird

Registered Professional Engineer (Structural), Engineers Registration Board

BirthsJULY (Tommy Chan, DA, GEOTECH)

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AUGUST

Birthday

Celebration

Boaz Chan