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如此惹人發笑的文章，他日或可充當英語老師教導學生英文文法之反面教材，閒時重讀來以求苦中取樂，也不壞。

今時今日的所謂女政客，其破舊立新，語不驚人死不休的政論，實在教人摸不著頭腦，即使社會有多自由多民主，人們對於一些亂說一通的胡言亂語，還是無法視而不見，無法不揶揄一番。

聽到陶公子的妙語連珠，簡直快笑彎了腰，言語間雖有不尊重蔡女士的地方，但俗語說：人必自侮而人侮之。說人家事業有成全賴運氣，倒不如先問自己又何德何能?讀書多讀得好又怎樣？沒人格沒品德的人，管你學貫中西，博學多聞？

還寫什麼家書，正正是畫虎不成反類犬，丟人現眼罷了！

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Dear Hong Kong,

　 Hong Kong is really a land of many wonders, a place of endless surprises at the most unexpected moment.（陶公子說自己孤陋寡聞，從未聽聞有這種寫法，完全是港式英語）　 I am talking about the leave of former, yes, "former" by now, Chief Executive Mr CH Tung, and the elevation of Mr Donald Tsang, our new leader at the Executive Branch.

　 These fast-break changes came at the most unexpected moment when Mr Tung seemed to be riding over the tough tides, heading for a soft sailing after the economy has been obviously bottoming out.

　 Probably, the Central Government was impressed by the results of the Legislative Council elections last year, which showed that Hong Kong people as a whole are rational and considerate. So, there is no much need in erecting unsurmountable barriers between different political camps with different political history.

　 Time and again, the Central leadership has been calling on all forces in Hong Kong to forget and forgive past differences, and build a better Hong Kong.

　 I sincerely hope that our friends at the Democratic Camp will heed the earnest appeal of the Central Government, tear down the barriers and come forward to co-operate with the Central Government and the new SAR administration.

　Dear Hong Kong, let us kick off a virtuous cycle. All are welcome! Hong Kong belongs to us all, we are all in the same family, we are all in the same boat.（直譯：我們同坐一條船，蔡女士真厲害，古今中外能自造語句者，實無幾人也。或許遲些時候她還準備仿傚武則天造字啊！〕 We should not separate us apart from each other.

　 Donald has been generally ruled out for the top job by many well-informed and well-connected quarters. Certainly, he was always a contender, but was viewed mostly as an also-run included for the sake of comprehensiveness of the list. By virtue of the incumbency position, his only real chance was in case of dire emergency. Surely Hong Kong was in no emergency. In fact, we are returning to normalcy in all fronts, and as a whole.〔老外看了也真摸不著頭腦囉～〕

　 On the eve of Hong Kong returning to China on 30 June 1997, Donald was knighted by Prince Charles while Mrs. Anson Chan remains a common. It appeared to the general public that Mrs Anson Chan was waiting for her turn to the top while donald realistically counted himself out.

　 Paradoxes are the order of the day. Exactly because he is ruled out by the public, even by himself that he is picked. Those who were aiming at it with all their minds and hearts, exactly because of their tenacious efforts, were dropped.

After the mass demonstrations in July 1 in 2003 and 2004, Beijing appeared to have completed a comprehensive plan for Hong Kong --accelerating integration with China in all material and spiritual fronts.

　Donald Tsang knows the Hong Kong Establishment and government machinery inside out. That is a tremendous help, could even be an indispensable part, to China's new plan for Hong Kong.

　 In view of this new think,〔陶公子又質疑，他曉得new thoughts, new things,但new think就未曾聽說過了，於是他打趣說或許是打錯字也不定，否則真會懷疑蔡女士的英語水平。〕 the world has been turned upside down. China forgive and forget. All things seem to be re-defined, re-configurated and re-orientated in the new context of total integration between Hong Kong and the Mainland.

　This could be a political landscape shift, of the scale and magnitude of a continental shift, reminiscent of China's Open and Reform Policy in the late 70's.

　Previously impossibilities become new possibilities, even necessities; normalcy and abnormalcy were reversed; assets liabilities, and liabilities assets.

　In time of landscape shift, Paradoxes reign supreme.

　China appears to be departing from China's entrenched position based on ideology of nationalism.Now Effectuality of Governance and economic recovery seem to take precedence over ideology of nationalism and become the core value overriding other concerns.

　Loyalty and deference are secondary to competence and performance. After all, Hong Kong is all under control. Loyalty and deference are non-issues, the real issues are competence and performance.

　A Hong Kong after 155 years of British rule has become a full-fledged quasi-modern society with world-class cosmopolitan attributes. China may now view Hong Kong as a turn-key project and Donald Tsang and experienced operator and repairer.

　Over the decades, China's economic reforms and modernization were guided by a Deng saying- "Be it white cat or black cat, a cat that catches mice is a good cat".

　Now, China may be inadvertently taking a page from Deng's pragmatism --"Be it British or Chinese, as far as it works."

　Since the new leadership of Hu Jiangtao and Wan Jiaobao took over, China's concept and practice of governance seem to be taking up a CEO Model which will better serve China in shifting to international and internal political contexts as she is playing a greater role in the modern world.

　If China's rethink on Hong Kong was completed one year later, Arthur Li even York Chow might have a better chance of replacing CH Tung, given Arthur's and York's need for time to shape up their competence and performance in leadership. If CH Tung stepped down one year earlier, Henry Tang might get the top job.

陶公子毫的同伴〔忘了名字〕說此文文法像詩，然而陶公子不以為然，說詩句充滿wisdom，言下之意不用多說。

我沒有聽到全部內容，但也教我多次笑得咯咯吱吱，樂透了。

所以就個人來說，我也頗涼薄的。