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Your ideas and layouts are most welcome, of course!

If the files are too large (more than 200kB) you're welcome to email them to me. info@Lamma.com.hk

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Re images, you don't have to reduce the size in pixels to get smaller filesize, though you should set the width to be no more than 900 pixels

When you same an image as a JPEG file, you will have a choice -- maybe as filesize, maybe as a quality setting. There might be a "for web" setting.
Lower quality gives a smaller file. That doesn't mean it looks like crap on screen, but would be a bit blurry if you printed it professionally.


You seem to think no one has thought of sharing positive ideas before, that we just complain because we enjoy complaining.

It's not so easy to change the real world as it is to Photoshop an image.

Many of us have been making positive suggestions for over 20 years and the government departments take not the slightest interest.
Talking, writing and mailing the departments involved gets you an acknowledgement at best. They have no process to design their constructions better, they just keep doing it the way they always have.

You can give them pages of reports, blueprints, prove alternatives will be cheaper and better, and they will just file them away and keep building in the same ugly, destructive and wasteful way.

After spending hundreds of hours writing, going to meetings, to always see all your suggestions simply dismissed and ignored eventually wears you down.
It's true that I personally have just about given up hope.
The government doesn't listen to suggestions from the public, and they certainly don't read this website looking for hints.

The bigger projects, they have "consultations". These are all as fake as the current one on voting for the CE. They always have the result determined before they start, and will only cite opinions that support it.

The only way to change how they do things is to change the government. Specifically, to replace the DAB incumbents who control the levers of government in the districts with representatives who care about more than putting dollars in their friends' pockets.
But as a gweilo, I can never be part of the political process, no matter how long I live here. I will always be on the sidelines.

But make your presentations and suggestions, let us know how it goes.

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The constructions you are talking about are built by government departments.
They are the ones you have to convince if you want to change the real world.

Anyway, the beach cleaning is one of the things organised by Living Lamma. If you have the energy, I encourage you to join.
They have spent a lot of time trying to improve the way things are done here. I was a member for several years, did some beach cleaning, but I got burnt out from the frustration of dealing with the hypocritical slimy bureaucrats who make the decisions here and only pretend to listen to the residents. Who have endless meetings, "take your valuable suggestions on board", and then do the exactly the same thing they did last time. Because they are bureaucrats, they won't change unless instructed to by their political masters. Who are all here DAB and beholden to real estate and construction businesses.

The problem is not lack of ideas of how to do things better, it is a political problem.
If you are a legal resident here, you have the right to register to vote. That is the most important thing you can do and the only thing that will eventually make your voice heard.