收到我隊隊長向公司提交的龍舟比賽的報告（見下）﹐看後﹐只驚嘆文字真的可以化腐朽為神奇。

“After 7 practice sessions on Saturdays over 2 months under the sun and rain, the Hong Kong office Dragon Boat Team embarked on its journey to compete at the Stanley Dragon Boat Championships on Sunday 8 June 2008.

The team was confident and ready to participate in the first race at midday against famous brands in the sports, toy, and computer system industry after a serious discussion on tactics and an encouraging and inspiring talk by our team captain … [omitted], plus a warm-up session led by …[omitted] on the upper deck of the office junk.

The team qualified for the second round of the Gold Cup competition after an impressive performance in its first race, coming in 6th place.  Later in the afternoon, under the blistering sun, the team competed against the fastest teams in the 1st round of the competition. The result of this race, in which 8 boats appeared to cross the line at the same time, was only determined after close scrutiny by race stewards of the photo finish. Unfortunately we were placed 12th in that tight finish, less than half a boat’s length from qualifying for the final! 

We had an exceptionally strong team this year that was able to lift their performance impressively on race day.  Congratulations and thanks to the Hong Kong Office Dragon Boat Team captain …[omitted] and team members … [omitted]

The team members are to be commended for their dedication to practice sessions, their cheerful and competitive team spirit, but most of all for their sheer determination to have a fantastic day out, which is most certainly what they had.   Thanks too for all those who came along to cheer and support the Team!”

 端午節參加了赤柱的龍舟比賽。

第一回合﹐我們的隊伍尚未適應比賽的環境﹐落槳不齊﹐但也得了第六（每場比賽總共有12隊參賽）。到了第二會合﹐我們總結了第一場比賽的失敗經驗﹐划得很齊、很用勁–至少這是我們的感覺。我們覺得划得不錯﹐我們在船尾的舵手說﹐我們應該大概排在第六名。當我們正準備進決賽的時候﹐突然傳來隊長的報信–比賽大會說我們第二會合只得了第12位﹐即是最尾﹐也即是我們沒資格進入決賽了！我們都覺得難以置信﹐怎可能跟我們看到的、預計的會相差那麼遠？！我們可以上訴﹐即是讓大會給我們看比賽的錄影片段﹐但我們需繳交港幣二千元作為上訴的費用。在我們商討是否上訴時﹐我們眾人的第一個問題便是﹐如果我們上訴成功﹐大會會否交還我們二千元？果真是律師﹐想法都很一致–講求公平和權利。但是在現實環境下﹐我們根本沒有時間在這問題上糾纏。我們全體隊員商量後﹐決定向大會上訴。我們是律師﹐怎可以不爭取自己的權益呢？

看錄影片段的結果是…… 我們的確是輸了﹐而且我們是很明顯地屬於最後到達終點的兩隊之一﹐其他的隊伍都離我們很遠﹐我們只是和第11名的那隊相差很少。後來﹐我想﹐可能我們隊伍的船是在比賽航道的最後一條–第12條賽道﹐不論是我們還是我們的舵手看其他隊伍的角度都可能因此有所偏差﹐“凡事也有角度”﹐這句話真的很對！