FADE IN.
Act 1
INT. SLEEPING ROOM - MORNING
PETER wakes up.
PETER: (V.O.): I've had a sweet dream...
Pausing.
PETER (V.O.) (Cont'd): Today's Singles Day, created by Chinese males in the 1990s. They wanted to break away from singlehood.
Pausing.
PETER (V.O.) (Cont'd): The number one "1" resembles a bare stick.
Pausing.
PETER (V.O.) (Cont'd): And now, 11/11 has been become the largest online retail shopping day of the world.
Pausing.
PETER (V.O.) (Cont'd): My family didn't shop any last year. I've a conference to attend this afternoon.
Art 2
INT. STUDY - LATER
Peter works on his laptop.
PETER (V.O.) : Is Nov 11 a special day to the world?
Phone in hand, Peter does his research.
PETER (V.O.) (Cont'd): It's Remembrance Day, commemorating the end of World War 1 in 1918, and honouring those who had fallen because of the war.
Thinking.
PETER (V.O.) (Cont'd): But how can one remember any veteran who died over 100 years ago.
Pausing.
PETER (V.O.) (Cont'd): Actually, what did they die for?
Pausing.
PETER (V.O.) (Cont'd): For peace in combat areas? To establish a new political power? To enforce a political ideology?
Researching.
PETER (V.O.) (Cont'd): World War I led to the fall of Germanic, Russian, Austrian-Hungarian and Turkish dynasties.
Reading.
PETER (V.O.) (Cont'd): It destabilized Europe, laying the conditions for World War II.
Pausing.
PETER (V.O.) (Cont'd): What happened in the Far East then?
Researching.
PETER (V.O.) (Cont'd): Japan declared war on Germany in 1914 to capture the German Tsingtao and succeeded. They pushed for outright control of Shandong Province.
Reading.
PETER (V.O.) (Cont'd): How about the situation of Hong Kong around that time?
Researching.
PETER (V.O.) (Cont'd): Britain declared war on Germany in 1914. Few British in colonial Hong Kong chose to go back to Britain to join the British army.
Reading.
PETER (V.O.) (Cont'd): In 1917, the Hong Kong Government passed a Military Service Ordinance requiring all males to serve in World War I.
Reading.
PETER (V.O.) (Cont'd): As a result, at least 75 Hong Kong residents were killed outside Hong Kong during World War I.
Thinking.
PETER (V.O.) (Cont'd): They died for no particular reason.
Act 3.
INT. SLEEPING ROOM - NIGHT
Peter checks his online publications.
PETER (V.O.): Oh, I've published 1001 posts.
Recalling.
PETER (V.O.) (Cont'd): When I was a kid, the Arabian folk tales were captivating.
Pausing.
PETER (V.O.) (Cont'd): I loved Aladdin, Sinbad the Sailor and Ali Baba.
Pausing.
PETER (V.O.) (Cont'd): I believe others loved them too.
Pausing.
PETER (V.O.) (Cont'd): The dates and authors of those Middle Eastern and Indian stories aren't certain.
Pausing.
PETER (V.O.) (Cont'd): For my One Thousand and One Posts, I write every one of them.
Pondering.
PETER (V.O.) (Cont'd): Would they become Peter Cheung's Stories from Hong Kong, China? Let me have another sweet dream...
Peter sleeps.
FADE OUT.
THE END
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