Hi ABCGuy, i am afraid i have expressed myself very poorly....

Hi ABCGuy, i am afraid i have expressed myself very poorly. Octopus is a subway transport smartcard which has grown into an electronic wallet for small value transactions all over HK, including taxis.

Rather than hogging the board and boring everyone to tears, perhaps if you can email me directly and we can discuss this in depth. This is actually quite fascinating, and feedback will lead to more robust reasoning.

Peterphan88 at Hotmail dot com.