Hi gyro, Don't remember any tales, but she did write a good report. It'll cost you to read a copy.
Regarding more notice re delays to up north, we really do sympathise, but there's not a lot we can do about it. You have to remember that we're not just trying to get you going, there is also Macao departures and the thru area traffic which is already in the air. We simply don't get the required notice. We might tell you that there is a 1 hour delay only to find 2 minutes later that our friends up north have changed the enroute requirements and now there is only 5 minutes delay. I don't get up to the Tower very often these days, but I remember once last year where when an aicraft was handed over to me for a 07 departure, I was told that his departure release time was change 3 times from when he was cleared to start & push until the time at which he called me. They were only changes of a few minutes but it really screws us around. How do you even start to explain something like that?