House News founder Tony Tsoi forms new company Best Pencil

Tony Tsoi, founder of independent news portal House News which closed down in late July, has started a new company Best Pencil with former House News editors Chung Pui Kuen and Yee Ka Fai.According to the Companies Registry's Cyber Search Centre records for Best Pencil, Tsoi, Chung and Yee are listed as directors of the new company registered on Tuesday.The same records show the address of Best Pencil's registered office to be an office unit in Manning Industrial Building in Kwun Tong, the same office used by House News.Last Wednesday, Tsoi had resigned from his day job as executive director and CEO of Varitronix, a manufacturer of digital displays, and will officially leave the business at the end of next March.[gallery link="file" ids="78406,78412,78410"]This comes almost five months after House News closed down and its bloggers created Facebook page House News Bloggers to continue publishing content.In the first two days after it was created, the House News Bloggers Group Facebook page was followed by over 39,000 fans.  Today, that number has more than doubled to over 84,000 fans.The bloggers also opened online portal House News Bloggers in September which serves as an integrated web platform for bloggers' articles.Yesterday, Tsoi published a post on his Facebook wall titled "10 Years", referring to the amount of time he would have spent at Varitronix by March 2015. The same piece was also published on the House News Bloggers website.In the post, he wrote, "I think cycles of life of hidden in our work.  At certain times, you should be doing certain types of work.  If there is a mismatch, you won't be happy in your life or your career."Another passage in the same post said, "With my good luck, I entered the industrial world at 40.  Many people may not notice the cycles of life hidden within work.  Even if they notice it, they may not be able to do anything about it and can only silently carry on.  How many people can make the right changes at the turning points of their lives?"Finally, he concludes the post with: "I promise those who care about me that in the days without Varitronix, I will find another place to continue living meaningfully."Tsoi could not be reached for comment at the time of publication.