A lot of Hong Kong people have been angry about what the tycoon Simon Lo Lin-shing has done to Sai Wan, or “Big Wave Bay. But not until our Honourable Lau Wong Fat, a member of both the Executive Council and LegCo, made these comments earlier this week, did we learn that a lot of people in the New Territories actually love developments!
Lau, the “King of New Territories” and the Chairman of Heung Yee Kuk since 1980, said a lot of indigenous inhabitants in NT are now very angry about the conservationism hype in Hong Kong. Now some of you might be puzzled; aren’t those inhabitants nature lovers like Na’vi who would fight to protect their homes? For historical reasons, the Brits granted those living in the New Territories before they started ruling Hong Kong in 1898 certain special rights. Male indigenous inhabitants of NT upon reaching their 18th birthday can apply for building a small house with limited scale without paying any rates. They basically own the lands and will pay very minimal rents for the lands. Whenever they’re required to move their villages, the government will need to compensate them. (more…)
If you figured compensated dating and drug abuse by our kids was serious stuff, then get ready for something else. The Hong Kong Mood Disorders Center has recently revealed that 30% of their problem cases is a direct result of parents’ spoiling. The latest buzzword for a spoiled brat is “Hong-child” (港孩), and they mostly come from middle-class families who have the “privilege” of a maid raising the kiddo(s).
Our city is of course well known for the social phenomenon of parents slaving working long hours in exchange for a paycheck that in turn allows them to enslave employ a Filipino/Indonesian maid at home. Little time is spent with the kids, which causes a lot of parents to give in to their every demand out of guilt. The kids in addition instruct their maid(s) to perform even the most basic of tasks for them as well. The result of all this? A bunch of retards.
Take the following case for example. A 12-year old boy who doesn’t have a clue how to tie his shoelaces. He also doesn’t know how to properly wash his hair and wipe his ass after a dump. The article also discusses a 17-year old whose mummy isn’t able to assist any longer with his assignments, for which of course there is only one remedy: beating her up on a regular basis. The past few years such stories have unfortunately become very common.
Some of you may be offended by the use of the word “retard” to describe our troubled offspring. A recently published book called “Hong-child” lists the 10 attributes of the typical case: (more…)
Like any other place in the world, the hotties that we occasionally see in the magazines or on TV weren’t exactly born looking like that. Local Hongkies are likely to know a bit more about this than our regular gweilo/expat/ABC/CBC/BBC audience, so we figured it would be nice to show you how ugly Angelababy (who?) used to be for example. Decide for yourself whether or not the following has more to do with surgery than with highly skilled make-up artists: (more…)
It’s summer again and hence the perfect time to discuss a topic that we are always enthusiastic about: boobs. You see, the Trade Development Council has recently decided that teen models, including our beloved Chrissie Chau, should be banned from promoting their photo books at the upcoming book fair.
The Advisory Panel of TDC, consisting of 13 members from education, culture and media sectors, was of the opinion that these teen models have hijacked last year’s book fair and that that should never happen again. Members of the Panel however admitted that none of them had ever seen any of the photo books and that they made their judgment solely based on the reports by our trustworthy local media. Chrissie is of course grateful:
“To be frank, I want to thank the TDC. The ban has ensured publicity I could not buy, and the book is not even published yet.”
That means now our book fair is left only with these events. Yawn.
Interestingly, Anthony Wong Chau-sang, the Hong Kong Film Award-winning Hong Kong actor, felt obliged to comment on this incident by calling Chrissie Chau a whore. (more…)
Who needs to watch TVB’s copycat dramas when you have Donald Tsang and his rivals in town? Last Sunday, Bowtie and his ministers stormed the city (or more precisely, the shopping malls) for a second time in a row to promote the government’s political reform package and it got even more chaotic than before. Our great CE first went to Taikoo and was immediately greeted by an angry LSD mob (0:30). There, he murmured some words into his microphone, only to be completely owned in volume level. It’s reported that he only stayed there for 10 minutes, handed out zero leaflets and left.
Donald then went to a staged event in an obscure public estate mall and got greeted by an enthusiastic crowd for a change (1:50). We don’t know exactly how they managed to get that crowd there to wait for our CE instead of queuing up for dim sum on a Sunday, but we could see how Bowtie went frenzy at 2:11 and told us that the majority of Hongkies support the government’s proposal.
One interesting thing we noticed however, is that the asswhip minister responsible for the proposal package, Stephen Lam, had a much easier ride on Sunday than his boss (6:05). Stephen was in an air-conditioned department store, handing out leaflets to children who are too young and ignorant to know how to give him the finger. Donald, what about feeding Stephen Lam to the LSD mob next time? (more…)
Yesterday, the court ruled that the killing of Nepali Dil Bahadur Limbu by a police constable was lawful. Just to refresh your memory, back in March 2009, Constable Hui Ka-ki was dispatched to Ho Man Tin to investigate a noise complaint. It was there that he found Limbu, the allegedly mental street sleeper from Nepal. Hui claimed that Limbu started punching him and attacked him with a wooden chair. To defend himself, Hui used his pepper spray. Limbu was still going at it after Hui used up all of his pepper spray and as he had dropped his baton, he apparently had no choice but to reach for his pistol. The first shot missed Limbu, but the second hit Limbu right in his head, killing the poor Nepali guy. Throughout the incident, Hui and Limbu were not able to communicate because Limbu only spoke Nepali.
The enquiry went on to explore whether Limbu was lawfully killed, the main evidence being the only available video footage of the incident. I understand that Hui has the right to protect himself, and obviously the judge felt the same way by giving Hui the benefit of the doubt. For this we can accept the verdict. However, the court provided no recommendation or action to prevent a similar incident from happening in the future. What should be the proper protocol? What happens if the police are unable to communicate with the piss drunk people who wander around Wanchai every night? A common consequence of getting rat-assed is the loss of the ability to speak in a way that others would understand. Can you then be lawfully killed by the cops if they deem you dangerous?
The police described the incident as being ‘unfortunate’ and claimed that they ‘always attach great importance to their relationship with non-Chinese communities.’ We bet they do. It would be nice though if they didn’t have to shoot minorities IN THE HEAD when they cause a bit of trouble.
Henry has a guest post on The Dark Side and is one of the founders of the Libertines Pub.
The LegCo by-election is finally over. Last weekend, many were bombarded with Facebook wall posts, tweets and text messages requesting you to vote. Nerds who have nothing to do but sit in front of the computer even during weekends (like yours truly) couldn’t resist this pressure. So I voted and hoped that everybody would do the same. Sadly, only about 579,000 registered electors, representing a turnout rate of about 17.1%, made an effort to piss Donald Tsang and his government off. The rest, about 2.8M electors, chose to nurse their hangover/gamble in the horseracing/pay a trip to Shenzhen.
Everybody rushed to interpret the result in the way they desired. Donald said it showed that shitizens of HK don’t prefer an aggressive and brutal approach on electoral reform. It’s not difficult to tell HK is not gonna have universal suffrage anytime soon when your CE thinks that a by-election is aggressive and brutal. Raymond Wong Yuk Man, the ex-chair of LSD, and his ally Albert Chan Wai Yip, blamed the Democratic Party for not supporting their initiative. Wong also thinks success or failure is not important now, as the objective of their act has been achieved. Long Hair is a little smarter this time; he claimed that more than 570,000 Hongkies are asking for universal suffrage for LegCo and CE elections in 2012.
So have the LSD-Civic Party alliance and T12 failed? Having almost 580,000 peepz to actually come out and vote is not a small deal for sure. Thanks to Bowtie’s announcement late last Friday that he was not gonna vote, I think many of us who hate Donald decided to give him a finger by casting theirs. But the views of the “silent majority”, the 2.8M electors who didn’t cast their ballots, remain a mystery. Neither the government nor the pan-dems have any claim on their views. They’re just, well, silent.
An interesting bit of the by-election results is that our T12 babe, Chow Ching Crystal, topped the unelected candidates by taking 17,260 votes in NT East. Most of her T12 mates got less than 7,000 votes, and one even got less than 3,000. Considering all of them fought for the same cause, this appears slightly odd. Either 17,260 people in NT East hate Long Hair enough to want to vote him out of LegCo, or Crystal’s looks helped a little here. Hmm.. we wonder. Unfortunately she appears to be taken. Yep, by a nerd.
Henry has a guest post on The Dark Side and is one of the founders of the Libertines Pub.
