The female boss laughed scornfully: There are no clients, we are the only ones in this house. Come, tonight I’m yours. I didn’t know how to respond, only dumbstruck and looking at her stupidly. The female boss saw that I wasn’t responding and continued to say: Xiao Zhao, if you’re with me, the company’s deputy chief position is yours, I will also give you a BMW.
The Dark Side wishes all females a fantastic day. Especially those poor leftover ones who just can’t seem to find that tall Mr. Right with a master’s degree, well-paid job and gentle character. Have a good one!
Your uni-days are to be remembered. It’s the time in which most of us make the transition from useless teen to aspiring yuppie. Some may have lost their virginity or perhaps you experimented with huge amounts of alcohol or drugs (or maybe not). Hopefully you ended up making friends for life. But you know what’s also sweet about universities? Working for one! Especially if you’re employed by Polytechnic University.
If you stick around long enough to become a senior staff member, you could end up earning between HK$ 1.8 and 4.8 million a year, which is more than what any other government funded uni in this city pays. But it gets better. Especially if you’re a (former) council member, as PolyU has no issues investing in one of your businesses, whether they make money or not. 38 subsidiaries and affiliates of PolyU have resulted in write offs of HK$ 83.4 million in 2009, and total losses of HK$ 332 million over the past five years. Oh, your business is not related to any of the university’s course material? Who cares.
PolyU Modern TCM, a firm of which the university owned 59.18 % at one point, makes Chinese herbal products. The fact that no courses in Chinese medicine are offered by PolyU is simply irrelevant, as well as the sale of this great venture for HK$ 1.1 million last year (which resulted in write offs of HK$ 25 million). Let’s not bore you with additional details on how a construction firm run by a former council member was awarded with HK$ 700 million in contracts over the past few years, or how HK$ 504 million was lost due to risky bets on stocks and derivatives.
Girls in Hong Kong luuuuuv doggies. Girls in Hong Kong luuuuuv Louis Vuitton even more. What if you could combine the best of both worlds and make your Pinky, Sweety or Apple really happy and love you long time? Well, we just found you the ultimate combo present: (more…)
In keeping with the French tradition of claiming random bits of South East Asia for themselves, the Parisian company Veolia Transport will take over Hong Kong’s iconic tram system as of next month, after having purchased the first 50% of Hong Kong Tramways last year.
Some of you may recall a sensitive transportation issue in Jerusalem a few years back, when that same Veolia built a rail line across the occupied territories for the settlers, without any stops for the Palestinians in their regions. Hence, given this company’s reputation for excluding locals as much as possible, we have drafted what we think might be an accurate map to come for our beloved Ding Dings:
Phew.. this had us worried a bit. But see here, our annual fortune telling event went much better than last year. Today the Honourable Lau Wong-fat shook a bundle of numbered bamboo fortune sticks and apparently a very good one fell out: No. 53. Hurray! If a highly skilled fortune teller says the meaning of this stick is awesome, who are we to dispute this? Here’s a translation of the story associated with it:
“I have been looking at my house from the outside, but have never known what’s going on inside the home; in the dream that I had last night my family was real, as today people inform me they are OK.”
Yup, sounds pretty awesome to us. Don’t be so skeptical dear reader. Last year the bad number 27 fell out and look what we got: a (global, but nevertheless) financial crisis, countless fung shui douche bags and our entire youth on ketamine. In 2003 no. 83 predicted doom and we ended up with SARS.
Our post-80’s rebels had their own little ritual today and the outcome was approximately the same. Hence, we can safely say the year of the Tiger is gonna rock. Rooarr!
Let us introduce you to local cutie Isis Lee. Isis was dumped several months ago and now has something to say to her ex-boyfriend. For non-Canto speakers, a translation of the best bits can be found below. Hoax, advertisement or real, we say from 0:41 onwards it’s all worth it. ZIP!
“Ng ga ching, you cheap bastard! Before you got me, you did whatever I asked of you. After you got me, we had to go Dutch on everything. Ok, that was still fine, but then you started complaining that my tits are AA cups and too small! And you dumped me because of that?”
“Today, 3 months after we broke up, I want to show you something. Now, take a good look, I have a C cup! Don’t you regret dumping me now? And I bet you want to do me again, right? But sorry, you don’t stand a chance anymore. I won’t see you again and I will NEVER let you touch my C’s.”
“Ng Ga Ching, you could say I’m a bitch or that I have princess syndrome, but whatever it is, you can never say that I am small again. Look at them, they are C’s! You don’t even have a C on your school certificate.”
Everyone has hopefully received most of their ‘red packets’ or if you are a whitey, you are still on vacation. For those who are lucky enough to stay in Hong Kong for the festivities, we went out of our way to buy some fireworks that would bring cheer to your hearts.
Now, to describe the amount and power of the fireworks we purchased, we can only speak in riddles numbers. Let’s just say we spent $bigg-lotss HKD on this month’s extra-curricular activity. So enjoy the video. And remember- we are trained professionals, and as such, if we can do this so can you.
