The Pook Guy

Fuck the Department of Licensing

2010-01-29T09:45:00.000-08:00

Cost to take a driving test in Washington state: $20
Cost of taking a 90 minute driving lesson in Seattle: $95
Cost of renting a car for a driving exam: $190!

The way things are going, maybe god doesn't want me to drive! I booked for a driving test before Thanksgiving and turns out the only day they had available was the day right before coming back to HK! And not that I could change my ticket either.

After my last lesson my driving instructor took my $95 check with a big smily face, then went on to say very very casually:
"OK, so I'll pick you up Tuesday and remember to write a check to me for $170 before the driving test"
Me: "WHAT????" (Did I just hear wrong?)
Driver dude: "Oh, sorry, actually that's $190"

I nearly pissed in my pants at the prospect of having to shell out more than $200 just to take a driving test? How do all the poor get their driving licenses? Too bad no one I know in Seattle has the right insurance plan acceptable at the DOL.

Tuesday, I get to the DOL. My instructor turns out to be some stern faced, middle aged Vietnamese lady. DIU! I reognize her instantly. The same Vietnamese lady I paid my $20 to register for the driving test. The same lady that laughed at a Mexican lady standing in front of me for speaking bad English. The same lady who can barely speak English herself goddammit!

So the driving test. She tells me to pull over and park at one point. So I did just that. It's a pretty flat road, so I parked it the usual way. In Washington, the pass mark is 80. She gave me fucking 77. BITCH!!!!! Then she went on to tell me that I should've parked it like I was supposed to park it on a hill! Hey bitch, you never SAID that! Did that look like a "hill" to you? If I can put a basketball down on that stretch of road and it doesnt go in 1 direction, I'm pretty sure it's not a hill! Fucking white washed bitch! Learn to speak English before criticizing someone elses! Geez!

BTW, don't they hand out driver's licenses to just about anyone in Vietnam?

Living with Female Roommates

2009-03-11T13:39:00.000-07:00

Grad school life in Seattle has been interesting... On the first day of class in September, met 2 Mexican girls who were exchange students for the quarter. H was around 30 and very outgoing, K was around my age and shyish. They had some problems in the last place they were staying in and a week later K asked if she could move in with me. K was a little pudgy but very cute, just my type and had a great personality actually. Although she was a bit shy before she moved in, we got along right away. On Day 1, I put on a Joanna wang CD and she told me what a romantic I must be. Suddenly I felt shyness dissipating and I felt like I could talk to her about anything. The first weekend, we did our own thing, but then the subsequent weekends, we were spending them 100% together. H must have sensed something and let us alone after one weekend we spent in Vancouver. Soon we just got even closer and more touchy and she started taking interest in my things. She started really liking Asian food, like really. Thai food together.. mmmm. We spent another weekend in Vancouver to eat real Chinese food. She even watched HK movies with me, and I'm not talking about the "Kung Fu Hustle" that everyone sees, but even that Simon Lui film with jokes that most non HK'ers would not get. And how could we not watch Harold and Kumar.

The problem:
She has a boyfriend.

A boyfriend back home she still seemed quite attached to. Some how he found out what we were doing and wasn't too happy about it. I even got friended by this guy on facebook and a somewhat angry sounding message. Of course I rejected this friend request, the only reason behind it so this guy can start tracking me down and watch so I don't do anything "funny" with his girlfriend. Douchebag! One day, she spent half an hour on the phone with this guy to "explain" things. So for the next week and a half until around Thanksgiving, she started becoming a little more standoffish and tried to draw a line on the "friend zone". She already knew I liked her, I'd told her one day and I knew she liked me too. Interestingly enough it didn't last that long and we just got close again... Sleeping together (albeit without the xxx stuff). One night we got invited to some other girl's place to watch a Mexican film and by the time it finished it was 4am already and we didn't wanna walk back in the cold and potentially dangerous night streets, so we just stayed there. That girl offered to let us sleep on separate couches, but K just told her we'd sleep on the same sofa bed. By finals week, we were holding hands when going out. On her last day, one of the professors drove us to Seatac airport. I felt an air of sadness seeing her go and I know she felt the same.

Since then we've been keeping contact on MSN pretty frequently. Finally she admitted she liked me one day, of course still being with her boyfriend and all....

Of course now I'm actually in relationship with a girl a really love and loves me back. And although we are long distance, I wouldn't give her up for anyone...

Isuck?

2008-09-08T12:19:00.000-07:00

Been bumming around the last couple of weeks before grad school. I don't know why, but did decide to meet up with some aiesec people I met on HC. Can't believe it's been more than 2 years since that joke of an internship in Croatia, which left me with almost no trust in the organization.

Met up with this aiesec girl D from unnamed European country P.
D "I want to live in Asia and Hong Kong sound perfect because people tell me it is more European"
Me (being a cocky asshole) "So you came 10,000 miles so you could live in a European country, why not just stay in Europe then?"
D "But even Hong Kong is so so much different from any place I have been!"

Is there a European country that is more "Asian"? Perhaps I should consider doing a traineship there too!

Then D went on to tell me the first thing she did when she arrived in HK was to look up all the expats from her country! You lucky fools, in Croatia, there were no other chinks, not less any other azns! OK there were some illegal immigrants from the mainland that the Croatian aiesec guys told me about (and they would remind me of that from time to time). God I wonder what kind of ngong gui los would wanna immigrate to Croatia of all places? hmmmm... Just go to Shanghai, you could probably make twice the average Croatian salary, buddy!

Last weekend, I got to have lunch with D's other aiesec roomies. Not surprisingly all Europeans. So the entire lunch conversation revolved around how oh Slovenians are great, the portuguese suck, and my country is great or my country sucks... Or how drunk they got last night with some European DJ (from their country) at Dragon-i. Or how their environment at home is so much more "peaceful". Silly people, no one ever told you to rent a Sham Shui Po flat next to a friggen wet market! So predictable.

The Olympics and stupid people

2008-08-20T12:59:00.000-07:00

This has been an interesting Olympics so far. Crazy Chinese patriots and silly white people exaggerating every little goof in the Olympics so far. The French media in particular seems to love calling off the entire Olympics as faux.

Fake fireworks: True, those were digitized effects on TV. But do you really think Beijing's air pollution/haze could be cleaned up overnight?
Opening Ceremony Lipsynching: Happens everywhere. Britney did it, Russian popstars are notorious for doing that. Now as far as replacing the 7 year old for being too ugly, only the PRC itself needs to worry once this girl grows up...
Fake protest zones: Seriously, did you really think the government would approve your "Free Tibet" demonstration? Go back and read a history book. Remember "let a hundred flowers bloom"?
Underage gymnasts: OK see below...

Aussie gymnastics judge sent hate mail as Americans cry foul

An Australian gymnastics judge has been sent abusive emails and been targeted by a smear campaign after being involved in a controversial medal tie at the Beijing Games.

The USA’s Nastia Liukin was awarded silver in the uneven bars, despite tying on 16.725 points with China’s He Kexin, who was awarded gold.

The decision was based on a tiebreak rule based on judge’s deductions.

Australian judge Helen Colagiuri was the judge who gave the highest deduction to Liukin to help give He the award.

Sounds like the yanks are being poor sports. If not for the attacks on this judge, then it's the contraversy over He's age.

http://arstechnica.com/news.ars/post/20080820-evidence-of-age-fraud-mounts-china-insists-gymnasts-are-16.html

One of the controversies that's been swirling around the Chinese Olympic Games since they began is the age of several of China's gymnasts. According to Chinese officials (and, of course, official passports and ID cards), both He Kexin and Jiang Yuyuan are 16, and therefore old enough to compete in the Olympic Games. Unfortunately for China, there's a growing body of evidence pointing in the opposite direction, including online evidence a gumshoe hacker discovered lurking in the cache of Baidu, China's equivalent of Google.

A story that ran Beijing Evening News on December 2, 2007, reported that He Kexin was 13, while the New York Times turned up evidence in other Chinese papers that cited her age as 14, with a birth date of January 1, 1994. Currently, He's passport lists her date of birth as January 1, 1992. Similarly, Jiang Yuyuan's own national identification card lists her birth date as October 1, 1993.

Now, new information gathered from Baidu's cache further confirms these allegations. Over at Stryde Hax, the anonymous author describes his search for official information on He Kexin's real birth date. Google, rather suspiciously, has been scrubbed clean—searching the engine's cache reveals references to He Kexin, but He's name and data have been removed. As for Baidu, the main search function returns only government-approved data—a spreadsheet that purports to show information on Kexin has also been deleted—but checking the engine's cache proves that a copy of the document is still preserved. He Kexin's age, as listed in the preserved copy of an official Chinese document? 14.

Somehow none of this seems too surprising, given that it's China. The evidence against He Kevin sounds pretty convincing, but so far the IOC has refused to investigate this claim. There seems to be many who disagree with the age limit anyway. Perhaps, if the yanks weren't a bunch of whiners, then someone (a non-Americans) might actually give a shit!

I've been hearing plenty of people (Chinese) complaining about the Americans listing medals by total number rather than number of golds like every other country does, providing the impression that America is still on top. But hold on a sec... Didn't they do it this way back in Athens and Sydney too? I guess some people have short memory spans. Don't understand the fuss. Maybe one day when the United States switches to the metric system, they'll start listing by order of gold medals.

People can be such kids, I mean seriously what's up with the 2008 Olympics and picking on little girls? If people are going to make a fuss, why not target someone of similar age, like the Chinese Women's Volleyball team for example... I swear some of their team members are NOT 100% women.

The Chinese are out to eat your pets

2008-08-08T01:53:00.000-07:00

OK this is really annoying. Why can't I ever go on a trip to Europe without being asked if I eat dog? It's especially prominent in countries that receive fewer Asian tourists like Croatia or Poland. The most shocking though, was a friend of my Polish friend who's visited Hong Kong who dared slip in a "in asia where you eat dogs" into our conversation. WTF? Uhh, Hong Kong people don't eat dogs.

Dumb European (imagine strong slavic accent): "So do you eat dog? That's disgusting!"
My typical response would be: "Only a few people in Southern China eat it and even they eat it quite rarely. No one eats dog meat in Hong Kong since it's illegal and I have never eaten it myself."
Then their response would be something like: "So do Chinese eat dog or not?".
Hmmm, are these Europeans so narrowminded that they can't even take a black and white answer?
So finally I reply by saying "Oh, so I heard all Croats like to hang cats on trees for fun and eat horse meat for breakfast?" if the idiot was Croatian. For Spaniards I use the bullfighting one and everyone else I use the wearing fur thing. And that usually does the trick.

It's funny how Europeans will criticize China's animal rights record when they themselves are the largest buyers of Chinese fur. Me and my Thai friend throught up of a few other ways we could play with their minds a bit.

Random white person: "Oh Chinese eat dogs, isn't that right?"
Response 1: "Yeh we likee eating dog sausage with lice for breakfast, the rat noodle at lunch, cat intestine for tea and dinner have big dinosaur egg with fortune cookeee. Hmmm me absolutely love tastee of this"

North America and many countries in Europe have the highest per capita meat consumption in the world. Higher meat consumption = more animals killed. East Asians don't go around shooting animals in the wild for leisure either. Hanging a decapitated bull's head in the house? Fuck isn't that what white people do? Sick!! Yet they have to nerve to complain about us for animal cruelty.

Silly Eastern Europeans

2008-07-27T14:54:00.000-07:00

I've been travelling around the Balkans a bit and I do get a lot of curious attention, one because of so few tourists and second because I'm probably the only Asian they've ever seen. And everyone asks if I German, Italian, or Russian. lol. Why would I speak German? I've maybe stepped foot in that country maybe 2 days at most and everyone knows the international language of business is English. I must really look German. lol I guess I should go back to Hong Kong and ask the random white person on the street in Hong Kong if they speak Korean. I once met this Bosnian guy saying what a pity I speak so few languages and that he could speak 10 languages. Mind you though, his English was so bad that it was mostly incomprehendable. He listed them out for me: Croatian, Bosnian, Serbian, Montenegrin, Slovene, Bulgarian, Russian, Macedonian, English, German. The first 4 are pretty much the same language with different alphabet maybe, the next 4 are very similar to the first 4, his English sucks, and his German probably can't be that great either. Hum... It's too bad all Chinese dialects are all lumped into one language or we could all be claiming to speak 3 or 4 different languages. And mind you there is actually a difference between Cantonese and Shanghainese unlike SErbian and Croatian.

I can't get over this video

2008-06-12T07:53:00.000-07:00

Really preoccupied me in Korea. I love how they touch on all the stereotypes!

Are there any decent tourists?

2008-05-27T07:43:00.000-07:00

British tourists travel to developing countries like Thailand to get trashed and harass the locals. Overhead in Siem Reap guesthouse: "Move it, fat whore!"
The French (frogs) stick to their own kind and only treat locals friendly if they speak their shitty language.
American tourists are mostly overweight, eat in McDonalds for every meal and complain out loud to the locals about why xxxx isn't like back home.
Canadians tourists wear their damn flag everywhere, get absolutely offended if mistaken as being one of their American cousions, and usually end up acting like them anyway.
Aussie's: just like the Brits with the addition of "Aussie Aussie Aussie Oui Oui Oui" chants everywhere they go
China tourists have poor taste, spit everywhere, talk loudly in mandarin, cut queues and bash anyone who dares make one comment about their cuntry.
Hong Kong tourists stick with their own, act like hello kitty idiots and sing Cantopop everywhere they go
Germans act like Nazis and talk loudly in their god awful language. They also think they're funny.
Jewish tourists bargain on items that can no longer be bargained down.
Italians are perverts and hit on local women, even if they're holding hands with a guy.
Russians traffick women.
South Americans and Africans traffick drugs.

The Japanese are far too camera happy but at least they don't act like retards in front of the locals or smuggle illegal substances. Thai tourists seem alright, considering the amount of idiots that go to their country.

Every country has their share of bad tourists. Instead of complaining about them, we ought to learn from them, so we don't become one of them!

People who think they're cooler than they are

2008-05-21T11:22:00.000-07:00

I know this dude (I shall call him S), works at the Grand Hyatt. Well, coincidence I don't know, but every time we go out to Lan Kwai with him, a distinct pattern follows. First it's about what HE wants to do, not us. Perhaps we have plans, but he'll tell us about how the manager of anonymous bar would give us all free tequila shots. OK, we go with his plan. Then mysteriously, this bar manager fails to show up that night! Bad luck perhaps. S then he tells us of some other "bartender" friends who could get us free drinks. So we go to Bar 2. Same thing, so called friend mysteriously fails to appear. Finally, he just tells us that he wants to look for more friends. Before we know it, we've spent 2 hours having a Chinese style yellow flag tour of every goddamn bar in Lan Kwai and Wanchai! Then finally S decides to head home. What a well to spend Saturday night. I could've had more fun watching Doraemon cartoons at home!
It's fun watching these kinds of people lose face...

Redneck equivalent in various countries

2008-05-10T22:18:00.001-07:00

red·neck /ˈrɛdˌnɛk/ Informal: Often Disparaging.
–noun 1. an uneducated white farm laborer, esp. from the South.
2. a bigot or reactionary, esp. from the rural working class.
–adjective 3. Also, red-necked. narrow, prejudiced, or reactionary: a redneck attitude.

The term redneck was originally coined to describe a certain class of rural, poorly educated, prejudiced, and uncultured individuals in the Southern United States. But notice how every country seems to have its own brand of "rednecks"? Though not necessarily fitting the exact definition, there is a certain class of people that could be described in similar terms.

United States/Canada: Redneck, white trash
United Kingdom: chav, pikey
Australia: Bogan
Thailand: Bann Nok
Japan: inaka-poi
Singapore/Malaysia: Ah Beng
Brazil: Caipira
Poland: Dres
Kuwait: Geezies
Italy: Coatti
Korea: Nallari
Hong Kong: Ngan Gau, Ah Chaan

Email me for any additions/corrections.

Free Speech in Hong Kong

2008-05-05T03:50:00.000-07:00

Pro-Tibet protester hassled as Hong Kong torch relay begins

"HONG KONG (AP) — The Olympic torch began its relay through Hong Kong Friday before a flag-waving crowd that heckled a pro-Tibetan protester and jostled the police officers protecting her.

Officers eventually put university student Christina Chan into a police van and took her to a police station to protect her from the crowd. Many yelled obscenities and about 30 people pushed and shoved a dozen police surrounding her.

Chan was part of a small group of protesters who held Tibetan flags and signs calling for democracy and human rights in China but were far outnumbered by the pro-China crowd.

Chan said she didn't mind the hostile crowd, but she was upset about the police protection.

"What right do they have to take me away? I have a right to express my opinion," said Chan, 21.

Another group of seven pro-democracy activists were overwhelmed by torch supporters, who drowned out their slogans with insults like "running dog," "traitor" and "get out!" The activists, holding a banner that said "Return power to the people," were surrounded by 80 police and eventually ducked into a police vehicle for protection.

Many torch supporters were apparently from the mainland because they chanted slogans and hurled insults in Mandarin, not the local Cantonese dialect."

Several onlookers heckled Chan, shouting "What kind of Chinese are you?" and "What a shame!"

The 21-year-old Chan said, "Why can't we just respect each other and express our views."

I just got back a couple days ago from my 3 week trip to Southeast Asia and just missed the torch rally in Hong Kong. Incidentally instead of being in Hong Kong ont he day, I was being completely searched to the bone by PRC immigration. While this is the first time it's ever happened to me, the most interesting part of the search was when they found my lonely planet, my notebooks, and Vietnam city maps. Lonely Planet China is liable to confiscation because.. China and Taiwan are colored differently on the map. While I was carrying LP SE Asia, they still found the need to look at the map page for TWO MINUTES! Fucking hell! Thankfully China & Taiwan are shaded grey in this book. Then scrutinized my map of Hue, Vietnam issued by the "Mandarin Cafe". Would they have done the same if it was from the "Putonghua Cafe"? Guessing not. All this despite the fact I'm a Chinese holding a home return permit!

Anyway back to the Tibet issue. I've said before about having mixed feelings about it but the heavy handedness directed toward Christina Chan (陳巧文) seriously makes me want to join the Boycott Olympics camp. After the PRC immigration incident, I thought HK would still be the free speech oasis that I once knew it as. But what happened? Police protection or not, has it become illegal to have a differing opinion? Why is it the police drove Christina away but not those flag waving dai look los?

As for the crowd. I have met many friendly mainland Chinese on my travels there, but why is it when the issue of politics comes up, they are so stubborn as to refuse an opposing viewpoint? I have found even the Vietnamese, also ruled by a communist regime, to be much more open to debate about their government! (By the way, Vietnam was also once occupied by China for hundreds of years) It is sad that while China is jumping leaps and bounds in some areas, it is still in the stone age in others. I mean isn't blind patriotism even more damaging to your country? Yes you can wave your fucking flag and even force it down one's throat, but what are you doing to improve the image of your country? Do you think another June 4th would help your country's image? Who's the "traitor" now, eh?

UPDATE May 7 2008
I saw this in the Standard today. Holy fucking hell, so this how cheap we have become. Posting her private pictures online? Fucks sake, she was expressing her opinion on Tibet, does she really need some perverts and batgua magazines digging up her private life?

I highly encourage everyone to join this Facebook group supporting Christina: http://www.facebook.com/group.php?gid=26379388672

Her interview with Hong Kong Reporter. In Cantonese. Good stuff.

The whole Tibet problem

2008-03-29T19:49:00.001-07:00

I will keep this very brief since it is clearly a complicated issue with so many viewpoints. So what is going on? China claims Tibet is their territory and that the Dalai Lama is masterminding Tibetan rioters to overthrow Han rule. The Dalai Lama claims he has nothing to do with the unrest and that he only supports more autonomy for Tibet but full outright independence. Western Media focuses on the suppression of Tibetan monks. Chinese media claims that the western protrayal of the events are all biased and overly critical of China.

So who's right? Unlike Tiananmen (everyone know's I'm 100% for the students) I find it quite difficult to take sides in this case. When the riots started all western and Hong Kong media were kicked out of Tibet. Wow, OK very smart move, CCP. Really. And you complain that our media is biased? I understand it is very true that some depictions in Western media has been biased, but isn't it mainly due to a lack of details of the real situation? Thanks to the CCP, China has made it appear to the world that it is hiding something. The only western reporter to not have been expelled was James Miles and this was his account of the events. So clearly, Western media can be biased, but only 1 western reporter was actually allowed in Tibet. Without the whole truth, most would assume the worst.

China keeps blaming the Dalai Lama. Why is that? They can't find a better scapegoat? But even he has in the past few years not called for outright independence. An indepedent Tibet at this time would not be good for its economy or well being. He wants more autonomy, similar to a Hong Kong style SAR for Tibet. I might even go as far as saying that Tibet deserves it more than Hong Kong. Tibet does have its own unique culture, language, heritage and at one time it's own empire. Hong Kong only exists today becase of colonialism.

Now, the next point I wanted to get to. Free Tibetan activists. It seems like almost all of those making the outcry for Tibet are from the Americas, Australia, or Europe. Wait a second, didn't North American and Australia once have native populations with their own distinct culture and language. I wonder where they all went! Hmmm? Wasn't Hong Kong itself a subordinate to a certain European power for over 150 years? And to paint the Chinese evil when their own governments had less than appealing track records is a tad bit hypocritical, isn't it? Maybe the states could start with reinstating the King of Hawaii.

So fuck those Tibet rioters for killing innocent Han Chinese civillians, the CCP for it's heavy handed treatment of the Tibetan people, hypocrites on both sides, media bias... How's that people?

Dumb Canadians

2008-03-20T07:35:00.000-07:00

http://www.thestar.com/article/347186

15-year-old Oshawa student on a class trip to China is being held in Hong Kong after she was accused of pocketing a pair of designer sunglasses from an airport kiosk.

Security cameras supposedly captured the incident.

Students were getting ready to board the plane when police chased the teen down. Administrators had hoped to resolve the issue there, but the officers would not let her go.

One student who watched the officials cancel her classmate's ticket said it was terrifying and that many in the group were crying.

The flight was delayed as Chinese officers searched the rest of the class.

Terrified of the Hong Kong Police (They can't seem to differentiate them and the PLA for some reason)? Geez, at least they don't taser people to death. Oh, I love it how everyone seems to think Hong Kong is part of some oppressive communist police state, although HK uses the same justice system as in Canada. Who said it's just Americans who are ignorant of the world?

School board officials and the girl's parents have been in contact with the Canadian consulate in Hong Kong.

"If all goes well, they will fine her and get her on her way. Hopefully she'll be on a plane by Thursday," said her mother, who will fly to Hong Kong with her husband tomorrow night if the hearing does not go well.

With so many teens going abroad on class trips, the teen's father has some advice: thoroughly warn them the rules are not the same.

"She obviously had no idea of the ramifications or she wouldn't have done it," he said. "It's like a capital offence. She's a teenager. She really is a good kid."

Calling the Canadian consulate? Talk about overreaction man. This article was front page news in Canada. I love it how Canadians distance themselves from Americans by claiming to be so open-minded when they can be just as retarded. I remember my crazy gweimui friend in Vancouver telling me how all her friends pleaded her to travel in Europe, well because "Asia? Is it safe there? Isn't that place full of terrorists and gangsters". Yes of course, we azns are out to chop up every damn white person there and stuff them into Hello Kitty dolls. Later this same girl told me that the most dangerous place she's been is in Surrey (20 minute drive from her house)

http://toronto.ctv.ca/servlet/an/local/CTVNews/20080318/Oshawa_China_080318/20080318/?site_codename=toronto

"It was a bone-headed play in the wrong country," the father said. "If it had happened at Wal-Mart in Oshawa, no one would have cared but life is full of learning experiences."

The father added his daughter was treated "very well."

The student is expected to arrive home on Wednesday.

This was the best part. Great going man. Now we see where your daughter gets her traits from. Since it is perfectly OK to shoplift from Walmarts in Canada, I guess I will do the same next time I'm in your country?

The canuck bimbo should be glad she got off so easily after stealing items worth over $2000.

How to score a job interview at PK Accounting firm

2008-02-19T08:15:00.000-08:00

Requirements:

Body width must equal twice body height
Ownership of a used shaver (which has not been used by anyone else)
Spectacles, preferably thick
Freckles/acne or both
A dependence on nicotine, preferably eight packs daily
A diagnosis of halitosis from a certified Dental Surgeon
No evidence of orthodontic treatment in the past
Ability to incite irritation without raising voice decibels
Written English and Chinese (Elementary level knowledge and below only)
Membership of a sumo wrestling/Judo team not required but recommended
Transexuals welcome to apply

Any females meeting the above criteria are welcome to apply to PK Accounting firm.

Yet more on interracial Dating

2008-02-18T06:32:00.001-08:00

Over Chinese New Year, Lea Salonga was in town and I had the chance to see her perform at the Cultural Center. For those who don't know, Lea is an award winning Broadway singer/actress from the Phillipines. Her major breakthrough was a role in Miss Saigon, soon followed with being the first Asian to perform in Les Miserables. She's performed for Disney. Although I'm not too much a fan of broadway stuff, this was well worth it. During the performance she did mention her 4 year marriage. Having lived in the states for many years and sporting an American accent, you'd think she's yet another gweilo sellout. But a search for her online and she actually married a Chinese-Japanese guy! Hmmm. Correct me if I'm wrong, are there any major Philipina celebrities married to gweilos? Sitting next to us that night was this gweilo grandpa ah gung, probably around the age of 70 with this Fillipina chick, probably no older than 25. They were not the only ones. With those high heels and tattoos, anyone wanna guess where that geezer found her?

So while there is the stereotype that we East Asian dudes get the cold shoulder from chicks of all races, perhaps we just have standards unlike some people. And dignity.

I had the best of luck to overhear a convo at Causeway the other day between some gweilos raving about how ALL Chinese men are all butt ugly (despite the fact that they were a bunch of hairy, overweight, greasy slobs themselves) and they were having the time of their life travelling around Asia. Yeah, we understand English in Hong Kong you know! Pook guy, seefat hamsup gweilo! I guess we must ALL be so goddamn ugly that Al Gore's youngest daughter (Sarah Gore) married one of us and or that the Russian Duma is trying ban marriages between their women and Chinese citizens!

Edison sex scandal

2008-02-05T04:52:00.000-08:00

http://www.reuters.com/article/peopleNews/idUSHKG6700820080205

I bet he's crying to his mommy about the incident. That's what you get for
A. being a dumbass. Who, with a normal IQ keeps nude photos of themselves without password protection and hands over their entire computer to a 3rd party. Ever heard of something called "backup", "Flash Drive"? No wonder this guy got kicked out of HKIS.
B. for being so chuen. I love it when such egotistical people get shamed in public. Hey dude, don't be such a dick in public... Then perhaps nobody would think of circulating pics of your dick all over the internet!

I wonder if the twins are gonna rethink their decision to become celebrities. First the changing room incident in Malaysia, now this. I don't know why ppl think they're hot shit? Seriously without the makeup, they'd be porkchops! Asked for it, baby...

8 people have been arrested in connection with the incident! Diu, holy fucking hell, man! Can't blame some kids for your own stupidity. And for crying out loud, there's people writing spyware that places porno ads in people's systems. These certainly affect many more people than little Edison and his porkchop sex pals. But no one seems to be bothered about launching investigations on them, do they?

Yellow people versus Brown people

2008-01-21T06:07:00.000-08:00

For the past few weeks, I've been out on a couple engagements with this dude, I'll call P. Except for his occasional analness, I get along with him pretty well. I guess because no one else seems to. Because he's Indian?

Racist? Xenophobic? Maybe. I got sent out to his 2nd job in Tseung Kwan O last Wednesday. Man, what a bunch of blunt colleagues I got to work with. There was this one dude, Tommy that spoke English with a heavy Cockney accent that soon got the best of me, holy fucking hell. Every 10 seconds he'd dout out some random insult directed at P in Cantonese with the rest of the group. And of course everyone else would concur and the convo would continue. Something on the lines of "that fucking paki smells like shit" or "Paki king is fucking incompetent, giu kui pook guy lah", "why doesn't he go back to India where he belongs", "diu, I can't bloody understand his English". All this right in front of the noneotherthan P of course!

Later on the cab ride home, had a conversation with P.

P: That Tommy, sometimes I just wanna smack him
Me: He does seem to be a bit of a prick doesn't he
P: You don't seem to talk much with them do you? But you understand them speaking Cantonese do you?
Me: Hell yeh, I do. Every word of it, even the not so cool stuff
P: Yeh, I know what that TOmmy's saying. He thinks I'm sitting there like a fool, but I knew he was on about me, that's why I shoved most of the work to him.

I guess the highlight of the engagement was seeing them head on over who's more incompetent, right at the client's office!

Now let's look at the flipside. If the in charge was another non-Chinese, but a gweilo, would they make as many comments as they did? I think not. Come on people, what's new? The lighter the skin color = the greater the respect. Why? Must I spam your visual display unit with drivel again?

Never mind what I think about managers at PK (I'll have a go on them another day), but what's up with bloody Hong Kong Chinese that think just because they've lived in the "glorious kingdom" of britain for a few years, he's above everyone and is allowed to around intimidating people with his Queen's English. Would've thought living in a country with thousands of South Asian immigrants would make you more tolerant of them, but I guess the opposite is true?

"OMG, someone stole my PRADA phone!!!! WAAAAA!!!"

2008-01-04T09:10:00.000-08:00

Guess who else other than the infamous English chick Miss F has been crying over her lost "PRADA fone" on her Facebook status?

3 things come to mind
1) I didn't even know Prada makes phones
2) If it was stolen, congratulations to the thief.
3) I wonder what else this airhead spends her money on? Some people really need to take a trip around rural India, Africa, China and realize the cost of their one exorbitantly priced luxury object could probably feed a hundred children to old age.

More Ugly Americans

2008-01-02T02:25:00.001-08:00

During my trip to Malaysia, I had the fortune to run into one of those UAs. It makes me curious how it's always the same type of person that fits the mold. So at Jerantut on the way to Taman Negara, our bus is a little late. Then this 250 pound hickish looking woman starts having a fit. She starts giving an earful to the cafe owner, who BTW has no relation to the tour bus company, with her "THIS IS BULLSHIT" crap. Her husband soon joins in with her. That seefat poh should be glad someone actually wants to screw her lardass.

PK driving me up the wall

2008-01-02T02:10:00.000-08:00

Ok WTF? So after my holiday, gweilo boss P decides to have a nice chat with me and one thing he told me really irked me... Some 8 months back, he tells me, I almost fucked the company over due to some computer blunder I made. And so furthermore, I have had more photocopying jobs than I should have had as of late. Wow wee, funny... So why is it the last person in the department to know that i did something wrong was in fact myself? This while everyone acting as if nothing has happened and as if it's normal. Obviously when I looked at my time sheet last April, I realized it wasn't. Of course no one commented on it til a couple months ago when the same gweilo manager started complaining to me about it. And same gweilo manager is obviously wondering why I seem to be lacking experience. DUH! Dude, are you fucking retarded? Diu! Maybe I should be a Senior manager.

Wow gee dude, don't you think if an employee almost pookguy'ed the repurtation of the company, he should've been informed immediately after the incident? I mean geez, it's not like every junior accountant's supposed to know what the hell's going on the first couple of months. Goddamn fucking Honger's acting as if everything's fine and dandy. I just don't get it. You know the stereotype about how Brits act all polite in front of you, then stab you in the back? Seems like bloody Hong'ers decided to adapt this personality of their colonizers. Well at least they don't act like they're overly polite all the time.

Bloody Island School people

2007-12-03T08:04:00.001-08:00

Happened to run into a school reunion at Bar George (Also on Saturday night) by almost pure coincidence. Holy fucking hell. never thought I'd feel so out of place with people I went to school with... Wrong crowd.

Island School can be categorized into 4 main distinct groups.
1) The White, preppy, pretentious British expats and their suckups (which includes sellout Indians and Chinese). Tend to be able to entire bars underage without ID checks. Almost all the school's head boys and girls have been from this group. Although covert about it, clearly look down at the other 3 groups. They probably also feel remorse that Hong Kong is no longer "their" territory.
2) The outcasts. Main language of communication is English, but usually not both White and British. Usually have some characteristics that would result in them being sent to mental institution in other schools. Often a lot of them don't even get along with each other.
3) The druggies. An extreme version of the Outcasts. Not too many in the school since they've either been expelled for the 5th time or sent to boarding school in England with papa's money.
4) The Cantonese crowd (aka Chinatown). Relatively new addition to the school. Also includes many CBCs or ABCs who after seeing what kind of people lurk the other groups, have decided to "rediscover" their Chineseness. Some of them like to humiliate Group 2 people and accuse them of stealing phones.

As for Group 2, we had plenty of crazy people in our year. SB the "maths freak", Vivek the "I love to punch holes in floppy disks" reject, Boaz the testosterone high Jew. And me and A.

Last night, the entire crowd came from... you guessed it, Group 1. Talk about all the "popular, blonde, prodigal" converging in a mass. I didn't see a single other Chinese person from our year. One thing I find interesting about British people is their tendency to act all friendly and polite to you upfront, then castigate or demean you behind your back (It's good to have some nonsurreptious acquaintances). One of the girls, Alexa Massingham, seemed quite friendly last night as she did back in high school. Hmmm... so why is it that of the 250 people I've added to my Facebook, she's been the only one to reject my friend request (twice too)? Diu lei lo mo, even that fuckhead Luther added me. And it's not like I ever wronged her in the past... Meanwhile at Bar George, me and A just found that the pookguys and bahtmui's just kept giving us the cold shoulder and eventually we decided to get the fuck outta there.

I remember back in Year 12 when the wall along the Macdonnell Road tram stop was covered with anti-Island School graffiti. To this day, I'm surprised no one covered the school in it.

It's the thought that counts

2007-12-03T06:31:00.000-08:00

Apple found a new job and thought it would be cool to celebrate it by having a BBQ at Shek O. We all got the invite on Facebook to be there at 2pm and said she'd be treating everyone so encouraged everyone to show up. On the facebook invite, there were 6 confirmed guests.

On the bus to Shek O, A calls me up.

Me: "What do you mean you don't know about the BBQ"
A: "Oh right, I bloody forgot all about it! Damn I'll be right there! Just give me half an hour"

I get there about 2:30. Very nice, though slightly chilly day at the beach. Have a scavenger hunt around the BBQ area. No Apple to be found. I decide to call her up...

Apple: "Wai?"
me: "Apple! lei hai bin doh ah?"
Apple: "Well, where are you?"
me: "At Shek O, and you?"
Apple: "Well no one confirmed with me by phone last night. I sent a message to everyone! But no one replied! So I'm at home"
me "Oh really, and I wonder why I didn't get it..."
Apple: "I sent you the message on facebook at last night"
me: "Really? What time did you send it at?"
Apple: "Around midnight... I also sms'ed A"
me: "Yau mo gau cho ah! You should've sent an sms to everyone! You do realize that not everyone checks facebook every 10 seconds"
Apple: "Come on, I didn't want to disturb anyone and I thought you were with A"
me: "Diu... I'm feeling very disturbed right now"

Who said it's just blondes that exhibit dumb blonde behavior? While it is true that the term "dumb black" just doesn't seem to resonate as well as "dumb blonde", they seem to be all over Hong Kong these days. Joey Yung and Elaine Li? 100% dumb blacks. The type who'd date a thrice married, loser gweilo with a criminal record over a successful, cleancut Chinese guy? Pretty much guaranteed to be a dumb black.

Went over the the Thai restaurant in Shek O and met up with A.

me: "What? You didn't get her sms?"
A: "uh... no...
me "And you didn't get my sms just 5 minutes ago?"
A: "uh... no...

That's what you get for buying a "Nokia" from a Shenzhen street dealer for the "low low price" of 1000 kuai.

Apple eventually called back and promised to buy us drinks that night for our bak cho trip to Shek O.

10pm on the bus back to Central:
A: "Hey Apple, where you at?"
Apple: "ummmm. I'm in bed. I'm very tired..."
A: "Why is everyone so bloody tired tonight? I called Patrick, CC, everyone's asleep! What's up with that?"
Apple: "I'm.... so.... sorry.... Maybe I will come out later...
A: "You better... Don't fall asleep!"
Apple "snoooozeee....."

Had we been the ones BUYING drinks for her, she'd be out in a heartbeat. I guess it's another ploy to evade the responsibility of paying, but without losing face... Hence "it's the thought that counts". I admit. I've been guilty of this in the past and probably owe a couple thousand in broken promises.

Birthday party: "Hey, I was going to buy you something, but totally forgot"
At the bar: "Thanks for the drinks man, next week first round's on me!" (Do this While everyone's too drunk to remember anything. Claim exhaustion the following weekend)

2007-11-18T06:33:00.000-08:00

Been totally out of it since the wisdom tooth extraction on Thursday. Surprisingly not as bad as I thought. They give you some powerful shit that knocks you out and you wake up with a blow to your mouth. It's the aftermath that sucks.

Been spending the time since then youtubing and being a lazyass. Also contemplating a trip to Singapore this Christmas if everything works out once I sort out what this seiyan 2 day engagement they have me on the week of Christmas which would satisfy my remaining leave quota otherwise.

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=O4oSCLt8ey8
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=cOZDVhnSiqI

Singlish is a fucking cool language. So what if it's not proper English. What is proper English anyway?

German playboy sues 19 year old for not having sex with him

2007-11-08T07:36:00.000-08:00

OMG, this made my day.

German Playboy, 77, Sues for Sex

Aging German playboy Rolf Eden has rarely taken no for an answer. And he's not about to start. He has filed charges against a 19-year-old for refusing to sleep with him. The complaint? Ageism.

Geez, the nerve of that filthy old geezer. It's fucking sick how even 80 year olds think they're god's gift to women, but fucking hilarious how they're suddenly in shock when it turns out 1 of their 3000 women doesn't fancy them!

But aging German playboy Rolf Eden seems to have developed a somewhat warped view of what age discrimination actually is. According to Bild Zeitung on Thursday, the 77-year-old Eden has filed suit against a 19-year-old Berlin woman for the following reason: Despite a night on the town with Eden, which ended back at his place, she refused to have sex with him, saying the he was too old for her.

Goddamn fucking chiseen Germans. If this guy really wants to get laid, maybe he should go to Wanchai, bet there plenty of gweilo asslicking, geriphiles there.

On second thought... This guy will be my hero if he wins this lawsuit. Next time a chick turns me down, I'll just drag'em to court! Sweet!

Fuckhead neighbors, Another reason to hate lawyers

2007-11-03T04:47:00.000-07:00

Damn, a few months ago this gay aussie guy moved into the 1st floor flat and holy fucking hell, he think he owns the place! Lets see, he owns 1 out of 8 flats and the roof (for holding his salacious tranny parties). And now he believes he's entitied to dictate how the building is run? The day he moves in he creates a puppet homeowners association, the president whom is none other than himself. This was of course voted on in a board meeting, where the only person who showed up was himself and his Chinese gweilo ass kissing boyfriend (that makes literal sense doesn't it). Note that just about everyone else in the building has lived on average about 5 years longer than them.

Conversation overheard with the upstairs neighbor and him

Nazi gweilo: Hey where do you think you're going? That's my roof now!
Upstairs neighbour: What did you do with my table and plants
Nazi gweilo: I cleaned the roof
Upstairs neighbour: You threw away my things?
Nazi gweilo: Yeh! What are you gonna do about it? It's my roof!
Nazi neighbour: How could you...
Nazi gweilo: Wanna complain? Tell the landlord, don't fuck with me. I'm a LAWYER!

Stupid pookguy gweilo assprick. Reminds me of Judge Roy Pearson's $67 million lawsuit on the Korean laudromat. Thankfully that seefat haklo has been disbarred. Rejoice! Some lawyers just deserve to be shot.

What's more? A week after he moved in, he removed a dumpster on the side of the building and posted a sign informing everyone not to dump rubbish there. God knows the intention. Next you know it, he's littering outside his front door on the fucking stairwell!

One day after work, I ran into the boyfriend after he castigated a gweipor neighbor for having a dog in the building.

Gweilo ass-kisser: Haven't seen you before. Are you new here?
Me: Uh no man, I've lived here ten years... You?

Taking the GRE in Hong Kong

2007-10-28T07:07:00.000-07:00

The ETS sure makes it a pain in the ass to do the GRE here. Rather than some prominent institution or location, they decide to administer the exam at the HKEA which is all the way in San Po Kong (Don't go without a map). Most peculiar how the GRE is a computer based exam in the US and many parts of the world, but only in China, Taiwan, Hong Kong, and South Korea is it given in a split format. Reason is to "restore the validity of scores for students in these regions. The paper-based Verbal and Quantitative sections that are administered will be retired from use after each administration, thereby removing the unfair advantage some past students gained by memorizing questions in advance of the test."

Hmmm. What's this supposed to imply? That the Chinese are all a bunch of medacious cheaters? What this split format infers is that rather sitting the entire exam in one day like elsewhere, the essay is taken first on computer and the qualitative/verbal about 4 months later. Of course the later is only available twice a year, hence the reason for the over capacitated exam hall. Also if you screw up, there goes $175 and a year delayed from applying to grad school. Alternatively, you could just fly to a country the ETS considers more trustworthy like Singapore.

Reminds me of back in high school when the A level exam board (Edexcel) in the UK suddenly decided to force all Hong Kong students to sit those exams according to their time zone. WTF! That means that if an exam is being administered from 8-10am in the UK, all Hong Kong students sitting the same exam are prohibited from leaving their respective exam halls until 4pm!

Yeah, the Chinese can't be trusted...

Fucking old bold guys

2007-10-19T21:10:00.000-07:00

JJs used to be good. Earlier this year, the multinational band playing there was awesome and the place was typically packed. The band consisted of an aussie chick, a black guy from Atlanta, a Taiwanese drummer, a Canadian, and a really hot ukrainian chick. Yesterday the place was nearly empty except for a whole bunch of 50 year old, bold white guys and their 20 something fat Chinese girlfriends. Once we heard the band playing we know exactly why.

Me "Dude, are you sure this is the same place?"
A "That's what it says outside"
Me "Seriously what the hell are we doing here?"

The replacement band is nothing more than a bunch of punkass gweilo boyband wannabes and a not very good looking chick, none of whom can sing for shit. Nonetheless we got the fuck out of there as soon as we could.

Later we had this interesting discussion

A "You know Apple? What's up with her and dating only gweilos. It's like she hates her own kind."
Me "Dude, Maybe that's the only kind of guys she manages to pick up."
A "Yeh, I've come to the conclusion that I can't stand both English or Chinese girls, even though I am half English and half Chinese myself"
Me "And why would that be?"
A "English girls are just fucked up and Chinese girls are just lame"
Me "Well then who you gonna date? Ethiopians?"
A "haha very funny, but you know maybe I should be the one going after my own kind, find a mixed girl"

Then again we went on about the subject of old white guys with their "suzie wong" girlfriends.
A "I remember this Eddie Murphy movie where he was saying oh all black guys have large penises and asian guys all have little ones
Me "That fucktard..."
A "But that only white guys actually go and measure them!"
Me "You know I've been thinking, asian women have small breasts, but that never stopped white guys hitting on them."
Me "And for fucks sake these women don't seem to mind screwing fucking gweilos 40 years older than them with beer bellies, semlly BO, bad teeth, and STDs. Diu! Pook Guy!"
A "Hmmm you're right. It's not about attraction man, it's all about social hierarchy"

Even my Eurasian friend admits it. I don't want to give a world history lecture here now, but 0.5% of the world population today can trace their ancestry to Genghis Khan, many of these Eastern Europeans and Russians. Hungary and Turkey were pretty much founded on tribes from east of the Ural mountains and mated with the local women. Today this yellow fever phenomenom seems far more commonplace in the English speaking world or the former colonies in Asia. In Russia, it's a different story: A couple years ago, an insecure & extremist member of the Russiam Duma (probably couldn't get laid with his binge drinking problems) even proposed banning marriages between Chinese men and Russian women because they were so prevailent. Hmmmm... I actually look forward to the rise of China for this reason.

driving tests, work

2007-10-18T20:40:00.000-07:00

Today I snuck out of the accounting conversion course to take my written test for driving. I don't get this company. Officially the starting time is 8:45, but we all know training never actually starts until 9am even on a good day. Now here's the interesting part. No one seems to care if you leave in the MIDDLE of class for whatever reason. As far as the company is concerned it's more detrimental to them if their trainees are 60 seconds late but attend the entire class, yet its perfectly fine to sign in then take off for the whole morning. Oh if I do get fired? I am going to blame the #28 minibus. Hong Kong's public transport efficiency just doesn't apply on this route. Fucking hell. Something is wrong when you wait 20 minutes and instead of one bus, you get an entire line of them.

After needing to skive work to do this test, a thought came to me: In Vancouver, the gweilos like to blame all the bad driving and road accidents on all the Asians. If that's true, Why is it I saw more road accidents in Vancouver in 2 weeks than an entire 5 years in this ASIAN city? Hmmm.

Incompetent politicans in Hong Kong

2007-10-15T09:11:00.000-07:00

http://www.reuters.com/article/worldNews/idUST27249320071013
"HONG KONG (Reuters) - Hong Kong's leader, Donald Tsang, apologized on Saturday for saying that extreme moves towards full democracy in the city could result in chaos on the scale seen in China during the 1966-1976 Cultural Revolution."

Slightly old news but citing the totalitarian induced chaos of the Cultural Revolution as a reason not to implement democracy? What kind of fucked up chiseen idea is that? I never understood why this pook guy enjoys such high popularity ratings. It seems popularity ratings here are purely based on the Heng Seng index more than anything, regardless whether the politicians sucks up to the Brits or the CCP.

Shanghai Kiss

2007-10-14T09:04:00.000-07:00

I could probably count on one hand the number of hollywood films I could actually relate too. Until Harold & Kumar, I've never seen a film with a leading Asian male playing a normal person. As in not some Kung Fu master or math nerd, etc. while reading AngryAsianMan's blog, it was refreshing to learn about Shanghai Kiss. I didn't know what to make of it at first, seeing that it's meant to be a straight to DVD production.

Ken Leung plays Liam Liu, an ABC guy living in LA, aspiring to be an actor. Through fate, he becomes involved in a relationship with a high school girl, Addy, played by the lovely Hayden Panettiere (Cheerleader in Heroes). One day he gets a call from his alcoholic father in New York informing him that his grandmother has died and left the entire family house to him in Shanghai. Ken has never been to China and we see how he battles with searching for his identity. Is he Chinese or American? As an ABC myself living in Hong Kong, this is something that I've been able to relate to. While in Shanghai, he meets his first Chinese love interest and ends up moving there. All is fine and dandy until he realizes what a big mistake he's made. Some parts of the movie deal with serious issues that are thought proving, yet some parts are absolutely hilarious. Like the scene where Liam gets into a Shanghai Taxi and gets driven around the city.

Liam: "No! Jin MAO! It's famous! It's the tallest building in the city!"
Driver: "JIN JIANG!"
Liam: "You've been driving me around the city all day! What are you fucking idiot?"
Driver: "You fucked"
Liam: "You fuck it
Driver: "you fuckee"

Certainly something someone who's been to the mainland and tried taking a cab without speaking English would've experienced. Me and A agreed that unlike many Hollywood films, the scenes of Liam in Shanghai seem to be based on actual experiences in China.

What really got me into this film though was the caucasian female - asian male relationship. I am sure this topic has been subject to discussion and debate a gazillion times. Why is it that White male/Asian female couples are so much more common in today's society (At least in many parts of Asia and all English speaking countries) than vice versa? In popular media, we rarely see AM/WF couples on screen and Hollywood in the past has often portrayed Asian males as asexual kungfu artists or science nerds, roles even Asian females have been spared from. It seems that because of centuries of European colonialism, we now live in a kind of gweilo world (and all the chicks of the world are supposed to look up to them I guess). It's great to finally see a film where the Asian American guy is simply portrayed as a normal guy dealing with typical problems in life. Oh did I mention the petite Hayden is incredibly sexy and the chemistry between Liam and Addy is wonderful?

I am disappointed this not getting a theatrical release, but I hope to see more films like this in the future.

Don't study in Britain

2007-10-12T19:54:00.001-07:00

Just heard from my brother's friend who's a freshman at UCL in London. In a month he has been there, he's gotten egged thrice, spat on, and hurled racial epithets at. That's right. Even in multicultural London! Funny how the Brits like to slag off "yanks" as a nation obsessed with race and racism, yet look at their own goddamn country. And no this hasn't ever happened to me nor anyone else I know studying in America. I went to UT which is in fucking central Texas, and even as an Asian I never got any treatment remotely like that for fucks sake!

What gives them the goddamn right to rough up a hardworking Chinese guy spending money in their fucking country to utilize an education system, their people keep promoting as superior to anything in the world. So after hundred of years of thieving Asian land and imposing their imperialistic culture on them, it's not OK for people from those former colonies to go to their country to be a productive member of society. So ironic they keep complaining about South Asians and "Orientals" (and I thought in North America that term is obselete) destroying their "beloved" culture. I bet the same people who complain about "pakis" not adapting to the culture of Britain are the same people who would go to Asian countries and insult the locals, for not speaking English!

Stupid mainland tourists

2007-10-11T03:18:00.000-07:00

Yesterday I ranted about Ugly Americans, certainly they are not the only ones guilty of petulance (Don't get me started on the Brits). Anyway last week was golden week on the mainland (that would be the Peoples Republic of China to all you non-Hong Kong readers). The PRC govt thought it would a wonderful idea to give 1 billion people a week of holiday on the same week! Many mainlanders have been coming to Hong Kong recently as until 2003, it was nearly impossible to cross the border into here.

My friend was in Times Square last Tuesday waiting for the taxi. The queue was a bit long and out of the blue some fat middle aged mainland woman with an ass as big as the new Beijing Olympic Stadium carrying 10 bags of brand names clothes tried to jump the queue. My friend yelled at her to get in line in Cantonese and she responded with "bu ming bai" (I don't understand in mandarin). So she walked up to the woman next to him and asked if she needed to queue up. LOL! she yells at her "If we aren't waiting in line, what do you think we're doing, watching the stock market?". She gave up on her and asked the next person who happens to be a gweilo speaking fluent mandarin. He reminded her that this is Hong Kong. She continued going down the queue until the entire line yelled at her in unison to get the FUCK back in line! Despite all that yelling, she remained intransigent and jumped into a cab anyway. Luckily the sympathetic (to the queue) driver literally threw her out of the cab, bags and everything, almost breaking her knee. End of it? No. She kept going into different cabs until one drove away (Guess that one guy wanted to end it once in for all).

I myself have seen countless spitting or public urination in this city and it was almost always a mandarin speaker doing it. If they were some illiterate farmers who've never been in the city before, I could forgive people like the mainland woman. However, the problem is not ignorance but plain arrogance. This woman knew clearly that she should queue up and it's usually not poor farmers who come here on vacation (and actually I quite like rural folk in China, far friendlier than the assholes in the cities). These tourists from the mainland are certainly quite well off. How else do they afford all the expensive brandname shit they buy? A study showed that mainland tourists on average spend even more than the Japanese while travelling. Most likely these people are the way they are because they have 1) Connections with the CCP 2) Corruption . I guess just cause they have a lot of money doesn't mean they can't act like stereotypical peasants either.

Yesterday I read this article about a mainlander gamer roughing up a Taiwanese in Seattle. Sometimes I think it's probably a good thing China doesn't become a democracy yet. Can you imagine what would happen to the world if they did?

Stupid comments on facebook

2007-10-09T17:38:00.000-07:00

I got bored and started browsing friends of my facebook friends I know.

Found on this ABC chick's wall: "Yeah people in foreign countries are rude. I elbow people all the time because no one moves out of the way when you are walking down the sidewalk. It´s really annoying.". Of course referring to Hong Kong and written by her ugly gweilo boyfriend who's never been here. Chi seen mo lan gweilo. Yeh generalize HK people and call all non Americans rude will ya? I'm American myself but goddammit there sure are a lot of morons in that country. I guess murdering thousands of innocent civillians in Iraq isn't rude. But seriously, sometimes these sort of assertions irk me. Please tell me that the term "Ugly American" appeared as a fluke? I guess American tourists insulting the locals or asking at the top of your lungs for the nearest McDonalds in (insert city) isn't rude. Hong Kong is a crowded city, do you expect everyone to be warm and friendly? Oh, BTW wasn't it suburban Colorado that bred people like Eric Harris and Dylan kleboid? At least people here aren't fucking psychos

RIAA run by gangsters

2007-10-09T08:46:00.000-07:00

http://www.pcworld.com/article/id,138192-c,copyright/article.html

Thomas was ordered last week by a jury in the U.S. District Court for the District of Minnesota to pay $222,000 in damages to six music labels, representing $9,250 for each of 24 songs illegally downloaded and shared over the Kazaa file-sharing network. The case against Thomas was filed by the Recording Industry Association of America, an umbrella group representing music labels.

It's fucking sad what humans do to satisfy their desire for greed these days. Come on now, for US$9,250 not only could I buy 24 entire albums, I could probably buy out an entire weeks worth of stock at an HMV store. What are these corporate fucks afraid of? Not being able to afford their private jets or 10000 sq foot mansions? It seems they don't bing indebting 12 year old kids just to get that little extra so they can afford their ill gotten luxuries. A few months ago, there was an article on how the RIAA was collecting copyright royalties from all songs played on internet radio, whether the artists are affiliated with them or not (see Dailykos for story). That's just sick and criminal. Clearly the RIAA is full of thugs who run the monopoly like a triad organization. Our hope is that those independent artists rise up and give them a taste of their own medicine; bankrupt them once in for all so they can experience living in a Mumbai shanty town themselves. Fucking assholes

Chicks who hit on gay guys

2007-10-08T05:45:00.001-07:00

Saturday night I met up with A and the Patrick gang. Fun night actually... At first. Armani Bar isn't so bad, at least there aren't anal ass Cantonese speaking paki bouncers like at Avenue. Fucking hell, hate that place. At Armani, we met F, a cute English chick who's only been here a week. We found out A and F are almost neighbors so they arrange to go home together at the end of the night. Cool. Later we take off to Lan Kwai and while walking there, NL comes along drunk as a fucker. Holy fucking hell. And that delayed us for a friggen hour cause everyone wanted to make sure that he didn't get run over by an F1 wannabe taxi driver! The chick that was with him claimed that she found him lying on the ground. Chi Seen! WTF, why couldn't she just leave him on the Lan Kwai curb side so we could get on with our night! Admit it was hilarious seeing him act like a retard and blocking traffic all the way to the Bank of China tower! Fucking eurasians...

Once we relieved ourselves of NL, we got to Insomnia, where I smuggled a couple of 7-11 Budweisers in my pocket. Those bouncers are usually too dumb anyway. I hate how they charge fucking $60 for a pint in lan Kwai, greedy motherfuckers. There we met Dan, the professional dancer (who's also gay). He's still cool though and doesn't mind us drunkenly talking about chicks in front of him. Tried to dance with F for a bit then around 3, most of the gang left. It was just me, A, F, and Dan. Not bad I thought...

Wrong.

That's when it started to suck believe it or not. Holy fucking hell! F insisted dancing with Dan and only Dan. In fact she attempted to make out with him. No offense to Dan, he's a cool guy, probably better than most of the gang, but how far does she think she'll get making out with a guy who carries a LV handbag and wears thongs!? Yes F, even though there are two very single and open guys, you would rather flirt with the short gay guy just cause he can dance. geez! Well that's not the end. Later she tells everyone about how she fancies the long haired chinese drummer on stage (at least she's no racist). She goes up and flirts with him but I think the guy already has a girlfriend. Later Dan leaves and I follow. This chick is a slut, a fucking weird one that is and it's 5 already.

Anyway last night I talked to A and asked him how the rest of the night (morning) went. Apparently nothing turned out as it was supposed to and basically he went on a melanchanous tirade about what F. And no they didn't go back to Stanley together.

A: this morning after you left she was crying again!
me: wtf? why?
A: she was upset with patrick
me: lol for ditching her with us?
A: i dunno man, patrick has been hanging around with her n shit, and then i told her that patrick was seeing Mody, which i thought she knew, and then she started getting all upset
A: i don't really understand her

Geez so there are 2 single men around you and all you fucking care about is the gay guy and the taken one. Good one, bimbo!

A: but yeah, and that's not all, she started chatting to one of the doormen
A: and in the end she took off with him

Add random doorman to that list.

me: so she didn't go back to stanley with you?
A: well no, cos she still didn't wanna go home, and it was about 7am!
me: lol. glad i didn't wait for yall to leave
A: yeah, it's like i waited for her cos i just couldn't leave her on her own
me: yeh of course. i guess next time we're in a situation like that with her, we should just let her be
A: i waited for her until after the fucking place shut, and the staff were kicking us out, i took care of her, i tried to comfort her n all, but i guess in the end she still didn't really give a shit about me
me: sei baht mui!
A: i kinda felt like i was being used, and then when i got home i started feeling all upset myself!

Then we came to the conclusion that the problem is maybe with us.

me: i guess its true. women aren't into nice guys until they're into their fucking 40s and only after having been through 5 divorces with their abusive husbands do they realize their mistake
A: ha yeah i guess that's true. mate it's all about charm and confidence, not about being nice. if you've got some special charm you can pretty much get any girl u want. sadly we just don't have that!
me: yeh i mean in island school all the ugly short guys with zits have girlfriends. it's just that those ugly guys are cocky bastards
me: same with all the fat, bold white men in wanchai
A: that's so true
me: HEY FLO, I GOT A 11 INCH PENIS, I'm GONNA STICK IT DOWN YOUR PUSSY LIKE IT OR NOT!
A: LOL, i wonder how she would have reacted to that
me: she'll start crying...
me: I WANT 12 INCH NOT 11 INCH
A: LMAO!

Some English chicks are fucking weirdos.

One thing I can't stand.

2007-10-08T05:44:00.000-07:00

That is people who don't reply to emails

Geez it's not that hard. Just write a couple lines and send it back. What I hate most though are the ones who initiate the email conversations. Like for example this chick I knew back in college who I only occasionally talk to now. Why that's the case? Lets see, she'll write to me out of the blue to see how I am and while I reply immediately, she won't reply for another week or at all. Comeone now, I know you read your email more frequently than that, you seem to be on facebook all the time, and I doubt your computer is broken. So where the bloody hell are you?

Never Camping in Whistler again

2007-10-08T05:43:00.000-07:00

This summer when I was in Vancouver, I met up with Lisa who I met in China last year and suggested we go camping when I got there. Was looking forward as any normal person would of course and of course she was looking forward to seeing me. She even greeted me at YVR, what a great welcome back to North America after 2 years! We went hiking the next day and so far so good.

The following weekend was BC Day Weekend, so off we went on Friday afternoon with all our gear packed into her little van. We got there around 5 and had a beautiful hike up 1300 m to our campsite. Lisa seemed cheerful and though it was cloudy and slightly rainy, the scenery was gorgeous. So tents pitched, we had our dinner sandwiches (She didn't feel like cooking that night). We got in the tent and she said we'd play cards. I decided to talk a small walk to the outhouse and when I got back that's when something didn't seem quite right. With our bags in the middle of the tent, she was fast asleep already. She woke up an hour later and asked her something but fell back to sleep again. The next morning, she got up later than I did and didn't say a word to me. Not even a good morning even though I said to her. She cooked us up some oats without even saying as much as a word. All she said afterward was to ask where I wanted to go hike. So we went up Black Tusk without so much as a discussion. 3 hours into the hike, we were almost at the top of Black Tusk. I asked her how she was feeling and all she could tell me was that her knee wasn't feeling quite right. Well geez, if it was that simple, you coulda at least told me so and stopped acting so aloof!! At the peak, there was some snow to navigate on the way up and down. I asked her if I could help and she pretty much said no the whole time. Back at the camp site, she just said we'd have to leave that day and basically that was it, despite the fact we kept talking about how we'd stay 2 or 3 days. Quite a disappointment.

Then on the way back, she decided to roadrace on the Sea to Sky Highway and play Avril Lavigne to full volume. Fucking hell, so she's suddenly decided to turn psycho bitch on me eh? For the next week until the day before I left, I couldn't reach her at all. Apparently she even had her birthday that week AND bought a motorcycle (despite a broken knee)! Then on the day before my flight she suddenly decided to call me up in the middle of the afternoon. I thought, thank god's she's going to talk to me again. Wrong. We agree on seeing a movie and she tells me before the start that she's gonna sleep through it.

Holy fucking hell. WTF is wrong with these Vancouver girls!?