Saturday 19 April 2008
Couldnt find his arse with both hands
Vietnam has entered the space race. Yes they got a yank to build a satellite, a froggy to launch it from South America and then claimed they were a member of the space team.
Did you know that Nigeria spends 15 million US on space discovery and exploration. Would be easier for the guy who decided that was a good idea to look between his ears. Reminds me of one of my favourite American sayings "couldn't find his arse with both hands"
Went to Dalat Thursday its about 45 minute flight from HCMC. Its high up 3000 feet maybe and looks like one large lettuce farm. The airport is something out of the 1950s all small and tarmac walking. We flew in a turbo prop, I of course got the seat that if it had been any closer to the engine it would have had to be on the wing. My Vietnamese colleague is one of those guys who is all touchy feely. The more I tried to move away, the more he encroached upon my space. He also says a number of words that require considerable flapping of the lips and discharge of spit.
Vietnam, what can I say. It has probably the largest percentage of good looking young girls I have ever seen. If this alone were not enough to get the pulse racing they have disparportinatly large breasts on a tiny little frame. And, if the Fume is reading they squeeze the whole package into conservative mini skirts white blouse and black jackets, hop on a moped and let the breeze massage the areas that brings a man out in a sweat.
Now, me being a little fat European which apparently makes me look like a laughing Buddha creates all sorts of giggles but not in the Chinese way of covering the mouth but full blown honest to god laughing.
In all my travels I have often wondered why people battle over countries they have no place to be, and Vietnam's people just amplify that thought.
I sometimes, in my more wandering moments wonder who runs a Company that decides cancelling its late night Friday flight to Hong and its early Monday morning flight to HCMC is smoking.
Did you know that Nigeria spends 15 million US on space discovery and exploration. Would be easier for the guy who decided that was a good idea to look between his ears. Reminds me of one of my favourite American sayings "couldn't find his arse with both hands"
Went to Dalat Thursday its about 45 minute flight from HCMC. Its high up 3000 feet maybe and looks like one large lettuce farm. The airport is something out of the 1950s all small and tarmac walking. We flew in a turbo prop, I of course got the seat that if it had been any closer to the engine it would have had to be on the wing. My Vietnamese colleague is one of those guys who is all touchy feely. The more I tried to move away, the more he encroached upon my space. He also says a number of words that require considerable flapping of the lips and discharge of spit.
Vietnam, what can I say. It has probably the largest percentage of good looking young girls I have ever seen. If this alone were not enough to get the pulse racing they have disparportinatly large breasts on a tiny little frame. And, if the Fume is reading they squeeze the whole package into conservative mini skirts white blouse and black jackets, hop on a moped and let the breeze massage the areas that brings a man out in a sweat.
Now, me being a little fat European which apparently makes me look like a laughing Buddha creates all sorts of giggles but not in the Chinese way of covering the mouth but full blown honest to god laughing.
In all my travels I have often wondered why people battle over countries they have no place to be, and Vietnam's people just amplify that thought.
I sometimes, in my more wandering moments wonder who runs a Company that decides cancelling its late night Friday flight to Hong and its early Monday morning flight to HCMC is smoking.
Sunday 13 April 2008
A dillusion that your really really important
And there you have it
Donald, Fok and other people whose idea of exercise is talking, will carry the Olympic flame. I would like to do a Richard the third with it personally.
"Welcome" to mediocrity, or we only stock what we want has a banner on the wall, love hong kong use less plastic bags. Not love the environment, love the world no love Hong Kong. At the bottom there should be a warning, please remove your head from your arse when reading this.
Hong Kong has three major landfills, that produce huge amounts of methane and have done for about 10 years. The one and only, dare I say gas monopoly run by Asias answer to Warren Buffet He who convinced the masses that the market would stay at 30k cant agree with the EPD (Environmental policy department) to buy the gas. So its flared, bloody flared, what are the bonking shit for brains turnips doing in EPD. At the same time Black point power station is burning coal cos it cant get gas. We are a world city, no argument about that. Well down on the league and slipping further into the abyss. And some Civil (yes I pay your inflated salary ) servant says we have done enough now and the central waterfront should be sold off. These people are so far behind the curve they in danger of being bloody lapped.
Has nobody told Hong Kong that it is a little insignificant spec on the world map. That nobody really cares what happens to it and most people dont really know where it is.
Last night I had dinner and refused to pay the service charge, some of the meal never arrived along with some of the drinks. Although the bits that were missing were charged for. It took ten minutes to get the bill and a further 5 to get a corrected one. When I refused to pay the service charge the manager was perplexed.
You have to pay he said.
I didnt get any service.
Yes you did we brought your food.
No you brought some of my food. I did not get service you, to say I got service would be a gross exaggeration of reality. However I am paying some of the bill.
When you spend time outside Hong Kong you begin to realise that it is a parochial little town, full of people who believe they are important, pop stars that can sing, actors that cant act, people who believe nipples are square and fuzzy and really rude, politicians that cant politic, and property developers that dont care at all. The vast majority of the people believe they will win the mark 6 and that Donald should tell them what to do. Even Singapore has more democracy.
So its back to Vietnam.
Donald, Fok and other people whose idea of exercise is talking, will carry the Olympic flame. I would like to do a Richard the third with it personally.
"Welcome" to mediocrity, or we only stock what we want has a banner on the wall, love hong kong use less plastic bags. Not love the environment, love the world no love Hong Kong. At the bottom there should be a warning, please remove your head from your arse when reading this.
Hong Kong has three major landfills, that produce huge amounts of methane and have done for about 10 years. The one and only, dare I say gas monopoly run by Asias answer to Warren Buffet He who convinced the masses that the market would stay at 30k cant agree with the EPD (Environmental policy department) to buy the gas. So its flared, bloody flared, what are the bonking shit for brains turnips doing in EPD. At the same time Black point power station is burning coal cos it cant get gas. We are a world city, no argument about that. Well down on the league and slipping further into the abyss. And some Civil (yes I pay your inflated salary ) servant says we have done enough now and the central waterfront should be sold off. These people are so far behind the curve they in danger of being bloody lapped.
Has nobody told Hong Kong that it is a little insignificant spec on the world map. That nobody really cares what happens to it and most people dont really know where it is.
Last night I had dinner and refused to pay the service charge, some of the meal never arrived along with some of the drinks. Although the bits that were missing were charged for. It took ten minutes to get the bill and a further 5 to get a corrected one. When I refused to pay the service charge the manager was perplexed.
You have to pay he said.
I didnt get any service.
Yes you did we brought your food.
No you brought some of my food. I did not get service you, to say I got service would be a gross exaggeration of reality. However I am paying some of the bill.
When you spend time outside Hong Kong you begin to realise that it is a parochial little town, full of people who believe they are important, pop stars that can sing, actors that cant act, people who believe nipples are square and fuzzy and really rude, politicians that cant politic, and property developers that dont care at all. The vast majority of the people believe they will win the mark 6 and that Donald should tell them what to do. Even Singapore has more democracy.
So its back to Vietnam.
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