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.

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