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| I hope this post will change the course of the current mess Edison Chen and his ex girlfriends are in. They'll one day realise, as I have since I decided to find out, they were just making love.
They weren't breaking any laws like those of the computer shop in Central, Elite, who've stolen the picture files, circulated, uploaded to websites, downloaded and emailed to long lists of 'friends'.
Nor have they failed to do a good job like the police and specifically the vice police commissioner and the police commissioner who said sending the pics between friends was not illegal. Result? Inboxes of 'friends' are flooded with hundreds of photos and people are requesting files and links from 'friends' on websites. Copyright? Thrown to the wind. No, actually Hong Kong has never grasped the concept of copyright. The city is well known for its copies - of LV, Prada, movies - where else in the world would cinemas show anti-filming devices warning trailers to ticket holders? And where else in the world would they ask you before walking into a cinema to open your bag not to check if you have a bomb but a gadget capable of filming?
In sexually conservative, malnourished and ignorant Hong Kong, almost everyone is saying the couples did something dirty. How dirty is love making in the nude and taking pictures of themselves while they're at it? I wonder if Hong Kongers have sex dressed or never ever use their mouth. Much dirtier is the maliciousness of those computer geeks who think it's a game of intelligence or a tug of war with the police. It's not. There are over 6 women involved, people whose privacy has been violated publicly and who've been humiliated. These women would like to be able to continue to live with some dignity. What good would it do to those geeks if these women's lives are ruined? Nobody seems to remember one of these women is married with a baby.
The general lack of respect and sympathy among Hong Kongers is also shocking. They're definitely lost that humanity to live meaning lives. Most are having a lot of fun watching and gossiping. They've really fogotten how to put themselves in other people's shoes. Maybe they deserve to live such petty lives.
Back to laws. I wonder why the police like to raid, sometimes on its own initiative, fake LV and Gucci shops and toys shops all in the name of intellectual property right but have wrongly focused on the 'indecency' or 'obscenity' of these pictures. If photocopying a book is illegal, why is it ok to circulate and copy these stolen and private photos?
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In Hong Kong's Legislative Council by-election held on 2 Dec, former security secretary Regina Ip lost to former chief secretary Anson Chan. Why? Because Hong Kong people's memory is not as short term as Regina Ip thought. This is what Regina Ip said once upon a time and just before this election that they still remember:
When she was Hong Kong's security secretary till 2003 (when she stepped down):
1. Democrary is not always a good thing. Look at Hitler.
2. I don't think McDonald's workers and taxi drivers understand laws so we don't need so much public consultation on a new bill and can therefore skip one consultation paper (The controversial Article 23 brought 500,000 people, or 1/14 of Hong Kong's population, to the streets)
In the past 2 months while lobbying:
1. Of course I couldn't add 2 dimples to my face now (her rival AC is famous for having a glorious dimpled smile)
2. My edge over AC is my age (57), I'm 10 years x months x days younger than her (she did the maths and remembers the micro details, I don't)
3. My experience with democracy is more real and longer than my rivals. I've lived a few years in democratic countries, x years in the UK, x years in the US. (she was in self imposed exile in the US following her stepping down in 2003)
4. At university in the US, I blended in without a hitch with students in their early 20's.
5. I have my supporters. Look at my Facebook. I've got 400 friends.
6. (in the introduction to candidates) (in the box titled Election Platform) I'm true to myself.
Of course RI's selection of certain election campaign supporters / consultants / engineers had some weird effects, eg Allan Zeman, the Jewish businessman who took care of LKF, the drink/vomit lanes; CHING Kai Nam, jailed not too long ago for some money/power crime.
AC's campaign supporters eg barristers Audrey Eu and Alan Leong (voted man of the year by me in 2006) don't give the impression of doing a job, much less for money.
Apart from the 2 ladies, I thought Tandon Lal CHAING (Malaysian Chinese) and HO Loy were pretty good - both made a lot of sense when they spoke. The worst performance came from barrister LEE Wing Kin (so sloppy one wonders why he ever bothered to join in the first place), LING Wai Wan (from Mainland China) (more like there to promote herself, and she badly needs a, just any, hairstyle). Non-Cantonese speaker LAU Yuk Shing (from Mainland China) ... why bother in Cantonese-speaking Hong Kong which is not so Chinese yet.
Han Girl
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| I was once recommended a Chinese practitioner of reflexology. I'd been
told some wonderful things performed by this practitioner akin to
miracles by Jesus (e.g. this practitioner treated somebody with a stiff
lower quarter of the face, also people with post-surgery problems with their
legs) and so went out of curiosity even though I wasn't really
suffering from any illness in the Western sense of the word. The
Chinese often use herbs in their soups and drink herbal teas to adjust the body, to eliminate ailments not diagnosed as such in Western medicine. Afterall, it's another civilisation, another world.
So I went to see him, took off my shoes and socks and sat on the
patient's chair. He said I didn't have a glowing healthy colour on my
face and so attempted to restore it. My period had just finished half a
week before and wasn't supposed to come for another 2.5 weeks. I
went to see him for 3 consecutive days. Then very surprisingly and very
prematurely my period came again. I was scared to death and started to
search the internet but could only find that premature menstruation can
be a sign of menopause and in the confusion I half thought I was doomed
even though I shouldn't have to think about menopause for some time. I suspected it was the sessions of reflexology afterall what he
did was apply pressure on points on the feet to accelerate circulation
to bring colour to my face. I got the proof that that was the cause
only after months of observation. My period has since been regular
again.
Conclusion: 1. reflexology works, is very powerful, much more than a
foot massage for comfort and should be performed by somebody with at
least a decade of experience (this practitioner, in his 60's, had lots
of experience but still overdid it). 2. pregnant women should be
extremely careful and run the risk of losing the foetus (but I've also
read that you can do 'the opposite' and reflexology can help women who
are prone to miscarriages) Han Girl
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| Over half a century of history - a lot for Hong Kong - is going. 3 went on a hunger strike of over 100 hours and a dozen or so have been camping at the pier and on its roof on and off for weeks, all to no avail.
The government pronounces a more and more hated word: development. Hong Kong doesn't need another tall building and luxury shopping mall housing European super brands mixed in with little cheapies. Areas much more in need of development include:
- hygiene - get rid of all those dark and wet backstreets and super roaches all out at night, please
- welfare - how about giving a hand to the elderly who've been here for decades (not the recent immigrants), the ones who actually built this wonderful place through sweat and blood
- education - how to at least not let slip this ex-British colony's English - oops it's the government officials' unpronounced plan to make English elite again, just like in the past, so it looks like it's still quite colonial
Just these three and those arrogant and bottom-of-the-well-frog officials fed from day one by the government would have their hands full.
Han Girl
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