Cha Chaan Tang Culture

Attached is one of the order sheet in a Cha Chaan Tang in Tsim Sha Tsim, They do not use hand held device to take order, they ue some code taken manually

The slip contains the following informations:
Two cups of Milk tea
Two Pineapple Buns
One bowl of Chee Chai Noodles
One plate of vegatarian Rice (set lunch)

But I still do not understand what the " S" mean... will find out next time visiting the restaurant.
This is more or less the way they run business for many decades. This order slip is readable one as I have seen some that are totally illigible...The Cha Chaan Tang culture will carry on as they have all kinds of Customers expectation.
Fast, reasonable price, variety in food selection, no tippings, freindly environment, they will nto kick ou out after you finished you food.

HK Snob

Guan Yu

Guan Yu is widely referred to as Emperor Guan (關帝), short for his Daoist title Saintly Emperor Guan, and as Guan Gong, literally "Lord Guan." Temples and shrines dedicated exclusively to Guan Yu can be found in parts of Mainland China, Hong Kong, Macau, Taiwan, and other places with Chinese influence such as Vietnam, Thailand, South Korea, and Japan. Some of these temples, such as the Emperor Guan Temple in Xiezhou (解州), Shanxi, were built exactly in the layout of a palace, befitting his status as an "emperor". In Hong Kong, stories were told that even the Police station has a Guan Yu statue whereby, the constable would make worship before the work order is executed. There have been many Hong Kong Movies showing these kind of worship, funny is that the black society or triad has also believe that the same Kwan Yu will protect them from accident and or being hurt in fighting with the gangster and or policeman. And they would have special ritual celebration when new gangster would swear in front of it that they will serve with the truth and faith of his own.


Well, this is the one I took in a Hong Kong famous Cantonese Restaurant. I still feel puzzled why they have to put such a big statue at the reception?… to scarce away those who will not pay the Chow!??

HK Snob

Hong Kong People and their spending Behaviour

Recent survey shows that the after-90’s has 33% of HK total population, after-80’s is approximately 18% , X Generation is 32%, Baby Boomers 37%.

After-90’s people are generally having less confidence in dealing people, 60% of them claim that they do not feel confident to complete their target in life. They do not take risk, dare not make any decision without consulting their friends and or parents. These group of people tend to go for entertainment with friends for gathering, Karaoke and dinner where they spend an average of HKD$1,500 a month.

After-80’s is typically those people who spend minimum 3 hours on internet everyday, two times more than those after-90’s. They read comment and posting their comment on someone’s blogs. Reading celebrity or their idol’s blogs is their interests and habit after work. As Hong Hong is second to Korea with the most number of Bloggers, many of them belongs to this age group. Their buying behavior is more or less affected by the chatters and friends on internet. Gradually they form a trend and pattern on their buying habit and lose their instrinic personal preference. So whenever someone like a movie star wears a stylish jean, they follow. Andy Lau wears a Explorer II in the movie, they will try to follow and buy regardless if that piece of Tool Watch is good for his uses or not!

Recently we had recruited a young engineer, during the interviews we had highlighted the necessity and importance to go China is part of the job, after a couple of days, he returned call saying that their parents do not allow him to go far away from Home…
When I was young, I tried all the way I could to look for job that could travel, In fact I had been working on Merchant vessel that left Home for 12 months. During the contract, we hardly had chance to come back Home town HK. I had visited more than 20 Countries and 60 different cities in three years when I was less than 26 years old, we are coming from two different worlds. Who from the after-90’s can take up this challenge working on a Ship!??? Give me a name?

I think their parent has spoiled them all. These kid and his parent are shorter sighted. If you do not go China for your future, what else you can do in Hong Kong unless you are very smart…What is the different in working in HK and China… I can not see the reason what parents stop them to take the job…

X-Generation is more practical, they spend more on work that on entertainment, they are more active in the investment in stock market. Since they are more money-minded, they spend less time with families. They are big spender, whenever the are on vacation, they go out for extravagant dinner and enterainment., they like Piaget, Cartier, Panerai watch…Louis Vitton, Polo sort of things.
 Baby Boomers

After years of hard working, they have experienced all kind of ups and downs, they know what really matter is families and children. They believe the Fate and spend time understand the mysterious side of life. They plan their retirement life early, they would like to go for cruises with their beloved one whenever they could afford. They go hiking and exercise regularly, they use durable goods instead fashionable products, and they know what value is and more to go to Chow Tai Fook for jeweler goods and less on shoes and shirts. In order to attract this market group, the products has to be durable.. They Like Rolex, do appreciate a good watch like PP, AP, VC and Jaeger. They Like Dunhill products… I am one of them....

HK Snob

Ten Problem of the Boss in companies of HK

From City University management Faculty recent survey on 350 full time employees In Hong Kong.


These are the ten deficiencies of the bosses after the survey.


1. Faked democracy


2. Prejudice


3. Ignoring his opinion of his subordinates


4. Talk and walk


5. Over-demanding to his staff


6. Old Fashioned management style


7. Unfair Treatment to performer and non-perfumers


8. Indulged in Politics


9. Emotional


10. Narrow mined…


This is my own comment additional to the above ten points


11. Forgetful


12. pick up small mistake and rate this as bad performance on his staff


13. Never show appreciation to good result of his staff.


14. Spend ten thousand dollar to save ten cents. Does not know what Investment means.


A good boss should be


1. Able to wear the shoes of his subordinate to think


2. Ignore minor mistake and appreciate good result


3. Fair to every staff with equal treatment/bonus


4. Open minded to listen


5. Accept different idea esepcially good idea


6. Keen on to Change


7. Promote whenever is needed, smart guy does not wait to be old to be promoted!


8. Don’t set too high standard to everyone for promotion. Would you like your boss do the same to you!?


9. Accept people are better than you in certain aspect. You are not Saint.


10. Do not be picky.


HK Snob

Borrow Money from Kwun Yum Temple an amount of 788 Million Dollars.

The 26th of the first lunar month (Western calendar, March 9) is the Kwun Yum Treasury days. According to Chinese tradition, if the fortunes of no use to those who may be in the days to the Goddess of Mercy Kuan Yin Temple incense to pray for the blessing of A major Treasury. We can borrow from minimum 30 millions to 788 Millions. The number of visitors every year seems linked with the economic prosperity of the year, Say in 1997, we had 150,000 visitor to the Kwun Yum temple, where as in 2003, only 30,000.



More visitors mean the economy is good in that year. The no.1 Hot spot Temple is the one in Hung Hom. How much did you borrow this year?As you have to return to her next year. I am not sure if we should add in the bank Interests?
Hong Kong temple positions
1, Hung Hom Kwun Yum Temple; 2, Shantung Street, Kwun Yam Temple; 3, Tsz Wan Shan Shui moon; 4, Shau Kei Wan Tin Hau Temple, Kwun Yam Temple; 5, Yau Ma Tei Yung Shu Tau Tin Hau Temple, next to the Goddess of Mercy shetan.


6, Tai Ping Shan Street, Kwun Yam Temple; 7, Hollywood Road column Sheng Temple; 8, Kwun Yam Temple, Keung Shan, Lantau Island; 9, Tai Hang Lin Fa Kung (Tin Hau Station); 10, Shek Kip Mei Kuan Yin Temple (MTR Wo Tsai Street exit ).

HK Snob

K11 and The Chinese Restaurant

New K11 Building has been fully in operation, one of the landmark for Hoi Noi Road , Tsim Sha Tsui as some of the apartments on 59 floor is sky roaring at a price of HKD$70,000 a square foot! Who Can buy? it s a good question to me...

The Hyatt Hotel is there and The Chinese Restaurant at the 3rd Floor is the new kicken for Cantonese food and food lovers in that Area. Since the close down of Dynaty, the manager told me that they Have the best Char Siu in Town!

Really? its char siu using more fat than those at Dynasty, a bit sweeter, tender and dark burned a bit to create the unhealthy though the die hard Char Siu Fan will love as a piece of sligtly over burnt Roasted Pork.
With our comment of all the freinds, it is the top of the class, is it No. 1. Well, we have to see if they can maintain the quality consistently.

We will see, pricewise is simialr as Dynasty, you can have a bit more space, the last table at the end of the room gave me a feeling of being HOME for dinner...

You you stop by, you can make a reservation and try...as least the Signature dish Roasted Chicken was really very Good!

HK Snob

Jumbo Floating Restaurant

Jumbo Floating Restaurant has been servicing us for 30 years; it is situated at the tip of Aberdeen, southern part of Hong Kong Island.

The floating restaurant was in fact a ship with heavily decorated with Nine Chinese Gold Dragons at the front entrance, a lot of Chinese empire, palace, fairy made up of thousands colourful tiles as the interior design, A lot of Chinese chandelier. Beautifully Chinese dressed stewardess would lead you to the 3rd Floor for Chinese and 2nd Floor for Western cuisine. Free Shuttle boat to carry you from the pier to the Jumbo Floating Restaurant.

The food is classified normal and seems that the chef has not much favourite dish to serve the exacting guess, snobs and food critics.

However, if you are first time to Hong Kong it is one of the tourist spot for you...The best is after a day tour to Ocean park and then take a taxi to Aberdeen for A relaxing Dinner at jumbo.

HK Snob

Dynasty Restaurant will close the business 1st March

We had a probably the last visit to this most famous restaurant in Kowloon, as they will close their business due to the landlord Mr. Cheng would demolish the Hotel Renaissance by 1st of March, looking for more prominent profit after a new much taller hotel would be completed in two years time.
Today will be the last say of service of Dynasty restaurant after servicing for 28 years, in Hong Kong Servicing most of the exacting guest, celebrities, movies stars and singers, tourists and HK Snob which used to be their regular guests.

Surprisingly, the tables were not full yesterday we can see 80% tables were occupied by Japanese ladies, locals, foreigners, a Table occupied by family of Martin C.M. Lee, the founding Chairman (1994-2002) of the Democratic Party of HK.

We said Good bye and exchanges of our hand phone with most of the people there such that we will meet them somewhere in Hong Kong. They would like to seek this opportunity to take a short break before the next job. Jacky, Peony, Mira, Chuen and Ryan...etc.

We had a plate of the HK’s best Char Siu, some Tou Miu which was selling HKD$100 a catty last week, Chinese new year, beef and Asparagus, Scallop and egg, a soup and A bottle of wine presented from the San Francisco’s celebrity Samuel who just arrived HK from US.

We felt that taste of food was not as good as we used to take. Probably due to the departing atmosphere had already becoming the main theme yesterday.


HK Snob

Ap Liu Street

Ap Liu Street (鴨寮街) is an old street in the Sham Shui Po, Kowloon, Hong Kong. It runs parallel to Cheung Sha Wan Road between Yen Chow Street and Nam Cheong Street. It is about 160 metres in length


The easiest way to reach it is to light off at the MTR Sham Shui Po Station. Take A2 or C2 exit and you will be ascending directly into Ap Liu Street.


The Cantonese name “Ap Liu” (鴨寮) originated from a village which was formerly located nearby but has long since been buried underneath the urbanization of Sham Shui Po.


Ap Liu Street is a huge flea market containing electronics, electrical components, LED lighting products, two restaurants that sells snake soup that make shock you if you have not imagine. Older Chinese thinks that the snake meat can boost their blood circulation and they are the hot cakes in Winters.

2nd Hand Audio Equipment, Clothes, back packs, old Watches, handphone of both new and used ones, antiques and used electrical appliances, electrical and electronics tools and other related items.

This is the world for good negotiators, if you have a sweet mouth, try to make some negotiation, you may get some discount from 10-20% on what you should normally get at the street stores. There are a lot of cheap good such as battery cells of all kind at a price of less 80% on what you get normally in the city shops.


Remote control toys such as helicopter, cars, submarine and speed boats starting with HKD80.00. A shopper can find both new and used merchandise in the area. I have been doing shopping more than 30 years and I see a lot changes… many of the shop keeper are the small street side business starter some time 20 years ago…


On the other side opposite the Cheung Sha Wan road, the Golden Shopping Arcade will get you all the Video Games, Computer, printers and Handphone, hardware for computer for geek shoppers.


In Recent years, seems Ap Liu street is a kind of foreign tourist faviourite shopping spots.

HK Snob

Crickets and Coins

A friend of mine met me at a busy Airport, whilst we were chatting about his family in China, we walked out from the departure hall. He old if I could hear the cricket sound out from the hall., I said no… he said he could here it… I thought to myself that it could not possible as the airport was full of people and it was noisy for anybody to listen to any Cricket. When we went out the hall as could really see that there were the crickets at the trees that I could hear too… When we enter another hall He picked out some coins from his pocket and dropped them onto the floor, everyone surrounding could notice the sound of the coins and stared at them…


My friend said he cares about the nature and he could hear the cricket and the people here is looking for money only so the sound of coin is could be heard.

This is Hong Kong International Airport.

Red Envelop (Lai Shi, Hong Bao)

Red  Envelopes, Lai Shi, Hong Bao
Red Envelopes, (Cantonese: 利是, 利市 or 利事, pinyin: lai shi or lai see; Mandarin 紅包 pinyin: hóng bāo).

The red envelopes normally contain money and are given by grandparents, parents or married couples to their children, siblings and unmarried people.

According to Chinese tradition and believes, as soon as one is married, one has sufficient sound financially and hence can share it. In return, the children or receiving person might present oranges/ tangerines to the giving person, but there is no such practice in Hong Kong anymore.
The meaning is to wish for good fortune and wealth in the new year, at times it might be used to pay off debt, though it is not to be compared to the western style of giving money to allow someone ‘to buy rice for a living”
The Red Envelopes most likely will be decorated with lucky, auspicious symbols and/ or good wishes.

The colour red is the most auspicious colour, recent year, more with be printed in Gold Colour and print the Family name on it as to tell this is from. Words are commonly printed on it like good luck, expansive motion in all aspects of life, blooming, reaching upwards, celebration, happiness, joy, vitality, long life, creativity, bringing luck and fame. Before Chinese New Year, new clothing in red colour will be bought and be worn for the first three days of the New Year Celebrations, nowadays, no one is likely to dress up this way anymore in HK.



The old Chinese say only Rich people is stingy…

And or in other form of the saying, will miser get rich only?

I am not sure which comes first?

As I always said that being a big corporate, beside Corporate Social Responsibility, its staff is the most valuable assess, they have to take care them and treat them with some respect.


These are the Red Envelope content amount of some of the firms in HK this year.



EGL Tour $1,000, $500 and minimum $100 for their 600 staff

Bank of China $200

Hong Tai Tour $20

Cathay Pacific $20

Ocean Park $20

Disney land $20

Hang Seng Bank $10

HSBC $0 (No Lai Shi)


No Lai Shi (this is a taboo for Cantonese Chinese meaning nothing is Good!)


Interesting to see no Lai Shi from HSBC, the world largest bank!

In the Chinese new years, I think HSBC can Indulge a bit more expenditure should mean a lot as a drive for the staff to feel part of the team, to give them some kind of warmth and Care!


Say there are 10,000 staff in HK operation, each of them is issued a Red envelop with HKD$100 would mean $1,000,000 only… or in another symbolic way to issues a red envelop of say $10 would be a sum of $100,000 only!


That is a trivial amount for the company… may be there is concern on the world wide operation, But I think they should respect the local Culture… As his Corporate slogan “The World’s local Bank”


My interpretation is “How Shackled the Bank Could be?!”

PS, after I posted this mail, I went to one of the major brach of HSBC asked their cashiers if they have received the Lai Shi, They told me that yes, received form thier supervisor. So I think individual manager has given them the Lai Shi.


HK Snob

Generation "Y"

I've always wondered about this myself..& now I know.

The Silent generation is People born before 1946 were called.

The Baby Boomers, are people born between 1946 and 1959.

Generation X, are the people who have been born between 1960 and 1979.

And Generation Y, are the people born between 1980 and 2009.
In Hong Kong we also call "八十後", meaning "after 80"

Why do we call the last group Generation Y?

A Cartonist has a perfect illustration:


....

HK Snob

How Much you earn a year?

Income tax is one of the major incoming of Hong Kong Government and most of the time that the Government would like to collect the larger portion of the tax as early as possible in the beginning of the year.
Of  course they can not request all the tax payers to pay their cheque on the first day of the year as there will create a lot of problem in hnalding such large amount of transactions, normally they have tpo spread overe the months of January and February.

So if you are earning more and more over the past year you can notice that the pay day for tax in case pushing forward… In case your pay day was 10 Th of January in 2002, now you probably is being request to send the cheque on 7th Of January

This is my purely personal estimation and survey on my friends.
Relationship of pay day and the income tax

1st January, $1,000,000 or above (Annual Incoming $10,000,000, or more)

3rd January, $300,000 or above (annual Income $ 5,000,000 -$10,000,000)

10th January $ 100,000 pr above (annual income $ 1,000,000 -$3,000,000)

15th January $30,000 or above (annual income $200,000 -400,000)

25th January $10,000 or above (annual income $ 100,000-$150,000)

So next time your colleagues ask you when you have to pay the tax, you should know how to answer him!

HK Snob

Okamoto 0.02mm

Okamoto established the condom business since 1934 in Japan, being a market leader for 60's to 70's.
Okamoto entered the Market of Hong Kong in 1993. They made the world thinnest condom of 0.03mm in 2005, and last year.,.. wow, a new 0.02mm thick condom was introduced into Hong Kong Market.

It is a high technology product that cause you life!
I managed to buy one in Malaysia but i think only I could find 0.03mm in Penang, probably only available in Some shops only.

Well, in Hong Kong you can get it at Watson's or 7-11.  You have to try it as it really give you a feeling of almost naked!

But It is pity that Man of Hong Kong is classified bottom of the list of less frequent to have sex, with a figure of an average 2.5 times a month! Probably everyone is running for money and has No time to enjoy the pleasure of sex!

HK Snob

Mira Taxi

This is the Mira Taxi  of Hotel MIRA HONG KONG


(Formerly "Hotel Miramar Hong Kong")

118 Nathan Road,

Tsim Sha Tsui, Kowloon,

Hong Kong,
 
In Hong Kong there are Three kinds of taxi, Red one running in Kowloon and Hong Kong Island, Green on New Territories and Blue one in Lantao Island. They all have their own limitation on area they can go.
 
The one in the picture is Mira Taxi running by Mira hotel at Tsim Sha Tsui... It can go any where in HK, Kowloon and New Territories...
 
You should request a receipt as in case you lost something, still you have a way to trace the taxi.
I make it as a practice to ask for receipt when I travel by taxi.
 
HK Snob

Hong Kong Wedding Dinner

What do we eat in a Chinese Wedding Dinner!


During the wedding dinner, these are the standard menu:

A whole body of Roasted Pig with they eye made with flashing LEDs, that recall the horrible moment the pig was slaughtered and his eye tried open to see the last moment of this cruel world!

Shark Fin soup, that is still a standard dish for those people who marries but giving invitation card to the people to come to taste this shark fin… that recalled the terrible fisherman who cut the shark for their fin and drop the half death shark into the deep blue sea.

Then the couple will move around from the host table to the last table at the end of the hall to drink with you… a sip will do as they may be drink easily after 100 table of guests.

Most of the time, they take tea instead of Cognac. As they do not want to make another mistake that night to disgrace the guest, prior on that, they had mad the first mistake that caused the marriage!

Then usually will be abalone…in oyster sauce place on top of the white cabbage,

Most of the restaurant will use Calmex Abalone which is a product of Mexico

Those will lower budget will use Australian Abalone…usually the old or the young one will not bale to get ne piece of that as they use only one can of Abalone for one table.. Now a Can of Calmex Abalone is selling HKD$440.00 in retail store.

Steam fish with the traditional style, a lot of soya sauce and lot of sliced Chinese onion to cove the fishy smell.. As they might not very good quality fish…

A piece of Roasted Chicken…this will be never be missed as Chicken is being the standard for dinner for thousand years!


Some of them will put prawn deep fried and served with some simple vegetable

Then followed by Fried rice and fried noodle to fill up your stomach, such that you will not complain there is nothing to eat!

Some Chinese cake, red bean soup, and some orange…

This is a standard menu for a table for 12 persons…

Being a guest we have to prepare some gift usually a cash coupon of say HKD$500-$HKD1,000 or more depending on how close you are with the host.

I feel puzzled and confused after so many years , why still we have to entertain a lot of people who may or may not like to come…for such kind of dinner, in the recent decade, before the dinner usually start at 9 pm… You have to be seated and watch the video and photo album presented on the screen…. How did they meet, how they did the make their first kiss and how they went into the church… and how stupid they signed the Marriage Contract in the City district office.

I have been officially married twice, I have never invited people to come for this SHOW at all..

If I could marry again, again, I will not invite anyone, may be a table for ten for the relative for a dinner paid by me… that is all!

Do not waste too much resource , the only beneficiate is the restaurant as wedding dinner is probably 50% of their income per year.

I will use the money for a trio in Some secret place in the world , or simply lock in room of a hotel….to enjoy the tranquility of being un-disturbed…
This is only the personal deal of this couple….a cold down period of regret soon happen…as everyone knows: marriage is the most stupid things people keep on doing…

Or if you insist this is the Chinese Traditional to invite friend, school mates, colleagues your boss to these feast,, please do not kill do many animal as the bloody massacres screen of killing shark in our mind. It hurts!

Try to create some new recipe…But I know that is a new revolution to the Traditional and all it takes is gust and courage… and to be support by their guest..

Like some of the Christian, prepare a tea party for your close relative…

HK Snob

Profanity for HK Snob

The Key words you should be aware when you come to HK. You may have to learn a few words before you enter this place.
Giki Giki
As What I had mentioned , I used to Travel on ship aboard, so I have learn a few intention al work like “Giki Giki” means go whoring, or go fuck with some one…

This is claimed to be an international understanding word for sailor and prostitutes working at the harbour or wharf all over the world…

Whorbitting
Another world is “Whorbitting” a compound word for Whore and Orbiting, this means we go and walk and watch for the whore but never confirm the sex deal. That is like we are a planet rotating around the Whore in an orbit.

Sexperience:
Another work is sexperience, with someone I used to talk to…That is to describe your experience on sex…


PK
Another word is PK which I started to us in 1987.. This PK is a short form or English Abbreviation for Puk Kai. I am not sure if I am one of the earliest one to use this word but since then the DJ in the Radio station started talking this word.

CYPLCK
Also I invented this word CYPLCK…. In Cantonese is is “ Ching Yat Pok Lun Tzat Kai” If you are Cantonese you will know this is meaning” you really a drop dead in the street kind of People” It is a bad word and very offensive word.

Sea Food Hunt
Another word is definitely invented by me is “ Sea food Hunt”, we pronounce it in English “ Sea food Hunt” meaning that you are a kind of fuzzy people who is really an ass hole.

If you are a foreigner, please do not talk to any Cantonese “Sea Food hunt” I am sure he will be annoyed.
In Cantonese, “Sea Food” means ass hole, “Hunt” means Itchy!
There are a few common words that we have to know in Cantonese.

Diu,
It is commonly be heard in Hong Kong This word is forbidden in School, office, public area . Diu is meaning fuck, is a common profanity in Cantonese. The word is used as a verb. Although it is considered to be a vulgar word in Cantonese.

In a manner similar to the English word fuck, diu is also used to express dismay, disgrace, disappointment, as an exciting expression and disapproval in Cantonese. For example, someone may shout "diu nei!" ("fuck you!" or "fuck off!") at somebody when she finds the other person annoying..

The word diu is generally considered to be offensive and is not supposed to speak in Public.

Gau
Gau is a common vulgar word in Cantonese that literally means man’s sexual organ., the Cantonese phrase mo lei tau gau (無厘頭尻) that means "makes no sense" was cut to mo lei tau to avoid the sound gau. A common usage is the phrase ngong gau, an adjective that may be translated as a "dumbnut"

Lan
In Cantonese lan is another vulgar word that means penis撚which has the same pronunciation but means "to tease" and "to toy with" instead. Before the 1960s the character 撚 was commonly used in non-vulgar context, such as 撚手小菜 (signature dish) and 撚化 (to play a practical joke on). But in recent decades the character 撚 is generally considered to be equivalent to the vulgar word. A common usage is the phrase lan yeung (撚樣) which maybe translated into English as "Dick head".

Tsat
In Cantonese, Tsat is a vulgar word for an erect penis.

Hai
In Cantonese hai is a common vulgar word that literally means vagina. The English equivalent is "cunt A common usage is the phrase so hai (傻閪) that may be translated as "dick head".

Puk gai
The written form of puk kai commonly seen in Hong Kong.
Puk gai 仆街; literally means "falling into street", which is a common curse phrase in Cantonese that may be translated into English as "may you drop dead in the street". Originally it meant that when you die, your body will rot on the street because all your family and friends have left you and no one cares for you. It is sometimes used as a noun to refer to an annoying person that roughly means a "prick". The phrase can also be used in daily life under a variety of situations to express annoyance, disgrace or other emotions. Since the phrase does not involve any sexual organs or reference to sex, some argue that it should not be considered as profanity. Nevertheless, "PK" is often used as a euphemism for the phrase.

Ham gaa caan
Ham gaa caan 冚家鏟; is another common curse phrase in Cantonese that literally means "may your whole family be dead". Like puk gai, the phrase can both be used to mean "prick" or to express annoyance, It is very profanity.

Legal issues
In Hong Kong there are specific laws that forbid the usage of profanity in public. For instance, by Hong Kong law any person shall not "use obscene language... in Ocean Park", and "an offence is liable on conviction to a fine at level 1 and to imprisonment for 1 month." In the trains of MTR, it is prohibited to "use any threatening, abusive, obscene or offensive language....” However, despite the explicit prohibition of various laws, the exact definition of "obscene language" is not given in the ordinance.

HK Snob
Reference: Wikipea for Cantonese profanity

One more day to 2010

Tomorrow will be 2010, Twenty-ten,


There has been some sort of argument on how we should describe 2010…. Twenty-Ten, Two Thousand and Ten or Two-o-one-o?

It should be Twenty-Ten accorign to BBC. Anyway, it is last day of 2009. People will gather at Time Square, or Tsim Sha Tsui awaiting for count down about midnight. The Road will be jammed in Tsim Sha Tsui. I had no plan to go as I may use this day to review what have I done and what should I plan to do in 2010! Most of all , I am looking forward to see that this Twenty-Ten will bring Prosperity, peace and harmony to Hong Kong. I use to have Time with me...especially the December issue.

The Person of the year

1. Ben Bernanke – Man in control of American monetary

2. General Stanley McChrystal –Top US Soldier

3. The Chinese Worker – The members of the World's factory

4. Nancy Pelosi – Highest Ranking Woman in U.S. History

5. Usain Bolt- The World Fastest man from Jamaica.



Business Deals

1. Warren Buffett’s Smart Goldman buy nets some $3B

2. JP Morgan Chase skips Dodgy CDO’s stay solvent

3. Tiny BB&T Bank shines as bigs go bust

4. Buffett Makes all-in bet on U.S. Railroads

5. Ford stays in Detroit’s driver seat


Scientific Discovers

1. 4.4 million-year-old fossil Ardi, our oldest ancestor yet

2. The Human epigenome decoded

3. Gene therapy that cures colour blindness

4. Adam, the first robotic scientist

5. Tank-bred tuna

6. H2O on the moon

Gadgets

1. Motorola’s Droid: the iphone killer?

2. Bames & Noble’s Nook Reader

3. Dyson Bladeless Fan

4. Iphone 3GS : still the Gold standard

5. Canon EOS-1D Mark IV camera

6. Dell’s superthin Adamo XPS laptop

7. Fujifilms’s 3D W1: digital pics n 3-D

8. Casio’s GW7900B-1 watch

9. Beats by Dr. Dre Solo headphones

10. Panasonic G10 HDTVs.


HK Snob

Hong Kong People

There are a lot of things we should alert as we see a lot of people doing things differently as we were 25 years ago.
We value people who care about other and who pay respect to the elderly, who nods his head when seeing you in the office. Say “good Moring” as simple as that, do you find this kind of general courtesy has been losing its popularity?
Hong Kong, it is common to see people tend to queue in a Bank or MTR station for ticket verification or topping up with their Octopus cards. But …

These are my finding; the figure my personal feeling. But roughly it indicates the picture of it...
1. More than 90% of people will not follow the traffic light day time and probably 99% after midnight.

2. More than 50% of the people do jaywalking across the road.

3. Less than 50% of coming hiker initiatively says “Hello” or “Good morning” to you on the Hill.

4. More than 90% of the people presses the Lift Button whilst it has been pressed and being light up ( from The electrical circuit and electronic logic, once you press the button, it trigger a flip-flop logic circuit and it starts the software routine command the lift to come to your floor, indication is usually a pilot lamp being light up after the button is pressed Once. From an Electrical circuitry analysis, keep on pressing more than once does not speed up the Process of the lift travelling speed. If you can find a newer Lift software or model which does speed up with a proportion to the number of time of pressing the button, please let me know)

5. Parents seem do not stop his naughty kid fooling around in the carriage of MTR like tube dance, playing gymnastic on the rest bar

6. 70% of the people are either sleeping or resting with closed eye in the morning going to work Monday Morning in MTR. They have had a long night on Sunday... and they are general "Very Tired"!

7. 30% of the people s ether watching free newspaper, 20% of the people Playing PSP and or hand phone in MTR. Less than 5 percent people reading novels, Times, or Newsweek, I have not seen a single person carry or reading Reader’s Digest for years.That has been the most popular magazine 25 years ago. Now the Most Popular magazine is "TV News"!

8. They used all kind of low quality digitized song as their ring tones, that kind of digital noise can easily kill a mosquito or even rat in the MTR. This is so called Hong Kong "Noise".

9. 90% of the people do not offer seat to the older people or pregnant people. They Pretend not aware of it.

10. Less than 0.01% of Hong Kong people carry a handkerchief.

11. 90% of flapper, OL and lady below 70 years old has changed colour of their hair, Do not know what Black Hair beauty really looks like…

12. 90% of man calls his wife “mother” and “son “younger Brother” , woman calls his husband “ father” and daughter “ elder sister” or “younger sister”. Make me confused!

13. 99% of Hong Kong people have never say “ I love you” to their Mother? 99.9% of the man has kissed his mother in the past ten months.

14. 90% of man talks about dirty jokes about woman during lunch time and bluff their performance in bed, but many of them are having no sexeperience at all.

15. 80% of Hong Kong Male Salesman smokes, 60% of Hong Kong Saleswoman smokes

16. Less than 40% woman wear skirt to work.

17. Less than 10% of man actually cleans their shoe before leaving for work. ( I do not have data for the one has house keeper(s))

18. 99% of HK People not preferred to walk up stair in MTR station if there is an electric escalator nearby. Unless the escalator is jammed with people or under repairing.

19. Rushing for seat in the terminus is accepted as general practice of HK people.

20. The popular drinks on board CX is Orange Juice, Apple juice and if no choice than take the water. As most of the HK people is like me “a Snob”… Cheap water?…no..!

21. 25 years ago, number of single man is more than single woman by 5%, woman is the chooser, so 5% of man would have to go China looking for wife as China is a big market of young beautiful and easy going woman and they seemed like to marry a “rich” HK man.

Now, the number of single woman is more than that of man, reason is more educated woman tends to stay single for longer and pass over the age for marriage, more and more mainland China woman using fake marriage to come and stay in Hong Kong.

Nowadays, the single woman tends to go China to marry a man as the Chinese Man is in average "Richer" than Hong Kong man…

As the old Chinese says, “ The World is Round!”

22. 99.8% of the people travelling overseas for shopping, eating and nightlife. Less than 0.1% of the people had experience in visiting the museum, classical music concert, and Library! and likely 0.1% of the HK People is doing day dreaming overseas.

23. 99% of Hong Kong young man have not ever listened to any of the music Reproduction from Vinyl.

24. 80% of the Hong Kong young man do not ever seen an actual LP (vinyl)

25. 98% of the Hong Kong man do not know Twins, Eason Chan, Andy Lau, Jacky Cheung havce Had their song made in Vinyl format in the past 1-2 years.

26. 99.99% of HK man thinks Digital music is more attractive than Analogue music Reproduction.

27. In Hong Kong, Only One Man uses a mammoth Sony Walkman WM-D6C when he travels. Likely you know he is the only stubborn die hard analogue maniac! He Must not know there is something called MP3!

HK Snob.

Christmas in Hong Kong

Whilst People of Hong Kong is celebrating their Christmas eve;  preparing the dinner and party tonight, calling friends and colleagues gathering at Time Squares for Christmas Count Down, packing the office at about 4p.m. ready to leave for home earlier, going Hotel Buffet dinner with lovers and mistress... On the other side of the world, not too far away in China, Thailand, Philippines and Indonesia, many people do not know what Christmas is. They have no future, no food, and no place to stay... When we spend our money, do try to consdier keep some of them for the people living in poverty.. That will be the best Blessing from you to them and God loves to see this as a sharing of joys and happiness to the people who need it. May all people get their Christmas Gift tonight.

HK Snob