Feeling like poo. I estimate that in the past month or so, my dental bills have totaled about HK$40,000. The wonderful dental insurance policy that my company provides has reimbursed me a grand total of HK$116. And I’m not even close to finished yet.

The only thing to make me smile today is the KKKRamer Rap. Someone has taken the audio from Michael Richards’ racist rant at the Laugh Factory plus his appearance with Seinfeld on Letterman to apologize and done the best mash-up/hip-hop single of the year. I’m not kidding, one listen and you will not get this song out of your head.

Actually, the other thing that made me laugh was reading this comment by Donald Tsang.

“The life expectancy in Hong Kong is among the highest in the world … you can come to only one conclusion: we have the most environmentally friendly place for people, for executives, for Hong Kong people to live.”

Which raises the question: Is Donald Tsang really that stupid or does he just think everyone else is that stupid?

I link to news stuff in The Standard because you can. The SCMP must be one of the only major metropolitan newspapers in the world that has a website that charges for content (even to see something like movie or TV listings). The Standard is crap too. It exists mainly as a wrapper for corporate notices.

Check this quote from the story about pianist Lang Lang becoming a “quality migrant” to Hong Kong:

Dressed in a glamorous black suit and Louis Vuitton shoes, the pianist was overjoyed …

We get the brand name of the shoes but why didn’t they get the name of the tailor? What color was the lining of the jacket? Accessories? Shoddy reporting!

And exactly how “overjoyed” was he?


He said he has yet to decide whether he will apply for permanent residence in Hong Kong after seven years … “In fact, I have had many opportunities to obtain foreign passports.”

He sounds completely verklempt.

“I’m a northern Chinese, so Hong Kong is too humid for me. So I think winter here will be perfect for me.”

Lang was not quoted as saying, “Actually, I don’t like Hong Kong because you can’t see the air here like in Beijing. But Donald Tsang has personally assured me he will remedy that situation.”

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