The Standard notes that the two Americans found dead in a hotel room in the Grand Hyatt died from a drug overdose – in this case a combination of coke and heroin. While they had been spotted earlier bringing girls back to the hotel, there was no evidence of robbery or violence.

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Had a funny lunch experience today, going for fake Chinese food for lunch. Our waiter was a young man who had recently moved to the US from Singapore. I told him I lived in HK and had just been in Singapore two weeks earlier. After conversing a bit in Putonghua and mentioning the great crab and tiger prawns I’d had while in his home town, he warned me that the food in the restaurant was not very good. “Nothing fresh, everything frozen,” he said. After finishing, when I told him he was right, he asked if I could recommend any restaurants to him. I apologized, told him I hadn’t lived in NY for 12 years and that if I knew any better places, I wouldn’t have gone there in the first place.

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Figured I would try to conquer my jetlag and force myself to stay up until at least 11 PM. Flipped around the 800 channels on the cable TV vainly trying to find something watchable. Had to explain to my mother that Nicole Richie was someone who was famous for being famous. And then she insisted on watching a primetime game show called Deal or No Deal, and I was fast asleep before 9 PM, up at 1 AM again. Gonna try for more sleep now.

Hongkie Town
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