A three day holiday weekend coming up, celebrating the 15th anniversary of Hong Kong’s return to China. After the weekend, we’ll have a new “Chief Executive”, C.Y. Leung. Donald Tsang departs after holding office for seven years.
Now while some may say it could be a case of the devil you know vs. the one you don’t, all I can say is, “Good fucking riddance Donald, don’t let the door bang you on your ass on your way out.”
What’s he done in his seven years? Well, let’s see. He’s done nothing while the wealth gap in Hong Kong became the widest in Asia. He’s built a monument to himself at Tamar. He accepted favors and gifts from the rich (in return for? not hard to guess). He has done absolutely nothing that I can recall to improve the lives of average Hong Kong people. Oh, yeah, he’s done nothing about pollution.
(photo taken today – unretouched, only straightened and resized)
So C.Y. Leung has an illegal trellis and iron gate on his mansion. He couldn’t possibly be worse than Tsang. (Then again I said the same thing about Tsang when he took over from Tung Chee-Hwa and I was wrong; hope I’m not wrong this time!)
I think you are wrong again!
That CY Leung is a shoe/used car salesman, paying lip services to your face while taking (or to be more precise, stealing) your money from your ass. I only worry that he’ll start to “misappropriate” the treasury into his shoe accounts half way into his term (after he put all his lackey into appropriate positions with the org revamp). Let’s hope the revamp failed! And let’s hope the pan-democrats for once do something useful and beneficial to the Hong Kong people (besides bitching, pulling hairs, calling names, and senselessly suing the govt and wasting tax payers’ money) and vote down the revamp!
Let’s see how Hong Kong is come mid-2013! I am pretty sure you can see CY for who he really is.
Agree about the pollution bit, but that pic is kinda unfair… all that dust and general stifleness is due to the incoming typhoon.
Roger, not sure I can agree with you on that. First of all, the skies in Sai Kung today were clear and blue – which is why I went to Fei Ngo Shan to take photos. I thought about waiting there to see if the haze might blow off but the air over Kowloon and HK island barely appeared to be moving. Second, I would think that a typhoon heading towards us from the open ocean would be relatively clean air blowing all the crap air back to Guangzhou.
Well no, the typhoon only gets to blow the crap out of everything once it gets close. When it’s further away, say in the Philippines, it pushes the air around here downwards, causing high air pressure and resulting in zero wind as you saw today. (It’s been like this for every typhoon; thought you’d have noticed? The HKO mentions this everytime a typhoon comes…)
No wind means all that crap from minibuses and coal power stations stay here, so don’t get me wrong, I’m not defending Tsang here, just saying the typhoon at least partly contributes to that picture you took today.
There’s some info from the HKO here: http://www.weather.gov.hk/education/edu01met/wxphe/ele_veryhot_e.htm
Got it, thanks for that explanation. Though it’s not as if there’s a lack of days that look like this when there’s no typhoon. And more of them every year unfortunately.
Very true. And the government did f-all to the local pollution sources. And sadly, I’m not expecting Leung to be different.
Totally agree, Donald did nothing for pollution.
If during his tenure* improvements like a western bypass taking roadside traffic away from Central all the way to Causeway he might be seen in a better light. Connecting the MTR to the south of HK island even the West would have helped to reduce more traffic. Setting up electric charging stations and even offering “free” charges might entice drivers to go electric. Then those buses, he could have even set a EURO IV or V pollution standard for new coaches. And how about electric buses with fast charge for those short trips, come on Donald. Why can’t there be solar powered ferries in Sai Kung or changing all the ground transport at the airport to electric.
Lots of missed chances that he will never be remembered for.
*some may have been long term and nothing to do with Tsang.
Donald will be history soon. Just wonder when CY moves into the villa – do they change the bedsheets, matress etc. ? Will CY keep Donalds carp pond ? Or will it cost HK Gov. a few 100 thousand to remove that pond ? Best job to do that will be by a recommended construction company from CY himself.
Lets see how CY keep up to his sweet words once he is in office !