Insomniac, Hong Kong

People are kept up at night by different things.  Some people spend time in bed tossing and turning, unable to cope with the sheer horror of man's inhumanity to man.  Some people are driven to greatness by a creative drive that forces them to stay awake, writing wonderful music or discovering amazing mathematical theorums (which are usually not quite short enough to write in the margins of books) or figuring out the secrets of life, the universe and everything.

Air quality in Hong Kong

As summer arrives in Hong Kong, the weather seems to be improving - it's now lovely and humid. People do still complain about the air quality in Hong Kong, but I have to say, I like the pollution.

It's not really pollution. It's the smell of greater economic prosperity in the Pearl River Delta.

That sticky dry taste in the back of your throat that won't go away? That's the taste of reduced iPhone production costs.

That strange combined feeling of dizziness, nausea and guilt? That's just your body's way of telling you that you're watching a DVD illegally copied in Shenzhen.

See, it's just a matter of thinking positive.

Record Breakers

Hong Kong didn't exactly cloak itself in glory at the Olympics in 2008.  Well, come to think of it, we didn't get a single medal for the SAR.  We do have other things going for us.