Comments for Big Lychee, Various Sectors http://biglychee.com/blog Watching the sun set, little by little, on Asia's greatest city Thu, 11 Mar 2010 08:08:40 +0000 http://wordpress.org/?v=2.9.2 hourly 1 Comment on Shanghai takes over from Hong Kong, part 9,481 by Robin http://biglychee.com/blog/2010/03/09/shanghai-takes-over-from-hong-kong-part-9481/comment-page-1/#comment-1174 Robin Thu, 11 Mar 2010 08:08:40 +0000 http://biglychee.com/blog/?p=1711#comment-1174 Chanboy: If you feel that it is common in Hong Kong with 'fluency in English and general international experience' you better take another look around. I'm an exchange student in Hong Kong from Sweden and have spent only 7 months here but this is not the case generally. Neither professionally, at the barber's or in the academic world. Sadly, the most fluent English I have encountered in Hong Kong is from the maids and prostitutes originating from Indonesia and Philippines. Chanboy: If you feel that it is common in Hong Kong with ‘fluency in English and general international experience’ you better take another look around. I’m an exchange student in Hong Kong from Sweden and have spent only 7 months here but this is not the case generally. Neither professionally, at the barber’s or in the academic world.

Sadly, the most fluent English I have encountered in Hong Kong is from the maids and prostitutes originating from Indonesia and Philippines.

]]> Comment on Warning: Warnings Ahead by Sam http://biglychee.com/blog/2010/03/11/warning-warnings-ahead/comment-page-1/#comment-1173 Sam Thu, 11 Mar 2010 07:06:01 +0000 http://biglychee.com/blog/?p=1749#comment-1173 Dear Troika & Chanboy, Please take a big, deep breath and count to 10, both of you. There, that's better now. Please remember this is the Big Lychee blog and we're all expected to maintain its high standard of wit and civility. As for me, this Red Alert for Thailand means cheap airfares and hotel rates will abound until the protests are over, so my family and I will be booking our trip right away. Hasta la vista, baby! Dear Troika & Chanboy,

Please take a big, deep breath and count to 10, both of you.

There, that’s better now.

Please remember this is the Big Lychee blog and we’re all expected to maintain its high standard of wit and civility.

As for me, this Red Alert for Thailand means cheap airfares and hotel rates will abound until the protests are over, so my family and I will be booking our trip right away.

Hasta la vista, baby!

]]> Comment on Warning: Warnings Ahead by Chanboy http://biglychee.com/blog/2010/03/11/warning-warnings-ahead/comment-page-1/#comment-1172 Chanboy Thu, 11 Mar 2010 06:56:41 +0000 http://biglychee.com/blog/?p=1749#comment-1172 Oooooo, I love your "intelligent" remarks Troika. Do you actually have a point to make? Or as I have guessed, you aren't capable of making one, so you are another of those retarded numbskulls in HK. I pity you. Learn to make a point and I might actually consider the merits of your comment. Really, it's not that hard. Oooooo, I love your “intelligent” remarks Troika. Do you actually have a point to make? Or as I have guessed, you aren’t capable of making one, so you are another of those retarded numbskulls in HK. I pity you. Learn to make a point and I might actually consider the merits of your comment. Really, it’s not that hard.

]]> Comment on Warning: Warnings Ahead by Troika http://biglychee.com/blog/2010/03/11/warning-warnings-ahead/comment-page-1/#comment-1171 Troika Thu, 11 Mar 2010 06:47:43 +0000 http://biglychee.com/blog/?p=1749#comment-1171 Chanboy, who do you mean by "people here"? Do you mean the stupid, thick idiots in your house? Chanboy, who do you mean by “people here”?

Do you mean the stupid, thick idiots in your house?

]]> Comment on Warning: Warnings Ahead by Maugrim http://biglychee.com/blog/2010/03/11/warning-warnings-ahead/comment-page-1/#comment-1170 Maugrim Thu, 11 Mar 2010 04:57:54 +0000 http://biglychee.com/blog/?p=1749#comment-1170 It's all to cover the Government from the 'wah' factor. Wah, why doesn't the Governmrnt organise special flights to get me out of here? Wah, why didn't the Government tell me? Wah, why is the Government costing me business? etc etc. It’s all to cover the Government from the ‘wah’ factor. Wah, why doesn’t the Governmrnt organise special flights to get me out of here? Wah, why didn’t the Government tell me? Wah, why is the Government costing me business? etc etc.

]]> Comment on Warning: Warnings Ahead by Chanboy http://biglychee.com/blog/2010/03/11/warning-warnings-ahead/comment-page-1/#comment-1169 Chanboy Thu, 11 Mar 2010 04:51:55 +0000 http://biglychee.com/blog/?p=1749#comment-1169 Yeah, people here are taught to automatically accept what their superiors or authority figures say without thinking for themselves first. Not that the individualized "me-first" Western thinking is totally right all the time, but I mean, it seem pretty simple to not to go to unstable places that can possibly threaten you. Seems like this is a result of government knee-jerk response to criticisms. It reminds me of the dubious lawsuits they have in America, leading to absurd warnings over obvious things. It's like that guy who sued Mcdonalds for making him get fat. Yeah, people here are taught to automatically accept what their superiors or authority figures say without thinking for themselves first.

Not that the individualized “me-first” Western thinking is totally right all the time, but I mean, it seem pretty simple to not to go to unstable places that can possibly threaten you. Seems like this is a result of government knee-jerk response to criticisms. It reminds me of the dubious lawsuits they have in America, leading to absurd warnings over obvious things. It’s like that guy who sued Mcdonalds for making him get fat.

]]> Comment on Warning: Warnings Ahead by Sir Crispin http://biglychee.com/blog/2010/03/11/warning-warnings-ahead/comment-page-1/#comment-1168 Sir Crispin Thu, 11 Mar 2010 04:02:06 +0000 http://biglychee.com/blog/?p=1749#comment-1168 There is a serious lack of common sense, it seems, all over Asia. Critical thinking doesn't seem to a part of Confucian ideals in the curriculum. There is a serious lack of common sense, it seems, all over Asia. Critical thinking doesn’t seem to a part of Confucian ideals in the curriculum.

]]> Comment on Warning: Warnings Ahead by Chanboy http://biglychee.com/blog/2010/03/11/warning-warnings-ahead/comment-page-1/#comment-1167 Chanboy Thu, 11 Mar 2010 03:50:48 +0000 http://biglychee.com/blog/?p=1749#comment-1167 Is it me or has there been a severe loss of common sense? Do we really need warnings to tell people not to go to places that will endanger them? How many of Hong Kongers have a death wish? I suggest not that many. We have a thing call self-preservation. That might be news to the government. Is it me or has there been a severe loss of common sense? Do we really need warnings to tell people not to go to places that will endanger them? How many of Hong Kongers have a death wish? I suggest not that many. We have a thing call self-preservation. That might be news to the government.

]]> Comment on Warning: Warnings Ahead by Sir Crispin http://biglychee.com/blog/2010/03/11/warning-warnings-ahead/comment-page-1/#comment-1166 Sir Crispin Thu, 11 Mar 2010 03:44:10 +0000 http://biglychee.com/blog/?p=1749#comment-1166 HK, Asia's Nanny City! Home of hysterical posturing and constant "Chinese Fire Drills." HK, Asia’s Nanny City! Home of hysterical posturing and constant “Chinese Fire Drills.”

]]> Comment on Warning: Warnings Ahead by Ping Che http://biglychee.com/blog/2010/03/11/warning-warnings-ahead/comment-page-1/#comment-1165 Ping Che Thu, 11 Mar 2010 03:26:25 +0000 http://biglychee.com/blog/?p=1749#comment-1165 Bigot, I'm more under the impression that especially Hong Kong people love to blame everything on the government and seldom confess to their own mistakes. Bigot, I’m more under the impression that especially Hong Kong people love to blame everything on the government and seldom confess to their own mistakes.

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