I am shocked. Shocked.
http://www.businessweek.com/lifestyle/content/healthday/640149.html?campaign_id=rss_topStories
Put down the pork bun and back away Orca.
Just so I’m clear. People think this Angelababy person is cute after the airbrushing?
http://thedarkside.hk/2010/07/15/the-lies-hong-kongers-have-to-live-with/
Oh, and also pillow fights…in Jello.
http://jezebel.com/5581601/what-really-happens-in-womens-restrooms
I went here for brunch at 3 p.m. Late start. And if you’re coming here for brunch with a date, then you’ve probably already had a successful online date Casanova. But why not follow up with a late breakfast and a little bit of the hair of the dog?
The place is big, with high ceilings and two floors so you shouldn’t have to wait. We got seated and immediately noticed Mac N’ Cheese before our butts even hit the chairs. Let me say that you start off with a “B” for M & C, so any reviews of it are going to be high in general. You get an immediate bump to “B+” if it has bacon, which it did. And came it in an iron skillet. Nice job. However, the consistency was just a bit too liquid, and if you’re going to bother to cook M&C in a skillet, you need to nail the thick but not too dry texture. I’ll let it slide. I also had some corned beef hash with a poached egg on top. Also good, but the hash was more like actual corned beef, with large chunks of beef which is not what I usually expect but, the English, what are you gonna do? The coffee was good and they seem to have a nice selection of beer and wine. Liquor. Not sure. My bad. Overall, you probably can’t go too wrong here.
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Well, this seems like a totally reasonable way to find love.
A recent article in Timeout Hong Kong lamented the distressing phenomenon of lazy, unmotivated men in Hong Kong, and abroad, who don’t have a job and are happy to live off their parent’s money or be supported by their wives or girlfriends. The indignant author (fine, Angie Wong) starts off:
“I realised recently I’m the only person in my family that has a full time job. Both my parents are enjoying the glees of retirement and my two youngest siblings are in school. But my middle brother, of prime working age (28), hasn’t held a job in six years.”
and follows up later with:
In my brother’s case, and my ex’s (Homeless Guy), and many others spanning from Hong Kong to Japan to the European Union, their reasons are valid. They are educated, and they feel entitled to have a dream job that is ethical, powerful and fulfilling while earning a $100k starting salary with ample holiday time. ‘Why settle for a lifetime of grunts and ulcers?’ is the common motto. Life is for traveling, absorbing books, resting the fork in-between bites, and enriching the mind with television, they preach. Office life is so unnatural.
There are so many things wrong with this commentary on the sad state of men in the world that I don’t know where to begin. Oh, wait, yeah I do.
First, this is not a new development. They’re called “Fundies” back home, have been around for centuries and I went to school with a lot of them. You know what? Those guys ultimately get jobs, trust me. The only annoying this is that they get them because Daddy called in a favor. But, that’s life. And seriously, we’re in China, that’s how it works.
Next up:
“Women have been social engineered to think men who don’t work or earn a living are worthless. I’m factoring in decades of girls being told to get an education and take care of themselves as men are not always reliable.”
Yes, things have changed so much that most women, especially in Hong Kong, no longer grow up thinking that they’ll get married, have kids and be housewives who brunch and spend their days shopping in Elements after a long day of spa treatments. I mean, you rarely see such a thing as you walk around the city. Whereas, most men grow up knowing they have the option of working for a while, but that someday they will find someone to take care of them. It’s really great how far the women of Hong Kong have come. All pretty much thanks to this:
Surprised? You should be, because it’s crap (not the commercial, that’s awesome). Most of my female friends, acquaintances and associates aspire to have careers, but also want to get married and have kids, and most do. More often than not they ultimately quit work, sometimes hoping to return to their careers later. Most don’t. Why? Because they want to be moms and being a mom is a hard ass job! My mom is a frickin saint, as most of you must realize. So the ladies do their thing and their husbands work. And that’s how things generally work, just like they did 20-40-100 years ago. The number of men I’ve met who grew up thinking they could not focus on building their careers because there was a good chance that they would meet someone to support them is somewhere just north of zero…barely. Are there some exceptions? Sure. But if anything, Hong Kong is filled with men who are TOO focused on impressing people with their big flats, flashy/gay watches and trophy wives, all of which are paid for by their boring ass job at (insert dipshit bank here). And in case the author hasn’t noticed (and just to really beat this point into the ground), if you try REAL hard in Hong Kong, you might spy a woman who has no job, never had a job, and has no intention of ever getting a job. No, I’m serious, go to Pacific Place, you really might see someone like that!
And also, why is there no mention of how the authors parents, both father AND mother, might be the one’s to take a little blame? And by “a little” I mean “just about all”. I know why, because this is crap. Men suck for many reasons, I know, I play one on TV. But, trying to justify your terrible choices in men and turning a small sample of dipshit behavior into an epidemic is not only lame, but borderline irresponsible journalism. But it’s Time Out, so I should just be happy that the ridiculous column took up space that would surely have been used on the 30th review of “trendy hotspot” RED or Sevva.
Get a grip.
So, in case you forgot, Time Out sent some of their people out on blind dates a couple months ago. So, a few weeks ago they published the results here.
Here are a couple round ups of the dates that are pretty muc h indicative of all of them:
“Sometimes sticking with what you know works best, so Miko took a date he already knew to the new Habibi restaurant in Lan Kwai Fong. “The food was great – especially the starters,” said Miko. The chef came out to meet the couple and the serving staff laid on the charm. Meanwhile, Miko and his date sampled the cocktails, which he reckoned on reflection might not have been a great idea: “They were very strong!” The duo won’t be dating any time soon, but at least they remain friends.”
“I’m kind of a dating pessimist, so I always assume worst-case scenario,” said Andrea. But as it turned out, she had nothing to fear. “I didn’t even need to take out my taser,” she joked. Andrea’s date is a comedian, “an interesting person who I don’t think I would have had the opportunity to meet from my day-to-day life in Hong Kong”. Andrea enjoyed having the upper hand in the date because, as she modestly pointed out, she was the superior skater. She’s interested in seeing him again, but only as friends.”
Um, I recently read an article in the Economist about hedge fund growth. That was less boring than the Time Out piece.
Look, the word “aftermath” used anywhere in the vicinity of “date”, should be followed by stories of vomiting, inappropriate crying jags during dinner and if possible the issuance of restraining orders.
In short, aftermath means a date must have gone something like this,
Somewhere Roger Lodge shakes his head disappointedely….
Okey, they are not all hot, but a recent entry from The Dark Side blog has introduced HKH to a great new way to waste time: From the Darkside:
““Mid women,” “leftover women” and even the charming “failed dogs” are the new terms to describe the single ultra-demanding +30 year old ladies of our time. With a new TVB documentary about this phenomenon, it’s become obvious this is a serious problem we need to address. And look, China leads by example.”
Enjoy, but I will not be responsible for how much time you waste with this new toy!
http://thedarkside.hk/2010/03/15/topless-hotness-in-hong-kong/
HKH recently stumbled across an interesting article on the Global Post site. In a nutshell:
“Many Indian men grow up having very little contact with women outside their family, cross-cultural and management consultant Rajeshwar Balasundaram wrote in an email. Men sit separately from women on public transportation and at schools and do not develop platonic friendships. When they meet foreign women, they rely on the stereotypes they have acquired through Hollywood and Bollywood movies of foreign women as free and loose. These men think they can communicate freely with these foreign women, but sometimes they get carried away.”
“Indrajit Chattopadhyay says he flirts with women by sending them five to 10 text messages a day. If she does not respond to the initial messages, he continues sending them.”
Uh, dude. Too much. But let’s face it, most people have at some point made one too many calls or sent one too many emails to the target of their affections. And let’s be even more honest, because at the time you did it, you KNEW you shouldn’t be drunk dialing at 2:00 a.m. to mention what great time you had the previous night. This urge to overpursue and confirm the other person’s interest level is amazingly hard for some people to resist. Woman are often accused of being the main culprits, but as the article shows, it can go both ways. I mean, you saw Swingers right? Yikes.
Even very intelligent and generally secure people can fall prey to this potentially relationship killing practice. Some years ago, I had a very close friend who was dating a cool guy and things has been going well for 3 or 4 months. Then, one day, she called me and asked if I had heard from him since he and I had become friends independently of her. o she did not actually love by the way, but that is a story for another post.
Apparently, he had not spoken to her for a day and she had left him voicemails. “How many?” I asked. “Five” she replied. Oh God. As she gave me more details, it became clear that he had specifically mentioned that he was going to be unusually busy with work meetings and international calls for a couple days. So, I had to break it to her that while he had almost certainly been too busy to get back to her after her first three calls, it was equally certain that by her fifth call he simply didn’t want to talk to her, probably for at least another day now. Not because he wanted to break up with her, but because FIVE CALLS IN A DAY IS TOO MANY! Especially when your partner tells you up front that he/she is going to be out of touch and busy with work.
So, when you get that urge to call/text and you think that maybe you shouldn’t, you definitely shouldn’t. You might be worried that maybe your BF/GF is avoiding you and that calling to talk about it and see how they are will help your relationship. I promise you, the fifth call or text will do the exact opposite and end said relationship post haste.
You can read the full Global Post article here.
