HK Hemlock

View from a minibus window...

Nice view, 50th floor, the something hotel, Tim Sha Tsui (used to be Mariners Club)...

YouTube video by FrankZappaVEVO Frank Zappa, The Mothers Of Invention - Inca Roads (Live In Los Angeles, CA 8/27/1974)

Zappa - Inca Roads...

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Quite bold of him to admit this.

But spot the catch: if you vote for the people Beijing want, Beijing will allow you to elect more of them.

In other words, it's not the government's job to win your confidence; it's your job to win the government's confidence.

Well fancy that!

No minimum height? And surely they should walk with the tray of drinks balanced on their heads? Mercifully, the SCMP’s 700+ word story spares us anything about checks for families’ political reliability or virginity tests…

In Taiwan you can vote for the opposition.

Memory from Article 23 march in 2003: bus of Mainland tourists passing Victoria Park, with excited chubby middle-aged woman banging on window and applauding the massed protesters.

Can still picture her.

Genuinely curious: how does urging a boycott of an election threated national security?

Will the rest of you please pretend our tightly managed, opposition-free election is important...

A district mourns.

Since 2008, one of life’s little pleasures for residents of HK Island West Constituency every four years has been seeing Reg in person canvassing near the Mid-Levels Escalator. And saying “No, I’m not voting for you.”

Such hypersensitivity about a tightly managed election few will pay any attention to, let alone try to 'disrupt'. Maybe the aim is to stir up some interest...

Festive greetings to all who celebrate!

Reg celebrates with tasteful faux Devanagari script, plus a rather fetching bindi. Complementary papadams for the first reader to ID the restaurant.

We are going to miss her.

Weird fact du jour, from FT piece on France's luxury-brand scion oligarchs...

In my mailbox today. First thought: it's a leaflet for rejuvenating placenta treatment.

"Seems I'm being told to stand down, but we've already printed them, so might as well send them out."

Chef Kamitachi seen at work through a sake bottle at his eponymous sushi restaurant in Central...

Separated at birth? Left: ugly British supermarket; right: ugly Hong Kong car...

Highlights from the small (but, for me, sufficient) "Glamour of the Motherland" exhibition, Pacific Place mall...

Where's my luxury schooner gone???

When you haven't screwed things up enough yet...

Yes you can...

The search for new hubs continues...

(That's China Hong Kong City. Or City Hong China Kong. Or something.)

Businesses at Hong Kong China City, TST extend a warm welcome to all visitors arriving at the ferry terminal…

Chungking Mansions breakfast...

Should that be 'ensure'?

Did Beijing drop atom bombs on Japan?

Does Reg post her own tweets, or does she have an assistant to do the techie stuff? You be the judge...

Separated at birth? Left: Thai crown jewels; right: Donald Trump's tasteful Cabinet Room adornments...

"They do something like it in other countries, so it's OK"...

Henceforth to be known as the Gale Terribly Group...