The desire of HK people for universal suffrage is loud and clear

Regarding to the "kiss my fat panda arse" entry, some said--it's annoying to see lucky Hong Kong people are complaining so much when some are struggling just to survive in the war zones.

I must agree it partly as we might seem to be neglecting other important things happening around the world and it does seem selfish to bitch about how an affluent city is living without democracy. At least no one would starve to death here.
However, the fact that Hong Kong people are starving of democracy, should not be dismissed.Their desire for universal suffrage, should not be trivialized. This city might be a small one but it has transformed itself into a city with unique status in the world. From a small village, a colony and now a special administrative region under the Central Government of China in just about 100 years' time.
Thousands of international news headlines are being updated everyday, it is simply impossible for one to cover everything. However, the inability to cover all does not reflect one's care-free attitude to other important matters.
From the eyes of a young front line journalist, me writing the entry was to share a personal perspective with people who care about what is happening in the local election. No one can do it all as each reporter plays their unique roles to serve their specific audience in the best way they could.

I' m no pro in photography, but I am trying very hard learning how to be one.
The below photo essay illustrated the election protest took place last Sunday outside Asia World Expo. Apologize for the 1 week delay, the newsroom is still understaffed, i don't get home until 1am everynight. Thank you greatly for those who stand by this blog in times of thick and thin.

Nearly 100 protesters from the Social Democratic League led by Long Hair lawmaker LeungKwok Hung and his notorious Fellowship of Protesters marched to the designated protest area Sunday 25 March morning 8:30am to voice their disagreement to the chief executive election.
The first line of the banner reads, "Small Circle Chief Executive Election is worse than pigs and dogs''.

When the protesters were more than 100 metres away from the eastern entrance of the Asia World Expo, they attempted to break police's cordon to be closer to the voting station. Some members of the press were trapped between the human chain formed by police and protesters during a scuffle.Layers of human chain formed by the police, hand in hand, blocking protesters from going forward. This is one of them.

They were on guard. This was the last defence line set up by police right outside the voting station and protesters had already moved 50 meters ahead by that time.
A female protester raised the rubbish bag signifying the small circle election is rubbish.
A protester took off from the main protest group attempting to break police's right cordon. A police stopped him before he managed to reach over the barricade.He is very naughty. Finally, the police decided to remove him forcefully. His allies were shouting from behind saying "don't struggle, let them remove you or you would get hurt!".
One of the two observers sent from the Hong Kong Human Rights Monitor was taking notes of the protest. They described Hong Kong's election protest a "very peaceful " one comparing to London's February protest.Long Hair lawmaker Leung Kwok Hung was the only protester being let into the venue because he is automatically a member of the election committee by holding a status of a Legislative Council member.
`I came here to protest against a small circle election. I'm Napoleon in the Animal Farm (George Orwell's famous satire). I'm a liar, this is my long nose...You should all vote for me, I'm the king of fat king,'' Leung chanted while escorting by the police into the venue.

The election was almost over and the protesters also cooled down after several hours of battle with Hong Kong's Police Force.Officers also formed a more relaxed circle surrounding the protesters.
Hong Kong has one of the highest ratio of police officers to population in the world.



The price to pay for this coverage: nearly got knocked out by protesters' flags and TV cameras for at least three or four times.
Your thoughts are most welcomed. Please address any issue should you feel to do so. All pictures were taken by Automaticlights. If you wish to use the material, please attribute to this blog.

kiss my fat panda arse

This Sunday is Hong Kong's Chief Executive election’s day. It is a sad joke among a world of well developed jurisdictions.

This sickening election may not be significant enough to make international headline. Being a part of the local media I resent of how real sentiment is being trivialized in the election coverage.

Editors in newsrooms are a bunch of sluts deprived of real democracy to treat a fake election like real. We pretend it is a competitive election because we have no choice. News has to go on and there are two candidates. If you don't run the story, others would. Universities are also very busy polling the public about which candidate they think would have a chance to win. Would it be the current chief executive Donald Tsang pre-approved by the Central Government in China or a Civic Party lawmaker and barrister Alan Leong....hmmm...I wander.

The result of the election is predetermined and it makes me sick.

Alan Leong, without China’s blessing, participated in the fake election knowing that he would certainly lose. Watching him running for the top post with Donald Tsang is more brutal than watching a girl guide holding a jar of cookie crumbs fighting Godzilla, in a small cage.

Leong goes along the ride and became a political star. His participation in the fake election rubs in the pressure for Tsang to face the lack of universal suffrage in his next term of five years.

While Beijing has yet to grant universal suffrage to Hong Kong, the civil education is heavily hypnotizing the younger generation to love mother China. But people, in what the HK government always like to label itself as” Asia’s World Class City", still do not have a say in a society they live in. Their best interests, such as improving the worsening air quality, smaller class sizes in schools, better social services for elderly, children and domestic violence victims, minimum wage for the underpaid workers.....are not being reflected in government policies.

Their interests are “tied in” to an 800-member strong Election Committee comprising members of the Legislative and Executive Council. Plus other important figures "representing'' the rest of the 7 million population in Hong Kong. Those important figures, mostly, are the territory's richest and most powerful people. Who will give a damn that a lot of old people in Hong Kong are picking up paper boxes to make a living because they are not entitled social security payment? Nor would they give a shit about domestically abused women not having enough shelters to live just to avoid violent husbands? Not to mention other controversial policies such as minimum wage to protect the underpaid or improving the air quality because they can afford to move somewhere else after earning enough here in Hong Kong when the air became unbreathable.

2007 is the tenth anniversary of Hong Kong's handover to China. God knows how many millions would be again spent just on fireworks? Fireworks that would only last for a few seconds above the shrinking Victoria Harbour due to land reclamation, is it what Hong Kong people need?

Chief Secretary for Administration Rafael Hui Si-yan went all the way to Sichuan last month licking baby panda arses. He made sure everyone knows he is super grateful to China to give Hong Kong another two lovely pandas (he wants another two because the existing ones in the ocean park are dying of old age). Hui's high profile visit to China overshadowed Hong Kong people's real sentiment. This is the tenth anniversary, do we want another two pandas that Taiwanese turned down last year, or we want universal suffrage to achieve real democracy? This is something we need to think about while celebrating the tenth anniversary after getting rid of the British.

This Sunday's election is something we should be ashamed of. It's a waste of public resources. Why bother to go through the bureaucracy when we already know who is going to win? This is not exciting. Why are we pretending the election would give us a surprising result? Who are we trying to fool here?

Let Godzilla and the Girl Guide out of the small circle election because Hong Kong people want universal suffrage. We want a government that would listen to people’s best interests, but not the richest who have the privilege to vote.

electricity makes me fly

Suede's electricity got me re-hooked. I'm like a drug addict-the stuff is so good that I just can't have enough!
Digging out old music files and realized this treasure was buried among my rusty old hard disc.
The long forgotten adrenaline generated by the old time brit rock hit re-pumped into me- got my soul all charged up with Electricity.
How I wish I could sing it out loud along with the deadly sexy Brett Anderson in my boring newsroom? My boss who over-worked me was surprised to see I was making a million calls and writing stories in the speed of light but still able to smile to people at work.
"You are so full of energy lately, u know that?"
I nodded, smiled and kept the secret safe with me.
I was still listening to Electricity on my way home from work and just wished I could dance on the streets like no one else would be watching me.
Uhaahhh, the long forgotten energy.
The long forgotten electricity!

today, I saved a bear

Click the picture to read the beautifully illustrated bear story.

count the ways...

how do i survive as a young journalist in hong kong? let me count the ways...

From crying senseless on my first month, I started protesting. On my 14th month as a journalist,

I stretch my insecurity and refused to accept taunts from filthy mouths just because editors are feeling bored in the newsroom.

I drill my questions to the core, until public relation practitioners would call me a nuisance;

I smoke away frustrations from editors' cruelty, to the depth and breadth and height,
my lung would suffer when the ashtray is full .

I deliver lengthy stories before deadlines, to the level of everyday's most desperate page filling's need.

I entertain the most confusing story ideas from S&M demands in an asian city with no democracy to top official kissing panda' ass celebrating the 10th anniversary of Hong Kong's handover to China.

I walk across the city, visit ghettos, talk to the grass root class, listen to the deprived, old,weak and the marginalized. I write for their rights passionately while the government is slashing taxes of luxurious goods.

I devote into my job to live with a disgraceful pay almost equals to unemployment.

With my lost saints, I translate the most obscure knowledge when medical specialists failed to spell out in simple english.

I crave for respect, pitch controversial ideas, got knocked back and I start again.

I see people come and go from a constantly under-staffed newsroom. I search a reason for my existence.

I try to live like a normal 25-year-old but I'm really greying prematurely and suffer from insomnia.

I raged at ridiculous government policies and saddened by a society where justice is distorted by money and power.

I drink, I play, I sing, I dance, I google and I laugh.

I report, therefore I am.

that's how they got it ALL wrong after hitting prints!

A woman whose daily ablutions included irritating her throat to expunge mucus and other irritants suffered a close call when her toothbrush broke in half and got embedded in her esophagus.The 46-year-old, identified by her surname Lau, was Tuesday rushed to Tseung Kwan O Hospital where two pieces of the broken toothbrush were removed from her throat and stomach.

She remained in a stable condition late Tuesday.

According to her husband, Lau normally leans her head back to brush the back end of her tongue and induce coughing or vomiting. But the toothbrush broke off and got stuck inside her throat.

He said Lau tried to work it free but failed. She then ran into the sitting room and tried to explain to her shocked 15-year-old daughter what had happened. The daughter telephoned the husband who called the police and then rushed home.

An X-ray showed part of the 17.8 centimeter toothbrush in her esophagus and the other half in her stomach. Lau underwent surgery to remove it.

don't swallow your toothbrush-raw version

An oral hygiene fanatic swallowed a seven-inch toothbrush when she was brushing her throat at her Tseung Kwan O home Tuesday morning.

The 46-year-old woman identified with the surname Lau has a habit reaching deep throat to "thoroughly'' clean her oral cavity whenever she brushes her teeth.

Lau makes gagging noise while leaning her head backward enabling her toothbrush a vertical entry into her throat, according to her husband.

The freaky accident happened when Lau was brushing her throat too hard while the slippery toothpaste bubbles slided the toothbrush in her.

The plastic toothbrush was a free gift along with the purchase of toothpaste- had a wavy handle- was partly covered with soft and anti-resistant rubber.

After swallowing the toothbrush, Lau tried using her fingers to induce vomiting hoping to get it out, but failed.

Lau rushed out to the lounge room and told her 15 year-old daughter ``Mummy swallowed a toothbush and can't get it out''.

Her daughter was in shock and rang her father who was already out for work. Her father instructed her to call the police and went home immediately.

Lau was rushed to emergency room of the Tseung Kwan O Hospital. With X-rays, doctors found a seven-inch toothbrush trapped at her cardia with half of it in her esophagus and half in her stomach.

Lau was transferred to the surgery ward after the toothbrush was retrieved with a gastroscope.
She remains in stable condition.

anonymous sex poll

to all the lovely women out there, or friends of women out there,

Bad sex sucks, help me out here and pass on this anonymous sex poll.
please bring back answers to questions 1 to 3 and posted it under comment.(as many as possible)
it would be interesting to see what might come up. (please state country of origin)
you will have an opportunity to win a secret prize by participating in this poll and you will be notified by the blogger privately if you email her your details after submission.

1. have you ever faked an orgasm to make your man feel better about himself or just to get it over with the agony?

2. are you having enough big "oooooooo"s?(if not,please proceed to number 3)

3. What are you going to do about it?

Hong Kong women are not having enough orgasms

Celebrating International Women's Day 2007 on 8 March, this entry is dedicated to men having sex with Hong Kong's Chinese women.

Forgive us women for faking orgasms.
Especially for Hong Kong women, we have to fake a lot more often to make you feel more like a man.
The reality is two in three among us are just not getting any orgasms.
Men, when are you going to wake up from animalistic quickie to a true love-making era?



Enough for pounding our vagina brainless like it's the end of the world.
Enough for skill-ess fingering.
Enough for milking us like cows.

We are not talking about karma sutra multiple tantric orgasms, just a normal big "OOOOO" .
or may be,....
There is no rush,we are not going anywhere.
May we women kindly suggest: Slow down?!? think circular "8" motion, think "g-spot'', think sensitivity, think foreplay, think after play!?
if u have no idea what i'm talking about here, go get educated.not wasting my time here to describe what female orgasms are like.

guys, the above lines were by no means deflamatory to your manhood. They are backed up by academic survey monitored by medical specialists. Please don't call us biased bitchy here, but rather, save your time and think how to make us happier in beds!

According to preliminary results of a local survey, after interviewing more than 500 Hong Kong ethnically Chinese women and found, alarmingly, two in three are not having orgasms during sex while comparing to our overseas counterparts.

The Family Planning Association polled women aged from 21 to 40 and discovered how Chinese in Hong Kong are not having as much fun in the bedroom department as women elsewhere.
-46% are some what showing less desire in sex.
-A slightly more than half do not fantasize sex even during intercourse, may be they are thinking something more important,like, time to feed the cat?
-Only 45% said they are aroused.
-more than 65% are not having climax while similar overseas studies only showing about 30 percent

what's wrong with us women?
but the correct question to be asked is rather, what's wrong with you,gentleman?

How are we doing in bedrooms?
-Nearly 90 percent of the women interviewed said women deserve good sex no matter whether they are planning pregnancies or in a stable relationship of seven years and above.
-About 62%of them have sex several times a month and 22.5%have sex several times a week.
-85% of 500 said they would like to have more sex. (!???!!!! guys,less prono,ok?)
-Nearly 95% of them are getting foreplay, but ,26.3% said they are not getting enough ``after play''.

However, 79 percent of them are ignoring the problem with only four percent had tried seeking help.
Sexual dysfunction, according to internationally accepted definition, is strictly referring to the lack of interest in sex for three consecutive months in a year.

But our Asian elements tell us, from nature to nurture, women are supposed to be dutiful which includes taking care of the family, obey the men and shut up about our own sexual needs. the moral restriction, cultural myth, lack of knowledge and compromising marriage life styles....
it will have to change girls, be bothered with the fact that you are not coming as often as your men!


Experts said sexual dysfunctions are less associated with physical problems. It could be treated with counselling and therapy such as time management, pelvic relaxing exercise, sensate focus therapy, training vagina muscles...
Most are not seeking help is because they think experiencing difficulties during sex is either not a big deal, not sure where to seek help or too embarrassed to speak about it.

But may I suggest free universal love making education for Hong Kong's men? Asian, Caucasian, Africans, Latinos, all free. unlimited entry until another survey suggesting Hong Kong's women are having more orgasms than their overseas counterparts.
Think about it Donald Tsang, for you always preaching more couples in the territory to pump up more babies. Why don't you create more incentives for people wanting to have more sex first?