I’m just thinking of the passenger who had a bag of cannabis planted in his/her luggage going through Narita airport http://www.scmp.com/portal/site/SCMP/menuitem.2af62ecb329d3d7733492d9253a0a0a0/?vgnextoid=225018a4db52a110VgnVCM100000360a0a0aRCRD&ss=Hong+Kong&s=News
(someone please tell me how to turn this link into one word?)
for sniffer dogs to find, but because of dogs’ inability and customs guy’s stupidity (let’s see…. what black bag was it again?) was allowed to wander out of the airport with HK$ 75 000’s worth of dope.
I was just thinking, wouldn’t it be hilarious if the person just stayed one night in Tokyo, not checking the outside pockets of his/her bag, and then flew the next morning to Singapore? Or Saudi Arabia?
“Wait officer, I can explain, it must have been the customs men at Narita putting it there to test their sniffer dogs!”
“Yeah right! Now, I forget… is that twenty lashes plus hanging or just hanging?”
“I have no idea how that bag got there! Must have been those guys at Narita.”
“Yeah right! I forget … is it supposed to be a hundred lashes, right hand cut off and beheading, or just beheading?”
Cec,
To convert that link to a word, do the following:
Type then write the word you want the link to refer to (without space between > and the word) then type
Had I not written in the above format, my post would have become a dead link. It’s easy. Just follow the above flow.
Ciao!
PS: I deliberately avoided using the quotes, as in then type a, instead of then type “a”
Mmmmm…. no. But thanks anyway. I’m moving to a different blag address soon, and will sort all this out before I do.
Ah-Sin, if you move to another blog address, does that mean all our hard work and comments we have provided you on this blog will be lost. OMG!
Yes I have to get away from all you people.
No, don’t worry! Everything anyone’s ever written ever has been moved to the new site. Just working on the banner and then we’ll move.
neih hou!
Here’s a tip: http://tinyurl.com/
Will the new banner include a middle finger to all of us who are bothersome? Hmmm?
Ciao!
But Nudeweiser!
Nobody called you bothersome. You’re a joy in my grey and eventless, I mean uneventful life.
As Ibsen said in Peer Gynt:
[Nude-gnes] min deilige sommerfugl
Deg vil jeg lekende fange
Jeg fletter et nett med masker små
Og maskene er mine sange
God morgen!
Ah-sin.
There is a gap in the market out there! You should start your own Cantonese podcast to do battle with Chinesepod.
Would be a major milestone for your efforts to turn Cantonese into a world language, and with your charismatic personality it’s sure to drag in Cantophiles the world over! The Naked Cantonese podcasts are hugely entertaining but just don’t completely satisfy the appetite. Currently all there is out there on the web regarding how to learn conversational Cantonese is your podcast and a few feeble dictionary based resources. I say give it some thought anyway 
BTW Love your Blog, keep going!!!
Ahhhhhh… you’re a good boy. Thank you thank you.
Well I have some plans. But as you may see from above (like god) – I have some technology issues.
1. Don’t know to make things into a link, like if I was to make a link HERE making the word blue and underlined.
2. How do you even start making a poddie castee? The reason Naked Cantonese is out there is that ah Sa on RTHK does something to the tapes we record every week, and what she does is: Hand them over to a technician.
I belong to a generation called “digital immigrants” (whereas the young ones are “digital natives”) – willing to learn, integrate and try some new stuff, but still wading around in metaphorical tents and chadors with long unkempt beards, killing our daughters for talking to a passing computer repairman.
Fcuk!!!! How did that bloody smiley face get in there? I’m against smiley face! It was going to be an end bracket. And why can’t I edit my own comments? Help me, techno god!
Thanks Cec. Few people think I bring joy. Ask my mom, no kidding.
About the smileys, I found out the hard way (at this blog) after leaving comments with brackets, that the end bracket turned into an unintended (wink? Get outta here!) smiley.
I think you need to place an extra space/blank before closing your bracket. But hey, you are already going to move to something better. Consider Typepad (have been using it for five years and it’s dandy).
Ciao!
Are all your readers SUV drivers in denial?
I am so with you on the car thing. THERE IS NO NEED TO OWN A CAR IN HK.
I too don’t have a car. I do it for my children. Are the little bastards grateful? NO – they keep on telling me how nice cars are and that they’re the ONLY child in their class without not only a car, but a car with a driver and a TV screen suspended from the ceiling.
Yup, those same kids of those same expats who are all complaining about the air quality in HK are chauffeur driven to school and back.
I say double the petrol price and introduce a congestion charge. Triple parking fees. Turn parking lots into parks.
Well said. Encourage more and more buses that ply around on cheap quality subsidized diesel fuel, pollute Hong Kong even more, and fatten the cartels’ and tycoons’ wallets.
I support the political correctness, social rightness, and Better-Than-Thou principles. Sure I do!
Did I mention trains consume huge amount of electricity and let’s not forget CLP? The worst polluter in Hong Kong using coal fired plants? I didn’t, eh?
I will be glad to pay HK$16 or more per liter of environmentally friendly fuel any day. Or should I stop?
Ciao!
Ah-Sin,
James is write you should got for a Canetonese version of ChinesePod.
It will be great, and if you do it right it could also make some money too I am sure. Think of all those people pushing out podcasts in Mandarin while you should be pushing out Cantonese. Simple podcasts are eay to record, it the technology behind a pay as you lean website that is mor difficult.
Go for it ah-Sin!
Sorry, been away for a time. Have some real bad stuff to deal with.
Making a Podcast isn’t hard. You get a good audio editing software, you get a decent Mic, you upload the MP3s on an RSS feed. You put the RSS feed on Itunes. And you are well on your way to being awesome.