Easily Amused » Hong Kong

Sexy Audio Plugin, Oh So Sexy

David Xia — Wed, 30 Jun 2010 04:28:50 +0000

I've just updated my Wordpress audio plugin. The only time I've ever used it was for this post on Cantonese pick-up lines. This is one of my most popular posts that always brings in a steady trickle of horny expats who've just found out their firm is relocating them to Hong Kong. "Quick! How do you say, 'Your place or mine?'"

Dear Perverted Reader…

David Xia — Mon, 14 Jun 2010 18:14:17 +0000

To put it frankly: some of this shit is seriously fucked up. I'd never want to meet some of the people who are reading my posts. Why? Because these some of them searched: "biggest dildo death", "i saw mommy naked," etc.

My Uncle’s Sleeping With His Boss

David Xia — Fri, 11 Jun 2010 22:31:30 +0000

One of my uncles is a director for a Hong Kong-based fuse manufacturing firm. The CEO, a short, 66-year-old man from Hong Kong, is a demanding boss. Working for him is like being on-call as a military triage surgeon in Helmand, Afghanistan. He often sleeps in till noon, comes home at 9pm, and receives a call from the CEO shortly thereafter asking him to come play mahjong or drink tea. This means my uncle will be gone until 1 or 2am. Sometimes he doesn't come home for dinner at all. He'll go to sleep late and do it again the next day.

Why HSBC Sucks

David Xia — Mon, 18 Jan 2010 23:41:51 +0000

HSBC is not "the world's local bank" as their motto states. You'll find branches in 86 countries on every single continent, but each region's HSBC is an entirely separate bank.

I opened an account in Hong Kong's HSBC last summer. When I left the country, I left behind a sizeable chunk of change in the HK HSBC account. Now I want it back so I can close the HK HSBC

Thanksgiving and a Blast From the Past

David Xia — Thu, 26 Nov 2009 19:22:26 +0000

Hopefully everyone is having a fun Thanksgiving. If you are not, sexy pilgrims singing R&B will cheer you up.

Why I Wouldn’t Live in Hong Kong

David Xia — Fri, 14 Aug 2009 09:02:10 +0000

"For creature comforts, Hong Kong is unsurpassed, but Hong Kong is culturally barren. Living there is something like living inside a cash register."

Anime-Comic-Game Hong Kong (ACGHK) 2009

David Xia — Mon, 10 Aug 2009 13:31:01 +0000

I have never before found myself immersed in something so utterly foreign and bizarre. The manga fans I know in the States are mere wannabes compared to the 600,000 plus enthusiasts who flocked to this year’s ACGHK sporting imitation M41 carbines, full sets of samurai armor with matching katanas, and hair of every conceivable unnatural color under the sun.

Tai Mo Shan, Done

David Xia — Sat, 01 Aug 2009 18:12:19 +0000

A sign reading "No Trespassing," a ten foot high fence wrapping all the way around, barbed wire everywhere? Sounds like an unambiguous invitation to me.

Getting Away From the Machine

David Xia — Wed, 29 Jul 2009 04:27:27 +0000

There’s a digging machine at a construction site near my workplace in Hong Kong Central. Enormous, cylindrical, and piston-shaped, it prepares the foundation of a new building on Pedder Street by driving a sheer metal shaft at least two feet in diameter into hard, raw concrete. When steel collides with stone, the ground shakes and an ear-splitting clangor pulsates through the air as the threatening piston trembles and rises to strike again. An auditory manifestation of the city's pace of development, the piston slams into the ground again and again – a metronome beating out the urban tempo.

“It’s like all the Mexicans in NYC just stopped working one day.”

David Xia — Mon, 20 Jul 2009 06:29:31 +0000

Imagine every Sunday all the Mexicans in NYC with low-skilled jobs stop working, go to Wall Street or Times Square, and just throw one big street party.