Temporary.... in Hong Kong.

Temporary

If there was an adjective that would describe Hong Kong… it is a very simply one….. ‘temporary’…….

It has always been a temporary kind of place…. From the present name… SAR as the special exception in china… to the days of the sun yat sen hideout to the opium wars…. It has always been a place of transition, change and inconstancy…… (would say incontinence, but that would only be a semi-malapropism…)

Maybe that’s why it is such a great place for entrepreneurship.. or every man for himself… or flush it down the toilet if u don’t know what it is… in a while… it’ll be gone or you’ll be gone…..

With the temporary nature is superficiality… everyone looks at everyone else… even when they are not looking…… appearances count and ‘never judge a book by its cover’ is oxymoron-ed against ‘a man is what he wears’, or that ‘clothes maketh the man’…..

New things as a result are always available and changing hands….. every time someone moves into a new place everything is thrown out…. If u rent a place in HKG, expect at least a new toilet….. something to do with anal retention…… I think….. lol…… perfectly good cabinetry is discarded and air cons are dumped unceremoniously …. It is cheaper to buy new than to have to refit and recycle…. So much for environmentalism ….

The extreme case is that at all these dinner conversations of buying a fuel-efficient car, like a yaris, or ….. fuel efficient yes… but status….? More rolls and Porsches per capita than anywhere else in the world…. And it’s not the cheapy boxsters, but top of the line turbo porsches and brand new Quattro TTs….. absolutely useless technology in HK!!!