November 26, 2003

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Tonight's the night

The big blogger bash is tonight. It should be interesting to say the least. Little does the HK blogging community realise it is really part of my plan to stop them all blogging all night long while normal people (read me) go out/sleep/enjoy life. I will stop them all; there will be no blogging tonight in Hong Kong. All because of me. Bhuwhahahahaha...ooops, did I just think all that or type it? Oh poop. At least I didn't mention that Glenn Reynolds is mixing the drinks. Puppy slushies, anyone?

More interesting is the profusion of Christmas lights all over Hong Kong. There is hardly a high rise or street lamp that doesn't have some kind of fairy lights or kitschy celebration of JC's birthday. If I can understand why many religious Christians get upset with the complete over-commercialisation of an estwhile holy day. I do not know if local families give gifts to each other but it's always an interesting time for me. Being Jewish the whole Christmas thing means nothing to me but that doesn't stop repeated questions whether my family still gives gifts. The answer is no. Except to my father-in-law. But that's because his birthday is December 24th. No, we don't have a Xmas tree. We don't wait for Santa. It is a little confusing for my girls and no doubt one day there will be stories along the lines of "Why doesn't Santa bring us presents?" I will explain it to them and they won't understand but the truth is that Christmas as a time of giving long ago lost its meaning anyway. Now it's about cheezy TV Xmas specials and boosting retail sales.

As Shaky pointed out though Guandong/HK isn't exactly overflowing with electricity. A few less Christmas lights wouldn't hurt the cause. Bah, humbug.

posted by Simon on 11.26.03 at 09:17 AM in the




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Blogger Fest
Excerpt: With all the different "Fests" in Hong Kong, tonight we are hosting the Hong Kong Bloggers Fest. Hope to see you all there. For those who cannot attend, precisely at 07:30 PM, a girlie picture will appear on this blog.
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Comments:

Heh heh...

One of the advantages of using Typepad is that you can future schedule your posts.

I am going to schedule two and they will be posted right at the time when we are pulling off our clothes and dancing naked at the Fong.

At least I hope they will be future posted. Anyway, must try that feature tonight.

Sorry to ruin your plan Simon... but instincts told me part of your plan could be stopping us blogging ;-)

Cheers and see you tonight.

posted by: Ron on 11.26.03 at 10:15 AM [permalink]

Hi Simon,

Sorry I can't make it tonight, but I'm still not very well, and I don't think you'd appreciate me coughing over everyone. Put me down for the next one.

posted by: Chris on 11.26.03 at 07:12 PM [permalink]




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