Showing posts with label Hong Kong News. Show all posts
Showing posts with label Hong Kong News. Show all posts

Monday, December 12, 2011

Bill Clinton Monica Lewinsky Scandal the Truth?

Hillary Clinton finally reveals the true story to world leaders............

Some years ago President Clinton was hosting a state dinner when, at the last minute, his regular cook fell ill, and they had to get a replacement on short notice.

The fellow arrived and turned out to be a very grubby-looking man named Jon.

The President voiced his concerns to his Chief of Staff but was told that this was the best they could do at such short notice.

Just before the meal, the President noticed the cook sticking his finger in the soup to taste it and again complained to the Chief Of Staff, but he was told that this man was supposed to be a very good chef and that’s how they do it.

The meal went okay, but the President was sure that the soup tasted a little funny. By the time dessert came, he was starting to have stomach cramps and nausea.

As it got worse and worse, the President finally had to excuse himself from the dinner to look for a bathroom.

Passing through the kitchen, he caught sight of the cook, Jon, scratching his backside. This made the President feel even worse.

By now, the President was desperately ill with violent cramps and was so

disorientated that he couldn't remember which door led to the bathroom.

He was on the verge of passing out from the pain when he finally found a door that opened.

As he unzipped his trousers and ran in, he realized to his horror that he had stumbled into Monica Lewinsky's office - with his trousers around his knees.

As he was just about to pass out, she bent over him and heard the President whisper in a barely audible voice, "Sack my cook."

And that’s how the whole misunderstanding occurred.

YEAH SURE!!

Sunday, February 21, 2010

Beware while eating at restaurants


Just received this sad story about an uncle of a friend in Malaysia. It happened at 8 pm on a Monday in the town of Kuantan in the east coast of Malaysia... but it could have happened anywhere.

The uncle was having dinner with two of his friends. They ordered the steam fish and the waiter/waitress put some liquid gel (not candles) underneath the fish and lit it up to keep the fish warm.

The contraption suddenly exploded and caused my friends uncle severe burns on his ears, face and arm. Fortunately he was wearing glasses (or else he would have been blinded).

The restaurant manager claimed innocence and was not bothered to even to visit the injured customer in hospital.
The injured man's family is now trying to find ways to help the poor guy claim some compensation as he might not be able to work for at least 6 months.

So friends and all you hot pot fans be extra careful when ordering food that’s heated at the table...

Monday, July 6, 2009

Hong Kong New Plastic Bag Tax – Govt. to earn extra $5 Billion

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With all previous attempts to voluntarily introduce charges on plastic bag use in supermarkets having flopped, HK shoppers will now have to pay a mandatory HK$0.50 for every plastic bag they ask for at around 2,000 supermarkets.

We are told that the new plastic bag tax is aimed at cutting the city's daily mountain of plastic bag waste. I disagree and I’ll explain why. Littering of course is a major problem in Hong Kong. With 7 million people clustered together in a small space, HK has one of the world's largest per capita carbon footprints.

Apparently around 30 million plastic bags are thrown away in Hong Kong every day. That’s more than four per person - accounting for some 6 per cent of the 17,500 tons of rubbish sent to the city's landfill sites every single day. Granted that’s a whole load of plastic bags.

But this new tax is not really going to solve the plastic bag problem...it’ll just add some new money to the Government’s coffers. At the public’s same rate of plastic bag use the HK Government coffers will receive around HK$15,000,000 per day and $5,475,000,000 in additional cash flow every year. Not a bad amount during a global recession.

You see, almost every one I know in HK, uses these supermarket plastic bags to line the rubbish bins in their flat - so that when the cleaners come to pick up the rubbish during the early hours, they have it all nicely contained in a plastic bag. Imagine the mess otherwise. Great for a fly but not if you want to contain disease – Swine Flu etc.

So if people aren’t getting free plastic bags from the supermarket, they’ll have to buy mini rubbish bags anyway. Guess what? It’s made from environment unfriendly plastic as well. Same problem at a higher cost.

The city's environment secretary Edward Yau said he believed people in Hong Kong now understood the need for the charge and were ready for it.

Too right Eddy. The one thing Hong Kongers understand best is money and the new tax is meant to hurt where it counts. But sadly the problem will remain...

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