September 30th, 2005 by Eshin
Apparently flight attendants have had enough. They’re taking Hollywood’s latest offering, Flightplan, to task for negative portrayal of flight attendants in a film. Of course, this negative portrayal is nothing new since media has always painted them either as promiscious air hostesses, unsympathetic staff and generally all-round inconveniences.
Of course, it’s a little overkill given that its just a movie…
And one with a poor premise at that… a woman (Jodie Foster) loses her child on the plane. Unhelpfully, the flight attendants are disbelieving that she actually had the kid on the plane in the first place. And so begins the frantic search for the child or proof that she was actually on the plane. Quite Hitchcockian if you ask me.
Not really a film I’d like to go and see. To be honest, even if it was written to be exciting, it still has Jodie Foster in it, so it’s bound to be a snooze. Hands up who slept through Panic Room…
September 29th, 2005 by Eshin
Once in a while we all do it. Google names of former friends or people we used to know. This time, a Google for “Giles Hazan” yielded a site to Mobile Medics. Funny thing is I always thought he’d become a doctor.
Spent some time in China too apparently.
September 29th, 2005 by Eshin
I’ve been ridiculed about my fascination with Joey Yung Tso-Yi. When I first arrived in Hong Kong four years ago, I found myself intrigued by the lass and her music was quite catchy. Maybe it was familiarity, but over time I grew to find her more and more attractive, joining most expats in my admiration of her beauty.
Well, in my defense, I only recently found out the reason why I found her more and more appealing over the years. And how she went from looking like this…
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to this…
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Quite simply, she’s been doing plastic surgery over the years. It also explains how these…
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are really men.
Almost makes me realise how superficial I’ve become since I’ve moved to Asia.
September 28th, 2005 by Eshin
It was funny watching the Champion’s League match between Ajax and Arsenal last night. Not being a great fan of football, I do occassionally watch it. Given my limited knowledge of the players, combined with a commentary in Cantonese, I found it somewhat amusing that there seemed to be more “Dutch” players in the Manchester United team than, say, the Amsterdam team Ajax.
I say this because I had trouble prounouncing half the flipping names in what is supposed to be a Dutch side.
September 25th, 2005 by Eshin
I said to my friend that I hated bitching about expat behaviour on my blog… and I do… but not enough to stop doing it. This incident just really highlights the communicational frustation that probably results day in and day out with expats and Hong Kong being a world city…
I was sitting in Illy when this guy comes in looking for the vodka bar in that Russian place. He asked where it was and the staff didn’t really know where it was… so they told him that they didn’t really know where he was talking about. His response was “You don’t even know where a place is in the same building?” (apparently he knew it was in this building) in quite a condescending tone. In my defense, I actually called out to the guy to tell him where it was but he didn’t hear me. This was actually important because after I heard his change in tone, I didn’t really feel the need to help him anymore. I imagine the staff at Illy felt the same because when he left, he was none the wiser about where the vodka bar was.
Expats who don’t speak Chinese are getting fewer (and I am one of them), but still feel a sense of frustration when we can’t get the point across. Perhaps we’re spoiled… with how easy it is sometimes to not speak Cantonese. But then, I think about if I were in London and some person asked me in Romanian where a place was… and then proceeded to get angry with me if I couldn’t tell him where a place was. I’d tell the guy to take hike.
