Leisurely Scribbles II

Nah

 

HK is on the sharp horns of a severe dilemma. If it's youth essentially keep protesting things will undoubtedly get worse - if they don''t things will still get worse. Mainland China has HK by a strangled hold, or so it believes. The western world is perhaps collectively offering immigration to nearly half of the HK younger and well qualified popn -that is called a severe brain drain, that could and will effect significantly the entire economy and infrastructure of HK. Remember well qualified adults will often be married with children and will want to remove the entire family.

China has no doubt come to this same conclusion so could hoist itself by its own petard - only time will tell. Some say it is bluffing whilst the rest of the world is not - who knows. What I do know is that if China does not beat a hasty retreat and even if it does; HK will never ever be the same again IMO. Farewell oh dear and faithful friend

 

This is all true.
Nothing will ever be the same.

 

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I do visit some HK sites still via facebook [spit] and I don't know whether they are being very brave or just psychotic but they are continuing as if nothing had happened? I have telephone dear chinese friends who have said 'don't worry about us we will be ok" it is the nature of the inscrutable chinese perhaps who just duck and let it all fly over them and get on with there business. businesses do continue of course the red brigade will see to that and applaud it - so the communist regime will just wash over HK and re- absorb it IMO! I sometimes read bemoaning tales of white men and women who once remember Hk when they were privileged kids there and having a rich and glorious life - they wallow in their memories but that's all there is left - the inscrutable red has come out from under the bed and is no longer your maid or chauffeur or owns your previous abode or at least squats there. there are gweilos and gweipors still living and working in HK and as long as they don't blot their copy books they will be left alone. the dust of the CCP will settle down on all and peace will reign once more!!

I enjoyed my time there too but it was just a short sorjourn!! au reviour gowlung au reviour!

not sure if I will ever visit HK again - they may have marked my card! the ABC journos had to flee china rapidly - they can be ruthless

 

I have lived in a small town in outback australia that has never had one case of covid - how cool is that but we feel very spoilt and strange as if we have a curse!! we have never worn masks or really practiced social distancing and still shake hands! there must be other spots around the world like this - anyone know of any? - greenland comes to mind as well as tibet maybe? mongolia ?

 

Where have you been hiding?

 

no internet access for several months that's one of the downsides but then I realized when I returned I hadn't missed anything except the garbage of life!

 

Oh dear

 

and yet and yet, when you're not as easily mobile from poverty and old age as i am, the internet is also a window on all that is wonderful that i would not otherwise have.
oh i still get around just fine on my own two legs, and ride the bus. just don't have a car nor can afford to often take long trips to odd and remote places as i otherwise might.

and the garbage isn't of life, or at least not the rest of life that is environment, but only that which begins and ends with what people demand of each other as how to look at everything.

 

The Diamond in Your PocketDiscovering Your True Radiance
"There is a story my teacher liked to tell about a consummate diamond thief who sought to steal only the most exquisite of gems. This thief would hang around the diamond district to see who was purchasing a gem so that later he could pick their pocket.

"One day he saw a well-known diamond merchant purchase the jewel he had been waiting for all his life. It was the most beautiful, the most pristine, the purest of diamonds. He was very excited, and so he followed the diamond merchant as he boarded the train, getting into the same compartment. He spent an entire three-day journey trying to pick the merchant's pocket and obtain the diamond. When the end of the journey came and he hadn't found the gem, he was very frustrated. He was an accomplished thief, and although he had employed all his skills, he still was not able to steal this rare and precious jewel.

"When the diamond merchant got off the train, the pickpocket followed him once again. Finally, he just couldn't stand it anymore, and he walked up to the merchant and said, 'Sir, I am a renowned diamond thief. I saw you purchase that beautiful diamond, so I followed you onto the train. Though I used all the skills of my art, which have been perfected over many years, I was not able to find the gem. I must know your secret. Tell me, please, how did you hide it from me?'

"The diamond merchant replied, 'Well, I saw you watching me in the diamond district, and I suspected you were a pickpocket. So I hid the diamond where I thought you would be least likely to look for it — in your own pocket!' He then reached into the thief's pocket and pulled out the diamond."

 

diamonds for sale ; diamonds for sale ; cheap imitations buy them at any seaside trinket store or bar! what's the difference between a well stocked library reference or loan and here? Effort to access? No noise permitted? sharing comes later ya don't need to keep shouting across the desks? nudity frowned upon? the list goes on

and the garbage of life? - is the pollution of the oceans ; pollution of the cities ; pollution of land fills ; the ideological pollution of our minds - pollution of our bodies ; all that glitters is not gold or diamonds

 

I thought it was time to get this thread more varied.
I am sure a few more scribbles will do the trick.

 

you're the time lord are ya?

 

Well our Gal certainly Lords it on the forum Fitz! .

 

Boozers Bar was more eloquent than any of them Fitz.
But I couldn't get the bloody thing properly started because of a lack of patrons.
And that was before Covid Lockdown!

 

perseverance boozer perseverance - nothing ventured nothing gain it's gotta be better than trollopsville?/

 

We have Rainbows bar and Fynns.
They are both really popular