Myanmar Rooting for Liverpool Champions League Final

Liverpool Tottenham Hotspur Champions League Madrid

Our taxi driver in Myanmar, who took us to the Savoy Hotel, is a huge Reds fan!

1 June 2019 Champions League Final Tottenham Hotspur Liverpool at Wanda Metropolitano Stadium, Madrid, Spain

So Cool Car Plate Tesla Driver Park FAIL

How do you park when your car is on a slope or incline?

This Tesla driver is "so cool" and so couldn't care less!!


See other Car Plates  like Mr Hoo, Bob the Builder, The Simpsons Haha kid Nelson, King Kong and many many more.

Cat on a Hot Tin Car

See Cats on Cars

Cats On Cars

As seen in Hong Kong ...

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Croatian Croation

Although many people poke fun at Asians making crass English mistakes (see Engrish.com which has many errors sourced from China and Japan), much hilarity can also be found in Americans who are incorrectly assumed to be naturally good at English. It perhaps reveals Americans in general are ignorant of other cultures and countries, and the fact that many many Americans need to travel and experience living overseas.

KISS me I'm Croation

In this episode of Shark Tank (S9E14), the sharks mauled a party wear sticker company named EVREWARES.

SPOILER ALERT!


Eventually, Mark Cuban put the owners out of their misery and bought the whole company for USD200,000. The idea being to use the products in the sports industry for game-day party wear.

Dr WHO Car Plate

Sorry, it's Mr Hoo to you !



The Timelords - Doctorin' The Tardis 12" - Doctor Who Tribute




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WellEx Car Plate

Well excellent Rolls, my boy!



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Bob the Builder Car Plate

YES I CAN !




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2068 Novel Name of the Day

Dick Ass Auto, company website (www.dickassauto.com), China

This was mentioned by Jeremy Clarkson and his sidekicks on The Grand Tour (S2E5). Chinese companies who want Western-sounding names like Alibaba, Tencent, and Dickass.





Although today is All Fool's Day, this DickAss name is apparently legitimate.

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HAHA Car Plate

Not laughing now !!

Mercedes CLS 350 caught in Causeway Bay, Hong Kong (1 March 2018)

Other Mercedes at 0397, 1711 and 1852 Novel Names of the Day


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Hangry about Balloon Heads

This is a striking mugshot of a large baby-like head. Just saying so because I'm hangry -- hungry and angry at the same time! Or am I hemoting -- hungry and emoting?

Michael Knight, MD, assistant professor of medicine at the George Washington University School of Medicine and Health Sciences

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Reference

Chloe Kim: Why do some people get 'hangry'?

Mayim Bialik lookalike

Mayim Bialik The Big Bang Theory actress (and actual neuroscientist) who plays Dr Amy Farrah Fowler has a broad face. There is a doppelganger.

Sara Botello, girlfriend of soccer player Aymeric Laporte who moved to Manchester City FC

Mayim Bialik

References

'I've Never Won Anything' (Daily Mail)

Aymeric Laporte leaves hotel with partner Sara Botello (Daily Mail)



Other look-alike or doppelganger or perceptions posts:

The Pot Calling the Kettle Ugly

The Pot Calling the Kettle Cute

Stand Out Face

Avatar Doppelganger Caricature

HK Doppelganger 2

HK Doppelganger 1

Sorry, But The Poltergeist and Chucky Horror Movies Come To Mind

The Alpha Male Handshake

Very revealing ... the handshake photo accompanying the news about the new President and Vice Chancellor of The University of Hong Kong, professor Xiang Zhang.

Alpha male "King" Arthur Li Kwok-cheung, the chairman of the HKU Council, as well as the chairman of the selection committee that approves the work of the Search Committee, is seemingly the one in charge here. His overpowering handshake is typical of the Alpha male (cf. Donald Trump handshake with Obama).

Arthur Li (left), Xiang Zhang, Brian Stevenson

Trump Obama handshake

Trump trumps Abe with handshake

Reference (SCMP)

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President Xi Jinping Less Popular Than Manchester United Stars in Hong Kong

Manchester United legends Ryan Giggs, Nicky Butt, Paul Scholes and the Neville brothers made headlines and caught the attention in Hong Kong ... turning more heads and smartphones than President Xi Jinping !!

On Hong Kong's MTR

Manchester United legends Gary Neville, Phil Neville, Paul Scholes, Ryan Giggs and Nicky Butt travel by metro to five-a-side in Hong Kong

• The Manchester United quintet are in Asia for a veterans five-a-side match 
• They each received t-shirts with caricatures drawn on the front
• Gary Neville later shared a picture from the tallest bar in the world  

By Jack Bezants for MailOnline

Published: 10:03 BST, 29 June 2017 | Updated: 11:20 BST, 29 June 2017  

It has been a long time since Paul Scholes, Gary and Phil Neville, Ryan Giggs and Nicky Butt needed public transport to arrive at a match they were playing in.

But out in Hong Kong, the quintet used the metro to head to a veterans five-a-side match.

The Manchester United legends may have called time on their professional playing careers but they still pose quite the threat as a five-a-side combination.

Phil Neville is in Hong Kong with Ryan Giggs, Paul Scholes, Nicky Butt and brother Gary

The players were given a warm welcome from the United supporters in Hong Kong

The five United legends have headed to Hong Kong for a five-a-side veterans match

Phil Neville shared a picture on his Instagram account of the group heading out on their travels, captioning the image 'Road trip with these guys!!!'

And he tweeted the welcome they had, with fans lining up to catch a glimpse of their heroes donning United attire and waving flags. 

And his older brother Gary shared some pictures of t-shirts that they had been presented with, featuring caricatures of each player on the front.

He seemed a little underwhelmed with his own t-shirt, writing 'not nice' alongside the post he uploaded on Instagram.

But overall, he seemed to be very much enjoying his time in Asia. Neville later published a picture of an impressive view from what he said is the 'tallest bar in the world, apparently'.

That venue would be the Ritz-Carlton Hong Kong hotel, where the cocktail bar is on the 118th floor and 1,608 feet above sea level. 

 Ryan Giggs appears confused as usual !!

Neville also visited 'the tallest bar in the world' - the Ritz-Carlton Hong Kong hotel

 

http://www.dailymail.co.uk/sport/football/article-4650068/Manchester-United-legends-travel-metro-five-side.html

President Xi Jinping looks to Hong Kong’s future, after ‘extraordinary’ post-handover journey

Maiden official trip to the city will see the president attend celebrations to mark the 20th anniversary of Hong Kong’s handover to China, as well as the swearing in of city’s next chief executive

PUBLISHED : Thursday, 29 June, 2017, 11:59am

UPDATED : Thursday, 29 June, 2017, 7:31pm

Comments: 61 

President Xi Jinping arrived in Hong Kong on Thursday ahead of the 20th anniversary of the handover and set out his aim to usher the city into a new future, drawing from the experiences of the “extraordinary journey” of the past two decades.

Xi, who is making his first visit since becoming president in 2013, was last in the city in 2008, just before Beijing hosted the Olympic games.

At the airport on Thursday, he said: “I step on Hong Kong soil once again after nine years and I feel very happy as Hong Kong has always been in my heart.”

He set out three purposes for his three-day tour of the city that will see him preside over the inauguration of a new government as part of a packed programme in the run-up to the 20th anniversary of the return of the city to Chinese rule.

First, he said, he hoped to convey his wishes and congratulations for Hong Kong’s 20th anniversary of handover. “I wholeheartedly wish Hong Kong will create a brighter future.”

Second, his tour of Hong Kong aimed to show the central government’s support for the city. “For 20 years the central government has always been a strong backing for Hong Kong. We will always support Hong Kong’s development and improvement of livelihood,” he said.

Third, he said his visit would be about mapping out a future for the city and ensuring “one country, two systems” would be “smooth and can be carried forward”.

 

“The central government will work with all sectors of Hong Kong society to look back at Hong Kong’s extraordinary journey in the past 20 years, sum up the experience and look forward to the future.”

He added: “I look forward to feeling Hong Kong’s new atmosphere and new changes.”

Xi’s arrival remarks at the airport in effect set the agenda for the visit. His speeches in the coming days can be expected to elaborate on the three themes, especially on the future direction for the city after 20 years of pursuing the experiment of “one country, two systems”.

 

The system was one set for Hong Kong by the late paramount leader Deng Xiaoping when China negotiated for the city’s return to the mainland from the British who had ruled it for 150 years.

Xi was greeted by Hong Kong’s outgoing leader Leung Chun-ying and wife and Cabinet ministers. In attendance also was Carrie Lam Cheng Yuet-ngor, the incoming leader of the city who was elected on March 26 and will be sworn in on July 1.

Apart from meeting the outgoing and incoming local governments, Xi is expected to view the latest infrastructure developments in Hong Kong, including the Hong Kong-Zhuhai-Macau bridge and West Kowloon Cultural District, which are both still under construction.

Xi, who is also the head of China’s military, will also inspect the People’s Liberation Army’s local garrison in Shek Kong, a location away from the city centre, deep in Hong Kong’s highest mountain Tai Mo Shan.

Xi’s wife, Peng Liyuan, will visit a kindergarten in Kowloon Tong, while Xi will meet a group of young people in the Junior Police Call, a group tasked with fostering links between police and youth.

Xi’s maiden tour of Hong Kong as president follows a night of protest at the Golden Bauhinia Square, the site where an iconic flag raising ceremony will be held. More than 20 protesters, including student activist Joshua Wong Chi-fung have been arrested.

Hong Kong police stepped up security to ensure the safety of Xi and his entourage.

More than a hundred journalists went through security checks before arriving on the apron at the city’s airport ahead of Xi’s arrival.

Dozens of umbrellas were confiscated by airport security guards, who said umbrellas were always banned on the apron. It started to rain lightly at 11am.

The police motorcade arrived on the apron at 10.55am.

The flag-waving team – comprising dozens of adults and primary school pupils – had arrived at about 11.30am, with the national and SAR flags on their hands. There were two huge red banners which read “warmly welcome President Xi Jinping and the lady to visit Hong Kong” and “warmly celebrate the 20th anniversary of Hong Kong’s handover to the motherland”.

The waiting media asked two questions, one on political prisoner Liu Xiaobo, recently released on medical grounds, and the other on interpretation of Basic Law but Xi left without answering them.

http://www.scmp.com/news/hong-kong/politics/article/2100499/president-xi-jinping-lands-hong-kong-three-day-handover

Drinking cow piss

This branded drink from Japan is rather unfortunately named Calpis

Bottles of Calpis !!

Found in the supermarkets in Hong Kong with ingredients of water, nonfat dry milk and lactic acid. Also written about in The Guardian, but somehow the reporter never commented on the bovine urine-sounding name!


Funny Product Name

Ugly Perceptions of Ugly Celebrities

For obvious reasons, controversial TV presenter Jeremy Clarkson says the most remarkable things. However, his largely exaggerated comments are based on some truths, which is why they can be funny. Here’s what he said about the following celebrities*:

Kiera Knightley is “just an ironing board with a face, and she works!”

 Kiera Knightley (reference to Women's bodies)

Sarah Jessica Parker “looks a like a boiled horse!”

There’s even a website called Sarah Jessica Parker Looks Like a Horse 

This site has previously commented on how people look, even on balloon heads like the largely-respected billionaire Lee Ka-shing and table tennis coach Hui Jun.

 Lee Ka-shing

 Ping Pong coach Hui Jun, Hong Kong

Further Thoughts


We often hear that some people look remarkably similar to their pets. How about people looking similar to their occupations or hobbies?

So far, we have:
1) A popular tubby TV food critic who looks like a chubby fish (see here)
2) A certified balloon artist who has a balloon face (see here)
3) A table tennis champion who has a ping pong ball head




* reference (Top Gear Season 11 Episode 4)

Bruce Lee Gay Icon?

I managed to visit the HK Heritage Museum last week to see the Claude Monet exhibition that is currently on display. There were plenty of people enjoying being in the presence of Monet's works and happily snapping photos too. I also took some pics, including this one ...

Gondola in Venice 1908 (when Monet was 68 years old)

I then went upstairs to see the Bruce Lee exhibition (these artefacts are being housed temporarily in the HK Heritage Museum until 2018).

Bruce Lee looking "buff" and hypothetically perhaps not out of place 

as a cover shot for a gay magazine

Imagine my surprise when the "guards" there told me off for taking photos. The public are forbidden to take photos in the Bruce Lee exhibition. WTF? We are permitted to take photos of as many Monet's as we can hold our smartphones to, but we are banned from snapping anything about Bruce Lee!!!

It didn't stop me from taking another interesting pic ... Bruce Lee's fantastically classical handwriting. Looking at his scribblings, I can't help but think that Bruce Lee, who was a truly great artist, was also very neat too (in a metrosexual kinda way)!

Bruce Lee's notes on the Cha Cha

A somewhat related gay article is this one about asking HK medical doctors to be more welcoming to gay patients.


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Goalkeeper with Heat Ray Superpower

Great sporting photos. The backdrop of the Guinness advertisement makes it appear the Paris Saint Germain goalkeeper (green) is using superpowers to stop the ball from going in.


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Goalkeeper Thibaut Courtois blasts home unstoppable penalty for Chelsea as they beat PSG in friendly

English champions beat French counterparts in shootout after feisty 1-1 draw

PUBLISHED : Sunday, 26 July, 2015, 12:15pm

Agence France-Presse

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Thibaut Courtois fires home from the spot. Photo: AP

Chelsea goalkeeper Thibaut Courtois made two shoot-out saves and fired home the winner as the Blues downed Paris Saint Germain on penalties in an International Champions Cup friendly.
Ninety minutes of action saw the teams level at 1-1 after goals from Zlatan Ibrahimovic in the first half and Victor Moses in the second.
Courtois saved the day for the Premier League champions, denying spot-kicks from Jean-Christophe Bahebeck and Thiago Silva before blasting the winner into the top corner for the 6-5 shoot-out triumph against the French champions.
Thibaut Courtois makes a save in the penalty shootout. Photo: AFP

It was a morale-boosting win for Chelsea, who fell 4-2 to Major League Soccer’s New York Red Bulls to open their pre-season North American tour.

The match between two clubs that clashed in the late stages of the Champions League the past two seasons got off to a tense start before a crowd of 61,224 at Bank of America Stadium, home of the NFL’s Carolina Panthers.

The first minute saw a run-in between Diego Costa and Paris defender Serge Aurier, while Ibrahimovic appeared to strike John Terry in the head a couple of minutes before scoring, although neither player was cautioned.
Diego Costa clatters into Serge Aurier. Photo: AFP Serge Aurier and Diego Costa have a friendly discussion. Photo: AFP

Paris Saint Germain went ahead in the 25th minute. After Matuidi won possession near the edge of the penalty area and fed Jean-Kevin Augustin. The teen talent’s shot hit the post and fell to Ibrahimovic, who slotted it into an unguarded net.

 Courtois replaced Begovic at halftime as both sides made multiple substitutions.
The Belgian turned away a 50th minute shot from Thiago Motta and as the half wore on Chelsea began to assert themselves.
Eden Hazard in action for Chelseas. Photo: AFP

After Cesc Fabregas and Lucas were off target, Moses combined with Fabregas for the equaliser in the 65th.
Radamel Falcao then came on for his first appearance for the Blues since signing a one-year loan deal in the wake of a disastrous one-year loan at Manchester United.
David Luiz with former Chelsea teammates Ramires and Willian. Photo: AFP

The Colombian looked sharp, and converted Chelsea’s first penalty of the shoot-out.
Chelsea play European Champions Barcelona in their last International Champions Cup match in Washington on Tuesday, while Paris Saint Germain take on Manchester United at Chicago’s Soldier Field on Wednesday.

Jung Chang Looking Like A Wild Swan

Over the decades, popular author and modern China historian Jung Chang, 61, has carved out her writing genre in striking fashion. Her recent photo is also striking and reminds me of an elegant, regal and extremely poised swan.

Jung Chang. Photo: AFP

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Jung Chang’s revisionist account of ‘the concubine who launched modern China’ (SCMP; paywall)

Wild Swans author has written a new book on Empress Dowager Cixi
PUBLISHED : Sunday, 03 November, 2013, 5:02pm

Agence France-Presse in Hong Kong

Jung Chang says she does not enjoy arguments, but the latest book from the writer whose works are banned in China is proving to be typically contentious.

The Wild Swans author has offered a revisionist account of Empress Dowager Cixi, the concubine who ruled behind the scenes from 1861 until her death in 1908.

A powerful figure who unofficially controlled the Manchu Qing Dynasty for nearly 50 years, Cixi governed during a tumultuous period in which she faced internal rebellions, war and foreign invasions.

Cixi has since been portrayed as a cruel, hapless despot with an extravagant lifestyle, a conservative who suppressed reform in China for decades, who ordered the killing of reformists and put the emperor under house arrest for years until his death.

Having scoured Chinese language archives in Beijing, Chang instead argues that Cixi was instead a reformer who laid the foundations for China to become the economic superpower of today.

“I’m not one of those who relish a fight. I don’t enjoy it,” the 61-year-old author said in an interview.

“But I don’t want to write what everyone else is writing. I will only embark on a project if there is something new I can say. So I can’t reconcile these two things. If you open new ground you’re going to be attacked.”
I will only embark on a project if there is something new I can say. If you open new ground you’re going to be attacked
Jung Chang

Empress Dowager Cixi - The Concubine Who Launched Modern China presents a figure whose leadership enabled the country to begin to “acquire virtually all the attributes of a modern state: railways, electricity, telegraph, telephones, Western medicine, a modern-style army and navy, and modern ways of conducting foreign trade and diplomacy.

“The past hundred years have been most unfair to Cixi,” writes Chang.

The Sichuan-born, London-based author says Cixi - and not reformist leader Deng Xiaoping who took power after the death of Mao Zedong - should be credited with launching the China of today.

“He didn’t create a new model,” Chang said of Deng. “He was returning to the model that had been created by the Empress Dowager.”

The book has received positive reviews, but critics have also cautioned against the level of Chang’s praise for a woman largely demonised by history.

“Historical facts seem to have been used only when they were useful and tossed away when they contradict the main theme of her work; that the heretofore-vilified Cixi had been a brave and forward-thinking reformer,” read a comment piece published in the South China Morning Post recently.

“It may be fashionable today to create a feminist heroine out of thin air, even if in fact there was none. Cixi was not a reformer”.

Chang says she sought to provide the context for Cixi’s ruthlessness, which went as far as ordering the poisoning of her nephew and adopted son Emperor Guangxu, while on her own death bed.

“Japan tried to make him the puppet and dominate the whole of China. The inevitable conclusion for me is that she killed him in order to prevent this scenario.”

While Guangxu’s successor Pu Yi became Japan’s puppet-leader in Manchukuo, the state it established after invading Manchuria, Chang argues that the entire country would have eventually fallen to Japan had Cixi not ordered the death of Guangxu.

‘Unjust’ criticism

The author admits that she did “develop sympathy” for Cixi, and some critics have accused the book of bordering on hagiography.

“I documented her ruthlessness,” said Chang. “Every killing is documented in the book. Let’s not forget she was a 19th century figure, she grew up in medieval China.”

Chang said she was drawn to the story of Cixi when researching her multi-million selling debut Wild Swans more than 20 years ago.

“My grandmother had bound feet and I had been under the impression because of the propaganda that somehow foot binding was banned by the Communists,” said Chang.

“I realised it had been banned by Cixi at the beginning of the 20th century. So this discrepancy between the little bit I knew about her and her reputation got me very interested.”

The book is the follow up to the explosive 2005 biography Mao: The Unknown Story which she co-authored with her husband Jon Halliday.

It won praise for challenging perceptions of Mao, the founder of the People’s Republic of China who instigated the Cultural Revolution in 1966 and whose rule is estimated to have caused tens of millions of deaths through starvation, forced labour and executions.

But it also faced strong academic criticism over its balance and scholarship. The author, who lost her father and grandfather to the Cultural Revolution, says such criticism is “totally unjust”.

Along with 1991’s Wild Swans her study of Mao is banned in China. Chang says she is permitted to visit her elderly mother on the mainland on the condition that she does not speak to the press, at public gatherings or visit friends.

As for whether or not her latest book will be banned, Chang says she expects sensitivity given what she sees as parallels between Cixi and a modern leadership looking to calibrate the pace of change in order to maintain control.

“In both cases there have been decades of economic development,” said Chang.

“She faced the same problems. A door has been opened, people have rising aspirations. And so where do we go from here?”

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