The
air is scorching, and I have decided we should
do nothing every second day, a
policy which will soon kick in, with anticipated Hong Kong job
interviews.
I
am kind toward my friend, and let him decide
where we will go. I want to take a
boat and go to Lamma or Cheng Chau, he wants to go the Hong Kong Public
Library.
My
sense of humour is stimulated by the Library,
as there seems to an English section
equal in size to the Chinese section - at least, for adult books, which
only have one
floor.
The Children's
Exhibition on the Ground Floor causes
me much laughter, as it is a large Immigration Game for Hong Kong tots.
Come
to Canada! I say, 75
points for fooling Australian
Immigration Officers, 100 for fooling American Immigration Officers, and
only 15 if you fool
the Canadian Immigration Officers!
Joe and
I discuss that Canadian Immigration officxers
are completely unaware than Chinese routinely use two names when they immigrate - legally.
For Example:
A couple
is called Lam Peng and Pong Weng.
The names
of their parents are taken first.
When they
come West, they become,
John Lam
and Susan Pong.
They could
further confuse the issue by becoming,
John Lam
and Susan Lam.
Or they
could deceive by taken the Western methodology
while still in Asia,
John Peng
and Susan Weng.
Or
John and
Susan Peng.
It
is hard to believe the high wages paid to many
government bureaucrats in Canada,
when they have such a slumbering quality. When I praise the mental
acuity of young Chinese
it is with absolutely no irony nor
racial prejudice.
In
the interests of maintaining a bland family
site, my other comments and jokes
concerning the Chinese Public Library Immigration Game for young Chinese
will not be written.
Since
the creators of this game surely have a wonderfully droll
sense of humour, perhaps they would
appreciate my own. My Chinese companion thinks I am happy to be back in
Chinese
culture, and I am.
*****
Upstairs,
away from the Mysteries of Global Chinese Immigration,
I am again amused to note the
emphasis on certain books in the library, for example, Creative Options
For HR Officers, Quality
Control in Today's Marketplace, and
Latest Corporate Rules For Thinking Outside The Box.
I
look around for Low IQ Trash, and have a rough time
of it, as I want my friend Joe to
think I am smart as well as having a public reputation as an ESL Teacher
to maintain.
The Hong Kong Chinese
reading in English are a sophisticated
lot, alas with a part of their brains top heavy in International Business.
I
make my first selection: a new book of first-hand accounts
of British and Americans witnessing
war crimes against the Chinese during the Japanese Occupation, a Chinese
family saga with
a beautiful red cover, a novel about
the London underworld by Martina Cole, a book of non-fiction essays by
Ann Coulter, a
book of best digicom make money
ideas.
What do we do at night?
We do nothing.
