I was walking down on Ste-Catherine last Saturday, and saw this kid just sitting there, apparently waiting for his parents to catch up or something.

The Chinese squat is a comfortable sitting position perfected notably by certain people, such as the Chinese… You see that a lot more in mainland China, at lunchtime near construction sites, or at bus and train stations at any time of the day. In Hong Kong, not so much.

People in Hong Kong love their dogs…

But if you live on Lamma Island, you might start encountering more unsavory species, such as giant spiders (crawling through your 3rd floor window), or gravity-defying mosquitoes.

Edited 2010-02-16: Later that week when I wrote this post, I found a gecko in my sink, after letting the window open during the day…

Sur la rue principale de Lachute, alors que je faisais un tour en voiture dans la région ce mercredi, je suis passé devant l’enseigne de ce buffet chinois. Utilisant l’effroyable police de caractère asiatiques, l’enseigne pend visiblement au-dessus du trottoir.

6/4, aka the Tiananmen Events, here in the West, is certainly no laughing matter. When Donald Tsang, Chief Executive of Hong Kong, said that he represented the views of the Hong Kong people by saying during question-and-answer period that the incidents happened years ago and that the territory’s a lot more prosperous today, well, it caused a wave of reactions. (see YouTube, in Cantonese)

After question period, after 23 pan-democrats walked out of LegCo, Tsang disappeared and reappeared after 30 minutes to offer an apology and recognize that what he said was wrong.

A day later (it was May 14), My Little Airport releases “Donald Tsang, Please Die” and rhymes “Die” with “Kai”, as in “Ngo Tei Sat Seung Kai” (We’re taking the streets for sure). “Tung Chee Hwa might’ve been bad, but at least he’s got a good conscience.”

Download the MP3 here:
Donald Tsang, Please Die

That’s after writing this other song last month to demand that the salary of Stephen Lam (Secretary for Mainland and Constitutional Affairs), namely a monthly 300,000 HKD (43,000 CAD), be split. Who said that the Chinese didn’t have a sense of humour?

From Rivercool, via Hecaitou’s blog, via EastSouthWestNorth.

Comme les Chinois typically tries not to just re-post news published somewhere else, but this is just too good to keep for myself. There has been talk about the fake singing, the sequences that would’ve been added in case of rain, but the geek in me (and IT specialist by trade), insists that this is the best part of the opening ceremony to pick on.

Yes, what you see on the picture, as torchbearer Li Ning is flying in, is Microsoft’s signature blue screen of death!

Seen in Beijing, April 2008.

This seemingly innocuous slogan means nothing to the English ear, but to Cantonese speakers, it’s a well-known homonym for “xxxx your mother” (see Google). It was recently popularized by fashion chain Goods of Desire, and I got this mug from them.

J’ai toujours beaucoup aimé La Fin du Monde est à Sept Heures, émission diffusée quotidiennement par TQS à ses beaux jours. Dans la dernière édition de leur nouvelle émission de nouvelles farciales, 3600 secondes d’extase (diffusée à la télé de Radio-Canada), Marc Labrèche et Paul Houde nous font l’historique hilarant, désinformatif du fameux Poulet Général Tao…

Portion #2 de l’émission du 26 janvier 2008