Tuesday, February 17, 2009

Hating Grace, Loving Hong Kong!

I'm beginning to suspect that Hong Kong needs a drama every February. After the excitement of Christmas, New Year, Chinese New Year, and Spring Festival, we need a big absorbing story to keep the party going as we wind down from our long festive season. Last year, it was the so-funny Edison Chan saga, and the year before it was that Nancy Kissell poisoning-her-husband-with-a-milkshake business, and the year before ... oh, I'd have to think back and I'd much rather be thinking about this year's big, big drama!

Grace Mugabe! Whoever would have imagined she'd be so entertaining. No one talks about anything else.

The big stories?

* The arrest of the protesters who want Bona gone!

* Universities playing silly buggers. Most of them - I think we have seven - are saying she's enrolled in theirs. Oh, except for HKU who says she isn't studying there! Sus, huh! Know where my vote goes!

* Students on all the campuses playing "Spot the Bona!", keeping a weather-eye out for "Bitchy spoiled-brat African girls!", and that's a direct quote! As you know, Bona is here under a fake identity and everyone now wants to be the first to Name-and-Shame!

* The realisation that Bona is 20 and that Grace didn't officially come onto the scene until 15 years ago. That means Sally was still alive and married to Robert when Bona was born! (I KNEW IT!!!)

* Attributing all the ills of Zimbabwe to Grace! No, wait! That's me doing that one! And I don't think I'm wrong! You'll recall that "Operation Throw Out the Trash" - the start of all Zimbabwe's ills - began in 1996, just after Grace married Robert. I really do believe, since that one was all about shutting down the small-shareholders - Sally's baby - this stupid destructive act was really all about a spoiled-brat, overly self-assured, downright stupid woman undoing her predecessor's legacy. Just like Daphne du Maurier's "Rebecca", only evil!

* Beijing announcing that if Grace and Robert want to buy houses and land here we should just let them! If they want to move here, hey, throw open our arms!

The Beijing pronouncement is a real worry, isn't it!

Beijing has recently told HK we have to start toeing their line, yet this is their first direct order? Oh, PUL-EASE!!! Who are we? Saudi Arabia!!! Aren't those guys meant to be the ones forever giving refuge and protection to Monsters! I mean, Idi Amin! Michael Jackson! And this is who Beijing orders us to be!

And don't forget Hong Kong got the #27 fortune stick for this year: meaning, "the people clash with the government!" and Beijing ordering this outrage is soooo setting themselves up for a mighty CLASH!!! I think we simply won't do it! If Beijing wants us to follow orders they MUST be on the side of righteousness! Sorry, but that's the simple truth! Hong Kong has enjoyed over a century of free-thought so we can all see that this edict to welcome Evil-Personified is atrocious and wrong and that the only true reply is to go all "Mahatma Gandhi" on them and just say NO!!!

Mmmm! It all smacks of money, doesn't it! Like, someone, somewhere up North, has accepted ... ooohhh, forgotten the delicious Cantonese word for "a sweetener!"

Or could it be something even more sinister! Did you know that Grace Mugabe, before her marriage, lived in China? Returned home and started bonking the President! Very "mmmmmmmm", huh! And remember this guy?

Son of the President of the Congo.

Lived in China for a while, and the minute he returned home his dad was assassinated and he stepped in and made himself President for Life.

OK, it's all very mysterious, but I think it is a mystery that even I should leave well enough alone!

Or maybe I'm making too much of this, and it's really just China being helpful. They say they want to get more involved in world affairs by doing good in Africa, and maybe they realise that the major issue at the moment, apart from Somalian pirates, is this one and that the Mugabes must be got out of Zimbabwe for that country's sake and so are offering them an enticement.

But please notice that they don't actually want him in their own country!!! It looks like it's going to be Our Beloved SAR that gets dumped on!

And if that's the case, what's wrong with Macau!! That's the funky, groovy SAR that encourages the residency of vice-filled foreign folk ... provided they gamble, naturally, and I'm sure Grace is someone who'd take to gambling with a vengeance! Yup, Stanley Ho would like that very much; the former wealth of a once great nation ending up in Macau! It wouldn't be the first time, as we all know from Kim Jong Il's prodigal son, now a resident of our happy-go-lucky Sister-SAR across the water!

And maybe the Macanese could then start paying locals a decent wage! Oops! Where did that come from!

And here's another stray thought! Has anyone actually seen Robert Mugabe lately? In Zimbabwe, I mean! As far as I know, his last public appearance was his so-sad, poignant and, I admit it, hilarious speech: "Britain says it will invade our country to stop this cholera epidemic, but the epidemic is now over so there is no longer a need to invade!" ... and meanwhile tens of thousands are still dying in the worst-imaginable way!

But has he been seen since? What with a raging cholera epidemic sweeping the land, isn't Zimbabwe exactly the place this Monster wouldn't want to be?

And over there on sweet little Tai Po Island, 'Gabe Goons shriek "He's got a camera! He's got a camera!" before they hoe into their latest mega-rage beatings! Is that kinda sus to you too? What are they hiding? Why are they so reluctant for people with cameras to appear on the scene? What are they afraid folks will get image of?

Things that make you go "Mmmmmm"? Strange days indeed.

Fun but!

Oh yeah, one more thing: "Bona" is Fijian for "stink"! Do you love it? Feel free to use it at every possible occasion!



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