Seymour Totti’s Foreign Policy

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There’s not much that is old in Old Hong Kong. What’s left is mostly in a district called Mongkok on the Kowloon side of the harbour and even that is hidden behind a barrier of concrete and glass, shops, malls and traffic jams.

According to the Guinness book of records Mongkok is the most densely populated place on earth. It’s easy to believe, but if you elbow your way through the crowds and head off down a side street towards Shanghai Street and Reclamation Street you can get away from it a bit.

Reclamation street once ran along the western side of Kowloon and, as you might have guessed, was built on reclaimed land. Now it is about a kilometre inland but around here it is still possible to find some older buildings, shops and markets.

The menu

It’s also possible to find some old brothels so the other afternoon I went off in search. They’re not difficult to find. Along Reclamation Street they are about the only things that have any neon outside. All the other signs hark back to a time before neon. The ‘menus’ are a bit of a give-away too though they seem mostly to be more wishful thinking than reality. Perhaps they too hark back to an earlier time.

At the top of the narrow staircase I was greeted by the manager. “We have Chinese girl $350 or Thai girl $300″ he said. How about Russian girls I queried but he shook his head “Only Chinese and Thai.”

Reclamation Street

It looked like the reception of an old hotel. A wooden reception counter to the right a few chairs, and old wood panelled walls - cheap looking but old none-the-less. I asked him to show me some Thai girls. He took me down to a room and asked me to wait.

The room boasted more wood panelling, this time interspersed with mirrors. There were also mirror tiles on the ceiling suggesting that this had been a brothel or short time hotel for a good many years. A black and white TV was showing Japanese porn but the bathroom fittings were pleasingly modern but the Athenian corners were cheesy.

After about five minutes two girls appeared. I’d already decided I’d send them away if I wasn’t happy with them but one of them was really very cute indeed so I paid the man and sent the other girl away.

She had a shy almost frightened look to here which was explained by the fact that she had only been in Hong Kong for two days and was very new to this line of work. I spoke in Thai as far as my abilities would allow me which seemed to relax her. She said she was planning to stay for two months, the maximum her visa would allow, and go back. After that she would decide on whether to do a stint in Singapore.

Despite being on a time limit sex was slow and gentle, she gave me what is known as a good GFE (girlfriend experience). Afterwards she showered pronto and made a bolt for the door. “Bye bye” she said, and blowing me a kiss she was gone. I was still pulling my trousers back on. She was a cute girl and she’ll probably do well for herself in this business if she’s sensible. But the first thing she’s got to do is learn to wait for the tip.

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I took this from a Chinese language forum, here is an online translation from http://www2.worldlingo.com:

Before dawn the zero hour little, in the Lantian blue clouds Lantian park fitness area, a year approximately 40 year old man somehow or other makes movement period in a sit-ups fitness facility, unexpectedly instead passes away pulls open the trousers 鍊 to stretch out the male genitals to start on the palm to press, a male genitals stranger card in the panel diameter 1 inch eyelet, finally is unable to extricate oneself approximately, the painful loud groan, alarms the passer-by to report to the police.

After the fire appearance, sees the male male genitals continuously swelling to be unable to contract, does not have under the brilliant plan in the pain to summon the medical team and two anxiously unites hospital doctor to come to assist. Doctor hits the pain killer injection for this man, another doctor uses the needle to insert nearby his/her male genitals the blood vessel bloodletting, but employs two methods to achieve one goal is still unable to let this man’s male genitals pull out naturally to the eyelet.

The original thread here

More: There is something about Hong Kong Parks though this one is a little more understandable

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On Friday the much molested Olympic torch is set to ignite a squillion fireworks, and with them the dreams of athletes from all around the world. I figured that it would be noble indeed to ignore tawdry politics for a while and raise a cheer for some very fit bodies who wont be collecting any medals in Beijing.

I’m talking about the Olympic Cheerleaders of course. Cheerleading in China has taken a great leap forward in recent years. In the latter half of 2007 a competition was held throughout the country’s schools, colleges and fitness clubs to find the country’s top cheerleaders. There are apparently 428 cheerleaders with 364 of them having won their places through these competitions.

Out with the old …(though I do find them strangely alluring) … in training with the new

If you are going ten venues in Beijing will have cheerleading performances during the Games between August 8 and 24. They are: the northern area of the Olympic Green, the National Stadium, the Olympic Sports Center, the Laoshan bike venue, the Wukesong, the Capital Indoor Stadium,the Workers’ Stadium, the Workers’ Indoor Arena, the Beijing University of Aeronautics and Astronautics Gymnasium, and the Chaoyang Park Beach Volleyball Ground.

Not all these will be sexy students. I believe there will be children’s performances and other more cultural events that are not at all suitable for lascivious thoughts. They’ve all been lumped under the banner of cheerleading so you’d better check

They will also be performing at the following sports: hockey, archery, table tennis, athletics (including marathon and race walking), football, handball, water polo, modern pentathlon (equestrian, running and swimming), bicycling, BMX, baseball, basketball, volleyball, boxing, weightlifting and beach volleyball.

Mmmmm beach volleyball and cheerleaders, what more could a man ask for

*I’ve no idea where that military pic came from but it is a great pic. The others were scavenged from en.beijing2008.cn and beijingolympicsfan.com

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The phrase ‘little brown fucking machine’ has been around for a long time, at least since the Vietnam war. I first heard it in Hong Kong where LBFM was used as a collective noun for the army of Filipina domestic helpers that work there. These days it is pretty much applied to girls from all over Southeast Asia; Thailand, Malaysia, Indonesia, Laos and Cambodia as well as Vietnam and the Philippines.

Now I don’t have much need to go over to the Philippines these days and I don’t go out of choice because Manila is a pretty grotty place. Which is a shame because other parts of the Philippines are really quite lovely. I do get my Filipina fix every now and then because there are still plenty of them in Hong Kong. So I decided I would dedicate to post to Filipina amateurs. Enjoy

Review: Little Brown Fucking Machines

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Tracking down this classic Hong Kong novel, even in Hong Kong, was something of a chore. I finally picked a copy up at the Star Ferry pier. Not the one where Robert Lomax first met Suzie, a recreation of the original Central pier which is now in what would have been the middle of the harbour back in the 1950s when the book was written.

In the twenty years since I first read it Hong Kong has changed dramatically. It would be unrecognisable to Lomax and Suzie. There are still pockets of old Hong Kong but they are few and far between and diminishing every year. Squeezed out by soulless steel and glass that the HK government likes to call urban renewal.

That said, characters that populated Richard Mason’s novel are still very familiar. Their names, complexions and the range of languages they speak have changed but their business in Wanchai is flourishing.

The book has won considerable acclaim, not for the love story between a British painter and a prostitute, but for the authors keen observation of a place that was about to transform itself from a small trading post into the vibrant commercial hub that it is today. And of the hypocracy and rascism that was characteristic of of the era.

What makes the book special for me is the richness and depth of Mason’s characters, not just of Lomax and Suzie who have been widely recognised, but of the entire cast. In particular the other girls that worked the bar of the Nam Kok Hotel.

In the years since I first read this book I have spent more than my fair share of time in the company of their sisters in the real world. Reading it again I realise just how beautifully delineated their characters are:

“I could not help liking old Lily Lou. She reminded me of an old theatre pro, who had grown up in a narrow professional world, took pride in the old fashioned thoroughness of her technique, and looked down on on the present-day youngsters for skimping their job. She remembered her own training at a smart brothel in Shanghai - oh, in those days you’d got to know how to please a man, you’d got to take trouble and time. It had been a real vocation; none of these modern girls would have lasted a minute. “They’ve got no mystery dear,” she would whisper huskily, confidentially, patting my hand. “And that’s what a man likes - mystery.” And she would smile her carefully enigmatic smile that, despite the old whore’s shabbiness and over-rouged cheeks, could still just pass for mystery in the low diffused light of the bar.”

Into all the girls the author breathes a life so convincing that, in most of them, I can see the faces of counterparts that I have actually met. Rather than stocking the bar with one dimensional background characters he has crafted, with a great deal of affection, each individual person. It is this empathy, the warts and all humanity, that brings the bar of the Nam Kok hotel to life.

Only Suzie herself remains elusive, the one character you reach for but can’t quite grasp. Mason always maintained that Suzie was not based on any particular girl but was a composite of several. And while she has her own very human frailties she remains the dream-girl. The mystery that still draws men to places like Hong Kong in search of a Suzie of their own.

*The cover shown is the 1994 edition published by Pegasus Books featuring Nancy Kwan who played Suzie in the 1960 Paramount movie

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The night markets in and around Temple Street in Kowloon are very popular with tourists. I caught this enterprising gentleman setting up his stall this afternoon, obviously in anticipation of doing good business and providing some people with happy memories of their stay in Hong Kong.

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The spirit of Sappho lives on in Japan. Click for more

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A court in Athens has ruled that Lesbians can still be gay. Residents of the island of Lesbos had been trying to get the word lesbian, when used as a term for gay people, banned saying it was an insult to their identity. But a court in the Greek capital disagreed. So did Vassilis Chirdaris, lawyer for the Gay and Lesbian Union of Greece who said; “This is a good decision for lesbians everywhere.”

The islands name was given to gay women in recognition of the female poet Sappho, who wrote love poems about both women and men around 600 BC.

Lesbos is a popular gathering place for gay women from around the world particularly the village of Eressos where the poet is said to have been born. I think the residents of Lesbos should loosen up a bit and say thanks for tourist dollars.

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