Saw this article in Dim Sum. I viist this site every so often (and also this was the site that inspired me to start this site. :) ) Well, as I was saying, this article, Perspective - Save Chinese Catering, really shows that the stress if EU clampdowns on labour is hurting the Chinese restaurants on both sides of the water. People want ethnic Orientals to serve them in restaurants, and ethnic Orientals to be the chefs, cooks, porters etc. in the kitchen, and yet all these laws prevents hiring of these folks. In an Italian place, you expect Italians for example. It's authenticity. Well, have a read, and the feeling in the article can be duplicated here in Ireland. But what can we do, but back to the hard times and knuckle down and bear with it as usual.
Now in the run up to summer, some of us are lucky enough to go to Hong Kong! (Heh). A friend of mine was searching online for hotels, and I found that some hotels are quite reasonably priced! Check out this HK hotel search site (ignoring the fact that the only currency they show is US dollars!).
My mom actually recommends Concourse Hotel, Mongkok (just across from Prince Edward MTR station). Wonder what other hotels locals would recommend for visitors to HK... Just saw the Kowloon Hotel, and it seems reasonable and terribly close to MTRs and other touristy amenities.
So Brazil wants to break into China with its coffee. Chinese drink alot of tea, mainly for healthy reasons (aid digestion, hung over, nicer skin, lose weight etc...) They'll have to come up with some good campaign ideas to woo Chinese to take up coffee drinking.
My blog entry China ready for the coffee culture
Irish Echo Online - News has an article about folks having their say online with blogs. If you scroll down near the end... here is an extract :
Outside of the political, religious or war-focused blogs are some off-the-wall blogs dealing with a myriad of topics. Irishbornchinese.kaykays.com, is a blog about what its web address says, Irish-born Chinese people. On that the site, the Irish-born Chinese author notes with curiosity that mainland Chinese immigrants tend to live on Dublin's north side, whereas Hong Kong immigrants and Irish-born Chinese tend to be on the south side of the Liffey.
Only found this by chance! :)
From the previous entry, just gonna list some blogs that I will be visiting every so often... heh, I already have feed to Big White Guy's blog.
- HK Blogs
- ordinarygweilo.com
- Not the SCMP
- Bat gung
Found this blog at del.icio.us, "Living in China". News in China, HK... photos, culture etc.
Irish Indo - Chinese ruling 'justifies decision' on poll.
Now this is the type of thing I detest about it. People who want to live here should not do this, when the time is right, they should apply for citizenship. Heck my dad was one of the first Chinese person in Limerick to apply for citizenship, now that was a long, long time ago. And when my dad married my mom, my mom applied for citizenship soon after she came to Ireland. Same with my relations. Why this round-about route. It's not the right way, and there is no excuse.
Maybe I am ignorant, just read things and opinionated myself without looking further, but do please comment if you think about the decision of residency rights, and citizenship in Ireland. Maybe the law has changed since then, and I know at the moment, there will be vote on this as well, and will affect many who are hard-working folks here.
Ooh, I have to go and see this. Since it will be on till June 26th, I won't get a chance to see them (I am there in July :( ). More info at the HK government information site. And of course the official site is at : http://www.united-buddy-bears.com/
Irish Eyes - Irish Chinese Connections Looks like Bernie has more connected then me. ;)
RTÉ News - Chinese PM's Irish visit continues, I forgot to blog about it yesterday. Saw a few Chinese folks with the Chinese/Irish flags walking past me while I was waiting for a bus. My brother mailed me this morning about the UL visit.
Saw in the Indo's breaking news today - Chinese PM to sign tourism agreement with Ireland. That sounds cool! Did a bit of a search, and found the following:
- http://www.arts-sport-tourism.gov.ie/What%20We%20Do/arts/wwd_a_china.htm
- Speech by John O'Donoghue TD Minister for Arts, Sport and Tourism
And also, Forthcoming Exhibitions at Irish Museum of Modern Art - Chinese Group show 13 October - mid January 2005 I'll definately be going to that. I
Also created topic on this at IBC messageboard, check it out and feel free to comment.
online.ie: news - Festival of Irish culture and art underway in China
BigWhiteGuy's rant, Jingoistic Jerk, I do not agree with him. It's his right to opinion. But this is where mis-interpretation from Chinese. He does know that the way Hong Konger's think nowadays are quite childish. They are spoilt and too rich. Young people do not know how to think. They listen to the Catholic church, the democratic parties, but do they listen to both sides? Don't they find that if they are bit more mature in dealing in political views, that Chinese goverment would have let they have their democracy? Jumping up and down, acting like a jack*ss won't help situation, and HK people brought it on themselves. Come on, the Chinese goverment has much more to worry about. They thought HK people can take care of themselves, and mainland China is their worries. Bringing prosperity to middle, western parts of China. Then you have sore thumbs of HK catholics, Taiwanese in HK acting the silly billies. 1 vote per person, ideal yeah, but it's very biased to the people who are lead by leaders whose wages are paid by US government. Conspiracy, everyone is buying into it.
But I felt I want to say this. Just sometimes comments like that irk me. I'll leave comments open for now. I may close it sometime in the near future.
Came across this as I was reading the Indo, Chinese face daily abuse, murder trial told, and I did a search for this item, and found the following...
29/04/2004 - 17:35:35 - Doormen accused of Vietnamese man's murder
30/04/2004 - 12:31:25 - Juror discharged from murder trial
30/04/2004 - 19:00:06 - Chinese man gives evidence at murder trial
Now what the indo missed out was this one line I found from online.ie news (last link above) - "if you want to take a piss find a f**king toilet". Hmm, now not that I am taking sides, but would this warrant a possible fact that there was some sort of misunderstanding before this brawl started?
And why are Asians only appearing in the news here in Ireland, only when bad things happen?