Friday, July 27, 2007

Midsummer Night’s Dream 熱情的沙漠


Good slave is becoming a zombie for drifting hopelessly at this torrid desert place called Hong Kong. Since the introduction of QDII policy in April07, Hong Kong has been a reservoir for the overflowing money from the North. Money is hot and here for action, every player is having multiple orgasms after orgasms with the China H share and stock analyses become protocols reminding your “lost self” of what to do at the midst of these frenzies. As the wise man say, day high, volume, dividends, earnings per share…etc are patterns of emotions to derive protocols of reminders for the “lost self”. We made ourselves believe to be a rational being by looking at charts for predictions/extrapolations, however, this only lead to more mysteries behind the mask of mega zombie (China H share)…

We zoom in and out from macro to micro, yearly>monthly>daily>hourly charts only to find out multiple layers of functional curves that governs the human emotional behavior. Sometimes are noise curves, sometimes are sin curves with some random spikes in between and most of the time are mixture of chaos + step functions. Each aura of curve/pattern governs individual periodic charts and very much the same of what we see in nature of things, as the nobelist Richard Feynman once said...


Nature uses only the longest threads to weave her patterns, so each small piece of her fabric reveals the organization of the entire tapestry.
People say to me, "Are you looking for the ultimate laws of physics?" No, I'm not... If it turns out there is a simple ultimate law which explains everything, so be it — that would be very nice to discover. If it turns out it's like an onion with millions of layers... then that's the way it is.


Then, what’s the answer to all this? Surveys said before any stock crash in history, 99% of the financial analysts would say prospect of the stock market was good… in that case, good slave advises listen to no one but your feng shui master whom has more creditability (of course, relatively speaking) and let the natural force “gold, wood, water, fire, earth” to guide you out of this torrid mysteries.

Sunday, July 22, 2007

A reflection on 清明上河圖


Since the national treasure 清明上河圖 was discovered at a bank somewhere north of China 50+ years ago, the exhibition (the pride of china) in Hong Kong will be the second time of the painting being revealed to the public (first was at shanghai). Good slave was lucky enough to be part of limited crowd who were given the 5 minutes viewing of this stunting piece of work. Good slave is no art critic nor art historian, however, being blessed by this opportunity of viewing the Song city being re-animated some 1000 years after, like any encounter of rare celestial alignment, I owe the author 張擇端 a reflection.

The 5m long script are compartmentations of series of axonometric lines projected from architectural artifacts. A view is constructed neither by linear perspectives (as in renaissance) nor 2d flattening (as in Egyptian art), rather a mental constructed lines of analytical viewing, fully articulated and intensively informative and in conjunction with free curves outlining the natural landscape/figures, the work is beyond documentation but an expression of the world of mass, noises, gestures, figures, signs, symbols, of axonometric constructed lines partitioning with the undulating curves… every figure (or particles) is about a few millimeters of a micro world in itself> the lines outline the postures> the postures outline the social status of the figures> the social status of figures outline the function of the surrounding artifacts> the details of the artifacts project axonometric lines to partition the macro world… the bridge becomes an eventful artifact connecting the worlds apart along the river and its underside, figures engage in trading activities along the periphery and extending their postures beyond for potential encounter… scaffoldings are pointing outwards from the core to construct architecture inside out… the script is re-animated with such intensity, infinitesimal detailing and many many more for good slave to learn within a 5 minutes interval…

Monday, July 9, 2007

Good bye, Edward! 再見,楊德昌

... and thanks for bringing all the wonderful works to this world.

Good slave loves your 牯嶺街少年殺人事件(A Brighter Summer Day), a true contemplation of André Bazin writings with traces of reality unfold on screen from an idling point of view, the off-the-screen actions left us pondering with jitters and the filmic expressions weighing upon us into your world of serenity and violence…
and most important of all, the gal whom Honey loved reminds good slave of first love and good slave believe you share the some feeling too.

Keep up with the good works in heaven!

Monday, July 2, 2007

What turns you on?

A city has at least 3-4 times a year of large fire works + daily light show with mini fire works along the harbour at every 8:00 p.m… the main theme for the events were templates since 1997 as such -“the celebration of prosperities of Hong Kong for the return to homeland of People’s Republic of China… being in harmony… unity of people & nation…etc, etc, etc…”


Or...


Following the massive success in Sydney and London (details here), a Lights Out event to invite citizens to turn off the lights for one hour and to draw the world attention of the climate changes. The Lights Out events require cooperation among citizens and most importantly their awareness of the precious resource in this world.

The Lights Out events turn good slave on (mainly for aesthetic reasons). The appreciation of silent and shades of darkness, a surreal experience (as in the movie Paris Qui Dort) at the midst of natural rendering of darker/lighter shades of pale which are many folds more seductive than the artificial fireworks display.

A city with pride and imagination do not need constant celebrative events, nor yearly routing of the children mass (total no. broke the Guinness record) to perform tricks for the symbol of unity, only at a tyrannical state where we see massive propaganda shows for this kind of perpetuating self-reassurance.

Friday, June 22, 2007

What’s IN & OUT


Hong Kong is No:1 of the world in many aspect –

1 of the highest ratio in {civil servants: civilians}.
1 of the highest paid for civil servants.
1 of the largest portion of the civil servant in the government expenditure.
1 of the smallest ratio per civil servant serving meters square.


but, when it comes to building their own home (i.e. government headquarters, details here), these civil servants decided to out source the managing task to the contractors whom would select the architectural designers and eventually to decide on the new iconic image for Hong Kong.
In many countries, this will become the international events for open/invited architectural design competitions, exhibits, gathering public opinions, seeking authorities for advice, open debate and so on… however, our civil servants decide to conduct a design & build contract for a supposedly important building, a procurement which the architects have no say in the process but to serve the contractors (a few owned by developers) and the public has no choice but to stuck with the 4 contractors’ design…

And even more surprisingly, when architects were given an opportunity to voice out, their comments were disappointingly tabloid and QS(quantity surveyor) like, quote from South China Morning Post, Sunday, June 17, 2007 –

Vincent Ng Wing-shun, former vice president of the Hong Kong Institute of Architecture -

-“It is clearly an outdated image of Hong Kong. A sailing boat can no longer represent the city”.
- “Door design would be more expensive than “sailing boat”.
- “the gaps between the two sides of the block are quite wide and it will definitely cost more to build the supporting block across the middle”

An architect, who declined to be named –
- “This design might not use floor space efficiently”.
- “If one bureau is based on one side of the ‘door’ and the other on the other side, then staff have to go up to the top or down to the bottom to get to see each other… and this design means you will not have a big open space on each floor.”

The head of architecture at the University of Hong Kong, Leslie Lu -
- “door” design would be more expensive… a design that is out of the ordinary costs more”

In tune with their layman’s talk, here is the real deal from good slave –

- The “door” is rather a “economic” version of CCTV headquarters (by OMA). By colouring one of the tower in black, it achieves similar results at bird's eye view and need not to worry about the additional cost for unconventional structural implications.


- “door” design is even more outdated! From La Nouvelle Arche > Umeda Sky Building > every now and then you would see some “lite” version proposed somewhere at China.
- The locations of the government headquarters have been very strategic in history, mainly for the control of crowds – limited access + limited gathering space. The existing location at central is a good example where the HK government can learn from their previous British boss.

The “door” scheme invites massive demonstrations and provides them with a sea-view + cross ventilation, be easily surrounded by demonstrators approach from from all sides - good for “長毛", bad for Donald Tsang.

In this regards, good slave is in full support of 'door' scheme.

Tuesday, June 19, 2007

I keep on fallin’ in … and out…


Good slave loves Ngong Ping skyrail for a number of reasons despite its recent incident of cabin plunged 50m to the ground. (details here & here)

It’s a rare skyrail design where cabins can make turns at the transitional station for every point fold of the terrain below. The deserted interior of the transitional station is fantastic, reminds good slave of the slaughter house design… fully automated with robotic device moving the hanging cabins around, sitting inside being levitated and awaiting to be projected out onto the spectacular landscape, and be hovered above every point fold of the terrian.

but, the most important of all - despite all the feng shui masters' warnings not to build at Lantau Island, some designers took the challenge and present the public a spectacular way of viewing the island. Some say there is a price to pay for challenging the mysterious force of feng shui (constant mechanical failure + plunging 50m),

However as to compare with some design institution at the other part of the town who constantly preaching “architecture to follow feng shui” (by writing articles “feng shui in architecture + lecture series “architecture in feng shui” for the past decades), the price being paid is insignificant.

Why? In the view of the public, those preachers are falling in and out of the feng shui spells since it becomes an institutional sound bite, their works has much ado about nothing except being bad taste (examples here)


Disclaimer – good slave is not against feng shui, but there are more profound principles in architecture that govern the habitat than this pseudo-non-progressive belief.


Friday, June 8, 2007

Umm… MANDOM

How to proclaim fame when you consider yourself -

@ 40+ successful architect and nothing stands in your way
@ constant “play with time management” due to busy schedule
@ no.xxx largest company in Hong Kong and no.xxx largest company in the world
@ least 30+ nos of committee memberships belong to different clubs/civil services.
@ crossroad (after you make yourself a one flower party “一枝花生日會”) when looks becomes a concern to match your global success.
@ extract from Next Magazine issue no.900 pg.32,33 Mence Advertisment or click at the pictures below for details

Then...
be a spoke person for Menace and state all the facts there @ the testimonial section!

For some reason, this came across good slave mind -

"The Code of Professional Conduct, HKIA Guidelines for the Promotion of Professional Services” –

3.0 Principles on the form of promotion
3.1 A Member shall not make generalized claim as regards size or quality of his practice or projects. Comparative or superlative term shall not be used, except in a measurable manner.
3.2 A Member shall not either directly or by implication, make a comparison of his own practice with other member’s practice.
3.3 The contents of the practice promotion shall not be ostentatious, onerous nor in a manner derogatory to the dignity or reputation of the institute or the architectural profession.
3.4 No fee rate nor charges shall be publicized within the promotion contents.


However, in good slave heart, there is only one code of practice-
All the world loves a lover. All the world loves MANDOM.
The works define an architect and nothing else.

Wednesday, June 6, 2007

Do not fall for the same prank twice!


For those who entered the West Kowloon Reclamation Concept Plan Competition at 2002 (Integrated Arts, Cultural and Entertainment District) and lost, later on routed up some cultural crowd to oppose the idea of the competition itself… Please do not fall for the same prank this time! (details here)

The following is their monkey logic…
By landfilling our valuable waterfront for more roads and skyscrapers, they claim to -

Reducing the wall effect of single large developments,^
Greater visual permeability,^
Reducing traffic generation,*
Reducing air and noise pollution,*
A more competitive business environment,
Increased diversity and vibrancy.


*Less water and more roads > attract more traffic into the district > more congestions > more air and noise pollution >...
^Good slave is curious how building more skyscrappers at the rim of the city will reduce wall effect and provide greater visual permeability?

Whenever government find hard to convince themselves or the general public for some wicked act, they usually look for some foreign representatives to do the PR work, and by conducting international competition is one cheap way to do so.

Same prank, same wicked thoughts!

Disclaimer: Good slave did not enter any West Kowloon Reclamation Concept Plan Competition nor participate any related activities. Good slave only convinced others not to fall for the said prank by not entering the competitions at that time, however, was being labelled as "cultural snob" since then.

Sunday, May 27, 2007

www.truth-light.org.hk 明光社 – Truth Lite or Truth Zero

The devil has many facets, most commonly in disguised are under "the name of God".

The story of devil @ work -
Government awarded the tender for the teaching of human rights course for the primary/ secondary school teachers to a group that –

Has a history of discriminating sexual minorities,
Against legal protection for sexual minorities,
Protest on public televisions for covering gay issues,
With no record of teaching of human rights in Hong Kong,
Declaring truth-light.org is not a religious group but claiming all things in Bible are historical fact.


Some kids are more fortunate in countries where concepts of liberty, human rights, freedom had been well defined by their founding fathers. Here kids are less fortunate where the nation was found on a pseudo all-in-one system, with the degree of one’s right being in pro-rata basis on amount of one’s work-done (i.e. pseudo socialism) and where their primary/secondary teachers will be fed by this 100% rubbish from the Truth Lite organization -

'… people only focus on individual rights and overlook responsibilities and duties to society.’
'…advocates of extreme liberal ideals often use human rights to challenge the traditional social system.’
'… help educators understand the true meaning of human rights.’


Instead of taking some pseudo courses organized by Hong Kong governmental bodies, here is good slave and some other fellow architects recommended sources for the Hong Kong teachers, wish that would be informative -

John Stuart mill - on liberty
Rousseau - social contract
Hegel - elements of the philosophy of right
Kant - critiques...
David Hume - treatise of human nature
John Locke - concerning human understanding
Hobbes - leviathan
Marx - capital
Rawls - theory of justice
Russell - authority and the individual
Jiddu Krishnamurti
Giorgio Agamben' - of the moment
Montesquieu on separation of powers
Thoreau on civil disobedience.
Descartes - meditations
Spinoza - ethics
Deleuze and Guattari - 1000 plateaus / anti-oedipus
Jean Baudrillard - forget Foucault
Zizek - against human rights
Auguste Blanqui
Montaigne – essays
Antisthenes
Diogenes of Sinope
Max Stirner
Wilhelm Reich
Ema Goldman
Bakunin
Kropotkin
Proudhon
Plato
Nietzsche
Leibniz

In some countries, a number of the major figures listed above are mandatory subject as part of the education to become an architect. Since Hong Kong education has been a breeding ground for future serving of the developer’s greed and with no question asked, then what will become later?
Architects designing concentration campus for the minorities?... and with the same excuse they use to defend themselves of designing poor buildings when confronted by the public –
"don’t blame me, blame the system, we are just following orders from the government/developer” … however, that very much sounded like any defense you hear in those convictions of war trails.

Good slave is sorry for making this post a bit long and boring, here are some images from where you find more "rights to display human" than human right itself.

Sunday, May 20, 2007

In the mood for love



Outraging/unforgiving survey by Chinese University Students!
A survey on eroticism was conducted without any tipping to the general public on *desirable places for sex* except one - the campus which end up 4 out of 5 replies found it sexually not arousing... and this is very unforgiving for architects. (details here and here)

**technically speaking- 打野戰 or architecturally speaking- habitual de-territorization


一:你唔覺得做愛好悶既咩?
二:你唔覺得做愛好煩咩?最煩係d乜野?
三:你會唔會幻想過同阿爸阿媽兄弟姐妹做愛?(無論細個或而家都得!)
四:你有冇裝過佢地沖涼、換衫、自慰、做愛?
五:在街上什麼人(或動物/東西)最能挑起你的慾望?
六:你有冇幻想同朋友男朋友或女朋友做過愛?
七:如果有,你點樣處理你同你死黨同佢男或女朋友既幻想?
八:定係實現左幻想,咁你又點樣處理?
九:你自慰/打飛機時會諗住邊個?
十:你最想同咩動物做愛?
十一:你覺得一次過同幾多男幾多女做愛係最好(optimal/最理想)?
十二:你最想係中大邊度做愛?

答1:有適合gei地方咩,唔覺
答2:可以睇到吐露港景色又唔會有人望住的地方,大家有冇好介紹?
答3:對地方冇咩fetish總之室內有床o既私人空間咪得
答4:我係中大好多度地方都做過,無咩新地方好吸引好想再去,有去過既就…唔…都係無咩特別好吸引。如果有$都係去賓館好玩d,因為可以多d時間慢慢諗下睇下點做又可以傾下計又可以一齊食野做下食下又可以一齊沖涼…
答5:一路都想偷偷地走入lecture theatre攪,d 位又舒服,仲要攪到污糟晒果隻,等人唔知乜事坐上去

十三:你覺唔覺得宿舍唔俾男女過夜係歧視異性戀?十四:有冇因為性生活問題(又唔講出來)而影響愛情?


Eroticism is indexical to architecture since the primodial habitat appeared on this planet, the space of violence/desire/dissident and the object of desire evolve as oneness in eroticism*

*The cave paintings (between 15,000 and 13,000 BC) > Greek classical order (decorations representing sexual organs)> the baroque (the chambers of secrets)> avante garde (the incestral & the uncanny space) > postmodern (the sex on display)> now anything but cybersex


Then, how does architecture fade away from kids' sexual fantasy, of their imaginations to a mood that defines eroticism?
Has our education system been sterilized to an extent with no eroticism, no mood, just intercourse studies??
or
Has Hong Kong architecture been demoted to empty signs and devoid of erotic mood to the general public since long after the "big split" (architectural space<>object of desire) in our architectural education? ?

Here is good slave recommend reading list for our educator to revisit and to save our children's imaginations-

Colomina Beatrix writings on gender spaces.
A Clockwork Orange by Stanley Kubrick.
Stud, Architecture of Masculinity, edit by Joel Sanders
The Metastases of Enjoyment by Slavoj Zizek
Read my Desire, Lacan against the Historicists, by Joan Copjec
Encyclopaedia Acephalica by George Bataille
La Dolce Vita by Federico Fellini
Ulysses by James Joyce
Henry James
Edgar Allan Poe
紅樓夢
花樣年華 - 黃家衛
傾城之戀, 張愛玲
愈快樂愈墮落 - 關錦鵬


and many many more…


警 告:以 下 反 中 大 問 卷 人 仕 說 話 內 容 或 其 猙 獰 咀 臉 可 能 令 人 反 感 , 不 可 將 本 物 品 派 發 、 傳 閱 、 出 售 、 出 租 、 交 給 或 出 借 予 思 想 開 放 的 人 士 或 將 本 物 品 向 該 等 人 士 出 示 、 播 放 或 放 映.

Sunday, May 13, 2007

If you love somebody, set them free


Hong Kong has been noisy again on the issue of queen’s pier (noise here, here and here). This round more unnecessary sound bites added in support of HKIA’s stance on the issue (The Hong Kong Institute of Architects, details here) –
Its stance to the “In-situ Preservation” of Queen's Pier

What does “In-situ Preservation” preserve in the process of mummifying a piece of architecture? For preservation of collective memory, axial alignment, “sense of place" as highly praised in the midst of sound bites?

Sense of place -
A pier being mummified with concrete-shoe (in mafia’s term) is deemed to end its “being” of a pier along with its atmospheric conditions (i.e. sense of place) whether it is in-situ or not.
In Heidegger’s notion of “Building Dwelling Thinking” -

The dam forces the river to be what we want. It "enframes" it, makes it into something that is useful to us on our terms. The dam makes the river into hydro-electric power, and makes it into "standing reserve", or an abstraction ("energy") which is there for our use.

Thing-in-itself evolves with building, dwelling and thinking, mummification is a representation of “being” and not preserve the “being” in itself of any previous notion of a pier or any sense of place.

Axial alignment –
The spine that holds the queen’s pier complex together is the line of voids (a more appropriate architectural term for classical ideals, detail please refer to Palladio’s work) starts from Statue Square> Edinburgh Place > Star Ferry Pier > ad infinitum (i.e. water front), once the vanishing point of this line of voids been broken/blocked by future developments (i.e. luxurious residential towers, commercial skyscrapers), the remaining parts of the subsidiary axis (city hall>queen’s pier> Edinburgh Place etc) serves no meaning of its origin whether they align with any higher form of terrestrial/celestial objects.

Collective memory -
Architecture evokes memories with many aspects – replacement/displacement, disappearance/appearance, transparencies/opaque, dislodgement/cohabitate… The belief “to in-situ in order to preserve” is rather wishful thinking or being least imaginative to mummify a building while the surroundings being eradicated drastically by greed and thoughtless authorities.

Examples of imaginative "preservations" here, documentaries soon appear on CNN and BBC.

Saturday, May 5, 2007

逆光 against the light

孫燕姿 我懷念的

我問為什麼那女孩傳簡訊給我 而你為什麼 不解釋低著頭沉默 我該相信你很愛我 不願意敷衍我 還是明白你已不想挽回什麼 想問為什麼 我不再是你的快樂 可是為什麼 卻苦笑說我都懂了 自尊常常將人拖著 把愛都走曲折 假裝了解是怕 真相太赤裸裸 狼狽比失去難受 我懷念的 是無話不說 我懷念的 是一起作夢 我懷念的 是爭吵以後還是想要愛你的衝動 我記得那年生日 也記得那一首歌 記得那片星空 最緊的右手 最暖的胸口 誰 記得 誰 忘了 想問為什麼 我不再是你的快樂 可是為什麼 卻苦笑說我都懂了 自尊常常將人拖著 把愛都走曲折 假裝了解是怕 真相太赤裸裸 狼狽比失去難受 我懷念的 是無話不說 我懷念的 是一起作夢 我懷念的 是爭吵以後還是想要愛你的衝動 我記得那年生日 也記得那一首歌 記得那片星空 最緊的右手 最暖的胸口 誰 忘了 我懷念的 是無言感動 我懷念的 是絕對炙熱 我懷念的 是你很激動求我原諒抱得我都痛 我記得你在背後 也記得我顫抖著 記得感覺洶湧 最美的煙火 最長的相擁 誰愛的太自由 誰過頭太遠了 誰要走我的心 誰忘了 那就是承諾 誰自顧自地走 誰忘了看著我 誰讓愛變沉重 誰忘了要給你溫柔 Woo Oh~~我懷念的是爭吵以後還是想要愛你的衝動 我記得那年生日 也記得那一首歌 記得那片星空 最緊的右手 最暖的胸口 我放手 我讓座 假灑脫 誰懂我多麼不捨得 太愛了 所以我 沒有哭 沒有說

The format of the lyrics reminds me the making of ancient Chinese scripture – In ancient time, man made the sentences and his maid* inserted punctuations in between for completion. In the other words, the maid was his quasi-muse and her task was to read the master-mind.
*The maid being a domestic virgin serving the writer was also believed to be the origin of Chinese prostitution.

Since good slave is only slave to passion not love, I suppose this may also applies to love relations where men sporadically make the scenes and women add “: - . , ? !” to the relations to create her own loving logic. In architecture, the structure of “sentences vs. punctuations” has later been theorized as “functional space vs. residual space*”, and the origin of prostitution vs. the origin of architecture intermingle in the making of history.
*some calls it feminin space, but I like residual better

Friday, May 4, 2007

Hong Kong Famous Designers Association


WARNING: THIS ARTICLE CONTAINS MATERIAL WHICH MAY OFFEND AND MAY NOT BE DISTRIBUTED, CIRCULATED, SOLD, HIRED, GIVEN, LENT, SHOWN, PLAYED OR PROJECTED TO A PERSON WHO IS NOT FAMOUS.
警 告:本 物 品 內 容 可 能 令 人 反 感 , 不 可 將 本 物 品 派 發 、 傳 閱 、 出 售 、 出 租 、 交 給 或 出 借 予 出 名 的 人 士 或 將 本 物 品 向 該 等 人 士 出 示 、 播 放 或 放 映.


Restricted (R) - The Authority may prohibit the display, exhibition, sale, lease, rental, exchange or distribution of the materials where the materials contain:

A graphic or prolonged scene of banality, cliché, mediocre, second-rate, sleazy, horror or human degradation;

The depiction of humiliation of human beings for the purposes of fame gratification or as pleasing to the victim of fame;


A scene where person who dress in all black is or is intended to represent others being inferior to the industry due to his/her non-famous status and appears in a scene of explicit and exploitative red wine drinking activity.

Sunday, April 22, 2007

Wish u were here

Korean B-Boy in town

Couldn't be more architectural than these-

Power, pivoting control, distribution of weak & strong movement, core strength, mental construct balancing points, gesture vs posture, inertia vs agile, bending vs creeping...

...all with an attitude.

Korean B-boy battle with US back then

Ubiquitous Shades

Ubiquity (or being everywhereness) is an architectural disorder, a form of kaleidoscopic delusion manfests itself into various symptoms -

Schizophrenic design, crazy
form, dementedness detail, deranging organization, flakiness surface, insane function, irrational scheme, mad construction, psychopathic interior, cataleptic circulations, paranoiac display, hypersomnia landscape, insane, unreasoning…

The most common symptom is Megalomania, a “Green” overdose of inductive reasoning-


Green is good
Sunshades have attributes of Green

More green ≡ better
.˙. More Sunshades are material equivalent to better
Everywhereness Green is more than perfect
.˙. Everywhereness Shades are material equivalent to more than perfect

Megalomaniac actions-

Provide many sunshades for solid walls &
Provide many sunshades for open stairways &
Provide many sunshades for roofs & plant rooms &
Provide many sunshades for windows with a view &
Provide many sunshades at everywhereness
≡ perfect world


Floodwater Tank Pumping Station 蓄洪池抽水站


Education and Manpower Bureau 教育统籌局




International School 國際學校

The very convenient truth – The wooden formwork for the concrete sunshades of a residential tower can make up a forest. The manufacturing industries for aluminum are major pollution in China. Details here or Google here.

Tuesday, April 17, 2007

Seperated at birth

@China - Developer vs. People

Bloggers give a damn > People win
Details here

@Hong Kong - Developer vs. Government & People

Government don't give a damn > People lost (as always)
Details here in chinese & english

Monday, April 16, 2007

The magic sound bites - “Green, Multi-functional, Interactive”



Hong Kong is a noisy place, the frequency you hear of the magic sound bites in a presentation is very often in proportion to the degree of the building being much ado about nothing. Thoughtless spaces/ everywhereness sun-shades/ useless gadgets end up being labeled as “Multi-functional, Green, Interactive” respectively. Rarely do buildings live up to their claims nor anyone care about their implications for being a sound bite.

Escort industries redefine our habitual diagrams, their penetrations via internet into the hotels have ambiguously committed to our magical claims:

Interactive – An interactive space renders the shift of habitual domains. From virtual> real> hyper-real, 2D> 3D> 4D, immaterial> material> massive... You enter here> made selection> maneuver within city> bodily encounter… This shift of domain is interactive.

Green – Any change of use requires 0 remodeling is green.

Multi-functional – A shift of function where every elements are being utilized to the full extend. From being resort to escort, leisure to erotica, space unaltered while the sequence of action varies at every encounter. Showering, undressing, sexual intercourse, the habitual bubble diagrams are constantly refined by the escort services within an idling space of a hotel room.

In this regards, good slave recommend to substitute the magic word with a code:141 in future presentation, a form of environmental measure for Hong Kong to become a less noisy place.


Disclaimer: the stating of a social phenomenon at this blog here do not necessary promote nor encourage any terrestrial being to support or engage in the escort industry.

Wednesday, April 11, 2007

Buy it now and believe me later


Good slave wishes there were days when fashion tycoon like LV invites feng shui masters for promotion with slogan "Wear Prada now and your descendents be rich later"

or showing other designer brand "Chanel, Hermes" in their commercials so as to imply their standard of quality...

then Igood slave knows we can all go naked and save some $$ for the needed.

Monday, April 9, 2007

中國國歌 香港版 Chinese National Anthem

起来!不愿做奴隶的人们! Arise, ye who refuse to be slaves;

把我们的血肉,With our very flesh and blood

筑成我们新的长城!Let us build our new Great Wall!

中华民族到了最危险的时候,The Peoples of China are in the most critical time,

每个人被迫着发出最后的吼声。Everybody must roar his defiance.

起来!起来!起来!Arise! Arise! Arise!

我们万众一心, Millions of hearts with one mind,

冒着敌人的炮火,Brave the enemy's gunfire,

前进!March on!

冒着敌人的炮火,前进!Brave the enemy's gunfire,

前进!前进!进!March on! March on! March on, on!

If the emergence of a nation defined by our founding father of not seeing oneself as slave and the struggle/conflict must continue and be celebrated through generations...

then as per Hong Kong Government recommendation, we being the descendents of former slaves shall enjoy the luxuries of life as means to defy slavery and to uphold our awareness.

Lyrics: Arise, ye who refuse to be slaves; > Images: Children enjoying education in a chinese style interior classroom.

Lyrics: With our very flesh and blood > Images: Family having a warm feast (Norman Rockwell style).

Lyrics: The Peoples of China are in the most dangerous time, > Images: People having check up by the Hong Kong medicals.

Lyrics: Brave the enemy's gunfire, March on! > Images: People enjoy viewing sexy models doing the runway show.

Good slave is not quite sure if our government being différance in meaning or just being purely deconstructivist of our nation's founding principle? (... of course good slave mean architecturally speaking)