Been a little sick lately. Something’s going around. I did not let that chicken sneeze on me, no officer sir. Hopefully I’m better for my day off tomorrow, or at least for the weekend.
On 1st January 2007, Hong Kong ushered in a new smoking ban. Previously, a general indoor smoking ban had been in place, with some exceptions for food and drink. Now… many bars and clubs successfully received a two-year stay of execution, the smoking areas on the Lingnan campus (already restricted) no longer exist, and smoking is banned in many public parks. Upshot? There’s no smoking in the smoking areas, so people gather outside the gate and flick butts into the grass or gutter instead of a waiting trashtray. The parks have smoking areas, so if you are walking down the Tuen Mun Promenade, you get to walk through an intense cluster of smokers every few dozen meters instead of their sitting far enough apart for you to not even notice. All this, and the bars and clubs will still smoke you up and the smoking in small shady arcades-full of mobile phone shops and whatnot continues just as illegally as before.
The only benefit I’ve noticed is getting to laugh at the tobacco executives forced to leave Asiaworld-Expo to sample their wares. Had that one coming, yessir.
On Saturday, I may visit the Dafen “painting village” in Shenzhen. Look it up, or I’ll post stuff for you if I make it out there.
I suppose it’s bad luck for me to even mention this, but I should anyway: I am trying to go to the Philippines for Chinese New Year. I have a return HKG-MNL from 15-26 Feb. Wish me luck, and don’t tell the typhoons this time.
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