0766 HKSAR Name of the Day

Janson Or, Kam Chung, accountant, Hong Kong

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Name Category: Rare; Son-suffix

0765 HKSAR Name of the Day

Tasman Leung, Chin Wan, doctor, Hong Kong

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Name Category: Rare

0764 HKSAR Name of the Day

Carmelo Lee Ka Sze, solicitor, Hong Kong

About Novel HKSAR Names
Name Category: Rare

Job Search Glitch

I just tried to search for names that are "job-based" on this blog, without any success (i.e. no results). This is odd because I know that I have job-based novel names here, such as:

Mango Tsang (0066)

Myotin Chang (0108)

Bankee Kwan (0153)

Kaiser Chiu (0168)

Cycles Poon (0205)

Achilles Lee (0677)


I also tried without using the hyphen "job based". Again, with no results. In fact, there should be no problem using hyphens since searching for "phonetic-based" names yields the correct results.

Does anyone know why there is this glitch? Is this a glitch in the matrix? Lol.

0763 HKSAR Name of the Day

Gulliver Nguy, Sy Ty, accountant, Hong Kong

About Novel HKSAR Names
Name Category: Rare; Literature-based

Second Whale Sighting in Hong Kong

Hong Kong’s second whale sighting occurred last Saturday 19 February 2011, two years following the first sighting. Unfortuately, this time there are no photos … only eyewitness accounts. This is how the SCMP reported it (Whale sighted at weekend thought to be calf, Feb 23, 2011):

A whale sighted off Pok Fu Lam on Saturday may already have left Hong Kong, with conservation officials yesterday confirming there were at least two sightings over the weekend.

A Pok Fu Lam resident who saw the whale from a distance suspected it was a baby humpback. Officers who conducted a search said it was probably a whale but they could not determine the species.

The Pok Fu Lam resident who reported the sighting on Saturday said yesterday: "It was a small one, perhaps three metres long. It was swimming between Lamma and Cyberport and heading south. It left the water sometimes and we could see its tail." She said the whale was spotted in the evening and it spent two hours swimming in the area. But poor visibility made it difficult to take pictures.

For some wonderful whale photos from the 2009 sighting, see here.

0762 HKSAR Name of the Day

Gallant Chiu (Mr), administrative staff, Centre on Behavioural Health, University of Hong Kong, Hong Kong

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Name Category: Creation; Self-important

Hot Hong Kong Girls Inspire Pinky Doll

Pinky is the name of a hot new doll created to represent Hong Kong girls.

Artist Jacqueline Nielsen with Jessica Yeung Yin-sum, the inspiration for Pinky — a doll Nielsen says is a realistic portrayal of Hong Kong girls. Photo: Jonathan Wong

According to the SCMP news article (Move over Barbie - here comes Pinky, the real doll for HK girls, Feb 20, 2011), Pinky is modelled on Jessica Yeung. The creator, Jacqueline Nielsen, said Hong Kong girls are:

… mysterious and sexy and Pinky the doll is designed to celebrate that.

Hong Kong girls are misunderstood. [Many people] see them as noisy, picky and materialistic girls.

Nielsen says Pinky is:

... a piano instructor who loves photography and travel. She wears a pink dress and fluffy scarf, has wavy hair, does her make-up to perfection, and wears a shoulder bag.

If there is a point to the above comments in the SCMP news article, then I am at a loss as to what that point is. Generally speaking, if gweipo Nielsen is referring to the Asian Mystique, which includes Hong Kong girls as a subset, then it is safe to say that their “mystique” includes having all of the stereotypical characteristics mentioned above. That is, Hong Kong girls are stereotypically mysterious, sexy, noisy, picky and materialistic. And then some!

The SCMP news article confounds readers by describing this typically cutesy Hong Kong girl Jessica Yeung, who is Nielsen's inspiration for Pinky, as a 26-year-old who worked in the financial sector. Nielsen is also hoping:

... to make a series of such dolls, with different faces and different outfits. She is also looking into the possibility of deals with big brands that Hong Kong girls like, such as Chanel and Louis Vuitton, to produce small items for the dolls.

And Nielsen doesn't believe Hong Kong girls are noisy, picky and materialistic?? She thinks Hong Kong girls, like Yeung, are just mysterious and sexy? Lol.


It should be obvious that Pinky is a wonderful stereotype of Hong Kong girls … in much the same way as Barbie is a wonderful stereotype of white chicks of the sexy dumb blonde variety.

Why not describe Pinky for what she really is? Why not describe Jessica Yeung for what she really is? And why not make the Pinky doll even more realistic by giving it brown highlighted hair, instead of the so unfashionable black hair?? Yeung has trendy brown tinted hair.


NOTE: This blog has so far collected three real Pinky names of Hong Kong girls (see 0016, 0150 and 0427). I wonder what their personalities and physical traits are? Are these real-life Pinkys (Hongkies) anything like the Pinky doll and Jessica Yeung? Lol.

0761 HKSAR Name of the Day

Starry Wong (Ms), massage therapist, Sutherland-Chan Centre, Hong Kong

(see Starry Lee 0267 HKSAR Name of the Day)

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Name Category: Creation

0760 HKSAR Name of the Day

Yammi MY Yuen, research coordinator, Centre on Behavioural Health, University of Hong Kong, Hong Kong

About Novel HKSAR Names
Name Category: Creation; Substitution

0759 HKSAR Name of the Day

Hermia Lee, Tsim Sha Tsui, Hong Kong (SCMP letters 21 Feb 2010)

Note: Applied invalid logic in her letter (re: Chinese v Western ethics)

About Novel HKSAR Names
Name Category: Rare

0758 HKSAR Name of the Day

Nicon Lam, Hong Kong businessman (homeless in 2010), Hong Kong

About Novel HKSAR Names
Name Category: Creation

0757 HKSAR Name of the Day

Rainbow Ho Tin-hung (Ms), assistant professor, Centre on Behavioural Health, University of Hong Kong, Hong Kong

About Novel HKSAR Names
Name Category: Rare; Literal; Nature-based

Vanity Plate: U WISH

Up yours too!!



About car plate, licence plate, number plate, registration plate, vanity plate

0756 HKSAR Name of the Day

Adan Lam Wing-cheung, 24-year-old Hong Kong-born Nimitz aircraft mechanic (US aircraft carrier stopping over in Hong Kong in 2010)

About Novel HKSAR Names
Name Category: Rare

Deflated Balls

Notice the dude in the suit, who is obviously a basketball player, not being terribly impressed by this flying female doing a double dunk.

A Houston Rockets Power Dancer rises for a double dunk during the interval entertainment in an NBA game against the Denver Nuggets. Pic from Getty Images.

If her balls were properly inflated, firm and bouncy, then perhaps he would be suitably impressed?

0755 HKSAR Name of the Day

Osmond Lam, barrister (defending local celebrity Francis Ng Chun-yu 2010), Hong Kong

About Novel HKSAR Names
Name Category: Rare

0754 HKSAR Name of the Day

Rosetti Yip, chief executive (appointed September 28, 2009), SMI Publishing (the firm that owns Sing Pao, a local Chinese newspaper), Hong Kong

About Novel HKSAR Names
Name Category: Creation

No Sex Please, We’re Chinese

Question: Instead of promoting love and affection and a feel-good factor, why do individuals in the media and governments negatively associate sex with St Valentine’s Day?
Answer: Because they are the ones who are really obsessed with sex.

First up, naughty SCMP provides a cheeky news story that engages in lots of double entendres. Words like “erection” and “erected” appear four times in the 392-word news article about an illegal sign that prohibits couples from parking somewhere in Clear Water Bay and making out.

Naughty SCMP also plagiarized the definition of the term dogging from Wikipedia, copying the following line in its news article (without any attribution):

Dogging is a British euphemism for engaging in sexual acts in a public or semi-public place or watching others doing so.

Translation by SCMP: "In front of the ancestral tombs, don't mess around. Ghosts and gods are witnesses to what is happening. You will be responsible for the consequences." Pic from Edward Wong.

Be afraid. Be very afraid. Because ghosts and gods are watching you!!!

According to this article in Wired in 2004, dogging is pretty widespread in Britain and up to 60% of country parks is used for this activity. What percentage of Hong Kong’s country parks, including the remote locale along Hang Hau Wing Lung Road in Clear Water Bay where the sign is located, is used for dogging?

Aside: The person(s) who designed the sign should be applauded for creating a professional and interesting-looking sign. The Hong Kong Government could do no worse than to hire the designer as a consultant to help perk up (guffaw) its own drab and uninteresting public signs.

BTW, Spike at Hongkie Town has a couple of great posts about No Dogging in Clearwater Bay and about Hong Kong's ridiculous traffic signs.


No Sex Please, We’re Malaysian (BBC News)

This second “no sex” story is religiously influenced. The celebration of romantic love is not suitable for muslims in Malaysia, according to Deputy Prime Minister Muhyiddin Yassin.

There are about 18 million muslims in Malaysia’s 28 million population. Pic from Reuters.

No Sex Please, We're Google

Finally, the Google Doodle for St Valentine's Day (below) is far from lovely. In fact, it is positively sickening. Stare at it for only a few seconds and feel the dizziness and nausea kick in.

Again, is this another message to everyone in the world to avoid having sex during St Valentine's Day ... or at most other times too!!??

St Valentine’s Day Google Doodle. Makes you sick, doesn't it?

Did this Google Doodle appear in browsers in Malaysia? Does anyone know? Either way, the censors win.
a) If the doodle appeared in Malaysia, the Malaysian government can claim freedom of expression (while everyone throws up from Google's nauseating sign, pleasing muslim leaders).
b) If the doodle did not appear in Malaysia, then the muslims can claim a major victory too (leaving the Malaysian government to claim that the Google Doodle is so terribly designed to be considered worthy to grace web browsers in Malaysia).


Sex Please, We're Healthy Humans
In the 21st Century, why are there still Victorian (and pre-Victorian) and religious calls for "No Sex Please"?

To counter all this negativity about intimacy and sexual oppression, why not play this song I Just Had Sex or simply take a look at John McEnroe's expression!! Or better still ... just have sex!!

0753 HKSAR Name of the Day

Tsarina Yim Kwai Heung (Ms), Institute of Chinese Studies, Chinese University of Hong Kong, Hong Kong

About Novel HKSAR Names
Name Category: Creation; Self-important
[even the email account, tsarina at cuhk.edu.hk, stands out!]

0752 HKSAR Name of the Day

Romeo Law Chung Man (Mr), Technician, School of Creative Media, City University of Hong Kong, Hong Kong

[Note 1: staff at the School of Creative Media appear to have a preference for Literature-based novel names. See 0744 HKSAR Name of the Day.

Note 2: search for School of Creative Media and it appears the staff there try very hard indeed to be “creative” or at least a bit novel and noticeable.]

P.S. Happy St Valentine's Day!

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Name Category: Literature-based; Rare; Self-important

0751 HKSAR Name of the Day

Bibianna Yu (Ms), clinical optometrist, Department of Optometry and Radiography, Hong Kong Polytechnic University, Hong Kong

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Name Category: Rare

0750 HKSAR Name of the Day

Judia Yue Sau Chun (Miss), Department Of Social Work, Chinese University of Hong Kong, Hong Kong

About Novel HKSAR Names
Name Category: Creation; Substitution

0749 HKSAR Name of the Day

Janica Wong (Dr), lecturer, Department Of Optometry & Radiography, Hong Kong Polytechnic University, Hong Kong

About Novel HKSAR Names
Name Category: Rare

Andy Murray, Product of a Tiger Mother

Andy Murray’s third consecutive loss in a grand slam final, at the 2011 Australian Open, revealed an interesting phenomenon. That is, he appears to be trying desperately hard to live up to the expectations of his mother, Judy Murray who is a Tiger Mum (SMH news article link here). She is Scottish, not Chinese or “Asian”.


Of the recent blogs about Amy Chua and Tiger parenting, I enjoyed reading Gweipo’s posts (see here, here, here, and there).

There are obviously some good points about the Tiger parenting approach … but I can’t help think that Andy Murray is, at least so far as can be observed, trying so desperately hard to win a Grand Slam for people other than himself. Does he want to succeed for his Tiger mother, and also for his entourage? It doesn’t appear to be for himself (which is perhaps a symptom of Tiger parenting?).

From a sports psychological POV, perhaps if Andy Murray were to take the pressure off a little and just play for himself and for his enjoyment then that might result in a significant change. Who knows? He can’t do any worse than what he has done so far, can he?

0748 HKSAR Name of the Day

Joen Lee Jik, professor, Department Of Social Work, Chinese University of Hong Kong, Hong Kong

About Novel HKSAR Names
Name Category: Creation; Substitution

0747 HKSAR Name of the Day

Julius Wong Chin Pang (Mr), Instructor, School of Creative Media, City University of Hong Kong, Hong Kong

About Novel HKSAR Names
Name Category: Literature-based?; Rare; Self-important

0746 HKSAR Name of the Day

Camus Choy (Dr), lecturer, Department Of Optometry & Radiography, Hong Kong Polytechnic University, Hong Kong

About Novel HKSAR Names
Name Category: Creation

Google Hei Fat Choi

From time to time, Google's home search page presents relevant greetings of the day. This was their tribute to the Year of the Rabbit, last Thursday 3 February 2011.

Upside-down Fook character. Nice!


Serious message time: Gift bunnies not such a cute idea, warn groups (The Standard)

The Society for the Prevention of Cruelty to Animals said 194 rabbits were abandoned last year, up 3 percent from 188 abandoned in 2009. But [the SPCA] warned that the figure may rise by 30 to 40 percent this year because more people bought or gave rabbits to celebrate the new lunar year.

That's a prediction of up to 271 rabbits being abandoned for 2011. SPCA director of welfare Fiona Woodhouse also said:

Boyfriends who plan to buy rabbits for their girlfriends on Valentine's Day should find something else.

Woodhouse was talking about girlfriends, right? Lol. Any gf who likes to own a rabbit simply because it is trending now deserves to be replaced. And any bf who thinks it is a good idea to buy a rabbit (or a pet) for someone wholly on a whim should be single. IMHO.


On a related note, last year was the Year of the Tiger. So going by these "traditional" attitudes, Chinese people should have been respecting tigers relatively better in "their" year. I wonder how many tigers, especially in China, were maltreated, abused and killed in 2010?

0745 HKSAR Name of the Day

Rance Lee Pui Leung, professor, Department Of Sociology, Chinese University of Hong Kong, Hong Kong

About Novel HKSAR Names
Name Category: Rare

0744 HKSAR Name of the Day

Hamlet Lin Yin Bong (Mr), Senior Research Assistant, School of Creative Media, City University of Hong Kong, Hong Kong

About Novel HKSAR Names
Name Category: Literature-based; Rare; Self-important

0743 HKSAR Name of the Day

Zeno Leung Chuen-suen (Mr), lecturer, Department Of Applied Social Sciences, Hong Kong Polytechnic University, Hong Kong

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Name Category: Rare

0742 HKSAR Name of the Day

Yannie Cheung Ho Yan (Miss), Department Of Sociology, Chinese University of Hong Kong, Hong Kong

About Novel HKSAR Names
Name Category: Creation; Phonetic-based; Substitution

0741 HKSAR Name of the Day

Kimburley Choi Wing Yee (Dr), Instructor, School of Creative Media, City University of Hong Kong, Hong Kong

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Name Category: Creation; Substitution

0740 HKSAR Name of the Day

Travis S.K. Kong (Dr), lecturer, Department Of Applied Social Sciences, Hong Kong Polytechnic University, Hong Kong

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Name Category: Rare

0739 HKSAR Name of the Day

Elec Lam Kong (Mr), School Of Journalism And Communication, Chinese University of Hong Kong, Hong Kong

About Novel HKSAR Names
Name Category: Creation; Substitution