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  • CAN SOMEONE PLEASE TELL ME WHY HONG KONG PEOPLE ARE SO GRUMPY??

    2008-10-29 4:17AM / 標準BLOG / 會員可以看
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    CAN SOMEONE PLEASE TELL ME WHY HONG KONG PEOPLE ARE SO GRUMPY??


    I AM NOT WRITING THIS TO OFFEND ANYONE, BUT I JUST KEEP HEARING PEOPLE SAY THAT.....THIS IS HK...LIVE WITH IT
    I HAVE LIVED IN MANY COUNTRIES AND I JUST DON'T SEEM TO UNDERSTAND WHY ARE THEY SO GRUMPY...TAXI CABS....RUDE AND AGGRO TO THE EXTREME....7-11...I ALWAYS FEEL THE URGE TO SAY SORRY FOR ASKING THEM WHERE THE TRASH CAN IS....
    WHY ? WHY ? WHY? WHY IS THAT?
    ARE WE IN A FINANCIAL CRISIS?? IT HAS NOTHING TO DO WITH THE DAMN STOCKS....
    IS IT CULTURAL...? PEOPLE IN MACAU AIN'T LIKE THAT...AND WE ARE ONLY AN HOUR AWAY...IS THE RENT TOO EXPENSIVE? YOU HAVE A CHOICE TO NOT LIVE HERE...AND IF U TELL ME THAT U DON'T..AM SORRY BUT U ARE IN SERIOUS DENIAL MY FELLOW AnD friends....
    DON'T BOTHER COMMENTING IF U ARE PLANNING TO SHIT ON THIS PARTICULAR BLOG....
    I JUST WANT TO KNOW WHY......THAT'S ALL

    PEACE AND TRANQUILITY!!!
    JUN KUNG

    HK cabbies...If u got balls....DOnt just shit talk....
    watch this and U will see how real men do it...not just shout and be rude! enjoy guys !!!
    Video: http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=N1-25s4uwFQ&feature=related



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  • LingTse
    藝術家空間  謝裕鈴
    留言於2008-11-04 3:11PM [举报]
    hehe.. cool ice fight-key game video attached!!! WOOHOO~!!!
  • LingTse
    藝術家空間  謝裕鈴
    留言於2008-11-04 3:06PM [举报]
    HAHAHA!! grumpy jun is whining abt the grumpy city!!! ;p... oops... sorry, hehe.. just laugh with it man!!! ;)
  • SaiyanMacau
    藝術家空間 Saiyan Macau
    留言於2008-11-04 12:00PM [举报]
    i hope can make the balance between 852 & 853
  • jonathanlee
    藝術家空間 Jonathan Lee
    留言於2008-10-31 12:27PM [举报]
    i think it is partly just people being really uptight with work and the economy.  not just now but in general everyday settings. hong kong society is very much a work/results driven society and when things don't go down well (which is quite often), people get stressed and grumpy.
  • jeannehartman
    藝術家空間 Jeanne Hartman
    留言於2008-10-30 9:21AM [举报]
    Personally I think it is the HUMIDITY!.  No one has mentioned that yet.  But comared to other cities I found HK really helpful but of course I probably looked so lost at times they took pity on me.  
    Jun,  I have been feeling that way about here, LA since I got back from HK.  Maybe I am looking for it.  Or Maybe it is TRUE!
    Anyway I miss you all and HK.  Ask jason t. about how I handled the bad cabby the last day!!!   My NY came out but the nice cabby had my favorite flowers in his cab so I felt better about my choice!!!
    talk soon
    Jeanne
  • Etchy
     Etchy
    留言於2008-10-30 3:21AM [举报]
    i get grumpy on these crowded polluted sidewalks!
  • Shandy
    Shandy
    留言於2008-10-29 10:22PM [举报]
    Physics..Ya i guess thatz the word! Passing of energy...letz imagine..staying in a cab whole day worrying for that hundreds to feed their family...that would bore us to death...but thatz their life! so to stop the grumpy cycle, next time, may be just tell a joke to the taxi dai-lo, or praise wutever u find it worth praising (hard?!) .. or just wish them fat-choi, they needed to be cheered up!! and need a way out (no matter how ordinary their problems are..). we r lucky, got this space to yell out.. n i believe ppl here in AnD r creative enough to think of fun ways in twisting the cycle..HKers r stressed out! go cheer them up! (omg..this sounds like a campaign?!?!)
  • RachelP
    藝術家空間 Rachel P
    留言於2008-10-29 6:45PM [举报]
    Kongers don't have much consideration for strangers that's why, stereotypically speaking Kongers are the ones who don't have a problem showing the fact that they just want what's good for themselves.

    Me as a responder, depends on what mood I'm in, sometimes I react by extra nice just to make them feel bad..sometimes when i'm in a pissy mood i just say it in their faces... just to.. get this horrible cycle going? haha

    good luck ! :p u gunna be at the halloween bash?
  • robin_chi
    藝術家空間  齊樂平
    留言於2008-10-29 6:29PM [举报]
    I so agree with Sean and Don, ppl get grumpy because they think by being grumpy, they get what they want, and they know ppl won't say a thing about it.

    in many cases, taxi drivers get grumpy, cos the passengers get grumpy, the sales at 7-11 get grumpy cos the customers get grumpy.

    it's physics, newtons law, they push u, u move, and if u keep moving, they keep pushing, but if u stand still, they can't push u anymore. etc.etc.etc.
  • antonwong
    藝術家空間 Anton Wong
    留言於2008-10-29 3:10PM [举报]
    it is the pressure and the financial crisis.  and the way i deal with rude people probably made it worse:  i yell back at them, new yorker style.

    damn that pressure..
  • jaymee
    jaymee
    留言於2008-10-29 2:33PM [举报]
    seriously, during my 8 day stay in HK, i've met nothing but nice people. OR RATHER, my expectations were so low because before i went there everyone was warning me about people that i might meet but hey! i was surprised!!

    but anyway, that's just the outer side. the inner truth, mayb it's true that it's culture. i'm not saying it's chinese culture because i'm totally chinese myself but it's the way they think they can survive in this gruesome world maybe. rude ppl do not only exist in HK but then the size and pace of it makes it seem magnified.

    CHILL BRO!!! WE ALL LOVE U!! LoL
  • rottendoubt
     rottendoubt
    留言於2008-10-29 12:56PM [举报]
    hmm, i try to fight rudeness with niceness.  i try to always say "thank you" to cab drivers when they give me change, even if they were rude.

    of course, sometimes if i'm in a bad mood i might not...
  • doncruz
    藝術家空間 Don Cruz
    留言於2008-10-29 12:44PM [举报]
    I agree with Sean... Let them know...  you have every right to voice your opinion verbally or physically but not violently... Don't let shitheads try to walk over you... That's what 'that' song last night should be about man!!!

    This is inspiring me to say something to this dude who has been talking a lot of shit about a lot of musicians... this guy needs a wake up call...
  • Shandy
    Shandy
    留言於2008-10-29 11:50AM [举报]
    Hey guys sorry if I would offend anyone. For taxi drivers, I was born here, n I truly feel that a lot of them had improved in recent yrs…so far I did encounter some nice taxi drivers, greeted u and politely return u the changes; one was listening to RTHK Radio 4 classical music channel (can u imagine that?) and find that pleasing; the other one shared w me that he’s actually relative of Yuen Wing-Yi (Chi-lam’s wife) which he does look like her. And when I was half-drunken, they drove me home safely but not sending me to elsewhere (omg..i wish that would never happen).
    For 7-11, I did encounter keen staff from branches; and for LKF’s 7-11, I think they r actually risking their life working there for $2x/hr..ppl there are mostly drunken, and expect efficiency..wut kind of work-life that would be? Their face might look bad becuz they r so tense in handling all the transactions…they r yelling helpless everynight I guess!
    Both are living a very hard life indeed, for their monthly salary might be of only 4-digits…for taxi drivers here at least they seldom cheat..n if u ve special request like lowering down the radio vol, let them know of the reason (sensitive ear..etc), cuz they r mostly laymen and wont understand y I should keep my work-tool quiet..and as long as u guys r here in HK, I hope u live happily and I m just trying my v little effort in dissolving the misunderstandings, I m not asking to relax standards, but just step back, n u’ll see better…(agree w andylau’s XD note too) xD
  • Katie_x
    Katie_x
    留言於2008-10-29 11:38AM [举报]
    I have quite shamefully never been to HK before.. but I do hear this a lot from all the people who have been HK and that is a lot of people. *shrugs* I haven't even experienced it so I have no idea why =/
  • seantierney
    藝術家空間 Sean Tierney
    留言於2008-10-29 11:04AM [举报]
    I think it's the pressure, the pace, and, quite seriously, the total absence of violence or social/public discord (no one wants to start a scene) in the society. In an American city, being rude will get called on, and shoving people on the train will lead to some sort of violence. Hence, we know better than to do that stupid stuff. I think people are rude and obnoxious because they think they can get away with it, and they usually do. If you call people on it (like cutting the queue), they are embarrassed and stop. So they know they're wrong. It's just that people usually won't say anything or kick their @ss.

    Sometimes, when I've run out of patience, I just 'walk people out of my way' on the train; they're supposed to let passengers exit first, and since I weigh 3x what they do, I can walk off the train right through them. They have no grounds to be upset; I am simply mirroring their behavior.

    And if they are upset? F@#$ 'em.
  • missyk
    藝術家空間 MissyK*
    留言於2008-10-29 9:57AM [举报]
    I've turned into the type of chic that if a cab driver is rude, or 7/11 or  where ever really - when I get that I think a couple of things, first why am I in this situation - law of attraction states we attract this things to us and have to look at 'Why'? Is it Karma? My problem was I wasn't 'Aware' of things I was doing and how it was affecting people, still actually not 100% there but thats ok - we keep trecking on and learning in life. Another thing is rather than feed of that energy and get stressed out try and ask 'Are you alright? Having a bad day?' and ask with a smile. That might make the other person realise how rude they have been or even make them smile that a stranger care enough to ask.

    Its simple really there can be one million reasons for rudeness. Unfortunate for us we notice more negative actions than positive actions. Don't pay attention and if it does affect you try and turn it around in a neutral or positive manner.

    When people bump into me at the MTR I just say out loud 'Excuse me that really hurt my leg OUCH' and most of the time they turn around and appologize. Or I say 'Hey no need to push me, you can say excuse me and I'll move' . . .

    Another time I was carrying dinner home, some of which was with piping hot soup big big bowl  and if some one bumped me it was cause more than horrible burns. It was rush hour, and being me I turned around to a stuffy crowd of about 30 persons where the MTR doors were about to open and said, "I'm sorry everyone, but I want to ask you to KINDLY not push or shove on this MTR entrance, I hope its not a lot to ask but I am only a little girl with a big bowl of hot piping soup, if this spills I could get burned really badly as well as some other people on the MTR. Please be cautious and kind" then two lovely young Japanese men out of no where formmed a circle with other locals around me and said "we'll make sure it doesn't happen, what stop you get off we'll be there!"

    I turned around a situation before it happend. I knew that if I didnt say anything that the UNAWARE Hong Kong person would push and shove and the accident would be critical!

    I always tell people if it really bothers them how Hong Kong people act then take a step forward and do something about it.

    At the end of the day, we dont know if their dog died or family member in hospital. If their husband or wife lost their jobs and are stressed about meeting ends . . . We just dont know and I try not to assume too much but rather help the energy around me be more neutral.

    . . . Hope that wasn't waaaayyyyy too long! :)) x
  • kerryh91
    kerryh91
    留言於2008-10-29 8:16AM [举报]
    i honestly don't know...
    but its the people at the ID place that really cheese me off. Last time i was there, they were so arrogant and were giving the 'i can't be bothered with you impression'. it was really  agitating.
    anyways on another note, some cab driver risked their license for us, but that's another story
  • kitmaywong
    kitmaywong
    留言於2008-10-29 8:11AM [举报]
    Maybe its a blend of different factors - surviving competition, overcrowded environment, cost of living, economic turmoil, traffic, weather which may have caused one to behave in its own way.  And a person's behavior will cause reaction to others so maybe its a chain effect causing viscious cyle in the community.  

    Then again, it all come from each individual..as they have a choice and are responsible for their own behavior.

    When I was in HK, i did experienced all this and I thought it could be just that everyone was stressed out.
  • tinlunlau
    tinlunlau
    留言於2008-10-29 7:22AM [举报]
    I had no problem with cab drivers in Hong Kong but people overall feel obligated to help a local tourist.  I had some rude mofo rushing me to get out of the Octopus Card machine.  I was simply trying to figure out how to use the darn machine cuz I didn't want to deposit more money thru the convenience store at the time.

    I had another bad experience where this guy was hesitant about lending me his lighter.  I had a hard time lighting up my cigarette so I asked if he could help me with his lighter.  So I gave it back to him so he could help me.  But no, he took it back and walked away.

    It's also really fucked up when people look at you strangely as you help your fellow local people.
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