I cannot rationalize

the UN office dress code here.

The entire future of a displaced / disenfranchised person is in your hands, but for fuck's sake that stenographer better not turn up in a pair of jeans.

Stout in bed with Elsie Leung?

Kristie Lu Stout tells Time Out that activism in HK is a "miracle" because "Hong Kong is a Chinese city after all."

Kristie, we don't expect you to go to bed with the HK Basic Law and the PRC Constitution sandwiching your pillow at night. On the other hand, the SAR part of HKSAR (which is pretty much on every map in the past decade and a half, ever, or on just about every company addressed letter) should be a dead give away that HK is a SAR, not a city.

We forgive you, though. One, Hong Kong City has a nice ring to it and sounds less like a virus than Hong Kong SAR. Two, it's a tough gig to be the poor man's Olivia Munn of CNN and there's a lot on your mind.

Japanese fusion best reserved for cuisine

and not strangely adopted first names.

Getting a blast-email from secretary Yuko Yuen is jarring.

This phenomenon of jarring Japanese names is unfortunately growing at a rapid pace. I, for the first time, encourage sticking to the usual 'Kennis' for guys and 'Flora' for girls. I'm now alright with it.

mocs and socks.

I get it.

Growing up Chinese is difficult. Your parents are tough, you're expected to deliver on everything, and the pressures of conforming to perfection can be crushing. The world knew this even before Amy Chua. 

So lashing out when the whole independence thing happens is pretty commonplace. 

But what the fuck is this:

This is Starbucks at 11am. And in Mid Levels, of all places.

Don't do this to me before 5pm.

No scotch in blood yet.

Actually dying.

Impossible.

NO.

Financier Bored, Turns to Writing Instead of K

Marginally attractive and low-level life and style publications press junkie Andrew Woodward publishes "The Water Dragon," a murder-mystery set in the Mid Levels.

While Woodward's book agent first responded with a long period of silence followed with profound confusion, the agent managed to snatch a prime deal with a London publishing company.

However, amid the usually quiet, there have been stirrings back in Woodward's Hong Kong neighborhood.

Rainbow Yuki Siu Lam-kai, an accounts manager at PwC, said, "I think this book is dangerous, because now there is no crime and what if crime happens because of the book."

Iceman Ng, a solicitor at Skadden, echoed the same concerns. "Hong Kong is a place of business," he said. "What is this book? Where am I?"

Word of mouth within the expat and local communities in Mid Levels have overlapped, agreeing that Woodward is a complete try-hard who gets off on plagiarizing Steig Larsson.