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Sexy Hot Arab Women - Nancy AjramNancy Ajram is a multi-platinum Lebanese singer with a number of hits under her belt. Most of her songs are in Arabic, but nonetheless, she is an international superstar. Since I don’t personally know much about her music, we’ll just concentrate on the picture.So the first thing you will notice about this picture are her wonderfully large breasts. I mean, let’s...

Sexy Hot Arab Women - Cynthia ZaynounOK, so I’m not really sure who Cynthia Zaynoun is, but from the looks of this picture, she’s a model… probably swimsuit model. I believe she’s Lebanese based on the site I was on. So this is probably going to be a pretty short post.Let’s talk about this picture a little bit. Looking at it, you can see that Cynthia has a nice thin look about her. Her eyes are...

Sexy Hot Arab Women - Woman in ShowerSo my last posting concentrated on how beautiful Arab women can be in full traditional dress. As sexy as they can be covered up, they are drop dead gorgeous once they start showing some skin. This picture is of a smoking hot Arab woman that, let’s just say, is a little more liberal than the last. You see her here posing in a shower with Stiletto high heels on....

On Christmas Eve I looked in Oliver's for Stone's ginger wine, the traditional Christmas tipple (even my resolutely teetotal grandmother used to partake of a drop at Yuletide, apparently persuading herself that it wasn't really alcoholic). Alas, everyone else had apparently had the same thought, since they had sold out, and I had no time to look elsewhere, having already drawn a blank at City Super....

Sexy Hot Arab Women - Girl in Full HeaddressOK, so I wanted to start this off with a woman in full headdress. I don't know who this woman is, but, although we will showcase Arab women with far less clothing, I wanted to show that a covered Muslim woman can be extremely sexy as well. As a matter of fact, they can be more attractive. This is because we don't know what exactly she looks like.Take...

Sexy Hot Arab Women - What makes Arab women so hot?So I don't know if it's because they have traditionally been covered from head to toe and we all want what we can't have (or see in this case) or if it's just their beautiful features that get me going, but I find Arab women some of the most beautiful women in the world. This blog will be dedicated to celebrating these queens of the desert and we...

Sexy Hot Swedish Women Photos - Elin GrindemeyerYou know, some men like the Spanish or other Latin women and claim that they are the sexiest women in the world, but it’s pictures like this one that proves that the Swedes have it over any other group of girls. Elin Grindemeyer is a Swedish model that has graced the cover of many a man’s magazine. Her first appearance was on the Swedish Men’s magazine...

As the great Climate Change Conference opens in Copenhagen, one of Hong Kong's TV stations (I can't remember which) used the term "climate change deniers" in a news broadcast.This is a singularly unhelpful term in the context. It is clearly intended to resonate with the term "Holocaust denier", but we are dealing with a very different phenomenon here. The Holocaust is a historical fact, attested...

For those of you who haven't yet encountered it, here is the mascot for the Shanghai 2010 Expo, as mentioned in hkorbust's comment on my previous post. It looks to me like one of those friendly nano-characters in commercials for cleaning fluids that chase away the nasty germs lurking in your kitchen and bathroom. Or does anyone have a better id...

Well, the East Asian Games have started, and I hope they go well - and of course that Hong Kong performs well. But I am still waiting for someone to tell me what the Games' slogan is all about.Be The Legend.Be the what? First of all, who is it addressed to? If it's to the people of Hong Kong, how can we be the legend? A slogan is not enough - we need an instruction manual to go with it.If it's...

Sexy Hot Swedish Women - Most Beautiful WomenI'm not even sure if this blonde bombshell is from Sweden, but she was featured on a "Most Beautiful Women in the world" article where the most beautiful women came from, you guessed it, Stockholm, Sweden. The article describes how Sweden has more beautiful women than anywhere else. They described it as you will walk into a convenience store and feel...

Sexy Hot Swedish Women - Princess Madeleine of SwedenWhen the world thinks of royal families, their thoughts immediately go to British royalty. When they also think of that particular royal family, they do not think of sexy or hot women. Go over to Sweden and it's a completely different story. Princess Madeleine has to be the most attractive and beautiful royals I have ever come across. Her features...

Sexy Hot Swedish Women - ProtestSo this is a cause I can get behind. A couple of years ago, there was a movement in Sweden to protest what some Swedish Women call discrimination. You see, they thought it unfair that men were allowed to go swimming without a top, but women were not. So, yes, you guessed it, sexy Swedish women all over Sweden went to pools topless and they are still doing that.You...

Sexy Hot Swedish Women - Beer DrinkersIt's pictures of these hot swedish women why I love women from this part of the world. You have beautiful, blonde, women that really know how to fill out those outfits. To top it off, they are drinking beers from beer mugs as big as their heads.It makes you think of the perfect pub crawl where there are some Swedish bombshells, nice as can be, ready to meet...

Sex Hot Swedish Women - Patriot in BikiniI'm not exactly sure who with sexy Swedish Woman is, but I just love this type of patriotism. The picture is not of some done up swedish model, but this is of the common girl rooting for her team. I wanted to start this blog with some natural swedish women to show how sexy, sexy, sexy, and hot, hot, hot they are naturally. Swedish women have a natural beauty...

Sexy Hot Swedish WomenHi everyone!Welcome to the Swedish Women Photos blog. This blog will showcase pictures and commentary of Swedish celebrities, models, and some girls that you haven't seen before. The common thread, though, it that they are all beautiful!So what makes Swedish women so hot, anyway? Well their blonde hair and blue eyes to start. They just have the most beautiful features of any...

The current TV commercial for the Hong Kong government's deposit protection scheme depicts a woman washing a number of large coins. Should the government really be so blatantly encouraging money launderi...

Since opening up to the world, China has become much more adept at public relations than in the old communist days, when the ultimate in propaganda was pictures of smiling peasants happily gathering improbably bounteous harvests under the benevolent guidance of Chairman Mao. But one thing the country's leaders still don't appear to have grasped is that in a free country, the surest way to publicise...

According to the SCM Post, Hong Kong officials are powerless to stop New Territories landowners from blocking access roads to villages in order to build houses. Like much government propaganda, this is of course total nonsense. There are numerous regulations the government could apply if it wanted to - and if those are insufficient, it could always put new legislation forward to deal with the problem.The...

According to ATV's trailer for Gary Rhodes' Local Food Heroes, Rhodes "leaves no eating hoile unturned" in his quest for the best in British food. Now that I must see - I've mever witnessed a hole being turned before.Meanwhile, what is this obsession ATV News has wih golf? Most days, about half the sports segment of the 7:30 news is given over to a near hole-by-hole account of some tournament or...

From a production standpoint yesterday's day-long extended commercial for 60 years of Communist Party rule in China was, as expected, an impressive spectacle. Every tiny detail was impeccably choreographed, down to the symbolism of President Hu wearing a Mao jacket to inspect the troops (in a Chinese-made limo) , while donning Western suit and tie for the evening's gala show.Nevertheless, all the...

My 9-year-old niece in Britain was too upset to sleep the other night, crying inconsolably because the book she'd been reading at bedtime told her that the universe would come to an end in two billion years. Assurances that she wouldn't be around by then to worry about it only seemed to make matters worse!My own contemplations today are somewhat closer to home in both time and space. What's up with...

Hong Kong is full of speculation about the "real" reasons for Chief Justice Andrew Li's early retirement - indeed, I seem to be the only person who accepts his stated reasons at face value.Li sad that after working for 37 years, he wanted to take the time to pursue other interests in life. I have no problem believing this, because I have also been working for 37 years and would love to give up in...

If anyone had any doubt that the Heung Yee Kuk is an agent of the Dark Side, today's news makes it absolutely certain. Their brilliant plan for solving the problem of illegal waste dumping, which is ruining much of Hong's once beautiful countryside, is... to make it legal. This is about as sensible as solving the problem of burglary by legalising theft. When is the government going to stop giving...

The system that enables you to listen to your car radio when driving through tunnels in Hong Kong also allows the tunnel companies to override the radio signal with their own transmissions. This is fine when they use it to make helpful traffic announcements, such as telling you that a particular exit road is closed or when a blockage will be cleared. And indeed they sometimes do this (though as...

In the spirit of Gowers' Plain Words and Orwell's Politics and the English Language (two works that should be read and digested by anyone who aspires to write good English), this is the first of what I hope will be a series turning recent political statements into plain English.China says that other nations should leave Myanmar to resolve its own problems.Translation: China will keep its mouth shut...

Two cases reported on last night's news make me wonder if Hong Kong's judges live on the same planet as the rest of us.In the first case, a part-time music teacher was convicted of indecent assault against two of his pupils. In passing sentence, the judge stated that the assailant was neither a paedophile nor a homosexual, noting that he had been with his girlfriend for ten years. In the real world,...

Sitting in the airport departure area yesterday (don't get your hopes up, I wasn't the one leaving), I found myself in front of a massive information board advertising Morgan Stanley with (curiously) a picture of an Indian temple, presumably to emphasise the worldwide nature of their services. Along the top and bottom of this board were scrolling bars of financial information - currency exchange...

Why is it that most car parks in Hong Kong appear to have been designed by people whi have never driven a car in their liv...

After more than three decades in Hong Kong, I thought I was pretty well immune to culture shock, but after a couple of weeks' holiday in England recently, I found myself unexpectedly stunned by the sheer density of people in the streets of Mongkok a few days ago - as if I was experiencing it for the first time. A strange feeli...

There is plenty of competition for the title of "World's Worst Regime". Twenty years ago the Tiananmen Massacre would have seen China in with a strong chance.Today the Kim Family Empire of North Korea is clearly a leading contender, spending the country's limited resources on developing nuclear weapons while the people go hungry. Robert Mugabe's achievement in turning one of the most prosperous...

A few days ago the government held a "consultation session" with the people of Mui Wo on Lantau Island, supposedly to hear their views on the proposal to allocate a vacant school building in Mui Wo for use by a special school for the rehabilitation of teenagers with drug problems. As it turned out, local sentiment was overwhelmingly against the proposal.In the few days since then, a series of senior...

Despite all the political tensions between the USA and Iran, at heart Americans and Iranians are exactly the same.Proof: the Iranians have just done in 2009 exactly what the Americans did in 2004 - re-elected a failed incompetent ill-informed loudmouth of a president just because he said the right things to appeal to religious conservatives.P.S. (17 June) That is, if he actually did win the election...

If you're wondering why I haven't posted much recently, it's because I was in Vancouver for two weeks in late April/early May (probably about my 10th visit in 20 years), where I was too relaxed to blog, and I've mostly been too busy to blog since getting back.Visiting other places does put one's own home into clearer perspective, and much as I love Hong Kong, it has to be admitted that there are many...

Every year I promise myself that I will attend the June 4th candlelight vigil in Victoria Park, and there's always some reason why I don't make it. But I do want to mark the occasion here - if only to tell Donald Tsang firmly and clearly that no, you do not speak for all Hong Kong people in trying to sweep the massacre under the carpet. You certainly don't speak for ...

Listening to Bob Dylan's new album, Together Through Life, I was interested to see that he's apparently written one song for the Board of PCCW. "You took all my money and you gave it to Richard Li," he sings in one line of Shake Shake Mama. What could be clearer than that?  Disclaimer - I get a small commission from Amazon if you buy the CD through the picture link he...

Walking through Central earlier this afternoon, I observed that three banks - Citibank, Dah Sing and DBS - had protesters outside them, apparently aggrieved victims of the Lehman's minibonds saga.We have already seen plenty of evidence that, on the scale of human decency, bankers rate only slightly above lawyers and politicians. Here's another piece: while waiting for a bus in Des Voeux Road, I...

As a follow-up to my previous post, Wellcome actually got it right for once. As well as matching PARKnSHOP's price cut on the individual cans of Red Bull, they lowered the price of the 4-pack to $...

In another shining example of the Hong Kong government's dazzling intelligence, the Highways Departmnt (I assume) has covered all the direction signs on the Tsing Ma Bridge with bamboo scaffolding. So if you're coming from the airport and don't know which lane you should be in, don't expect much help in finding out.And to the driver of the taxi running along the airport highway without lights at...

No, not the type that so many employees are facing in the current recession - what I'm talking about today is redundant words in company names.We live in an impatient age, and companies pander to this by shrinking their names. The model for this is of course International Business Machines, who shortened their long name to IBM and for a while became one of the most successful companies in the world...

Funier today, in his usual inimitable style, castigates the media for whipping up a panic over a few cases of flu in Mexico and the US. A handful of infections hardly justifies those who have started running around like Cassandra on a bad day wailing that "We're all going to die!" We heard the same during the SARS outbreak, and how many of you know anyone who actually died from SARS? The only person...

The Daily Mail newspaper has an article on a young lady they claim is Britain's youngest female funeral director. Nothing wrong with that, but since they describe her as being 20 in the heading, then call her a teenager in the main text, she must also be Britain's oldest teenager (Sir Jimmy Savile excepted, of course).All together now: seventeen, eighteen, nineteen, twenteen, ...

My email inbox has 666 unread items in it. How beast...

Undeterred by the Consumer Council's recent criticism from pursuing bizarre and misleading pricing policies, PARKnSHOP was yesterday selling Red Bull at the reduced price of $12.90, down from the usual $13.90. No complaints about that - except that the 4-pack was still at its usual price of $54.80, i.e. $13.70 per can.In most places, buying the bulk pack of anything gets you a better price, but I...

In yet another example of the Hong Kong government's intellectual brilliance, the Transport Department is sending out a circular to all registered drivers and vehicle owners reminding them that any change of address must be notified to the department.Whichever civil servant dreamed up this scheme must have been having a Homer Simpson moment, because it doesn't take an Einstein to spot the fatal flaw...

The discovery by the Consumer Council that Hong Kong's cozy supermarket duopoly is routinely misleading customers with false "special offers" will come as no surprise to those familiar with Hong Kong retail practices. In some cases, the Council found, the "promotion" price was actually higher than the regular price!What this does is highlight the need for long overdue consumer protection legislation...

Spike today has a piece about the current row over an allegedly racist article by local commentator Chip Tsao in HK Magazine. For those who haven't kept up, the Philippines government took exception to a sentence in which Tsao described Filipinos as "a nation of servants", and banned him from entry to the Philippines. Local domestic helpers have become equally overwrought about it and plan a demonstration...

For the second day in a row, the South China Morning Post has run a story about Beijing's so-called Pamchen Lama, this time with a photo labelling him by that title as well.For heaven's sake, this guy is no more the Panchen Lama than I am the Archbishop of Canterbury! Like many things that come out of China, he is a well-crafted fake. Any article on him should precede his title with the word "Counterfeit".However,...

Headline on today's South China Morning Post website:Panchen Lama back in spotlight, with praise for Beijing leadershipWell, there's a surprise! With its usual objectivity, the Post conveniently forgets to mention that the so-called "Panchen Lama" they refer to is not the genuine Panchen Lama recognised, according to Tibetan tradition, by the Dalai Lama - that one has been "disappeared" - but Beijing's...

Does this ad in Hong Kong Craigslist irritate you as much as it does me?Posting on HK forums and blogs (HK)We need a writer to post in HK Chinese and English to all the main HK forums and in multiple HK blogs as well. You will be required to create new threads on forums and also reply to existing threads. The posting need to be from different accounts and should not sound like advertising to avoid...

Just went to Bob Dylan's official website to read the interview on his new album (coming soon). Then clicked on Media, Videos, and the first video offered, Like A Rolling Stone. Up pops a YouTube screen announcing "This video has been removed due to terms of use violation". Huh? Apart from the bad English (it should be "owing to"), are the copyright cops now so paranoid that even Bob Dylan isn't...

Sign at the Yonghe Lamasery in Beijing, showing how English grammar can confuse the unwary. Fortunately I was using my digital camera, so had no film with me to burn - though I have been known to burn the occasional photo to CD.The lamasery was a former imperial palace donated to Tibetan monks by one of the Ching emperors - showing that Tibetan culture was once held in much higher regard in China...

Passing the Hong Kong Bank building on a bus this morning, I observed that someone was assiduously polishing one of the iconic lions in front of it.Nice try, but after the events of the past few weeks, I fear it will take much more than a splash of Brasso to refurbish HSBC's tarnished reputati...

The Chinese government has predictably denounced as "lies" the Dalai Lama's recent speech claiming that Tibetans in Tibet live in a state of constant fear - and just to make sure, it has dispatched thousands of troops and armed police to the region to imtimidate them into seeing things China's w...

Ever noticed that whenever you put a jug or mug of liquid in a microwave oven to warm it up, it always comes to rest with the handle facing away from you? Why, I wond...

"Global problems are too big and too complex to be solved without female participation."--Hillary ClintonAnd a little more male participation wouldn't hurt, either....

The South China Morning Post website today features a front page headline "Police find explosives in Tibet". So how do they illustrate this dramatic news? With a picture of the explosives? With a picture of the bridge under which they were allegedly found? Or of the police who claimed the find?No, nothing so obvious for the Post. Instead they use this (rather good) image of a young Tibetan monk...

The BBC refer to someone who only appeared on the music scene 15 years after you started listening as "veteran British singer Paul Weller".You look at a photo, think "Who's that guy with grey hair wearing the same outfit as me?", then realise it is y...

For the past 2 days, the South China Morning Post website has not (on my machine, at least - YMMV) come up correctly on Google's Chrome browser, although it works on both Internet Explorer and FireFox. Whether this is the fault of Google or the Post I don't know, but it's interesting that after Microsoft declared victory in the browser wars some years ago, rival browsers are now making a serious...

As both Hong Kong's free-to-air TV stations announce staff layoffs, a thought occurs to me: does it really take three people to read the news (two to exchange silly chitchat at the end and one to cover the sports)? On some occasions, the people in the studio must outnumber the viewers.So, it's goodnight from me.And it's goodnight from h...

Attending a funeral this morning has left me thinking, partly about the depressing inevitability of growing old - but that's for another time.My question today is this: why are such ugly hearses used in Hong Kong? I don't know about other countries, but in Britain or the US, most people are carried to their final resting place in a sleek black (or sometimes white) Rolls Royce, Bentley or Cadillac,...

I have a feeling that 2009 is going to be a good year. Every politician is predicting that it will be awful - and when did you ever hear a politician telling the tru...

I can't help feeling the unfortunate dog stuck between two buildings in Yuen Long would be rescued much sooner if kind-hearted people would only stop feeding her. Hasn't anyone in Hong Kong read Winnie the Pooh?P.S. (28 January) Sadly, the poor creature died shortly after being finally pulled out from between the walls.Making It Better:Hong Kong Society for the Prevention of Cruelty to Anim...

Kung Hei Fat Choi!Wishing all my readers a happy, healthy and prosperous Year of the ...

I happened to turn on CCTV 9 at lunchtime (helpfully carried by both local English language channels - whatever happened to giving the public a choice?) It was featuring a discussion on the recently proclaimed Serfs Emancipation Day (shouldn't there be an apostrophe in there somewhere?) in Tibet. As usual when covering domestic political issues, CCTV had ensured a "fair and balanced" discussion...

Among the handful of TV programmes I watched without fail in my youth - Doctor Who, The Avengers, Top of the Pops, Match of the Day (this was in the days before Monty Python) - one stood out for its originality and inventiveness. The Prisoner was, and remains, one of the most intriguing television series ever produced. Now comes news that its star and creator, Patrick McGoohan, has passed away at...

Public consultation on electoral reforms for 2012 will be put off until later this year to allow the government to focus on the economy, Chief Executive Donald Tsang Yam-kuen announced yesterday.--South China Morning Post, 16 January 2009So, the Hong Kong government finally admits what a lot of us suspected: it's so incompetent, it can't handle more than one thing at a ti...

I had to invigilate an exam last night. There's something curiously restful about watching other people work for three hours - and getting paid for doing ...

Seen on the menu of a Chiu Chau restaurant in Mongkok:exploded the small intestinesAny comment would be entirely superfluo...

What the hell does Andy Murray think he's doing, beating both Roger Federer and Rafael Nadal to win a tournament in Abu Dhabi? Doesn't he know the plucky British underdog is supposed to succumb bravely in the quarter-finals?Next thing you know, Murray will be winning Wimbledon. Tim Henman would never have shown such alarming disrespect for British traditi...

I have been having some very weird dreams lately. Last night (probably inspired by a combination of recently watching the last episode of the 3rd series of the revived Doctor Who, and reading Robert Silverberg's Heinlein tribute novel The Alien Years, I dreamed that the earth had been invaded and conquered by strange aliens. Humanity was helpless, with alien space vessels hovering in the sky overhead...