Sunny Days

Hong Kong finally seems to have shrugged off its winter/spring cloak of cloud, smog, fog, in-your-face-pollution and remembered to allow the sun through all the way to the ground. It looks better for it, with its harbour glistening and shimmering with a billion sparkles, the Peak outlined against a blue sky and people finally saying "what a nice day", shedding the coats, cardigans and scarves that have still been in evidence despite the mid-high twenties temperatures. I was explaining to a colleague that it never gets as hot in Ireland as it was here yesterday (29 /30 degrees). But then in Ireland we can walk on the grass, play in the mud and our ambulances don't stop at red lights. But then again, Ireland's taxpayers give money to its banks but don't get any deposit book or interest with the donation. And in Ireland many people are disappointed that when they are told that Ireland is the next Greece that it won't be an Irish remake of a John Travolta classic....

Say a prayer....for those in Ireland and those of us here, everyone is trying to get ahead, make some money, but some are sucking in more pollution and staying on the concrete path while others of are kicking a ball in the mud, staring into an abyss and wondering where it all went wrong ("Gimme someone to blame, certainly not myself"), but it gives them something to talk about.....And they can talk.