has been put in JAIL after his trial by the judge (RAGE) yesterday afternoon, I met up with The Boyfriend at a Starbucks so he could hear me RAGE about how unfair it was for The Client to be in JAIL at the age of sixteen.
I don’t think it’s too polite for me to post the entire proceeding on The Internets, since it’s public and Mummy told me not to talk about other people on The Internets.
So I’ll just go right on to that.
Basically a sixteen year old boy is in JAIL for indecent assault, even though my boss and I have though of numerous doubtful/ shadowy points in the case of the prosecution in order to defend him.
BEYOND REASONABLE DOUBT MY FRIGGIN ARSE.
I can’t believe my future working environment is going to be a bit like my high school days, spent complaining about why adjudications are unfair yada yada.
Funny thing happened though. While I was RAGING about the boy who’s in JAIL because of some magistrate judge, this ridiculously bald French guy was sitting right next to us. Then he started to have a conversation with me (The Boyfriend would like to think that he was having a conversation with us, but frankly, it was just me), which went like this:
Ridiculously bald French dude: Excuse me, I would like to ask you a question.
Lydia: Yes?
Boyfriend: (Put on curious face, trying to gain exposure in MY conversation with the ridiculously bald French dude)
RBFD: Why do young people in Hong Kong have conversations in English?
Lydia: … Because we work hard to gain a place in the international world? (Laugh at own joke) Uh… probably because half of the schools in Hong Kong are English medium schools, so most of our lessons are taught in English.
RBFD: But surely, Cantonese is your mother tongue, and it would be much easier for you to speak in Cantonese?
Lydia: Well, for me, it depends on how rude I’d like to be. If I’d like to be really rude, I’d probably choose Cantonese.
RBFD: You mean cussing?
Lydia: Yeah.
RBFD: I would think so LOLOLOLOLOLOLOLOL.
Lydia: …
Boyfriend: It’s probably because all of our friends speak in English and it’s just natural for us to have conversations in English.
RBFD: Well English really is a good language to use eh?
Boyfriend: Yeah, and some of us might have grew up somewhere else, and English is just a convenient language.
RBFD: Yeah, but it’s still strange. Anyway, thanks (goes back to whatever’s on his laptop).
And what we’ve learnt from this story is this: if you try to talk to a short flat-chested Asian girl, her boyfriend WILL butt into the conversation, and the girl WILL blog about it, no matter how retarded the conversation actually is.
Also, I’ve tricked you into reading all that crap :D.
