04/08/25 - When everything is developing well, we can be one big family, but if things aren’t going well, we can separate.
#Former Hong Kong Chief Executive Leung Chun-ying’s younger daughter passes away. “The younger daughter of the former Chief Executive of Hong Kong, Leung Chun-ying, was found unconscious at a service apartment on the evening of the 8th of April, in Sau Kei Wan, Hong Kong. EMT personnel arrived on the scene after receiving a report, and after examination, determined that she had already passed away at 33-years-old. Leung Chun-ying posted on social media this morning, tragically confirming this information. “Qi Xin passed away. She left very suddenly. Right now, we’ve eliminated the possibility of a suicide or any other suspicious activity.””
Comments say, “The silver-haired weeping for the raven-haired. Take care, Ying.”
“Huh?? At just 33??”
“With who she is? It’s a bit sus.”
#Man on Shanghai subway suspected of removing pants to molest female passenger. “On the 9th of April, a netizen reported that a female passenger on Line 1 of the Shanghai Subway seemed to have been molested. The video shows mysterious fluids on a female passenger’s pants. She’s crying, “You took off your pants and got it all over me!” Reporters called Shanghai subway customer service about this case, and the worker responded that this did happen, the suspected customer was dragged off the car by fellow passengers right away and handed over to subway police inside the station.”
Comments say, “Can we lock these people up?”
“Unbelievable.”
“That’s insane.”
A compilation of how nice it is to finish something you’d always meant to get around to:
“Ate takeout for several days, no idea whether I would be able to get a job or not, didn’t want to spend money on kitchen supplies. Still don’t have a job to this day, but still spent a ton of money, so I grit my teeth and bought some on Temu, and it was less than 100RMB. Now I’m finally eating homemade food.”
“It’s just a matter of executing things. I’m really bad at getting things done. Most of my time is spent on making decisions, making plans, and imagining the results. For example, if I want to buy a hair dryer, I have to spend days researching it and waffling between choices, and getting so exhausted that I just don’t buy it. So when my shitty hair dryer finally set itself on fire, I was forced to quickly buy any hair dryer. I wanted to get my ears pierced, but I’m also scared it’ll get infected, so I’ve procrastinated from Freshman year of college until now that I’m working and I still haven’t put it into action.”
“Don’t get too far from your “dark side”. I read Carl Jung’s theory that people are split in half, and the best state to be is to stand in the middle between darkness and light. When people walk too far towards the light, the dark gets bigger. Then if you want to turn back, you have to be ready to face an enormous abyss.”
“Same. I’m a super low-energy person. Since my parents passed away, my house was sitting empty for the longest time before I moved in after college. Old stuff and dust is everywhere and it puts me in a bad mood. I want to clean up, but I always get tired and stop half way, or find some kind of excuse to put it off while I look for a maid while I don’t actually look for a maid. A couple of days ago, I finally called a maid service, and a couple hundred bucks and a couple hours later, my house is cleaner than I’ve ever seen it. I can’t imagine how I’ve been living like this for the whole past year…”
“Right? In my personal experience, dealing with small stuff like changing your duvet covers or putting in new light bulbs can drastically improve your quality of life and your mood. A lot of minor inconveniences around the house actually really drains you. You’re better off gritting your teeth and dealing with it. Getting back a sense of control of your life from these small things is an important way to recover your mental state.”
“Sometimes, I go jogging, for maybe 30, 40 minutes or so, and run about 3.6, 3.7km. I do this about 2-3 times a week and it really changes my sleep quality. This is a small change too.”
“What traps us is never the stuff themselves, but the anxiety of “I can’t deal with this”. Once the anxiety leaves, you’ll find that it’s great to feel that load off your back.”
“I’m the exact same. I spent several months living without a table in my rental. Every time I got back, I’d squat to play on my phone, because I don’t want to sit on my bed without taking a shower, and I procrastinate until really late to take a shower, so every day, I was squatting in my rental to play on my phone.”
“I bought a full-body mirror. It was great. I have no idea why I held off for two years, hesitating that it would make moving again difficult. Even if I had to move again, if I threw it out and bought a new one, it would just be 20RMB. That’s way less than I waste on eating and drinking.”
“Yesterday, a coworker wanted me to adjust something at work that would involve several coworkers. I was gonna wait on it, but after 5 minutes, I found I couldn’t stop thinking about it, so I just did it. Communicated with everyone, and I stopped feeling anxious. I peacefully got my lunch break. Acting immediately really alleviates anxiety.”
“Before, I’d leave my dishes from lunch to wash at night, and it would take half an hour for me to wash all the dishes and I’d feel exhausted. And the more exhausted I felt, the less I wanted to clean up. Then I discovered that if I clean up the kitchen right away after cooking, and clean my dishes right after eating, it only takes 5 minutes. So dealing with small stuff as they come up is completely painless, but if you leave it to the future, those small things will become nightmares.”
“It’s so true. I hesitated on a small thing, didn’t do it well, and I completely lost my balance. A while back, I was renting, and finally found a place I liked and I just wanted the landlord to fix the toilet. And the landlord told me he wasn’t renting it out anymore. I completely fell into anxiety. My whole plan got interrupted, and everything I’d planned for after that fell apart too.”
A discussion on divorce:
“When I learned that he gets half my housing fund [a government provided savings option like a 401K or superannuation, except instead of saving for retirement, you’re saving for a house] and social security in a divorce too, my whole world fell apart.”
“It’s okay, you can get half of his debts <3”
“So basically, I should be getting as much of it out as possible to spend while I don’t have anything under my name?”
“Oh, I’m done then. My boyfriend’s monthly wage isn’t even as high as my monthly housing fund contributions.”
“It’s like this. I asked about it when I got divorced. Anything during the time of your marriage, he gets a split on, but we have roughly the same amount of money so we didn’t bother splitting.”
“Sometimes, marriage is a pretty good choice for people who have nothing.”
“Ever since I learned about this, I withdraw my housing fund right away.”
“I still have over 30K in my housing fund fund that I can’t withdraw no matter how much I want to.”
“No wonder my ex-boyfriend didn’t want to marry me. He was definitely worried I was after his housing fund.”
“Can someone tell me if this is real?”
“It’s real. Your personal contribution towards your retirement account and housing fund during your marriage is a part of joint assets.”
“I saw that too. They even get to split my retirement funds. It’s true, the only way to win is not to play.”
“If you start a company with A, then no matter whether A worked or not, he can split half of your assets, and you will receive half his debts. Of course, your financial rights are equal.”
“So a lot of people, men or women, will only find other halves that have the same financial standing, or they’d rather just stay single.”
“Really? How do they split your housing fund? You might not even get any retirement money, so how can they split it?”
“Look for a financially comparable spouse so no one loses out. Or else the person who’s better off is going to get screwed. Of course you’re entering every marriage hoping that it lasts, but people change, so you have to think about the future.”
“But my boyfriend is richer than me XD”
“Working for 18 months now, and now I get 1200RMB a month in housing fund, about 14.4K a year. If you don’t count interest on that, if I married for 10 years, I’d have to split 70K out of my 140K to the other side. If I count interest, I’m losing 100K.”
“This is why government workers should only date government workers.”
“It’s assumed that getting married means getting in massive debt.”
“Just transfer all my assets to my parents before marriage.”
“Really? If it’s real, I’m just gonna withdraw it and spend it. Oh wait. I’m never getting married anyways.”
“Cool fact: Marriage laws don’t protect marriages, they protect assets.”
“Interesting. Hong Kong announced they will not be adding tariffs to America!
That means in the future, American goods still has a way to get to the Chinese mainland. If mainlanders want to buy American goods, they can buy from Hong Kong!
Hong Kong is doing this primarily to show that it is a harbour of free trade, and it’s ensured there is a port for American trade, strengthening Hong Kong’s position as a centre of global trade.
“In addition, Hong Kong has also been impacted by American tariffs, but the ratio of Hong Kong exports to America is very, very low. American tariffs only has a very limited impact on Hong Kong’s economy.
I gotta say, our “one nation, two rules” policy is pretty flexible. We can use thunderous methods to sanction against America, but we don’t have to go all the way. We can leave America some breathing room, don’t push them into a corner, and there’s still room to negotiate.
This shows the world that China not only has the confidence to fight America, but the sincerity to seek for cooperation. They need to understand which is a partner they can actually rely on, China or America!”
Comments say, “You can interpret it this way??”
“I think you’re misinterpreting what they mean by “taxed according to country of origin”.”
“You can’t look down on Chinese people’s wisdom. When everything is developing well, we can be one big family, but if things aren’t going well, we can separate. Not for independence or freedom, but just to open a little gap. If we need anything, we can go from mainland to Hong Kong, and then Hong Kong can sell to the rest of the world.”