Asian countries like to have distinguishing things that make them bigger and better than others. First KL (Malaysia), built the Petrona towers which were the tallest in the world, then Taiwan built the 101 to beat them, and of course, the Mainland Chinese couldn’t do anything less. So since they now control Hong Kong, they’ve made the world’s largest skyline lightshow *clap clap*!

It’s a must see when in Hong Kong so naturally we went to see it. Once there we had the good fortune of standing next to a Chinese mainlander tour guide who was extolling the virtues of the Chinese “pseudo-communist” system to the Americans in his tour group.

After all, it’s a good thing that Hong Kong imposes visas on Chinese and only lets the rich in. Why would Hong Kong want to be flooded with 1.2 billion Chinese, and why would China want to lose any cheap labor? Of course that begs the question, if the system was so good, why would anyone (much less everyone) want to leave? We were really dying to ask him that, but then the light show started and we had to concentrate on filming.

The show itself was great, and remixing it to some techno makes it even better. Just the way big brother Mao would have liked it. LOL

Oh yes, when you see Grace running near the end. She wasn’t being chased by the red army, she was just running to catch the ferry since it was just leaving the dock as we jumped in!

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