HONG KONG – Hong Kong commuters patiently waiting in line at a Hollywood Road taxi stand this morning expressed equal measures of rage and inadequacy when a Hong Kong banker lady outfitted in a Theory Edition Four Gabe N Blazer stepped off the curb in front of them and attempted to wave down a cab that was already 1) clearly carrying another passenger; 2) had its red “For Hire” sign unlit behind the windshield; and 3) was not going to stop at the taxi stand anyway.
The banker, later discovered to be Vancouver-born Vivian Kwok Chu Wong, was allegedly on her way to her job as Greater China Wealth Management Coordinator at HSBC’s central headquarters on Queen’s Road Central, a distance of approximately 1.8 kilometres from where the incident occurred and which can be covered while walking at a moderate pace in Bottega Veneta office pumps in around 12 minutes.
One commuter waiting at the taxi stand, 24-year-old barista Aidan Chang, said that even though Ms. Kwok Chu Wong had brazenly violated all three conditions for when not to flag down a cab in the city, “the cab still slowed briefly anyway as if to glory in her financial executive aroma,” before smugly driving away as the passenger in the back seat continued to read his daily stock briefings, unaware of the rage cloud billowing nearby.
Chang said the 32-year-old Ms. Kwok gave the dozen or so people waiting at the taxi stand “a look that was part ‘Diu lay!’ and ‘Gwan lei lun see ah!’ [the “F” bomb and “None of your F-ing business” in Cantonese, respectively] before stalking right past us and then holding her hand out again like she was the Terminator on a mission to get any vehicle to stop before her time on Earth expired.”
“And for what?” Chang asked, exasperated. “So she could get into the office and put all the retail customers’ calls on hold while she checks her Tinder Executive status?”, he added, referring to the popular high-end dating app used by many of Hong Kong’s elite singles seeking that perfect combination of nouveau tycoon and smarmy prude.
Another would-be cab-taker waiting at the taxi stand, 42-year-old accountant Petula Fong, said Ms. Kwok was “obviously asserting her Canadian-born Chinese privilege to try to jump the queue and make us all look like hapless provincials who actually have to wait in line for everything.”
“I mean, where in the Hong Kong playbook does it say, ‘Canadian-born Chinese shall have the right to trample underfoot their secondary local comrades, especially during rush hour and at any other time said CBC feels is necessary to accomplish her gargantuan task of uplifting the whole of humanity through her superior work/life balance?’ ” Fong asked.
“I think she was just going to yoga class,” she added.
An HSBC official contacted by Breaking In Asia staff said Ms. Kwok could not be reached for comment on the matter because she was planning her Chinese New Year’s holiday on the Singaporean resort island of Sentosa, where she was expected to luxuriate poolside for “a week or two” at the Shangri-La Rasa, and “hopefully recover from her dreadful taxi experience” while aimlessly indulging her Candy Crush Saga fixation and not returning calls from customers worried that the entire Chinese financial system is about to collapse and so could they please get their investments back.
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