Where are the people my age?

One thing about Hong Kong rather disturbs me...... I see lots of people who look thirty or less, and lots of people who look eighty or more, but I can't find any people in between.....

I asked someone at school about this, someone who has been here for years. She said that she had noticed that Chinese women look really young until they hit fifty, and then they age quickly. I'm not sure about this, I will have to do some more research. I like her answer better than the possibility that there just aren't any people between forty and eighty!

There is a really old lady at the Stanley Markets. She's about four foot eight, and she wears those matching pyjama-style tops and bottoms that some of the elderly ladies wear. She pushes a trolley around and picks up cardboard and takes it away. She has really bandied legs.

I saw another elderly man walking through the markets this week. His t-shirt proudly announced, ALCATRAZ - PSYCHO WARD - OUTPATIENT.

One day I'll be old. And I want a t-shirt like that.