Every night at 8 pm, Hong Kong presents "The Symphony of Lights", a light show at Victoria Harbour. It's best viewed from the Kowloon side because most office buildings are at Central, on Hong Kong Island. The light show mainly consists of buildings lighting up and laser booms shooting across the harbour. It's a pretty sight...the colours are nice and it's fun to see lights criss cross buildings and light up the night sky.But how much this light show costs Hong Kong. It's done every night, for about 15-20 minutes. And lots of buildings participate in this show, let's say roughly 30 buildings.
30 buildings X 15-20 minutes of electricity/day X 365 days/year X the electricity rate in Hong Kong, which I don't know = a heck of a lot of money
Why do they put their money towards this when they could be allocating it towards ESL, since speaking good English is highly coveted, or environmental programs to clean up their air? Actually, I know the answer to this: aesthetics. Asians are all about aesthetics and making themselves look good to one another and to foreigners. But could they be indirectly hurting themselves by focusing on the way the foreigners and the rest of the world perceive them?
Speaking of which, is this what China did to itself during the Olympics?
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