love's labour lost
Love means never having to say you're sorry and for marketing people 'love' is a wonderfully elastic concept.
Lai See recently received heart warming correspondence from Hong Kong's behemoth banking group that began 'This month marks the anniversary of your banking relationship with HSBC'.
We were touched that such a seemingly faceless profit machine cared. It was just a shame they couldn't remember our name and addressed it: 'Dear Customer'.
limping away
Notice the big orange sheath enveloping a certain large phallic icon in Central. The Asian Wall Street Journal appears to have and is apparently so sick of the sight from its Central Plaza office that a strategy pow wow for its top Asia hacks may be shifted from Hong Kong to Singapore.