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I never felt really intimate with my family. My parents divorced when I was young. I was then sent to a boarding school since nobody had the time to take care of me.
Isolation is the best punishment. Boarding school is a small community, and karma has a fast turn around there. Do bad and you will be boycotted. When you are alone, you are forced to think. 

Power is addictive. I was a bully at school and I slapped my classmates or stole their boyfriends whenever I felt like it.
Anything pink, with lace or stuck with a butterfly knot is disgusting.
Children from a broken family have a signature sad look. I can tell when I see one. Children from a healthy family are happier and more family-oriented.
Who wants to be a career woman? Definitely not me.
With our maternal instincts, I think it is natural for women to prioritize family first and take care of their kids.
It’s sad when some single women have to work non-stop to earn enough to compensate for their sense of insecurity.
Women depreciate with age; men appreciate with age.
It is only natural that career women are single. Many career women find it hard to get a husband because they have put work before anything else. Worse still, they are only attracted to work-oriented men who are even busier.
Everyone says they hate politics, but they inevitably become part of it.
I worked as a management trainee at a big local corporation. I hated it. I didn’t want to end up with a fat ass and swollen feet, complaining about the freezing temperature every day.
“Being diplomatic” is a very nice way to say ass kissing. It is human nature twisted.
People are easily offended when they have big egos. A blunt person like me can hurt people unknowingly.
I can’t stand it when people spend their time pleasing their boss rather than working on their jobs. But that’s the Chinese for you – relationships are everything.
Female bosses are jealousy-prone. Their judgment is colored by emotions all of the time. If you are young, beautiful and capable, you are dead.
I would rather earn the respect from a few brilliant individuals than from the masses, which are usually wrong and shallow.
There is no depth in our “instant culture.” We want instant gratification in everything we do. We want tabloid news, dramatic pictures with exposed nipples. The local magazines satisfy all these.
I feel naked in the public eye.
I got wasted for two weeks after intimate pictures of me and Terence Lam Ching-tai made covers of the tabloid magazines. But after that, everyone started talking about Lydia Shum and forgot the whole thing.
Reality is unforgiving. You get fat, you lose your job.
I would rather die than become the kind of woman who only visits foreign shopping malls while traveling. No sophisticated man would enjoy being with a culture-illiterate.
I like younger guys not because I like toyboys. Younger people are more flexible and willing to change.
Torture is my specialty. I love making emotional attacks. I once yelled at my boyfriend for 10 minutes for misplacing his toothbrush. That was fun... I was such a bitch!
Power is much more tempting than wealth. I want to influence society... Not sure how to get there, though.


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Erica Yuen Mi-ming

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The outspoken Erica Yuen Mi-ming is an actress, a former Miss Hong Kong contestant, a frequent columnist for Apple Daily, and a popular blogger.* She talks to Jan Leung.
