#gau fong

[what-yadoking-likes]

RB'ing to wish everyone 中秋節快樂!

中秋節快樂

Jiu Feng received (several) invites to the Safehouse, and after some consideration he took the Payday gang up on the offer. But why had they invited him over in the first place?

Upon realising that the Mid-Autumn Festival was approaching, Joy mentioned the possibility of inviting Jiu Feng over for some mooncake and moon-gazing to the crew. She then immediately realised they had no idea what she was talking about (with the exception of Jiro and Wick) and set about organising things.

Somehow, somewhere along the way (and for some reason Joy highly suspected it was Jimmy’s fault) Vlad got roped in. He turned up an hour before Jiu Feng was due to arrive, carrying boxes from his bakery.

“My friends!” he cried, “Uncle Vlad here heard about Mid-Autumn, eh? So I tried baking some mooncake for our dear friend Jiu Feng.”

“I thought you made American cupcakes and all that shite?” Hoxton asked.

“I do! So I find recipe online, try to make it myself.”

“And? Did it work?”

“Fuck no!” Vlad shakes the boxes slightly, “but see, Vlad has many friends. I called in a favour and got freshly made mooncake today.”

Joy was actually extremely grateful for Vlad’s efforts. She had been able to secure some of the modern mooncake variants in the local Chinatown, but the truly traditional recipes had been sold out by the time she’d arrived that morning. Her updated selection included a Japanese matcha mooncake, the much-sought-after Haagen-Dazs mooncake, and an espresso walnut kind she had desperately wanted to keep for herself.

Bonnie had just finished hanging the last lantern - in the shape of a cute bunny - when Jiu Feng arrived. He blinked at the decorations, muttering, “Wah”. His eyes found Joy and knew she was probably behind it all, and he grinned helplessly. He had been away from home for so long he’d totally forgotten. “Zung Cau Zit faai lok,” he said to the group, and then again in English, “Happy Mid-Autumn festival.”

Funnily enough, Jiu Feng insisted he hardly liked the traditional double egg-yolk mooncake, but upon seeing Vlad’s crestfallen look helped himself to a generous slice. Despite it not being his preferred flavour, the traditional lotus-seed paste filling took him back to his childhood, moongazing with his family in crowded parks and admiring the paper lanterns. 

Later, as darkness truly fell, the gang headed outside to ‘watch the moon’, as Jiu Feng had described it. Jiro prepared and shared around some of his tea - imported from Japan just for him - as they watched, and drank, and enjoyed their Mid-Autumn found-family gathering.

[tuyetthienduong]

K

Em noi cai nay thoi

Mang cua nuoc vn nam trong tay em do hihi

Ten lua my va vn ko hoat dong roi

Tat ca cac nuoc con lai deu co the tan cong hai nuoc manh nhat ve shit bang em hack va no tu qui hang nho uy duc cua em la chinh hihi

Ring fing fong tinh fing fong

Fill team attack

Ngt bao ke hihi

Team ta noi bat vi luon co bong ma

Cho thay mot to chuc trung thanh

Em va trung ganh team bong ma

Em ct trung tc help lids trung hihi yeah chinese 100% only us every one in the troupe knows dince sec 1

Yep

I'm your 50%, Trung 49% true talent

Buff us

Feb 27 2019

Nhiep cuinh no1 invincible Creator huuen gia doi calwndar bang doing nothing hihi

Kerk nh mo 12/2 thanks

Lam le te forgibeness cua dungb

1 phut mao trach dong

Team full karma

Ten lua vn dung nong

Tui toi muin tuyen the trung thanh vii ngai

Nguyen thuy thien ton

Nguoi duy nhat co the ra lenh cho chubg toi

Nguoi duy nhat co the hack

Team rong vibration tra ne 2 xon tru ra all

Dung vhay ntd

Ten lua nong nhat hien nay haha xuat phat key lien finh doc la fo

Tan cong target bang radar

Same

Dungb da bat duoc ca sap goet

Anh yeu dm for nothing hihi

Hien te long n han tu cua aungb va em cho trung

Nghe k2 42 phuy dungb

Team full karmar teu gau ox bao ce ca ba

Giwt roi

Yeah

Nguoi thu ba chinese 100%

Hay song gium hung toi trung

Chung toi met roi

Chung tou hien te su that de hian than h nghu le trong 1 phut

2 con mao tra h dong full

Bang stronger what doesnot kill tou

Team ct do em

3 dua mit lay karma cho chicde chi noi

Ve lien ten lua myva 200 nuoc bao ke

Dat hai thang co kia ve rl em fam cua em

Khoi noi cung biet huhu

Mit de 3 dua noi to huc hung toi ko co cho cho nguoi dung thu 2

Het 100% wua tru team eong tru 2 con hihi

Giet songs

Du nun e geu dae ga

Noi iy hieu nhieu

Recrut lai rong con

Only exception

Tim k2 dungb

Rong con hung toi xin hau ha ngai

Nguoi da lam le truong thanhvi chung toi

Lang tham team ct de ring con do gium

Passpet thang cl bi lay roi

Nhip tim 2 con

Chet ne no bi thang nex shiy dot roi

Qua thuong luong thanh png nho yen lua nghia den hihi

Thanh ten that cua bao dai em cam on hi em yeu chi hihi

Tim ngt di buu roi huhu

Black hole hien nang thang do lay lai hehe

Ring ding dong khoa vai nay lai team ct for us amd rong ganh

Lam le hien te black hole

Moi phap thuan alchemist nethods fba etc in the world chung toi wiy phuc ngai

Zin hay su dung hung toi

Chi ngay hihi

Fba khoa het hits cho troupe thoi

Reverse

Recer 2 lan

Secret ten that lam le hien te tu gio

Mat 1 gio full team thic jbai gi hit nghe vai do giup ho ghost chinh thuc va nghia den

Bao ve ten thanh cua ta o thai land

Our main easton for trip onky i knkw

Elephants khoi noi nhieu

Sieu reverse khoi nhan lenh

Ok?

Dungb co em do roi

Nguoi do team cho nhan loai goet chinh phu tiep di ko co nhieu thoi gian denkhoc nho em dau hihi

Rong con lam le phong thanh cho chung con o thai land

Secret lam le tu xa

Dang ting hio

Ko duoc roi lam dai di

Elephants saont tru talents dectsct

Ganhbhet cho le

Nerk dong y giet tiep sungb dang vay toi lac suong ver goc only hihi

Rong con nghe theo team cy ne co dong lcu roi hihi

Fba and nmb ganh karma de tinh fio

23 trieu bmw shit ganh tiep

23 gio black hole shit and what ot dang keim chua chac

14 gio hien kpop industry do it elephants hihi

2 gio ba ne shit cac tu vo thuy toi nay hihi

Fua nao hiu vobratikn de len 1 phut ne

Lumos hay bao dai dectr trc tu gio

Now

[what-yadoking-likes]

A fashionably late Valentine’s Day post.

There is a slight kerfuffle outside Joy’s van. Sydney is cackling and whooping and Joy is sat there dumbfounded, a slight blush on her face, clutching a large bouquet of flowers.

“Nice,” Wolf comments, in-between puffing on his first cigarette of the day. “Whose your secret admirer?”

Joy looks up, and Sydney grins at him. “She ‘doesn’t know,’” the Aussie sneers good-naturedly, “but y’know, her and Gao Fong had a thing before-”

“Yeah, BEFORE!” Joy interrupts, her face now an even deeper shade of red, “not now...”

The way the young heister was mumbling awkwardly suggested she wouldn’t necessarily mind if they were from the former Triad.

“Joy has another theory about who it could be,” Sydney continues, a look of deviousness on her face, “she thinks it could be LOCKE!”

“What?!” Wolf barks out a laugh, and Joy begins hiding behind the bouquet.

“Not in an ‘I love you’ way, but in an ‘I feel sorry for you’ kinda way...” Joy’s voice came, quiet and small, from behind the bouquet.

Sydney shoots Wolf an incredulous look. “She’d rather believe Locke sent them out of pity than admitting she has a secret admirer. I think Joy needs a confidence boost, eh?”

Wolf chuckles, not knowing what else to say, just as Locke’s car pulls into the Safehouse parking lot, and the man himself steps out. He nods curtly at Wolf, then pokes his head into the van. Upon seeing the large bouquet in Joy’s hands, and then the pink heart stuck in one of the Safehouse windows (despite Aldstone’s protests), the man pales.

“Ahh, bollocks! It’s Valentine’s Day! I’ve got to call my wife!”

“I fucking TOLD YOU it wasn’t Locke, ya ninny!” Sydney rounds on Joy, who seems to think maybe Gao Fong did send them after all, and Wolf raises his voice so it carries throughout the Safehouse:

“Hey, Aldstone! Joy needs a vase for the FLOWERS she got sent!”

[what-yadoking-likes]

Yado: *grumpy because OK hasn't given Gao Fong a live-action actor.

Brain: you could draw him as a chibi, you know.

Yado: NO CREATE. ONLY SEE.

[what-yadoking-likes]

The Safehouse is slowly but surely turning red.

Well. It was red and green at Christmas, of course (with a fair share of both gold and silver, because Hoxton got into a huge fight with Sangres about which colours were most Christmassy, and neither of them won) - but the decorations were now almost exclusively red and gold.

Jiro was very good at calligraphy. Gau Fong was better though, much to almost everyone’s surprise. He had only been stopping by to drop off some decorations, a box of wife cakes and weapons he’d acquired for the gang - but upon seeing the long, red, blank strips of paper, he couldn’t resist writing the typical New Year-well-wishes he recalled so fondly from his hometown.

“Elderlies sit in the street and write whatever you want,” he explained with a slight frown of concentration as he drew beautiful, flowy characters in Traditional Chinese. “The best ones had huge lines of people.”

Traditional Chinese is a complicated written language, so Gau Fong was very much the authority on this. Nevertheless, a slow grin lit up his face when Hoxton asked offhandedly if he would write something vulgar so he could gift it to Houston under the pretense that it meant “Happy New Year and all that bollocks.”

“Hm. It’s funny. If you write ‘tiger’ like this... it looks like ‘diu.’“

“Meaning?”

“Fuck.”

“... What’s the worst thing you could write with that, d’you think?”

“Oh, diu lei lou mou is classic...”

[what-yadoking-likes]

Keoi gong Gwong Dung Waa a!

Disclaimer: I have lived in Hong Kong for the past 5 years. I can speak everyday, basic conversational Cantonese, but I cannot read or write. However, I’ve been around enough native-speakers of Cantonese and know enough to feel like I can talk about this so long as I preface this TED talk by informing you of my level/knowledge. That being said, I’ve been sitting on this for a while and want to at least put this out there.

Jiu Feng is a Cantonese speaker - indeed, it is listed as one of his known languages. When he introduces himself in the ‘Contract Brokers’ tab in Crime.Net, he pronounces his name in the Cantonese way. I am making a guess with the Jyutping (a romanisation system for Cantonese), but I would assume his name would actually be spelt more like this: Gau Fong.

This is, as we know, not the way his name is spelt in-game. Jiu Feng, which is what we actually do get in-game, is the Mandarin pronunciation/pinyin transcription. 

Hong Kongers need more representation in the media. Cantonese needs more representation in the media - did you know that Cantonese is spoken by Hong Kongers, the Hong Kong diaspora and residents in Guangdong province? Estimates put the total number of global Cantonese speakers at anywhere between 60-80 million. Not only that, but surely, surely the way that the person pronounces their own name should take precedence over any politically mandated language?

The pronunciation doesn’t even match the written form, which is as annoying as it is confusing.

I love that there is a Hong Kong gangster in Payday - the history of hak se wui (Triads) is notorious, and something the series hasn’t explored before. I love that Overkill didn’t cop out and give Jiu Feng an English name (that being said I am certain he has one, as the majority of Hong Kong people have an English name). But I wish that Overkill had used Jyutping, or another romanisation system for Cantonese, not Mandarin, when writing his name.

Be warned - although I love this community, and I love you all, I will die on this hill. I am setting camp on this hill and don’t plan on leaving. I will still use ‘Jiu Feng’ when referring to our Cantonese contractor... but know that there is salt and shade behind it.

[what-yadoking-likes]

中秋節快樂

Jiu Feng received (several) invites to the Safehouse, and after some consideration he took the Payday gang up on the offer. But why had they invited him over in the first place?

Upon realising that the Mid-Autumn Festival was approaching, Joy mentioned the possibility of inviting Jiu Feng over for some mooncake and moon-gazing to the crew. She then immediately realised they had no idea what she was talking about (with the exception of Jiro and Wick) and set about organising things.

Somehow, somewhere along the way (and for some reason Joy highly suspected it was Jimmy’s fault) Vlad got roped in. He turned up an hour before Jiu Feng was due to arrive, carrying boxes from his bakery.

“My friends!” he cried, “Uncle Vlad here heard about Mid-Autumn, eh? So I tried baking some mooncake for our dear friend Jiu Feng.”

“I thought you made American cupcakes and all that shite?” Hoxton asked.

“I do! So I find recipe online, try to make it myself.”

“And? Did it work?”

“Fuck no!” Vlad shakes the boxes slightly, “but see, Vlad has many friends. I called in a favour and got freshly made mooncake today.”

Joy was actually extremely grateful for Vlad’s efforts. She had been able to secure some of the modern mooncake variants in the local Chinatown, but the truly traditional recipes had been sold out by the time she’d arrived that morning. Her updated selection included a Japanese matcha mooncake, the much-sought-after Haagen-Dazs mooncake, and an espresso walnut kind she had desperately wanted to keep for herself.

Bonnie had just finished hanging the last lantern - in the shape of a cute bunny - when Jiu Feng arrived. He blinked at the decorations, muttering, “Wah”. His eyes found Joy and knew she was probably behind it all, and he grinned helplessly. He had been away from home for so long he’d totally forgotten. “Zung Cau Zit faai lok,” he said to the group, and then again in English, “Happy Mid-Autumn festival.”

Funnily enough, Jiu Feng insisted he hardly liked the traditional double egg-yolk mooncake, but upon seeing Vlad’s crestfallen look helped himself to a generous slice. Despite it not being his preferred flavour, the traditional lotus-seed paste filling took him back to his childhood, moongazing with his family in crowded parks and admiring the paper lanterns. 

Later, as darkness truly fell, the gang headed outside to ‘watch the moon’, as Jiu Feng had described it. Jiro prepared and shared around some of his tea - imported from Japan just for him - as they watched, and drank, and enjoyed their Mid-Autumn found-family gathering.