On the outset, Sham-Shui-Po Boy must say that he normally would not review a HK blog such as this one. However, there are always exceptions to the rules. The main reason for the exception: the blogger, Phyllis Law, asked him to review her blog, and this blog is somewhat unique from a certain perspective. Sham-Shui-Po Boy believes writing a review for Phyllis' blog is part of Hong Kong Blogs Review's continued effort to present our readers a variety of HK blogs with diverse views, objectives, and purposes.

        Despite its business-sounding though ambiguous name, "LIVE BETTER WITH YOUR EXECUTIVE LIFE IN HONG KONG", this blog, in essence, is a platform for promoting the teachings of the Church of Scientology and its founder, L. Ron Hubbard's philosophy. As far as Sham-Shui-Po Boy can tell, whatever the term "executive life" means, this blog has less to do with business than Scientology.

        At a casual glance, Phyllis Law is the name of a Westerner. But after a close look at this blogger's writing, particularly at her grammar, sentence pattern, vocabulary, and so forth, Sham-Shui-Po boy came to realize that Phyllis is likely a person of HK Chinese descent.

        The quality of writing in this blog is uneven; the language in some entries is more fluent than the others. And some of her writing is incomprehensible due to the complexity of the subject matter involved and the blogger's inability to express herself clearly in her second language (Sham-Shui-Po Boy has the same problem). This blogger's writing style has many common characteristics of the so-called "Hong Kong English", and it bears many traits of how we HK Chinese write in English. This is not a matter of good or bad; Sham-Shui-Po Boy merely reports his observation and states his finding in this review.

        Hong Kong has freedom of speech and freedom of religion, there is no need to conceal one's intention and disguise one's spiritual conviction in order to promote a controversial belief system, or any faith for that matter. It's more appropriate for this blog to be named "Scientology in Hong Kong", or "Learn All about Scientology", or "Everything You Ever Wanted to Know about Scientology but Were Afraid to Ask", or something in that order.

        Sham-Shui-Po Boy says, if you are a linguist or interested in Scientology, "LIVE BETTER WITH YOUR EXECUTIVE LIFE IN HONG KONG" might well be a blog for you.