All Around Town: How Hong Kong diva Paula Tsui's pop classic made Christopher cross

Cantopop legend Paula Tsui Siu-fung may have been out of showbiz for a while, but her 1979 hit (Full of Joy) has been played repeatedly in recent years whenever internet users find news worthy of "celebration" - or indeed mockery - particularly the election defeats of pro-establishment heavyweights. The most recent loser was Christopher Chung Shu-kun, the pro-Beijing lawmaker beaten in Sunday's district council poll. People gloating at his loss went to his office and played the song with the sarcastic lyrics: "Play the piano fervently; sing fervently". Tsui was later spotted in Kowloon Tong and reportedly called these people "naughty". "My feeling is complex," Tsui told Baptist University journalism lecturer Bruce Lui, who shared the encounter on Facebook. "I hope those to whom my song was played won't be angry at me." Tsui recalled the last time her song went viral in a similar way - when Lau Kong-wah lost his Legco seat in 2011. But he had the last laugh this year when Chief Executive Leung Chun-ying appointed him as secretary for home affairs.

It's difficult for newly elected councillors to face journalists after a long and busy day of electioneering, so when Joephy Chan Wing-yan, from the Beijing-loyalist Federation of Trade Unions, struggled with questions after unseating veteran pan-democrat Frederick Fung Kin-kee in Sham Shui Po on Sunday, pro-Beijing district councillor Samuel Chan Wai-ming rushed to the rescue. The Chinese-language discovered from their footage that when Joephy was asked "what was good about your work?" Samuel whispered behind her and said: "Not good". And when Joephy was asked what would be her first priority, Samuel whispered: "Thank voters". Joephy duly answered: "I must thank voters for their support." Samuel's keen support sparked speculation about his relationship with Joephy, but he insisted they were nothing more than colleagues in the Beijing-loyalist Democratic Alliance for the Betterment and Progress of Hong Kong. "I chair the DAB's Sham Shui Po branch, and Joephy was tired on that night, so I decided to remind her about key words she could use," he said.

Sigmund Freud described dreams as the "royal road to the unconscious". Perhaps Democrat Albert Ho Chun-yan has new insights to that theory after having a nightmare following Sunday's elections. Ho, who lost his seat in Lok Tsui constituency in Tuen Mun to former Law Society president Junius Ho Kwan-yiu, said yesterday he had a really tough night after being chased by a number of people wielding knives in his dream. "I kept moving my arms and legs - luckily I didn't hurt my wife," Ho said. "When she tried to wake me up, I thought someone was grabbing my throat." Ho said the nightmare reflected the pressure he felt during the polls, and now he felt "so much better".