Noted Chinese mainland blogger Han Han seems to be in Hong Kong today, and despite reports that the Q+A is going ahead “the old fashioned way” using pieces of paper instead of a microphone (probably for fear of folks being censored?), that hasn’t stopped Han from pulling out his legendary short’n’snappy responses.

One of which, may we note, considers marriage. Here’s what he said:

As a matter of fact, for me, as to when I become father will depend on fate and chance. I’ve a lot of friends who want to be dad but can’t; but some have become fathers just because they met a girl.

The Chinese believe in “fate and chance”, which is yuan fen in Mandarin, and this concept can be very alien to — well, aliens (ie foreigners).