In court, Chan's professional tomfoolery (he once told a former legislator to burn nearly USD2,000 a day "for luck") was thrown into sharp relief against the obscenity of his remuneration — so sharply that many Hong Kongers, including myself, were at last woken from the thrall in which feng shui had held us. Chan couldn't even produce a credible expert witness. Joseph Yu, the Ontario-based feng shui practitioner called as such, revealed that he was almost entirely self-taught, prompting Justice Johnson Lam to remark, "I think there is no need to cross-examine any further.