Category Archives: Cantonese

Cover Story About Cantonese

Posted on May 14, 2013 by cecilie

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One For The Team

Posted on December 30, 2012 by cecilie

This is how it started. We had dived into an upmarket restaurant because the temperature was dropping fast and it was raining; we just couldn’t bear the thought of another meal with our backs to an open door, huddled around … Continue reading →

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My Column

Posted on November 27, 2012 by cecilie

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Pancake Make-up

Posted on October 20, 2012 by cecilie

Ah! This is the kind of result we women want to see when we go to the beauty salon. From 76 year-old Chinese woman to 23 year-old western woman, in one treatment. (I presume the left half is the “after” … Continue reading →

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Me! Me! Me!

Posted on September 30, 2012 by cecilie

I never realised how much fish resemble children until I went into the gardens of the beautifully appointed Fuhua Hotel in Zhongshan yesterday. With no respect for their elders and betters, it’s all me! Me! Me! in the fish world, … Continue reading →

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Trousers With A Twist

Posted on August 2, 2012 by cecilie

This photo is from a door in the Lo Wu Shopping Centre. Closed for selling fake goods? What’s happening to the world??? I had some trousers made in Shenzhen and they were great, but after an hour’s wear and non-tear … Continue reading →

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Down With Simplified Characters

Posted on July 28, 2012 by cecilie

The simplified characters menace is growing. Businesses all over Hong Kong are falling over themselves to accommodate mainlanders only, showing in a not very subtle manner that they’re not interested in local customers: by using only simplified, ‘crippled’ characters. Only … Continue reading →

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That’s More Like It!

Posted on May 31, 2012 by cecilie

Ah, I have to say it’s quite satisfying to go into some bookshop in Prince’s Building and suddenly see one’s own book on top of the big pile! I think you should buy it (from me). Why? Because 1: One … Continue reading →

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Guangdong Delight

Posted on May 17, 2012 by cecilie

After I started writing for famed newspaper South China Morning Post (their Post Magazine on Sundays) it seems this blog has gone to hell. Now I’m getting paid to write what I would normally put here. I like getting paid. … Continue reading →

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Flogging That Tome

Posted on February 27, 2012 by cecilie

Hoi hoi, everybody everywhere, who has arms! Did you know that I have just published my second book, Don’t Joke on the Stairs, on Blacksmith Book publishing house. It is about how much fun and laughter, surrealism and weirdness you … Continue reading →

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