Category Archives: Charity

Don’t Waste Valuable Beer Time On Sports – Drink While Running

Posted on March 16, 2013 by cecilie

Ahhrghh where did the months go? I’ve been ut of the writing business for so long! Hope you haven’t given up on this blog. Let me re-launch it with a short film from the rather excellent beer dash we had … Continue reading →

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Cows. Dogs. Beer.

Posted on March 7, 2012 by cecilie

Charity!!! Good cause!!! Good taste! Come to Lantau on Saturday and get into the groove of the Lantau International Beer Dash! It is… exactly what it’s called. You dash, then drink some beer, then dash again. The run or hobble … Continue reading →

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Damned Busy Working For Motherland

Posted on December 5, 2011 by cecilie

Damn – I’ve done it! I’ve gone and betrayed my love, the Cantonese language. Well, all I’ve said about it is true and right, and it is my beloved language number 1A. It’s just that … I can’t jolly well … Continue reading →

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Buffalo Brill

Posted on June 20, 2011 by cecilie

Don’t know if I’ve mentioned here before how beautiful and wondrous Pui O is? And that the most beautiful and wondrous thing about it is our water buffalo? Now they’re under threat again, probably more than ever. Encroachment of wetlands … Continue reading →

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Chinese New Year Extravaganza

Posted on February 5, 2011 by cecilie

Happy ‘Yet another religious/superstitious/traditional holiday during which I can’t get paid’! Yes, happy CNY. The above photo was actually taken near my gaff in sleepy backwater Pui O but I thought it would set a celebratory tone. We set out … Continue reading →

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They Exist For Us

Posted on August 11, 2010 by cecilie

I’ve mentioned earlier that i don’t believe in charity anymore. Cruel and heartless eh? Those little children growing up without eyes – only I can help them but don’t. And why? Two reasons. There are so many people in the … Continue reading →

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Save a Cow Today Day

Posted on May 27, 2010 by cecilie

People – watch out! When you’ve reached a certain age, time starts rushing by so quickly. Today I was invited to HK International Arts Festival without even knowing that was what it was before I was standing in the convention … Continue reading →

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Donatio-mania

Posted on April 27, 2010 by cecilie

Heh! Interesting. Remember the Sichuan earthquake? I know, there have been so many disasters after that, so nowadays the two words only appear together in connection with “things that happened in 2008.” I remember my shock and nausea at the … Continue reading →

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Charles Dickens, Champion of Walking and Putting Things Right

Posted on October 1, 2009 by cecilie

When I was a child, the first “adult” book I ever read was Oliver Twist. I must have read it about 50 times between the age of 7 and 10. I naturally read it in Norwegian, and an excellent Norwegian … Continue reading →

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You Don’t Know How Good You Have It

Posted on September 17, 2009 by cecilie

Take the HK legislators for example. Complain, complain. Squabble, squabble. Universal suffrage by the year 3001, or was it 6049? So tedious! People asking to be allowed to buy their own houses without worry that two years later Li Ka-shing, … Continue reading →

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