Category Archives: corruption

“There Is No Plan B”

Posted on May 22, 2013 by cecilie

I knew it was too soon to celebrate last year when the news came that there would be no rubbish incinerator on the island in the photo above. “They will never give up an opportunity to waste this much money” … Continue reading →

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Your Tax Dollars Hard at Work

Posted on January 30, 2013 by cecilie

In its relentless quest to cheer up and beautify ugly sleepy backwater Pui O, the government has come up with these sorely needed banners. Phew! I wonder what we did before them? They don’t mention what will now happen to … Continue reading →

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Friendly Fire From Former Friends

Posted on December 19, 2012 by cecilie

Like so many others of my age group, class and education level, I used to be a diehard screaming radical lefty, but in a nice way. I had a picture of Mao on my wall and thought it was really … Continue reading →

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Beautification of Pui O Continues

Posted on December 5, 2012 by cecilie

A few weeks ago I posted the above picture on Facebook, wondering what this container which, to put it mildly, had seen better days, could possibly be doing there.One morning it was just there, resting on bricks. Rusted through and … Continue reading →

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Rant and Own Column

Posted on November 6, 2012 by cecilie

Testing testing. I’m actually writing for SCMP and have done since March. This is just a rant, but I also have my own twice monthly column, So Near and Yet So Feared.

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They Are Greening – I Am Screaming

Posted on October 19, 2012 by cecilie

It had to happen. With recent humiliations such as failing in its bid to build a “super” prison with 7,000 inmates on an island just outside Mui Wo, failing to build a “super” columbarium with I don’t know how many … Continue reading →

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Why Are They Perpetually Offended?

Posted on September 23, 2012 by cecilie

Do you think the islamists are pissed off and burning consulates and embassies and killing ambassadors because of some stupid amateur film? Do you think they go into convulsions of rage because of some Danish (and recently French) cartoons? That … Continue reading →

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Election, schmelection…

Posted on September 4, 2012 by cecilie

The last couple of weeks I have, or rather my post box has been drowning in advertisements from people of whom I have never heard, asking me to vote for them. They all look curiously the same; middle-aged geezers with … Continue reading →

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Paying for Your Own Annihilation

Posted on April 25, 2012 by cecilie

A couple of Sundays ago, April 15th to be exact, I threw a Titanic party and felt the usual fare, Sichuan food, wouldn’t do to commemorate the tragedy. We needed dairy and salmon. Off I trotted to the Wellcome Shop … Continue reading →

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Victory: Rare Bout of Sanity Hits Hong Kong Lawmakers!

Posted on April 20, 2012 by cecilie

Seems like Lantau is saved (for now) – all the parties shot down the incinerator proposal at Legco today. Rest in peace, idiotic ideas from the environmental ‘protection’ department! So we brace ourselves for the next onslaught, because they have … Continue reading →

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