Category Archives: Hong Kong

“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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Cover Story About Cantonese

Posted on May 14, 2013 by cecilie

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Come a Keystone Kropper

Posted on May 2, 2013 by cecilie

Lantau Island is a magnet for mediocre to incompetent civil servants, notably members of the police force. I have written about them many times; their, shall we say interesting take on what their job description in particular, and yesterday morning … 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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Sold! Complete With No Buffaloes

Posted on December 19, 2012 by cecilie

Yesterday I saw a rather disturbing sight down at the huge dinner table of Pui O’s water buffalo, the grasslands down by Pui O Beach. Surveyors were setting up boundaries around one of my favourite vistas. I went over and … 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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Thanking and Trying To Give

Posted on November 22, 2012 by cecilie

Today is thanksgiving, and like every year I wish I was an American today, sitting around a huge table groaning with turkey and what not, telling people how thankful I am because they are in my life. It’s such a … Continue reading →

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Lest We Forget

Posted on November 11, 2012 by cecilie

Today I did something I for some reason have never done before: Went to the Cenotaph in Central to watch the Remembrance Day ceremony. It was beautiful, solemn and dignified, and lots of people had turned out; everyone from former … Continue reading →

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Government In All Its Glory

Posted on November 1, 2012 by cecilie

Last night, on Halloween, I ventured out in Central dressed as my favourite character on my show Cantonese The Movie on my YouTube channel Cantocourse, to advertise for my Cantonese course. A woman has to do what a woman has … Continue reading →

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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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