Category Archives: language

Cover Story About Cantonese

Posted on May 14, 2013 by cecilie

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Good Lord, Is That The Time?

Posted on January 24, 2013 by cecilie

I mean, quarter past three weeks since I last posted a blog entry? Bloody hell. I can’t live like this. I think it all started when the Sony service centre blithely called and said I had lost two weeks’ worth … Continue reading →

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The Joys Of Guiyang, a Photo Safari

Posted on December 28, 2012 by cecilie

Is it only Guangdong province that has proper youth discos? Here in Guizhou it’s all boring KTV, i.e. sitting in a small rented room by yourself or with two friends, singing karaoke and being waited on by people like the … Continue reading →

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Experimenting With Camera

Posted on December 25, 2012 by cecilie

We must have stayed in the wrong part of town in that Foshan, for surely there are more interesting and less sterile parts of it than the area where our hotel, the City Inn, was. And less windy, eight-laned and … Continue reading →

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Cool Yule!

Posted on December 20, 2012 by cecilie

I’m posting a Christmas Extravaganza from Yules of yore, wishing everybody a beautiful, fun and meaningful Christmas.

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The Worst Drink In The World

Posted on December 10, 2012 by cecilie

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My Column

Posted on November 27, 2012 by cecilie

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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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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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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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