Category Archives: politics

“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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Dog Eat Not Dog (SCMP Column)

Posted on February 4, 2013 by cecilie

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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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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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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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Good And Evil Summed Up In One Short Segment:

Posted on October 6, 2012 by cecilie

Do you still think USA and Israel are the evil enemies of freedom in the world? Do you think Islam is good, Christianity bad? Do you think honour killing, female genital mutilation, hanging homosexuals from cranes, attacking and killing people … 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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