Category Archives: property

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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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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The Agonies of a Hong Kong Tenant 2:

Posted on August 10, 2012 by cecilie

So this was going to be a blow-by-blow account of how I tried, and succeeded in, buying the lovely, intensely lovely, village house in Pui O against all odds. I was going to tell you about how the landlord told … Continue reading →

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The Agonies of a Hong Kong Tenant 1:

Posted on August 9, 2012 by cecilie

I’ll never forget the first time I walked into this gaff in 2002. I had just walked from Mui Wo to Pui O on Lantau Island with my dog Piles. A big and active boy, he needed long walks. Outside … Continue reading →

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Chewing Through Scenery, One Tree at the Time

Posted on June 8, 2012 by cecilie

This is how they do it: Take a thicket in sleepy backwater Pui O and cut down all the trees. Then fill the empty space with building rubble from all the village houses that have been stripped bare to the … Continue reading →

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Rallying for Our Future

Posted on March 26, 2012 by cecilie

A bit belated, here are some images from the rally against the “super” incinerator off Lantau. It was an interesting march, and according to police, 1,500 people participated. That means… there were double that? The Hong Kong police, as indeed … Continue reading →

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Last Stand Against Insane-erator

Posted on March 11, 2012 by cecilie

This is our last chance to stop the deranged plan to ruin one of Hong Kong’s most beautiful and unspoiled vistas (see film above) for the sake of a 1972-style technology rubbish incinerator which will add greatly to the overall … Continue reading →

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Flogging That Tome

Posted on February 27, 2012 by cecilie

Hoi hoi, everybody everywhere, who has arms! Did you know that I have just published my second book, Don’t Joke on the Stairs, on Blacksmith Book publishing house. It is about how much fun and laughter, surrealism and weirdness you … Continue reading →

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Islands District Pusillanimous Council

Posted on February 20, 2012 by cecilie

Today was the big day: The meeting in the Islands District Council where councillors were to vote on whether the government’s harebrained scheme, the Super Waste Incinerator on Shek Kwu Chau, a stone’s throw from Lantau and Cheung Chau, would … Continue reading →

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EPD: Bringing Central To An Island Near You!

Posted on January 31, 2012 by cecilie

Sleepy backwater Pui O at 9 this morning. I was just walking around Ham Tin dropping leaflets about the latest madcap scheme of the Hong Kong government into people’s letterboxes when this vista jumped up and knocked me on the … Continue reading →

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