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Category Archives: property
Sold! Complete With No Buffaloes
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
Posted in Beauty, Environment, Eyesore, Government, Hong Kong, politics, Pollution, property
Tagged Pui O property, Pui O water buffalo
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Government In All Its Glory
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
Posted in Beauty, Government, Hong Kong, Injustice, politics, Pollution, property
Tagged beautification, government transgressions, Pui O, ugliness
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The Agonies of a Hong Kong Tenant 2:
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
Posted in Beauty, Beer, Government, Hong Kong, Injustice, property
Tagged landlord, moving, Property in Pui O, where will I go
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Chewing Through Scenery, One Tree at the Time
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
Posted in Beauty, Environment, Eyesore, Hong Kong, politics, Pollution, property
Tagged Pui O, SUVs, the destruction of Pui O
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Rallying for Our Future
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
Posted in Beauty, corruption, Environment, Eyesore, Government, Home, Hong Kong, Injustice, Pollution, property
Tagged March 18 rally, Shek Kwu Chau incinerator
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Last Stand Against Insane-erator
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
Posted in Beauty, corruption, Environment, Eyesore, Government, Home, Hong Kong, Injustice, politics, Pollution, property
Tagged Cheung Sha, incinerator, insane-erator, March 18, March against incinerator, Pui O, Shek Kwu Chau
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Flogging That Tome
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
Posted in Beauty, Beer, Book Production, Cantonese, China, communism, corruption, food, Government, Hong Kong, language, Media, Movies, patriotism, politics, property
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Islands District Pusillanimous Council
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
Posted in Beauty, corruption, Environment, Eyesore, Government, Home, Hong Kong, Injustice, Media, politics, Pollution, property
Tagged Cheung Chau, Elvis Au, EPD, Government departments, Islands District Council, Shek Kwu Chau, South Lantau, Super incinerator
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EPD: Bringing Central To An Island Near You!
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
Posted in Beauty, communism, corruption, Environment, Eyesore, Government, Hong Kong, Injustice, property
Tagged Lantau Island, LIM, Shek Kwu Chau, Super incinerator
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