Cecilie Gamst Berg (a.k.a. Ah Sin) was born in the swinging sixties, grew up in the sad seventies, left Norway in the anal eighties and settled down in Hong Kong in the nightmarish nineties.
Realizing from an early age that she couldn’t be in or near snow, Cecilie ran away from Norway as soon and often as she had the chance, but circumstances and various countries’ harsh immigration laws always forced her to return to the land of the thermal underwear.
It wasn’t until the end of the eighties that she got the chance to settle in a warm climate for good. She currently lives in a somnambulistic village on an island in the South China Sea with her dog Piles, who speaks three languages and who, if he were a man who shaved religiously, would be one of the most handsome guys in China.
Cecilie is a keen cook of Sichuan food and a feared Chinese-poker player, as well as being actively engaged in the uphill battle of making Cantonese a world language…
Now she’s been hired by RTHK to make a weekly radio program about Cantonese! That acerbic tongue (Cantonese, not Cecilie’s mild and dulcet tones) will be a world language yet!
Recently she has taken up film making, putting her Cantonese course on YouTube
www.youtube.com/cantocourse
as well as making documentaries about people’s daily lives in Hong Kong at at 100th of the price of most video companies knocking around town. For that special film about YOU to send your friends and family now that recession has put a stop to travelling: Call 852 - 9331 9673
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