Tag Archive for 'everything’s illegal'

O Come All Ye Spiteful

Published
by
cecilie
on November 21, 2009
in Hong Kong, Injustice, Media and politics
. 4 Comments

No, that’s not the word I’m looking for. Naughty? Unruly!

O come ye o come ye to Shatin tomorrow, for there is an event: The Freedom Ball event. Everybody who’s sick of all the “No Playing, No Laughing, No Being” signs in our parks and on our beaches should jolly well trundle along to Shatin Park tomorrow at 11.30 to play with 1000 large red balls! (There’s no sign saying No Large Red Balls but no doubt there’ll be one saying No Ball Games)

I’ll give the rozzers 7.2 minutes to turn up.

Well done David Biddlecombe for this brilliant idea. I’m certainly going along to help, oh yeah! Read more about it in his blog here.

Vexing, Stupid or Plain Idiotic?

Published
by
cecilie
on February 17, 2009
in Cantonese, China, Government, Hong Kong, Injustice, Media, Movies and language
. 12 Comments

Hoi, hoi, dear readers. I know I have posted the above segment before, but bear with me. I’m going to make a 15 minute short film based loosely on this theme - how things like flying kites on the beach, walking dogs in the park or, for anyone who can remember that far back, flicking your MTR card (That’s right! Before Octopus, we had something called MTR cards, the “flicking” of which was punishable by $5000 (or something) or six months in prison!!!) are illegal, or deeply frowned upon (by bureaucrats), in Hong Kong. Now I need your help.

Tell me about signs you’ve seen saying this and that is illegal and where they are. Tell me about things you’ve been told off for by security guards. Taking photos inside perfectly normal restaurants, looking at something for too long, sitting on a staircase, that kind of thing. Your help will be greatly and deeply appreciated. And if it’s particularly surreal I’ll mention your name in the credits! Unless, of course you prefer to be anonymous for fear of being sacked or outed…