Tag Archives: Hong KOng Government

Last Chance

Posted on December 17, 2011 by cecilie

Today is the last chance to protest to the government about the super-incinerator they are planning to build right outside my gaff. It’s always ‘super’ with the government, isn’t it. A few years ago it was a super-prison of 7,000 … Continue reading →

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Buffalo Brill

Posted on June 20, 2011 by cecilie

Don’t know if I’ve mentioned here before how beautiful and wondrous Pui O is? And that the most beautiful and wondrous thing about it is our water buffalo? Now they’re under threat again, probably more than ever. Encroachment of wetlands … Continue reading →

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New, Mild-mannered Me

Posted on September 27, 2010 by cecilie

I can’t remember the last time I wrote something disparaging about the Hong Kong government. Must be because they are now perfect and devote their time to serving Hong Kong people instead of just enabling the three guys who own … Continue reading →

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Victory For Hong Kong Government

Posted on August 18, 2010 by cecilie

Is it Norway? Canada? New Zealand? Mars? No, it’s the grassland of sleepy backwater Pui O after a rainfall!!! The above fjord normally looks like this, completely grassy (covered in grassage): By the way, for example Ulaca: You’re a language … Continue reading →

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Guangzhou Leads The Way

Posted on November 3, 2009 by cecilie

I love Guangzhou. Many people who frequently go there on business, from the airport to a hotel, then back, tell me they can’t see why this should be. They have decided Guangzhou “Is just a big ugly city full of … Continue reading →

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You Don’t Know How Good You Have It

Posted on September 17, 2009 by cecilie

Take the HK legislators for example. Complain, complain. Squabble, squabble. Universal suffrage by the year 3001, or was it 6049? So tedious! People asking to be allowed to buy their own houses without worry that two years later Li Ka-shing, … Continue reading →

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Cows’R'Out! (Tracking your tax money part 20000000)

Posted on July 9, 2009 by cecilie

Everybody loves a good fence, and when the erection of fences can coincide with job creation, what could be better? Here’s again an example from formerly sleepy backwater Pui O, now a hotbed of government job creation: Fences, meant to keep … Continue reading →

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A Rare Moment Of Sanity

Posted on May 23, 2009 by cecilie

THANK GOD!!! the editors of South East Asia’s biggest sitting outdoor bronze English language newspaper, the South China Morning Post (as well as the entire HK government) must be shouting, after desperately fanning the dying embers of the non-existent flu … Continue reading →

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Celebrating Another Narrowly Missed Death

Posted on May 5, 2009 by cecilie

Phew! That was close. After a week of nail-biting suspense with one whole person in HK having porcine related influenza symptoms it seems we’re now largely out of the woods. At least according to the South China Morning Post, which … Continue reading →

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If That’s Diplomacy I’m All For It

Posted on March 24, 2009 by cecilie

I noticed that our charming new part-time resident, Grace Mugabe, wife of revered elder statesman Robert, has diplomatic immunity while in Hong Kong. I like it! And I want it too. I’m so sick of these people who always want … Continue reading →

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