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The Line is Drawn 30 Jan 2010 | 07:15 pm
Wednesday night, 6:30pm, the phone rings: it's Long Hair. "Can you play guitar for me at the rally tonight? I want to sing Bob Dylan's song, "The Times they are a'Changing". My first reaction: Uh oh....
The Siege of Legco 18 Jan 2010 | 03:27 pm
At 6:00pm, a few minutes before the tycoons, establishment cronies and pro-Beijing hacks who stack the decks of Hong Kong's legislature rubber-stamped the government's 67 billion dollar super-fast rai...
The 26 Steps: People Power Rises in Hong Kong 9 Jan 2010 | 05:15 pm
"It's just like People's Park, Berkeley, in 1967! I feel old." My American friend Francis has a grin almost 26 kilometers wide, weaving through the ecstatic throng. Over there are Hong Kong twenty-som...
Cantonese Is Dead 22 Oct 2009 | 01:53 pm
I've just landed in Hong Kong only to discover that Cantonese is dead. Sei jo la! It must be true. The New York Times says so. But wait. Their reporter also calls Cantonese a "dialect". (And determin...
Look Back in Anger 15 May 2009 | 03:03 pm
Yesterday afternoon at the Legco question and answer session, as Hong Kong legislator Margaret Ng stood brimming with righteous fury before Hong Kong Chief Executive Donald Tsang , I swear I saw a hal...
Moving 11 May 2009 | 01:09 pm
Everybody I know is bun nguk. Moving. Anh thu to Happy Valley, driven away from Elgin Street by the creeping Lan Kwai Fong-ization of Central (despite the recession, the drunken expat bar scene has be...
Let's Resist the Virulent Flu Together 4 May 2009 | 04:45 pm
Friday night I was sitting at Ngau Gei eating steamed fish head with Ching Wah, Po Ying, and her daughter Fook Lin, when a mass SMS message came through on Fook Lin's cell phone: "First case of Swine ...
The Jong Sau 16 Apr 2009 | 05:12 pm
Jong Sau! The rumors of our building's impending renovation were put to rest last Christmas when Mrs. Wong, the doorlady, posted a copy of all six A4 pages of the coop association's meeting minutes, i...
The Bad Stick 28 Jan 2009 | 05:39 am
The unfortunate fortune of the "Number 27" stick drawn at Che Gung temple Nobody I know in Hong Kong is rending their garments in despair over the very, very bad Chinese fortune stick drawn by Lau Wo...
Surfing the Financial Tsunami 21 Jan 2009 | 07:55 am
The Cantonese description of the mess we're in is way better and more colorful than that dull old CNN/New York Times-standby: "Financial Crisis." It shows more poetic flair, too, than the slangy, "Pon...
