Blog | Hans Ebert

WHEN BEING THE MUSIC INDUSTRY’S ODD COUPLE PAID DIVIDENDS…

We called ourselves “Walter and Jack” after the two characters in “The Odd Couple”, and the name stuck because it was true: We were Asia’s odd couple of the music industry, and also, very possibly, the most successful. It worked to have one of us who talked softly and carried a big stick and the other who enjoyed being a big stick and having some thinking he was a whack job who had a short fuse. Norman (Cheng) and I read the tea leaves extremely well. We almost magically and

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Finding Happiness In The Celebratory Dance Of “Hamnet” and Rihanna!

It’s very hard to explain when there are mental roadblocks stopping new flows of positive energy from breaking through, but as I was telling someone last night, if the world could somehow drink from the same cup as Jessie Buckley, we might actually find the magic fuel to Happiness- and with Happiness leading to a conga line of Hope and Energy and Inspiration. This was after watching the clip above where the entire crew dance to Rihanna’s “I Found Love”, an idea by Chloe Zhao,

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WORLD CUP 2026: WILL HONG KONG BE ON THE BALL OR SCORE AN OWN GOAL?

Though the marketing of Hong Kong is not without its shortcomings- there’s a smirk hiding in there- it says something when you’re told by those who know to hold off from coming to America and stay put, because, with my colour and looks, I will very probably have quite an ordeal trying to enter a country, that if the nonstop news is to be believed, is caught up in a crossfire hurricane of divisiveness, racism, goofiness and a dangerous brand of legalised lawlessness. For Hong

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THE NEED FOR HONG KONG TO HAVE STYLE AND THE REBIRTH OF COOL AND CREATIVITY

Once upon a dim sum We heard the bells go Ding Dong We knew we were back And chilling in the Kong The city called Hong Kong There was music playing And people singing There were beats out in the streets Music was heard everywhere This was the soundtrack to our being and lives And living the coolest Cheongsam life style Copyright ©️ Hans Ebert, 2026 It’s tough growing up, and, sometimes, when having to grow down to fit in with others and “network”, which is a stra

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Just my imagination (Running away with me)

Like needing a shot of rhythm and blues, especially during these very uncertain times, we all need heavy doses of inspiration to get us motivated, because when this inspiration washes over you, it’s like a revitalisation and replenishment needed to go from surviving to living- really living. I’ve been thinking about this more and more, and how the more I am too often around those who don’t give me this nourishment, I retreat into a deep, dark void to listen to the silence, in

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HORSE RACING AND ITS NEED FOR A NEW AND MAGICAL FIELD OF DREAMS.

I know some extremely good and multi talented creatives in leading multinational advertising agencies- award winning Creative Directors- who have tried and failed to go the distance when trying to make horse racing something more than what it has been for decades and decades with a cherry on top and before the wheels coming off. Showing horse racing in its best possible light and in an ONGOING way seems to be mission: impossible and one probably knows why, but let’s not dwell

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MIKE SMITH AND NETFLIX AND THE HKJC ON THE SLOW BOAT TO CHINA

https://usasnews.com/posts/breaking-news-legendary-jockey-mike-smith-has-sent-the-entire-horse-racing-world-into-a-frenzy-afte-thanhtam/?utm_source=facebook Gawd knows there have been so many times when I have had to bite my tongue so hard to not burst out laughing listening to those who have no idea about the business model of the streaming service that’s Netflix thinking that that anything and everything produced, including horse racing, will be accepted. So very wrong, Ton

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