Autobiography | Hans Ebert

AUTOBIOGRAPHY

Personally speaking...

Maybe we thought that The World’s Longest Cocktail Party and Chinese banquet would last forever. Maybe we were careless and pretentious...

The Caterpillar That Turned Into A Butterfly And Grew Wings

It was a ping pong match to do with, on one side, reaching early puberty, and the realities of life at the other end. This was when...

The Far Side to Hong Kong

It had all become too much to accept as normal- the negativity and the non-stop fear that had gripped the city largely because of a...

The Way We Were (And The Way It Was)

“I wasn’t allowed to go over to Hong Kong side at night”. It was an innocent enough line on Facebook from Joanne, my rather offbeat...

Lessons learned… and how jealousy must be earned…

Spent something like two weeks on a Lloyd Trestino liner called Asia, below, with my parents and playing shuffleboard with a couple of...

Those WTF times with the Guru

It lasted for less than two years, but it seemed like this yard went on forever. Those of us who were there, refer to it as The WTF Years...

Side Effects

Being Bridget Jones When writing a song called “Home” with Welsh singer-songwriter Ben Semmens, the lyrics that came out of that magical...

Burghers, dim sum, and... Chapter 10

Let’s call her Tak- not her real name. Tak was open, spontaneous, creative and adventurous in many ways. It’s what attracted me to her....

Burghers, dim sum, and... Chapter 9

The EMI Years really were a monster mashup of the good, the bad and the very fugly. For at least one of the Chinese girls working for us...

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