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Hans Ebert
- 2 days ago
- 2 min
Ethnic Minority or Cultural Diversity?
I had never thought about it until someone asked how, having been born in what was then known as Ceylon, I feel about being categorised...
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Hans Ebert
- 3 days ago
- 2 min
And how do you plan to save the world?
Never say never, but in all my years in Hong Kong, never have I seen the city so disparate, desperate, fragmented, and let’s toss lost...
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Hans Ebert
- Sep 20
- 4 min
19 September 2022
In “The Ballad Of A Thin Man”, Bob Dylan takes aim and says that, “There’s something happenin’, but you don’t know what it is, do you,...
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Hans Ebert
- Sep 15
- 2 min
Macau and Hong Kong: Will the tail soon be wagging the running dog?
It could be a case of the tail wagging the dog if the extremely LOUD whispers heard early this year and have now become solid news, Macau...
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Hans Ebert
- Sep 13
- 3 min
When the holy grail of racing becomes undone in a city suddenly seen as a Humpty Dumpty city.
Listening in to RSN on Monday morning, co-hosting whatever the programme is called, Matt “Unchained” Stewart was tap dancing around what...
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Hans Ebert
- Sep 13
- 2 min
The Happy Wednesday Diary
During the early days of Adrenaline, a C grade magician from the US was somehow booked to perform at the venue. The man was a disaster....
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Hans Ebert
- Sep 8
- 3 min
Revolver 2022: More lessons in life and seeing through the Nowhere People...
Everything changes. The more things change, they also usually end in reverse, and empty vessels keep making the most noise. Probably the...
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Hans Ebert
- Sep 7
- 1 min
Hong Kong Stories...by Hans Ebert
............................ Samuel became Sam and started something I termed in Billboard Canto Rock When Canto Rock became soft and...
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Hans Ebert
- Sep 5
- 1 min
Help Hong Kong Get Back To Where It Once Belonged…
Dear Paul and Ringo, Hope you can lend your names to help Hong Kong get back on its feet again- get back by first starting to bring...
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Hans Ebert
- Sep 5
- 2 min
Entering Indigo Town
There’s just something special about the two of them- John and Brendon- that I personally think transceusicnds much of the music being...
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Hans Ebert
- Sep 2
- 3 min
Are they playing your song?
Sometimes, or maybe quite often, Music flows into your life when least expecting it. It’s not an intrusion, but something undefinable....
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Hans Ebert
- Aug 31
- 4 min
Prelude to 1616
Though not living next door to Alice, but next door to the Grand Hyatt Hong Kong, this hotel probably knows me better than anyone else...
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Hans Ebert
- Aug 31
- 2 min
31 August 2022 (I hear you talking but I don’t hear a thing)
It’s the city wolfed down by serial greed But it didn’t always work like this This was where many got lost in fleeting fame In those...
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Hans Ebert
- Aug 21
- 2 min
The Augustus Gloops in our midstream has
“Turn off your mind and float downstream”. John Lennon sang that line on “Tomorrow Never Knows”, one of the most experimental and outré...
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Hans Ebert
- Aug 20
- 4 min
Homegrown and over the Moon Tang
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Cantopop It was at this time that the term Cantopop was first coined. The Billboard correspondent Hans...
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Hans Ebert
- Aug 17
- 5 min
Personally speaking...
Maybe we thought that The World’s Longest Cocktail Party and Chinese banquet would last forever. Maybe we were careless and pretentious...
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Hans Ebert
- Aug 15
- 2 min
Hong Kong and its Insane Clown Posse
https://www.scmp.com/sport/rugby/hk-sevens/article/3187141/hong-kong-sevens-return-first-time-2019-officials-give-go Just when you think...
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Hans Ebert
- Aug 15
- 3 min
Dedicated to Joanne Harper
Though having just turned 13, Joanne didn’t stand on ceremony, nor did she walk on eggshells. She never held back, and, in the end, asked...
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Hans Ebert
- Aug 15
- 4 min
Going Solo
On August 1, 2022, and after over three hours of walking and walking and walking around and around and around the airport along with...
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