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Poem: You can float your boat
You can float your boat You can talk grand plans You can drop names like atom bombs But who are you kidding? And where’s the joke? It’s...

Hans Ebert
Apr 12, 20241 min read
Poem: We get lost when we’re a child
We get lost when we’re a child We then get dropped when we’re old In the middle there’s all kinds of stuff Sometimes there’s silver and...

Hans Ebert
Apr 12, 20241 min read


IT’S SHOWTIME!!!
Was it just another choreographed show? Has it got a little outta hand? Same old players teamed together Playing in a multi headed one...

Hans Ebert
Apr 12, 20241 min read
Poem:
The game is changing quickly The ducks aren’t all in a row The old ways are gone forever New ways aren’t going with the flow The jester...

Hans Ebert
Apr 12, 20241 min read
Poem: Don’t overstay your welcome
Don’t overstay your welcome The hounds are nipping at your heels Nothing ever lasts forever There’s always a final reel They build you up...

Hans Ebert
Apr 12, 20241 min read
EARLY MORNING THOUGHTS
It was one of the stranger days in a series of many strange days where many of us were keeping quiet about the many uncertainties in life...

Hans Ebert
Apr 11, 20243 min read


Hong Kong and its continued lack of a music driven brand personality.
It’s corny to say it, but since we’re living in an often cornball and dim sum world that is Hong Kong in 2024, it might as well be...

Hans Ebert
Apr 10, 20246 min read


DOES HONG KONG HAVE A SENSE OF HUMOUR?
It’s an interesting thing- humour- and just how it’s accepted or understood or misunderstood or banned by different nationalities often...

Hans Ebert
Apr 9, 20245 min read


WINI TAP DANCES AROUND THE HKJC DROWNING POOL
Betting on horse racing is serious business for those who follow it religiously. There are plenty of superstitions involved in the game,...

Hans Ebert
Apr 8, 20243 min read


Tony Cruz: 1500 Not Out
At a time when Hong Kong needs home grown heroes, it was apt that one of the city’s favourite sons in Tony Cruz trained his 1500th winner...

Hans Ebert
Apr 8, 20244 min read


Hans Ebert on the image of horse racing: Has it changed with the times? Really?
It might have gone unnoticed to many, especially those with better things to do with their time than stream horse racing from Meydan on...

Hans Ebert
Apr 1, 20246 min read


HOW RACING IN MACAU TURNED INTO A TASTELESS EGG TART.
There was something ironic tinged with sadness to see one of Macau’s favourite sons in champion trainer and jockey Tony Cruz bathing in...

Hans Ebert
Mar 31, 20243 min read


The Week That Had Hong Kong Sheikhing All Over.
Of course, Hong Kong has always been a golden magnet with a glittering Welcome mat laid out there to those from overseas with a good...

Hans Ebert
Mar 31, 20244 min read


The Day Zac Purton Transcended Horse Racing.
Frankly speaking, I didn’t care who would win Sunday’s BMW Hong Kong Derby at Shatin. I was coming down from watching FIVE Group 1 races...

Hans Ebert
Mar 25, 20242 min read


Hans Ebert on the Far Side type of Chow Fan Strategy to sell Hong Kong to the outside world in 2024…
There might be the illusion, or some might call it the delusion, created by smoke and broken mirrors, that’s more often than not, a...

Hans Ebert
Mar 24, 20244 min read


WHAT’S TRENDING AND TANKING IN HONG KONG
Stupidity And Ignorance And Superficiality are rife. It’s everywhere- and not just hiding between the lines either. Stupidity doesn’t...

Hans Ebert
Mar 23, 20242 min read


THE LATEST ODDS AS TO WHO WILL BE THE NEXT HKJC CEO!
With this horse racing season being somewhere between Twin Peaks and A Tale Of Two Cities and a soupçon of “Barbie”, the interest level...

Hans Ebert
Mar 22, 20242 min read
Kristine
We certainly had a tumultuous relationship, but what we never told each other enough was how much we meant to each other and maybe how we...

Hans Ebert
Mar 22, 20241 min read
I don’t see very smart people
I don’t see very smart people I see many trying to be who they’re not I see too many chasing false dreams Betting and losing what they...

Hans Ebert
Mar 22, 20241 min read
The walls are closing in
The walls are closing in and the woodblock prints are melting They say that Jimmy’s opened its doors again But is what’s on the menu...

Hans Ebert
Mar 22, 20242 min read
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