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

Hans Ebert
Aug 17, 20225 min read


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...

Hans Ebert
Aug 15, 20222 min read


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...

Hans Ebert
Aug 15, 20223 min read


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...

Hans Ebert
Aug 15, 20224 min read


Almost Everybody Is Hurting, John Lee.
If it wasn’t the muddling read that it is, there was hope for the creative community in Hong Kong when the headline in today’s South...

Hans Ebert
Aug 12, 20224 min read


Days Of Future Passed
It’s about making the best out of a situation. Notice that I didn’t use the word “bad”. The situation where Hong Kong finds itself today,...

Hans Ebert
Aug 12, 20223 min read


Don’t Ever Take The Customer For A Fool...
What’s often glaringly obvious during these kinda and maybe post-pandemic and Living With Covid times is just how oblivious many...

Hans Ebert
Aug 11, 20222 min read


Olivia Newton-John and the Hong Kong connection...
Many don’t really understand just how important karaoke was when it came to marketing and making artists popular in Hong Kong,...

Hans Ebert
Aug 10, 20222 min read


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...

Hans Ebert
Aug 9, 20225 min read


Being obedient little soldiers in Hong Kong quarantine hotel hell
No, there is no Welcome To Hong Kong letter from Chief Executive John Lee awaiting me, but there IS a Big Book Of Rules at the room in...

Hans Ebert
Aug 6, 20225 min read


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...

Hans Ebert
Aug 3, 202210 min read


From Hong Kong’s Ministry Of Silly Walks
After years of muffled information in Cantonese, Mandarin and a strange version of English droning out of the equally muffled sound...

Hans Ebert
Aug 3, 20222 min read


7.31.2022 (Look at the world with the heart of a child and life will become more beautiful)
He was always searching for something, which even he couldn’t tell what it was. Whatever it might have been, it wasn’t wherever he was....

Hans Ebert
Jul 31, 20223 min read
July 2022 (Bling blang blong and vapidity, Welcome to the New Stupidity)
There you go again, social butterfly showing off your 24 carat life style Guess if you’ve got it then flaunt it, right? Sure, if that’s...

Hans Ebert
Jul 29, 20221 min read


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...

Hans Ebert
Jul 27, 20224 min read


Forgetting Captain Nemo, what about finding happiness, especially in a song?
It’s not even about the money anymore. It’s about the happiness. And as we should all know by now, money might be able to buy you a...

Hans Ebert
Jul 23, 20224 min read


The “We And Us” solution...
One of the great hopes of us Hong Kong people is that Chief Executive John Lee Ka-chiu and his team will somehow quickly help to ease the...

Hans Ebert
Jul 20, 20221 min read
20 July 2022
Boredom makes you do silly things To ease the pain of those memories They’re jump cuts to try and make you forget And blur the truth with...

Hans Ebert
Jul 20, 20222 min read


Music in Hong Kong and its changing of the guard...
Apart from everything else, what Hong Kong needs is music- music in all its many forms, but especially good, new music made by a younger...

Hans Ebert
Jul 18, 20224 min read


Where did Hong Kong’s “Can Do” spirit go, John?
If I were to ever manage, or even cobble together a Heavy Death Metal band in Hong Kong, I would definitely call it The Stoopid Terminal...

Hans Ebert
Jul 14, 20222 min read
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