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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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For his birthday today, Ringo Starr asked the world to wish each other Peace and Love at noon from wherever they were. Today is Ringo’s...

Hans Ebert
Jul 8, 20221 min read


China’s President Xi Jinping and telling Hong Kong like it is. Enough said.
July 1 was a day to remember for many reasons. Mainly, that memorable day last week with even a typhoon blown in for the occasion, which...

Hans Ebert
Jul 4, 20224 min read


Reunification Day, President Xi, Hong Kong and...horse racing?
It wasn’t planned, but I won’t be in my home in Hong Kong for today’s 25th Anniversary of Reunification Day when the city was handed back...

Hans Ebert
Jul 1, 20223 min read


The Beatles and continuing to peel off layers and layers of that Glass Onion...
“They were so talented and funny and wonderful-looking, these beautiful young faces,” Michael Lindsay-Hogg, who directed this promo,...

Hans Ebert
Jun 15, 20222 min read


9 June 2022
Sometimes, something happens out of nowhere, or for a reason that’s never made clear, and an idea somehow grows beyond one’s initial...

Hans Ebert
Jun 9, 20222 min read
8 June 2022
While speaking to someone in Hong Kong last night as to why the city has become so void of creativity and overflowing with news blasts...

Hans Ebert
Jun 9, 20224 min read


Where to next for E.B.? Horse racing, vision, being a Soul Man and the Octopus Dance...
His son Kai probably said it best a few years ago when asked if his father would retire: “He never will retire. They’ll have to...

Hans Ebert
Jun 7, 20227 min read


Tea with Her Majesty and Paddington Bear. Everything else is toast.
It’s not just the idea, or how they pulled it off, but it’s everything about it- Paddington Bear having tea with at the Palace with the...

Hans Ebert
Jun 6, 20222 min read


3 June 2022
In the middle of a crossfire hurricane, she brings a calmness. In a world becoming unhinged way too often, she shows empathy and kindness...

Hans Ebert
Jun 3, 20222 min read


What if we’ve got it all completely wrong?
Like every other industry is, horse racing is at a crossroads. There must be a changing of the guard, because nothing and no one lasts...

Hans Ebert
May 24, 20226 min read


HONG KONG: Of Mice And Men and Running Dogs
Once upon a dim sum, we accepted no substitute. We demanded the best and, most times, we got the best. It wasn’t being arrogant or...

Hans Ebert
May 22, 20224 min read


The Beatles and whispering words of wisdom...
It was definitely the count in to “I Saw Her Standing There”, especially the way Paul yelled out “FAH!”, and that memorable opening chord...

Hans Ebert
May 22, 20224 min read


Hans Ebert writes a kinda Dear John Lee letter...
The question is whether those managing Hong Kong want people to be creative, and, if there are still genuinely creative talent left in...

Hans Ebert
May 17, 20223 min read


Love's Theme and when Hong Kong was flying high...
Whoever picked “Love’s Theme” to be the music for Cathay Pacific Airways commercials was a genius. Though used in the States as the music...

Hans Ebert
May 17, 20223 min read
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