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THE STAR FERRY AND THE HONG KONG HAPPINESS INDEX
If never having taken the Star Ferry, you really should- something that is so much part of Hong Kong and has been featured in movies and...

Hans Ebert
Mar 311 min read


HIGH ON THE HONG KONG HAPPINESS INDEX: HAINAN CHICKEN RICE AT THE GRAND HYATT CAFE
There are some people I know who must have complete silence when having their Hainan Chicken Rice and which MUST be from the Grand Cafe...

Hans Ebert
Mar 261 min read


BRITNEY WONG AND THE HONG KONG HAPPINESS INDEX
While having dinner with friends yesterday who are in Hong Kong for Art Basel- visitors from overseas, one-time Hong Kong residents, and...

Hans Ebert
Mar 262 min read


HONG KONG RACING AND WHY IT CANNOT BE YESTERDAY ONCE MORE…
Being a Hong Kong Belonger whose home has been this city for some sixty plus years, it’s always been about trying to understand what...

Hans Ebert
Mar 243 min read


THE BEAUTY OF DESTINY AND HORSE RACING IN HONG KONG.
For whatever reason or reasons, these days I see horse racing in Hong Kong as a movie- something like a cross between the very underrated...

Hans Ebert
Mar 203 min read


RE-DISCOVERING HAPPINESS
Sometimes, something happens and you decide to write and someone else inside of you is writing a letter to yourself and you pass it along...

Hans Ebert
Mar 172 min read


WHERE IS HORSE RACING HEADING (AND WITH WHAT AUDIENCE COMING ALONG FOR THE RIDE)?
While skimming through news in the horse racing world and seeing all kinds of everything that might amount to nothing as a changing of...

Hans Ebert
Mar 172 min read


HOW WHAT I NAMED CANTO POP BECAME CANTO PAP.
Being the person who created the term or genre or whatever it is and called it Canto Pop, I wish I hadn’t, because it stalled many moons...

Hans Ebert
Feb 274 min read


WHO SENT IN THE CLOWNS?
Why the world is so full of anger was a question my girlfriend asked me over the weekend. Being a lawyer and not a simpleton, it was a...

Hans Ebert
Feb 253 min read


HORSE RACING IN HONG KONG AND THE GAME CHANGER.
It was the day after Hong Kong’s equine superstar Romantic Warrior had been downed by Japan’s exceptional galloper Forever Young in...

Hans Ebert
Feb 244 min read


Why the magic of music needs a new delivery system.
Sounds too corny to be true, but during those days when feeling weary and small, something seemingly insignificant to do with music can...

Hans Ebert
Feb 104 min read


There needs to be new magicians for music to be magical.
Maybe we thought we were better than we actually were, some got ahead of themselves and with too many playing roles, but working in the...

Hans Ebert
Feb 88 min read


THE RETURN OF BIFF THE BULLY
Nobody’s Right when there is no Left, which means that being right has either been obliterated or is in the comments section about...

Hans Ebert
Feb 72 min read


THE TAO OF HANS
Someone messaged me last night to say that only one person had won HK$193 million in the Hong Kong lottery known as the Mark Six. The...

Hans Ebert
Feb 35 min read


THE MARKETING CHUTZPAH OF “A COMPLETE UNKNOWN”
What is “creative” is usually something very subjective. Or can this “creativity” be sold through clever and strategic marketing as it’s...

Hans Ebert
Jan 313 min read


Horse racing and the emergence of Girl Power!
She was positive, but there was no hiding the fact that the very well spoken Sharyn Lancaster, Racing Training Manager at RWWA, below,...

Hans Ebert
Jan 312 min read


FOR WHOM DOES ANOTHER RACING BELL TOLL?!!!
Received over the past few weeks have been anonymous and quite riveting updates on certain ladies in racing said to be cat fighting...

Hans Ebert
Jan 271 min read


THE RAMBUTANS IN AND OUT AWARDS
******************** *Rediscovering the work of filmmaker David Lynch *Real intelligence and not the artificial kind. *Monica Barbaro and...

Hans Ebert
Jan 271 min read


THE RAMATAN FILES
There’s so much wackiness, weirdness and way too much much ado about nothing happening every minute of every day that it’s really become...

Hans Ebert
Jan 272 min read


RACING INTO A WORLD OF HAPPINESS
A friend of mine from Finland visiting Hong Kong for the first time was asking me about the horse racing in the city- who was who, those...

Hans Ebert
Jan 212 min read
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