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An Ethnic Minority In Hong Kong: A Journography
There’s just way too much information, and when all this everything, especially from the online world that’s often nothing of anything,...

Hans Ebert
Apr 274 min read


LET’S HEAR IT FOR THE DAZZLER
While horse racing might still be looking at how and where it can include that elusive butterfly known as “entertainment” into its...

Hans Ebert
Apr 261 min read


NOTHING HALF BAKED ABOUT THIS FABULOUS DISH…
Of course, the creatively designed presentation holder certainly adds to the overall appreciation of the meal comprising baked stuffed...

Hans Ebert
Apr 261 min read


WHAT ABOUT THE CUSTOMER?
At the end of the day, it comes down to that old cliché about coming into this world alone, leaving this world alone and filling the...

Hans Ebert
Apr 224 min read


THEY’RE ALL PEASANTS, RIGHT?
We’re big fans of Comedy Central’s The Daily Show and though we miss Trevor Noah, there’s always the very knowledgeable and chomp sized...

Hans Ebert
Apr 201 min read


THE BEATLES AND HOW ALL WE STILL NEED IS LOVE
It’s not one of my favourite songs or recordings by the Beatles, but hearing “All You Need Is Love” as part of the soundtrack to the very...

Hans Ebert
Apr 205 min read


An ethnic minority in Hong Kong remembers…
From the upcoming book “An ethnic minority in Hong Kong remembers…” Who knows why we dream and what they mean and where they come from...

Hans Ebert
Apr 193 min read


An ethnic minority in Hong Kong remembers...
Once upon a barren rock this island became my home Many flew into the city over Kowloon Tong Entered some early version of an...

Hans Ebert
Apr 153 min read


HAS THE RUT BEEN ALLOWED TO SET IN, HONG KONG?
Music can give any city an identity. Think of what the Beatles and the Mersey sound brought to Liverpool and what Flower Power brought to...

Hans Ebert
Apr 92 min read


MARKETING NOT PIGEONHOLING
When what you really want to hear is The Silence, and if still watching television these days, it’s documentaries and cooking programmes-...

Hans Ebert
Apr 73 min read


Sam Hui and The Hong Kong Happiness Index.
He’s still the Big Daddy of what started out as Canto Rock, and the ONLY Hong Kong born musician to give something original to Cantonese...

Hans Ebert
Apr 21 min read


Ka Ying Rising and the Resistance To Hype
Perhaps it was reading the Comments section of one of those online posts on horse racing, where readers were challenging the still...

Hans Ebert
Apr 12 min read


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
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