By Hans Ebert @hanseberthk My family arrived in Hong Kong in 1958 after over two weeks by ship where my father spent most of the time in our cabin with seasickness while I played shuffleboard with my mother and a group of Italian priests. It wasn’t exactly The Love Boat. What was awaiting us in [...]
Posts Tagged ‘Hong Kong’
BURGHERS, BURGERS AND CEYLON TEA AND SYMPATHY (PART 2)
Posted: 30th October 2017 by We-Enhance in Asia, Hong Kong, LIFETags: Ceylon, Dutch Burghers, Hans Ebert, Hong Kong, KGV Secondary School, Quarry Bay Primary Schook, Sri Lanka, Steve Tebbutt
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BURGHERS, BURGERS AND CEYLON TEA AND SYMPATHY (PART 1)
Posted: 24th October 2017 by We-Enhance in Asia, Hong Kong, MusicTags: Ceylon, Hans Ebert, Hong Kong, KGV, M.I.A, Podhi, Sri Lankan
By Hans Ebert @hanseberthk The first memories of my mother was Podhi. Podhi was the servant “designated” to me. She fed me, bathed me, took me to kindergarten, sheltered me from bullies, cleaned my backside, and being an only child, she was my one play friend. She played marbles with me, put up with my [...]
HONG KONG: TIME TO STOP IT FROM GOING TO THE PUPPY DOGS
Posted: 16th December 2016 by We-Enhance in Asia, Hong KongTags: Asia’s World City, Hong Kong, Mongkok, Occupy Central, One Country Two Systems, Singapore, Umbrella Movement
By Hans Ebert It’s getting harder and harder to understand the prolonged “winter of discontent” that some are going through about the present and future of Hong Kong. It’s almost as if they have way too much time on their hands with in-fighting to embrace misguided cause célèbres. Remember how Occupy Central suddenly morphed into [...]
THE HONG KONG GOVERNMENT AND ITS OWN HIDDEN AGENDAS
Posted: 4th September 2016 by We-Enhance in ASIAN MUSIC INDUSTRY, Asia, Beatles, China Entertainment Industry, China Music Market, CreateHK, Entertainment Industry, Entertainment industry in Asia, Hong Kong, Hong Kong Music Industry, Horse RacingTags: CreateHK, happy wednesday, Hendrix, Hidden Agenda, Hong Kong, Hong Kong Government, LED ZEPPELIN
By Hans Ebert As with anything it doesn’t understand, the Hong Kong government either ignores it, or else places various stumbling blocks to ensure that it’s silenced. And music should never ever be silenced. But unless it’s classical music or Canto Pop or one of those “nostalgia” concerts by someone from the Sixties singing the [...]
HONG KONG’S GENERATION AND CREATIVITY GAP
Posted: 20th July 2016 by We-Enhance in Asia, CREATIVITY, CreateHK, Entertainment industry in Asia, Hong Kng, Hong Kong Music Industry, Music, Music Industry, Music MarketingTags: Asia’s World City, Canto- Rock, CreateHK, CY Leung, g.o.d., GEM, Hong Kong, James Wong, Michael Chugani, Mike Chu, Sam Hui
By Hans Ebert There is a Chinese laundry list of things wrong with Hong Kong, but instead of regurgitating it all again, let’s just say that this city has been horribly mismanaged going back to its colonial days, and everything has only come to a head now. To blame everything on Chief Executive CY Leung [...]
WHO’S GOING TO GIVE HONG KONG A FUTURE?
Posted: 6th May 2016 by We-Enhance in Asia, Entertainment industry in Asia, Hong KngTags: Alan Zeman, Alibaba, Asia’s World City, Asia’s World Creative Hub, CY Leung, Disneyland, Duncan Pescod, Harbourfarce, Hong Kong, Hong Kong’s Can Do Spirit, Jim Thompson, Lan Kwai Fong, Ocean Park, South China Morning Post, West Kowloon Cultural District
By Hans Ebert What has happened to Hong Kong, arguably the greatest city on the planet? – SCMP Oh no, the city’s overnight do-gooders are suddenly everywhere and, as usual, in a hurry with vacuous ideas on how to to bring the Feel Good factor back to Hong Kong. But wait: It sure looks [...]
NO TIME FOR ANOTHER JOURNEY TO NOWHERE
Posted: 30th September 2015 by We-Enhance in LIFE, LoveTags: Hong Kong, Is that all there is?, marriage, Peggy Lee, Sinatra
By Hans Ebert Sinatra sang about how, through it all, he took the blows and did it his way. Before our marriage collapsed under the strain of monotony and reaching that point of no return, my saint of an ex wife would hum that key line from the wistful Peggy Lee song: Is that all [...]