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Basking In The Applause And Bows Of Thousands, The Reality Of Life Of Niu Niu—The World’s Gifted Pianist Of His Generation
28-05-21 I am blessed to be doing what I do——interviewing great people. I am always trying to find a better way to do things. Every interview has an edge. Famous people want the interview to be about their jobs. Most defend their private life and may freak out when the talk comes up with a…
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Kidults Will Match Against The Traditional Art-world Elites—Matt Chung, A Successful Art Dealer For Kidults(傑斗) In Hong Kong
30-04-21 I pray there can be a term called ‘old-dult’, referring to the senior who are young at heart. I will sign up for this group. The prevalent description of a young person nowadays is ‘kidult’. A kidult is a young man or woman who lavishes on things meant for kids such as toys and…
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In The Middle Of Nowhere On The New Territories Plain, The Days Of Idyllic Solitude Of Yuen Long In The 60s
14-04-20 We go back to the 60s. Yuen Long, far away from the city of Hong Kong by a 2-hour bus trip, was a quiet, beautiful and enchanting village town having a history of 600 years. At night, the shadows of the big trees fell across the only one main road and hid the infrequent…
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“Understanding A Country’s History, Philosophy And Literature Is Essential For Us In Hong Kong—Professor Albert Chen(陳弘毅教授)
24-04-21 Selfishness is the mirror in which selfness sees its own face. In the ‘Me’ generation, we are always wading in the shallow end of self-centred prides. We believe we are better. We inherently deserve special treatment and protection. We can be concerned with our stand, pleasure and interests without moral consideration for other factors…
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Most People Are Good At One Thing Or Another, But The Multi-talented Star Simon Yam Takes It All—Acting & Photography
12-03-21 Photography refers to creating a photograph—now, including an ‘instagram’ as well. Whatever it may be—it is always an image produced by the action of light on a light-sensitive material or device, with or without colour, but the only colour which remains is our memory. Without the memory of a photograph, we would not be…
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The Unusual Film Of Our Gurus Stars Patrick Tse (謝賢) & Petrina Fung (馮寶寶): Time (殺出個黃昏), Every Aspect Of Acting Has Something Magical About It!
12-04-21 ‘You don’t stop laughing when you grow old, you grow old when you stop laughing.’ I grew old when I stopped tearing up. Last week, I incongruously laughed and cried at the same time—not that I got a mental problem but because I have watched one of the most affecting movies of Hong Kong…
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‘Strumming My Pain With His Fingers’— The Life Of A Young Busker Yu Chun Tung In The Streets Of Hong Kong
18-03-21 Remember the lyrics of a great song? ‘strumming my pain with his fingers singing my life with his words killing me softly with his song’ I want you to feel the richness of a poor artist. Money does not mean richness. Yu Chun Tung(余震東) is a young singer, not yet famous but fully ready…
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The Secret Of A Slashie ‘Accountant-cum-singer-cum-housewife’—Susan Wong Said, “The Dualism Of Taking Life Easy But Looking Up!”
12-02-2021 Feelings are more complicated than words. There are feelings that we do not know how to express in words. Singers help. They help us speak the words which are the beautiful opposite of silence. We listen to good singers. They release our emotional pain and connect us with their souls. Perhaps, a good singer…
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‘Godmother’ Olivia Yan Offers One last Defence Of Theatre Practitioners Against The Waves Of COVID & Technology: Embrace!
07-10-21 Misfortunes come on wings and depart on foot: Hong Kong had social commotion in 2019, COVID-19 in 2021 and will face economic downturn. Bad situations are like an amorphous mass of mud. Local theatres were devastatingly forced to close again and again. The ‘Godmother’ of theatrical circles Olivia Yan(甄詠蓓)said, “We are down. But, we…
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Be On The Side Of The Dark Angels—They Are Not Bad At All, Our Romantic Moments With Junk-food Snacks
25-02-20 Chinese call snacks ‘small bites’(小食). Snacks bring about powerful emotions. They mean sentimentality and memories, the recollections of buying small bites from the street stands and wheelbarrows, down-at-heel snack shops which are called ‘stores’(士多) in Hong Kong, from vendors doing business under the stairs of an old building and from school tuck shops which…