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One Foot in the Grave Intuitively, ESL students would guess, correctly, that the expression means a person is dying.  Is there a more imaginative way than 死咗半 or 死咗大...

I am old enough to remember the days, back in the 1950’s, when the terms 老公 and 老婆 were considered crude (粗俗) by 斯文 folks.  By the 1990s, years before I moved back ...

I read this article in today’s SCMP titled The Knowledge to Do the Right Thing, by Micheal Gerson, a columnist for the Washington Post. (give me an email address in private if y...

The Riot Act The word “act” here is not related to the performing arts.  In this context, with the capital A, it is a legal term.  Originally, it meant a proposed law...

We’ll Cross that Bridge When We Get to It is   到時先算喇   in Cantonese. For those of us at or near retirement age, and with extensive exposure to Am...

Project Yi Jin is a program for all those Form Five school leavers without any chance of making it into Form VI, because they failed most of the exams in the HKCEE.  They a...

A leading al-Qaeda figure has urged Uygurs in Xinjiang to launch a holy war against "oppressive" China - the most serious threat yet against Beijing from the terrori...

With the deadline fast approaching, I have signed up to sit for English, History, Social Studies, and Math in next year’s HKCEE.  I chickened out of Economics in the last m...

I am several blogs behind in my writing and I really should get on with it.  But, when I stumbled onto this blog, whose blog 主 shall remain nameless, out of...