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...

LC and I are celebrating our anniversary a week after the fact, this coming weekend, with the Il Divo concert, and a couple nights in a hotel nearby.  For those of you who ...

News Items: 1.         A Taiwan court sentenced former President Chen Shui-bian and his wife, Wu Shu-chen, to life in prison after convi...

This article by Alex Lo appeared in yesterday's SCMP Obersver's column: Public education, local in all but name It is one of Hong Kong 's well-known secrets: many...

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As another year of HKCEE and HKALE is mercifully over, tens of thousands more kids are falsely labelled failures by the HK government.  When I express my annual frustr...

  Thanks to Bobby Jr., and Thoughts, for their suggestions of the following: Encore  / ’a:ŋkכ:(r) /  Tony =  韜–ny, not 通-ny   Sony = ...

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As the 60th anniversary of the birth of modern China approaches, I thought I’d do some patriotic stuff here. First, but not least, is this newsclip, which speaks for itself. &n...