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Deep-Felt Advice From The Arse
I’ve just come back from a rather brilliant yam cha at Holly Restaurant in 東涌 (“Tung” [Dung] Chung), followed by shopping for tomorrow’s Dinner For Spares. (Yes I’ve started a new scheme: Come as you →
Scary As! Watch At Your Own Risk
I had forgotten how much I like making films, and how those I cast in the various roles grow to hate go on to mega-stardom. Take one of the girls in this Halloween-themed film for →
Why Move?
USA! A land of Christmas and interestingly decorated cafés. A land of truck stops and rolling hills, big roads, big cars and big trolleys for people who are too fat to walk. The first time →
SUNDAY: Exciting Day, Interviewed by Dragon and Cow
Yesterday was so exciting for me. First I met my web master, the excellent Michael who has changed the very site you’re looking at for the better and given me so many good ideas, and →
Bored No More
FINALLY! I had had absolutely no yam cha (afternoon tea and dim sum) since September 14 and was starting to see double. Although I had plenty of deep-fried, comforting Southern food on my blaze-through of →
Hong Kong, my Hong Kong
I’ve been home a week, and Mexico is merely a dream again. Only the photos and a couple of excellent fridge magnet plus a beautiful pendant I got from a real Mexican girl, remind me →
Another One Down: Ploughing Through the Theme Parks of Shenzhen
深圳 (Sam Jan – Deep Drain/Shenzhen) 世界之窗 (Sai gai chi cheung – World’s Window) 百佳 (Baak gai – Park’n’Shop)
SUNDAY: Liberty Airport, Newark
People! I can’t recommend Newark Airport enough! A mere 20 minute drive from downtown Manhattan, (or 12 hours’ drive from Shaker Village Kentucky as the case may be) is this place where, unlike JFK and →
Back Again So Soon?
I can’t believe I’m home again! The two weeks in Mexico and the US seemed like two months because there was so much happening, and everything mine eyes looked upon I saw for the first →
North Carolina – Windswept and Interesting
A huge moment! The Roanoke Island Bluegrass festival! Thank you Steve Harvey for making this possible. The setting was beautiful beyond words, on the edge of the United States of America, in the same spot →
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Cantonese Forever!
Wah! So exciting! Here is the true story of what went down in old Guangzhou that fateful day in July.
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Celtic Canto Extravaganza
A Nog, bored with being from Norway Who wanted to be born in Galway Bought dog collars green From an Aussie colleen And went to the St. Patrick’s ball, wei! What kind of poem is →
The Skype’s The Limit
Chat chat chat – now you can learn Cantonese without going through the nasty and potentially violent experience of being in the same room as me! Namely through the wonderful medium of SKYPE. Hook up →
Sojourn in Bangkok
What do you do in Bangkok? Look for Chinese food, obviously!
Chinese New Year Extravaganza
羊年， yeung nin. Year of the sheep, goat, ram, lamb, ewe, sow What? Why not keep it simple? Cantonese is simple and easy. YEUNG! Start taking Cantonese lessons with Happy Jellyfish People’s Democratic Language Bureau →
Crash Course on Saturday!
Saturday February 14: You’ve had chocolate and romantic meals so many times in your life. Why not spend this Valentine’s Day morning on something useful? Like learning Cantonese through the excellent medium of dim sum? →
From Deepest Despair to Highest Happiness
Had a terrible shock in Shenzhen earlier this year when the food hall in Lo Wu Shopping Centre closed down with little or no warning. Then I remembered a comment from wise shopper Andrew and →
Old Granny New Posting
I love you, kung fu! As the famous bluegrass composer Hank Scraggsville always said. What, didn’t I post this only a few days ago? Yes, but this time I have included the sound or transliteration →
Down With Simplified Characters
In a country where the government is so hysterically set on everybody doing everything the government way, for example by banning beautiful, normal Chinese characters on buildings (it must be ‘crippled’, i.e. simplified characters or →
Back By Popular Demand: Classifiers
Photo: 四個靚女 (sei go leeng loy, 4 beautiful girls) Classifiers, measure words, counting words, whatever you want to call them, they are a vital feature of Cantonese. Here you can learn some of them through →
Pro Cantonese Column SCMP
Four years ago thousands of people demonstrated for Cantonese in Guangzhou. Meanwhile the mainland government (aided and abetted by the HK one and Hong Kong and mainland people are hard at work trying to eradicate →
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Do You Run A Business?
Whether you’re a hair-cutter in a hole in the wall in Guizhou province or run a several million-employee business from the top floor of IFC Two, you need a film showing what your company does. It used to be that a business card was enough, then you needed a website, but nowadays people go to YouTube and other video sites for their information. Let me show your company at its best with Happy Jellyfilm Personalised Video and get many more hits for your website!
As you can see, it’s not exactly slick and Hollywood standard, but it’s personal, it’s warm and it’s about you. And, of course, damned inexpensive! Put your company on the world map today with Happy Jellyfilm’s personalised videos! (In the clip above, the owner of the salon did the voice-over. You can too. In fact you can have it exactly the way you want!)
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Public Security Uncle On The Road
Yes, that Public Security Uncle, he does get around a bit.
Unfortunately an unfathomable tragedy happened: He lost his badge in a shrubbery incident just outside Santa Fe.
Good thing he had his trusty deputy Bronto with him, on holiday from his day job at YMCA:
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