When Life Gets You Down, Shoot A Film

Sometimes I’m tempted to give up the whole Cantonese thing. I mean, what’s the point? The Mando behemoth is going to roll Hong Kong and the Cantonese-speaking world into the ground and pour concrete on top anyway. Nobody cares and a cat looking at a toddler for three and a half seconds gets 6 million more views on YouTube than a film I’ve spent three months working on. Metaphor? Yes. If you want results, don’t make any effort.

But then I think, is the result I want 6 million views on YouTube? No. The result I want is full supremacy for Cantonese, damn it! So I’ve decided to start doing more, not less. Since 95% of all the work I do is free anyway, why not make it 98%? So I’ve finally started editing the film I made in Hainan at Christmas almost two years ago. And them I’ll start making weekly podcasts. I’ll need guest stars for the podcasts. Who’s in?

But first: Hainan Island:

Hainan used to be part of Guangdong province and a Cantonese stronghold. Now it’s been almost completely Mandofied. That’s what keeps me going on. I don’t want Hong Kong to be mandofied. I don’t.

海南島 (Hoi Lam Dou – Hainan Island)
國語 (Gok Yu – Mandarin)
聖誕節 (Seng daan jit – Christmas)