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Seconds before I have to jump on my ferry home, runner Man Wing Yam glides up to the finish post….with his super cute little son balanced on his shoulders. I was so happy for him I missed the photo!

Hong Kong chill: Lok just sits himself casually down on a public bench to joke with young fans. Next to him on the benches two grizzled white Brit dudes continue chugging seaside beers, oblivious that the guy next to them has just pulled off an extraordinary athletic feat.

Hometown fave Liu Fo Lok just sailed to the finish line in 56h 39m. It’s his second time finishing this punishing race, and at one point he took a wrong turn on The Peak and had to backtrack! Gotta say he appears more tired compared to Julian (the first finisher)

To give you an idea of how superhuman this is—I started hiking on an easy trail to the finish point when Chortier was atop the second highest mountain in HK, with the third highest ahead of him. I got to the finish point only 10 minutes before he did.

Julien Chorier just finished the 298k Hong Kong Four trails race in 55h 12m. The guy looked so relaxed and cool at the finish. Incredible 🇫🇷

Wow.

French guy is crushing it atm!!

OMG 😱 this is even worse than the clueless foreigners who use funeral burning paper to wrap presents. “It’s so pretty!”

This was a surprise—a thoughtful and knowledgeable backgrounder on the Taiwan and Hong Kong political struggles, with an unexpected detour to.. Columbia University

Macaroni tomato soup and cafe latte

It’s rare to be able to get a trad HK breakfast (in this case a beautifully realized fresh tomato and hollow macaroni noodle soup) AND a decent latte. Go figure I found it in Tuen Mun! 仙桃居

Hong Kong couple wearing fake seatbelts

I love HKers ingenuity

Beating the Villain with a Slipper: Rituals of Reparation in Urban Hong Kong - CURE

The Reparation Blog: Beating the Villain with a Slipper: Rituals of Reparation in Urban Hong Kong

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Video: Opinion | Is This Who Trump Meant by the ‘Worst of the Worst’? The columnist Jamelle Bouie argues that the Trump administration’s immigration policy has more in common with ethnic cleansing than actual immigration enforcement.

This is really excellent, glad to see you given the space to go big with this @jamellebouie.net www.nytimes.com/video/opinio...

The Weight of Words

For HKers, language is our identity. We speak Cantonese. We write in traditional Chinese. And during the pro-democracy protests when it seemed like no one would hear us, we just made up some new words that speak our truth.

Source: Telegram/ Ah-To (Dec 2019)

Bread AND Roses 🌹

I did, and I’m so glad!

This is the energy we bring to the Mamdani era: We know a city can be magic and transformative, that it can be a place where your life changes because you got lost in that neighborhood, or went to that party, or woke up on that couch. We know that New York City is possible because we lived in it.

There's a particular joy I'm finding now, gathering in NYC with groups of my age cohort. We remember what the city was like when you could live on a song and art was everywhere. We remember the clubs we danced at, the drugs we shared, the crazy characters who became famous and the ones that didn't.

I didn’t know he had a sister!

As soon as we were down the road and out of earshot I let out a scream, Tooooooony! My friend thought I had gone completely nuts.

I am walking on Lugard Rd with an American expat friend when we walk smack into Tony Leung and Carina Lau on the empty path. I try to be cool and move on, but my pal is taken by their cute dog and goes over to coo and chat having NO IDEA who this couple is. I managed to keep a poker face but

That HK winter light 💕

Canton Modern: Art and Visual Culture, 1900s–1970s | M+ ’Canton Modern: Art and Visual Culture, 1900s–1970s‘ presents twentieth-century Cantonese art and visual culture in its full complexity as an important chapter in global modernism.

They missed this great one in Hong Kong www.mplus.org.hk/en/exhibitio...

Lai is conservative, Catholic, and had connections with powerful Republicans close to Trump. I'm sure that made no difference at all to the WSJ top brass who decided to make Lai their beacon for press freedom in HK, but kick Cheng to the curb for her press freedom activism.

The WSJ has been probably the most vocal and consistent defender of Jimmy Lai and press freedom in HK. Yet they're now smearing a local reporter they let go because she refused to resign as the head of the Hong Kong Journalists Association-the front line organization defending press freedom in HK.

I’m eager to see how many American commentators call him “Mr. Filho”

During COVID in Hong Kong I hoarded vegetable and bone scraps in plastic freezer bags, terrified that our airfreight-dependent food supply would conk out, or that I'd be suddenly forced to quarantine at home by random gov't diktat. Now I just do it anyway because, well, broth.

The dance scene was breathtaking. But I was not onboard for the vampire ending.

U.S. Plans to Scrutinize Foreign Tourists’ Social Media History

Put a stake in the heart of US tourism, then twist it.

www.nytimes.com/2025/12/09/t...

I got the English version