Category Archives: Glutter’s Hong Kong

Hong Kong Comment on Glutter: Whether it’s self-righteous or naïve, the fact remains that this entry is lucid, rational and intelligible. What’s it doing in a blog?

Hong Kong Today is our Winter Festival. I went to the ice coffee shop place today and found them closing early. I was like, “Why?” and they go “It’s Winter Festival!” and the women pointed outside and I saw all the other shops were closing early too. Now I know why it’s soo cold today!Continue reading “Happy Winter Festival!!!!”

Rave Culture This morning I woke up to strains of old skool psychedelic trance from giant speakers. It made me smile, float in and out of consciousness, think of lollipops, big silver jackets, wrap around sunglasses and really dirty sneakers. Trance at 9am in the morning? Did I pass out on a beach? Did IContinue reading “Psychedelic Trance at 9am in Sai Ying Pun?”

Hong Kong Someone reminded me of this. What most of you don’t know is Glutter Started on July 1st 2003. What I did was log what happened day to day with the protest and both the democratic awakenings of Hong Kong and myself on this blog. Those might have been the most important nine daysContinue reading “Recap: Article 23 Protest. The First Nine Days”

Hong Kong: Identity Issue Today, I decided it was time to splurge and spend some money and go eat food at my neighbourhood coffee shop, the expensive one. I ended up spending a lot of time talking to the kid who works there and he started telling me how he was trying to save upContinue reading “My Cantonese is Better than Your Cantonese.”

Hong Kong While sipping ice coffee the news comes on. Doug goes, “There is another case of SARS, and that’s the guy on TV.” I went, “I don’t want to know” and promptly hid under my coat. He goes, “No. Really look. They are wearing masks.” I go, “Really I don’t watch the news. IContinue reading “Silencing, Respect and a Case of SARS”

Not the SCMP has announced their bore of the year winners. I am sooo bummed as *I* wanted to be the winner of the most unreadable HK blog. I wasn’t even nominated so how could I win!!!! POUT. So in order to make myself FEEL better, I am going to do something about it. AsContinue reading “I Now Proclaim MYSELF, the WORSE HK BLOG of the Year”

I meant to advertize this!! First Asian American MC to Sign onto a Major Label in the US representing in his HOME TOWN. TONIGHT. LIKE He Starts at 11PM.. Tickets are pretty much sold out but there are some on the door.. I am on my way to support the boy and hopefully see himContinue reading “Shit MC Jin is TONIGHT..”

Actually how can I stay away? But I got up really early this morning and felt like going for breakfast. But somewhere cool. Somewhere western. You know like one of those places people go to when they haven’t gone home yet and it’s 9am and people are still drinking as some people are forcing foodContinue reading “Quick Question Where is the place for Breakfast in HK?”

Hong Kong: Identity Issue (This the first installment of a series of guest blogs people have written for Glutter about the issues of belonging, race, sexuality and who we think we are.) I remember an argument I had some years back with my Uncle. It basically came down to my uncle’s problem with the factContinue reading “I Don’t Consider Myself British: by A. Moo.”