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There’ve been many spinoffs of the movie poster for #HongKong film Beyond the Dream. Even Big Waster, mascot of environmental protection department joined in at one point.
But we now have a winner, I think. “I don’t mind the handover, do you?”
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#HongKong govt is closing amusement places amid 3rd wave of COVID-19, so it will be a while before I can check this out. But the Siu Hei playground, newly designed by One Bite Design Studio and Never-Never, is a sight to behold.
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“Promise me, you will only go out at night after 6pm and be home by 5am. Pinky swear, okay?”
Credit: @cusonlo twitter.com/rachel_cheung1…
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The same wall two days apart. The slogans you can cover, the wall you can repaint, but memories and beliefs you cannot erase.
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Vote counting at the #HongKong Public Opinion Research Institute continues after 610,000 casted their ballots at the two-day primary elections organised by pro-democratic politicians.
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Turn the volume up. I cannot be the only one who hears this.
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As someone who also waited three hours yesterday - and therefore had a west face by noon - I can tell you that smile doesn’t come easy. t.co/VyIH3jzA8m
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Wait till you meet the head of IT. twitter.com/rachel_cheung1…
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The si lai (housewife) in front of me didn’t bother to bring her groceries cart into the voting booth and just left it outside. The staff reassured her they wont let anyone take it. Si lai: 唔洗，黎得投票既人唔會做啲咁嘅嘢。
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Best voting station official in town.
Photo: 棉花糖與咖啡廳
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I'm sorry, but this totally outdid the bus. twitter.com/holmeschan_/st…
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Over 20 waiting outside this small restaurant, the queue wrapping around the block. Volunteers had to divert traffic by asking voters to move to another station nearby.
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It would be so much easier to just give in, comply with the new laws, drop one’s ideals, stay alive. “But could you live with yourself?”
I wrote about #HongKong society's response to the National Security Law in my first piece for @latimes. twitter.com/latimes/status…
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"Today and tmr is...the time for us to use peaceful and rational means to show the world, we can exercise democracy," says Robert Chung, founder of the poll institute. The poll question they asked yesterday: Is HK still a free city? 61% said no.
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Pro-democratic politicians are holding a primary election in #HongKong today, ahead of the Legislative Council election in Sept. Held for the 1st time, the move is to consolidate support so the pan-democrats can take more seats in the legislature. legco2020.vote4.hk/primaries/stat…
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#HongKong unveiled new “National Insecurity Office”
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Now is a good time to revisit what the composer of #GloryToHongKong, PI told me last year: “If a regime were to react so severely that a simple song is banned and all who are involved are arrested, it shows that it is the regime itself that fears the people and its ideas.” twitter.com/damon_pang/sta…
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From local artist Kit Man - "subverting the state with white paper". Protesters that held a blank placard protest yesterday were warned of breaching the new national security law. One comment asks, "is the state made of tofu?"
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The #HongKong Way, a channel that shares protest artworks on social media, with 31k subscribers, announced their closure yesterday. Their Facebook page was hacked the day before and they decided it’s too risky to try and get it back. “We will persist on the road of resistance.”
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More recruitment posts from #HongKongPolice, which also placed ads in local newspapers. Check out the hashtags: beside advertising “stable income” “dorm” “comprehensive benefits”, they also mention “diversified job duties” and the overbudget, public-funded police recreation club.
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And the bet sheet is out! What will you be arrested for: “loving #HongKong too much”, “a crime National People’s Congress hasn’t thought of”, “shouting Winnie the Pooh”.
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“Stop staring, Hong Kong is dead.”
“...I want to look. Whether it’s alive or dead, I want to see.”
Credit: 一起吃早餐
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We may use creativity to circumvent the ban and speak the same words in code, but we also shouldn’t accept the fact that the government can blatantly outlaw certain words and 以言入罪. twitter.com/holmeschan_/st…
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There are also these shapes. Perhaps up next, the #HongKong government will have to ban imagination.
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#HongKong govt declares last night that the slogan “Liberate HK, the Revolution of Our Times” connotes independence and violates national security law. In response, protesters prove that you may outlaw certain words but you cannot ban ideas or thoughts.
Journalist based in Hong Kong. Formerly @VICEWorldNews, @SCMPNews. Words in @WPReview, @latimes and @AJEnglish
Contact: rachel_cheung1@protonmail.com