fucking awesome

by jebni on July 20, 2006

It’s almost been two years since Josh died. I’m not going to be in Sydney for the memorial thingy, but this is something that I wrote to be read out in my absence: I didn’t know Josh as well as (…)

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panic

by jebni on July 17, 2006

The only way I can respond to the events unfolding in Lebanon is to join the worry and panic of my own extended family and friends. Yes, “other” people have their own “days the world changed”, but they’re more like (…)

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city of shadow(cat)s

by jebni on July 14, 2006

Had the most awesome day yesterday — we had lunch with Maggie and Hoi Chiu, who live in Kowloon City. Hoi Chiu grew up in the the Kowloon Walled City — Hong Kong’s unpoliced “dead zone” outside British sovereignty, the (…)

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democracy, parties, zombies

by jebni on July 14, 2006

Oops, I forgot to upload photos of the 1 July pro-democracy rally here in Hong Kong. It seemed that the only political tendency not on display was the Chinese Communist Party, whose loyalists held their own rally earlier in the (…)

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in the post-colonies

by jebni on July 5, 2006

Hong Kong = sheltered workshop for white people.