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Jan 18 • 8 tweets • 5 min read
Updating my CV properly for the 1st time since 2006 & I've been thinking a lot about how grateful I am to have cut my teeth as a journalist @CoconutsHK, where I had (almost) free reign to be sassy & salty AF, esp when covering the Umbrella Movement. eg: coconuts.co/hongkong/news/…
It makes me so sad to think that future (and current) young journalists in Hong Kong won't get the chance to grow in an environment where they don't have to worry about whether their words will land them in jail. The loss of potential is beyond measure and unimaginably tragic.
I also had a momentary brain fart where I tried to click on a link in my CV to an old Apple Daily story that featured my little environmental project, which aimed to get people exploring HK's outdoors. The realization when I got an error page hit me like a punch to the gut.
Oh how innocent we were coconuts.co/hongkong/news/…
Good times
coconuts.co/hongkong/news/…
shout out to my wonderful colleagues/bosses @wilde_crystal @Byron_Perry @amcwo for letting me be an unhinged 24-year-old trying to make sense of the world by reviewing pizza hut pizzas and making me a better writer and journalist coconuts.co/hongkong/news/…
@wilde_crystal @Byron_Perry @amcwo throwback to the time the hong kong govt was recruiting undercover foreign agents for hkd140/hour. if the nsl is retroactive is this collusion with foreign forces coconuts.co/hongkong/news/…
seriously tho i can't imagine someone writing this today... 😳 (also jk i take it back about the nsl being retroactive. pls) coconuts.co/hongkong/news/…

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Jan 18
Reporting live from the scene where the doomed, allegedly potentially Covid-infected hamsters live: 3 AFCD vans with staff in full hazmat, police officers (including plainclothes ones), police cordons, and camera crews. ImageImageImage
The police have blocked off the hazard area and are telling people to cross the road and use the opposite sidewalk Image
Correction: 2 police vans, 2 AFCD vans (for 2,000 hamsters, though it’s unclear how many are in the shop) ImageImage
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Jan 17
I’m actually struggling to come up with an analogy to explain to those unfamiliar with Chinese culture just how offensive this is. I’m almost laughing at the thought of how my late grandma would react to this… I used to spend hours folding joss paper with her for offerings.
This isn’t nearly as bad in comparison but it reminds me of the time I ordered pad thai in Paris (it was late and I was desperate for Asian food ok) and this is how it showed up.
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Jul 1, 2021
Quite the turnout for the rally for Uighurs/Tibet/Hong Kong outside the Chinese Embassy in London for the 100th anniversary of the CCP and the 24th anniversary of the HK Handover. It’s a sharp contrast from the somber day that Hong Kong had.
There’s a man in all yellow and he’s begun leading the HKers to another rally in Chinatown.
Rally starts in half an hour and these are all the people leaving the Chinese embassy protest to head to the next rally.
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Jun 9, 2021
I pay attention to trolls bc I’m a masochist but also bc they often represent not uncommon views. This guy who comments on my IG blames protesters for the CCP tightening its grip on Hong Kong *but not the CCP itself*. Image
It’s a hypercynical, hyperpractical belief in the inevitability and inescapability of the CCP’s continued authoritarian rule. They think that HK was doing just fine & that ungrateful protesters who were otherwise enjoying a “decent” quality of life “forced” the CCP to crack down.
It’s a fairly common view amongst older generations & in mainland China: keep your head down, work hard, & accept trade offs on the human rights & democracy fronts in exchange for a stable life and some upward mobility: if no one had complained, things would have stayed the same.
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Oct 1, 2020
Sidewalk march happening on Yee Wo St in Causeway Bay despite heavy police presence. #hongkongprotests
And as quickly as it appeared it has dissipated. Some remain standing by bus stops holding up Apple Daily pages in protest. As has been the case for many protests this year, it’s hard to distinguish between shoppers, bystanders and protesters until they begin chanting.
Just saw two young women walk past at group of police. One exclaimed “Eek! It’s dangerous to be next to all these Ah Sirs!”
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Sep 6, 2020
At 1:20am, there are still a few dozen people waiting for those arrested to be released outside Hung Hom Police Station. Image
The Arrestee Support Counter provided by Yau Tsim Mong District Councillors. The table, chairs and snacks make it clear this is not their first rodeo. Image
3am: a smaller crowd of friends, relatives, and volunteers still waiting. People are still going in and out of the station. The Arrestee Support Counter is handing out drinks and rice boxes. Image
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