The ugliness of human nature…

Last year, I was informed of something by someone on a certain forum that a forum (which will remain nameless as I do not want to give them publicity) had a certain thread that contained insults towards my fellow friends in the sartorial circle, including me (we being dubbed as ’iGents’). I had a quick skim through the 100+ [...]

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A mini-rant on dress…

Taken from a post I made in a forum: Seriously, there were times when I thought ‘what is the point?’ and be done with dressing well and started wearing baseball caps, shell suits and acting like a delinquent on drugs and drink and like the rest of the populace who does not give a damn [...]

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Soapbox Lectures 5: Primark et al. are evil

I was waiting at a bus stop one day about a year ago and it was raining. There was this young lady standing in the bus shelter with me who had an umbrella over her head. The bus arrived and we proceeded to get on. To my surprise, the woman, without even furling it, just [...]

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Soapbox Lectures 4: Some Chinese can’t ‘move on’

Sometimes, I feel that my fellow Chinese people are mad and utterly insane. Here is another thing which has irritated me as of late and it concerns the mindset of a certain particular group of people: On the one hand we have the Communist ‘not-hearing-anything-lalala’ ignorant of the injustices and freedoms of the world that [...]

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Soapbox Lectures 3: Most/all Chinese are politically insane

So, we’ve had that most/all Chinese are homophobes and that most Chinese are musically challenged. What else have my glorious and all noble high-minded people pissed me off so much on this sunny Thursday morning to make me vent my spleen and put quill to parchment once more? Have you been reading the news or [...]

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Soapbox Lectures 2: Most Chinese are musically challenged

OK, I got a gig at a Chinese restaurant set up for a ‘Respect the Chinese Elderly’ charity night. Good. Unfortunately, they made it pretty clear they want me to play what I term as ‘common/popular melodies’ as opposed to the ‘traditional/ancient/elegant’ stuff which I prefer to do.

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Soapbox Lectures 1: Most Chinese are homophobes

FFS, today just gets better!

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