Fragrant Harbour

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That Hong Kong might be glamorous and the most crowded city on earth, but it’s also fuelled by greed and it doesn’t take much to be seduced by her charms.

Phillips, excelled in cleverness but didn't hint at the depth of feeling and narrative drive that he manifests here. There is "a limpidity of the verbal surface and a seeming flatness which in fact conceals great intensities of feeling". Were our ancestors really so passionless and correct, or is it a lazy half-lie, sanctified by usage?As today's Hong Kong faces yet more uncertainty and change, these films highlight a very different time on the crowded island where East met West.

Some days I started playing the game after some more than usually gross piece of hypocrisy or cant at school, some days it would be triggered by something I saw on TV or heard on the radio or read in a paper or magazine or book. The novels sharpest insights are into the nature of success, its best passages careful dissections of how a disenfranchised community of poor refugees turned the colony into one of the richest societies in the world.Fragrance’ might stem from the fact that the harbour waters are sweetened by fresh water from the Pearl River; alternatively, it may refer to the sweet smell of incense being sold from the shore but carried by the wind across the harbour waters. The pictures reference the child’s perspective, whilst the words are in the idiomatic style of a kind yet pedagogic parent, one who instinctually knows what might appeal, yet also wishes to be informative. The annual occasion for alumni from the same academic institute to race together and show off their sailing abilities – the Alma Mater Race – took place on the 17th of December in Victoria Harbour.