A plain place for long thoughts. Black ink on white paper.
"The client pays for my work. What I get is whatever's left after the agency takes its share. I don't know how that share is decided. I heard they can take around 30-50% of my monthly pay..." Agency and contract work isn…
HKU posted its 2026 admissions results this week. Down near the bottom of the usual list of scholars, athletes and top scorers was one line: the university had admitted 33 local non-Chinese-speaking (NCS) students, the h…
Your mind is stuck on something ↓ Ask yourself Is this new information, or the same worry on repeat? same worry, again Notice it. Say "not now." Return your attention to whatever is in front of you. ↓ Done. Move on. new…
There are many kinds of parents. I grew up with one who chose to learn from every mistake she made. Which sounds lovely until you understand the mechanism. The mechanism is that somebody had to be the mistake. Parents, a…
I want to say upfront that I am writing this from inside the sector, not from outside it. I am not writing about a competitor. I am writing about a set of habits that I have watched become normal, including habits I have…
I read the official support statements of 949 primary and secondary schools. Most of them say almost exactly the same thing. Every year the Education Bureau gives extra money to schools that admit non-Chinese-speaking (N…
Originally written for DEIJB Lab's SouthAsianHeritageMonth2026. Reproduced here for the record. Growing up in Hong Kong as a Punjabi kid, I had a funny relationship with milk. Outside my house, milk wasn't really milk th…
Originally published as an op-ed. Reproduced here for the record. The report "Official apps pose hurdles for Hong Kong's ethnic minority groups, study finds" (March 26) highlights findings that, for many of us, are not r…
