Posted on 01/11/2019 2:20:14 AM PST by Fai Mao
Grumbles about the new national anthem laws filled bars, noodle shops and chatrooms in Hong Kong yesterday.
But most comments showed how little people know about it.
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Since the international licensing conference is running this week in Hong Kong, I wonder if a visiting expert can tell us how to sell March of the Volunteers to US President Donald Trump?
The song's opening lines seem perfect for him: "Rise up, you who refuse to be slaves. Using your flesh and blood, let us build a new great wall."
(Excerpt) Read more at thestandard.com.hk ...
cha siu fan = Pork Fried Rice for those who read the article.
To the Barricades!
LOL
another Les Mis fan !!!
unrelated:
Francis Scott Key died on this date in 1843.
Another line from that site: “One of the delicious ironies of life in China is that officials are required to be atheists, yet are also required to speak on God’s behalf” - telling Buddhists, Christians and Muslims how they should practice their faiths.
Nurry can be and often is funny but he has a biting wit at times.The politicians in HK don’t like him
Act Chau Sui fan is BBQ pork with rice
It is the dish that gives the Chinese their strongest claim to being a great civilization!
Also unrelated. RUSH singing their song “Anthem” - back in Neil Peart’s Ayn Rand days:
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=LuguStAS5s4 (live video with album dubbed in)
“Know your place in life
Is where you want to be
Don’t let them tell you that
You owe it all to me
Keep on looking forward
No use in looking round
Hold your head above the crowd
And they won’t bring you down.”
21twelve wrote:
*Also unrelated. RUSH singing their song “Anthem” - back in Neil Peart’s Ayn Rand days:*
I went to a concert during their 2112 tour at Madison Square Garden. Based on your screen name, maybe you were there too?
No. I started listening to them before that, but it wasn’t until quite a bit later that I went to a concert. (Any concert for that matter!) The 21twelve is from the song - a song about fighting the powers that be that try to stamp out individualism and freedom.
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