With a dollop of nostalgia of what made the British-Hong Kong tick, Hong Kong seems to be losing the impetus to move forward. People are increasingly backward-looking, and therefore are turning inward-looking to the same measure. The Hong Kong spirits of can-do, pragmatism and hardworking are giving way to hidebound beliefs and uptight feelings about one another over almost every social and political issue. As the saying goes, every why has a wherefore. Such mutual mistrust cannot be brewed if the government has not second-guessed and now kowtows to the political taste of the north, which only helps the society to further polarise and grind to a halt.
(Grip On Reality: This photo was taken on my way to work. I was walking past trucks parking on a cul-de-sac when the ropes caught my attention. The light was right, the colour was right and the criss-crossing pattern was perfect and I held up my GX200. People passing by checked me out and wondered what could be made out of such a boring scene. To me, the fun in photography is that the photographer makes something interesting out of what is not obvious to most at the scene. The ropes tied in knots somehow reminded people I know who are in the grip of the recession) You must have also known a friend or two, or even yourself, being baffled by the spiral downturn of the economy. Bank went bankrupt and the rich was faced with a shrinking wealth. A friend of mine has just had his salary cut by over 10% and some of his colleagues started to be shed. But, wait. Was this done really for the sake of continuing the business? Or is there a factor or greed in it? I wonder whether the
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