Weird what happens at night in our dreams/nightmares, huh? I also have dreams where I visit and hang out with friends living in distant lands that I've not set foot in years/decades. Bittersweet but, on the whole, I welcome having those. 🥹
I really f**king love Hong Kong, and Funassyi! Bluesky user #55,617 -- joined in May 2023! -- but am also "over there" too. Yes, I'm still straddling between Twitter and here (because there still are not enough Hongkongers and Funatomo here!).
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Weird what happens at night in our dreams/nightmares, huh? I also have dreams where I visit and hang out with friends living in distant lands that I've not set foot in years/decades. Bittersweet but, on the whole, I welcome having those. 🥹
Guess you don't like/use the words "sweatshirt" and "sweatpants" either... 😅
Why can't you stand "sweater"? Too American a word for you?
Many Indonesia social media accounts change colours of their logos to pink & green. Pink: homage to the pink hijab worn by a woman who confronted police officers. Green: a tribute to the online motorcycle taxi driver ran over by a police vehicle.
I think maximum points is a big "ask" but them dropping points (as well as/maybe more than Arsenal) is totally NOT impossible!
I'm not on Instagram but have heard that Funassyi is also on there -- though not as actively as with Twitter.
Fine! Pullover also is another word I'd use!
I don't accept things as "inevitable"! Also, January is a good number of months/weeks/days/matches away!
I think it's because a number of them are/were on high wages and injury prone. Though that doesn't explain Kiwior.
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Until next summer...
I woke up at around 4am and saw that Arsenal had got Hincapie in and Lokonga, Kiwior and Vieira out. Went back to bed and when I got up a few hours later, saw that Zinchenko and Nelson were out the door too! What a transfer window this has been! 10/10 re the incomings! Am glad Zinchenko's gone.
Congrats to you both!
I was actually more afraid of Liverpool getting Guehi than Isak. As it is, I feel they have weaknesses in defence still -- and it's entirely possible that Isak could so discontent in Ekitike/the Liverpool camp as a whole.
The calendar at my desk. (And yes, it's become a thing for me to have a Funassyi calendar... so much so that in the years when I couldn't visit Japan because of Covid restrictions, I'd arrange for Japan-based friends to send one to me. 🥲)
RIP Graham Greene. Every time he popped up on screen when I was a kid, my mom would excitedly point him out for being an actual Native on the screen. Able to be deadly serious and infinitely hilarious (even in smaller roles like Last of Us), he ate up the screen. Nʌki’wah brother.
I really regret not having gone and watched "The Death of Stalin" when it played at the HKIFF a few years back.
Two nights ago, I had a smartphone nightmare. In it, I was walking when a cockatoo's cry startled me and I dropped my phone, which promptly broke into pieces. My reaction: "How I miss my old undestructible Nokia regular phone!" Which I'd still be using if Hong Kong had not stopped 2G services!
Today is citizen journalist #ZhangZhan's birthday. She has been detained for over a year now. Five years ago, she was sentenced to 4 years in prison for "picking quarrels and provoking trouble", simply because she travelled from Shanghai to Wuhan to report about covid.
Happy Independence Day, Vietnam 🇻🇳 Another French and other European influence unmentioned in the article is that the language is written in Latin alphabet
Meanwhile, I'm one of those people who "discovered" Tweed --as a boarding school student in England. So, yes, I know there are class and other signals attached to it but on cold, damp/humid Hong Kong winter days, I bust out my tweed jacket and flat cap (along with my Norwegian sweater)!
When I see signs like this, I always wonder, "WTH happened (t)here?!"
I think it's because it focuses on Twitter, where it has 1.3 million Followers...
Awww, happy that you like my photo/post!
From @alriclee.bsky.social: "Selling nostalgia, Hong Kong hides inconvenient truth" tinyurl.com/4yx3df2e #HongKong
When I went to try to get a ticket for the screenings of "Camera Buff" earlier today, all the seats bar for those in the first two rows of the cinema had already been taken!!!
All I'm going to say is that plenty of ppl convicted of protest-related charges who expressed genuine remorse, had lots of family, friends and colleagues vouch for their good character and didn't actually hurt anyone still went to jail.
Great piece. I had issues with how Arteta/Arsenal approached the game and fixated on that because I'm an Arsenal fan. Do resent the media narrative though as it makes it seem like only Arteta/Arsenal approached the game conservatively whereas Liverpool did so too.
An atmospheric image... which I don't associate with September! 😅
Funny how they are almost both the same size!
Two bird with different coloured plumage that are both herons!
A Funassyi MV from *10* years ago. "Nashizora Rainbow" was the second song the Pear (Fairy) released; and, like with "Funa Funa Funassyi" (its theme song), was a hit song that appeared on the national pop charts in Japan!
I see posts about Funassyi but still no official Funassyi account on Bluesky!
Hong Kong acting like a police state in so many ways.
yeah, I am not mad about this and I will also personally always rally to the defense of "american chinese food," which is definitely a thing and is no less authentic than the stuff you find in china
THE Hong Kong cinema I associated with Triads was the Chinachem one over in TST East. A strange place that would have screenings at 3am, etc. (I learnt this after mistakenly thinking a film I wanted to see was screening there at 3pm...) And lots of viewers puffing away like chimneys... 😬
Signs spotted in Penang, Malaysia, back in 2017, in FIVE languages.
Very different from Bus Uncle... 🤪
There were late Wenger seasons and that Emery season where I wasn't excited for the season...
Malaysia Boleh?!
So... it's not like riding a bicycle -- something you'll never forget? Or you just have to go slower -- in which case that's still pretty good!
I sincerely hope you did appreciate the film nonetheless!
Interesting event concept. Though there are those in Taiwan who would have it so that there again banned songs in the future focustaiwan.tw/culture/2025...
One of my Greyhound memories is witnessing a drug deal taking place at the back of a bus I was on. Oh, America.
Shades of the Cultural Revolution. (You may find my recollections on this thread pertinent.)
Feeling surprising okay the afternoon after. Is it because the Liverpool vs Arsenal game was played on August 31st -- an emotional anniversary date for Hongkongers or because it came so early in the EPL season? In any case, hope springs eternal for this Hong Kong Arsenal fan!
Was Liverpool vs Arsenal her first Arsenal game? If so, really well done, you!
And Calafiori. Positives to take away from a disappointing game/result.
Yes, because there's also the Scottish Premier League, etc. Though, of course, to us old stagers, really, it should be Division 1 (through to 4) with regards to the English League.
And now we go into an international break. After just 3 matches played in the new season. PLEASE let no (more) Arsenal players get injured before EPL Matchday #4. And it WOULD be nice to see some of the injured Arsenal players recover and be fit to play again after the international break!
Tell you what: Mosquera did good.
And then there's the 8/31 medic... and your watching it on the 6th year anniversary of the Prince Edward MTR station attacks.😢
Brace yourself: it's not just Anfield. Home and away can make a significant difference in the EPL!
DAMMIT. This one is on Arteta for being overly cautious and setting up to draw rather than win. He needs to trust his players more, and from the start. Speaking of which: Cristhian Mosquera did good. Kudos to him.
On paper, it looks like Arteta's planning to primarily counter their attack... and hoping to nick it with a ball over the top for Gyokeres to chase and score from.
I wondered if all that Nuno vs Edu stuff would affect the players. Guess it has.
Funassyi was screaming with each big effort/pull of the string!!!
Thanks. But I do feel a bit guilty about giving people whiplash from the diversity of the subject matter I'm posting about and strong emotions I have about them today.
Apologies to people Following me. Today is one of those anniversary days that makes me angry, even bitter, yet determined NOT to forget what happened. At the same time, it also is a big match day for Arsenal. Hence all the football chat in the mix. Plus there's the daily Funassyi TL cleanse! 🤪
I had a day when I felt like there was a fire inside my nose so bad I was tempted to cut my nose off! Hopefully, you don't experience it... and all this shall pass, and soon.
There have been Funassyi trains in operation a couple of times over the years. Currently though, there is "only" a Funassyi bus... that's rather maverick, like the Pear (Fairy) itself: that doesn't have fixed route; rather, it changes routes daily, albeit always within Funabashi!
Many of us saw this on live stream in real time or shortly afterwards on video shared on social media. As well as the attacks. Resulting on all of us experiencing/suffering collective trauma. Six years on, even writing about this makes my heart beat really hard and ache. Never forgive...
What I read (over on Twitter) is that Isaac regularly gets food from that eatery and plans to continue to do so. 🤝
Playing away at the home of the reigning champions. Honestly, right now, this fan would take a draw. But if truth be told, I am also daring to hope that we can indeed win.
And wearing their stab-proof vests and acting like they are the ones in danger rather than the ones who endanger.
BTW, the Hong Kong case/article was from January 20*15*.
Because Funassyi has a big heart and gives them opportunities to shine! (Though in this video, one could hear it screaming. So it wasn't exactly quiet all the time!)
You guys!!! Biases shining through!!!!!! (Mine too, of course. 😂)
I actually worried at first for Pearanne as her legs are less solid looking than those of the other Pear (Fairies). 😅
*in terms of WHAT authoritarians do. (Aiyah when I edit to try to fit everything into one post!)
A few of my photos from in and around Prince Edward/Mong Kok MTR Stations on 31st Aug 2019 in Hong Kong. Before and after 'police' stormed the station attacking people indiscriminately 6 years ago today. © Dave Coulson Photography #hongkong #hkprotest
Did you see the poster and blank out the (few) English words on it?😅
BTW, sections of the film were filmed in the Prince Edward area of Hong Kong (as well as the lead male character being named Edward). Filming took place well before August 31st, 2019, and can be seen as serving as a historical record/reminder of how things used to be there, and Hong Kong at large.
Back in the fall of 2019, Norris Wong's "My Prince Edward" premiered at the Hong Kong Asian Film Festival. It wasn't about what happened at Prince Edward MTR station on August 31st that year but some people chose not to watch it as they were triggered by its title. A pity, as it's a good film.
Butterflies in my stomach. As usual for big match days.
I hope those places/events are close and easy enough for you to travel to.
Today, of all days, please don't tell me how much you love the MTR, okay?
@razvenhk.bsky.social Tweet includes the words: "A strange place, where the right people in the wrong place are stopped and searched by the police for the crime of being present." For those who wonder what is meant by this: look up what happened in Prince Edward MTR station on August 31st, 2019.
This was in Hong Kong??
Good explainer thread if you haven’t been following the #IndonesiaGelap protests building for months and are like ‘all this cos they ran a guy over?’
www.channelnewsasia.com/asia/indones...
I pronounced grand prix NOT in the French way... (It was in an English language book after all!)
Recent article?!
If Sean Tierney was still here, I'd tag him. (His handle over on Twitter was whitebison66 because, well, he's white and went to Howard!)
There are days when I think that there's no comparison between what's going on in the US and Hong Kong. Then there are days when I think: "I wish Americans/the world paid attention to what was -- as well as is -- happening to Hong Kong" -- in terms of authoritarians (Chinese and otherwise) do.
Reminder #6489 that TikTok is neither neutral nor a force for good.
A reminder the national security law which Beijing imposed on Hong Kong on June 30th, 2020, was said to not be retroactive.
Yeah, watched until the 2nd goal. Gave up doing so afterwards.
More Pear (Fairy) shenanigans featuring Funassyi, Funagoro and Pear Anne! (Goro fan @obyjingo.bsky.social and French Pear (Fairy) fan @poohsticks.bsky.social take note!)
Incomings = 10/10. In fact, maybe even 11/10 in that it's far surpassed my expectations!
Aaaargh! Will delete and change!!!
"This is not just a violation of religious freedom; it’s a violation of childhood."
8.5/10 -- with the only "could do better" parts involving outgoings.
There are a lot of protests in Indonesia happening right now. In progress thread of them.
Oh noooooooooooooo!
To be fair, they do kick the ball in association football too.
Trigger warning for Hongkongers...