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Hongkongers have evolved through the past year
The boy holding the tailgate sign at the end of the line was a university student, reporters found him when the queue started to shorten at 23:00, pointing all the live camera at him, while he bashfully held up a handwritten card to ask the reporters not to film his appearance. The reporters came up to ask for his thought and the time when he started tailgating, he said that he arrived at 17:00 and started to be “Mr Tailgating” as he found the situation a bit messy, instructing people where to line up for paying their respects from 18:00 to 23:00. When Siu Wan (a journalist) asked for his thought on the movement, he suddenly stood up straight and said, “I think we don’t need to wait for people to start activities online, if we want to participate in any activity, just do it.” (main idea)
I was more interested in the origin of his paper, he chuckled and said, “It’s just lecture notes.” Oh, so he’s a student of Kuo Way. I bet this page of lecture notes from mechanical engineering would not know that it had not only transferred knowledge, but become the guiding light of tens of thousands of Hongkongers tonight.
It’s all thanks to the (government’s) strong suppression on all the (activity) organizations last year. “No cross (with cross being the chill to the bones in the Chinese version of this saying), no crown (with crown being the civic maturity of Hong Kong)”, and last year was a Siberian chill, training Hong Kong to become an absolutely mature civil society which is astonishingly neat. A spontaneous memorial with tens of thousands of people paying their respects has only overflown one trash can, and there wasn’t even a piece of paper bigger than a fingernail on the ground, which is a huge improvement from the Occupy Movement in 2014.
When I talked to other reporters today, we all had the feeling that our comrades were not only back in place tonight, but also evolved since last time. But as the citizens have matured, the regime keep shrinking the room allowed for civic maturity, while RTHK, Foo Tak Building and Hong Kong Alliance are going to be broken down one by one. While the civic energy can no longer be pressed, how will this Summer of Freedom 2.0 go on?
I am worried.
PS: Listening to “Sing Hallelujah To The Lord” again makes me emotional as it feels like a lifetime ago, as I haven’t been listening to it for a year. Before the National Security Law, we probably all need to sing hallelujah to the lord to ask God to keep us safe. Amen.
#NotAChristian
#ButILoveRealChristians
#HeavenHasReservedASeatForThoseWhoShouldGo
#HongkongersRunHongKongWell
#NoNeedToBotherYou
Source: Facebook
Further reading:
The end of the Queue was at Mid-levels
https://t.me/guardiansofhongkong/22554
#SingHallelujahToTheLord #SelfHelp #CivicMaturity #Remembrance #15June #YellowRainCoatman #MarcoLeung
Hongkongers have evolved through the past year
The boy holding the tailgate sign at the end of the line was a university student, reporters found him when the queue started to shorten at 23:00, pointing all the live camera at him, while he bashfully held up a handwritten card to ask the reporters not to film his appearance. The reporters came up to ask for his thought and the time when he started tailgating, he said that he arrived at 17:00 and started to be “Mr Tailgating” as he found the situation a bit messy, instructing people where to line up for paying their respects from 18:00 to 23:00. When Siu Wan (a journalist) asked for his thought on the movement, he suddenly stood up straight and said, “I think we don’t need to wait for people to start activities online, if we want to participate in any activity, just do it.” (main idea)
I was more interested in the origin of his paper, he chuckled and said, “It’s just lecture notes.” Oh, so he’s a student of Kuo Way. I bet this page of lecture notes from mechanical engineering would not know that it had not only transferred knowledge, but become the guiding light of tens of thousands of Hongkongers tonight.
It’s all thanks to the (government’s) strong suppression on all the (activity) organizations last year. “No cross (with cross being the chill to the bones in the Chinese version of this saying), no crown (with crown being the civic maturity of Hong Kong)”, and last year was a Siberian chill, training Hong Kong to become an absolutely mature civil society which is astonishingly neat. A spontaneous memorial with tens of thousands of people paying their respects has only overflown one trash can, and there wasn’t even a piece of paper bigger than a fingernail on the ground, which is a huge improvement from the Occupy Movement in 2014.
When I talked to other reporters today, we all had the feeling that our comrades were not only back in place tonight, but also evolved since last time. But as the citizens have matured, the regime keep shrinking the room allowed for civic maturity, while RTHK, Foo Tak Building and Hong Kong Alliance are going to be broken down one by one. While the civic energy can no longer be pressed, how will this Summer of Freedom 2.0 go on?
I am worried.
PS: Listening to “Sing Hallelujah To The Lord” again makes me emotional as it feels like a lifetime ago, as I haven’t been listening to it for a year. Before the National Security Law, we probably all need to sing hallelujah to the lord to ask God to keep us safe. Amen.
#NotAChristian
#ButILoveRealChristians
#HeavenHasReservedASeatForThoseWhoShouldGo
#HongkongersRunHongKongWell
#NoNeedToBotherYou
Source: Facebook
Further reading:
The end of the Queue was at Mid-levels
https://t.me/guardiansofhongkong/22554
#SingHallelujahToTheLord #SelfHelp #CivicMaturity #Remembrance #15June #YellowRainCoatman #MarcoLeung
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The end of the Queue was at Mid-levels
This video shows a long queue over 2 kilometers from Ginza Plaza to Mid-levels formed orderly and peacefully by citizens to pay tribute to protest martyr Marco Leung.
Marco Leung Ling-kit fell…
The end of the Queue was at Mid-levels
This video shows a long queue over 2 kilometers from Ginza Plaza to Mid-levels formed orderly and peacefully by citizens to pay tribute to protest martyr Marco Leung.
Marco Leung Ling-kit fell…
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Sing Hallelujah to the Lord
(11 Jun) Thinking back exactly a year ago, on 11 June 2019, it was the first time I felt like crying when listening to poetry:
Sing Hallelujah to the Lord
Sing Hallelujah to the Lord
Sing Hallelujah
Sing Hallelujah
Sing Hallelujah to the Lord
What touched me was not the content, nor the melody of the poem.
It was the people who sang. I was surprised that they could sing all night long in front of the Legislative Council without a break.
I have a Christian friend staying there that night, who is also a secondary school teacher. I just asked him what happened back on the night of 11 June and why would people starting singing the song.
He said he was supposed to participate in a prayer meeting that night, and after the prayer meeting was over, the crowd began on their own to sing Hallelujah to the Lord. He was going to leave after singing a while, but then time passed so swiftly and it just happened that he has doing 9 hours of singing, he even saw the sunrise…
Over the past year, I have seen so many Christians in Hong Kong living out their faith courageously, defying oppression and insisting on speaking out for justice! (Thank you for letting everyone know that religion can be “far from impractical”.)
At last, my friend explained to me that in the Book of Revelation, “Hallelujah” prophesied that evil regimes and corrupt economies would fall apart, thus all the angels “Sing Hallelujah to the Lord”!
My friend also said that Kevin Yeung Yun-hung (Secretary for Education) had forbidden “Glory to Hong Kong” to be sung in schools, but then my friend would sing “Sing Hallelujah to the Lord” to Praise the Lord, as well as to remind the students of what date tomorrow (12 June; 612) is.
#SingHallelujahtotheLord
#WeRemember612
Source: Finance Fellow’s Facebook
#GloryToHongKong #Censorship #12June #NationalSecurityLaw
Sing Hallelujah to the Lord
(11 Jun) Thinking back exactly a year ago, on 11 June 2019, it was the first time I felt like crying when listening to poetry:
Sing Hallelujah to the Lord
Sing Hallelujah to the Lord
Sing Hallelujah
Sing Hallelujah
Sing Hallelujah to the Lord
What touched me was not the content, nor the melody of the poem.
It was the people who sang. I was surprised that they could sing all night long in front of the Legislative Council without a break.
I have a Christian friend staying there that night, who is also a secondary school teacher. I just asked him what happened back on the night of 11 June and why would people starting singing the song.
He said he was supposed to participate in a prayer meeting that night, and after the prayer meeting was over, the crowd began on their own to sing Hallelujah to the Lord. He was going to leave after singing a while, but then time passed so swiftly and it just happened that he has doing 9 hours of singing, he even saw the sunrise…
Over the past year, I have seen so many Christians in Hong Kong living out their faith courageously, defying oppression and insisting on speaking out for justice! (Thank you for letting everyone know that religion can be “far from impractical”.)
At last, my friend explained to me that in the Book of Revelation, “Hallelujah” prophesied that evil regimes and corrupt economies would fall apart, thus all the angels “Sing Hallelujah to the Lord”!
My friend also said that Kevin Yeung Yun-hung (Secretary for Education) had forbidden “Glory to Hong Kong” to be sung in schools, but then my friend would sing “Sing Hallelujah to the Lord” to Praise the Lord, as well as to remind the students of what date tomorrow (12 June; 612) is.
#SingHallelujahtotheLord
#WeRemember612
Source: Finance Fellow’s Facebook
#GloryToHongKong #Censorship #12June #NationalSecurityLaw