I took exactly ten pictures from the Victoria Park in Hong-Kong. I wonder whether they spread some holiday feeling. I try and show them here:

Happy New Year! This also is what people in Japan, which is not less christian than Buddhist, wish to each other. So the time for otoshidama (お年玉) has come again. But like already in 2024 and the years beforehand, I can at best show pictures. This year is even worse because I’m running out of […]

From time to time I use the blog (in German) of a German computer scientist as a source for my blog. The fewest of what he posts concerns computers or informatics. He once wrote about how he ended a case of bullying. Nothing else could sound more interesting to me, so I simply have to […]

While professional astrologers forecast spectacular and incredible things, which then never happen, for each year, I did for 2024 merely predict that problems like corruption will become more obvious, but won’t get solved. And indeed, like in other years, too, nothing spectacular happened. But corruption became more obvious and people dislike this corruption, so first […]

Some people really are worried about whether martial arts or certain martial arts are a religious practice. I also never dared to include in my explanations to anybody, who asked me what capoeira is at all, the detail that there are so-called batizados in capoeira. The word batizado really means a baptism as a sacrament. […]

I already had a look at some of the Chinese names of the named asteroids in order to get some more insights, which the Chinese perspective could offer. I treated the asteroids until #138 so far. The next asteroid, Juewa, got a name from Chinese mythology because this asteroid was discovered from China. So with […]

A transparency report by X, formerly known as Twitter, to the EU states that ninety percent of all requests for information on the purveyors of ostensibly “illegal or harmful speech” came from Germany. The transparency report further states that Germany also has been leading in the number of requests for taking action against posts or […]

Morin de Villefranche was a renowned Renaissance astrologer and is often quoted on the Tony Louis blog. For example in an article on the relationship between Morin de Villefranche and his mother. Morin de Villefranche stated that he had always been a perfect and loving son to his mother. She nevertheless was so angry with […]

I again and again warn about trying to do high-kicks in self-defense situations. The likeliness of hurting yourself is higher than the likeliness to stop an attacker this way! Yet I have some own experiences, which prove that a high-kick is effective if it is successfully applied. For example once during karate training, I got […]

I stumbled upon another blog, which tries to answer the question whether capoeira is a martial art and viable in self-defense situations. Different from the Dendê Arts blog, The Capoeira Blog answers that capoeira is better just called an art than a martial art. The author of The Capoeira Blog describes capoeira as great for […]