Remedios

Pastimes

Articles /

Pastimes by Frederic A. (Jim) da Silva Edited extract of an article, Times Past and Pastimes Some old childhood games of Hong Kong are now obsolete or forgotten, but some others remain – marbles, for instance. As children, we had different games involving marbles. There was the traditional game with marbles placed in a ring drawn in

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Bela Vista

Articles, Macau, World War II /

Bela Vista – Recollections of a Wartime Childhood by First published in UMA Bulletin Spring 2013;  reproduced here with links to people’s personal pages and with the addition of a photo from Escola Particular Idália da Luz (First published in UMA Bulletin Spring 2013; reproduced here with links to people’s personal pages and with the

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Macanese language-Article

Articles, Patua /

Macanese language by Jorge Remedios Macanese or Macao Creole (Patuá to its speakers) is a creole language derived mainly from Malay, Sinhalese, Cantonese, and Portuguese, which was originally spoken by the Macanese community of the Portuguese colony of Macao. It is now spoken by only a few families in Macao and in the Macanese diaspora.

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Our Bairro

Articles, Macau, World War II /

Our Bairro by Jorge Remedios (First published in the UMA News Bulletin circa 1999) he bairro was an area of cheap housing in Macau constructed for low-income workers in the years before the Second World War. As was true of so many other streets and areas in Macau, the bairro was named for some Portuguese

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Aunty Albertina’s School

Uncategorised /

Aunty Albertina’s School by Jorge Remedios Originally published in the UMA News Bulletin Sep-Oct 1997, p14 In the years preceding the Second World War, most of the filho de Macau children who lived in and around the Portuguese enclave of Homantin, in Kowloon (Hong Kong SAR), then a bucolic residential neighborhood roughly encompassed by Nathan, Waterloo, and Prince

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Talu

Culture /

Talu by Jorge Remedios . The basic requirements are just two sticks: a “bat” about 18 inches long and a talu or peewee which is a wooden dowel about 1 inch in diameter and 3 to 5 inches long, sharpened at both ends. As in baseball, the members of one team take their turn as batters

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