Sebastien Lai

But I think one has to ask.

What is the difference between Hong Kong and any other city in China?

I mean, there's still some, you know, short-term differences, but really in the long term.

What is the fundamental difference?

Many people would argue that there isn't.

Maybe the Hong Kong that dad and many people fought for is now oppressed, but, but I, I wouldn't, I hope it's not gone.

I always thought I'd have a family in Hong Kong, get married there, see my grandma and my parents every now and then, and have yum cha with the family on Sundays.

But it's very easy to take it for granted that Hong Kong was always going to be the way it was going to be.

Well, at least it was very easy for me to take it for granted.

It's like that Office quote, you know, the Office TV show where one of the characters says, I wish they'd tell you that you're living in the good times when you are living in the good times, you know.

She turned two recently, so she's never met my father before.

Yeah, yeah, she sees pictures of him, and yeah, yeah, his grandfather in Cantonese, and she'll say yeah, and point out the pictures.

But I'm sure she'll grow up knowing that she'll be proud of her grandfather as well.