这座城市，不应有蓝黄之分

Sergio spent his formative years in Hong Kong and had many of his "firsts" here. He considers his recent divorce from his wife of six years was a major down. The divorce was unexpectedly caused by the protests rather than any traditional ways. 

Sergio Monteiro, a columnist and software developer, has spent almost 27 years in Hong Kong. As a teenager, Sergio was inspired by Stephen Chow and picked up some Cantonese from reading the subtitles of his movies. Today he often received compliments on his fluency in Cantonese.

He was physically in Hong Kong in 1997 when the city was about to return to its motherland as a 21-year-old personal fitness trainer. Looking back on the day of Hong Kong's handover, he remembers a festive atmosphere among the expat communities he was very much in. Everyone was looking forward to it as more of a historic party than anything scary.

Growing up in a diplomatic family, Sergio understood how international politics work from an early age and could not support some of the political ideas of his ex-wife, who was in the "yellow camp". He never saw Hong Kong as yellow or blue and believed that this was a binary being wrongly imposed on Hong Kong people.

He believes the demonstrations were never spontaneous or organic, and there was a lot of money behind them. He clearly sees America was involved, using young people to disrupt the SAR government and Hong Kong society. The very trusting Hong Kong people were thus being used in that way, without giving any critical thinking to what they were hearing.

Seeing how fast outside forces could make Hong Kong turn on itself, he chose the word "scary" to describe Hong Kong in 2019.

Having lived in Hong Kong for over 25 years, Sergio considers the city his home and has never lost faith in it. He feels confident that he will still be here five years from now to witness the 30th anniversary of the establishment of HKSAR.