Today is Winter Solstice, officially the shortest day of the year when the Northern Hemisphere is tilted farthest away from the sun and marks the shortest day of the year. It is indeed a fitting occasion to write a year ender. Let me begin by wishing all my friends and anyone who reads or will…
I had a rather busy fortnight since my last blog, with hardly an evening dining at home and skipping most of the gym sessions, which was not good for the body and mind to start with. The most trying time came unannounced last Saturday, when after a long day ending with what promised to be…
Earlier this month, I signed up for what SCMP billed as a Fireside Chat, featuring an informal exchange on economic transformation on a changing world, with insights from Jeffrey Sachs on growth, innovation, and global challenges. The event was moderated by Chow Chung-yan, Executive Editor of SCMP and took place on Monday 3 November in…
My young friend finally decided to replace my desktop entirely and update the main software; and I am still waiting for the final touches. Meanwhile, I am struggling to live with the transition, losing some files and data in between. I left off in my last blog saying that we had gone to two concerts….
Today, the Church celebrates the Feast Day of two Saints, Simon and Jude, both of whom were amongst the original 12 Apostles chosen by Jesus, as was described in today’s scripture reading taken from Luke, Chapter Six, verses 12 to 16, in which all the 12 names were mentioned in detail, from Peter to Judas….
I recalled a conversation with a colleague while we were washing our hands in the toilet on a cool October morning around 1980. We were working in the Civil Service Training Centre which was then housed in Wing On Centre in Central. The elderly gentleman told me that he had tracked the Hong Kong weather…
I continued to stay home as much as possible trying hard to shake off the flu, making only one exception by attending the lunch in celebration of a brother’s Silver Wedding Anniversary on National Day, but skipping another dinner appointment on Thursday. I also went for groceries shopping, as far away as Taste at Kowloon…
Super Typhoon Ragasa had come and gone, and fortuitously had apparently not inflicted too much damage, not that I had noticed anyway. Thank God. I had planned to post a blog shortly after Ragasa made landfall, but as usual, inertia got the upper hand and I ended up leafing Volume 3 of Mark Twain’s Autobiography…
I left off in my last blog with “Memories are made of this” and picked up two more vinyl records of oldies which I can’t resist sharing with friends. The first one was titled “UA 18 Movie Tracks” produced by United Artists Records in 1979, the year I had my first child. I googled for…
Yesterday, Su was tidying up some of the vinyl records we had picked up from Ivan Wong at Yaumatei and at old record shops in Sham Shui Po, when two pieces turned up in particular. Su recalled that I had picked them, because she was not familiar with many of the songs on them. The…
