I had lined up a breakfast and a lunch today and possibly a dinner, but as Chaba developed into a severe tropical storm last night, necessitating the Observatory to hoist the No. 8 Typhoon Signal, the first for the year, I turned to the keyboard to recall and record some thoughts since my last blog…
Amy – Amy Leung Oi Mui – was President of the Rotary Club of Bayview Sunshine in the year I was Governor of the District, when we had 49 clubs, 42 in Hong Kong, six in Macau and one in Mongolia; and she was one of the seven lady presidents. Every governor always has a…
Mark began to organize a party around Winter Solstice of 2021, based on a list used by Alice for a party of six a few months before. He fixed a date for 16 January 2022 at a new restaurant in HKJC. Things were looking good until there was a kerfuffle which saw many top officials…
I have borrowed today’s SCMP headline in this blog because I think it is rather appropriate. Su and I came out of yet another staycation today; and Su decided last minute to re-visit Mandarin Oriental because Four Seasons won’t offer much under such foul weather. Besides, their restaurants were all booked up and expensive. The…
Su and I came out of another staycation yesterday. We had lunch in the hotel – which was part of a packaged fare of four items, viz., breakfast, lunch, afternoon tea and hors-d’oeuvres each of which can be consumed once on either of the two days, together between the two of us – which was…
Whether you are aware of it or not, but the first two Mondays in May fall on public holidays; and yesterday we had Mother’s Day, Buddha’s Birthday, Red Cross Smile Day and the Chief Executive Election Day all blended in one. It must have been an auspicious day, certainly for John Lee who was returned…
It is amazing that four months had passed as if nothing had happened in between. Outside Hong Kong, apart from China, many cities and countries have started behaving as if the coronavirus had gone or had been dealt with. People in Europe and North America are no longer wearing masks, and so on. My friend…
By the time the first phase of the easing of social distancing is in place on Thursday, most people in Hong Kong would have been in lockdown situations for more than three months, the longest since we had Covid-19 nearly three years ago. As far as Su and I are concerned, we haven’t left the…
Last week had been sunny most of the time. Indeed, Hong Kong had more than our share of good weather in the last ten days; and I think most people was like me, feeling that they were having a season in the sun. A few days ago, an ex-colleague sent round Terry Jacks’ Seasons in…
I had a rather busy week spending time and money on an ancient hobby or skill to which I had sort of becoming indifferent – I mean photography, or more precisely taking pictures with a camera, as opposed to a smart phone or tablet. Let me first recount my past sojourns in photography. It went…
