Even before daybreak today, my phone was full of messages telling us how special or epochal this day is – being all 2’s which rhymes with easy or ease in Cantonese. If only life and living could be that simple. Yet the first newsworthy item I picked up today was that Putin, the Russian President…
As I had expected, my last blog did not attract too many readers. I am not disheartened, though. Life goes on even as the Government announced more severe social distancing measures. This must be the most severe measure ever, the object of which is to discourage everyone leaving home or having physical meetings with anyone,…
It’s the third day of the first lunar month and traditionally people are not encouraged to meet other people lest they might end up having unnecessary argumentation or discourses. Well, we haven’t left our flat since our visit to Su’s parents’ place on the first day of the CNY and we have been rather content…
It’s Chinese New Year Eve, which is always big deal for the average Chinese so that each and every one of us would expect to be required to be somewhere at a particular time to do something, to eat a meal at least, to have pictures taken and so on before moving on. I can…
It is almost a month since Government has instituted no eating out after 6pm and we have been told that the various measures to reduce or prevent the spread of the pandemic would continue up to at least 17 February. At the same time, we have been advised to reduce family visiting to the minimum…
One of the vinyls we picked up last week has on one side the lead song “For a Few Dollars More” across Clint Eastwood in his signature photo in the film with the same title, and “A Fistful of Dollars” on the other side showing Eastwood in his gun slinging position from the back. We…
We began to stay away from crowds and not eating in public restaurants the day after Government announced no dining out after 6pm last week. Meetings at Zetland Hall were cancelled one after another because it wouldn’t make sense to gather a crowd for a meeting and have them sent away empty stomached afterwards. I…
I seldom do this, exporting chunks of information received through the Internet, but I am doing this not only because I like what was in it, but also because it came from a very old friend I trust. I am going to share with you the response of Larry Romanoff, a retired businessman, to what…
I began the New Year going through literally the hundreds of New Year greeting messages on my phone, mostly in graphics and impersonal, bidding farewell to 2021 and wishing everyone under the sun a brand new 2022, etc., etc., etc. I had already performed similar rituals a week before over similar messages during Christmas. I…
Helen and Herbert’s Year Ender arrived last week, which prompted me to start composing mine. These days, fewer people are writing or sending out year enders, which used to be chronicles of their travels and updates on their children and grandchildren, complete with colourful and rather interesting photos. Covid-19 and the pandemic which followed had…
