And so the Novel Corona Virus or what some has chosen to call the Wuhan Acute Respiratory Syndrome (WARS) has taken stage since the Year of the Rat, actually even before that, dominating the lives of everyone in Hong Kong. Whereas rioters created nuisance, obstructed roads and traffic and created chaos and destruction wherever they…
I left off last time talking about going to Maldives; and that was about two weeks ago. The following day, Su did make some enquires, ending with making a booking for an extended stay of eight days in the resort area in the middle of the sea towards the end of November; and that was…
I haven’t gone very far after my New Year Day upload, as far as keeping up with my writing is concerned. I found out a few typos which I had since amended, but I wonder who noticed them. We have been eating well and eating out a lot; and to my horror, but not surprising…
I left off in my 2019 Year Ender mentioning Su not having had her luggage delivered in the flight from Oslo to TromsØ and sort of suggested I might come back to it. So here I am. We landed just before 2 pm, shadowing the full moon as the small jet taxied in. It was…
To anyone who loves or has ever loved Hong Kong or to anyone who knows Hong Kong at all, the year about to end will go down in history as a momentous year, one that marks the beginning of a new epoch in the history of the piece of land that had been long called…
My godson’s mother said in passing – almost a month ago by now – that I had not uploaded anything on my website for quite some time. Today I checked. Of course she was right. My last upload was dated 3 January 2019. In the meantime, Su has been writing the odd blogs and has…
I bought a new phone over the weekend. I had been using the last one for more than four years – the cover was tattered and its original golden colour couldn’t be detected at all. Everyone said I needed a phone and I finally succumbed to public opinion. As I had said elsewhere, I didn’t…
A few friends have continued to send me their year enders, by emails now, normally with photos and sometimes with videos, which is a great change from the days when they were dispatched by post or at one time by fax. I enjoy reading them all and I hope they would read mine with similar…
I began writing this piece on 30 November when we arrived at our room in Whistler Hilton. I found that the almost-ten-year-old laptop was still working, albeit half-heartedly. Apparently, the firewall license had expired such that I could not access the internet from the laptop, implying that I had to be content with recording bits…
We had just returned to our room in Whistler Hilton after about three hours of skiing including going up and down the gondolas and chairlifts when we picked up our cell phones and learned that Reverend Father Alfred Joseph Deignan (Father Deignan) had passed away in the small hours of Tuesday 11 December, Hong Kong…
