In case you are interested – which is practically a moot point – this is the 168th piece in this Letters series. I hope it brings prosperity and auspiciousness to you and casual readers of this column. This is to be my year ender for 2015 or the Year of the Lamb. A year ender…
I happened to be in Vancouver last week and through the good office of the Immediate Past President of the Hong Kong University Graduates Association, met the current President of the Hong Kong University Alumni Association in British Columbia Canada together with a number of her Board Members. It was a pleasant and happy meeting…
It is clear that if I write my autobiography now, there won’t be a great following, but then that is not a necessary and sufficient reason to deter the project, even though it is a terribly convincing one not to start it at this point in time. For the fifth year running, Su and I…
A lot has happened over the last year. Indeed, a lot has happened in the last three months since I wrote in this space; and the Convocation Standing Committee (SC) had found itself having to organize a second Extraordinary General Meeting (EGM) in less than three months. Nevertheless, as I had said in my last…
My Very Dear Fellow Convocation Members, Once again and predictably, HKU caught the headlines this morning. There was blanket coverage on the long awaited Council decision on the appointment to the position of Pro-Vice-Chancellor (Academic Staffing and Resources), with the printed media playing up how the decision was arrived at and the student union president…
My Very Dear Fellow Convocation Members, It is almost a week since we had our landmark EGM which became the talk of the town for one day. After the polling results were announced, some TV channels had it as the top news item which was re-run every half hour. The result was that I received…
My Very Dear Fellow Convocation Members, I would like to share with you what I think I said to the new students earlier this week at the Inauguration Ceremony, having been asked by a few members to so do since. I did not exactly say anything dramatic or new, but I said it from the…
My Very Dear Fellow Convocation Members, A day or two after I had my Inaugural Issue uploaded, I am already getting feedback from some of you. As would be expected, the comments came in different forms and shades, but were mostly positive and constructive. I am encouraged. Before I go further, let me say a…
My Very Dear Fellow Convocation Members, Warmest greetings from your new chairman! I was elected less than a week ago to head this statutory body of which you are all members; and I thank colleagues of the Development and Alumni Affairs Office (DAAO) for hosting this column by which I hope to communicate with you…
My last letter was uploaded on 5 April 2015. This one sentence should speak volumes, but it hasn’t, except perhaps to me and me alone. Here I am, in Metropolitan Hotel in Downtown Vancouver, having met four groups of friends in two days and having been booked for a bus trip tomorrow for Whistler, I…
