I have been telling friends that we are going on El Camino, or The Way in English. This is one of the ultimate routes any pilgrim worth the name would attempt to take, time, energies and resources allowing. It is in the north of Spain, originating from the French Pyrenees and going from east to…
I had planned to write a letter to commemorate our third wedding anniversary the way I did for our second. Now, almost three weeks after the event, after a heavy lunch on yesterday at a venue to which I probably would not be invited for a long while, and after watching Carmen with Su, I…
Su and I were in Myanmar recently for eight days. We were on a study tour organized by the Alumni Association of HKU’s Centre of Buddhist Studies. For a change, we did not take with us any electronic communications equipment on the trip for we were briefed beforehand that they might not be too useful…
Today I finished the last ski class; and I am happy that I have no bones broken and no apparent injuries. I can even say that I have enjoyed the sessions, in particular the last one. Su has been very supportive throughout. She completed 12 full days of ski classes and must have covered numerous…
We left Whistler for Toronto after my sixth ski class. This side trip was planned before we left Hong Kong and the object was to meet people I haven’t seen for a long time and to introduce them to Su. I have lined up meetings with friends and my younger sister so that there would…
I left off in my last letter with the news that I was promoted to Level Two. I was rather pleased with myself. I had no bones broken and no tendons or muscles torn; I can now stop and turn on slopes (very mild ones) at will; I finished the three lessons that Su had…
Henry Beard and Roy McKie in their “Skiing: a snowslider’s dictionary” (2002) define skiing as the art of catching cold and going broke while heading nowhere at great personal risk. They could be right. I found this irreverent albeit entertaining and informative pocket dictionary by the bedside shortly before we set off for Canada. It…
Su said that I was rather brief in my last letter on the Gala Dinner to which she went with me. A few readers also made similar observations and one even suggested that maybe I had ordered the wrong plate for my main course. In response, I said that I was never known to be…
For many years, Wah Yan College alumni would hold their annual party today, the 23rd day of December, rain or shine. Some die hard alumni would even go as far as saying that everything else won’t matter as long as we have our Annual Ball on this day. The school has certainly produced some well…
Frank Devlyn read some of my articles on the website and thought I was writing a book or had published one. He volunteered to endorse my book which he was confident would boost sale and hence help Rotary, either in the form of donations to the Rotary Foundation or of membership development. Frank certainly has…
