This is my second rest day in as many days after my continuous six-day skiing, under instructions and with Su. The original plan was to rest for one day only, on my birthday, but Su did not think the weather today was conducive to recreational skiing and it rained. We stayed in-door flipping channels often…
First, let me thank all the kind and well meaning birthday messages through Facebook, emails and other electronic means from friends and families, biological, fraternal and social. I value and treasure all of them; and I am very grateful to all of you and I feel good. Yes, I am 66 and skiing; but before…
We had a feeling of home coming when we got into our room in Whistler and particularly after we unlocked the owner’s lodge, which is an inside room of about 20 sq ft within the room and where we keep our personal effects including clothes, skiing equipment and unused groceries. The hotel room itself is…
I left off where we were waiting to board a CX flight to Vancouver. It was an uneventful flight. Both Su and I watched one movie only – she watched Blue Jasmine and I watched August: Osage County – and slept through the rest of the journey. Everything was boringly on schedule; and it was…
I am not exactly familiar with New York City. Every time I was here when I was still holding down a job, I was either rushing between JFK Airport, the office and the hotels, or worse, passing through en route to somewhere else. I recall being taken to see some musicals or jazz performances in…
It is now more than 24 hours since CNN Breaking News carried Malaysian Prime Minister’s confirmation that Flight MH370 which disappeared 17 days ago had ended in the South Indian Ocean and that there were no survivors. I can understand that the world and most of you were watching the developing news; and while that…
The decade or so before 1997 saw a lot of people leaving Hong Kong, many to Toronto and Vancouver, depending on whether they needed a job at the time, such that the younger professionals tended to move east while those who had amassed sufficient resources, west. I had never thought of leaving Hong Kong, not…
We left Mei Foo in tearing haste for the airport Sunday morning. The evening before, we attended the 87th Birthday bash in honour of Rev Fr Alfred Deignan which was preceded by a mini concerto organized by four medical doctors, including the MC. But life had been more than hectic even before that, so much…
I have not posted a letter on my Letters since we returned from Ireland, which was more than four months ago. It was not that nothing had been happening. The reverse could probably be the case; but I had no convenient starting point and no pegs on which to hang anything. Then, my desktop crashed…
We have been away for some three weeks, in Ireland, yes, the Republic of Ireland; and tonight is the last night we would spend in this country before we return home. This morning, we left Bantry in our rental and drove over 100km to Kinsale which is a costal and picturesque town famous for its…
