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Traditions

“CX 250 – London to Hong Kong – has just taken off and Su is already fast asleep. While waiting for my Gold Label, I took out my Lenovo. I am minded that life would take on a different pace as soon as we are back in Hong Kong. As a start, we would need…

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Real or Unreal?

Su and I enjoyed tremendously our three-week sojourn in France. We are lucky to have this extraordinary opportunity to visit a number of places to which even many people in France may not go. On the last day, our host made us dinner which was also attended by a neighbor who did not speak English….

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Two For The Road

It might seem that we did not cover a lot of grounds in five days between La Rochelle and Les Sables-d’Olonne, but we had not set an agenda to leave our footprints everywhere. Our objective was to have a great time; and we believe we achieved that. Back at Fontenaille, we developed a plan to…

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Mes Amie

I left off last time when I was relaying our third night in La Rochelle, a tourist city by the sea – the Atlantic Ocean – with rich history dated to the classical antiquity periods of ancient Greece and ancient Rome. It was an important naval, fishing, commercial and political centre for France and Europe…

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Fontenaille Revisited

“Fontenaille, or Chateau de Fontenaille, is the name of my friend’s chateau in France, where I stayed for ten days between a pilgrimage with the Jesuit priest and a retreat in Plum Village. I had meant to share with you this scenic place, its history and environment, the serene atmosphere, the vast expanse of nothingness…

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Reunions

I left off last time when we were leaving Vancouver. I said we would go to the Holy Rosary Cathedral at Richards for Sunday Mass on my 65th Birthday; and we did. This is not exactly a huge church structure for a cathedral, but considering that the City has a population of only over 600,000,…

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Shaughnessy Revisited

Naomi called 25 minutes before pick-up time, suggesting that she might be running a few minutes late, but then quickly confirmed that she would be on time and asked us to wait outside the hotel. Naomi was my classmate in HKU, but we lost contact soon after graduation until maybe 10 years ago when another…