Today is Lichun, or Beginning of Spring on the Lunar calendar, and marks the first day of the first solar term or jieqi of the Lunar New Year – there are 24 solar terms in each year, six for each of the four seasons – although it is also the 14th day of the first…
Yesterday was the third day of the Chinese New Year and traditionally not a day conducive to harmony, but as my priest Fr Robert Ng often said, as Christians we shouldn’t be obsessed with such matters. We slept late after a late party in a friend’s place at HKU and then prepared ourselves to visit…
Last Wednesday, 11 January, Su had an urge to visit the Hong Kong Wetland Park, which both of us haven’t been to. Indeed, I was not too much aware of its existence. My knowledge and experience of wetlands were limited to the one at Deep Bay which I had visited as an undergrad, bracing the…
A week slipped past beginning with exciting news on the impending opening up of the borders; and today actually saw commuters going up and down, though not without some hiccups, which were not unexpected, but which bode well compared with what was happening a year ago when the place was almost in complete shutdown. We…
Once again, Helen had prompted me to start writing my year ender. Helen’s highlight of the year was her 50th Wedding Anniversary. As I was congratulating their achievements, I silently counted that I would have celebrated my 46th Wedding Anniversary had Rosita lived on. She still came to my dreams, often with our two children…
A few weeks ago, we noticed moths flying around the wardrobe area, normally one at a time. We didn’t think too much of it; and Su was more concerned that the moths might lay eggs on the clothes and had studiously tried to keep the wardrobe doors closed. Little did we know that these flying…
I left off in my last blog with my nephew having trolleyed the Denon 2700 amplifier onto his van just before lunch on 12 November which was a Saturday and almost a month from to date. Su had wished that he would bring it to Mei Foo the next day so that we could work…
I had a rather clean diary for the week that just ended before it began, with just one lunch appointment and two evening meetings at Zetland Hall. I ended up however with meetings for all evenings including last night and a zoom meeting on Tuesday at home with Su preparing her favourite fish sashimi and…
Today is the 32nd Sunday and the scripture readings at Mass are taken from 2 Maccabees, 2 Thessalonians and Luke on Jesus’ response to the Sadducees. My favourite priest friend Robert Ng picked up resurrection and everlasting life as the theme for reflecting on the three readings. Robert reminded his congregation that a key belief…
Three weeks passed since my last blog, during which UK had elected another Prime Minister, while China held its 20th National People’s Congress to confirm and confer a third term on President on XI Jinping. In Hong Kong, the Observatory had a Typhoon Signal No. 8 hoisted the first time in 50 years in November…
