Yesterday was LiQui立秋 being the 13th solar term on the Chinese calendar. It marked the end of summer and the beginning of autumn in East Asian cultures. This year, it falls in a leap month and thus augers added meanings and traditions. Following the heavy rainstorms earlier in the week, we had banner headlines in…
My first attempt to write this blog began on the Sunday – 20 July – when the City was locked down by Typhoon Wipha and the Observatory had seen it fit to issue the No. 10 hurricane signal. I had been reminded by my brother Francis that I began my blog writing years ago –…
That is the title of a paperback recently published in Hong Kong by Earnshaw Books Ltd and was included by Swindon Book Co. Ltd in their July New Releases List. It was authored by Francis Wann who has described himself as a producer, photographer, editor and teacher; and who has a PhD in Semiotics and…
Last Thursday, Su noticed from the social media that the Hong Kong – Yonago direct flight operated by Greater Bay Airline will discontinue from September 2025 because of insufficient patronage. She instinctively checked on the prices from booking.com and booked for us a short holiday later this month – eight days – to Yonago, while…
And I found myself in Futian again, to be precise, at Futian Port, not exactly knowing why I was there, except that I had to be there because Su asked me or wanted me to be there. Su was having some technical problem with either her phone or her bank account in China, arising from…
Before I know it, May has almost ended. May can easily be the most fabulous month in the year, particularly now that Su has become part of my life and she was born in May. I always adore the lyrics in Camelot where Guenevere labeled it as the lusty month of May, as that lovely…
April has always been a busy month for us, with birthdays and anniversaries, Holy Week and Easter, and what not. Looking back, I had not uploaded any blogs for nearly two months, primarily because we had been away on forced leave, mainly in Whistler, and also due to inertia. I actually made sufficient notes on…
I began writing this blog two days after she passed away – on Monday 18 November last year (2024) – by which time she had not returned to her home in Pokfulam for more than four months. She had been diagnosed with a cancer relapse and a tumor had developed in her brain which had…
Su has a habit of shifting the furniture in the flat from time to time, almost always by herself and of her own will and accord, to suit some new purposes which had arisen, but often to create more room for maneuvering. To enable the new year blossoms to catch more sunlight, for example, she…
