I left off last time with a hopeful note that I would talk to you after the operation; and here I am, alive and kicking, well, almost. We were told to check in Union Hospital at 4 pm on Monday 23 September. Wary that taxis might be difficult to catch at 4 pm and as…
A few friends had asked me whether and when I would write a sequel to my first memoir published in January 2021, which was not exactly a best seller, judging from the space taken up by the left-over stock languishing at my mini-storage. But the few friends who had checked out my website for whatever…
I left off in my last blog with a teaser implying that I would go for an “optional” operation soon. I have since received quite a few inquiries asking for more details and also many get-well messages from well wishers to whom I am very grateful. Let me quickly go through the whole thing, for…
Kishore Mahbubani – who published Has China Won? in 2020 – spoke on YouTube in a recent interview that he agreed with Niall Ferguson that the United States could well be the new Soviet Union. Interestingly, Mahbubani referred to Ferguson as a conservative American thinker, when of course the latter was knighted by King Charles…
I left off in my last blog with a note that I would visit the Specialist Clinic at QEH, which I did; and I am grateful that a few friends had taken notice and asked me separately what transpired. I thank all these kind souls and let me make a brief report here. QEH L…
Since uploading my last blog, the Paris Summer Olympics has taken the world stage and will remain so for another ten days. Hong Kong has caught the Olympics bug and people gathered at shopping malls to watch the Games even before Vivian Kong hit gold and became the darling of Hong Kong, China and the…
That is the name of a movie filmed mostly in Hong Kong during the unrest in 2019 to 2020 by British director Malcolm Clarke, a two-time Oscar-winning director for best documentary short subject in 1989 and 2013. Clarke was interviewed by Pearl Lam who, in turn, is a Hong Kong born gallerist, patron and curator,…
Hong Kong celebrated the 27th Anniversary of the Establishment of the SAR with the usual fanfare in searing heat as our Chief Executive called on everyone in Hong Kong to expect a better tomorrow – or something to that effect – ending with the good news that China has agreed to give us another pair…
Summer Solstice has come and gone, as Hong Kong recorded one that hot in more than four decades. The heat tends to make people sluggish and lazy, but we have been rather active on the festive and social circuits in June, beginning with a weekend trip to Kuala Lumpur to attend a Masonic event –…
Once again, I was caught up by inertia and it won’t be for the last time – I am pretty sure – for I began writing a blog around mid-May which was about the need to listen to what the body was telling me rather than what the doctors said, meaning that I would often…
