I began the New Year going through literally the hundreds of New Year greeting messages on my phone, mostly in graphics and impersonal, bidding farewell to 2021 and wishing everyone under the sun a brand new 2022, etc., etc., etc. I had already performed similar rituals a week before over similar messages during Christmas. I…
Helen and Herbert’s Year Ender arrived last week, which prompted me to start composing mine. These days, fewer people are writing or sending out year enders, which used to be chronicles of their travels and updates on their children and grandchildren, complete with colourful and rather interesting photos. Covid-19 and the pandemic which followed had…
My godson’s mother reminded me Friday night that I had not posted a blog for some ten days. Let me pick up where I left off last time to continue my thoughts on Su. On Facebook, she calls herself “a home maker, cook, wife, daughter, bookworm, traveler, diver, skier, photographer, art lover.” She is being…
Shortly after 10am this morning, I dropped Su off around an MTR exit at Mei Foo so that she could take the Tuen Ma Line to Yuen Long from where she would catch a taxi to Tai Tong Shan Road to join her photography tutor on an outing with more students to the Sweet Gum…
I don’t mean D & G which would have meant the Italian luxury fashion house founded in 1985 in Milan. I mean democracy and governance, a weighty and serious subject but unfortunately often taken to mean and being interpreted as politics. Indeed, politics has become so ubiquitous and one simply can’t get away from it….
Su and I went to the Gala Premiere last night featuring “Love After Love” directed by internationally renowned film director Ann Hui. I had read an article on SCMP maybe a fortnight ago about the film, but I couldn’t recognize the names of the artistes, except Ann Hui and the author Eileen Chang. HKU Foundation…
My last blog was nearly 20 days ago. In between, I have been visiting hospitals and clinics a bit for regular maintenance, and I also took my new electric car to its first and only free maintenance. First, I had to make two additional trips to the Elderly Health Clinic, one for a blood test…
I left off in my last blog wondering what I would look like and indeed how it would be possible to take off another 7 kg from my present body weight of 60 kg, which by the way was down from 68 plus kg in 2014 and which I have been working rather hard to…
When I was young, typhoons were for summers so that we won’t expect them in autumns which is the season for hiking and stocking up the body for winters. But these years, the more severe typhoons had chosen to visit us in autumn, and a run on Facebook pages easily confirms the facts. Last night,…
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