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,…
Abilio James Acosta, better known as Jim, is an American broadcast journalist. He is 50 and is now an anchor and the chief domestic correspondent for CNN. He became news himself after a White House press conference on 7 November 2018 when his press pass was suspended, and which had resulted in litigation – CNN…
In line with a long established practice to post a blog on my website during bad weather, here we go again. I left off yesterday waiting for Su to return for dinner and was expecting a busy Saturday. Su returned just before 9pm after leaving instructions with Sam and the nurses. She had even picked…
I was by myself since maybe 9:30am today. We had a small party last night at home to mark the birthday of Mark who has taken to sailing recently, so that the other three friends were also sailing related, including Chris who became a keen sailor over ten years ago and bought a boat, Andrew…
Today, I went to a Rotary function with a rather catchy title – Peacebuilding through Music in D3450. Mitzi had invited me to attend a few days ago, billing it as the District’s response to mark the UN International Day of Peace, adding that the District Governor would be there, as would a number of…
My mother was born on the fifteenth day of the eighth lunar month, or on a mid-autumn festival, which was what we had been told and we observed her birthday year after years. Birthdays in a family were no big deals when there was not much food on the table and the parents were scratching…
