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…
I also gave out seven copies of my book as table prizes last night at yet another Ladies Night organized by brethren to tell their wives and families officially and in public how much they love them for allowing them to spend so much time with other brethren in Zetland Hall year round; so that…
Friends and readers of my vintage would recall that Come September is a 1961 Hollywood movie billed as a romantic comedy, directed by Robert Mulligan and starring Rock Hudson, Gina Lollobrigida, Sandra Dee and Bobby Darin. There is a theme song of the same title with catchy, rocky or jive music, sung and played by…
Reverend Father Sean Coghlan, S.J. went peacefully to the Lord this morning at St. Paul Hospital Hong Kong at 3:17a.m. That is official and was announced by Father Stephen Chow, the Bishop Designate of Hong Kong Diocese. Fr. Coghlan was born in Limerick, Ireland on 29 October 1933 and joined the Society of Jesus on…
Su has always said that she found August in Hong Kong too hot for her constitution such that she won’t venture out of her flat until sundown. Facebook reminded us that we did not spend too much of August in Hong Kong, except for last year perhaps when we had a virtual lockdown due to…
As scheduled, I collected my first electric vehicle, or EV, on 5 August 2021 in Kowloon Bay. It was not exactly a fine day. First it drizzled, then it poured and thunder stormed, but fortuitously, by the time we left Kowloon Bay, it cleared up. Will, the Sales Consultant who sold me the car, had…
It was an interesting ten days since my last blog. I started writing about me and my cars after my last blog which ended with a note that I might do that. I wrote two paragraphs quickly on the family car I had driven for more than a year during which I had it refurbished…
An article on this week’s Post Magazine with the title “Gone for Good” discussed the recent goodbye scenes at Chek Lap Kok Airport as people – mainly young people – left Hong Kong for London, probably for good. Similar stories had been aired on TV last week as people tried to beat the UK deadline…
It is Hong Kong Book Fair time once more. We had the last physical one in 2019. The trade Development Council first postponed the 2020 Fair to December due to Covid-19, but eventually had to cancel it. I checked on my website and reminded myself that I had posted a blog on 24 July 2016…
That is the opening line and paragraph of a first person report by Naomi Osaka on 8 July 2021 when the 23-year old talked to Time magazine of her life experience in general and of her first Olympics amidst other priorities – like mental health and why sports needs to change – in particular, which…
