Life is to be Enjoyed

There were no surprises in the just published 6-monthly UK report on Hong Kong which said that the National People’s Congress acted unilaterally on electoral changes in Hong Kong; and as expected, the report attracted fierce and robust reaction from China and the SAR Government, with the latter protesting that foreign governments should not attempt…

A New Beginning

The front page of today’s SCMP brought readers two landmark news items – Lawmakers approve Bill to overhaul electoral system and HK records zero new daily infections for the first time in seven months – franked by a third on resumption of talks between China and US which both sides hailed as “a step forward”. …

Polar Bears

The Post Magazine had billed its 9 May 2021 Issue as The education issue and had four full pages dedicated to Culture. On the last page of the section, Peter Christie wrote a book review on Kale Williams’ latest book with the catchy title “The Loneliest Polar Bear, with a sub-title “A True Story of…

It’s May

Tra la, it’s May, the lusty month of MayThat lovely month when everyone goes blissfully astrayTra la, it’s here, that shocking time of yearWhen tons of wicked little thoughts merrily appear It’s May, it’s May that gorgeous holidayWhen every maiden prays that her lad will be a cadIt’s mad, it’s gay, a libelous displayThose dreary…

A Busy Week

I left last time talking about how we spent a full day hiking the Wu Kau Tang area, and ended up missing a cocktail in the evening. We began last week before daybreak packing for a brunch outing at what someone had called Lovers Island which we stumbled onto accidentally the week before. Su had…

Lovers Island

I thought we were on Robinson Crusoe’s island or its derivative, or that we had walked into an abandoned set for location filming of some low budget films copying Cast Away which had made Tom Hanks famous. All the furniture were made of broken wood pieces like from ship wrecks, planks, plastic containers, sawed open…

My Birthday Week

This week marked the resumption of daily Mass at the Seat of Wisdom Chapel at Ricci Hall and I rostered myself to take up scripture readings for the week, which was a ritual I sorely missed during the lockdown. Monday morning was cool and crispy and I arrived Ricci Hall shortly after 7am by MTR….