The week began with the very pleasant news that our Latin dance coach had their first born on Monday, which traditionally is Confucius’ Birthday, born in 551 BC. Sam has graduated with first class honour in Chinese from the Chinese University of Hong Kong and he wishes his son would grow up with some of…
In his address to the United Nations General Assembly on 22 September, President Xi Jinping called for mutual respect and cooperation between nations, which was in stark contrast to what Trump said immediately before him at the same forum. Trump had made ferocious attacks on China and blamed China for almost everything from the coronavirus…
We first met Jenny five years ago when we joined a Latin Dance class at one of our clubs. She was always well groomed, mild mannered, with appropriate make-up, tasteful dresses and matching shoes, and looking very smart, to the point of bright and shiny. She was over 80, but she looked just qualified for…
Chief Executive Carrie Lam announced at her press conference last Friday 31 July 2020 her Government’s decision to postpone by one year the Legislative Council election scheduled for September 2020. The next day, Alex Lo wrote an open letter to her in SCMP in support of the decision and urge her to take courage, for…
It seems that time is a function of one’s commitments to be carried out when and as they could be and in the manner and fashion that they could be, as opposed to what was pronounced in Parkinson’s Law, first published in 1942 and which I once pandered, that work expands so as to fill…
Exactly a week ago, I had breakfast with my brother Francis. He had actually asked me the week before, but both of us were sort of busy and that was the earliest slot we could arrange for breakfast or lunch. No sooner had he sat down and ordered his usual eggs Benedict with Earl Gray…
It probably won’t mean anything to anyone, but this is the 23rd issue of my letter written in 2020 and published on my website, coming on the 23rd anniversary of the reunification of Hong Kong with China and on the occasion when the National Security Law for Hong Kong comes into effect after due process…
Joephy Chan has more than 140,000 subscribers on her posts on YouTube. I was not one of them until last Sunday when a friend sent me a link in which she gave an update on the riots in America which had spread to over 30 cities following the involvement of four Minneapolis police officers in…
My friend Alex would have liked very much the turn of events in the week his body went up in smoke when the CPPCC and the NPC met to introduce national security laws for Hong Kong to take care of those who are intent to commit treasonable and terrorism offences that would at the same…
I mentioned last time that I visited a friend who was very ill. Sadly, he passed away peacefully in hospital two days later. His family and friends wasted no time to organize a dignified and respectable funeral which was well attended by many friends and past colleagues in the cultural, media, broadcasting and Government sectors;…
