I recalled a conversation with a colleague while we were washing our hands in the toilet on a cool October morning around 1980. We were working in the Civil Service Training Centre which was then housed in Wing On Centre in Central. The elderly gentleman told me that he had tracked the Hong Kong weather…
I continued to stay home as much as possible trying hard to shake off the flu, making only one exception by attending the lunch in celebration of a brother’s Silver Wedding Anniversary on National Day, but skipping another dinner appointment on Thursday. I also went for groceries shopping, as far away as Taste at Kowloon…
Super Typhoon Ragasa had come and gone, and fortuitously had apparently not inflicted too much damage, not that I had noticed anyway. Thank God. I had planned to post a blog shortly after Ragasa made landfall, but as usual, inertia got the upper hand and I ended up leafing Volume 3 of Mark Twain’s Autobiography…
I left off in my last blog with “Memories are made of this” and picked up two more vinyl records of oldies which I can’t resist sharing with friends. The first one was titled “UA 18 Movie Tracks” produced by United Artists Records in 1979, the year I had my first child. I googled for…
Yesterday, Su was tidying up some of the vinyl records we had picked up from Ivan Wong at Yaumatei and at old record shops in Sham Shui Po, when two pieces turned up in particular. Su recalled that I had picked them, because she was not familiar with many of the songs on them. The…
Our Facebook friend Alexander Wong often prefaced his blogs with, “Eating, drinking and dining continue,” and then went on to describe in embarrassing details what he had consumed, with whom and where, never forgetting to heap praises on his beautiful and loving wife whenever possible. His attention to details was amazing and he must have…
We were busy managing our diaries since back from Yonago – over ten days by now – and we found ourselves running between restaurants and for me trying to squeeze in a few sessions at the gym. The weather had not been stable, but we were lucky to miss the worst days. The fishing-ban period…
By now, friends who have been following Su’s posts in the social media would have known that we were in some cities in Japan last week, again, having good food and wine, or having fun in general. We are back from our third trip in as many months since May, spending 28 days in all,…
Yesterday was LiQui立秋 being the 13th solar term on the Chinese calendar. It marked the end of summer and the beginning of autumn in East Asian cultures. This year, it falls in a leap month and thus augers added meanings and traditions. Following the heavy rainstorms earlier in the week, we had banner headlines in…
My first attempt to write this blog began on the Sunday – 20 July – when the City was locked down by Typhoon Wipha and the Observatory had seen it fit to issue the No. 10 hurricane signal. I had been reminded by my brother Francis that I began my blog writing years ago –…
