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;…
I began writing this blog soon after I finished the last one, which was almost a week by now, but for various reasons and as had happened so many times before, it stayed on the hard disc until now. A week ago, I had news that two friends had just departed, and that both were…
I signed up for my first account on social media around 2007 after a young friend sent me a link with some simple instructions, which would put me amongst the early users of Facebook. Su recalls that I had maybe just about 300 friends when we first met in 2009, but the number has since…
At breakfast, a friend from high school days forwarded me a soundtrack of First of May by Bee Gees with video background from the movie Melody. Su located our two vinyl discs by Bee Gees, cleaned them and played First of May there and then, which brought back memories. In the meantime, I learned from…
Last week, I reminisced my trip to my parents-in-law’s to ask for their permission to marry their first daughter. Tonight, we are looking forward to our eleventh anniversary tomorrow, over a quiet dinner, just between us. We had thought about some eating-out plans to break the monotony of home quarantine and an excuse to wear…
Today would have marked officially the last day of a long holiday had it been another ordinary year, except that it is not. Everyone has been on home quarantine in one form or other; and Christians would have to observe the Passion and Resurrection of the Lord through the internet and mostly on the hand…
Ten days slipped by, almost without trace, but during which every government and institution has issued updates on measures in the wake of the corona virus pandemic, ranging from the very practical to the ridiculous and comical. We live in a strange world indeed; and the responses from governments and institutions are indeed reflections of…
