Recovering from our first ever aurora fever the morning after, we had breakfast in the hotel and started to prepare ourselves for the second aurora evening. Su had found on the internet Bucket List Tour featuring evenings in intimate cozy cabins for chasing aurora. She had made bookings for two nights from Whistler, including one…
Even before we entered the tent, Raymond had begun to manage our expectation. The prospect of finding the aurora that night was not good, for the weather forecast had suggested that it would be 4a.m. before the clouds would disperse. We sojourned on anyway. The canvas tent was cone shaped, supported on nine wooden poles,…
The first thing I learnt at Vancouver Airport was that Yellowknife is one word, rather than two. Later on, I learnt from a local guide that the knife part is pronounced knave. Su noticed that the pilot of this Canadian Express Flight AC8833 she booked for us was a youngish blonde, who started the twin…
Jim was not well the night before we were to meet. Joan called in the morning just as we were suiting up for a quick run so as to be back in time to meet them, implying that we had a free day. But as we were almost ready for a run, we went ahead…
I have lived with this laptop for over ten years by now – Lenovo S10e was a gadget to be reckoned with in 2009 when Su’s sister acquired for me before we took off for our first of a series of honeymoon trips. Well, ten years was not exactly a short period, and as a…
Jim was not well the night before we were to meet. Joan called in the morning just as we were suiting up for a quick run so as to be back in time to meet them, implying that we had a free day. But as we were almost ready for a run, we went ahead…
I have lived with this laptop for over ten years by now – Lenovo S10e was a gadget to be reckoned with in 2009 when Su’s sister acquired for me before we took off for our first of a series of honeymoon trips. Well, ten years was not exactly a short period, and as a…
Another ten days passed, but the Novel Corona Virus – now taken on a new name with disease which it causes called COVID-19 – continues to take centre stage everywhere, not only in Hong Kong and China. Alex Lo wrote in his column about Heritage Lodge and the virus related issues almost daily, while my…
And so the Novel Corona Virus or what some has chosen to call the Wuhan Acute Respiratory Syndrome (WARS) has taken stage since the Year of the Rat, actually even before that, dominating the lives of everyone in Hong Kong. Whereas rioters created nuisance, obstructed roads and traffic and created chaos and destruction wherever they…
I left off last time talking about going to Maldives; and that was about two weeks ago. The following day, Su did make some enquires, ending with making a booking for an extended stay of eight days in the resort area in the middle of the sea towards the end of November; and that was…
