This is our third trip to Whistler this year, and by next Tuesday when we leave here for New York City and then Chicago, we would have stayed in our room at Whistler Hilton for some 45 nights, which by any standard would make us appear to be rather keen skiers or at least keen…
Whistler is actually run by a corporation called Whistler Blackcomb or something similar. It operates the Whistler Blackcomb Snow School and owns many shops and eateries in Whistler and Blackcomb. Most people only know Whistler because of the name and because the Winter Olympics took place on Whistler Mountain. Blackcomb is another mountain just as…
It’s not that I do not want to write or have nothing to write about when I am in Hong Kong. I had started writing an issue which is probably still sitting on my desktop, but somehow that’s what it seems. I would leave it to someone capable to formulate a thesis proposal on why…
I left off some six weeks ago with a brief report on my meeting with the alumni leaders in Vancouver. Since then, Deputy Chairman Dr. Patrick Poon had a similar meeting in New Zealand and I am looking forward to meeting our USA alumni leaders in Chicago next month. We hope such meetings would help…
It is interesting that we have been picking up Hong Kong news mainly through the social media networks while we are away. However, the only news on TV we picked up about Hong Kong while in Whistler was the apparent disappearance of a few owners and employees of a book store. In any case, apparently,…
In case you are interested – which is practically a moot point – this is the 168th piece in this Letters series. I hope it brings prosperity and auspiciousness to you and casual readers of this column. This is to be my year ender for 2015 or the Year of the Lamb. A year ender…
I happened to be in Vancouver last week and through the good office of the Immediate Past President of the Hong Kong University Graduates Association, met the current President of the Hong Kong University Alumni Association in British Columbia Canada together with a number of her Board Members. It was a pleasant and happy meeting…
It is clear that if I write my autobiography now, there won’t be a great following, but then that is not a necessary and sufficient reason to deter the project, even though it is a terribly convincing one not to start it at this point in time. For the fifth year running, Su and I…
A lot has happened over the last year. Indeed, a lot has happened in the last three months since I wrote in this space; and the Convocation Standing Committee (SC) had found itself having to organize a second Extraordinary General Meeting (EGM) in less than three months. Nevertheless, as I had said in my last…
My Very Dear Fellow Convocation Members, Once again and predictably, HKU caught the headlines this morning. There was blanket coverage on the long awaited Council decision on the appointment to the position of Pro-Vice-Chancellor (Academic Staffing and Resources), with the printed media playing up how the decision was arrived at and the student union president…
