Summer Solstice has come and gone, as Hong Kong recorded one that hot in more than four decades. The heat tends to make people sluggish and lazy, but we have been rather active on the festive and social circuits in June, beginning with a weekend trip to Kuala Lumpur to attend a Masonic event –…
Once again, I was caught up by inertia and it won’t be for the last time – I am pretty sure – for I began writing a blog around mid-May which was about the need to listen to what the body was telling me rather than what the doctors said, meaning that I would often…
We learnt from his wife that Anthony passed away peacefully on 4 May 2024 before 6 pm at the Hong Kong Sanatorium. We had left the hospital just after 4 pm, having learnt at lunch from our friend – another Anthony – that his conditions had deteriorated during the last week after an operation which…
I began planning to write a blog after I received a few posts from a trusted friend based on Tik Tok. There were three in particular that I found worth mentioning. The first concerned Republican Senator Michael McCaul’s questionable activities. This is the guy who wrote in March 2024 the Bill to ban Tik Tok…
I left off in the last blog with a note that we were off to Taiwan. We did indeed spend altogether eight days there, mostly eating and drinking, indulging ourselves with Michelin starred or recommended eateries, primarily Japanese inspired. They were cheap by Hong Kong standard, but were probably not generally affordable by the locals….
April has become my Birthday and Anniversary Month. Facebook sent me reminders and photos on what happened in the first week of past years and I was somewhat amused with some of the postings. I was responsible for scripture readings at Ricci Hall in the first week of April this year and I am now…
I was away for most of March staying in Vancouver and Whistler with Su all the time, returning early in the morning on Good Friday. While we were away, we kept in touch with friends in HK and elsewhere mainly through our hand phones which were more than adequate for most purposes. I was hoping…
I can’t resist not uploading something today, 29 February, which recurs only once in four years. There was a time when it was very well known that Baroness Dunn was born on 29 February 1940 meaning that she could and maybe would only celebrate her birthday every four years, but that is not the point…
I had lunch last Wednesday with a group of friends in the Rotary community, all of whom I had known for some 25 year. It was meant to be a mini reunion of the close friends I met when I was Governor of the RI District 3450 (or DG) in the year 2000 when there…
Before I know, we are a week into another Chinese New Year, this time the Year of the Dragon, now more fashionably known as the Year of the Loong. Going through a Chinese New Year used to be big deal for most families. The rituals began at least a week before the year started, with…
