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Summer Solstice

It was rain and shine for the Tuen Ng Festival last Tuesday; and I wonder how many of you registered that while you were basking in the sun or soaking in dragon boat rain, you could be celebrating summer solstice which was serious business before modern Judeo-Christian-Islamic faiths were popularized, when the sun and the…

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Father”s Day Special

A friend I had dinner with a week or so ago stayed up to watch the live broadcast of the funeral service of Ronald Reagan in Washington’s National Cathedral. He was very impressed by how the United States paid its final tribute to the former President, the longest living president, by the details of the…

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It is Rosita Magdalene

Last week, and last weekend in particular, was very significant to Rosita and I. Rosita was baptized last Saturday and has taken the name Magdalene, after Saint Mary Magdalene. I was baptized very young. My first school was a Catholic school and I got baptized together with most if not all of the classmates. In…

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Let us pray

If you are interested in Rosita’s latest conditions, go to the last part of this letter. It was two months since I wrote my last letter in this series. No one needs to be reminded that the sun still rises from the east and the Earth constantly revolves round it with or without my letters….

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Get Married

I always find it pleasing every time people talk about my letters, even though they don’t always read every issue or its entirety and even though they give me backhanded or mixed compliments. It happened that Rosita and I were in Bangkok a few days around the Chinese New Year holidays and met up some…

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Time

I was supposed to go to a meeting convened by the President-elect of my club to discuss how best to celebrate the tenth anniversary of our club, until some of us found out that the time clashed with at least two other events involving Interactors and Rotaractors. The meeting having been rescheduled, I found myself…

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New Year Resolutions

It is customary around this time to make New Year resolutions, so that we can break them at leisure in the next 12 months. The more popular ones include, not in any order, read up the weekly magazines, clear the desk before going to bed, reply to all e-mails within one working day, do not…

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Christmas 2003

It is Christmas again. For me, this is the first Christmas I don’t get invited to office parties or get involved in organizing one. This is hardly surprising, for I no longer operate in any office as such. You may think then that I would have plenty of time organizing parties and writing Christmas cards….