A week slipped past beginning with exciting news on the impending opening up of the borders; and today actually saw commuters going up and down, though not without some hiccups, which were not unexpected, but which bode well compared with what was happening a year ago when the place was almost in complete shutdown. We…
Once again, Helen had prompted me to start writing my year ender. Helen’s highlight of the year was her 50th Wedding Anniversary. As I was congratulating their achievements, I silently counted that I would have celebrated my 46th Wedding Anniversary had Rosita lived on. She still came to my dreams, often with our two children…
A few weeks ago, we noticed moths flying around the wardrobe area, normally one at a time. We didn’t think too much of it; and Su was more concerned that the moths might lay eggs on the clothes and had studiously tried to keep the wardrobe doors closed. Little did we know that these flying…
I left off in my last blog with my nephew having trolleyed the Denon 2700 amplifier onto his van just before lunch on 12 November which was a Saturday and almost a month from to date. Su had wished that he would bring it to Mei Foo the next day so that we could work…
I had a rather clean diary for the week that just ended before it began, with just one lunch appointment and two evening meetings at Zetland Hall. I ended up however with meetings for all evenings including last night and a zoom meeting on Tuesday at home with Su preparing her favourite fish sashimi and…
Today is the 32nd Sunday and the scripture readings at Mass are taken from 2 Maccabees, 2 Thessalonians and Luke on Jesus’ response to the Sadducees. My favourite priest friend Robert Ng picked up resurrection and everlasting life as the theme for reflecting on the three readings. Robert reminded his congregation that a key belief…
Three weeks passed since my last blog, during which UK had elected another Prime Minister, while China held its 20th National People’s Congress to confirm and confer a third term on President on XI Jinping. In Hong Kong, the Observatory had a Typhoon Signal No. 8 hoisted the first time in 50 years in November…
Once again, I found that I haven’t uploaded a blog for more than a month; and I had ended the last upload with the hope that I would write one shortly. Suddenly, we are in the last quarter of 2022 with only about ten weeks left. Yesterday, a brother took us to visit his father’s…
I haven’t uploaded a blog for almost one month, even though I have made some notes in between, mainly on the weather, or the hot weather. Today, for example, my phone registered at 2 pm a reading of 36.9 degrees Celsius while the Hong Kong Observatory recorded an all-time high of 35.9 degrees for the…
M. J. Harilela aka Maj published Warriors of the Sun in May this year which he billed as the first of a trilogy meant initially to be his autobiography. Somehow, we became Facebook friends because I was interested in his book which apparently was based on Hong Kong in the Sixties. He told me I…
