Whether you are aware of it or not, but the first two Mondays in May fall on public holidays; and yesterday we had Mother’s Day, Buddha’s Birthday, Red Cross Smile Day and the Chief Executive Election Day all blended in one. It must have been an auspicious day, certainly for John Lee who was returned…
A friend asked flippantly of my last blog on the social media why I had not condemned the Russian invasion on Ukraine but could see it fit to talk about Church matters in the same breath, to which I responded by reflex why no one seemed to have seen it fit to condemn the US-led…
Another ten days passed since I uploaded my last blog; even though I had been minded to write on a number of things in between. But as my favourite priest had said last Sunday from his small room at Ricci Hall and broadcast on YouTube, there were but two things on the minds of most…
Today is the day for the awakening of insects and traditionally signals the revival of all forms of life, including bacteria and viruses, one supposes. I think most people like me would have woken up this morning to a foggy day which was not exactly comfy. Fortuitously, the sun crept up later and lifted the…
Even before daybreak today, my phone was full of messages telling us how special or epochal this day is – being all 2’s which rhymes with easy or ease in Cantonese. If only life and living could be that simple. Yet the first newsworthy item I picked up today was that Putin, the Russian President…
As I had expected, my last blog did not attract too many readers. I am not disheartened, though. Life goes on even as the Government announced more severe social distancing measures. This must be the most severe measure ever, the object of which is to discourage everyone leaving home or having physical meetings with anyone,…
It’s the third day of the first lunar month and traditionally people are not encouraged to meet other people lest they might end up having unnecessary argumentation or discourses. Well, we haven’t left our flat since our visit to Su’s parents’ place on the first day of the CNY and we have been rather content…
It’s Chinese New Year Eve, which is always big deal for the average Chinese so that each and every one of us would expect to be required to be somewhere at a particular time to do something, to eat a meal at least, to have pictures taken and so on before moving on. I can…
It is almost a month since Government has instituted no eating out after 6pm and we have been told that the various measures to reduce or prevent the spread of the pandemic would continue up to at least 17 February. At the same time, we have been advised to reduce family visiting to the minimum…
One of the vinyls we picked up last week has on one side the lead song “For a Few Dollars More” across Clint Eastwood in his signature photo in the film with the same title, and “A Fistful of Dollars” on the other side showing Eastwood in his gun slinging position from the back. We…
