Fourteen years ago this week, I stopped holding down the only full time job I had ever had; or in short I retired officially. A lot happened that week which also happened to be the beginning of SARS. I recall a friend coming to my retirement party at Pacific Place donning a face mask; and…
Su and I were the first visitors when he was born. He slept quietly and contentedly by his mother, and I think he had a smile on his small face even on his first day. His mother was brave enough to let us hold him, which we did, and I believe we had some pictures…
Once again, I felt a sudden surge of colours around me as soon as the nurse removed the bandages over the right eye: the images were clearer and the colours a lot faster. My ophthalmologist friend’s first remark was, “Now the sky is all clear?” I looked outside: it was heavily overcast with a thunderstorm…
I had my right eye operated on for cataract this morning, six weeks after I had my left done. I would have had it earlier, but for the intervening trip to Nepal and other commitments. It went rather well and took slightly longer than the first one, but I am positive that I would have…
In the same TIME issue which asks readers to vote for who should be on the 2017 TIME 100, there would be articles on Hong Kong’s chief executive election which took place today (26 March 2017) in which Carrie Lam was elected Hong Kong’s chief executive from 1 July 2017. TIME would stress that she…
I left off in my last Column lamenting that our amateur pan-democrats lack principle and discipline. I then flew off to Kathmandu and began some serious trekking with Su from Pokhara, planning to be at Annapurna base camp (ABC) in a week before trekking down to a posh hotel in Pokhara in a further five…
I have always enjoyed watching the annual Oscars show and I often stayed home to watch it, but this year I couldn’t because I had an appointment with my eye surgeon who had operated on my left eye and who would do my right after my Nepal trip. So I missed the real life drama;…
Our media have had a busy few days and are likely to be busy for the rest of the month and probably the next, first with nomination for candidature for the next chief executive having opened and would go on for two weeks, followed by the conviction of the seven policemen for assault of a…
I thank all of you who read up my last post and posted positive messages wishing me speedy recovery etc. The last count was close to 100 and still counting – not bad. Social media will likely feature in our lives in one way or other, even though it probably won’t affect our decision making…
