Most of us work alternate Saturdays officially, but every Saturday in practice. Our brethren in the Mainland, however, work five-day weeks and appear to be coping rather well. As more and more people are moving towards working from home, the length of a working week actually does not matter. On the other hand, weekends do…
These days, it is virtually impossible to have a conversation or a meal without hearing about the World Cup. The fever has spread to everyone. Nations are reporting losses in billions and trillions and still counting. People got hurt, some lost jobs while others quitted, work patterns changed, relations changed, some won or lost on…
I always try to call home once a day when I am away these days, even though the conversation could be somewhat inane at times through lack of an agenda, for I have never been good with the telephone all these years. The good news is that Rosita understands. Indeed, at the Reunion of the…
While flipping channels hoping to find something interesting or exciting, I came across Larry King talking to Michael J Fox. Fox had just published his sort of autobiography, Lucky Man: A Memoir. During the interview, Fox said convincingly that he found himself to be a happier and better man after he was diagnosed with Parkinson’s…
It is rather frustrating that the Business Class Lounge of Cathay Pacific in Vancouver does not stock Black Label. They have Jack Daniel and to be fair to them, half a bottle of a 15-year-old single malt. I was on my way back from Seattle and the earliest flight home was by way of Vancouver….
BBC is to be congratulated for a good programme on the special relationship between J K Rowling and Harry Porter aired here last night on channel television. To be fair to BBC, they have produced quite a few quality programmes over the years. Rowling confessed in the documentary that she was never good at handling…
Believe it or not, this used to be my nightmare and I became a sort of expert in something I knew very little of. I came back from Oxford with my young family in the mid Eighties and our first task was to find a flat to live in. Our personal effects were scattered in…
By now, everyone knows who got what Oscars last week. There are therefore no prizes for knowing that A Beautiful Mind got Best Picture and other awards, and that the leading actor Crowe portraying John Forbes Nash, Jr. didn’t get Best Actor. I like watching the Oscars, but this time, I missed all the TV…
It’s April Fools’ Day. Traditions dated two centuries had it that on this day, certain people regarded as intellectually challenged would be sent on fools’ errands from place to place with a letter in which it was written, “On the first day of April, hunt the gowk another mile.” A gowk is a cuckoo and…
