Maybe I will start by giving my 2024 Year Ender a sub-title – Four Funerals and A Wedding – to sort of set the scene. Anthony, a Wah Yan 63 classmate, died in May after a short hospitalization, almost unannounced and certainly untimely. In November, my sister Margaret passed way after staying in hospitals for…
I had made notes a couple of times on what I intended to write since I uploaded my last blog almost a month ago, including a few flowing from two books by Kishore Mahbubani – Living the Asian Century, and Has the West Lost It? – bought from Amazon which arrived ahead of time and…
That was a take from one of the serialized interviews with global thought leaders by SCMP’s OPEN QUESTIONS; and in this particular case, with Kishore Mahbubani (KM) on “his thoughts on what the West gets wrong about China, Asean’s inconsistency and why the United States should prepare for No. 2 status in the world.” I…
Today, we had lunch with our godson Will, his younger brother Matt and their parents. It was our first outing after I was out of hospital, apart from the visit to my doctor’s clinic last Thursday. The children picked up my two latest blogs on my hospital stay and Will went on to demonstrate his…
I left off at the end of Day Two after I woke up from general anesthesia – my first ever experience in my life – and uploaded the blog to keep its length reasonably readable, which attracted more than 60 likes in two hours, and by now, over 130 and still counting, as compared to…
I left off last time with a hopeful note that I would talk to you after the operation; and here I am, alive and kicking, well, almost. We were told to check in Union Hospital at 4 pm on Monday 23 September. Wary that taxis might be difficult to catch at 4 pm and as…
A few friends had asked me whether and when I would write a sequel to my first memoir published in January 2021, which was not exactly a best seller, judging from the space taken up by the left-over stock languishing at my mini-storage. But the few friends who had checked out my website for whatever…
I left off in my last blog with a teaser implying that I would go for an “optional” operation soon. I have since received quite a few inquiries asking for more details and also many get-well messages from well wishers to whom I am very grateful. Let me quickly go through the whole thing, for…
Kishore Mahbubani – who published Has China Won? in 2020 – spoke on YouTube in a recent interview that he agreed with Niall Ferguson that the United States could well be the new Soviet Union. Interestingly, Mahbubani referred to Ferguson as a conservative American thinker, when of course the latter was knighted by King Charles…
I left off in my last blog with a note that I would visit the Specialist Clinic at QEH, which I did; and I am grateful that a few friends had taken notice and asked me separately what transpired. I thank all these kind souls and let me make a brief report here. QEH L…
