April has always been a busy month for us, with birthdays and anniversaries, Holy Week and Easter, and what not. Looking back, I had not uploaded any blogs for nearly two months, primarily because we had been away on forced leave, mainly in Whistler, and also due to inertia. I actually made sufficient notes on…
I began writing this blog two days after she passed away – on Monday 18 November last year (2024) – by which time she had not returned to her home in Pokfulam for more than four months. She had been diagnosed with a cancer relapse and a tumor had developed in her brain which had…
Su has a habit of shifting the furniture in the flat from time to time, almost always by herself and of her own will and accord, to suit some new purposes which had arisen, but often to create more room for maneuvering. To enable the new year blossoms to catch more sunlight, for example, she…
The experience of travelling and dining in the two day-trips to Futian in mid-January had turned Su into a genuine believer of the food and service qualities over there. On New Year Eve and New Year Day, Su was chatting enthusiastically with her siblings over the two meals at Laguna City and together, they hatched…
Immediately after I had uploaded the last blog, Su noticed that I had missed out quite a few events in that edition that she thought were significant. She even questioned whether it signaled the onset of Alzheimer. In response, I said that the list was meant to be indicative of our busy scheduled during that…
As I looked out from my modest study with a glass in hand on a bright and sunny Sunday afternoon and looking at my last bog which was almost exactly a month to date minus one, I couldn’t help asking myself why I hadn’t uploaded anything in between. Well, the answer to the question won’t…
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…
