I began my skiing career in February 2012 when I wrote four Letters from Whistler. I went back to these letters before I started writing this one, and I can’t help telling you that I was somewhat amused by what I had written then and am glad that I had done so. We had paid…
The week the 5-month consultation on electoral reforms ended, Chief Secretary Carrie Lam talked to a meeting of joint Rotary clubs and shared with the audience some personal reflections on the process. It was a rather well attended meeting. I was there; and I was asked afterwards, probably in my capacity as a past governor…
I have never met my grandparents on either side. My mother wrote a manuscript of over 20,000 words in the early Eighties when she was about to be hospitalized for an operation of some sort. She dreaded the process and was afraid she might not survive it. She had our father make copies of what…
We have Labour Day and the Birthday of the Buddha coming up with Saturday and Sunday sandwiched between, so that we can expect some outflow of holiday makers and a corresponding inflow of tourists mainly from the Mainland during this so-called golden week. But already, and rather sadly, the media has roundly reported that Mainland…
Easter has come and gone; and before I could send emails or electronic messages to friends and acquaintances, as I had planned. Increasingly, I find it unrealistic if not impossible to live through plans, which would make me a liver, as opposed to a planner. This liver – planner thing, I recall, was very much…
Last Monday or Tuesday, depending on which city one was in, was a long day indeed for Su and I, but thank God, everything went clockwork and we were home by 8:30pm, just over 24 hours when I got up to make our last breakfast in Whistler. Earlier thoughts of going out for a quick…
Of the 13 full days we were in Whistler, we skied for 11 days, and tomorrow we would catch a coach to Vancouver to fly home. The last two days were sunny and hot, but was cold enough in the mountains for skiing. So Su had us both signed up for skiing lessons with Jungle…
It looks like Whistler can become our second home now. On her way back to the hotel, Su was stopped by someone conducting a survey possibly on tourism, but as soon as the interviewer learnt that she owned property in Whistler, she gave her up, on grounds that Su was a local. Against that background,…
This is my second rest day in as many days after my continuous six-day skiing, under instructions and with Su. The original plan was to rest for one day only, on my birthday, but Su did not think the weather today was conducive to recreational skiing and it rained. We stayed in-door flipping channels often…
First, let me thank all the kind and well meaning birthday messages through Facebook, emails and other electronic means from friends and families, biological, fraternal and social. I value and treasure all of them; and I am very grateful to all of you and I feel good. Yes, I am 66 and skiing; but before…
