I left off in the last blog with a note that we were off to Taiwan. We did indeed spend altogether eight days there, mostly eating and drinking, indulging ourselves with Michelin starred or recommended eateries, primarily Japanese inspired. They were cheap by Hong Kong standard, but were probably not generally affordable by the locals….
April has become my Birthday and Anniversary Month. Facebook sent me reminders and photos on what happened in the first week of past years and I was somewhat amused with some of the postings. I was responsible for scripture readings at Ricci Hall in the first week of April this year and I am now…
I was away for most of March staying in Vancouver and Whistler with Su all the time, returning early in the morning on Good Friday. While we were away, we kept in touch with friends in HK and elsewhere mainly through our hand phones which were more than adequate for most purposes. I was hoping…
I can’t resist not uploading something today, 29 February, which recurs only once in four years. There was a time when it was very well known that Baroness Dunn was born on 29 February 1940 meaning that she could and maybe would only celebrate her birthday every four years, but that is not the point…
I had lunch last Wednesday with a group of friends in the Rotary community, all of whom I had known for some 25 year. It was meant to be a mini reunion of the close friends I met when I was Governor of the RI District 3450 (or DG) in the year 2000 when there…
Before I know, we are a week into another Chinese New Year, this time the Year of the Dragon, now more fashionably known as the Year of the Loong. Going through a Chinese New Year used to be big deal for most families. The rituals began at least a week before the year started, with…
I left off in my last blog in a state of thankfulness, having just returned the day before from Malaysia with a bandaged head and surmising how lucky I was that the fall had not apparently inflicted more serious injury. Prompted by my post on FB, Su posted another follow-up blog, the graphics and narratives…
We were in Melaka from 30 January, staying for two nights in a boutique hotel called Liu Men, and returned home last night. It was part of a trip to Malaysia, primarily to Kuala Lumpur, with some Rotary leaders from Hong Kong to visit their counterparts in Singapore, Brunei and Malaysia, to update each other…
I first learnt of this Latin phrase and its reply “Et cum spiritu tuo” as an altar boy maybe when I was 12 in Wah Yan College. After Vatican II, the Catholic Church introduced substantial changes, some rather dramatic, including conducting Masses in local languages, and in our case, in English and Chinese. The two…
