I had a rather clean diary for the week that just ended before it began, with just one lunch appointment and two evening meetings at Zetland Hall. I ended up however with meetings for all evenings including last night and a zoom meeting on Tuesday at home with Su preparing her favourite fish sashimi and…
Today is the 32nd Sunday and the scripture readings at Mass are taken from 2 Maccabees, 2 Thessalonians and Luke on Jesus’ response to the Sadducees. My favourite priest friend Robert Ng picked up resurrection and everlasting life as the theme for reflecting on the three readings. Robert reminded his congregation that a key belief…
Three weeks passed since my last blog, during which UK had elected another Prime Minister, while China held its 20th National People’s Congress to confirm and confer a third term on President on XI Jinping. In Hong Kong, the Observatory had a Typhoon Signal No. 8 hoisted the first time in 50 years in November…
Once again, I found that I haven’t uploaded a blog for more than a month; and I had ended the last upload with the hope that I would write one shortly. Suddenly, we are in the last quarter of 2022 with only about ten weeks left. Yesterday, a brother took us to visit his father’s…
I haven’t uploaded a blog for almost one month, even though I have made some notes in between, mainly on the weather, or the hot weather. Today, for example, my phone registered at 2 pm a reading of 36.9 degrees Celsius while the Hong Kong Observatory recorded an all-time high of 35.9 degrees for the…
M. J. Harilela aka Maj published Warriors of the Sun in May this year which he billed as the first of a trilogy meant initially to be his autobiography. Somehow, we became Facebook friends because I was interested in his book which apparently was based on Hong Kong in the Sixties. He told me I…
I had a reasonably quiet week and was only at Kennedy Road twice, for a lunch and a meeting followed by dinner. Su kept herself busy making good food and I have almost used up the government vouchers on sake. We had some weather systems which generated heavy thunderstorms and rainstorms, with tropical cyclone Mulan…
I was so darned correct when I predicted more than two weeks ago by now that my last blog would attract very few visits. Indeed, I could count with half of the fingers on one hand. But that was not the reason I haven’t posted anything since, even though I didn’t like such prophetic correctness…
We had the results of the HKDSE examination announced this week, which indicated that 17,000 plus qualified students would be competing for about 14,000 places in the local universities. Su was reminiscing the days when she had many more students competing for a lot fewer places available in the local universities. In 1982 when she…
Yesterday’s Post Magazine of SCMP included an excerpt of Chris Patten’s latest book The Hong Kong Diaries which was published by Penguin Allen Lane early June 2022, ostensibly to mark the 25th anniversary of the return of sovereignty of Hong Kong to China, which effectively was the last month – June 1997 – he was…
