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…
Last week marked the nineth anniversary of our having moved to Mei Foo, or as some friends had said, the dark side with the prophecy that we would be moving back to the Hong Kong side anytime. Well, we didn’t and it doesn’t seem likely that we would, not in the near future, despite the…
This is the title for a series of documentaries on the 2019 Anti-extradition Law Amendment Bill Movement, produced by British director Malcolm Clarke, two-time Oscar winner for Best Documentary Short Film and a 16-time Emmy award winner. Malcolm said in the first episode that he was producing ten short films to document what he saw…
I had lined up a breakfast and a lunch today and possibly a dinner, but as Chaba developed into a severe tropical storm last night, necessitating the Observatory to hoist the No. 8 Typhoon Signal, the first for the year, I turned to the keyboard to recall and record some thoughts since my last blog…
Amy – Amy Leung Oi Mui – was President of the Rotary Club of Bayview Sunshine in the year I was Governor of the District, when we had 49 clubs, 42 in Hong Kong, six in Macau and one in Mongolia; and she was one of the seven lady presidents. Every governor always has a…
Mark began to organize a party around Winter Solstice of 2021, based on a list used by Alice for a party of six a few months before. He fixed a date for 16 January 2022 at a new restaurant in HKJC. Things were looking good until there was a kerfuffle which saw many top officials…
I have borrowed today’s SCMP headline in this blog because I think it is rather appropriate. Su and I came out of yet another staycation today; and Su decided last minute to re-visit Mandarin Oriental because Four Seasons won’t offer much under such foul weather. Besides, their restaurants were all booked up and expensive. The…
Su and I came out of another staycation yesterday. We had lunch in the hotel – which was part of a packaged fare of four items, viz., breakfast, lunch, afternoon tea and hors-d’oeuvres each of which can be consumed once on either of the two days, together between the two of us – which was…
It is amazing that four months had passed as if nothing had happened in between. Outside Hong Kong, apart from China, many cities and countries have started behaving as if the coronavirus had gone or had been dealt with. People in Europe and North America are no longer wearing masks, and so on. My friend…
