Monthly Archives: February 2010

The Flame in Your Heart

I. Labyrinth Macau is a catacomb above ground, alleys mate and marry, magically reproduce, their offspring more tiny lanes that seem to lead you further down an impossible maze. You can get lost here. What good fortune if we did, I thought. Good riddance to Life as we knew it, no more jobs to return

A Chinese Valentine

Today is the first day of the Chinese New Year. So I am back in my hometown, celebrating it with my family, reunion dinner and red packets and lunar cookies (kookies?). Today is Valentine’s Day and so you are invited to dinner with your boss, a candlelit meal prepared by his girlfriend for three. A

Little Tokyo

I love living in metropolitan cities and I love visiting them too. You can find everything and anything in cities like these, as different cultures crash and wash over each other, the sounds of life emerging from the babble of a hundred voices — it’s something, strangely enough, that you can recognise wherever you go.

Let’s Meet at the Park

I think it’s called Serendipity. Or A Very Unexpected and Delightful Coincidence. (Definitely not Irony, whatever Ms. Morissette may claim.) We had just watched this newsreel on TV about how a group of HK youth was helping to revamp the Hong Kong Park by morphing Internet brands into … well, into something that could help