Time Travel
In Hong Kong, we recently celebrated the Ching Ming festival, an annual commemoration of ancestors and, consequently, a poignant time of year…
Read more →After graduating in 1982 Ben worked throughout the UK before an unlikely adventurous disposition led him to Nigeria, India, Japan and Hong Kong. Between each of those overseas assignments he had attempted repatriation with varying degrees of ‘success’; the last of which occurred in 2004 when he and his partner returned from Hong Kong for what they considered to be a permanent move, only to return to Hong Kong years later. The exotic misdemeanours inherent in that first expatriate period (1984-2004) together with various Asian sojourns and activities, contributed to a series of travel journal scribbles which eventually morphed in to the book Chartered Territory – An Engineer Abroad.
In Hong Kong, we recently celebrated the Ching Ming festival, an annual commemoration of ancestors and, consequently, a poignant time of year…
Read more →One very intriguing aspect of living in a place like Hong Kong is that you often find yourself treading niftily between parallel…
Read more →…and the livin’ is, well, not exactly easy but manageable with the requisite forbearance needed when living in these parts. Yes, after…
Read more →Forget the likes of Lagerfeld, Gaultier, and McQueen, for this year’s Spring Collection has been effortlessly upstaged, of course you all know…
Read more →One of the odd things about living in Hong Kong is that I get the chance to wish you all a happy…
Read more →Although several nations have endured a bout of election fever recently, we in little Hong Kong have enjoyed our moment in the…
Read more →Well, since my last missive we appear to have become the world’s capital of protest and riot, edging out the good people…
Read more →Protest march, rally, riot, violence, revolution of our time, liberate Hong Kong, democracy, f**k the po-po, are not the sort of words…
Read more →Growing up in 1960s England, the term Umbrella Movement could only mean one thing: The Avengers TV series and its suave hero,…
Read more →Have you ever found yourself in the midst of a teeming conurbation and wondered, somewhat despairingly, where on earth do all these…
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