Pigging Out
One of the problems of living in Hong Kong, though not everybody would see it as such, is that barely four weeks…
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.
One of the problems of living in Hong Kong, though not everybody would see it as such, is that barely four weeks…
Read more →Okay, maybe not Greek but the subject of Chinese had me spouting similarly when I first landed in Asia many years ago,…
Read more →No, I’m not talking about the unsociable aftermath of last night’s aloo gobi; I refer to an atmospheric disturbance, believe it or…
Read more →The most expensive place to live screams yet another annual report on expat living. Really? I’m not sure. In fact I sometimes…
Read more →In Hong Kong we know summer’s arrived when clothing sticks and dragons emerge, not real ones obviously but those wooden versions intended…
Read more →As a spotty-faced, teenage oik, I’d no idea engineering would take me halfway round the world. So in marking the 200th anniversary…
Read more →With jumbo-sized poignancy an amusing thought struck me recently; and it was all to do with the very spot on which I…
Read more →No, not you! But if that is your alarm clock I can hear ringing even from here then perhaps you ought, you’ll…
Read more →Well, that’s easy: in fact everyone does and especially at this time of year. You’ll notice them all over the place. Of…
Read more →‘Would you like to work for us in Hong Kong?’ Well? Would you? Will you? It was a question put to me…
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