Humor

For those of you who like the witty hashtag on Twitter (or X, or whatever you call that), you should have heard of Jimmy Fallon who likes to tweet movie or song title, add one word to change the meaning and tag it to ask for more suggestions. Those humor habits with social media users could have started with Jaz-Z who hashtagged #mylaugh years ago.

If you're anything like me (bad news: you are), you might be less obsessed with hashtag and more old


Seven

Ten years ago, I read the book Made to Stick , enthralled. This week, I read another book of Chip Heath: Making Number Counts . This is even more entertaining.

The best secret to take away from this book is nobody really understands numbers. We can recognize 1, 2, and 3 at a glance, or 5 if we’re lucky. But after that, we can’t picture the numbers past 5, and would much prefer to know that the 2020 Australian wildfires affecting

Ten

Each year, then Nature 's 10 list highlights the stories of people behind major science development over the past year. That's the top 10 stories of science, technology, engineering and medicine, which are shaping our world.

There are countless top 10 topics at the end of each December. Think of your top 10 lists, or even top 10 school acquaintances, top 10 Instagram posts.

For my rankings, I like to rate the top 10 books I have read each


Recovery

Many people fall in love with running and travel at the same time. Ask those Aussies running from Bondi to Coogee beaches and you know what I mean. The equivalent for Hong Kong runners would be the iconic MacLehose Trail stretching from San Kung to Tuen Mun.

After my fall injury at another trail one week ago, I decided to take a break and slow down. That's part of the reason I went for a walk – instead of run – along the Section 4 of the MacLehose Trail today. The chance


Reunion

Long gone were the days when my daughter's friends stay close all the time. Long gone was even the thought of a reunion.

Their friends and classmates go everywhere, from Malaysia to Ottawa. I started my morning round a quarter past seven this morning, as I wished to join her reunion with friends returning for winter break. The four of them had been studying the same class since kindergarten. Two of them study in the same school now, and two in Canada.

Am I hearing their laughter after all


Wedding

Oh, to be a reader during festive holiday. Just don't want to have topics that are too serious.

As previously recommended by the New York Times , the story by Alison Esbach gives us the option of learning through books rather than lecture courses. Her new novel The Wedding People is a deeply satisfying one.

The comedic plot of a week-long wedding party, in a nineteenth-century hotel sitting on the edge of a cliff at Rhode Island, isn't to crack jokes but to engage in

Choice

If there’s a rule in our life task, I suppose it would be best gleaned from the Grant Study, which followed the lives of hundreds of Harvard-educated men. That is a longitudinal study tracking people all the way from undergraduate class to their death, decades later.

In his book How To Know a Person , the New York Times Opinion columnist David Brooks described the study findings and mentioned how a person moves from core task to a leadership position. A teacher in the classroom, for instance, goes

Body

The biggest joy with trail running comes from putting one leg ahead of another on rugged terrain. The biggest mistake is going too quick, as I learned yesterday from the training with my running partner along the Hong Kong Trail. With lush green shaded paths, imposing panoramic views of beach, reservoirs and isles, it's hard to pass up the opportunity if you're ever given one, and more so if the partner happens to be a kidney transplant patient of mine. And whilst first-timers might feel more

Ride

Listen: Jasmine has turned fifteen.

She has come up with her own way to celebrate her birthday this year. Her idea to ride bike for 20 kilometres along the waterfront is a special way to hang out with friends.

A dad or mum knows very well this means fun for teenagers exclusively. We simply offered backup for the girls: we figured out the way to gather enough bikes for six of them (including Locobike from bike-sharing provider), the means to transport the bikes to the starting point,


Wonderland

Long ago, when I first visited Long Valley in the northern part of Sheung Shui, I was fascinated by this astonishingly beautiful freshwater agricultural wetland habitat. This is virtually synonymous with birds' paradise.

The little and great egrets, grey herons, white wagtails, and sandpipers have kept me coming back with my camera. Arguably the cutest water bird, the black-winged stilt is a species that is delightful to watch and take pictures. I enjoy hearing them calling, watching them swing bills side to side in water for