A few weeks ago we had a seaside hotel stay with another family who are good friends of mine. We had known each other since school days, the sort of friendship that you can find in Hogwarts School. Our plan to go kayaking had come to naught last time because of tropical cyclone.
We scheduled our kayak trip today.
Choosing to paddle in the open water is not my usual modus operandi. But the aquamarine waters of Sai Kung is attractive in its own way. Braving the hot weather, we brought along
I came to learn about two types of flower this week. Tulip and jasmine.
One of them is my wife's favorite and another one my daughter. One closes its petals shut at night, another blooms at night.
Day-blooming tulips need daytime pollinators because their pollen is best transferred when dry. In essense, tulips shut the door at the first sign of rain or darkness to maximise the best chance of seeding.
Night-blooming jasmine, on the other hand, has learned to open their petals at
This week I am supposed to be giving three lectures in a conference held in Singapore. But it's been a pretty difficult time to travel. I realized the question wasn't so much how inconvenient our city's hotel quarantine period can be, but how on earth we can guarantine coming back on time.
I decided offering recorded lectures. Instead of travel outside Hong Kong, I had a family vacation in a theme park with my daughter's classmate. Oh yes, I'm fairly certain I
As I was going to take two days off for a family trip, the city logged more than seventy imported cases of malaria. Not an auspicious beginning.
Then, at one point, we had to cancel one of the kayak trips because of thunderstorm. One gratifying part about our holiday, however, is the chance to have a sunny day despite a looming tropical cyclone. We stayed in a lovely ocean-side resort which works out great for us, even when we are not beach people.
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Travel is extremely gratifying on every level. Heading into our third summer of travel restriction, one way or another, we were discovering our means to have school break. Or stepping off the hamster wheel, if I could, to nibble some cheese and watch the world go by (but emails still come in, I know).
No sooner had we completed this thought, than right in our mind, we came up the idea of taking walk at Victoria Peak and Lantau Trail. Those are two of our favourite tracks
Doctors - or medical students, for that matter - wouldn't come close to Barack Obama in terms of reading materials.
Except novels.
"It was important to pick up the occasional novel during the presidency," Obama told the interviewer a few days before leaving office in 2017. Reading memos and proposals every day, according to the first African-American president of the United States, makes a lopsided analytical brain that has lost track of the depth of fiction. Fiction should therefore be a way of
Switching back and forth, as any neuroscientist will tell us, is not efficient. I'm biased and like to multitask, but that doesn't make it less true.
Absurd as it may sound, I'm typically reading four or five books at once. For novel, I tend to read one at a time. Right now I'm reading Love Anthony . That's a two-fold story about two characters whose lives intersect. Two mothers, one of whom raised a boy with autism
The way Hong Kong's iconic Jumbo Floating Restaurant sinking like Titanic is sad. But nothing earth-shattering, if you ask me, when compared to the story of my friend who can't make it to go on board the boat today.
That's a boat party she missed. Not an impromptu party, but a boat party she planned after her diagnosis of stomach cancer. Flecks of cancer had already broken free of her bleeding stomach, floating off into her body. Her liver first. And then
In my quest to help my patients, I do my utmost to keep them alive and safe. Not a must for some patients.
So. What happened?
One of my good friends - and my patient - died tonight. Kübler-Ross was hovering over the room when I brought my daughter and her classmate to say farewell. For an instant we were wired together and humming, like two engines on the same circuit. I began to feel a lump in my throat. Okay, I whimpered. We