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‘Lamma IV’, A Tragic Maritime Disaster Dragging On For 11 Years In Hong Kong: Why Did The Court Of Appeal Decide, After Numerous Investigations And Hearings, That A Death Inquest Would Dig Out The Mysteries Of 39 Deaths? What Is The Legal Principle Of ‘Public Interest’?
06-08-23 On the night of 1st October 2012, the shocking maritime disaster took place when 2 passenger vessels the Sea Smooth (a public ferry) and the Lamma IV (a private boat) collided near Lamma Island. After the collision, the Sea Smooth remained afloat and nobody died. Horribly, Lamma IV sank within 118 seconds, killing 39…
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Causeway Bay: The Fascinating History Of ‘The Diamond Of Hong Kong’, From Coffee Farm To Simple And Innocent Residential Area With Warehouses In The 1950s, As Recollected By A Barrister David Lai
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Stories & Memories: True Meaning Of A Happy Birthday?
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Expensive Branded Goods In Hong Kong—Falling in Love & Breaking Up
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How To Achieve ‘Work-life Balance’? Different Angles To Change Your Balance Perspectives!
28-02-23 Less is more? More is less? What is the right ‘balance’ when we live? Work? Life? Self? Others? Between the 2,3 or even more kinds of values in life, can we really calculate and divide these abstract values such as achievement, meaning and happiness; and multiply the result by a percentage? 50:50%? 20:80%? 30:70%?…
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The Story Of The 1st Impresario In Hong Kong Mr Harry Odell, His Empire Theatre (璇宮戲院) & To Be Continued尚未完場, The Touching Film About This Jewish Man
An ‘impresario’ is a person who organizes and finances concerts, plays and operas. Art intermediaries are important. They make the availability of art performances much more accessible for the public. A good impresario knows well the audience and their needs. Mr Harry Odell, a Jewish man, was born in 1896. He came to live in…
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The Interplay Of 3 Theories ‘Pareto Principle’, ‘Pendulum Effect’ And ‘Spiritual Awakening’ Among The Young People: A Positive Hong Kong Future!
21-12-22 I am a believer of Galileo’s ‘pendulum effect’ and Pareto’s ‘80/20 rule’. I particularly believe so after the social disturbance of 2019 and COVID-19 pandemic from 2020 to 22 in Hong Kong. Life swings like pendulum backward and forward: between happiness and pain, hope and frustration, and activeness and passiveness. Some said the past…
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The 10 Adversities Of West Kowloon Cultural District In The Past & Its 3 Future Shots At Hong Kong’s Cultural Ambitions
10-10-22 National government wants Hong Kong to be a cultural exchange centre. Path to success is full of frustrations and setbacks. Failure does not matter but regret does. Let us not judge West Kowloon Cultural District (WKCD西九文化區) by how many times it fell down in the past, but by how many times it will be…
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Political Stereotypes, A Cognitive bias—The Prevailing ‘Blue’ & “Yellow’ Colour Label Against A Person In Hong Kong
A ‘stereotype’ is a perception, for quicker and easier self-reference, about a person or group of people, likely relates to the negative feelings about them. Such a prejudice is often based on the past bad experience and rooted in the idea that these types of people are less trustworthy or more unreasonable than others. Examples…
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Rebound For Life Is What Happens When Other People Are Busy Crying And You Are Busy Making New Plans After A Catastrophe—Historical Devastations Which Have Almost Killed Hong Kong Since 1950s
