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Yao Jue(姚珏): The True Playful Character Of A Multifaceted Lady Violinist Born In Shanghai, Educated In New York And Living In Hong Kong
25-08-21 I have never seen a lady like Yao Jue (姚珏) having that many multifaceted personalities. She can be elegant, serious, dejected, cheerful, whining, corky and bubbly. An artist is nothing without the personality, but the personality is nothing without quality. She is always one of the kind—with her confidence, talent and faith. I have…
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從上海白玉蘭、紐約玫瑰、到香港洋紫荊，國際小提琴家姚珏花落誰家？
女人像花，城市也像花；女人老了，叫「一朝春盡紅顏老」，城市老了，叫「古色古香」。人，老了豈能回到花樣？但城市老了，可以更新。 一個國際級的女性小提琴家，從白玉蘭的上海，跑到玫瑰的紐約，定居在洋紫荊的香港。姚珏說：「我像花嗎？我只是以香港為家的藝術人！」
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“Artists Have A Value, But Nothing We Know Suggests That!”—How Prudence Mak & Her Famous Cartoon Figure Chocolate Rain Inspire Us In Hong Kong To Believe In Ourselves!
17-08-21 The Elevator Card is a magic effect in which a playing card can return to the top of the deck after being placed elsewhere in the middle of the deck. ‘Talent’ is the Elevator Card of everyone and according to Prudence Mak (麥雅端), the creator of the well-known cartoon Chocolate Rain, there is a…
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「創意難，創意創業更難」，從設計走向藝術的著名「Chocolate Rain」麥雅端
創業，有機會虧錢，若抱薪救火，愈虧愈多，樂觀的人說：「破財消災！」我的友人說：「前天掉了500元，整個晚上不好過。」你又是怎樣的人？ 廣東話是最活潑的語言，有一個形容詞叫「啜核」，即「準確加上過癮」的混合意思；出現這形容詞，是因為廣東人說話坦白，例如香港人形容一個以卡通肖像為主打的設計師，通稱「畫公仔」，血淋淋的直率，也許，世界級的奈良美智和Kaws都算「公仔佬」…
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Age Appears Best In One Thing: Old Wine To Drink. The History Of Wine Culture In Hong Kong Told By Nigel Fong
10-08-21 About 3,000 years ago, a type of Chinese alcoholic beverage Huangjiu(or Yellow Wine黃酒) was made from grains. More than 1,000 years ago, liquor Baijiu or Shaojiu(白酒或燒酒) was made after a process of distillation. It has been the tradition in some of my known families to pass the interest in wine through generation to generation.…
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酒比情濃：酒莊老闆方志基細訴香港酒文化的美麗歷史
據說，酒，最早來自發黴後的果子汁液，到了約三千年前夏商周時，殼物發酵而成的「黃酒」，成為商品。約一千年前的宋代，人們把釀好的酒，再蒸餾提煉和淨化，變成「白酒」，酒精濃度更高。中國的著名黃酒，有女兒紅、西塘、古越樓台；著名的白酒或燒酒，如茅台、五糧液、玉冰燒。 那香港呢？我和「酒專」方志基(Nigel)談了……
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Enjoyable Talk On My New Book Wasted Youth枉少年 With The Best Actor Winner Lam Ka Tung : “Don’t Take Time For Granted As Life Has No Refund Policy”
30-07-21 Wasting time is a feeling which hurts us terribly. Over the past years, I framed justifications in different terms that made my decisions and actions in life more palatable. Self-serving reasons are in fact situational. Sadly for us, coming to recognise your real needs and desires is the luxury of regret when age is…
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香港書展趣談：影帝林家棟人生書本的九章
…有一種鳥，叫Common Swifts(普通樓燕)，英國最多，牠們可以在空中不停飛翔，在過冬遷徙途中，連續10個月也不用着陸，食物是空中的昆蟲、雨水和霧水，連睡覺甚至交配也在飛翔中進行。 我認識一位演員，像Common Swifts，不斷飛呀飛，「勞勞車馬未離鞍」，真怕他「炸爆」生命，他是影帝林家棟…
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Let’s Set Out To Discover The 5 Whys Of It: Incredible Boy Group ‘Mirror CRAZE’ In Hong Kong
10-07-21 ‘For success, it is not about how long you last but how high you can climb. ‘Mirror, mirror on the wall, who’s the fairest of them all?’ Can Mirror last long? In 2018, ViuTV in Hong Kong formed the biggest vocal and dance pop group in the history of Hong Kong, consisting of 12…
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12子Mirror爆紅，香港罕見：成功背後五個「決定論」的為什麼
香港樂壇，一潭死水，突變一池春水。電台主持人森美叫它做「熊熊火光」。 唱跳男團Mirror去到那裏，「千」人空巷；有一次，我在Landmark遇上「鏡仔」活動，水泄不通，要「搵路避」。
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