You like your fish spicy? Originally uploaded by kwong It’s always a mouth numbing experience to eat at this Sichuan restaurant in Shenzhen, China.
Only a few weeks ago I was showing my sister on her iPhone our mom’s home in Honolulu in Street View. She asked if we can do it in Hong Kong and I told her no. Just last week I learned that Street View now works in Hong Kong, and it looks great on the [...]
I am a huge fan of Tim Ferriss’s book, The 4-Hour Workweek, Expanded and Updated. I bought the first edition in 2007, and last week I bought the new edition in the Kindle book format. I talked about it here. I am using the Kindle app on my iPhone to read it, but it takes [...]
Wow, I finally got around to buying refills for my space pen. I started running out of ink a year ago, and cursed and complained each time I wrote in my Moleskine when it ran out of ink. Yet, I kept up the insanity till today, when I finally took the effort to go to [...]
May 2009 be the year of recovery for all!
It’s near Chinese New Year, and if you think the global recession is affecting consumers and businesses in Hong Kong, you’d be wrong. Everywhere I go, there are tons of people. I’ve been trying to get tickets to watch The Curious Case of Benjamin Button for two days in a row, but they’re sold out, [...]
“Invest in and for the future. Right now. Pass it on.”
It’s 12:30AM in Hong Kong, and I’m getting ready to go over to my friend’s house to watch President Obama’s Inaugural Address. All the TV stations here will be broadcasting the event live. I don’t remember ever getting this excited over any president giving out talks to the public in the past. Let us all [...]
It’s a new year. A new day. Though 2008 was a year of losses, I’m still thankful for the much that I have left. I am also thankful the global crisis hit early in my life, where I can still recover, and learn the signs to stay away from the next one. Not so lucky [...]
2008 has been a year of big losses for me, at least financially. I lost big on my properties, and even bigger on my stocks. Yet, I am only one of the many casualties of the global economic crisis. Never have I experienced anything that hit so swiftly, so hard. Sure, I read about it [...]