It took me over a year to pull together the first blogpost about flying business class from HK to NY, and another couple of months for the wider journey itself. So all things considered, a nearly 2 year delay for this vlog is really not that bad. Anyhow, here's the aforementioned vlog of the farewell… Continue reading First vlog
Hong Kong Hong Kong's endless labyrinth of overpasses, underpasses, subways and walkways has always been a source of great fascination. A complex jumble of public space, privately-owned access ways, shopping malls and office lobbies all pulled together not by pedestrian walkways (as they are usually connected in other countries) but by the mass of flyovers… Continue reading Over and under
The Peninsula New York first caught my eye after I spotted that it always seemed to be flying the Hong Kong flag (which was a welcome sign having just moved to New York). I was obviously aware of the famous Hong Kong Peninsula Hotel, responsible for some cool high-tea experiences and even a helicopter tour… Continue reading The Peninsula New York
In a city that is known (infamously) for its frenetic pace and efficiency (I've literally heard people complain that the Hongkanese 'walk too quickly' - it's just normal for us), one of my favourite modes of transportation is actually the slowest. The Hong Kong tram is really a historical relic, tracing what was once the… Continue reading ‘Ding ding’ – Slow and steady
HK Squad Alexandra Uy-Tioco Jenny Kim Zachary Too Rachel Lang Nicole Wong Edgar Cheng Kyle Chong Lauren Tse Valerie Choi Coaching team: Harish Natatajan, Jason Xiao, and Janko Djordjevic. HK Development Squad Nadia Venetz Advik Sharma Kong Sai Hang, Nicholas Jeanine Cheng Regina Uy-Tioco David Hong Yao Yue Seng Ellisha Nick Shi Moses Lai Evan… Continue reading WSDC 2023 – Hong Kong Squad
Having lived in Hong Kong for so many years, these photoshopped images of the place by Tommy Fung (surrealhk) are simultaneously familiar and (well) surreal at the same time. Tommy Fung was born in Hong Kong in 1979. At the age of nine he moved with his family to Maracaibo, Venezuela. There he studied Graphic… Continue reading Is this still Hong Kong?
Preamble: This is a much delayed post, but one should never waste old (even slightly bad) writing, so here's the ins and outs as I swapped HK for NY in July of 2021, the 'before' to the business-class flight itself. Flying during COVID was less freakish than I had imagined, though probably a good thing… Continue reading Hollowed-out HKIA
Now that debates are more often than not held as online activities, it seems to both make it much easier to record and share debates as well as ruin some of the joys and fun of being able to meet-up physically with debaters from different environments and settings. In any event, The International Debate Education… Continue reading WSDC 2022 – Videos
https://m.youtube.com/watch?v=wGMF0UnYOVg A story that hit close to the heart - Matthew is only a year or two older than I, and many other parallels. Been thinking about emigration and relocation a lot recently, reflecting on the past year or so, so this was a fitting piece to pop up on my radar. Admittedly not quite… Continue reading ‘Because I Choose FREEDOM’
I used to keep a stash of business-class airline meal booklets on the shelf in my office (the shelf basically contained a random collection of items, none of which were deemed valuable enough to keep, but which I couldn’t bring myself to throw away either). I’ve never understood the economics of a business-class flight and… Continue reading Business class but not for business
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