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Approaching the Great Wall
Hiking has long been an abiding passion of mine. What started as a cathartic relief from those stress-filled and frustrating days during the Asian Economic Debacle gradually blossomed into unquenching desire to scale almost all the rocky heights around the Pearl of the Orient. From Victoria's Peak to the Dragon's Back ... from Tai Mo Shan to ( Read more... ) -
At the Dragon's heart ...
OK, I'm here ... at the heart of where America's "Strategic Competitor" lies. More on this later ... -
Saddling up and Northward Ho!
Well, I finally finished with the initial moving & packing prior to my "Greap Leap Northward" next week. Many years ago, I reflected on my past epoch in Canada as "Forgetting the country but missing the people". Ironically, I would have to reverse my stance on latest soujourn in HK as "Ignoring the people but admiring the city ( Read more... ) -
Well... EXXXXcuuuuSSe MMMEEEEE!
As this city's humidex reached a new high recently, its hygiene and civility index must have inversely hit an all time low this afternoon. I was rushing across the neighborhood mall to get a fast haircut when this shabbily-clothed elderly gentlemen popped out of the blue and of course blocked my ongoing path.
Thanks to my nibble footwork & upper ( Read more... ) -
Loneliness of a Mid-Distance Hiker
Noel Coward once mused,"... Only Mad Dogs & Englishmen go out into the mid-day sun." Well, he's only 2/3 correct ... avid hardcore hikers would not only dare to but also bask in the glory of 34C sunshine for over 3 hours! Having scowered the wild trails of HK island, a significant portion of the Kowloon peninsula and the outback boonies of the New ( Read more... ) -
Of Tarots and Choices ...
The musings of the Tarot card reader puzzled me yesterday afternoon. I wasn't enranged from the dire warnings in the cards or overwhelmed from any resulting bad premonition but its nasty interpretation casted a foreboding shadow over the apparent "ease" & "simplicity" of my goals for the next 12 months. The collection of swords and a striken tower ( Read more... ) -
Free ... Free At Last ... Thank Gawd Almighty ... I'm Free At Last!
After over a decade in the wage slave camps of SEA and NA, I'm finally liberated. Events had been set in motion that shall hopefully remove these mental chains of administrative serfdom and finally release that monetary "carrot ( Read more... ) -
And the sun also rises ...
Yaaarrgghh ... sooo late tonight.
I need a fresh face rather than well-worn unshaven mug of a failed Latino martyr; hence, I offer the defiant woodblock from the wild & woolly days of the Great Proletariat Cultural Revolution (as inspired from the recent urban protests against the rising sun).
'Nuff said.