Nothing against the Baker’s dozen called Mirror, but how exactly this singing and dancing boyband is going to work as “anti-pandemic...

Anyone anywhere in the world who knows anything about marketing and advertising would know that the “easiest” and most obvious “strategy”...

I remember watching television with my then-wife Trina on the day of The Handover. This was on June 30, 1997 when the official transfer...

There might have been one of those rare- and also pretty empty- Sunday afternoon race meetings at Happy Valley in Hong Kong, but this was...

It’s been questioned and criticised and analysed for around three years. Now, during these Groundhog days of social distancing and...

The world is desperately in need of whatever you might want to call it- a reboot, a makeover, a Renaissance period, newness, chutney, a...

While the casinos in Macau crash and burn with their share prices worth billions going up in flames, thoughts turn to Robert Ho, number...

Adulthood can often be a tough place to live. It’s where you find yourself confronting many truths about yourself and perhaps for the...

Spent something like two weeks on a Lloyd Trestino liner called Asia, below, with my parents and playing shuffleboard with a couple of...

If things were already starting to change, Sir leaving us has changed everything going on about and around me. It’s put many things into...

It was 1983 and during the casting session for a new and pretty ambitious McDonald’s commercial titled “Steppin’ Out”. Michael Jackson...

It certainly looks like 2022 is going to be another strange year for the world when, like that Jimmy Cliff song, we seem destined to be...

You stayed with her cos she smelled so good And you loved her every touch Music played every time she talked in And through her smile you...

“And so this is Christmas, and what have you done? Another year over, a new one just begun”. John and Yoko/Plastic Ono Band, the Harlem...

It’s not writer’s block, but some things, like the Longines Hong Kong International Races yesterday at Shatin, are almost impossible to...

Maybe it’s just me, but the Road Runner and Wile E Coyote have been giving us life lessons for decades. Beep beep. So have Porky Pig and...

I was in advertising and writing some copy when there was a call from (Cantopop pioneer) Sam Hui. “Have you heard about John Lennon?” he...

It’s unfortunate that growing up often means losing one’s imagination and no longer believing in magic and all that’s associated with...

Sometimes we need to be reminded about what Hong Kong once was to see the journey this barren rock has taken to become one of the most...

You don’t choose Christmas to break off a relationship. Actually there’s no “good time” to break off anything. Things just happen,...