There’s an eerie silence around me these days of my own doing. Maybe, I am wrong- hard to believe, I know- but even those I once loved and some with whom I lived are coming across being less than the sharpest tools in the shed. I am also seeing an appalling lack of inspirational leaders in every industry and with most having mediocre leadership skills and which means being surrounded by subservient hires to do their bidding. Something very important to our lives- creativity-

This isn’t “Cocoon”, no one can reverse the aging process and those in, let’s say, their fifties aren’t exactly stepping up because either they don’t have the leadership skills to turn things around or there’s some kind of old girls and old boys clubs hoarding who does what, meaning that very possibly some very good talent with ideas are shut out. Also shut out is the Hong Kong I love and remember when it was positioned as “Asia’s World City” and really did attract the world

In its own weird and controversial way, the HarbourFest event held in Hong Kong in 2003 was far more entertaining and intriguing than what it set out to be- and I was there for the first briefing session. That was enough. When it comes to entertainment in Hong Kong, one cannot help thinking back to that time and the ambitious event to attract international tourists back to Hong Kong after the crippling SARS crisis. “WE’RE GOING BACK IN TIME, MARTY! “Guided” by the Hong Kong g