There were plenty of fireworks on the track during the Longines HKIR day at Shatin last Sunday. It’s tiring just thinking about it. There were the wins of Voyage Bubble, Romantic Warrior, the facile win that was almost an exhibition gallop by Ka Ying Rising- what did they beat?- a protester who nearly stopped the running of the Hong Kong Cup before being tackled to the ground, and the kinda odd Jesus Moment by the Club’s CEO who, as usual, described this year’s event, too, as

When everything else fails, there’s always music, and to be specific, the music of the Beatles with detours into their solo work and everything that’s out there today on YouTube about how they created and produced what they did all those years ago and never ages. A few days ago, out popped a lovely new video for George’s song “Give Me Love” that’s gorgeous. Maybe it’s even Georgeous. It’s not one of my favourite songs by “Hari Georgeson”, but watching the effort that the team

The reason why the standards of creativity have dropped is largely because those involved in the creative process that results in the creative product don’t know that standards have dropped. Somewhere along the way, the savvy and maverick thinking of “Mad Man” Don Draper, where many of his ideas and presentation skills were built around the innate ability to know how to read the room, and intuitively know where the pieces fit, most of which have disappeared from what used to