“So, you’ve gone from being the most affordable port of call for day trippers with no spending power to trying to attract those extremely few high end travellers, but what with? What does Hong Kong have that’s going to get people on a plane and want to come out there when the entire concept of tourism has morphed into something else?” She wasn’t being critical, but being someone I had worked with when in advertising and knowing what Hong Kong was when marketed as “Asia’s wor

I was too young to understand the public outpouring of shock and tremendous sadness when John F Kennedy Jr was assassinated, and only felt something to what had happened listening to my parents and my uncle and aunties talk and talk about what had happened in Dallas. These were the times of black and white television and newspapers and they believed what they were told by a very limited media. When Robert Kennedy was fatally shot, I was a few years older and saw the events un

Once upon a wonton, the television weather man in Hong Kong was an animated character named Freddy who would look up at the sky and either smile, put on his shades and happily walk off frame whistling or when the weather was getting cooler, his teeth would chatter and he would say, “It’s faaaaaaaaaaliiiiiiiiing!”. If Freddy was still around today, he could be used to use this line to describe the standards of everything in Hong Kong, especially creativity though it must be sa