With a new byline covering the New Year’s Day race meeting at Shatin and writing about “a slow start to the day” before a “festive atmosphere ultimately drew almost 50,000 spectators including nearly 10,000 from the mainland”, it was hardly any surprise for Winfried Engelbrecht-Bresges, the Hong Kong Jockey Club CEO and official cheerleader to describe the day as “terrific”. Written by someone named Mike Chan, we particularly liked reading this little morsel: “Meanwhile, a re

Though with everything that has happened in the past almost two weeks and a sombre mood still hanging over Hong Kong after the fires in the three blocks of apartments in Tai Po, it’s “interesting” to see that the group known as Now United is suddenly back in the picture, and will be prancing around the racecourse in Happy Valley on HKIJC night with, one supposes, their Gangnam Style Giddyup dance moves. Frankly, Hong Kong needs to get back to some semblance of good times and

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-