HK Food & Thoughts
Welcome to my blog!
I share my Hong Kong experience, places and foods in Hong Kong and Macau, thoughts on faith and things I couldn’t figure out.
I hope you like them, get stimulated, provoked, and then comment.
Be warned: it is a blog of a babyboomer with Christian background, with all the baggage.
所有花朵,不管甚麼品種,生長時都朝一個方向:太陽!不僅是太陽花!植物學家當然有他們細緻入微的解釋。我不懂這門學科,沒甚麼好說的。我只是思考:花兒朝太陽生長,對於創造有何啟示呢?
曾經有人向小說家倪匡提問,當他在三藩市首度學習英語時,有否因為自己不諳英語而感到不如人。他的回答斬釘截鐵:「誰在乎!」舊約聖經有另外三個字,也許比上述三個字力量更強:「誰知道」……
All flowers, regardless of kinds, all turn towards one direction: the sun! Not just sunflowers! Botanists of course have fulsome explanations. I’m not qualified, so will keep quiet. What I ponder is this: What does the fact that flowers invariably do that say about the creation?
Ravens are unclean and detestable, the case is closed. Who would touch them? No one would use them! But perhaps God! It’s recorded that the prophet Elijah was fed by foods brought by none other than ravens! There’s hope for someone like or labelled as ravens …
When the novelist Ngai Hong (倪匡) was asked if he had felt bad about his English when he first learned it while in San Francisco, his answer was brutal: WHO CARES! Two other words that perhaps have a stronger force are found in the Old Testament: WHO KNOWS …
“Several decades later we shall meet.” Those were my dad’s final words. Recently my younger brother recalled: “Just before she passed away in the hospital, mother kept asking me to pray for her to go to heaven.” Guess humans nearing the end have a built-in longing to be there …
2019 年年底,新冠肺炎在武漢爆發。任何當時在香港的人,都會記得那段活像恐怖片情節的日子,那種持續的恐懼揮之不去。就在這可怕的氛圍之中,有點事情發生,值得我們記錄下來……
「我們生活、行動、存在都在於他。」這句話據說是希臘克里特詩人埃庇米尼得斯(Epimenides)所說的。這幅圖畫與母親節相當吻合。試想。我們豈非時常聽到「自然之母」(Mother Nature)的稱呼嗎?
End of 2019, Covid was exploding in Wuhan. Anyone who was in HK then must recall the movie like scenes with lingering fear. Right in the middle of this scary movie, something worth remembering took place …
“For in him we live and move and exist.” A saying often attributed to the Cretan poet Epimenides (circa 6th century BC). And on Mother’s Day it is apt. Imagine. Haven’t we often heard of Mother Nature?
I always imagine a photograph showing an 80 year old talking in a 100 year old HK tram over her cellphone to her grand children in overseas captures perfectly human achievement in our life, through a phone …
Nowadays IT is powerful and convenient. Say you are looking for hotels in San Francisco. So you can set FILTERS of prices … But then why doesn’t Amazon give prospective customers a FILTER that says “MADE IN”?
Lots of ministries, those which have long been getting less resources than preaching and teaching, for reasons still unknown and unjustified. These are summed up as Caring Ministry, which to me are really “pastoral” …
Trump, a US President faraway from HK as a target for a HK Christian theology professor in a Government funded University is way too rich whilst the HK political leaders who mucked up HK since 2019, and especially those who …
This is a heart-felt message from an old timer. Years ago, a well respected retired Bible Professor told me he had one major regret: that his ministry was at the expense of him attending church without his wife for many years …
This is a piece of recent news with a strange twist. That’s how HK churches usually pick their leaders, and in this case deacons, in the Catholic Church. This piece will explore how far secularism has eaten into the core of churches …
I know the classic Christian doctrine that repentance is the only path to forgiveness. Even when you repent just before you die, even if you can’t do penance, but you must confess your sins. The suggestion that God’s mercy having been widened to those who haven’t repent, seems like colouring outside the lines …
It would be hard to be sure if she was surprised. This guest Jesus knew what she was doing! Not only let her do it. But he knew why! Clearly, Jesus saw differently. He saw her motives. He saw her gratitude. Gratitude from forgiveness. And Jesus said …
Some weeks ago there was a once-a-half-century major news. No it’s not Trump’s so-called “hush money” trial, rather the total eclipse of the sun. Years ago a trained physician well known for his preference for historical accounting recorded the total eclipse of his generation …
Life is so NOT easy. Then there’s the million dollar question: what is best next? The most serious of all: how to secure forgiveness and eternal life? Alas! Grace is found.At a juncture with surprising ease. It takes some reading, and simple trust ...
上世紀九十年代末,當時尚未成名的神學家范胡澤(Kevin Vanhoozer)曾經對班上的學生說:白袍取代了牧師袍。他的意思是甚麼?當西方文明發展到啟蒙運動之時,「去問你的牧師」已經不受歡迎……
I’ve often memorised the Greatest Commandment as love God and “love people (人) as myself”. In English, there’s no room for confusion: your neighbour, not “humankind”. However, in today’s ideological world, even the English specificity is lost …
In late 1990s, then not as famous theologian Kevin Vanhoozer told his class: the white coat replaced the priest’s robe. His point? As enlightenment dawned upon civilisations, it was no longer popular or trustworthy “to ask your priest” …
I am now a grandfather of a two year old boy. My grandson reminds me of how I was once a father of my son and daughter. I remember the best and the worst moments as a father, with respect to one particular aspect: how the state of my children affected me …
Just opening minds by debates and asking questions. Always polite, probing, and people loving. Charlie Kirk was gunned down. He can’t ask questions now. Why couldn’t he be allowed to?
These are three strong women. Each has her own story. Some more privileged. Others less so. Whatever, they found a way to be content at adversities. They found strength and rationale to remain strong. They had access to …
上星期約了老表一起晚飯吹水,想食潮州菜,選擇了位於土瓜灣的「四點金」。除了店面光鮮外,食物亦有水準,還加上服務友善,價錢親民,亦開始改變我對潮州菜館的想法……