I promised myself not to return to Taipei this year, as I had made way too many trips there in the last decade or so. I wanted to explore Hong Kong further, as I had mentioned in January. Contrary to what I had planned, I didn’t run amok in Mongkok grabbing sneakers, and neither did [...]

You would really have to be there in order to understand why Disneyland is “the happiest place on Earth”. We arrived on a sweltering afternoon, but the exuberance peaked as we walked through the front gates. It is hard not to smile. And it is impossible not to point excitedly at everything and anything that [...]

I have this unexplained affinity with Lao Hsiao. I happened to be in Taipei when his Mr Rock tour began in Dec 2009, and I happened to be in Hong Kong where he launched his new concert last weekend. Tickets were sold out on both occasions, but I managed to *ahem* get a seat nonetheless. [...]

The eight of us arrived in Hong Kong via five different flights. The keyword was fun, and the major sub-keyword being food. 月滿坊 1028B, Elements, 1 Austin Road West, Kowloon These are the items on high repetition mode thoughout the trip- pigeon and goose. My friend had indeed lost five kilos but had to forfeit [...]