Musings on Life in Hong Kong

Why am I in Kuala Terengganu?   To speak at a Malaysian national conference on Service-Learning. My message is how technology and research c...

Here I am, at Kuala Terengganu.   Kuala supposedly means “river mouth”.   I am not here to study the river, nor the city.   I am here to giv...

Persimmon is popular in China and many East Asian countries.   It is nice looking and sweet tasting.   But it can be tricky to eat.   Some a...

Talk about going around in circles.   How many circles are there?   How many ways to traverse the globe by following the circles? #SChanPalm...

Today I attended a symposium on brain mapping on campus.   It is a regional conference but many of the presenters are world class scholars, ...

When we (my siblings and I) were small, our family lived in Kennedy Town, on the western-most end of Hong Kong Island.   Occasionally, our f...

A palm leaf yellowed, dried up, and fell to ground.   It was destined for the garbage dump.   Perhaps it might be burned, or composed, to be...