Musings on Life in Hong Kong

A colleague in another department in our university passed away. He was only in his 40s and death was very sudden. Apparently it was some fo...

最 近在某地產項目上看見一個不懂的〔馬尺〕字。問了幾個朋友都不知其所以，翻查常用的中文字典亦找不到。記得日本的車站似乎是用這個字，懷疑是古漢字。但翻 查〔辭海〕、〔漢語大字典〕、〔康熙字典〕、〔古漢語字典〕、〔常用古文字典〕都找不到。最後還是在〔日漢大辭典〕找到。原來真是日語，相...

There are lots of interesting snippets in Bill Bryson's A Short History of Nearly Everything. For example, a lichen grows very very slow...

A few days ago a respected academic in a local university passed away after a struggle with cancer. That started many of us thinking about l...