A week ago I was in Hong Kong and stayed at a flat in this building. One of my concerns before this quick trip was the issue of jet lag. I usually have mild jet lag at night, when I wake up at 3am and toss and turn until 6, when I'm up for the day. If I don't keep going all day, … [Read more...]
Art Deco in Hong Kong, 2017
It seems like every time I go to Hong Kong, I find more Art Deco buildings I hadn't noticed before. When I lived there, the only thing I knew about Art Deco was its fonts. So I wasn't really aware of the architecture in the territory, although I couldn't get enough of the round … [Read more...]
Book of the week–Dear Hong Kong: An Elegy For A City
Although this is a short book, it's one to savor.I wasn't born and raised in Hong Kong, but felt I could relate to a great part of Xu Xi's story in Dear Hong Kong: An Elegy For A Hero (Penguin, 2017). I've lived there a couple times and that always seems so complicated when I … [Read more...]
Soho then and now
When I lived in Hong Kong, the Soho neighborhood was just getting off the ground. I remember going to a Lebanese restaurant there in the fall of 1996 with a group of friends. Around that time about half a dozen new restaurants had popped up and my friends were starting to hang … [Read more...]
Bottonhole Bookbinding
Today my niece and I had the best time attending a bookbinding class at Bari Zaki Studio in Chicago. Some months ago I blogged about a bookbinding notebook someone had given to Bari as a gift. She posted this notebook on Instagram and I immediately recognized it as my late … [Read more...]
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