Category Archives: Reflections

I didn’t realize it was Father’s Day until I switched on the computer today. In fact, I read two blog pieces one yesterday and one this morning by fellow bloggers. One was rather sad. The other was rather happier. But both touched in one way … Continue reading →

For the first time in 20 years, I got drunk. It was not a good feeling. I vomited on the pavement. To reward 5 of my young male staff for helping me with a case which involves the English translation of some … Continue reading →

Parenting at the best of times has never been easy. But it was easier in the 1950s Hong Kong. At that time, parents were so busy working on the simple problem of trying to put together enough rice and vegetable … Continue reading →

The probelm of what is truth has been piquing the mind of thinking men from the moment that language was invented. Some think that the truth is independent of man  e.g. Plato and Aristotle and is somehow "out there" inhabiting … Continue reading →

I have heard of the name of Tang Junyi for a long time but never really knew who he was. I learned last night that he was the founder of New Asia College, now part of the Chinese University of … Continue reading →

Last week was heavy with court duties and deadlines. So it was with relief that I attended the second talk by the Hong Kong Society of Humanist Philosophy this season last night. It was a talk by Dr. Yip on what Plato … Continue reading →

Science is powerful. It toppled nations. It crippled Imperialist Japan. It crushed Nazi Germany. It unseated Soviet Russia. It prised open Socialist China. It raised up Hinduist India. It overturned Saddam Hussein’s Iraq. It seems all powerful, like God. Are there limits to science? If so, are … Continue reading →

People long for freedom. They have a right to be free. As Jean-Jacques Rousseau, the 18th Century French philosopher said a long time ago, "People are born free, but everywhere they are in chains".  The situation in contemporary society, long … Continue reading →

Paul Boyer’s book on beliefs has set me thinking. He has hit upon an excellent idea. The idea is clustering. That indeed may be how our brain and hence our mind works.   The cells in our brain group themselves by function. This … Continue reading →