TR EMERITUS

As I sat down to blog about FTX and Sam Bankman-Fried (SBF), the first couple of lines of a Robert Louis Stevenson poem floated across my mind -- "The moon has a face like the clock in the hall; She shines on thieves on the garden wall."  There's a rustic imagery of a bright moon over a burglar on a wall I once saw in a kiddy... 

Several reports from the western media, and from Channel NewsAsia and SCMP of Hong Kong said that the wave of covid infections had overwhelmed the health system in China and covid deaths were soaring. They suggested that the official statistics of covid deaths in China was grossly under-reported due to a change in definition... 

It’s Christmas day and I’ve been thinking of something meaningful to say and I decided to touch on a tradition I started around two-years back of buying Christmas cards from a colleague of mine, who likes to hand paint them. My former colleague has a particular talent or at least she has a particular effect on me. She is...