1. The Electronic Arts guy said sales of video games in South Korea were tanking. They went from around eight million bucks a year to two… The bosses in the U.S. freaked out. They fired a ton of people. One of the newbies asked if he could experiment with a lame game, do something different… […]

With a couple of hours to kill before our flight, the concierge recommended we go up to Johnston Road, to check out the outlet shops on the boulevard and delve into the market on the narrow streets behind. What amazed us at first was the bamboo scaffolding. This time going up DOZENS of stories. Would […]

So we went to dinner last night at an establishment called the China Club. It is a club, quite private, but our hotel got us in. It was on the thirteenth floor of a high rise. Hong Kong is an insiders town. If you don’t know someone, you’re out of the loop! Fascinating place… Kind […]

We took the Star Ferry across the bay. Upstairs in the Peninsula Hotel, there’s a series of panels delineating the history of Hong Kong. They reinforced how little I knew. There was a water shortage in the fifties and sixties? I mean I remember giving Hong Kong back to the Chinese, but I wasn’t aware […]