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Macau Hidden Enclave
Post Quarantine Exploration
By Wong How Man, Macau
room quarantine, I was allowed to go out of my hotel room to roam around town during the day, yet must return to the same hotel, though now in a different wing, for another week of self-quarantine. That is kind of like a half-way house out on drug remedial probation.
So the final break-out at the end of the third week was a little like liberation, from slavery or jail, or for those with spiritual pursuit, enlightenment after an ashram or retreat. Looking back at what others have had to go through, say during the three years and eight months of Japanese occupation of Hong Kong during WWII, my confinement was a minimal detention per se.
No Permanent Address
Hayson Liu, School of Chinese, HKU and Parry Leung, Horizons Office, HKU Hong Kong University
Speeding under Baima Snow Mountain along the banks of the Jinsha River in Yunnan, a group of students, enthusiastically asked Dr. Bleisch what ‘expedition’ meant for him – and this was the biologist’s reply; "No permanent address."
In January 2021, fifteen undergraduates from the University of Hong Kong (HKU) went to Shangri-La, China, for a two-week expedition with CERS. The team was warmly greeted by mother nature on their arrival day at the Zhongdian Centre: a freezing day of minus 16 degrees Celsius, accompanied with heavy snow. Altitude sickness and the frozen roads did not shrink the excitement of the students. Everyone was curiously exploring the Tibetan areas and the facilities of CERS. It is worth emphasizing that those 15 students had never heard of CERS, nor did they know of the mysterious explorer behind this institution.
Romance With Cotton Tree
By Wong How Man
The little boy was about five years old. He was living in an old two-story house below Bonham Road in the mid-levels of Hong Kong. At night, looking out from the balcony, his nanny would tell him that the flickering lights across the harbor were ghosts winking at him. He would pull up his blanket further to cover himself when going to bed.