Another Old Letter

Raymond gets married today and we're invited to the Tau-ist

pre-ceremony which starts in minutes:

Raymond and Janet

and the Double Happiness!

Thus, today I'll post up another old letter; 

this one from 2005.

What a great morning, with a great many fascinations:

1) Last day of Chinese New Year celebrations going on down
in Southorn Park. We were entertained for an hour by a Chinese
Omp-pah-pah band playing Irish songs like "It's a long way to
Tipperary." What's the bet that this is NOT a centuries-old
custom.

2) Today's paper has lots on the International Precious Gem
and Jewellery Expo, where they're wondering if it should be
continued when theft is such a HUGE problem. US$16 million a day
is shoplifted on average, they say. But the interviews with
participants and exhibiters they all say "We would be insulted
if there WASN'T shoplifting. It means our wares are thought to
be substandard, which they're obviously NOT.

3) Solved the mystery of why we always hear Chinese couples
say "I love you" and "I want to be with you." to each other in
English. The Valentine Day's issue of SCMP has interviews with
lots of people who all say they have to speak love in English
because Cantonese has no equivilant words for any sort of
affection. Honestly, it's a wonder these people are able
to breed in such numbers, isn't it!



So that's it for today.

Except for a photo of Raymond and Janet's nuptuals:

And the beautiful Old Mrs Fung who proves you don't have to have
a word of any language in common to consider someone a friend.

Being a lovely soul shines 

through in any language.