Today, Russia invaded Ukraine. At the same time, Omicron is ravaging Hong Kong. Unlike previous waves, COVID feels so intimate this time around. There are people around me catching it. I have found myself stressed out, anxious and short tempered. On the positive side, I have been paying closer attention to myself. I have become…
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Hong Kong is officially in Wave 4 of COVID-19. Schools and gyms are closed. There has been a lot more untraceable cases this time. No dine-in after 6pm. Yes. Fourth time. I hate working out at home, because it’s all about maintaining. When I go to the gym, all workouts lead to “gaining.” It could…
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How did Apple, Amazon, Facebook, and COVID-19 do in Q2 of CY2020?
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What we experienced as Asia crawls out of lock-down Around the world, many are stuck at home, inundating by scary tweets, dreading about the next 12 hours. Meanwhile, here in Asia, after about 8 weeks of lock-down, restaurant queues, traffic jams, and pollution have returned, and demand for network bandwidth (and face masks, toilet papers ā¦)…
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The reasons why we in Hong Kong hoard face masks and hand sanitisers (and what I wish the foreigners in Hong Kong would choose to understand) āIndividual precaution does not scale to collective precautionā¦. Hence one must panic individually in order to avoid systemic problems.ā Nassim Taleb When SARS happened, we had a very limited…
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