weblog of roderick kar

my letter to the editor of south china morning post for today’s edition:
“I wish to share with readers my experiences with unsold yet clean food which could be made available to people in need.
Pret A Manger is known for its donation of unsold sandwiches to charities.
I learned from its website that it is seeking [...]

i wrote a letter to the editor of south china morning post a couple of weeks ago but it didn’t get published – a first for me. maybe it is a sign that i should quit writing stuff for audience of the brick and mortar media. afterall, especially for this story, the internet is a [...]

I was pleasantly surprised when greeted by a pair of non-disposable chopsticks during my first visit in 2009 to my favourite kaiten sushi restaurant in Causeway Bay. I have been bringing my own chopsticks since, ashamedly, only a few months ago when I finally heeded the warnings about how demands for disposable chopsticks are accelerating [...]

Now that I have decided to say goodbye to my Nokia N95, I have to fix the volume hard keys that I had broken when I dropped the phone while crossing a street in Osaka last month. That drop is costly as I just found out at Nokia it would cost HK$360 to replace the [...]

My eligibility for next year’s grade 8 piano exam has yet to be confirmed, pending the result of the theory exam I took last month. It doesn’t bother me at all whether I pass it or not. I didn’t start learning the piano again to pass exams. I am learning and taking exams at my [...]

About to start this week’s lesson.

Reception of the music centre on the second floor.

This is the room where I have been learning piano each Tuesday for the past 6 months or so. I have been assigned to at least three different rooms since I started learning with Kimberly at Tom Lee last May. This room is the smallest of the three though. The door is just behind my [...]

Haven’t worn a mask in a vey long time. Probably since SARS. This is my first upload using ShoZu which I had only just signed up this morning. I have been trying TypePad Mobile and Yahoo Go on my TyTN II in the last couple of days to upload photos. Both manage to do the [...]

A lot of people have expressed their concerns for Tommy the last couple of days. I visited Tommy for the first time this Wednesday, (29/8) since she had been transferred from the hospital to a warehouse where Mary and other caretakers have rented for sheltering of stray cats who are not fit to live on [...]