Ching Lam CHOI
Fiction
Chess
Stefan Zweig
Beyond research
A few other things.
I am an amateur of many trades for my own amusement. I’m easily moved by words, music, nature, Hugh Laurie; utterly immovable by non-climbing gym memberships, organised religion, and oatmeal.
“We are not nouns, we are verbs.”Stephen Fry
Outside
On a wall, or on a trail.
I boulder, climb, hike, fence, play volleyball and would open a climbing gym called “Sloblock”.
Listening
Strings, winds, and voices.
I adore the cello, oboe, French horn, voice, and violin.
Some favourites
I adore the cello, oboe, French horn, voice and violin. Favourite artists include the Berliner Philharmoniker; the 12 Cellists of the Berlin Phil, The King's Singers; Tom Rosenthal, Joni Mitchell; Elgar, Haydn, Dvořák, Samuel Barber; Augustin Hadelich, Hilary Hahn; Jacqueline du Pre, Bruno Delepelaire, Yo-Yo Ma, Nathan Chan; Jonathan Kelly; Daniel Barenboim, Cornelius Meister.
Reading
Books I travel with.
A few favourites from the shelf.
11 books
Memoir & essays
The World of Yesterday
Stefan Zweig
Fiction
The Castle
Franz Kafka
Travel
Trieste and the Meaning of Nowhere
Jan Morris
Memoir & essays
Just Kids
Patti Smith
Travel
A Time of Gifts
Patrick Leigh Fermor
Memoir & essays
Why I Write
George Orwell
Philosophy
Dialogues
Paul Valéry
Fiction
天橋上的魔術師
吳明益
Memoir & essays
Things I Don’t Want to Know
Deborah Levy
Fiction
The Book of Laughter and Forgetting
Milan Kundera