“Manhattan, after eight years here, still reminds me of Hong Kong. Ther...” — Mary H.K. Choi Quote

Manhattan, after eight years here, still reminds me of Hong Kong. There are parts of Chinatown that are the spit and image of streets in Wan Chai, and I am held in thrall by the Chrysler building as much as I was by I.M. Pei's Bank of China Tower.

Never hold up your entire group of friends in real life trying to capture a perfect Instagram pose. Nobody cares.

Food rules. Little rivals the pleasure of tearing into a glistening burger.

If there was a button that I could push that would agog my brain to the level that I felt first seeing 'Avatar' in its entirety and another one for food pellets, I would die of starvation.

We know too little about global wealth dynamics, so we need international transmission of bank information.

There is always the potential for a central bank to engage in discretionary monetary policy and to break the one-to-one link between changes in foreign reserves and changes in the money supply.

You can have X amount of pounds in your bank every month, but if you're not happy, and you're not finding peace in what you're doing, it doesn't really matter.

Well, I just bought a massive bank and I've moved into it on my own.

I have a nice house, nice cars, nice watches, nice things. I've got money in the bank. I'm not in need of a few quid - as it stands. It's all irrelevant to me.