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Expensive Branded Goods In Hong Kong—Falling in Love & Breaking Up
Vanity is an enemy of humility. I used to be, more than once in a blue moon, vain. I no longer want to be a slave of marketing. The version of my old self was deleted. Why do people like to hail branded clothes, shoes, handbags and watches? Alex Williams, a columnist, put forward many…
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How To Achieve ‘Work-life Balance’? Different Angles To Change Your Balance Perspectives!
28-02-23 Less is more? More is less? What is the right ‘balance’ when we live? Work? Life? Self? Others? Between the 2,3 or even more kinds of values in life, can we really calculate and divide these abstract values such as achievement, meaning and happiness; and multiply the result by a percentage? 50:50%? 20:80%? 30:70%?…
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The Story Of The 1st Impresario In Hong Kong Mr Harry Odell, His Empire Theatre (璇宮戲院) & To Be Continued尚未完場, The Touching Film About This Jewish Man
An ‘impresario’ is a person who organizes and finances concerts, plays and operas. Art intermediaries are important. They make the availability of art performances much more accessible for the public. A good impresario knows well the audience and their needs. Mr Harry Odell, a Jewish man, was born in 1896. He came to live in…
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The Interplay Of 3 Theories ‘Pareto Principle’, ‘Pendulum Effect’ And ‘Spiritual Awakening’ Among The Young People: A Positive Hong Kong Future!
21-12-22 I am a believer of Galileo’s ‘pendulum effect’ and Pareto’s ‘80/20 rule’. I particularly believe so after the social disturbance of 2019 and COVID-19 pandemic from 2020 to 22 in Hong Kong. Life swings like pendulum backward and forward: between happiness and pain, hope and frustration, and activeness and passiveness. Some said the past…
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The 10 Adversities Of West Kowloon Cultural District In The Past & Its 3 Future Shots At Hong Kong’s Cultural Ambitions
10-10-22 National government wants Hong Kong to be a cultural exchange centre. Path to success is full of frustrations and setbacks. Failure does not matter but regret does. Let us not judge West Kowloon Cultural District (WKCD西九文化區) by how many times it fell down in the past, but by how many times it will be…
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Political Stereotypes, A Cognitive bias—The Prevailing ‘Blue’ & “Yellow’ Colour Label Against A Person In Hong Kong
A ‘stereotype’ is a perception, for quicker and easier self-reference, about a person or group of people, likely relates to the negative feelings about them. Such a prejudice is often based on the past bad experience and rooted in the idea that these types of people are less trustworthy or more unreasonable than others. Examples…
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Rebound For Life Is What Happens When Other People Are Busy Crying And You Are Busy Making New Plans After A Catastrophe—Historical Devastations Which Have Almost Killed Hong Kong Since 1950s
Pete Seeger composed “Turn! Turn! Turn!” in 1959. He wrote a time to be born, and a time to die a time to plant, a time to reap a time to kill, a time to heal a time to laugh, a time to weep to everything (turn, turn, turn) there is a season (turn, turn,…
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Equal Rights, Status And Opportunities Vs Self-empowerment, Self-reliance And Self-respect: Let The Lady Of Feminist Movement Peggy Lam(林貝聿嘉) Explain To You What had Happened To Women In Hong Kong since 1950s
07-09-22 In youth, we run into stupidity. In old age, stupidity runs away from us. The harvest of old age is the abundance of lessons wisely learnt. The great leader of feminist movement in Hong Kong Peggy Lam Pei Yu-dja (林貝聿嘉) who has been defending 3 important things, namely equal social and economic rights(權利), status(地位)…
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3 Future Changes Are Certain In Hong Kong. Moving to Another City May Be A Choice Between Opportunity and Lifestyle
Bad choice dresses like your good choice, and good luck usually follows bad luck. Some people are leaving Hong Kong for their Xanadu. It is a pity that an entire sense of doom now hangs over the group of people who do not like the present situation. It was reported that currently, about 100,000 left…
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Happiness Starts The Day When You Take A Stroll In The 400-year-old Neighbourhood Of Shau Kei Wan In Search Of The Dignified General Rock
29-06-22 I am tired of Central, Causeway Bay and Tsim Sha Tsui which frighten me with ceaseless noises, colours and lights. It takes a simple and forgotten district to make me happy. The art of strolling in a small district is easy to acquire: just be humble and friendly. Shau Kei Wan bay area on…