1. Yves, student
I don’t really read books… so I guess the Comic Fest seems to be for me.

2. Wicky, graphics designer
Comic Fest. Every time I see words I’ll fall asleep. I don’t have the patience to read. ‑

3. Ian, waiter
Book Fair. I prefer reading actual books with paragraphs rather than comics.

4. Ben, student
I want to go to the Book Fair to check out any new books to read…Haven’t been to one since primary school.

5. Kay, exhibition worker
I’m interested in both but the Comic Fest is more fun and has more things to see.

The Find: The Rat
The Price: $29.90
Where Found: IKEA stores in Causeway Bay, Kowloon Bay and Shatin

I can see it now. A creative mind was taking a leisurely stroll through the sewers somewhere in Sweden and thought he saw a cute rat. Then he had a moment of genius, got in touch with IKEA, and we are now all blessed with the existence of a stuffed rat. Are you kidding? I pity the poor kids whose parents decide to buy them comforting toys to sleep with… and end up handing them plush rodents. The lovely way in which they’re piled up in the IKEA kid’s department, grey bodies densely packed in a large clear plastic container low to the ground, is slightly – just slightly – squirm-inducing. At least IKEA was merciful this time in leaving out the self-assembly torture methods for which they’re infamously known; if I had to put together this rat’s plush innards to get to a cute and cuddly final product, I doubt even this “Minnen Ratta’s” toothy smile would have won me over enough to take him home.

To put it mildly, Diamond Hill is the kind of name that gets people dreaming of riches. Throw in the facts that the equally evocatively-named Plaza Hollywood shopping centre is located in the area and that Diamond Hill was home to a film studio (Golden Harvest, for close to 30 years), and it won’t come as too much of a surprise to find it’s been the setting for more than one local movie. In recent years, though, films most associated with the area – Soi Cheang’s Diamond Hill (2000) and Fruit Chan’s Hollywood, Hong Kong (2002) – went more for grit than glamour and actually focused on the since demolished shantytown that used to be in the vicinity. However, many visitors to Diamond Hill today will know less about that than that the visually impressive and serene Chi Lin Nunnery and adjacent green oasis that is the Nan Lian Garden (both Tang Dynasty style) are just minutes away from the Diamond Hill MTR station.