Women’s Competition 1
HKFC Ice 7-19 Kowloon
@ HK Football Club, Kick-off: 17:00
Valley Black 41-0 CWB Phoenix
@ Happy Valley, Kick-off: 18:00
Image: hkrugby
Author: simon
Chimeras Infree Sessions – 9 April, 2021
Local band Chimeras performed a wonderful acoustic set at Infree Records Mongkok store on the 9 April, 2021. Usually a 5 piece symphonic doom metal outfit, band members Friase and Andy rearranged the group’s songs for a piano and vocals acoustic set.
As you can hear on the video which was live-streamed on Youtube, the result is quite stunning.
Set List
Mind Deception
Winged Psyche
Devoidness
Untitled
For my beloved one
Check out more usual Chimeras gig here
Infree Records
Room B, 2/F, 26-28 Mong Kok Road
Mong Kok
Stephanie Norton Makes History
Congratulation to local sailor Stephanie Norton who in finishing third at Mussanah Open Championships in Oman made HK Sailing history by qualifying in the Laser Radial class for the Tokyo Olympics!
Norton is the first female dinghy sailor from Hong Kong to reach the Olympics via a competitive route since stricter qualification rules were implemented after the 1996 Atlanta Olympics.
Photo RHKYC/Guy Nowell
New Twitter Emoji #MilkTeaAlliance
Twitter has introduced a new emoji for the #MilkTeaAlliance hashtag to mark the first anniversary of a movement that has united people in Hong Kong, Taiwan, Thailand, Myanmar and beyond in their quest to be heard.
To celebrate the first anniversary of the #MilkTeaAlliance, we designed an emoji featuring 3 different types of milk tea colours from regions where the Alliance first formed online. It automatically appears when you Tweet any of the hashtags below👇 pic.twitter.com/QiIBBbKfQc
— Twitter Public Policy (@Policy) April 8, 2021
Announcing the new emoji, an illustration featuring 3 different types of milk tea colours from the regions where the Alliance first formed online. Twitter said it will automatically appear when the #MilkTeaAlliance hashtag is tweeted in English, Chinese, Thai and Burmese.
BioNTech (Comirnaty) Vaccination Resumes
BioNTech (Comirnaty) vaccination resumed today 5 April, longer lines – which at the time bc’s reporter was there were sadly disproportionately (about 80%) non-ethnic Chinese – meant the queue and injection took around 80 minutes.
https://bcmagazine.smugmug.com/Bcene-photos/2021/20210405-11pro-Second-Covid-Vaccination-BionTech-Sai-Yin-Pun/i-XS6wd54
Unfortunately at Sai Yin Pun Vaccination Centre the nurse absolutely refused to allow our reporter to take a photo of themselves getting vaccinated.
We’re not big ‘selfie’ takers, but this seemed a missed opportunity to raise communal awareness of vaccination and maybe counter some of the negative rubbish being spread by the ignorant both in Hong Kong and abroad.
https://bcmagazine.smugmug.com/Bcene-photos/2021/20210405-11pro-Second-Covid-Vaccination-BionTech-Sai-Yin-Pun/i-w86Rq7j
While the vaccine is not yet a cure, it can and will save lives! Not only of those who get infected but also of those whose jobs, livelihoods and mental health have been destroyed over the last year!
PLEASE GET VACCINATED!!! Make a booking here www.coronavirus.gov.hk
RubberBand Ciao 2021 @ HK Coliseum, 3-6 April, 2021
Live music returned as RubberBand rocked the HK Coliseum for four nights treating a packed crowd to 27 song set!
Supporting RubberBand in a night of greatest hits and fan favourites were the Patrick Lui Jazz Orchestra and acapella group AMuiXis.
https://bcmagazine.smugmug.com/Bcene-photos/2021/RubberBand-Ciao-2021-HK-Coliseum-3-6-April-2021/i-t8V4X73
https://bcmagazine.smugmug.com/Bcene-photos/2021/RubberBand-Ciao-2021-HK-Coliseum-3-6-April-2021/i-np9Xh6B
https://bcmagazine.smugmug.com/Bcene-photos/2021/RubberBand-Ciao-2021-HK-Coliseum-3-6-April-2021/i-5tqpS8d
https://bcmagazine.smugmug.com/Bcene-photos/2021/RubberBand-Ciao-2021-HK-Coliseum-3-6-April-2021/i-S8SZpLd
RubberBand Ciao 2021 Set List – HK Coliseum, 3-6 April, 2021
1. Dedicated To…
2. 醒未？
3. 每道微小
4. 一早地下鐵
5. 小涼伴
6. 阿波羅
7. 你和我
8. 天台飛人
9. 百毒不侵
10. 漫長
11. 田鼠論壇
12. 健兒
13. 堅彌地城
14. 睜開眼
15. 挾持
16. 山河故人
17. 倒行詩
18. 練習說再見
19. 心照一生
20. Hello?
21. G.I.（阿偉Solo）
22. 夥伴
23. Ciao（新歌）
24. 逆流之歌
25. 發現號
26. 未來見
27. 夏令時間 (Encore)
https://bcmagazine.smugmug.com/Bcene-photos/2021/RubberBand-Ciao-2021-HK-Coliseum-3-6-April-2021/i-pFNfnk2
RubberBand Ciao 2021
Date: 3-6 April, 2021
Venue: HK Coliseum
Tickets: $780, $580, $380 from Urbtix
Hong Kong’s Sevens Squads to Train in England
The limitations on competitive sport are impacting on domestic and international competition… So Hong Kong’s men’s and women’s sevens squads will travel to the United Kingdom and Portugal for an extended training camp in May and June.
Training and warm-up matches against international opposition are needed ahead of multiple upcoming tournaments including:
In August the World Rugby Challenger competition for spots on the World Sevens Series.
The 19th Asian Games in Hangzhou in September, where Hong Kong’s men’s sevens squad will be the defending champions, after taking Gold in Jakarta in 2018.
Hong Kong’s women finished in fifth place in Jakarta, and hope to improve on that in Hangzhou
The Rugby World Cup Sevens in South Africa in mid-September. Hong Kong have qualified for every Rugby World Cup Sevens since the inception of the world championship in 1993.
And lastly but by no means least the 45th Hong Kong Sevens in early November, the first international sevens competition to be held in the city in over 3½ years.
Hong Kong Rugby Union General Manager of Performance Rugby James Farndon said, “As restrictions tighten in Hong Kong, many of the HKSI’s High Performance Sport Programmes are taking their athletes and coaches overseas to ensure that they can maintain competitive advantage for their respective international competitions.
“Given the importance of our upcoming international tournaments we believe that it is essential for the teams to have optimal preparation including matches against premier international competition. The HKSI’s approach to financially support overseas training camps like this is highly appreciated by the HKRU,” added Farndon.
Training in the United Kingdom also offers the opportunity to enter both teams into two events on the upcoming UK Super Sevens Series, which takes place in May and June across the United Kingdom, and into long-running international sevens warm-up tournaments in Lisbon and the Algarve in Portugal. These will mark the first international competitions for the teams since November 2021.
The squads will depart on 6 May and will base at Loughborough University, an institution highly regarded for its sports programmes and with excellent training and rehabilitation facilities for the duration of the trip.
Additional reporting, images: HK Rugby
11 Hong Kong Restaurants in Asia’s 50 Best Restaurants 2021
Hong Kong has 11 entries in ‘Asia’s 50 Best Restaurants 2021‘ with local Cantonese restaurant The Chairman replacing last year’s numero uno Singapore’s Odette in top spot.
The very subjective list is compiled and voted on by over 300 ‘leaders’ in Asia’s culinary field including journalists, food critics, chefs, restaurateurs and culinary experts.
Quite how it can pretend to be remotely objective this year when travel and dining out have been extensively curtailed… But congratulations to the local restaurants listed.
The local restaurants in this year’s ‘Top 50’ are Vea (16), Neighbourhood (17), Belon (25), Caprice (28), Otto e Mezzo Bombana (33), Amber (37), Ta Vie (38), Mono (44), Lung King Heen (47) and Seventh Son (48).
The only Macau entry is Wing Lei Palace in 50th spot.
