Tag: Love

Love is an Experience

Love is not a thing, it’s an experience. A shared experience!

The ongoing obsession with brand name things and the competitive who’s boyfriend or girlfriend buys them the most expensive flowers or gift is hardly romantic.

Ditch the pressure of the expensive restaurant, you can get the same meal or better far cheaper on a different day and do something that’ll create memories that’ll last longer than the taste of the $888 one mouthful dessert. Get out and have fun, create experiences and shared memories.

The Great European Carnival at Central Harbourfront offers the chance to share rides, enjoy the thrill and energy of the circus, play and win prizes for each other. The atmosphere of the carnival midway and the energy of all those around you having fun make it a great place to create memories.

Valentine’s Day package ($600) includes 2 Premium-seat tickets for the Great Circus of Europe, single entry to the AIA Great European Carnival on the same day and 20 e-tokens. The package is only available from 9-11 and 13-14 February 2018 at the door.

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Clever Personal

With Valentines Day approaching bc took a look around the local personals websites to see if love is thriving in the era of swipe left or right.

Among the many adverts, was this wonderfully clever one which is too good not to share.

Kudos to the lady in question, hope it works.

Elaine Chow: 14 March, 1986 – 27 October, 2005

In loving memory of Elaine Chow our friend and colleague who in the early hours of the 27 October 2005 committed suicide by stepping off a building. Gone, but never ever forgotten!

Elaine was a wonderful, vibrant young woman, who brought joy to everyone she met. Her smile could and would brighten both the sunniest and dreariest of days.

When I asked if she’d like to turn her internship into a job she replied, amidst a beaming smile and joyful disbelief “You mean, you want to pay me to eat…” The memory of her beaming smiling face of disbelief as replied still brings a big smile to my face and a warm glow to my heart.

As I write this with tears running down my cheeks, my heart breaks as my mind replays the screams erupting from my phone, looking up and seeing Elaine falling – so fast, yet in slow motion – to her death. My brain cannot process the truth of what it sees and my legs will never be moving fast enough to reach her… The pain of those images never seems to fade, but nor thankfully do the memories of her smile and the joy she infused to all around her. RIP Elaine you are deeply missed.

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Tragically almost 3 people a day, on average, commit suicide in Hong Kong. It’s the unseen killer across all ages,

Earlier this year many people rightly heaped praise on constable Ifzal Zaffar who talked someone down from a crane. But few wondered what happen to the person he saved. Did they receive the help they needed to resolve the problems that put them on the crane?

If you know someone who’s talking (even jokingly) about suicide talk to them. If you’re thinking of suicide, talk to someone first.
Samaritans Hong Kong: 2896-0000 www.samaritans.org.hk

Elaine Chow, Gone But Never Forgotten!

Elaine ChowIn the early hours of the 27 October 2005 our friend and colleague Elaine Chow committed suicide by stepping off a building.

Elaine was a wonderful, vibrant young woman, who brought joy to everyone she met. Her smile could and would brighten both the sunniest and dreariest of days.

When I asked if she’d like to turn her internship into a job she replied, amidst a beaming smile and joyful disbelief “You mean, you want to pay me to eat…” The memory of her beaming smiling face of disbelief as replied still brings a big smile to my face.

And while tears run down my cheeks, and my heart breaks as my mind replays the scream erupting from my phone, looking up and seeing Elaine falling – so fast, yet in slow motion – to her death. My brain cannot process the truth of what it sees and my legs will never be moving fast enough to reach her… The pain of those images never seems to fade, but nor thankfully do the memories of her smile and the joy she infused to all around her. RIP Elaine you are deeply missed.

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Tragically almost 3 people a day, on average, commit suicide in Hong Kong. It’s the unseen killer across all ages, if you know someone who’s talking (even jokingly) about suicide get them help/talk to them. If you’re thinking of suicide, please please talk to someone first.