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Mirror mirror on the wall, who’s the most buoyant of them all? The answer is quite undeniably the city that never sleeps- Hong Kong! Here you’ll find Hong Kong’s varied facades that are sure to wow you! The super-vivacious can now get their fill of nightlife, culture, adventure, travel and of course who can forget the palette- food! We bring along a playful medley of the spirits of this brimming city. It’s time to revisit good old fun times? Sure it is!
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Try your best to come up with a city more exciting than Hong Kong but you will only surprise yourself. Breathing culture and heritage along with the infused modernity, it is definitely a time outdoing travel. Stunning Ocean Park, sneak-a-peek from Victoria Peak or exquisite Victoria Harbor HK surpasses your expectations. Life is a summary of your experiences, so get ready to have an all together new episode in it – the Hong Kong city!
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| Are you dazzled already? Wait there is more! Incomplete is a city without a hip lifestyle to gossip about. Entertainment paramount, shopping boundless, glittering nightlife, constant influx of international concerts and splashy events makes it even more desirable then it already is. Asia’s “world city” sure manages to be the topic of discussion worldwide & all for good reasons!! |
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Fusion at its best, it is the mixture of East and West- Hong Kong! Traditional roots dipped in the modernity would be what we can describe as Hong Kong culture! Cultural history preserved in contemporary frame of art is the hallmark of Hong Kong. It is not just the gadgets, Chinese cling to it as their traditions that demarcate them from rest of the world. Operas, Dragon & lion dance - who wants to miss any of this? I don’t!!
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| Delicacies that will win your heart!! The food you could kill for!! Yes, yes!! Chinese food is the hot favorite topic of our discussion. True expression of the food is unveiled in here. The array of choices you are offered- Indian, Vietnamese, Filipino, Malaysian and Thai are certainly way to your foodie heart and soul! Be it the classy restaurants to dine in or the newest junk on the food market there is something for everyone to fill you up! What are you waiting for? HOG ON!! |
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| Tuesday, June 9, 2009 |
 Swooosh Says the Hong Kong City!
Oops! I mean the United Airlines!
Imagine if I come up to you and say go travel around the U.S. for just about 3790 HKD? Aren’t you going to do your traditional crazy dance which is expected of such hot deals? Yes fellow Hong Kongers United Airlines is doing something similar for us. As a part of the "All over America Summer Sale" going on with the United Airlines, it promises to offer you a travel package to various cities of U.S.A.
Travel package that it offers for the hot and popular destinations of U.S.A like Los Angeles, San Francisco, New York, Seattle, Chicago, Boston and Washington D.C. is just for HKD 3790 in case you are planning a vacation before 9th of July 2009. And in case you plan to have a late vacation to escape the heat of Hong Kong – after 9th July 2009 it did be 4790 HKD till 31st Aug 2009. The endless fun and charisma of the continent of USA is calling for you and with prices like this, of course you are living your dream.
Go en-cash this opportunity, before you are too late.
 
Alright, I am just assuming you are not very convinced. So let me put before you one last piece of statistical evidence. Hear from me the prices offered last year during the same time last summer and you would start packing your bags before I complete my sentence. It was about HKD 5838 during the month of July as the fare price only. This would be a life-time of a deal which you sure don’t want to miss.
So can I say U.S. here we come!!!! Yea Sure I can :)
Source: United AirlinesLabels: Hong Kong to LA, Hong Kong to San Fransico, Hong Kong to USA, United Airlines Hong Kong to USA summer offers, United Airlines Hong Kong to Washington D.C, United Airlines Hot Deals |
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posted by HK Girl @ 2:05 AM
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 On June 5th, the Hong Kong Entertainment industry lost a gem of a star, a true talent, one of a kind! I’m talking about the sad demise of Veteran actor Shih Kien at the age of 96. He died on Wednesday at a Hong Kong hospital with his children by his side. He is reported to have died of kidney failure.I’m sure he had a life truly worth living. However, no matter how old a person gets, we keep wishing for his long life. Sigh!
The Hong Kong secretary for commerce and economic development said that the city has lost "an outstanding performing arts talent".
Shih made his entry into the Hong Kong Entertainment industry way back in 1940 and went on to star in 350 films! Shih also made more than 80 pictures about Chinese folk hero Wong Fei-hong.
In his 50-year career, Kien worked with some of Hong Kong's most well-kn  own  actors, including Chow Yun Fat and even Bruce Lee. When he was cast in the movie “Enter the Dragon”, with Bruce Lee, he did not even know English. He simply mouthed the lines. Could you make out? No Way! That requires talent. We mourn the death of this legendary actor with prayers of peace for his soul.
R.I.P Mr. Shih ! :|
Labels: Bruce Lee, Chow Yun Fat, Enter the Dragon., Hong Kong Entertainment industry, Hong Kong Film Industry, Shih Kien, Shih Kien’s Death, Wong Fei-hong. |
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| posted by HK Girl @ 1:19 AM
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| Monday, June 8, 2009 |
 Whoopie! The spectacular masterpiece of Andrew Lloyd Webber, Winner of musicals (and obviously hearts)..hold on…THE CATS are here in Hong Kong! Having set historical run records and won the prestigious Laurence Olivier Award and the Tony Award for the best musical, they are here to create another aural sensation at Hong Kong Lyric Theatre, The Hong Kong Academy for Performing Arts.
You surely do not want to miss the legendary composer’s music. Did I mention there’s going to be a performance on the poignant hit song, Memory? Well, we do have memories of ‘Memory’ being the most popular performance with a record of 8,949 performances in London alone!
Actresses Elaine Paige and Betty Buckley became particularly associated with the musical. CATS have played for 21 years, over twenty-six countries, in about three hundred cities, in ten languages. They sure did globalize din’t they?
I have gone to witness some beautiful performances. Awesome set, psychedelic costumes, great make-up, superb lightings, choreography… all in all...a you-got-to-be-there event!65 million people have already seen it..and trust me if you’d ask them, they’d not just nod their head..they’d roar in appraisal of the brilliant musicals.
For all those who din’t get the tickets to see the feral positions in perfect musical harmony, well, I can only hope you can see it when its released on VHS and DVD or broadcasted on TV. Till then, let me feel lucky! Hehe!Labels: Andrew Lloyd Webber, Betty Buckley, CATS, Cats musical, Cats musical memory, CATS the musical, Elaine Paige, Hong Kong Academy of Performing Arts, Lyric Theatre, Memory |
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| posted by HK Girl @ 12:01 AM
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| Sunday, June 7, 2009 |
June 4th marks a sad day for Hong Kong. It exposed the government to a large extent, showcasing corruption as the parasite eating its way into our economy. On the night of June 3 and the early morning of June 4, 1989, the Chinese military was sent to disperse people who gathered at Beijing’s central square for five weeks, raising a hand towards democratic reform.
It’s a day to commemorate that we stood up for what’s right although the Chinese government wants to write off the memory of the day from people’s minds. It was obviously a day of shame for them. However, according to the polls, Hong Kongers still oppose China’s verdict. For 1989, the death toll varies between 200 to 1000 ( according to the U.S Embassy). Tiananmen Mothers, a Beijing-based group of family members of the victims, had verified 195 deaths.
Although China has upped its score by showing remarkable socio-economic development and Hong Kong has become a semi-autonomous region of China having its independent legal system and constitution, the very fact that the candle-light vigil is being opposed by the Chinese government, shows that it is not fully confident with its verdict. It shows that they have faltered and yet want to draw a façade on it. But there shall always be the voice of Hong Kong echoing in the face of Beijing’s oppression. So long, Hail Hong Kong!Labels: Chinese Military, Hong Kong Candle Light Vigil, Hong Kong Democracy March.June 4th Protest, Hong Kong Politics, June 4th Hong Kong, The Hong Kong Alliance, Tiananmen Square, Tiananmen Square massacre |
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| posted by HK Girl @ 10:19 PM
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| Thursday, June 4, 2009 |
During it’s spring sales in Hong Kong, Christie’s Fine Wine Auction house sold a staggering $137 million worth of Asian art! These anomalistic sales figures lift up the sentiment in the Asia Art market..clearly!
Christie’s pre-sales estimate was $97 million for a four day sale in Hong Kong. The conservative valuations helped drum up demand.
Eighty percent of the 1,600 lots were sold for a total of HK$1.07 billion ($138 million). In the fall sale, 70 percent of the lots sold to half-empty auction halls. People….where did you get all that money. Personal note: I need to auction stuff too!
The spotlight of the auction series was the sale of more established categories of Chinese art, including imperial Chinese ceramics, which had the highest bids. I’m telling you..our culture seems to rock. Let’s hold onto it..dearly!
A pair of gilt-bronze "dragon" ritual bells from the Kangxi reign got the record of selling for a whopping HK$45.4 million ($5.86 million). Other top lots included a Qing dynasty Amphora-form vase that sold for $3.8 million and a "Tianqiuping" celadon-glazed vase that fetched $3.4 million.
Christie's CEO Edward Dolman says there’s a palpable sense of optimism with the success of this year’s sales for Chinese art. Christie holds biannual Asian art auctions which are seen as a barometer for the market.
The works of a batch of emerging, more cheaply priced, Asian artists have set new auction highs and that’s the reason why the Asian art auctions haven’t been performing too well. But with this auction performing better than expected, it is quite a ray of hope for Asian art.Labels: Art Auction sales, Chinese Art, Chinese art Auction, Christie’s Fine Wine Auction, Christie’s Fine Wine Auction house, Edward Dolman, Edward., Hong Kong Art Auction |
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| posted by HK Girl @ 1:38 AM
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| Wednesday, June 3, 2009 |
Come June 11th and you will know the real Gabrielle “Coco” Chanel. Guess we are a privileged lot considering the movie is due for release in Hong Kong first ( in the U.S the movie is due for release at the end of the year..so yea..feel important ! )Forget the fashion icon, forget the diva she is, she wants to portray her real self ( which according to me isn’t different! ). Her movie is due for release in Hong Kong on the day and I’m sure there’ll be eyeball grabbing audience..fashionistas or just people who adore Chanel.
The biographical movie is called as “Coco Avant Chanel”. It’s already released in France. The role of Chanel is being played by Audrey Tautou and the movie pulls out archives of the French designer’s life showing her childhood and slowly growing up to revolutionize fashion and how she bloomed in the true sense of the word. There’s going to be the scene of Chanel’s very first runway show.
 The movie’s costume designer, Catherine Leterrier teamed up with Karl Lagerfeld to show audiences how Coco’s style completely stood out with that oomph factor, in comparison to other ladies of her time.
 Coco Avant Chanel is partly based on Edmonde Charles-Roux's book, L'Irrégulière: Ou, Mon Itinéraire Chanel and Anne Fontaine, is directing the movie. The film will not attempt to tell the entire life story of Chanel, probably because it would be impossible to contain that much fabulousness in one film. Instead, Fontaine’s focal points would be Chanel’s youth. What’s a biopic without some spice eh? I’m sure you guys will get to have a fair share of that by watching Chanel as a cabaret singer and some of her amourous relations with the influential men who helped her enter the glamour world of fashion. From there begins her struggle and she ends up being one of the household names in the fashion industry. With her style and poise, Audrey Tautou is quite a doppelganger of Chanel.
 I’m like so looking forward to this movie to up my fashion quotient and curiosity kills me to know the primma donna of fashion came, saw and truly conquered!
Photo SourceLabels: Anne Fontaine., Audrey Tautou, Catherine Leterrier, Chanel, Chanel’s Runway Show, Coco Avant Chanel, Coco Chanel, CocoChanel, Edmonde Charles-Roux, Fashion, Hong Kong |
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| posted by HK Girl @ 10:54 PM
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Red Bull the much favored energy drink across the world!
Red Bull that helps me get away with the dozy nights!
Red Bull the power drink :'( !!
Recent tests which were being conducted in Hong Kong Centre for Food Safety showed traces of cocaine in the drink. The traces were minimal which would be from 0.1 to 0.3 micrograms of illegal drug per litre standards. But still its cocaine, ainnit?
This was a study done by the Hong Kong officials few days after 18,000 cases were being confiscated in relation to the Red Bull drink by the Taiwanese authorities. These tiny amounts of the drug were found in the drinks "Red Bull Cola", "Red Bull Sugar-Free","Red Bull Energy Drink". Although the amount of the cocaine in the drink is under the danger limit but the excessive consumption of the drink could be a little dangerous to health.
Although the independent tests being done by the Red Bull officials showed no such results and have asked Hong Kong authorities to recognize their error and take it all back.
Red Bull Authorities to believe or Hong Kong Authorities? To Drink or not to Drink? Only Time will tell the real story. But for me, Red Bull is on a halt for now ;)
Labels: Red Bull Taiwanese Authorities, Red Bull Cocaine, Red Bull Hong Kong, Red Bull Hong Kong authorities |
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| posted by HK Girl @ 12:20 AM
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