A source for the latest HK happenings (aside from your resident AnD) are local HK magazines, such as HK mag, BC, Beats, The list. Every week (or forthnightly) they each offer something different, showcasing a different perspective on similar topics or just opening my eyes to the HK scene. What i love reading first and foremost are the editors notes. If you are one of those people who just skip it to get to the main section...DONT. No, its not an order but you are definitely missing out. Editor's notes are often witty, opinionated, candid and give you something to think about. I spent the evening pouring over these magazines. Due to my erratic schedule I faltered in my reading, but with a clear evening ahead of me I picked up a BC magazine that I had lying around. Turned out the magazine was from the Valentines issue...yes yes..it was from that long ago. I picked it up, settled down with it and read the editors note. Interestingly it stated:

'Admittedly, it seems an everyday fact in HK that love has a dollar value'

HK is reknowned for being a financial capital. I've heard complaints that Hong Kong people are only concerned with one thing: making money. It is irrelvant what field they enter as long as there is money to be made. Could it be a fact that this mindset has stretched into the one aspect of life that I hold pure and with inviolable sanctity? That of love? Ok...maybe that is exaggerating to extremes but the jist holds true. IS a dollar value placed on love in HK? If one takes notice of the the window ads, the restaurant promotions, the packages all spread out just before valentines day then one could conclude yes. But that is just one day in the year..what about the other 364 days? I'm going to need feedback on this fact but how does one measure the love of their gf/bf? If it is how much money/gifts their significant other showers on them then there is a serious problem in our midst. Not only that but that is just so damn SAD. Love is not something to be taken lightly. Love shouldn't be measured by the material possessions one bestows on another or that one receives. Can you imagine.. 'my boyfriend gave me 10 teddybears. Your's only gave you 2..my bf loves me more than yours loves you.' SERIOUSLY!?? Even if you up the stakes and change the teddy bears to cars. Firstly...ok your boyfriend is loaded, props to you..but wth are you going to do with so many cars anyway. Love having a dollar value = materialistic relationship . It does in my eyes anyway and hey if thats what floats your boat then by all means enjoy. I don't think a relationship based on that could ever be happy one though. Intially maybe, but in the long run I see a lifetime of lonliness and a whole lot of junk accumulated. What do i know though?

I want to do something big, something different with my life. i dont want life to pass me and just be another blimp on the map. I want to look back and feel that I have made a difference. i want to feel the mark I have made and be proud that I was there at that time and I contributed to the succeess of that...whatever that is.

You never know where life is going to take you. So many dreams, so many aspirations but nothing is in your hands. Or is everything in your hands and it is for you to actualise it? Fate......sit tight and it will happen or get up and make it happen...which one is it?

I went to see an old teacher of mine the other day and when he found out that I was reluctant on the idea of pursuing law he pumped his fists in the air and shouted 'YES'. I burst out laughing, cause who would have thought that he would have had such a strong reaction to my mindset? His answer to my inquisitive look: 'you have too much humanity to be a lawyer'. I wonder if thats true. Do lawyers give up their humanity to succeed? Forget succeeding...just practicing lawyers...are they lacking in humanity? I constantly think about criminal law and i realise that I could never persue that area of law. Letting a guilty man go free, or helping to convict an innocent man. Brr..sends chills up my spine. Nah... the criminal field definitely aint for me. Ok commercial law...hugely popular in HK...devoid of all the moral implications. or is it? Commercial transactions  have their own issues and when there is hanky panky involved....and you are in charge of bankrupting another person or company or protecting the deceitful one. Aiyesh, i think of the families and the children and again i don't know if i could do it. Sure its not ALWAYS like that ....my world isnt a television show but when it comes around to it and something like this happens as it does time and again...could i handle it?

Was my teacher right? Am I too full of humanity to practice law? Possibly...

Never underestimate the power of persistence and faith




The poster says:
'If there is no struggle there is no progress'
Frederick Douglass