E V E R Y D A Y . B E A U T I F U L . P U R P O S E F U L
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Thanks to Tracy – we played "Baby Sitters" this weekend as she brought home 2 young toddlers (15-month and 3-month old)! Felicia and I were kinda worried for her as: 1st, she never had any baby-experience. 2nd, 2 toddlers??? We just wondered how she is going to manage these kids – especially when they were sleeping OVERNIGHT. (Those kids were Tracy’s friends’.)
Guess what? The experience was good… and for that spilt second – I felt like making my Number 2. Elkan handled these toddlers very well – not a slight hint of being jealous -when daddy was hugging and carrying young "Is-a-Bell-lah". These kids were great, very easy to take care. But poor Tracy, she has to sacrifice her Saturday date with her pilot BF and home-arrest with these kids. She was in and out of the kitchen making milk, clearing diapers and tugging the babies to sleep.
November 14, 2009 Leave a comment
There are many shopping malls and office blocks (be it small or big) in Hong Kong that are in this "sick and stupid" trend of locking up toilets. It is not because their bowls and taps are made of gold..but most of the mall toilets are "meant for tenant only" (and not for its shoppers!). If that is the case, why bother to open a mall? If you need to use the toilet, you need to get a key from the tenants.
Last weekend, one of my favourite mall "Winsor House" joined this sick trend and started locking up its toilets. I have to walk around the entire mall looking for the one and only toilet or the shoppers – which was located at the basement. And when I reached there, I saw a long queue of women. Trust me, it was long – about 30 ladies! Lucky for me, the queue for the Gent was so much shorter – only about 5 people in the row.
That was it! It pissed me off so much that I went straight to their customer service counter and yelled at the poor receptionist. I cannot see the logic at all! The mall rather let their shoppers spend quality time queuing for the loos than shopping and spending money? That was just so fu**king STUPID! In fact, Winsor House was undergoing "upgrading works" now – an it says "let your shopping desire flow" on one of their hoardings. Yes, let my shopping desire flow elsewhere! The whole shopping experience was so lousy!
To my bigger horror, I later found out that the toilets were only locked on weekends (when it was also the busiest period!) ! This is certainly ridiculous! And after some observation, I suspect the ill-intention of the management. There were a lot of foreign workers gathering around the mall – my guess is they may not want these people to use the toilets. And if my assumption is true, then it will be a bigger sin – the management is simply racist!
Last Tuesday, the operation manager called me to "smoke" me with their standard "customer-service script". I interrupted her speech and gave her a hostile lecture about shopper marketing. Seriously, if they can’t afford to keep the toilet opens, why bother to run a mall? And if they are worried about the non-shoppers who just come and use their toilets – they can simply put a cashier outside each toilet. Better still, shut down your mall entirely!
November 14, 2009 Leave a comment
SHOE BRAND – CAMPER – did a "hit-&-run" guerrilla marketing stunt today at Causeway Bay. It was superbly entertaining and attention-grabbing. Surely, people noticed the brand (but not sure if this drives sales later). Still, the dramatic act attracted a lot of press media and froze the entire shopping street. The actors were super cool in their acting and they made fun of the people along the street. Watch my video capture below (Poor construction worker – he was just paving the road and he didn’t know he was the "highlight" of Camper’s joke until much later).
October 31, 2009 Leave a comment
(Photo Taken: Trick or Treat? Halloween Cake – Baked by Felicia.)
October 31, 2009 Leave a comment
Halloween is certainly more fun than Christmas and Chinese New Year. At least, it has a lot more characters than all festive combined! In fact, you can come to a Halloween party dressing up as an "Evil Santa" or a sexy "Fortune Goddess". More than just blood, gore and creepy faces, it is a spectacular costume-festival. Too bad, it isn’t a public holiday
This year, Halloween falls on a weekend. It certainly brings up the mood of this festive. For a moment, I thought I was back to Tokyo! Halloween so so big here in Hong Kong. The shopping streets at Causeway Bay looked like Elm Street! Beisde the usual "Draculas", we saw lots of cosplays (sexy nurses, sluts, policegals) and under-dressed superheroes. These "characters" were superbly friendly – you can pose with anyone on the street. We bumped into Spidey and he even webbed Elkan a candy! For me, I spotted a real sexy policegal (in hot shorts) and quickly grabbed Elkan to "woo" her. I said "Take my son away and lock me in your cell!" (Stupid Tracy, she took the photo waist-down! She missed the long sexy legs!)
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