because lily loves words
2010年6月22日 星期二
a picture worths a thousand words
2010年5月16日 星期日
No We Can't
2010年5月9日 星期日
breakfast at lily's
2010年4月22日 星期四
yes i know i am wasted.
and thats exactly why i need a haven from doing absoeffinglutely nothing. (thanks to ms chanwan for helping me to master the art of swearing so well.)
What does newspaper mean to you? News, news and more news, literally papers of news? A subscription that you are made to make? Or some scrap paper to wrap up food remains before
sposing of? To Mr. Wong, newspaper has become his innovation in his bag-making career.
In the midst of city-wandering on a chilly Sunday with scattered showers, a few friends of mine and I got lost in the middle of the SoHo district in Central, trying to figure out where the famous-for-antique Hollywood Road is. Instead of looking for a map, my friend led us to try an error by passing through a narrow alley while I was still wondering if that is safe, especially when the street is utterly quiet with trucks unloading goods. Most of the shops were closed, but except one – a bright little shop with glaring florescent lighting out of the dark lane, with some tote bags dangling at the front of the store and a simple charcoal logo that reads “RECYCLED” with the first ‘E’ flipped to the left and uniquely in green.
We went into the shop out of curiosity, and as we took a closer look, these bags are no ordinary totes. The bags indeed were outlined by leather and buckles, but surprisingly you will be able to find large and small fonts here and there upside-down. If you are lucky, you may even find images like Obama’s big-headed pictures. The shop has got its name right – the bags are in fact made of newspapers, literally recycling uncontaminated, wasted papers.
A lot of bags these days are claimed to be made of eco-friendly materials that can be completely dissolved when discarded into soil, or even written boldly in fancy fonts to tell it is not a plastic bag. But these newspaper bags themselves have already carried the message – one that is much stronger, crystal-clear and more obvious to be easily understood in a glance.
‘You can feel the weather getting hot. Christmas in Hong Kong used to be cold, and I’m wearing T-shirts these days.’ said Mr. Max Wong, the shopkeeper as well as inventor of RECYCLED Bags, ‘Newspaper is something every family will use and everyone accepts. Who doesn’t? And it can be recycled. We could have saved a lot of paper by making good use of it. I just got these (newspapers) from the hotel next door. They (his products) turn out to be quite fashionable, don’t they?’
Not only is newspaper used for Mr. Wong’s bags, but a wide variety of recycled material ranges from traditional Cantonese rice bags to the red-white-blue canvas bag. If you still find these too dull and conventional, you can try the purses with bright tropic colours and shiny surface which are made of DHL express card boxes.
‘We are now also having Kowloon Dairy’s sponsorship.’ he said, as he showed me cardboards printed with the green skimmed-milk cartons we see every day in supermarkets. ‘They are sponsoring us for free, asking if we can turn these into bags.’
True, RECYCLED may be a small creative industry, but its sale is surprisingly fair. Celebrities like famous singer Nicolas Tse, the elder twin of the local ‘maverick film directors’ Peng Shun, Model Ankie Beilke have also shown their support for RECYCLED bags by purchasing several purses all at a time. ‘Westerners like the design. I guess they find it meaningful with traces of the Hong Kong style.’
Well, who knows? Maybe recycled materials and eco-friendly purses will be the vogue for the new decade. Girls, save yourselves some quotas from bland branded designers – an insightful yet chic design awaiting your appreciation and, of course, guilt-free usage!
edit: after serious consideration and a revisit to the shop, i have decided not to advertise the shop, and therefore the address of the shop is deleted. i'll further explain on that in the next post. pls note that the focus of uploading this article to share my hardwork and to seek recognition of my dedication to writing. thank you so much, my fellow subscribers and passers-by.
2010年4月15日 星期四
oh fmsl.
2010年4月11日 星期日
redemption.
- you look terribly gross the next day - panda eyes are a given, but what's worse is that you will have water retention. (well at least that applies to me.) New term, eh? (What is that?) it means you will have a puffy, round and faaat face when you wake up. Eh, gross enough to be the top 1 reason, i guess? i mean, it will be so unfair when you didn't gain any weight and seems to have when you have some your everyday female classmates/an uncle who just loooves to make fun of you new people (like your relative's new gf. you know who you are, my dear relative. lol.)/important people/to meet the next day. "Ooh, Kylie, you look chubbier than I last saw you!" Ouch.
- you are actually deteriorating your liver at a slow pace in long terms. this (haha) i know the theory behind. since the human body begins to produce blood (cells?) and repair dead cells at 1am, you have to sleep to rest so that such biological processes can take place. and if you don't, obviously the outcome won't be good. the most apparent sign/greatest drawback of nocturnal animals is that their skin will turn pale and yellowish (since they lack blood and their livers will gradually fail). Again, gross enough!
- you're basically daydreaming/sleepwalking when you wake up the next day. your brains is completely stuck and won't be able to think at all. my 2nd post is the epitome to that. and in long terms, you become stupid cos you can hardly think. yes, usually you will feel like you're not even sleepy anymore after 3am, but, firstly, you dont know what you're thinking, and secondly, you aren't even thinking. so....no no no no, babe, no no no no, don't lieee. plus, good night sleeps bring you higher efficiency. higher efficiency brings you satisfaction. satisfaction makes you love yourself and your work. loving yourself will break the vicious cycle of sleeping late while loving your work makes you stick to your work. sticking to your work = no more procastinating. ahahah. anyways we all need some good night sleep.
- have you ever experienced insomnia due to hunger. haha i mean, usually that happened when you had your supper early and sleep late. but now, regardless of when you're having your supper, and you're procastinating (my favourite word atm lol) your sleeping time to evermore late night hours, it is inevitable your belly will go grrrrrrrrr. then you start to scrap out all the junk food and chocolate you have at home to comfort your aching stomach regardless of how much weight you are going to gain, work a bit more, and jump into bed straight after you're done...oh did i mention the later you eat the more weight you'll gain cos you didnt have 4 hours to completely digest your food?
- if there are sorts of debts existing, sleeping debt must be the worst and evilest type. simply because it. is. never. completely. redempted. one day, you'll find yourself sleeping everywhere. your desk at school, on your chair, buses, anywhere at all. i've even seen people managed to sleep while standing in the tube. two main problems - a. again, you suck and look gross, and b. you are directly putting yourself into physical dangers if in public: being robbed, sexually harassed without knowing, getting lost when you overslept and missed your station, unable to escape from dangers like...eh let's just stop here before it got too unpleasant.