Panem et circenses!

Photo credit: Andrada Coos

“Bread and circuses” once said Julius Caesar and he was right. Good food and entertainment can make your days peculiar and memorable. This weekend, an opportunity to see, smell, hear, touch and taste new things was already the opportunity to learn about another culture and embrace its best sides.

Friday - Hotpot and Mahjong

We gathered all after work for hotpot dinner. I didn't know about it before, but it involved food, bunch of old and new people though already sounded really tasty.

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How does it feel to live in Hong Kong?

“Convenient”. That’s the answer I've heard most of the times from other interns and foreigners. Most of them are here for a year or two and still are willing to stay as long as possible.

But that’s still not my case. It’s been nearly 3 week of my residential stay in this place and so far I honestly don’t have many warm feelings to this place. Neither bad. But it’s still not my place and just a simple idea of whole year stay doesn't please me much. Anyways, I just need to give some time for it.

But Hong Kong is a very interesting place. The original translation of Hong Kong is “Fragrant harbour” which might refer to “the harbour waters sweetened by the fresh water estuarine influx of the Pearl River, or to the incense from factories lining the coast to the north of Kowloon, which was stored around Aberdeen Harbour for export before the development of "Victoria Harbour” (http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Hong_Kong). The official name of the city is ‘Hong Kong Special Administrative Region of the People's Republic of China’, but both “Hong Kong Special Administrative Region" and "Hong Kong" are also accepted.

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So yes, Hong Kong this time!

Hello my dear friends, fellows, buddies and colleagues. Although it wasn't so easy, I’m finally here in Hong Kong, have my visa, room, know how to get to my work and now trying to pretend being a local person.

“Why are you choosing countries where people are so different from you?”, -

asked a friend of mine right before my departure. And to be honest, I couldn't give a right explanation for it. First, it was Sri Lanka, now Hong Kong. Two so discrepant places. But still Asia, still something extraordinary and unusual. I can’t say what really brought me to Hong Kong. Maybe a little seek of adventures, a feel of boredom. Still Hong Kong was never in my Bucket list.

But I came here because of job opportunity it offered to me. In a short way of explanation, I am a project associate in Jockey Club Design Institute for Social Innovation, the Hong Kong Polytechnic University (J.C. DISI). Now our main task is to organize huge international festival of Social Innovations (http://www.disi.polyu.edu.hk/socialinnovationfest2013/)

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