I think this is likely to be my last post of 2024. Would have liked to post more regularly but these days (compared to 20 years ago), I don’t use the laptop for personal reasons much… and I really hate writing long posts on the hp.
Just concluded my last Korea trip of the year! Visited Korea an unbelievable 6 times this year.
March – visited with global head. (Work)
April – Busan holiday + Korea Open (Personal)
June – Korea Language Immersion Programme (Personal)
Early September – visit with colleague from London (Work)
Late September – Westival (Personal)
December – Roy Kim’s concert (Personal)
To be fair, the trip in Dec wasn’t exactly planned and in Sep, I told my colleagues that I wouldn’t be back till next year. What I didn’t expect was that Roy Kim would launch an international fan club, which I joined, and that allowed me to buy a ticket to his year-end concert through the fan club pre-sale. I really wanted to go for his concert in 2023 but didn’t manage to get a ticket – they were sold out in 3 min. (The Interpark website is amazing for ticket sales. Way better than Sistic or Ticketmaster but that’s another story on its own).
So while I was in Seoul last week, I was wondering how did my favourite holiday destination change from Hong Kong to Seoul? I asked myself what did I like about HK that has changed? These were the thoughts that popped into my head:
People – I used to like the vibe and culture in HK. The people had this hunger and drive about them and I loved the energy.
Music – I used to love Cantopop. Well, I still like it but my favourite artistes aren’t as active as before… Sammi Cheng, Miriam Yeung, Hacken Lee, Andy Hui (well, I don’t really like him anymore after his affair). The newer singers don’t inspire me at all.
Movies – It’s shocking how the blockbusters are still headlined by the same actors that I watched 20 years ago. While I enjoy seeing my favourites on screen still (Louis Koo, Andy Lau, Nicholas Tse)… it’s kind of sad that there’s no new blood that’s as big as these people?
I think if my salary allowed it 15-20 years ago, I would have visited HK 2-3 times a year as well. However, the circumstances didn’t allow it then and now HK just seems a little “lost” to me. I still have one thing on my bucket list though – I want to attend a Sammi Cheng concert in HK. Hopefully I’ll get to do this in 2025.
There are a lot of things I learnt this year and the one thing I want to work on (on myself) is to take time in doing things. A peer commented in my 360deg feedback that I tend to be anxious to get things done as efficiently and quickly as possible but taking a bit more time before responding to any issues would be better. I think that is good feedback so I’m forcing myself to slow down a little these days.
Ideally I would be able to post something once a week, if not at least once a month. But we’ll see. 🙂
Peace out and may the rest of 2024 bring peace and joy to all.
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