Higher Consciousness

A few nights ago, a children's choir from Uganda sang their hearts out at the new theatre at Discovery College in DBay, Lantau Island. The choir is composed of orphaned children who live in a kibbutz-type foster-parenting, leadership-training and learning community called WATOTO. Should you wish to support a child and help an African community of learners, click this link.

In June, the Wan Chai district will be hosting two major wellness-practice conferences. Click on the appropriate links below:

a. The Asia Yoga Conference

b. The Asia Consciousness Festival

For arts aficionados, the following nation-orientated festivals are up and coming as well:

a. Le French May

b. The Italian Month in Hong Kong

c. The Philippine Arts Festival

Hong Kong has its surprising share of life-changing events. Soak it up late in spring and for the rest of the summer!

Ladies, lift that face!

This season's global recession can bring the doom and gloom to our faces. Yet, Hong Kong is a resilient city, and many a new job-seeker has remained optimistic about the future by putting on one's biz suit and heading out to one's favourite cafe to hang out and....erm, look for a [IMPORTANT: LEAD TO] a job.

But the ladies will have to spend a little more time flushing their cheeks and pouting their lips. 

NEWSFLASH! It looks like NARS will be having another make-up tutorial at Lane Crawford, so sign up when you can. If you want to join a group that's got its finger on the fashionista recessionista events in Hong Kong, joing Sassy Hong Kong. For more ladies' gatherings, there's The Helena May, and for those who like to strut their stuff, sing and dance, join the Kassia Women's Choir.

But here are my favourite make-up brands. Some membership packages cost nothing at all when you sign up AND include a free make-up session for formal gatherings and noteworthy events.

1. Shiseido - Membership here comes with one free make-up session, unless the terms have changed.

2. Shu Uemura - No one in this city does your brows as well as Shu.

3. Bobbi Brown - I love the earthy shades on my skin. I look like I'm wearing nothing on my lips, but I get that properly enhanced pout we women put on before dinner. Visit Elements or Lane Crawford.

4. Lancome - Go to the Harvey Nicks branch; I found the perfect RED that suits me there.

5. Clarins - Not for the face, but for the form....if you know what I mean. 

And whenever you feel like mixing and matching shades and brands, there's always the one-stop cosmetics shop all over Hong Kong! SASA!

Buffet for Nomads

Imagine a hole in the wall diner reminiscent of SM Megamall's MR SHOOLI but with sheepskin seats and friendly staff refilling your drinks.

The place is NOMADS, a Mongolian Barbecue diner in Kowloon. 55 Kimberley Road (kim ba lay toh). Highly recommended for the diner's light, thin-crust pizzas and their delicious Asian grub bowls...all suited to the customer's taste because the customer is in charge of preparing it!

Click this link and then click on 'Kowloon' and 'NOMADS'.

Measure for Measure: 'We are all frail.'

I must keep this line in mind. Funny while Angelo and Isabella were quibbling away at the blocking of Act II, Sc 4, I couldn't stop thinking of how the line really meant.

WOMEN ARE FRAIL. FULL STOP.

It echoes Hamlet: 'Frailty, thy name is Woman.' Shakespeare had just written and staged _Hamlet_ a few years before moving to Silver Street where, in 1604, he wrote _Measure for Measure_.

Angelo later says, 'Nay, women are frail, too.' We'll see about that.

Visit Measure for Measure's LCSD webpage. 

Hotlines: 2111 5999 and 2734 9009. 

Tickets at URBTIX w.e.f. WED, 25 Feb 2009.