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undreds of young environmentalists participated in the Global Strike for Climate Action on March 15.

The objective of the rally was to present a letter to the Hong Kong authorities urging them to take stronger action over climate change.

In a statement published on March 13, in anticipation of the protest, student organisers asked the Hong Kong Government to establish youth representatives in the Steering Committee on Climate Change, to create a dedicated Climate Action Officer, and to commit to Photo courtesy of Cheung Chi Wai increasing the city’s reliance on renewable energy to more than 3% or 4%, as outlined in Hong Kong’s Climate Action Plan 2030+. The student organisers stated, “It could be a great advantage to have youth representation [in the government] for climate change in Hong Kong as this would allow future generations to have a voice and more control over our collective future.”

As part of an international day of protest, over 800 Hong Kong activists and students – mostly from international and English Schools Foundation schools – marched from Chater Garden in Central to the government headquarters in Admiralty. While many schools with students involved in the protest did not approve their absence from school, the Hong Kong Committee on Children’s Rights supported the students’ involvement and encouraged parents, teachers and police to respect their decision to protest.

In a media statement released on March 14, the Hong Kong Committee on Children’s Rights said, “Children are citizens of our society, and they are entitled to speak their minds and express their views,” Furthermore, the NGO asked the Education Bureau to “make it clear [to school authorities] that any punitive action against the participating students is undesirable.”

The international day of protest was inspired by a fellow teenaged climate-change activist Greta Thunberg, from Sweden. Greta staged a school strike outside the parliament in Stockholm in August 2018 and has since been nominated for a Nobel Peace Prize. Similar protests under the hashtags #FridaysForFuture and #SchoolStrike4Climate were held in over 100 countries including the cities of Shanghai, Hangzhou, Guangzhou, Shenzhen, Chaoyang, Taipei and Taoyuan City.

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Green Dragons HK is a collection of dragon-boat teams across Hong Kong who are working together to make a difference to Hong Kong’s beaches and seas by pledging to ‘paddle without plastic.’ The pledge includes using reusable water bottles, dedicating time to clean-up beaches after practices, and trying to influence organisations around Hong Kong to get involved.

Dragon boater Suzanne Younan founded Green Dragons HK in 2017.

Appalled by the plastic pollution left in Typhoon Hato’s wake, she was determined to make a difference and looked to her own experience as a place to start. “I had to do something, anything, to help with the problem Hong Kong was facing,” says Suzanne. “I joined several beach cleanups but felt this just wasn’t enough. The bandage on a gaping wound.”

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n March 31, the Rotary E-Club of Lantau celebrated the inauguration of the Rotary Community Corps of Lantau, a new volunteer group. The mission of the Community Corps is to identify community needs and promote solutions through bringing the knowledge and talents of its members to its assignment and projects.

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It was through her experience training and racing on Hong Kong beaches as part of the AWA Globe Paddlers dragon boat team that Suzanne brainstormed combining dragon boating and working to combat plastic pollution.

Dragon boating leads to waste and pollution through single-use plastic, such as plastic water bottles, and rubbish that is discarded on beaches.

To prevent this, Green Dragons HK works with dragon-boat teams and festival organisers with the goal of eliminating single-use plastic during training and festival events. Suzanne hopes to have 40 teams signed up to ‘paddle without plastic’ by the end of the 2019 dragon-boat season, and she has seven volunteers helping to spread the word.

To join the initiative, visit the Green Dragons HK Facebook page.

Lantau and one of the organisers of the Community Corps invites “anyone and everyone, no matter where they live, to get involved.”

The Rotary E-Club of Lantau is a community service organisation whose membership includes local business, professional and community leaders. The club focuses on supporting youthoriented, environmental, locally focused projects in the Lantau region, as well as district and international initiatives.

To learn more about the Rotary E-Club of Lantau and the Rotary Community Corps of Lantau, visit rclantau.webs.com.

Although the official launch was in March, the Community Corps has been actively supporting Lantau district functions since 2018. Initiatives include organising youth volunteer groups in two secondary schools in the Tung Chung area and conducting home visits to elderly people with mobility difficulties. For its next project, the Community Corps is looking for volunteers to provide translation services between doctors and ethnic minority patients at North Lantau Hospital.

Over 60 Rotary club members are involved in the Community Corps and Andrew Wong, the past president of the Rotary E-Club of

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e try to devote these pages to the talent on your side of the island – after all, we have Around DB to trumpet DB’s movers and shakers – but an exception has to be made for DBers Saxon and Jarvis Whittaker, aka Case Sensitive. Why? Because they rock.

If you’ve seen the brothers – Saxon, 13, and Jarvis, 11 – busking on the Star Ferry bridge, or on stage at high-profile local events, including the Hong Kong Sevens, The BIG Picnic and Clockenflap, you’ll know what I’m talking about. These boys sound like the real thing, in fact they are the real thing, and did I mention they’re barely in their teens?

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So how did they get to be so good? “We practise whenever we get free time,” says Jarvis. “We practise guitar as well as singing, if we don’t our fingers stop being used to it and they become soft again.”

Being part of Y Rock has given the boys some fantastic training and performance opportunities, and they also have… a pretty talented dad! Yes, that would be Blaine Whittaker, probably the most sought-after saxophonist in Asia with his band, and as a studio and touring musician.

“Our house is always full of music,” says Jarvis. “We get a lot of inspiration from Dad. He helps us with our music – with songwriting tips and stuff like that.”

Saxon and Jarvis Whittaker

Interesting enough, it was Back in Black by AC/DC that got the boys “obsessed” with music. They’re also into Kurt Cobain, Keith Urban, Guns ’n Roses, Green Day, David Bowie, Queen and The Beatles.

“We just really love that kind of music,” says Saxon. “We don’t really listen to the modern music that other kids would.”

“And we love it when we’re up there performing,” shares Jarvis. “We see people’s faces when we’re on stage, and after the shows they come up to us and tell us, ‘That was fantastic!’” “When they start singing along it makes us feel great,” adds Saxon. “We just love playing to people.”

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long with his two cousins, South Lantau resident Brenton De La Harpe is taking part in the 90-kilometre Comrades Marathon in his native South Africa this coming June.

The cousins are hoping to raise HK$550,000 (1 million South African Rand) for breast cancer support group Reach for Recovery (R4R), a charity that is very close to their hearts.

“I actually don’t really like running that much and it takes a bit of will and effort to get me out there every day,” says Brenton. “The thought occurred to me to find a reason to run. My mother and aunt both succumbed to cancer, and their sister (to whom I am very close) is a breast cancer survivor, very active in her local branch of R4R. So I called my cousins in South Africa and suggested we run Comrades together.”

No stranger to long-distance running (he ran the Hong Kong Marathon in February), Brenton does most of his training in Lantau – around the airport perimeter, on the beaches, along the South Lantau Road and right along the catchwater. Distances vary between 10 kilometres and 40 kilometres.

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Marathon-running cousins, with Brenton De La Harpe far right

And Comrades is not Brenton’s first charity event for breast cancer. He was instrumental in organising the Fly Pink Airport Perimeter Walk in 2018, which was part of Cathay Pacific’s month-long drive to raise funds – he got permission from the police and airport authority, recruited the marshals, and also planned the route itself.

“We raised over HK$17,000 on the day for Reach for Recovery,” Brenton says. “And over the month of October, Fly Pink raised over HK$350,000 through merchandise sales for Hong Kong Breast Cancer Foundation.”

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A PORTRAIT OF THE TREES OF HONG KONG AND SOUTHERN CHINA

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ong-time Mui Wo resident Sally Grace Bunker has spent the past seven years working alongside two botanists from The University of Hong Kong, Professor Richard Saunders and Dr Pang Chun-chiu, on A Portrait of the Trees of Hong Kong and Southern China. This impressive tome, which features over 100 of Sally’s gorgeous botanical illustrations, is finally hitting the shelves in May. “I would describe it as a sort of ‘crossover’ book, in that it is both an art book and a scientific textbook. It’s also packed with folklore, fun facts and medicinal usages,” Sally opens. “Our aim has been to celebrate Hong Kong’s most historic trees, and an interesting local touch is that all but one of the trees also are found on Lantau - we are blessed with the most amazing biodiversity here on our island.”

“The work highlights 109 of Hong Kong’s 390 native tree species, with watercolour illustrations,” Sally adds. “We have focused on those trees that we believe are worth celebrating in their own right, partly because they tell us something about the natural and human history of Hong Kong.”

An accomplished artist (a fellow of the UK’s Society of Botanical Artists) – and a patient one – Sally describes the creative process as both laborious and hugely satisfying. After locating a tree she wanted to draw, she had to return to it at least three times to record its growth cycle. “I did the drawings then and there,” she says. “And I also had a special permit to take samples to work from at home.

“People say that I could just have taken a photograph.” says Sally. “But a photograph,

however close-up, cannot convey all the details nor the essence of a plant. A botanical painting shows the details of its growth, its flowers, its fruit, its structure, everything about it. A photograph just gives a shot of that plant frozen at one given time. Moreover, botanical illustration is an art form which can show many structures with a depth which cannot be captured in a mere photo.

On the one hand it’s a work of art, but it also highlights the scientific information.”

Sally Grace Bunker

Sally has put a lot into Lantau life, since she and her husband Bob bought a weekend cottage in Shui Hau in the mid-80s. Right from the start, she became involved in ‘green’ issues, helping protect and monitor feral cows in the wetlands.

The couple moved full time to Mui Wo in 1996, and Sally set up and ran (as Principal) South Lantau’s first international kindergarten – Leafy (now part of Lick Hang Kindergarten). She decided to retire and take up botanical painting full time when she hit 60, 10 years ago. Nowadays, in addition to her painting projects, Sally is the founder of SLUGS – the South Lantau United Gardeners, and she is helping WWF-HK restore the gardens at Island House Conservation Studies Centre in Tai Po.

A Portrait of the Trees of Hong Kong and Southern China, published

by Earnshaw Books, is available at major bookstores, including Bookazine, and on Amazon from May. You can also pick up your copy at VIBE in Mui Wo, where Sally plans to host a series of talks and book signings. For more on Sally, visit www.leafy.hk

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TIG’s adventure camp is for kids, aged eight to 15, who want to experience a variety of exciting outdoor pursuits as well as develop outdoor leadership skills. There are different activities each day, in various Lantau locations, with overnight camping at TIG’s private campsite. To register call 2546 3543 or email inquiries@treasureislandhk.com.

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Felix & mina was founded in 2002 in Frankfurt, Germany, by a group of passionate mums who love ‘mini’ fashion. The stylish, comfortable range, for girls and boys aged two to six, is made from stretchy and breathable eco-friendly textiles. To find out more visit www.felixmina.com. www.felixmina.com

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BAYVIEW HOUSE OF CHILDREN Bayview House of Children provides two weeks of Easter fun for children, aged three to six, in DB North Plaza. The creative programme, held in the mornings, includes arts and crafts, musical movement, gardening, science and cookery. At the afternoon multi-sport programme, kids learn various sports and play fun, physical games. Enrol for three hours dropoff, mornings or full days.

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Tung Chung rocker Glen Alfred opens up about his busy concert calendar and cutting his first EP. Elizabeth Kerr reports

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his scares me to death. Promoting myself scares me to death. I like to keep life private and simple,” declares emerging rock star Glen Alfred of the interview he’s currently doing in support of his first extended play record (EP).

Glen says this with a chuckle but… while he doesn’t exactly bristle at being called a rock star, he does squirm. He neither aspires to nor believes he’ll sell millions of records (purely the purview of Beyoncé and Taylor Swift now), and his low-key life in Tung Chung belies any burning desire to be the second coming of Van Morrison (a major influence).

Musical influences and the EP Glen is a bit of a contradiction; reserved about shameless selfpromotion – more Thom Yorke than Freddie Mercury on stage – but affable and easy to talk to over coffee. And make no mistake, he’s quietly making a name for himself here, on the mainland and in the US. A self-proclaimed ’80s kid, singer-songwriter Glen counts ’70s troubadours like Dan Fogelberg and Van Morrison among his influences. “I love the way he uses his voice,” he says of the latter.

“You want to say someone cool whenever someone asks you about influences, and Morrison’s an easy one to go to.”

Currently, Glen’s also really into Bon Iver, Beck, the UK’s Ben Howard and City and Colour out of Toronto.

A one-time trombone teacher, session player and co-producer for other musicians, Glen never intended to put a band together here, nor did he actively consider making a record – something he could have done 20 years ago. But with a little prodding from his wife (he’s lived in Tung Chung with his family since 2017), he finally knuckled down to make his debut EP, out now – glenalfred.com.

The self-titled EP is five tracks worth of guitar-based, moody atmospherics reminiscent of Paul Weller or Eels that would best be consumed in a dark, smoky bar. The slightly irregular skip-beat of Run stands out, and Glen himself likes Something Not Right, about indifference to human life, as a product born of life in Hong Kong.

“I think it’s harmonies that draw me in,” he continues of his musical leanings. “The sound of the album is what I used to play, and what I used to write. It was very acoustic.”

The band he’s gigged with regularly over the past couple of years have tended to play boisterous bars… boisterously. “So if you see us live, compared to the album, it’s a bit rockier, funkier, and we play

up to that a bit,” says Glen. “But I always wanted the album to be for people to sit down and listen to. No tickling the eardrums too much.”

Gigging in the mainland (and in HK) Unfortunately for anyone looking to catch Glen live, Hong Kong’s not his primary market. He records in Shenzhen, and most of his live shows happen on the mainland and in the US. “There are really only two Hong Kong venues that I play – The Wanch and Peel Fresco Music Lounge – and I’ve never really pursued them.

It’s a bit of a contentious issue for me because I know that as an artist your roots are where you’re from,” he reasons. “That’s what I love about the US. I have a bunch of musician friends in Charlotte [North Carolina], and even there you could go out every second night of the week and see a good band. I’m not doing music to do music in Hong Kong. I very rarely play here.”

Which isn’t to say he’s abandoning the SAR. Glen is working on developing an Asian circuit, and he does pop up around town from time to time. Fans can definitely look forward to seeing him play Rotten Head Music & Craft Beer Festival on October 26 in Tat Tung Road Park, Tung Chung. (Hong Kong’s newest family festival is already creating quite a buzz and you can grab your tickets when they go on sale in June.)

Meanwhile, Glen is enthusiastic about gigging on the mainland. “I’ve got a lot of musician friends living there,” he says. “It gives me a stage to play on and work through new songs on.

“I’ve played in some great clubs throughout the mainland and at festivals like the Midi Music Festival in Beijing. I also play a lot of private showcase events. Audiences are both local and expat and I’m finding that the younger Chinese are eager to hear and experience new sounds that haven’t been available to them in the past.”

As Glen’s mainland fan base grows, possibilities with an agent have opened up. “I have an opportunity to showcase my songs in a film that is being shot in Beijing at the moment,” he says. “And I’m also about to release my EP on QQ and other mainland platforms.”

Opportunities in the US Of his forays into the US music scene, Glen says modestly, “I’m really only starting out, so any opportunity to play in front of an audience is one more person I can share my music with.”

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with some A&R types, who have shown interest. (In case you need a translation: A&R – Artists and Repertoire – is the division of a record label responsible for talent scouting and overseeing the artistic development of recording artists and songwriters.)

“In addition to doing some house shows in the US in the summer, I’ll open for some artist friends who already have an established fan base,” he says. “What I can do with my music in Asia is limited, so I’m keen to put my effort where I believe I’ll get the best result.”

Glen admits to cabin fever if he doesn’t play for extended periods, but ironically, he will have to make more records in order to keep up the American touring schedule. He admits to finding the songwriting process “painful.” Still, he has five more tracks in the can should he choose to release a second EP; he pulled a Prince and dropped the idea of a full-length album because the remaining set gels with the first five.

Smart business? “I don’t exactly do it for the money,” Glen says with a grin. “But I would like people who are good at what they do in this industry to get rightfully rewarded.”

Glen Alfred in Tung Chung

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What’s in store for South Lantau property in this new Year of the Pig? Elizabeth Kerr reports

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ate last year, prognostications for Hong Kong’s property market overall in 2019 were bleak. A Sino-US trade war was impacting commercial rents, a slowing Chinese economy was flattening tourist spending (even with strong arrival numbers), and interest rate hikes and a wobbly mid-year stock market performance were negatively affecting sentiment.

By December, Knight Frank had projected a 10% dip in residential markets. Savills estimated up to 10% in the luxury sector. JLL put the figure at a stiffer 15%. And Colliers International made its forecast in January – after a late year rally – estimating anywhere from 2 to 4% drops by the end of 2019.

“Everyone is waiting – to invest or to buy a home. And that indicates continuing demand in the market,” begins Hannah Jeong, Colliers’ head of valuation and advisory services. “So, the question becomes one of how much further will the market dip? How long will it go on?” Indeed, with Christmas and two New Year holidays making for a traditionally slow season, it’s still anyone’s guess as to whether 16 LIFE ON LANTAU April / May 2019

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Hong Kong is looking at a sustained correction or a typical blip in the radar that will see prices spiking again come summer.

A short-term adjustment Hong Kong has been ranked the least affordable city in which to live in the world for the ninth year running by the Demographia International Housing Affordability Survey. According to the survey it would take the average Hongkonger over 20 years to save enough to buy a flat outright, and there are rumblings that the market is already set to rebound. In some cases predictions are for 15% gains by the end of 2019.

“We believe the current fall of residential prices is more likely a short-term adjustment, driven by weak buying sentiment,” said Colliers in a weekly Market Intelligence report in January. “A healthy labour market, positive economic growth, and a supply shortage should support residential price growth in the longer term.”

Whether or not prices recover to outpace 2018 remains to be seen, but prices are cooling, and developers could be toying with the idea of maintaining the discounts they’ve been offering as incentives (along with generous loan-to-value financing). Land sales are being adjusted down, but profit margins are still healthy according to Colliers’ Hannah. That could keep first-hand residential prices under control, though Hannah doesn’t expect any relaxations on lending restrictions and the cooling measures of the past five years, something she calls disappointing.

JLL executive director Joseph Tsang agrees, arguing the measures are now redundant, and hurt the crucial secondary sector. “At the moment there’s no need for any protection because the market is going down. Those measures are there for when the market is hot.

All these measures are a burden now. It’s like diving. When you dive you need all this lead to weigh you down but when you want to surface it’ll drown you. There’s no speculation at the moment, and the Special Stamp Duty deters owners from selling if they need to.”

Joseph warns of a worst-case scenario of prices falling off 25%, but stresses that’s still in correction territory.

“Without being able to predict the future, I believe this is a correction,” echoes Kelly Merrick at HomeSolutions Real Estate in Lantau.

“A contributing factor to this correction was uncertainty of financial institutions regarding the interest rates. Banks started tightening the lending practices due to this concern. This concern seems to have decreased in recent months and banks seem to be lending again.”

Home prices fell 2.4% in December, indicating price falls may be moderating and bringing the year’s tally to just below 10% since the correction seemed to begin in July.

Time to remove the roadblocks

Village houses in Mui Wo at dawn

So where does that leave Lantau in the grand scheme of things?

“In South Lantau prices are quite similar to prices in 2018; we typically do not see the market changes as quickly as larger areas of Hong Kong. The number of sales transactions has backed off a bit Hong Kong-wide since September, as people were waiting to see if prices would change,” notes HomeSolutions’ Kelly, adding

Mui Wo is undergoing gentrification

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So far Lantau has ranked low on investor wish lists, but the HZMB, which connects Hong Kong to the Greater Bay Area initiative, could change that that enquiries and interest have picked up since the last quarter, with potential clients hoping to catch the low end of the cycle before it heats up again.

But other factors are now realities that will soon have quantifiable influences on Lantau, the least of which includes the presence of the now-operational Hong Kong-Zhuhai-Macau Bridge (HZMB), a seemingly unshakeable commitment by government to landfill off Tung Chung, and aggressive new development in Mui Wo and Cheung Sha. Lantau has long been a lifestyle location – affordable and convenient for middle-class families, green and low-key for those seeking space and nature, and increasingly luxurious thanks to developments like Riverwalk, WHITESANDS and Botanica Bay. So far Lantau has ranked low on investor wish lists, but the HZMB, which connects Hong Kong to the Greater Bay Area initiative, could change that.

The island still presents as a better value option – prices per square foot are more varied – and rental yields are strong. Of course, investment can potentially mean speculation, which can bring the market back to square one. However, Kelly agrees with JLL’s Joseph that it’s time to remove the roadblocks from residents’ paths to purchase.

“With more people forced to rent while they wait for permanent residency (versus paying a larger stamp duty), the demand for rentals has gone up,” Kelly adds.

With demand up, supply could potentially get pinched. “Last year, we saw international families that were targeting HK$55,000 to HK$75,000 per month reduce to a sweet spot of HK$50,000, which gets roughly 1,000 square feet. We think that shift is going to stick,” theorises Letizia Garcia Gasalino, head of residential services at Colliers.

Aggressive new development in Cheung Sha

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“In South Lantau, families can rent a 2,100 square-foot village house with a 700 square-foot rooftop for between HK$35,000 and HK$50,000,” says Kelly. “Some homes include gardens and/ or nearby parking.” On top of that, quality schooling options across Lantau are adding to the demand. Families are willing to move to villages like Mui Wo, Pui O and Cheung Sha even if it means mum and dad have to travel farther to the office.

As Kelly sees it, the rental boom defeats the purpose of the cooling measures, which was ostensibly about bringing prices under control. “We believe that loosening purchasing restrictions for all residents would decrease rents and stabilise the sales market.

We would recommend a smaller percentage of the purchase price being cash for permanent residents to assist them when buying their first home. Many families would be able to afford a mortgage, but do not have the cash needed for a 30% to 50% down payment,” she says.

Easing the parking crunch Regardless of who can or cannot purchase a property, Lantau’s future remains relatively bright. The natural environment that attracts residents is still there (at least for now), and the closeknit local communities, in locations such as Mui Wo, Pui O and Cheung Sha, are welcoming to expats, making the villages a magnet for newcomers to the city.

Increased tourism is likely to stoke the micro economy and increase housing demand across Lantau. Kelly cites new villas springing up in South Lantau as evidence of growth, as well as new land tenders totalling as much as 110,000 square feet of residential space.

But there will be challenges. The ongoing land shortage cuts across all districts, and more interest rate hikes, no matter how incremental, will mean less cash on hand for some owners.

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On a more prosaic note, Kelly lists a parking crunch and road capacity as challenges Lantau will need to overcome.

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“If I could make an appeal to the government, I would recommend that they build numerous multi-storey parking garages for cars and bikes on Lantau,” she emphasises, arguing they would reduce illegal parking as well as address a need in a part of the SAR that is a bit more car-reliant – safe car and bike parking is a must. The government is indeed expanding its parking capacity, but according to Kelly “it’s not enough for current demand, much less any population growth.” And we know how bullish the government is on Lantau’s population growth.

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1 I’m a list girl. I have a library of notebooks – people leave them at Ark Eden and I recycle them. This one says ‘Let’s run away’ on the front. It’s interesting because I’ve just run away from my job. I’m on a five-month ‘sabbatical’ because I wanted some time to think about the big issues we are facing.

I’m thinking about a better plan for Lantau rather than the ridiculous Lantau Tomorrow Vision and about ‘zero-waste’ rather than the disastrous Shek Kwu Chau incinerator. There’s also my great dream of a forest school in Mui Wo. 2 I have this piece of ‘plasma arc’ on my butsudan [Buddhist altar]. In 2005, when the idea for the incinerator first came up, so many of us worked so hard to stop it. But the government went ahead.

Thirty-one finless porpoises were found dead last year. Shek Kwu Chau is their main breeding ground – was. When this thing starts smoking, we will all be dying too. I still hope and pray something will happen and it won’t come off. 3 I carry a head torch because I’m often still walking somewhere way up in the hills when it’s starting to get dark. Without it, I have to feel my way down. 4 You gotta have a hat in this town. I really like this one (not because I’m a Liverpool supporter!) but because it fits

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my head perfectly and it has a big brim. 5 I’ve been carrying this Buddhist guidance around for 25 years, and I still haven’t got to the third part yet. The first part says once you make your mind up and believe you’ll succeed then the universe will get to work.

The second bit says you are the Buddha in charge of your life, and the third part says at some point you must start working out your own enlightenment. 6 This painting of Lantau was a birthday present from a friend. She wrote at the bottom, “Jen, this is your land.” This is my vision board of a perfect, peaceful Lantau.

This place is paradise and I hope people realise that. I wish our rising consciousness would rise faster. 7 This is my red ‘love me’ book. Unless you love yourself, you’re never going to get anywhere… On August 18 last year (a significant date for me), I decided to write down something I did for myself every day, and I realised I didn’t do anything! But this exercise has helped me improve. I’ve got my sabbatical because of this book.

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FENG SHUI

FENG SHUI: The Bagua Map

By Samantha Wong

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n order to successfully apply feng shui in your home, you need to determine where each room is located on the bagua map. This is simple enough to do but first you need to decide whether you are going to follow the Western (BTB) bagua or the traditional bagua. Both BTB and traditional baguas are divided into sections, connecting areas of your life with areas in your home. Each section also corresponds with one of the five elements.

You can do a BTB bagua reading in three easy steps. Step 1: Draw the BTB bagua grid (pictured) on tracing paper. Step 2: Superimpose your grid over your floor plan, aligning the bottom row of your grid with the wall of your front door. Step 3: Note down which parts of your home are governed by which sections on the bagua grid. This will allow you to work on specific areas in your life by improving the energy in the corresponding area of your home.

A traditional bagua reading works in much the same way, except it takes the points of the compass into account. You need to take the compass reading of your front door in order to line up your bagua grid and floor plan correctly.

Plotting your course

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You can achieve this through colour and material use. It’s easy enough to invite more wood energy into a space by introducing some green-coloured or real-wood furnishings. But note that the bagua takes things a step further. While you can up the wood energy in the family section of your home by adding green elements, the wealth section of your home, also associated with wood, is boosted by shades of blue, purple and red.

The shapes you choose to decorate with are also important, since each shape represents a specific element. Triangles and stars are associated with fire, squares with earth, round shapes with metal, curvy shapes with water, and rectangles with wood.

In many ways, feng shui is so literal, you can work it out intuitively.

Should you decorate the travel corner of your home with photos of countries you want to visit? Yes. Will placing candles and flowers in the love and marriage section of your home boost your sex life? Definitely.

BTB bagua map

If your floor plan is not a perfect square or rectangle, sections of the bagua will be foreshortened or missed out altogether, and you’ll have to work at filling in the energy that is lacking. Remedies include introducing potted plants to activate the area or hanging crystals, especially when there is a window.

If a whole section is missing, place mirrors on both walls of the interior corner to expand the area.

Extensions, like a bay window or balcony, are a positive in feng shui even if they fall outside the bagua grid. This is because they extend the good energy that you are creating within the bagua.

But back to basics. Once you know where a room fits in the bagua grid, you’ll know which element needs to be supported in it. So, let’s say your living room is in your creativity area, you may want to introduce more of the metal 24 LIFE ON LANTAU April / May 2019

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Hiking sections 4, 5 and 6 of the Lantau Trail from Ngong Ping to Tai O, Claire Severn battles medium-sized mountains, the Tunnel of Doom and some seriously massive spiders

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ay two of our Lantau Trail hike. More than three months have passed since my buddy and I completed the first part of our challenge, and our leg muscles have just about forgotten the trauma of climbing Hong Kong’s second and third highest peaks in one day.

Relieved to arrive safely at our starting point of Ngong Ping after a rather hair-raising blue taxi ride, we set off for what we hoped would be a more relaxing rest of the day.

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Section 4: Ngong Ping Section 4 of the Lantau Trail is basically a big loop, affording great views across the valley and over to the north of the island. It starts at Wisdom Path, around a 5-minute walk from the Big Buddha. Here, you see two signs for the Lantau Trail. Section 4 follows the path heading through the trees, away from Lantau Peak.

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are a few steps to climb along the way, but the path soon starts to head downhill again as you circle back towards your starting point.

Arriving back at Ngong Ping, we lost the trail for a while – the signs at this point are somewhat confusing – but eventually we figured out that we just needed to head straight through the village to join the main road.

From there, the trail heads downhill to the junction of Sham Wat Road and Keng Shan Road, where the archway marking the start of section 5 looms ahead. Again, the signs here could be clearer, but we took a punt and decided to follow the yellow sign uphill towards Man Cheung Po. We made the right choice.

Section 5: Kung Shan and Ling Wai Shan This was where the hike got tougher – the incline at the start of section 5 is somewhat steep, but at least the route is shaded in parts, and Tai O soon comes into view in the distance.

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On the final stretch with Tai O in view Wisdom Path

We took time to pause at distance post L037, where the views open up all round – a welcome moment or two to catch our breath. After this point, the path rises and falls as it snakes its way across the hills until it reaches the summit of Kung Shan, at 459 metres above sea level, and Ling Wai Shan, which peaks at 490 metres.

The thing that struck us most about this section of the trail was how remote it seemed. We were literally in the middle of nowhere. Apart from the distant sound of aeroplanes, there was no noise, nothing. It was an odd feeling – a tad disconcerting but also incredibly freeing at the same time.

Beginning our descent downhill, we followed the signs to Man Cheung Po. After a while, the path became shaded and we found ourselves tracking alongside a large stream. We loved this section of the walk. The sound of flowing water and birds chirping in the trees was in stark contrast to the barren hills we’d trekked across just a few minutes before.

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Section 6: Man Cheung Po to Tai O One of the highlights of the walk was finally discovering the famed Lung Tsai Ng Yuen, the ‘garden of enlightenment,’ founded in 1962 by textiles baron Wu Kungsheng. Having fallen into disrepair after Wu’s death, the gardens and buildings have now been restored by Wu’s family, however they remain closed to the general public.

Although we couldn’t see much of the gardens (the barking dogs were enough to prevent us getting too close), the view across the lotus pond was stunning. I would say it made the whole hike worthwhile, however at that point I didn’t know the trauma of what was to come.

You see, we did the hike in summer. And what do you get in Hong Kong in the summer? Spiders, and lots of them. For an arachnophobe like me, this section of the hike was pretty much terrifying, as we had to duck under web after web, while avoiding all the spiders on the ground. Seeing how freaked out I was becoming my friend nicknamed this stretch of the trail the Tunnel of Doom. He thought better of his urge to make me jump over the spiders (wise man).

But the local wildlife didn’t get the memo, and I let out an almighty

scream when an atlas moth flew into the side of my neck at the exact point I passed underneath one of the glistening webs.

To make matters worse, the path down to Tai O was one of the steepest inclines Arachnophobes might avoid section 6 of the trail in summer I’ve ever encountered, and my wails about spiders were interspersed with cries about how much my toes were hurting. It was quite honestly brutal and I couldn’t have been happier to reach the bottom of the hill.

We’d made it to Tai O. Time for a celebratory drink at café Solo before making our way home, where a few months later my toenail showed me just how vicious that incline had been by falling off.

Six sections of the Lantau Trail complete. Only the other six sections (42.5 kilometres) left to go...

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hen not busy providing wealth management advice, James Ramsey (front and centre, above) is busy coaching the Lantau Beach Warriors club he founded in 2014. James is a former rugby coach and athlete, and he provides free coaching and training through the club. Of his motivation, he says, “I have seen the toll that Hong Kong work schedules can take on people and their families. It's mostly men who are guilty of having too many beers after stressful working days and this can quickly lead to health problems.”

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In the same way that James helps members of the Lantau Beach Warriors club protect their health, he also helps families protect their wealth. His overall goal is to help as many people as possible get both physically and financially fit.

James focuses on what he calls 'family protection.’ In addition to estate planning, life insurance, health Insurance, wills and trusts, his top tip is to make sure spouses know how to access the family’s bank accounts and that they know what they would need to do if their spouse or partner passed away or was incapacitated through ill health or an accident.

When sitting down with a family, James starts with questions like: Would your spouse be able to get into the bank accounts immediately? Does your spouse have the passwords and logins?

How would your spouse claim on any life insurance policies?

How long would it take to get the money? Do you have assets in different jurisdictions and do you therefore have wills in those different jurisdictions to make sure that probate could be carried out as quickly as possible for the sake of your family?

As a father of three daughters, James makes it a priority to advise his clients on how to get their family affairs in order. “It's heart-breaking when families are broken by death or serious ill health and left with no idea how to handle their affairs,” he says.

“Dealing with bereavement is hard by itself but if you are left having to deal with complicated financial affairs, then despair can set in very quickly.”

James has found that linking finance to fitness helps demystify it for families, making money matters more accessible and easier to talk about. “Most people find talking about finance quite boring,” he says. “People associate finance with having to invest money and are then nervous about investment performance. We are bombarded with news telling us the world is in crisis. People are put off.

“But I manage a number of my Warriors’ finances, and I have found that getting them physically fit, has actually made it easier to also get them financially fit,” he continues. “Working with them in the training sessions helps me find and understand their priorities – both physically and financially. By training together, the Lantau Beach Warriors improve their health and also do their families a huge favour by living longer and healthier lives.”

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Sustainability through STEMinn at Stamford American School Hong Kong

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he World Economic Forum, held in January this year, listed the top skills required for the future, for the so-called ‘Fourth Industrial Revolution,’ to include higher-order thinking skills such as complex problem-solving, critical thinking and creativity. What is key is that ‘essential skills,’ like these, can’t yet be mimicked by artificial intelligence.

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“We know that technology is developing constantly, but it can’t replace creativity and the innovative minds of people. We can’t guarantee what jobs there will be in the future, but by giving children the tools to succeed in a variety of fields, we can certainly help with future-proofing,” comments Linda Cheung, STEMinn coordinator at Stamford American School Hong Kong.

To this end, an ongoing whole school project sees students engaging in authentic, inquiry-based projects related to sustainability.

Sustainable Stamford will culminate in a two-day event (May 2 and 3) with activities, workshops and showcases of students’ work.

“For this reason, Stamford’s STEMinn programme commences at age five,” Linda adds. “It was developed to drive innovative thinking as well as expand the higher-order thinking skills students need to be successful upon graduation. The innovation [inn] component added to the STEM programme [science, technology, engineering and mathematics] allows students more opportunities to engage in design thinking in the following steps: Imagine, Design, Create, Evaluate.”

This design thinking process sees an idea transformed into a practical solution which solves a real-world problem. At Stamford, students engage in design thinking through both individual and team projects. This approach to learning brings creativity to life while developing skills such as problem-solving, coordination with others and project management.

“Coming up with creative solutions is important but being able to test, fail and improve is even more so. Deep learning for the students comes during the evaluation phase where they learn how to improve their work; this phase often is the beginning of further exploration, not the end,” says Linda.

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Not surprisingly, Stamford students love the STEMinn approach.

“By digging in and engaging children with what is relevant to their lives and speaks to their interests, we are able to provide them with meaningful learning experiences,” Linda explains.

Students are planning their investigations in composting, mealworm farming and vertical gardening. Further activities on the planning table include making detergent from fruit enzymes and pencil cases from Tetra Paks, and transforming plastic waste into art murals and unwanted goods into high fashion. The idea is that students gain confidence when they see that their ideas can be realised and put to good use. Each grade level focuses on topics relevant to their curricular content.

“Our upper elementary students and middle school will use their innovative skills and knowledge to build solar cars and remotely operated underwater vehicles (ROVs) using sustainable materials.

ROVs can be used to gather important data, using AI technology to track debris (of various origins) in the ocean more effectively,” says Linda.

“To leave Hong Kong a cleaner place, there will also be a series of beach clean-ups followed by workshops on how to repurpose plastics and, more importantly, on how we can reduce their use.”

Sustainable Stamford challenges students to look beyond their classrooms, and to recognise that they have a role to play in the world. For example, Grade 5 [Year 6] students are working on the

United Nation’s Sustainable Development Goals (SDGs).

“Students are now at a point where they have chosen one of the goals to focus on and they are about to develop an action plan of ‘teaspoons of change’ that they can make,” Linda explains. “The teacher leading this project has created a Humans of Stamford library through which teachers share their past experiences, their involvement in positive actions in the areas covered by the SDGs. Students are finding these lived-through anecdotes truly inspiring.”

Through Sustainable Stamford, students will discover ways to incorporate habits of sustainability into the school’s daily routine – and they will be inspired to take action at home and in their local community.

“Sustainable Stamford will serve to educate both students and parents,” Linda concludes. “And we are proving that a STEMinn approach to education is the way forward, not least because it empowers our students to think of themselves as changemakers.”

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One of the toughest short courses in Hong Kong, The Trail Hub’s Lantau Stairmaster, on March 16, saw participants go up and over Sunset and Lantau peak twice.

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AND FLOATING KIDS BUN SNATCHING BUN SNATCHING AND FLOATING KIDS The Cheung fallson onMay May12 12this thisyear. year.

CheungChau ChauBun BunFestival Festival falls Here areare 10 things you need totoknow Here 10 things you need knowabout aboutitit

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The Cheung Chau Bun Festival draws tens of thousands local and overseas tourists every It is held the TheofCheung Chau Bun Festival draws tensyear. of thousands ofon local daytourists of the fourth lunar month, coinciding andeighth overseas every year.

It is held on the eighthwith day the of Birthday. theBuddha’s fourth lunar month, coinciding with the Buddha’s Birthday.

The festival originated in 18th the 18th century when Cheung The festival originated in the century when Cheung Chau Chau was devastated by plague and infiltrated by pirates. was devastated by plague and infiltrated by pirates.

Local Local fishermen anofimage of Pak Tai, the God of fishermen paradedparaded an image Pak Tai, the God of Water, Water, through thetovillage to drive evil spirits. through the village drive away evilaway spirits.

It iswhole customary thevegetarian villagers to vegetarian for three The villagefor goes forgo three days during the days during the Even seven-day celebration. the local seven-day festival. the local McDonald’s Even takes meat off McDonald’s takes meat off its menu. its menu. additiontototraditional traditionallion liondances and dragon dances,dances, children InInaddition and dragon dresseddressed as legendary and modern areheroes suspended children as legendary andheroes modern are above theabove crowd the Floating Procession.

They are suspended theincrowd in the Floating Procession.

They secured within they appear appeartotoglide glide are secured withinsteel steelframes, frames, though though they throughthe the air. through air.

TheFloating FloatingProcession Processionisisled ledbybyaahuge hugeimage imageofofPak PakTai. Tai.Local Local The musiciansbeat beatgongs gongsand anddrums drumstotoscare scareaway awayevil evilspirits. spirits. musicians Thebun-snatching bun-snatchinghappens happensatatmidnight midnightininfront frontofofPak PakTai Tai The Temple.Historically, Historically,young youngmen menofofthe thevillage villagewould wouldrace raceupup Temple. three,60-foot 18-metre bamboo towers hold thebuns. buns.The The three bamboo towers to to getget hold ofof the higherthe thebun, bun,the themore moregood goodfortune fortunethey theycould couldexpect. expect. higher Thebun-snatching bun-snatchingritual ritualwas wasbanned bannedbybythe thegovernment governmentinin The 1978after afterone oneofofthe thebun buntowers towerscollapsed, collapsed,injuring injuringmore more 1978 than100 100people. people.ItItwas wasreinstated, reinstated,due duetotopopular populardemand, demand, than 2005. inin2005.

The Floating Procession

Since then, 12 trained selected from Since then, only only 12 trained athletes,athletes, selected from preliminary preliminary competitions, havetobeen to enter the competitions, have been allowed enterallowed the bun-snatching bun-snatching race.

There is now only one bun tower, and it race.

There is now only one bun tountain, and it has a steel hasbamboo) a steel (not bamboo) framework. (not framework. lotofofcredit creditfor forthe thefestival’s festival’srevival revivalisisgiven giventotoHong Hong AAlot Kong-madeanimated animatedfeature, feature,My Kong-made Life as McDull, which My Life as McDull , which was wasreleased releasedininDecember December2001.

2001.During Duringthe themovie, movie,McDull McDull decides decidestototrain traintotobe bean anOlympic Olympicathlete athletebut butthe thesport sporthehe learns – not anan Olympic sport. learnsisisbun-snatching bun-snatching – not Olympic sport!

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At midnight, villagers villagersburn burnaapaper papereffigy effigyofof At aa quarter quarter to midnight, the Ghosts Ghosts,light lightenormous enormousincense incensesticks sticksand and the King of the share out the buns. Everyone parties late into into the the night. night.

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