VIBErations podcast Ep 28. Tony Gormley at VIBE Book & Music Shop in Mui Wo on Lantau Island in HK on 31st May 2021

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BIO

From Glasgow, Scotland, weighing in at 0.08 metric tons - Tony Gormley – ‘does some law’ and owns a gym – Buffalo Strength in Mui Wo.

He wasn’t a raging success as a lawyer on a professional, financial or even personal level. He had the odd successes and met a lot of interesting people, and it paid his bills.

Owing to volatile circumstances he’s not comfortable speaking in detail about his professional activities during the last 24 months; but it involved a lot of waiting in cells and enjoying luxuriantly cold air conditioning in Winter. He also contributed to the odd book for Halsbury's.

The gym is his passion and his medicine. He started it in 2018 during a fit of depression, but doesn’t want to wholly credit that for the small success it has become. There members are largely, lovely people who have made his business sustainable, in spite of the shutdowns this and last year. They are the cream of humanity and they will be your friend. I’d urge you to go and meet them.

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Buffalo Strength, starts at $1950 for 3 months

10 Questions….

1. Favourite book or author? - 'Lanark' by Alasdair Gray

VIBErations podcast Ep 27. Dr. Rhona Buchanan at VIBE Book & Music Shop in Mui Wo on Lantau Island in HK on 28th May 2021

BIO

Dr. Rhona Buchanan has a wealth of experience since qualifying as a vet many years ago… She worked for 4 years with the PDSA a UK animal-based charity caring for the health of all domestic pets of those with a low income. A further 4 years as a self-employed locum working the length and breadth of the UK, many of the practices she covered were one vet clinics where she ended up covering for the owners on a repeat basis.

4 years as a Veterinary Director for Cats Protection - a UK animal charity where she was heavily involved in supervising the welfare and care of all the cats rescued by the charity. She liaised with all the Veterinary Clinics providing treatment and also with UK universities ensuring the cats in her practice were receiving the best and most modern standard of Veterinary care.

Over the last 14 years as part of her managerial roles she’s been proactively involved in coaching and mentoring young vets both in UK and in Hong Kong. Given there was no provision for a Veterinary service on Peng Chau Dr Rhona has now launched Peng Chau Veterinary Home Visit Service aiming to service the area of Peng Chau and the outer islands. She can only provide a home visit service and is therefore limited in the services she can provide. However, when it is clear that any pet requires more attention than she can provide, e.g. radiography, surgery or hospitalisation, she has an excellent working relationship with many vet hospitals on Lantau and Hong Kong Island and can arrange a referral.

She therefore offers a basic diagnosis and treatment of most conditions, and of course preventative health care: vaccinations, flea, tick & worm control. She can also assist owners looking to leave HK. She is able to source and supply most medications and food supplements given 48 hours notice.

10 Questions

1. Favourite book or author? - 'Outlander series' by Diana Gabaldon

2. Favourite musical artist? - Runrig, Yes, Classical music and Jazz

3. Preferred drink? - Good Gin & Tonic, Whisky or a pint Murphy's

4. Life motto? - Treat others as you'd want to be treated yourself

5. Favourite HK walk? – Anything around Peng Chau

6. Favourite HK restaurant? ¬- Hemmingway's in DB

7. Faced with a python whilst walking up to the Peak, what would you do? - Stand still and admire it

8. Best advice you were given? - We have 2 eyes, 2 ears and 2 hands for a damn good reason

9. Finish this sentence… I live in Hong Kong because… I was bored in the UK

10. Favourite area of Hong Kong? – Peng Chau

VIBErations podcast Ep 26. Karing Frontiers at VIBE Book & Music Shop in Mui Wo on Lantau Island in HK on 12th May 2021 Featuring interview with Angelica Cheng and Benny Berkenkotter

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2 of 8 university students who have setup an NGO called Karing Frontiers. The purpose of ‘Karing Frontiers’ is to provide fundraising for refugee Karen students in Myanmar. VIBE has donated to this very worthy cause by donating 2 ‘goody bags’ for prizes in their mid-June raffle and sponsoring a student for 1 year via their website at www.karingfrontiers.com

This year, Karing Frontiers is aiming to raise HK$302,000 to empower 534 students and 60 teaching staff among five different post-secondary schools located in refugee camps. HK$560 is all it takes to sponsor one student for a whole academic year. Angelica Cheng is a rising junior at Tufts University, studying electrical engineering. A high school trip in 2018 to the Thai-Myanmar border would lead to her developing a passion for working with refugees and marginalized peoples.

In the following year, she began a high school project in the effort to secure access to higher education in the refugee camps on the Thai border. Eventually, the project would lead to the beginnings of Karing Frontiers, a registered NGO in Hong Kong. Now, when she’s not losing sleep to school, she works as the program director at Karing Frontiers.

Benny Berkenkotter is a rising junior environmental science major at the University of Vermont. He has been a part of Karing Frontiers since 2019, where he visited the Karen refugee camp and got to help with taking photos and videos of the students and teaching English. Now, he helps with coordinating fundraising strategies to keep the schools in the refugee camps afloat. His goal with Karing Frontiers is to give the Karen education system a stable and worry-free future so that the future generations of the Karen people also have a chance to become staples in modern-day society.

VIBErations podcast Ep 25. Film Producer and Author Bey Logan at VIBE Book & Music Shop in Mui Wo on Lantau Island in HK on 29th April 2021

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BIO

Bey Logan is the most successful and prolific non-Chinese film-maker in the Hong Kong and China movie industries. Over the last three decades, he has worked with and for the movie legends Jackie Chan, Chow Yun-fat, Gong Li, Sammo Hung and Jet Li. After relocating to Hong Kong from England, Logan worked for action superstar Jackie Chan, writing and producing the documentaries ‘Jackie Chan:

My Story’ and ‘My Stunts’, the films ‘Gen-X Cops’ and ‘Gen-Y Cops’ and producing the smash hit ‘The Twins Effect’. Bey also wrote and produced the US$60m epic ‘The Medallion’, starring Jackie Chan, which was filmed in Ireland and Thailand. In 2016, Bey wrote and produced the martial arts epic ‘Crouching Tiger, Hidden Dragon: Sword of Destiny’. The film stars Donnie Yen, Michelle Yeoh and Veronica Ngo, and was shot on location in New Zealand. It was a hugely successful release worldwide on Netflix, and theatrically in China. Bey was a producer on the critically acclaimed smash hit Vietnamese thriller ‘Furie’, the most successful Vietnamese of all time, and the country’s submission to the Academy Awards in the Best Foreign Language Film category.

In 2020, Logan produced the martial arts thriller ‘Furies’, the action-packed follow up to ‘Furie’, shooting on location in Vietnam. At the same time, he produced a History Channel documentary, ‘Killing Bruce Lee’, about the mysterious death of the late great Little Dragon. Bey Logan lives in Hong Kong, where he runs a Hung Gar kung fu school, the Kwai Fong Martial Club, and has published five books, including the best-selling ‘Bruce Lee and I’. He is the proud father of five Eurasian children, and speaks English, Cantonese and French.

10 Questions

1. Favourite book or author? - 'The Border Trilogy' by Cormac McCarthy

2. Favourite musical artist? - Bruce Springsteen

3. Preferred drink? - Coffee

4. Life motto? - We are spiritual beings having a human experience

5. Favourite HK walk? - Mui Wo Waterfront

6. Favourite HK restaurant? ¬- Sole Mio in SoHo

7. Faced with a python whilst walking up to the Peak, what would you do? - Take as many pix as possible and then leave at speed

8. Best advice you were given? - 90% of succeeding is just showing up

9. Finish this sentence… I live in Hong Kong because… whoever you are it allows you to become that which you are prepared to work for…

10. Favourite area of Hong Kong? - Mui Wo!

VIBErations podcast Ep 24. Larry Feign author of 'The Flower Boat Girl' at VIBE Book & Music Shop in Mui Wo on Lantau Island in HK on 19th April 2021

BIO

Larry Feign is an award-winning artist and writer based in Hong Kong. He is well known for his long-running daily political comic strip “Lily Wong”, which satirized life in Hong Kong before and after the handover to China until he retired the cartoon in 2007. Feign’s work has appeared in Time, The Economist, the New York Times, The Atlantic, and other publications around the world. He also directed animated cartoons for Walt Disney Television and Cartoon Network.

He is a MacDowell Fellow and three-time recipient of Amnesty International Human Rights Press Awards. He now writes books full-time, including a best-selling children’s book series under the pen name MD Whalen. The Flower Boat Girl is his first novel for adults. Larry Feign lives in a small village on Lantau Island, not far from old pirate haunts, with his wife, psychologist and author Cathy Tsang-Feign, their two dogs, and the occasional uninvited python.

For information about his “Lily Wong” and other cartoon books, please visit https://larryfeign.com https://piratequeenbook.com

10 Questions

1. Favourite book or author? – Children’s biography of Thomas Eddison

2. Favourite musical artist? - Joni Mitchell

3. Preferred drink? - Coffee

4. Life motto? - Quote from Katherine Dunn

5. Favourite HK walk? - Mui Wo to Tung Chung

6. Favourite HK restaurant? – Tung Fong Siu Kee Yuen in Wanchai

7. Faced with a python whilst walking up to the Peak – Just walk away

8. Best advice you were given? - To drop out of a teacher training program

9. Finish this sentence… I live in Hong Kong because… Because its home

10. Favourite area of Hong Kong? - Mui Wo!

VIBErations podcast Ep 23. Martin Malden of 'Lantau Network' at VIBE Book & Music Shop in Mui Wo on Lantau Island in Hong Kong on 23rd March 2021

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BIO

Martin Malden is a permanent ex-pat. He grew up on a farm in what was originally Southern Rhodesia, when it was part of the Federation of Rhodesia and Nyasaland, in central Africa. After leaving school at the end of 1970, he did his National Service in 1971 and then went down to Durban, in South Africa, in 1972, where he spent his student years.

After graduating, he returned to what was by now simply Rhodesia, and went to work in the Ministry of Commerce and Industry as secretary to two committees. These committees allocated foreign exchange to businesses developing industrial or commercial projects. By 1977, with the bush war in full swing, Martin could see by virtue of his position at Commerce & Industry, that the country was running out of money. So at the age of 25, and with thoughts of starting a family, he decided to leave Rhodesia, and arrived in the UK in May 1977.

He survived 17 years in the UK, eventually finding himself working in the then-fledgling mobile phone industry. He went self-employed in 1994, and joined a small team that came to Hong Kong in January 1995 to write the licence application for what became Sunday. The success of that project led to other projects in East and South Asia, where governments were issuing new mobile phone licences. Martin found living and working in Asia to be much closer to the entrepreneurial, self-reliant lifestyle that he grew up in – and the decision to make Asia his home was an easy one. Today, 26 years later, Martin has his own web development agency on Lantau Island and is thoroughly enjoying life!

10 Questions

1. Favourite book or author? - 'The Afghan' by Frederick Forsythe

2. Favourite musical artist? - Freddie Mercury

3. Preferred drink? - Gin & Tonic - Bombay Tonic

4. Life motto? - You'll have many acquaintances but very few friends so take care of them

5. Favourite HK walk? - Mui Wo to Pui O

6. Favourite HK restaurant? - The Sai Sha Café at Ma On Shan

7. Faced with a python whilst walking up to the Peak – what would you do? - Give it a very wide berth

8. Best advice you were given? - Same as life motto

9. Finish this sentence… I live in Hong Kong because… Because it’s easy and affordable to live here

10. Favourite area of Hong Kong? - Sharpe's peak Sai Kung

VIBErations podcast Ep 22. Martyn Ludlow at VIBE Book & Music Shop in Mui Wo on Lantau Island in Hong Kong on 1st April 2021

Local author and businessman Martyn Ludlow. His recently published book ‘Porridge & Honey’ is available now at VIBE and we hope to have Martyn in for our next Facebook live presentation. Martyn was born in South Wales in 1959 and joined the Financial Services industry in 1984.

He enjoyed a career in both management and as a Financial Adviser. Martyn specialises in providing bespoke financial advice to higher net worth clients. His clients live throughout Asia, the UK, Europe and the Middle East. Martyn now lives in Hong Kong, representing St. James’s Place Wealth Management. An avid student of personal development Martyn has spoken all over the world including:- Chicago, Hong Kong, Zimbabwe, Vienna, Salzberg and Monte Carlo. In his spare time he enjoys performing stand-up comedy for charity and is now a published author with his second book well on its way…

9 Questions

1. Favourite book or author? - ‘Sapiens A Brief History of Humankind’ by Yuvai Noah Harari

2. Favourite musical artist? - David Bowie

3. Preferred drink? - A full bodied red wine

4. Life motto? - Be yourself everyone else is taken

5. Favourite hk restaurant? - Shore or Goucho

6. Faced with a python whilst walking up to the Peak – what would you do? - Reverse and exit slowly

7. Best advice you were given? - Work hard - stay humble

8. Finish this sentence… I live in Hong Kong because… I can

9. Favourite area of Hong Kong? - Here - Mui Wo Lantau

VIBErations podcast Ep 21. Photographer Patrick Dransfield @ VIBE Book & Music Shop in Mui Wo on Lantau Island in Hong Kong on 10th March 2021

Patrick Dransfield, a long-term resident of Hong Kong, has long attempted to express through the medium of photography and writing, the empathetic connectedness we share as human beings. He has a deep interest in the visual arts and literature, of both the west and China. “It is my profound hope that through preserving these fleeting moments of Beijing street life from the 1980s, east and west can once again be reminded of our common humanity: our common needs, desires, hopes and dreams.”

Patrick holds a BA (Joint hons.) in English and History of Art from Leeds University and an MA in Far East Area Studies (Chinese Anthropology, Chinese History and Chinese Politics) from the School of Oriental & African Studies (SOAS), University of London. Patrick’s book, “Track of Time: Moments of Transition”, was published in January. The author is donating 10% of the proceeds to the Children’s Cancer Therapy Development Institute, Oregon, USA. Additionally, VIBE supporters enjoy a 10% discount!

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10 Questions

1. Favourite book or author? The Magus, John Fowles : central characters Nicholas Urfe and Maurice Conchis – Island of Phraxos and London.

2. Favourite musical artist? Bob Dylan – (Its alright Ma, I’m only bleeding) My eyes collide head-on with stuffed graveyards False gods, I scuff At pettiness which plays so rough Walk upside-down inside handcuffs Kick my legs to crash it off Say okay, I have had enough What else can you show me And if my thought-dreams could be seen They'd probably put my head in a guillotine But it's alright, Ma, it's life, and life only

3. Preferred drink? Depends on who is buying? Red wine - a Bordeaux, especially a good Pauillac (PU -YAC): wouldn’t say no to the Sauterne Chateau d’ Y’Quem (D’Qem) – very happy to settle for a 1999 Chateau Musar, however. I used to make wine and brew beer with my dad so on this the most serious of your questions I will use a Latin phrase which is close to what the amateur wine making judges had as their motto: ‘Ludex vinum insua merita’ – which means ‘Judge the wine on its own merits’.

4. Life motto? Don’t follow leaders: watch the parking meters from Dylan: ‘Ut ameris amabilis esto’ from Ovid: which means ‘If you want to be loved, be lovable”.

5. Favourite hk walk? Lantau Trail 6, I think. The bit that goes over 3 small peaks one of which is called Ling Wu Shan

6. Favourite hk restaurant? Best meal recently? La Petit Maison: best ambience? Tap Tap in Pui O and FCC main bar or outside by the pool at USRC, depending on whether I want company, or not.

7. Faced with a python whilst walking up to the Peak – what would you do? Actually this happened to Carmen and I on Lantau trail 6 and it was a cobra, shedding his skin in the spring. Standing still and not panicking usually means the snake vacates the premises. Having a stick and making noise before hand is a good preventative. A snake is not a monkey – I had to throw my lunch to one particularly aggressive macaque monkey on Monkey Hill. …

8. Best advice you were given? Punctuality is the courtesy of kings.

9. Finish this sentence… I live in Hong Kong because…of my wife Carmen.

10. Favourite area of Hong Kong? South Lantau – on our balcony in Ham Tin village

VIBErations podcast Ep 20. Jo Farrell @ VIBE Book & Music Shop in Mui Wo on Lantau Island in Hong Kong on 25th March 2021

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Jo Farrell BIO

Jo Farrell is an award-winning black and white photographer and cultural anthropologist. Born in London, England she has been based in Hong Kong for the past 12 years. Her photography work focuses on traditions and cultures that are dying out, including the project “Living History: Bound Feet Women of China.” Jo uses black and white film and shoots on a Hasselblad camera.

She has been the recipient of numerous awards for her work on bound feet including a Jacob Riis Award, Black & White Spider Award, Center for Fine Art Photography and Women In Photography International winner juried by Mary Ellen Mark. She has had solo exhibitions in London, San Francisco and Hong Kong and has been included in group shows in New York, LA and Denver, Colorado. Her project has received critical acclaim and has been published internationally including The Smithsonian magazine, Huffington Post, Wall Street Journal, BBC, CNN, The Guardian, Stern magazine, Time Out, Fast Co., International Business Times and the Sydney Morning Herald.

She has spoken at TEDxWanchai and TEDxWarwick and an “in-conversation” events hosted by The Women’s Foundation HK (May 2015) and at Asia House in London (June 2015). She has held talks at Pitt Rivers Museum (Oxford), Barts Pathology Museum (London), the V&A (Victoria & Albert Museum), Rayko (San Francisco), Blue Lotus Gallery (Hong Kong) and numerous organizations such as the AWA, Friends of CUHK Museum, Rotary Club .

Jo has also done live television interviews on RTHK ((The Works), CNN and the BBC News (Insight) and has been a guest speaker on Monocole radio and RTHK3 (Hong Kong). [email protected] You can view my website at www.livingHERstoryphotography.com

10 Questions

1. Favourite book or author? Wild Swans by Jung Chang & The Private Life of Chairman Mao

2. Favourite musical artist? Nina Simone & Michael Nyman

3. Preferred drink? Gin infused with Earl Grey Tea

4. Life motto? Look the other Way

5. Favourite hk walk? Chai Wan by Cemetery

6. Favourite hk restaurant? Peak Lookout/Boat House/Dai Pai Dongs

7. Faced with a python whilst walking up to the Peak – what would you do? Photograph it in detail

8. Best advice you were given? Focus don't generalise

9. Finish this sentence… I live in Hong Kong because… It's safe

10. Favourite area of Hong Kong? Chai Wan and Shueng Wan

VIBErations podcast Ep 19. Lantau Siu Yin @ VIBE Book & Music Shop in Mui Wo on Lantau Island in Hong Kong on 25th February 2021

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Siu Yin BIO

With over 8 years of experience supporting many organisations, Siu Yin is currently an assistant to two members of the Legislative Council aka LegCo. In 2019 she stood for the Lantau district council elections as the democratic candidate and lost to long term member Randy Kwan by just 240 votes. Her experience includes: case analysis, appointments/contacts with government departments, petitions, parliamentary affairs, sharing sessions/forums and research publications.

She’s involved in the social needs of the elderly especially those who are mentally handicapped. Recently, she become concerned over the development of Lantau, in particular the new development in Tung Chung and the Lantau Tomorrow Vision. Siu Yin has lived in Tung Chung for 20 years and says living in public housing is like living in a cheap hotel. Her education and work were outside of Tung Chung. But she felt that she just took advantage of the community without contributing to it.

When she was 28 years old, she developed a strong feeling ‘I felt that I owed it to my community - I wanted to contribute to my community’. On a hiking trip from Tung Chung to Mui Wo with members of the Save Lantau Alliance (which she’s been a member of since 2015), she realized that there will be big changes in Lantau. She began to participate in its activities. She says her life has become full and colourful and feels fortunate to be able to plant in the fields, learn about the history of Lantau, listen to the stories of the people on the island, and learn to create small handicrafts.

She says it is her challenge to organize actions, develop public relations campaign, and connect to other networks. After having done 4-5 years of volunteer work, she has created her persona as ‘Lantau Siu Yin’. She learnt more about Lantau and became passionate in sharing its history, culture, people, stories, and food, etc. She says ‘I am part of Lantau and my friends would say - Siu Yin belongs to Lantau’. She is an island person. She loves ‘Da Yu’, the Chinese name for Lantau and encourages you, in your own way to care about Lantau.

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10 Questions….

1. Favourite book ? ‘how to draw it?’ dictionary 手繪字典

2. Favourite musical artist? Chet LAM 林一峰 song 'The best is yet to come’

3. Preferred drink? The Water in Lantau

4. Life motto? Follow your heart, Just try to do what you believe , here is something you never know.

5. Favourite hk walk? Lantau

6. Favourite hk restaurant? I don’t know , as I love my mother cooking, now I cook for myself.

7. Faced with a python whilst walking up to the Peak – what would you do? ‘wow, just walk pass quietly. ‘

8. Best advice you were given? ‘ take care of yourself , family, and community. ‘

9. Finish this sentence… I live in Hong Kong because…I belong to Hong Kong.

10. Favourite area of Hong Kong? Lantau