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Rachel Yau · Joined: 08 Oct 2006 Posts: 10

my organisation, a public sector, is working on a tourism project and we are now looking for celebrities who live on the island for interviews, appreciate if several names can be suggested in here!!!

Simplygood · Joined: 06 Sep 2006 Posts: 25 Location: LAAMMAA

Definitely Nick The Bookman .... ...Unfortunately most of his stories & accomplishments where distributed under various Nicknames since he despises public attention....

If you wanna find him ask anybody on the island. . . .they will know ..

Blazenski · Posted: Mon Oct 09, 2006 4:15 pm Post subject:

tjungarayi · Last edited by tjungarayi on Mon Oct 09, 2006 11:00 pm; edited 1 time in total

Me, me, me.

Oh - to be interviewed. Could I tell a tale or two.

For example, the sordid black satanic masses that occur four times a year at midnight on main beach. Lewd and disgusting bacchanailian affairs involving goats, vanila flavoured ice cream, cat o nine tails and tan teddy bears. It is hard to solicit any information about the goings on at these festivities. People benignly accept this travesty of christianity and go about their business and leave these base nocturnal witches to themselves, fearful of ungodly visitations and recrimination upon themselves and their families. After relating these few facts to you I will be festooning my apartment with crucifixes, my trusty copy of the Malleus Maleficarum will be on my bedside table and holy water sprinkled on windowframes and my doorway.

Or the tale of unrequited love between one of the blue uniformed Yung Shue Wan hygeine department ladies and her secret lover, a one time CEO of Manulife. A passionate affair until they were discovered entwined in lascivious synergy by the woman's grandfather around 2pm in broad daylight on the basketball court. Caused quite an uproar in the community I can tell you!

Lastly, the jock thief. Goodness knows what a bedevilled mess this man's mind must have been in. Three years ago there were reports that men's underpants were dissappearing from clothes lines throughout the island. Red, blue and black underpants. No other colours. Just these. The local police were amused rather than serious about the complaints until a committee was formed by the victims of this underhanded indignity.
Needless to say, the local constabulary hastened their enquries and sought to entrap the jock thief with a cleverly baited pair of black silk underpants. They sewed into the label, (Gucci by the way - thinking the thief could not resist such a status endowed pair of knickers) a tiny homing device. These underpants hung off the clothes line of a willing citizen for a week and a half until the thief struck. The next day, when the police discovered the missing black silk underpants, the forces of justice were mobilised and zeroed in on the miscreant. Police boats, helicopters and the Hong Kong SWAT team were called in.
However, frustration, ever the companion of justice, caused the homing device to to cease emitting a signal. The police apparently were just a hundred metres away from the culprit at the IFC centre. The masses of people made it impossible to conduct an underpant search and the culprit escaped. The thefts however, stopped. The culprit knew he had had a close shave and ceased his unsavoury brigandage.
But the men of this island are ever vigilant and wary of losing their underpants. It is a sure bet that if you took a stroll along the verdant pathways of the island and made a casual perusal of the knickers hanging on clothes lines around Lamma island you will be sure to find that the majority will be yellow, green, orange or even pink but not black, blue or red underpants.

Oh the uncensored life of Lammanaits! It must be the unpolluted sea air that turns our respectable citizens to a life of unlicensed devilry congruent with an unassuming appetite for unbounded lasciviousness.

Rachel Yau · Joined: 08 Oct 2006 Posts: 10

Moley · Joined: 24 May 2005 Posts: 86 Location: NgaKaoWan

What are the criteria to be considered as a celebrity?
Would the founder of this website Lamma Gung be considered as one?
How about all the moderators (and while I am at it, the contributors)?
What about the infamous figures - are they celebrities?
Why, afterall, do you want to interview celebrities to promote tourism?
That leads me to another question....is it a criterion that this celebrity must be known by the "target tourists", namely someone with an international reputation?

Lamma-Gung · Posted: Tue Oct 10, 2006 9:49 pm Post subject: Lamma Celebrities

bbdog

Samson · Posted: Mon Oct 16, 2006 9:45 am Post subject:

Lamma-Gung · Posted: Mon Oct 16, 2006 4:47 pm Post subject:

Ah, that explains a lot! HKTB, the people behind the "Lamma Seafood Festival" ending last Sunday are looking for more ways to promote the "Green" side of HK to long-distance travelers who are interested in this very small sector of the tourism industry...

Entertainment celebrities that are recognisable to a HK-wide audience, probably for the 1-2-minute tourism videos currently being shown on TV, featuring various aspects of HK, presented by HK celebrities?

Frankly , I don't know any of them living on Lamma. I'd also assume that entertainment celebrities would avoid living on Lamma like the plague and even if they would they wouldn't want anybody else to know about it. It would be very bad for their reputation as Lamma is definitely not the fashionable in-place for entertainment celebrities, still considered as a "hippie haven" by so many and most HK people might want to have a one-day look at it, but would never even consider living here. Most of her fans and fellow celebrities would look down upon her and wonder shy she's nopt living in a prestigious, top-luxury house. I'm just being honest about it.

I remember a Dragon Boat girl working for me years ago, in my pre-Lamma days: Almost everybody was gently teasing her about living on Lamma (including myself, I have to admit).
In turn, she used a different first name on Lamma and didn't tell anybody where she was working, like she was ashamed of working for HKTB...
Soon, after all the daily power struggles, fights for budgets and head counts, face-saving, incompetence, blame-shifting, jealousy and backstabbing inside HKTB got too much for her, she left and moved to Australia. Clever girl...

Alan · Posted: Mon Oct 16, 2006 4:57 pm Post subject:

Lamma-Gung · Posted: Mon Oct 16, 2006 5:28 pm Post subject:

Alan · Posted: Mon Oct 16, 2006 5:56 pm Post subject:

Pilgrim · Joined: 27 Mar 2006 Posts: 2

Since the only potential celebrities mentioned are the local mover and a guy who doesn't even live here, I think we can assume Lamma is celebrityless -- the Sesame Street of Hong Kong.

Foxy · over 500 messages posted Joined: 11 Sep 2003 Posts: 575

How about all those current or former "World Champion" kickboxers or whatever it is they do?

Lamma-Gung · Posted: Mon Oct 16, 2006 10:36 pm Post subject:

Lamma-Gung · Posted: Tue Oct 17, 2006 12:00 am Post subject:

Rachel Yau · Joined: 08 Oct 2006 Posts: 10

Many thanks for all the suggestions and i really got to know more about lamma, especially the different lifestyle and attitides of the islanders thru this forum. Also appreciate Lamma-Gung even helped explained the different of HKTA and HKTB. We can see not many locals understand the role of HKTB but we try to communicate with the local people thru different occassions (like this time). Apart from seafood, we always look for different interesting angles, like the family walking trail, herboland, etc. To be frank, if we can have more communication with the local community (like this forum), then we can discover more interesting stories and......

Moley · Joined: 24 May 2005 Posts: 86 Location: NgaKaoWan

As posted by Ms. Yau on the Chinese forum:

What was the year when Lamma Day started?
How was it like last year?
Do you welcome participation of tourists from abroad and from the Mainland?

To be fair, good to see that Ms. Yau is genuinely open for suggestions (after queries of why celebrities on Lamma was a way to introduce Lamma).

Meanwhile, as Ms. Yau put it --- not too many locals understand the role of HKTB. It does not strike me as a surprise at all.

Some time back (before the HKTB website was available), some friends were planning to visit HK and asked me what and where I could recommend to them as tourists. Naturally I thought about the HKTB and tried to get some leaflats from them. Guess what? I was kicked out of their office in TST Star ferry pier and was told that all resources were reserved for TOURISTS only. I explained that I was looking for information to promote HK and to introduce to my visiting friends. Suffice it to say that they didn't listen to what I said and insisted that I must not "take advantage" of their services.

Worse still, having talked to some local friends, obviously I was not the only local who has had this kind of experience with the HKTB. Talking about "The HKTB also takes initiatives to foster community support for tourism and promote good hospitality towards visitors." as claimed on their website.

Rachel Yau · Joined: 08 Oct 2006 Posts: 10

before i joined the organzation (2 yrs ago), i had a similar experence with you but i was able to get some brochures after explaining my purpose. I guess the VS centre changed the practise after they awared such feedback from the locals. In case you have friends visiting hk, you can introduce them to the following programmes which are exclusively for tourists, most of these activities are free of charge! personally i would recommend "Duk Ling Ride", "Architecture Walk" and "Northeast New Territories Islands Hopping Tour"......

Cultural Kaleidoscope
http://www.discoverhongkong.com.hk/eng/heritage/ck/index.jhtml

Nature Kaleidoscope
http://www.discoverhongkong.com.hk/eng/touring/nk/index.jhtml

by the way, do you guys seeing lots of mainland chinese tourists on lamma island?

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