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Elaine Chow: 14 March, 1986 – 27 October, 2005
In loving memory of Elaine Chow who committed suicide by stepping off a building in the early hours of the 27 October 2005. Gone but never forgotten!
Elaine was a wonderful, vibrant and happy woman, who brought joy to everyone she met. Her smile would brighten the sunniest and dreariest of days.
The pain of her death never seems to fade, but nor do the memories of her smile and the joy she infused to all around her. RIP Elaine.
Almost 3 people a day, on average, commit suicide in Hong Kong, it’s the unseen killer, if you know someone who’s talking (even jokingly) of it get them help/talk to them.
If you’re thinking of suicide, please please talk to someone first.
Samaritans Hong Kong: 2896-0000 www.samaritans.org.hk
Lam Pours Fuel on the Fire
The Hong Kong government’s bypassing of Legco to unilaterally introduce a ‘mask law’ is an insult to all HongKongers and a violation of our rights under both the Basic Law and Hong Kong law.
Carrie Lam has ignored millions of HongKongers marching peacefully, she has ignored the input of the people invited to attend the community discussions that she instigated.
Instead of listening to the people she claimed to represent when elected, and looking to attempt to defuse the volatile situation she created with the Extradition Law, Lam has instead trampled over the rights and freedoms of all HongKongers.
There was no violence or masks at the original protests against the extradition law.
The violence was instigated and initiated by the HK Police who actively and deliberately choose to use excessive force to disperse peaceful protestors and who allowed triads to attack the public.
Masks arrived because of the police’s excessive, indiscriminate and illegal use of tear gas and pepper spray.
The ‘mask law’ does not affect those Lam labels as ‘violent’ protestors, the penalties for ‘unlawful assembly’ far exceed those of the ‘mask law’.
The newly instigated law looks to intimidate and shutdown the peaceful protestors who are freely expressing their opinions as enshrined in the Basic Law and allowed under HK Law.
It also appears to be worded to suppress and interfere with the Freedom of the Press and the media’s ability to cover the protests and the excessive violence of the HK Police against protestors and members of the public. It is after all hard to film and report when you have a faceful of tear gas and/or pepper spray.
The protestors violence directly stems from the police’s own actions.
The damage to the MTR stems from it’s own injunction turning passengers into criminals and from picking sides rather than remaining neutral and simply moving people around.
The only way ‘healing’ and peace can come is from the government and the new ‘mask law’ shows Lam has no interest in resolving the violent situation she created. Beijing only understands force, subjugation and repression of freedoms.
Lam will go down in history as woman who destroyed Hong Kong, we can only hope that the blood on her hands gives her nightmares for the eternity.
HongKongers are NOT objects!
Was this the first time the HK Police inadvertently spoke the truth?
That Carrie Lam and her Beijing buddies just see HongKongers as objects to be beaten, kicked and jailed if they stand in the path of Xi and his sycophants using Hong Kong to get evermore personally wealthy.
Xi, we understand you hate Hong Kong. All your citizens flock here to buy safe foods, get proper treatment in hospitals and to put their money in banks where you can’t just steal it from them on a whim.
And then the real truth hits them, that China is a massive prison with the CCP as jailers and thugs controlling and manipulating lives through violence.
You thought to break us with your batons, instead, you united us, made us stronger, resilient. By nature, HongKongers are not violent (and bc doesn’t support or condone violence), so you might win a battle or two, but this is now a ‘war’ you can never ‘win’!
Why because you can never win our hearts and minds, Xi you have shown HongKongers and the world what life in China today is like… Do as we say or get dragged off and beaten.
HongKongers are NOT objects!
We are free to think and act, argue and love.
Glory to Hong Hong!
Remembrance Sunday 2017 – Lest We Forget
They shall grow not old, as we that are left grow old:
Age shall not weary them, nor the years condemn.
At the going down of the sun and in the morning,
We will remember them.
bc magazine 22 Today – Happy Birthday!
1 September 2016 marks the 22nd Anniversary of the launch of bc magazine – what an amazing experience it has been – highs, lows, depths of despair, top of the world… Massive thanks are owed to far too many people for me to list individual contributors for fear of missing out someone – but without the massive contributions of Tom Hallahan and Mark Fitzsimons, bc might never have been born or made it to your hands.
A big thank to all the advertisers over the years who have made bc possible.
And a big thank you to you the readers – it’s a really rather wonderful emotion to watch people turn the pages and read and enjoy a magazine you’ve been a part of creating… Thank you!
bc magazine 21
21 years ago today, the first issue of bc magazine was published in Hong Kong, quite amazing how time flies.
A massive thank you to all those who have contributed over the years and to you the readers for sticking with us.
Hong Kong has had it’s ups and downs and since the 1 September 1994, but we love her and our proud to call her home. We are HongKongers!
Elaine Chow: 14 March, 1986 – 27 October, 2005
In loving memory of Elaine Chow who committed suicide in the early hours of the 27 October 2005. Gone but never forgotten!
Elaine was a wonderful, vibrant and happy woman, who brought joy to everyone she met. Her smile could and would brighten the sunniest and dreariest of days.
Her response to my full-time job offer during her internship was “You mean, you want to pay me to go out and eat”. Writing that here and remembering her radiant smile when she said it, has managed to bring a smile to my face – even through the massive cloak of despair that I still feel at her death.
And while tears run down my cheeks, and my heart breaks as my mind replays the images of Elaine falling to her death – so fast yet in slow motion as my brain cannot process the truth of what it sees and my legs will never be moving fast enough to reach her…
The pain of those memories never seems to fade, but nor I hope will the memories of her smile and the joy she infused to all around her. RIP Elaine.
3 people a day, on average, commit suicide in Hong Kong, it’s the unseen killer, if you know someone who’s talking (even jokingly) of it get them help/talk to them. If you’re thinking of suicide, please please talk to someone first.
Samaritans Hong Kong: 2896-0000 www.samaritans.org.hk