Why So Serious?
Patrick Dunn has been an accountant, a disc jockey, a TV presenter and a part-time soldier. He's also a qualified pilot and certified diver. It sounds like a classic profile for a striver. But here, the Buzz Lightyear lookalike explains his laid-back attitude to life makes him the opposite of a determined over-achiever.
A New Mum’s Fresh Start
In a little over 30 years, Katherine Lam Suet-ying's life has taken her from the rooftop huts of Sham Shui Po to the Chinese restaurants of Florida, an American university education and a high-flying job as a banker in Hong Kong. But, inspired by new motherhood and a poverty-busting Nobel laureate, Lam has quit banking to become a social entrepreneur. She tells Varsity about her journey.
The Road Less Travelled
After graduating from university, Sherry Chan Yuen-yung took a succession of well-paid jobs in finance and law but she knew her heart was not in it. What she wanted to do was to travel and to write, so that is exactly what she did. Varsity meets the blogger and journalist who has made the conflict-ridden regions of the Balkans and the Middle East her specialty.
Not One Less – Mark Mak’s Animal Revolution
Mark Mak Chi-ho has been a screenwriter and a tennis coach. Now, he has embarked on a third career as an animal crusader. Here, here. the founder of the Non-Profit-Making Veterinary Service tells Varsity he wants to rescue and save every abandoned, stray or injured animal from abuse and euthanasia.
A Playwright for Our Time
One of Hong Kong's best known and most promising playwrights, Candace Chong Mui Ngam tells Varsity about her journey from exploring the dark recesses of the human psyche in her work, to putting Hong Kong's most pressing social and political issues up on the stage.
Galaman and the Armpit Revolution
Meet Johnee Lau Kwun-yiu, the young creator of Galaman - or Armpit Man - Hong Kong's baddest superhero. Lau tells Varsity how getting a bad grade in his public exams led him to first to question his own ability, and then on a journey to discovering his talent for animation.
Rocking His Second Shot at Fame
Simon Chung Wai-keung flirted with fame after beating Leslie Cheung Kwok-wing in a talent contest 36 years ago, and then faded into obscurity. Varsity meets the 60 year-old rocker who is enjoying his second brush with celebrity despite being knocked out of the national singing contest "Voice of China".
Attitude the Key to Conquering Altitudes
John Tsang Chi-sing, one of Hong Kong's top mountaineers talks to Varsity about the life lessons he learned up on some of the world's highest and most treacherous peaks, and on why you can never be too old to achieve your dreams.
The Gentle Rebel
Chang Tieh-chi may not look like a Rock 'n'Roll rebel but beneath the calm exterior of the Editor-in-Chief of Hong Kong's iconic "City Magazine" beats the heart of a former student activist who still wants to change the world. Varsity finds out what makes him tick.
A Rehearsal of Life
Meet Mo Lai Yan-chi, one of Hong Kong's brightest young drama actors and scriptwriters, a documentary-maker, filmmaker and activist. Here she tells Varsity how abandonment by her birth parents and an unusual childhood in rural China shaped her worldview and inspired her work.
