Community Profiles

Individual Profile:

Karen Chiu

Hong Kong

(College Student)

Lovemarks:
Oilily, Baskin Robbins, Jane Goodall.

Comments:

• It was love at first sight

  Oilily

  29 January 2007

  My rendevous with Oilily takes the form of a blue-green building in my memory. Sitting among all those grey boring skyscrappers was this 3-storey shop with colorful children’s clothes. Fascinated, I begged my mom to bring me in. She didn’t buy me anything, but I took away a catalog. It was a special issue on post-Soviet Slovakia, with a rosey-cheeked girl holding a bunch of flowers on the cover. It was love at first sight. Ever since then, those whimsical and genuine catalogs became a constant source of inspiration: look around the world - beauty, innocence, and passion can truly be found anywhere.

• My childhood icon

  Jane Goodall

  29 January 2007

  With an elegant trademark silvery ponytail, a forever-affectionate gaze, and an unquenchable passion towards animal conservation and primatology, my childhood icon Dr. Goodall has been demonstrating the art of living/ageing gracefully (despite the influence of ill-mannered chimps) since 1934.