Hong Kong Stories

Life is a Game (22x3)

Fecha de emisión: Sept 25, 2013

How will you spend a good weekend this time? For most people, the same question pops up as every Saturday and Sunday draw near. Imagine however that you no longer need to fuss about your weekend activities because someone else plans something special and different for you every other week. Wouldn’t it sound wonderful? Believe it or not, but that is the case with the happy followers of two special event organizers, a PhD student of philosophy for one, and your everyday white-collared guy who happens to love Kung Fu for the other; Derek and Look. These boys who happened to share a childhood of school life together, happened to grown up loving and sharing the same single hobby of never-ending exploring and planning of fun activities for large groups of facebook friends in Hong Kong they hardly know. “Not doing it for fame or money”, they say, but sheerly for the ideals of spreading joy in ways to make sure Hong Kongers break out of their comfort bounds to experience life. For two years, they have been organizing every kind of activity, ranging from night-time hiking, snorkelling, war-games to secret cinemas, and even special Halloween-styled hide-and-seek for a group size of people that goes beyond the number of 50. If you happen to be one of the participants, this might just be another happy weekend of fun and fulfilment for you. But for the organizers themselves who specialize in the “making-of” these interests must be personally involved in every step of the stages from planning, coordinating, renting locations, buying and preparing event materials to finishing the chores and wrapping up accounts and expenses, one just might have to question: what is it that these organizers find to be so worthy of their efforts and how are we to understand the kind of joy that seems to drive these endeavors? In this episode, we will bring to you first-hand experiences of this special group of gamers and we will leave it for you to decide whether these young groups of people