It is too early to judge the long term performance of 毛記葵涌 Most Kwai Chung (01716) HKEX but the trading activities and closing price (closed at $3.480, drop $2.9 or 45.45% from previous day closing) on its 2nd trading day (March 29th, 2018) after its March 28th listing date isn’t that auspicious to say the least.
Of course, considering its IPO price of HK$1.20, the 2nd trading day closing price of $3.48 is still 290% of listing price. Quoting SCMP March 28th report,
“Hong Kong media firm Most Kwai Chung, which runs popular satirical magazine 100Most and a digital media site tapping into Hong Kong’s youth culture, saw its stock soar as much as tenfold on its trading debut after attracting the most public subscriptions for an IPO in Hong Kong history.
Most Kwai Chung opened at HK$8.40 on Wednesday morning and quickly shot up to HK$11.76, 10 times its IPO price of HK$1.20. It closed at HK$6.38, with 185 million shares having changed hands.
With a current market cap of HK$1.7 billion, the company is more valuable than a slew of established media companies in Hong Kong, including Sing Tao News Corporation, i-Cable Communication, Hong Kong Economic Times Holdings and Next Digital.
“The demand for the stock is largely due to the brand name,” said Alex Wong, director of asset management at Hong Kong-based Ample Capital. “100Most magazine and Most TV are popular among many Hong Kong people.””
See more (with video interviews and video clips) in my 2015 post, “林日曦呢個黑紙100毛人“
Allow me to recommend one movie from these three genres: documentary, fantasy-comedy, and animation. It is so hard for a movie lover to compare apple to orange to mango and pick only one?! :)
Documentary recommendation: Years ago I accidentally discovered in my university AV library (ok, not that kind of AV :) ) this documentary series in film (yes, physical film in cans and movie projector) and it remains my favourite documentaries. In this UK Up Series of documentaries, you will get to meet 7 British boys and 7 girls when they were only 7 years old in the first film. And then the magic of this series is the filmmakers come back to revisit the lives of these 14 girls & boys every 7 years! I last watched them in the eighth film in 2012 when the “kids” were now 56 years old. Yes, 56! Next time we see them will be in 2019 when they are 63! It is almost a “longitudinal study” of people long before the madness of “reality TV” entrap us.
Here is the first film Seven Up! and they were all so adorable!
Fantasy-comedy: Groundhog Day (1993) is a fantasy-comedy film starring Bill Murray, Andie MacDowell, and Chris Elliott. Without giving you too much spoilers, Murray found himself caught in a time loop, repeating the same day again, again, and again! LOVE this film.
Animation: Howl’s Moving Castle (2004) written and directed by Hayao Miyazaki was an animation film that I just borrowed a Blu-ray to re-watch again (with some bonus features). It is only in recent years that I realized this film was loosely based on a novel by a British author. And I learned to love both the Japanese original Japanese voice stars which includes Takuya Kimura (木村 拓哉) as Howl and English voice stars which includes Christian Bale (Batman Begins, American Hustle, The Big Short) as Howl, Emily Mortimer (Match Point, Dear Frankie) as young Sophie, Billy Crystal, and Lauren Bacall.
P.S. As a documentary filmmaker, I really LOVE the Up Series but to be honest and blunt, given our current ethical standard re informed consent, I can’t ethically agree to the making of this series of films knowing that 7 years old girls and boys can’t really give that kind of informed consent and the intrusiveness of this series.
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When asked if I want “coffee or tea” in a Hong Kong style cafes, I will almost always ask for a cup of 鴛鴦 (“coffee *with* tea” Yuenyeung), yes, both milk tea and coffee mixed together! Strangely, I never have the desire to make my own cup of 鴛鴦 at home.
We save coffee for our Saturday breakfasts. Grinding the beans each Saturday morning for our electric drip coffeemaker. And since we can’t really taste much of the difference between the more expensive Kauai Coffee and the ones from Costco, we go for the basic ones.
On weekdays, I will make my better half a cup of Twinings tea. Yes, we are more picky at teas. Since one time I accidentally almost ran out of English Breakfast, I mixed the remaining little bit of English Breakfast with Lady Grey Tea and it tasted nice. Since then, I learned that technically all teas are blends of tea leaves anyway so I started blending English Breakfast & Lady Grey to make our own blend.
My own preference is actually herbal tea or warm water. I love my Revolution tea, especially Golden Chamomile. It might have been love at first sight when I saw the brand name “(R)evolution tea” and then I was convinced by its innovative design for its tea bag plus the taste of the tea is very nice.
I love chatting with friends over a cup of tea on wide range of topics from food to world issues.
I’m heart broken in hearing the news of Joshua Wong 黃之鋒, Alex Chow 周永康, and Nathan Law 羅冠聰, three prominent young leaders of Hong Kong’s democracy movement, being sentenced today (Thursday Aug 17th, 2017) to six, seven, and eight months in prison, respectively. All three were taken into custody immediately. This is a very sad day for Hong Kong.
“A senior government source who declined to be identified due to the sensitivity of the matter said Hong Kong’s top prosecutors had initially “not recommended pursuing” the case further after the non-jail terms were handed down.
But Hong Kong’s Secretary of Justice, Rimsky Yuen, overruled them and insisted on re-opening Wong’s case, a decision that ultimately led to their imprisonment, the source said.“
Oct 21, 2016 Facebook comment update: P.S. By the way Silvia, I didn’t have the time to write this in Chinese. Plus I don’t know how to get the “tone” right. Since I am writing it now in English, I may as well just copy and paste this into the Chinese book review.
I should have thanked you (and Louisa and 明山). So I am thanking you now for sharing the very personal and intimate stories and history of Louisa’s and 明山’s upbringing.
I am a long time fan and addict of longitudinal studies for they give me insight that only “time” (the most precious commodity) can provide. I was fortunate to get myself hooked in the “Up Series” (7 Up, 14 Up, etc) at the UofT AV library and I last watched 56 Up in 2012.
Silvia, as usual, I write too long and too much. I hope you will be pleased to hear one of your readers kept thinking of Jean Piaget as he read your book. This stranger will be watching 明山/明詩 grow old as I watch the participants of the Up Series (63 Up in 2019) grow old over time and wishing/hoping them to do well in life.
P.P.S. This “longitudinal study” (obviously not a scientific study in this film) started when these boys & girls were 7. Here they were all adorable as any seven years old would be in this first video “Seven Up (1964)“.
We last saw them when they were 56 in 2012. Worth finding the whole series to watch. Calgary library system has it, I wonder if HK library will have it or YouTube, etc.
When watching the films, I try to observe and learn as much as I can but also holding off any judgements or conclusions as it seems so unfair for me to “judge”.
//Requirements Lord Nicholls of Birkenhead set out the outer limits of the defence of fair comment in the Hong Kong case of Tse Wai Chun Paul v Cheng [2001] EMLR 31 CFA (HK):Importantly, the fifth proposition pushed aside the word ‘fair’ in favour of a requirement for honesty. Nicholls LJ said: ‘A comment which falls within the objective limits of the defence of fair comment can lose its immunity only by proof that the defendant did not genuinely hold the view he expressed. Honesty of belief is the touchstone. Actuation by spite, animosity, intent to injure, intent to arouse controversy or other motivation, whatever it may be, even if it is the dominant or sole motive, does not of itself defeat the defence. However, proof of such motivation may be evidence, sometimes compelling evidence, from which lack of genuine belief in the view expressed may be inferred.’
first, the comment must be on a matter of public interest;
second, the comment must be recognisable as comment, as distinct from an imputation of fact;
third, the comment must be based on facts which are true or protected by privilege;
fourth, the comment must explicitly or implicitly indicate, at least in general terms, what are the facts on which the comment is being made. The reader or hearer should be in a position to judge for himself how far the comment was well founded; and
fifth, the comment must be one which could have been made by an honest person, however prejudiced he might be, and however exaggerated or obstinate his views.//
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