This Hong Kong Life

Stress impacts our emotions and daily life. What can you do if you find someone (or yourself) is facing mental health challenges? Ryan and William spoke with our guest Louis, also the Youth Service Officer of KELY, to share his experience of helping others.
You can’t take care of others well if you are not taking care of yourself well! Opening up is definitely the first of healing. You may start viewing the negative stories in ...

Welcome to This Hong Kong Life - Season 8: RAW Reflections! In our first episode this season, join Ryan and William as they explore the essential strategies for maximising your internship experience. Discover the intriguing connection between employee and employer, gain insights on finding directions for your career, and learn how an open mind will help you uncover new opportunities. Don't miss out on these valuable insights a...

When you have found the thing that you love doing, spending time with people who love to do the same thing could spark some of the happiest moments of your life. For this episode,, we have invited Navan, Harry, Navpreet and Avneet to share their magic moments with us. They are all members of Funjabi, a #Bhangra #dance group who performed recently at KELY’s BE PRESENT: Cherish Your Gifts Carnival.

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 "You are stressed, I am also stressed!"

Hong Kong is a fast-paced society. Sometimes you just wanna shout “I've had enough!" Being exposed to such a high-pressure environment could make us put our emotions aside, or even neglect our true emotions. 

Find out how our guest (and KELY alumni) Avneet  deals with stress, and her experience in advocating mental health. Spending quality time with yourself is very importa...

Have you ever felt dragged back by or struggled to move forward with your emotional baggage? Expectations for yourself, from your parents or friends could bring you down sometimes - how do we cope with that? In EP5, we are co-hosting with Melody and Vivian from Unlabelling Effect to talk about the uncertainties and pains of growing up, and how to restart with new beginnings. Our key takeaway? We are free to perceive ourselves in an...

The mainstream society has always had specific expectations of how "male" or "female" should behave. These expectations are reinforcing the gender stereotype. How do we construe and interpret concepts like "equity" and "equality" under gender dynamics? How should we adjust ourselves to cater for the needs of different genders? Listen to what our guests, Rita @ Unlabelling Effect and Emery, ha...

In a metropolis like Hong Kong, we often meet people from different races and cultural backgrounds. How do they live in such a vibrant city while maintaining their identity ? What obstacles have they faced while being themselves? With the deeply inhibited stereotypes in Hong Kong's community, how do these hinder people from being themselves? 

In this episode, we are glad to have Renee and Jeal, sharing their ideas and...

Season 7 is back with the brand-new theme 'Under the Surface'! Very often when we look at something, we are merely taking in the tip of an iceberg. There's always more - much, much more - to what we can see.

In Hong Kong, 47.5% of students have drunk alcohol before (Narcotics Division, 2022). At family gatherings or due to peer pressure, many young people are exposed to alcohol at an early age. Our young host, Renee, ...

Some people have full access to education, and some do not. Henry, a student from Durham University, discussed education inequality and the differences between types of schools both in the UK and Hong Kong. Having previously studied at Renaissance College in Hong Kong, Henry went through training to teach Maths, Geography, and English to students in Nepal. His community services showed him the divide between his experience in schoo...

This episode highlights Olympia, a leader in Pedal4Lalibela, a fundraising campaign by her school with England-based charity Soil of Amhara. She shared her volunteering experience through cycling and raffles competition to promote universal education in Lalibela Primary School, Ethiopia. Ranging from the variety of books to the conditions of classrooms, Olympia and her team improved the learning resources for the local students. Be...

Nazreen shares her growing-up journey as a third culture identity person and how she tackled mental health challenges. During her hard times, she had been kept rethinking her position and life paths. With the nurture of religious belief, Nazreen could finally figure out her values and passion for empowering herself and the community. She further integrates her interest with the workplace who is now the youth services officer of KEL...

In view of the education needs of children from underprivileged families during the pandemic, Chloe, a 14-year-old girl, founded a platform with her friends, providing virtual language tutorial classes for these children. In this episode, Chloe shares her vision of minimising education inequality in Hong Kong. She also talked about her experience and learning in collaborating with overseas education organisations and reaching assis...

Knowing chance does not always come to us, Felix, a 22-year-old youth, seizes every opportunity to put what he has learnt into practice and give back to our community. Under the pandemic, a local artist looked for an IT talent to help develop creative IG filters. Seeing this would be a great chance for him to apply his knowledge, he took up that challenge and successfully created his first selfie filter. Over the years, he has alre...

Under the stressful atmosphere of the pandemic, Ivan found that it's important to maintain life balance to stay both physically and mentally healthy. In this episode, Ivan talks about his connection with his dog, who is dear to his heart, and their long hike to stay healthy. Ivan also shares about a campaign with his friends to raise funds for a dog shelter which was almost permanently shut down due to financial difficulties a...