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Feeling Homey? Not up for the madness at a sports bar? Avoid Hong Kong’s football hooligans and stay home for a quieter match. Watch It Now Watch the games from the comfort of your own home by tuning into Now TV’s channel 651: the channel will broadcast all 51 matches of Euro 2016 with both Cantonese and English commentary available. On the go? You can also catch all the matches on the channel’s mobile app. $106 per month for basic channels, extra $350 for the Euro 2016 games, nowtv.now.com Hop Hop Hooray Feeling peckish when staying home watching the games? Order in. Deliveroo and FoodPanda both deliver straight from restaurants in about half an hour, meaning that you can order at the start of the match and the food’ll arrive before half time. Our suggestion: Order based on the cuisine of the countries playing. Ukrainian vs. Albanian? Challenge accepted. Busy Bees Can’t be bothered to pick up snacks from the supermarket? Check out new online grocery shopping service Honestbee. These guys will buzz around town doing your grocery shopping for you, from giant bags of Doritos from American supermarket Gateway, to cases of hoppy brews from bottle shop Craftissimo. They offer same-day delivery, and you can even choose a 1-hour delivery window to expect your goods to arrive. honestbee.hk Top Euro 5Sickie Tips In Cantonese, to “seh bo”—“shoot the ball” means to call in sick for work. What better excuse than the Euros to seh bo for the sake of seh bo? Here are five great ways to call in sick. 1. “I think I have gastroenteritis. I woke up at 3am to sprint to the toilet, and I haven’t left since. My bathroom looks like…” [Go into as much excruciating detail as necessary before your boss hangs up, horrified] 2. Get mom to do it. No boss can refuse a mom. 3. Arrange to catch hand, foot and mouth disease from the closest baby. That’s a week off work, easy! Don’t have a nearby baby? Consider borrowing one and getting it to cough on you. 4. Say you ate a chicken the night before and are worried it had avian flu, so you need to quarantine yourself for the length of the Euros. 5. Along with a few friends who are also calling in sick, stage an elaborate fake kidnapping involving your ransom back to work for a raise of, oh, 30 percent? Reminder! DON’T put anything on social media, or your first day back at work will be a fun HR meeting! 14 HK MAGAZINE FRIDAY, JUNE 10, 2016
852 GET MORE OUT OF HK SHOPPING + FASHION + GADGETS + TRAVEL + DINING + CULTURE + NIGHTLIFE + FILM Black and White and Red All Over A new exhibition at Para Site reflects on the 1989 China Avant- Garde exhibition, which ended after two hours with an artist shooting at her own work with a pellet gun: The media later called it “the first shots of Tiananmen.” The 15 Chinese artists in this show have created art that draws on a generation’s worth of collective anxiety in the 90s. “That Has Been And May Be Again” outlines the experiences which unfolded after the 1989 exhibition and the Tiananmen massacre, and explores the directions which Chinese artists took to pursue their craft. Jun 11-Aug 10. Para Site Art Space, 22/F, Wing Wah Industrial Building, 677 King’s Rd., Quarry Bay, para-site.org.hk Wang Youshen, “Newspaper - Advertising,” 1993, Digital print on paper. Courtesy of the Artist. HK MAGAZINE FRIDAY, JUNE 10, 2016 15
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Feeling Homey?<br />
Not up for the madness at a sports bar?<br />
Avoid Hong Kong’s football hooligans and<br />
stay home for a quieter match.<br />
Watch It Now<br />
Watch the games from the comfort of your own home by<br />
tuning into Now TV’s channel 651: the channel will broadcast<br />
all 51 matches of Euro 2016 with both Cantonese and English<br />
commentary available. On the go? You can also catch all the<br />
matches on the channel’s mobile app.<br />
$106 per month for basic channels, extra $350 for the<br />
Euro 2016 games, nowtv.now.com<br />
Hop Hop Hooray<br />
Feeling peckish when staying home watching the games?<br />
Order in. Deliveroo and FoodPanda both deliver straight from<br />
restaurants in about half an hour, meaning that you can order at<br />
the start of the match and the food’ll arrive before half time. Our<br />
suggestion: Order based on the cuisine of the countries playing.<br />
Ukrainian vs. Albanian? Challenge accepted.<br />
Busy Bees<br />
Can’t be bothered to pick up snacks from the<br />
supermarket? Check out new online grocery shopping<br />
service Honestbee. <strong>The</strong>se guys will buzz around town<br />
doing your grocery shopping for you, from giant bags<br />
of Doritos from American supermarket Gateway, to<br />
cases of hoppy brews from bottle shop Craftissimo.<br />
<strong>The</strong>y offer same-day delivery, and you can even choose<br />
a 1-hour delivery window to expect your goods to arrive.<br />
honestbee.hk<br />
Top Euro<br />
5Sickie Tips<br />
In Cantonese, to “seh bo”—“shoot the ball” means to call in sick for work.<br />
What better excuse than the Euros to seh bo for the sake of seh bo? Here<br />
are five great ways to call in sick.<br />
1. “I think I have gastroenteritis. I woke up at 3am to sprint to the toilet,<br />
and I haven’t left since. My bathroom looks like…” [Go into as much<br />
excruciating detail as necessary before your boss hangs up, horrified]<br />
2. Get mom to do it. No boss can refuse a mom.<br />
3. Arrange to catch hand, foot and mouth disease from the closest baby.<br />
That’s a week off work, easy! Don’t have a nearby baby? Consider<br />
borrowing one and getting it to cough on you.<br />
4. Say you ate a chicken the night before and are worried it had avian flu,<br />
so you need to quarantine yourself for the length of the Euros.<br />
5. Along with a few friends who are also calling in sick, stage an elaborate<br />
fake kidnapping involving your ransom back to work for a raise of, oh,<br />
30 percent?<br />
Reminder!<br />
DON’T put anything on social<br />
media, or your first day back at work<br />
will be a fun HR meeting!<br />
14 HK MAGAZINE FRIDAY, JUNE 10, 2016
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