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I’m Gaz Brightman and I run VIBE Book and Music Shop in Mui Wo on Lantau Island in Hong Kong These podcasts have 3 purposes:- 1. To promote VIBE Book & Music Shop in Hong Kong 2. To interview local people with businesses or good stories to tell 3. To promote local authors books, musicians Tiny Desk gigs at VIBE and our other services
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Thursday Sep 23, 2021
Thursday Sep 23, 2021
VIBErations podcast Ep 33. Xiao Mei Huang at VIBE Book & Music Shop in Mui Wo on Lantau Island in HK on 9th September 2021
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BIO
This week I’m pleased to interview VIBE’s own ‘Sunday girl’ Xiao Mei Huang. Based in Mui Wo, she’s just clocked up 3 years working for VIBE, and I hope we can keep her for many more years to come… Being a Mandarin native, she is always interested in learning new languages and now she teaches English, Spanish and Cantonese to adults and kids, of different ages and levels.
She enjoys literature and does a lot of simultaneous interpretation and translation works, including Chilean writer Isabel Allende’s ‘In the Midst of Winter’. She has an M.A. in cultural studies, and is also a researcher, writer and translator: ‘Fukushima: Looking back in Ten Years’ is published in Mainland China and its traditional character version will soon be released in Hong Kong. The kids like her because she is playful and fun-loving. Also because she has a cat called Dumb Dumb. You can easily catch her in VIBE on Sundays as long as she is not occupied by her students.
10 Questions
1. Favourite book or author? - Jorge Luis Borges, Pablo Neruda, Haruki Murakami, Raymond Carver, William Somerset Maugham, Wang Xiaobo, Bill Bryson, and a lot more.
2. Favourite musical artist? - Chavela Vargas! Favourite tunes: Summertime by Janis Joplin, The Thrill is Gone by B.B. King, Sweet Child O'Mine by Guns N' Roses, Concerto de Aranjuez
3. Preferred drink? - Hot tea or coffee
4. Life motto? - I'd rather end up wishing I hadn't, rather than end up wishing I had (Leo Tolstoy).
5. Favourite HK walk? - Lantau Trail Sec.5
6. Favourite HK restaurant? - a nameless Chinese cafe on the farmland in Kam Tin, N.T.
7. Faced with a python whilst walking up to the Peak, what would you do? - Take a photo and leave quietly
8. Best advice you were given? - Don't be afraid to make mistakes
9. Finish this sentence… I live in Hong Kong because…of a series of beautiful coincidences.
10. Favourite area of Hong Kong? - South Lantau.
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