The Corona Diaries - Vivi | Hong Kong Tours
Vivi is a new addition to our Hello! Hong Kong Team. She is originally from Indonesia and has been living in Hong Kong for the past 3 years. Her work experience in the information, communication, and media-related field made her a great addition to our Hello! Hong Kong Tours admin team.
Vivi is very active and loves hiking and eating out with her family and friends. It’s already the middle of 2020 and the world is still fighting its invisible enemy. Perhaps you are wondering, how does a very active lady cope during this time. Below is her corona diary.
All smiles from Vivi at the Tiger head hiking trail in Lantau
Pre-pandemic time, the Admin team was busy answering inquiries, managing bookings, and coordinating with our customers and tour guides. Now, that this pandemic has put a stop to travel and we have more time on our hands, what keeps you busy?
We are very blessed to be working still during this pandemic. Laura, our director is using this downtime to ramp up our efforts in making the company better, improving our website’s contents, finding ideas for future work and collaborations, so we can better prepare for when the world opens up and people are traveling again. When I’m not working, I love going hiking and exploring parts of Hong Kong we’ve never been before with my husband and friends. Even after being in HK for more than 3 years, there are so many places we haven’t been! We have also been cooking and bbq-ing more and on nice days, we would sometimes go to the beach.
Now that Hong Kong is observing social distancing measures to prevent the spread of the virus, what is the place that you miss visiting to the most and why?
We are lucky that most places in Hong Kong remained open, most restaurants were still open then, just with social distancing measures in place but if I have to say one place that I missed that was closed, it was probably the cinemas, it’s always a fun outing activity with friends but now, no problem because everything is open again!
We know that you also suffer from wanderlust. When this Pandemic is finally over, and you can go anywhere where will your wanderlust take you?
The first place for me to go back to when this is all over will be Bali. We go there a lot as it is also my husband’s favourite’s place, it is very convenient for us and we love everything about it. We would also like to go back to Greece.
What is the one thing that you this very unfortunate event has taught you and why?
Our need for human connections, when we put a pause on things that we got going in life, we reconnect more with our family and friends. Maybe we should do that even when the world resumes with all its activities, we should always touch base on what’s important in life. Like the saying “stop and smell the roses”. It’s also amazing to see that when we’re not doing anything, staying home, we’re actually giving a chance for the world to heal itself. Maybe this pandemic is a way of nature telling us that we should sometimes pause, rethink our ways of life and take more care of the world where we live in.