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Chronodex and Caffeine

I saw this picture from fellow Chronodex user Nuno Lorenco from Portugal a few weeks ago, couldn't stop coming back to it.  I guess it was because of the caffeine, the writings and the admiration of obsessions.

Recruit: Assistant Buyer - Stationery Department

Oh gee its been months since I updated Scription.  Other than writing short posts on my Instagram feed I could hardly find time to write anything at all.  We are terribly under manpower, two Assistant Buyer head counts yet to be fulfilled, so my poor Hong Kong team has been under a lot of pressure for close to a year now and I couldn't help much.  If you know of any perfect candidates for our Assistant Buyer position, please ask them to contact us as soon as possible, check out the recruitment details here.

Yup I blame work, and particularly work related to opening a new store in China, what a waste of precious times you don't want to hear.  Anyway, there are two major renovations going on in Hong Kong stores (Times Square and Harbour City stores), the Traveler's Notebook Star Edition campaign is very well received (which I hope to share in upcoming blog posts), I'm anxiously waiting for the date when we get together with TN fans on a ferry ride (8th June).  I miss merchandising, way too much projects going on I hardly touched or picked products.  Phew!

In the mean time, a giant rubber duck created by Dutch artist Florentijin Hofman came to Hong Kong and it's been a sensation.  Huge crowd gathering to take photos and at the same time, every newspaper stand started to sell rubber ducks hahaha.  We've setup a promotion with B-duck in our stores too and they are selling like hotcakes.

Tools to Liveby

In such a short period of time, Karen Yang has achieved what I've been dreaming for so long, I hope to visit her shop Tools to Liveby soon.  But of course she would be facing a whole new set of accompanying problems she couldn't have imagined before, I presumed.  It will be interesting to interview her, let's see.