Consumed alone, love
or
wine
can
both
make your
head dizzy; consume them
together,
and you may find
yourself under the
control of an
unexpectedly
strong chemical reaction
of romantic
sentiments.
It was a sunny
afternoon,
85
members
from WGAHK
and
Friends of
LSE
spent their weekend
sipping
red wine in
Champs Bar, enjoying a
wonderful talk
by
Chip Tsao for a fancy
Love Study. Chip Tsao
shared the
crucial
elements in common to
love
and
wine,
the place, the
environment, the look,
the smell, the timing,
and the reality.
First love is
always
the most memorable.
Chip's first love
was in
high school,
at which time he learnt
his first lesson when
his long-distance
girlfriend broke up with
him through
a "Letter to Chip",
announcing
her
decision to marry
a guy with a car and a
big house.
Arriving
just a day before the
English examination,
the letter did have the
positive effect of
prompting
Chip
to postpone his sleep
for a longer last-minute
study
which ultimately gave
him the results to study
at Warwick.
With that,
Chip came to realise
that Love
had its
realistic
side,
especially when a
potential marriage is in
question.
One participant
asked
Chip
a
question about
his
relationship
with his girlfriend
in
Canada
when he himself was
studying in the UK.
Chip then
embarked on
the side story of
how he learnt the other
meaning
of
the word
"fancy"
during his
part-time
job
experience. "Do you
fancy her?"
Like many others, Chip
found this one of the
most enjoyable stages of
love,
a stage between
friends and lovers,
which brings you a lot
of room for dreaming and
psychological
excitements.
The country
of origin
for a
bottle of
wine
determines
its taste,
while the
environment we live
in contributes to
our love character,
whether
romantic or realistic.
Most of the romantic
films
are set
in Paris,
Italy,
but
not
Hong Kong.
According to Chip, the
closer a place is with
nature, the more
romantic
it will be.
Imagine the scenes of a
boy and a girl, chasing
around the trees beside
a
river, and marking
a heart with an arrow in
the tree.
As such,
Hong Kong
is slightly
disadvantaged on the
romantic front
as
the most likely meeting
place for lovers is
probably the VIP room of
a karaoke box.
When
asked whether places in
Asia can too provide
romantic atmospheres,
Chip
suggested
a place near the ferry
pier in
Macau
which you may
consider
visiting
with your
beloved next time.
Chip
also suggested that the
University of
Warwick
can
open a course
called
"Love Studies,"
a subject
that concerns everyone
in one way or another.
With a glass of red wine
in hand, images of love
stories and laughter in
the air,
Chip created a romantic
atmosphere
with such ease that one
became fully immersed in
his stories and hardly
felt the afternoon
slipping away.
What makes a man and a woman come together?
Well that is a mystery.
What prompted
WGAHK and LSE
to come together for a
joint
talk
on love?
A
common old boy
-
Chip.
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