A big disappointment to see Novak will not be participating in the Grand Slam. Nevertheless, looking forward to an interesting tournament.
A big turnout at our last Lunch meeting, hopefully the great Fengshui Master gave everyone some useful tips to improve your health and fortune this year.
We have our next lunch meeting this Wednesday, details as follows;
Next Lunch Meeting: January 19th , 2022 (Wednesday)
Time: 12.30pm to 2.00pm Location: Crystal Ballroom, Holiday Inn Golden Mile, Tsim Sha Tsui, Kowloon, Hong Kong
Guest Speaker: Nicole Tung
Topic: Children in War Zones
Biography of Speaker:
Nicole Tung is a freelance photojournalist. She graduated from New York University, double majoring in history and journalism, and freelances for international publications and NGOs, working primarily in the Middle East and Asia. After covering the conflicts in Libya and Syria extensively from 2011, focusing on the plight of civilians, she spent 2014 documenting the lives of Native American war veterans in the US, as well as former child soldiers in the DR Congo, the pro-democracy protests in Hong Kong, and the refugee crisis in Europe. She is also a grantee of the IWMF Grant for Women’s Stories, and a fellow of the IWMF Great Lakes Reporting Initiative (D.R. Congo, Central African Republic).
She has received multiple awards for her work from the International Photo Awards, Society of Professional Journalists, PX3, and was named PDN's 30 Under 30 Emerging Photographers (2013), among others. Nicole was given the honorable mention for the IWMF 2017 Anja Niedringhaus Awards, and awarded the 2018 James Foley Award for Conflict Reporting from the Online News Association. Her work has been exhibited + screened at the Annenberg Space for Photography, Tropenmuseum Amsterdam, Visa Pour l'Image, and most recently at the Bayeux Calvados-Normandy award for war correspondents in France (2019), with Save the Children in Hong Kong (2019), and at the Foreign Correspondents' Club in Hong Kong (2020). Nicole has also given keynote speeches and contributed to panels on photojournalism and journalist safety, at events including the International Journalism Festival (Perugia, 2019), TEDx in Sweden, the Adobe Make It Conference in Sydney, and Creative Mornings at the National Geographic Auditorium in Washington D.C., among others. She served on the board of the Frontline Freelance Register (2015) and is has undergone HEFAT training with Reporters Instructed in Saving Colleagues (RISC) and Global Journalist Security. She is based in Istanbul, Turkey.
Weekly Knowledge Section: 7 Interesting and Lesser Known Facts about Novak Djokovic
Interesting Fact #1 Highest prize money: Novak Djokovic has earned the highest prize money in tennis. The 20-time Grand Slam winner recently crossed a whopping $150 million prize money in his career.
Interesting Fact #2 G.O.A.T of Tennis: Novak Djokovic is aiming to become the first male player to win all major titles that are on offer in the world of Tennis.
Interesting Fact #3 Calling it quits in 2010: Another interesting fact that many fans don't know about the current World no. 1 is that Djokovic contemplated retirement after French Open 2010.
Interesting Fact #4 Has stopped eating animal-based products: The Serbian’s Spiderman-like defense and strength on the court is because of his strict plant-based food diet. Novak Djokovic does not have allergies to any product now. He also recovers from injuries quickly. The Serb does not consume dairy products, gluten, red meat, and refined sugar. However, he is still not a pure vegan. The World number 1 follows this diet daily (hot water, lemon, celery juice, superfoods like fruits, green smoothie, quinoa salad, millets, and sweet potato)
Interesting Fact #5 Owns a restaurant in Monte Carlo: Continuing his love for food, Novak Djokovic opened his own restaurant in Monte Carlo in April 2016. The Serb resides there during the off-season. “Eqvita”. The Serb’s role as a foodpreneur is probably because his parents, Srdan Djokovic and Dijana Djokovic own a few restaurants in Serbia. Eqvita offers customers a plant-based food diet with different kinds of cheesecake, pasta, porridge, salads, soups, and sweets. Novak’s favorite dish is raw vegan zucchini lasagna mixed with cashew ricotta and red pepper marinara.
Interesting Fact #6 Multi-Lingual Novak: Not many know that Novak Djokovic an speak 11 different languages Having travelled extensively on the ATP Tour, Djokovic is a polyglot. Apart from his mother tongue Serbian and English language, the Serbian legend is proficient in Arabic, Chinese, French, German, Italian, Japanese, Portuguese, Russian, and Spanish. He also entertains his fans by speaking a few lines from different languages after winning a match.
Interesting Fact #7 42-match unbeaten streak: Novak Djokovic is on a 42-game winning streak at the Wimbledon and Australian Open.
