We need

An English, Chinese and Tagalog bookstore (Nick's stall and Bookworm aren't true bookstores but great to have anyway)

Artist's supply shop and stationer's

Newstand carrying International Herald Tribune, Economist and New Yorker, dammit. That lovely lady is great to see on the other side of the dark water but I for one am tired of scratching my nuts and reading the South China Moaning Pest on the inbound trip.

Small movie theater with popcorn called Tivoli showing movies like The Set-up, Out of the Past, Lady from Shanghai, and old mysterious black and white Kung Fu movies from the 1940s, with special effects painted on the film stock, and starring female fighters who become goddesses through suffering, who lose their children and live under the sea.

A couple of hookers

A ferry boat that takes a full hour to get to Central with a bar and cafe and an onboard band

Lamma International Airlines: one flight: to Central: inflight entertainment consisting of 5-minute Chinese Opera performed by the flight attendants and flight engineer if possible. Stick the airport on pylons in Yung Shue Wan bay, and bring back that old Kai Tak feeling of kiss your ass goodbye. I have never experienced Kai Tak, but I am certain somehow it was cheap psycho-analytic therapy.

Joe's American Bar

We DON'T need

Borders, Virgin Books and Records, Starfuck's, 7-11, White Hen, Steak and Shake, Bed Bath Bazonger and Beyond, Louis Vuitton, or Billy Bob's Guns

...for the coffee and the veggie roll at Green Cottage tastes wonderful precisely because it is unique to the Green Cottage, whereas the misery of being told exactly what to do is the taste of Starbuck's, the death of laughter, surprise, and waiter, is fly in my soup we no charge for fly.

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Wow, an informative, clear, well-written, understandable, even funny story without too many big, impressive words and phrases from our Ghost Teacher. He can actually do it!

This is Lamma-zine-worthy, I think and I've published it with a date of March 21, in full and uncensored. Congratulations!

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Great idea, Mr. Chan. A shelter for lost children, beswizzled dipsomaniacs, and American girls on holiday. A sort of hotel, orphanage and rest home all rolled into one.

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----- Margaret Mead

As long as we are dreaming, a live theater. The Lamma Island Shakespeare Festival, out of doors and in the round. Yeah, yeah, I know: Shakespeare is like a stinkbomb because he is used in the British system to separate sheep from goats. Pity. That's not what he's about.

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Speaking about shops needed on Lamma...I do not have a shop but I am selling Art supplies such as Windsor and Newton paints, canvas, easels, brushes etc etc for very competitive prices plus you don't have to go into the city to get it!

I have a catalog ....if you are interested please email me at tamara@vividvibrations.com

Thanks