Consuming Popular Culture

Media and Cultural Studies – Hong Kong 2007

“Teenagers, Enjoy your life!!”

Posted by mercymiao on October 14, 2007

In our life, which age is the most funny and happy?

 

If someone asks me this question, I must answer him, the most happy and funny time in my life must be now, I think my friends will also answer the same answer, and most of the teenagers in the world will also agree, too. Why I say in this age (about 20) is the most happy time because in this age we can do everything we want, we no need to think too much about the responsibility, for example, we no need to make money to support our family, and the most important is in this age we have many things to play and in the society seem is only for the young to have fun.

 

I believe that when people are young, they will always feel happy because in their life they do not have many things to think about, in their life they may spend most of the time to think how to have fun and in the teenagers life they do not waste their time, every minutes, every hours they will have thing to do, they will go to see a movie, go shopping, signing K and they just don’t make themselves stop because time is so important for them, they know that when they are finish study or start to get older they will not have enough time to play and when they get older they will have many responsibility.

 

So we can see that nowadays the society create many things for the teenagers to consume. For example, there is “Lunch K” for the teenagers to have lunch and at the same time they can also signing K, also in Hong Kong there are many cafes, they are also provide a place for the teenagers to spending time when they are in the café, they can playing game with the friends or have a “girls talk”. Beside the culture of the signing K and go to café, we can also see that some festival is also a way for the teenagers to consume and have fun and the example is Halloween. Actually in the past few years, Halloween is getting popular in Hong Kong, many of the teenagers are like to celebrate. They may go to LanKwaiFong and dress like a ghost to have fun with friends or some strangers and in this few years the most popular way to celebrate Halloween must be to join the Halloween Bash of Ocean Park. This year, I also go to the Halloween Bash with my 15 friends and we also have a lot of fun and I can see that in the Halloween Bash most of the people are the teenagers and it seem the Halloween Bash is especially for the teenagers.

 

Beside Halloween, actually I can also see that in the society there are many products or living style are only for the teenagers and the teenagers can have many ways to enjoy their life. So I believe that when people are young, they need to “play hard” because when the time goes by, we may not have the chance to do it again.

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