How do I relax? I don’t. Hong Kong leader Carrie Lam’s life has no room for hobbies, only work
- Confessed workaholic Lam says she is too busy to take a break – or even spend time talking to her husband
- ‘I devote every minute of my time to work. There is so much work to do in Hong Kong’
What does Hong Kong’s leader do to de-stress after a hard day’s work? Read books or watch movies?
The answer is, nothing. It looks like Chief Executive Carrie Lam Cheng Yuet-ngor does not take a break.
“I do nothing except work,” she tells the Post. “I don’t even spend time talking to my husband these days. That is [the life of] a workaholic.”
So no hobbies? No pleasant pastime activities and entertainment? Is she pretty much “Carrie Lam the machine”?
“Yes, because I devote every minute of my time to work. There is so much work to do in Hong Kong.”
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Lam’s predecessors were known for their own ways to unwind – Tung Chee-hwa was into Tai Chi, Donald Tsang Yam-kuen liked to feed his goldfish and carp, and Leung Chun-ying enjoyed a bit of gardening – but she seems to share Gordon Gecko’s “lunch is for wimps” attitude in the 1987 movie Wall Street. If she had time to watch movies in the old days.