Happy Macau

We live in Macau, a blessed City where the happy things overcome the bad ones by far. However, in such society, people always concern about many stuffs and forget some essential and little ones, like smile. Bearing this in mind my HC friends (Ken Lam, Alisa, Vincent, Quennie and Fanny) and I decided to change this and go on the streets of Macau and promote the smile...

We made a video to illustrate this issue. We started our journey by showing some daily attitudes towards live that makes forget that even though we cannot see the sun, because it's blocked by the clouds, it is still there. Therefore,we begin by having a group of five people, in room, having a bad day and having no reasons at all to smile. Then a another person, feeling frustrated, comes in the room. She seats and then she notice a little thing that makes her smile. We represented the motive of her smile with some smiles, but it could be anything, we just wanted to show that tiny little things can change your attitudes towards life. After she starts feeling happy, she looks at the group of depressed people and thinks about making them happy. She sends one of the smile faces to one of the guy and he becomes happy. This one contagious the other frustrated guy by beating him with the smile, because sometimes to make someone realize how blessed he is you need to "shake" them. This one become happy and plays a trick on the girl so that she can become happy, this emphasis the importance of being able innovative when it comes to influence people. This girl, then influences a doing a homework by showing him that sometimes the solution can be on another page of "your life". After that, the atmosphere of the room becomes light and full of happiness.

Then, the girl that initiated the "happy influence" invites the others to go around and spread happiness. They join and go together in a HAPPY PARADE. After they leave the room, another girl comes in. This girl is feeling sad; however, once she enters the room she gets involved by the Happy Atmosphere, becomes happy and decides to join the parade.

Well, that was just a little story to show how we can change our attitudes towards life and become happier. After that, we went around the University of Macau and try to make people, we met a lot of happy faces but also many sad ones. Among them there were friends and people unknown but it was good we could make them smile for a while, even though sometimes they were smiling to make fun of us.

Two days after that, we crossed the bridge and went to Largo do Senado, downtown Macau, to bring a little bit of happiness to people. We were a little bit afraid of people reaction, a bunch of guys and girls wearing in white T-shirts, trying to make them smile :) However, everything turned out to be fine we collected several smiles and we are sure we made a bit difference in people's life, no matter locals or foreigners.

All in all, the experience was very positive we made about 170 people smile and that make me feel pretty good. Remember always, whenever someone not smiling give him one of yours, not only for a better Macau but also for a better world.