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LAST MOMENTS before the bar will be closed permanently on 1 Jan 2026 * **Date & Time**: Thursday 18 Dec, 8pm * **Meeting Point & Venue**: exact spot shared after payment * **Cost**: HK$190 including one signature cocktails worth $130-150 Excluding extra drinks pay-at-bar * First come, first serve. FPS or Payme to 55073213. Please provide the payment slip to WhatsApp: 55073213 to keep your spot! * **Highlights**: \- Instagram\-able background decoration: Capture your moment with a camera \- Themed cocktails; casual bar seating for mingling * **Vibe**: Relaxed group hangout for expats, new comers and locals to unwind and talk with a drink * **Why Join?**: Experience a bar inspired by the history of a place with the highest density of people per kilometre in the past before its site redevelopment; good for sharing stories over drinks **RSVP Now** — limited spots. Share your drink preference when you join. Meet for drinks and chats at a hidden bar in Kowloon. The bar has a nostalgic old HK city theme with signature cocktails for some instagram-able photos/reels and let your friends be jealous about the place. #HongKongBars #TsimShaTsuiNight #KowloonWalledCity #Hangout #LocalDrinks #FragrantHarbourVibes #BarHoppingHK #HappyHourHK #CulturalNights #Hidden #Bar #OldHongKong #Social **Photo Consent Notice**: By joining, you consent to photos/videos from the event being used for future promotions. If you'd rather opt out, let me know!

**You need to register in the below link to attend the meetup** [Register here](https://forms.gle/eYxjmEEB72xDZVw99) **NOTE: This meetup is exclusive and the final list of attendees is at the discretion of the host. You will receive an invitation via email before the meetup date.** We are delighted to announce that our next meetup will be in cooperation with **Bullish**. Special thanks to our sponsor, **Bullish**, for making this event happen. \-\-\-\-\-\-\-\-\-\-\-\-\-\-\-\-\-\-\-\-\-\-\-\-\-\-\-\-\-\-\-\-\-\-\-\-\-\-\-\-\-\-\-\-\-\-\-\-\-\-\-\-\-\-\-\-\-\-\-\-\-\-\-\-\-\-\-\-\-\- **Speaker 1: Sébastien Borget** **Topic:** Unchaining Creators by moving the Creators Economy onchain **Bio:** He is an entrepreneur and father with 14 years of experience in growing startups, including 4 years in blockchain and 11 years in mobile gaming. He is the Co-founder and COO of The Sandbox, a pioneering virtual world where players build, own, and monetize gaming experiences using NFTs and SAND, the platform’s utility token. In 2020, he became President of the Blockchain Game Alliance, representing over 250 industry leaders. Recognized among CoinTelegraph’s Top 100 most influential people in crypto, Sébastien holds a Computer Science Engineering degree from Telecom SudParis, one of France’s leading ICT graduate schools. **Summary:** He will share how his journey in user-generated content and gaming led him to co-found one of the largest decentralized virtual worlds, partnering with more than 400 major brands. He’ll highlight why creators across all platforms still struggle to get discovered, build communities, and grow their economies; despite the industry’s progress. These challenges inspired him to launch SANDchain, designed as the financial backbone of creativity, empowering creators to introduce loyalty points and access on-chain financialization in a transparent, interoperable way. \-\-\-\-\-\-\-\-\-\-\-\-\-\-\-\-\-\-\-\-\-\-\-\-\-\-\-\-\-\-\-\-\-\-\-\-\-\-\-\-\-\-\-\-\-\-\-\-\-\-\-\-\-\-\-\-\-\-\-\-\-\-\-\-\-\-\-\-\-\- **Speaker 2: Olaf Torne** **Title:** Accelerating equity exotics RFQ response times using ML **Bio:** He leads the APAC front-office equity derivatives quant team at Barclays, with over 15 years of experience in quantitative finance spanning flow and exotic derivatives and quantitative investment strategies (QIS). Holding a PhD in mathematics from Brussels University and a graduate certificate in artificial intelligence from Stanford University, he combines classical modeling with machine learning to tackle complex financial challenges. His career includes roles at Merrill Lynch and research collaboration at Ecole Centrale Paris, where he published academic papers and built advanced models. As a team leader, he values collaboration, integrity, and innovation, mentoring others to drive excellence and impact. **Summary:** We present several use cases arising in equity structured product issuance, where time-consuming Monte Carlo or Finite Difference based approaches can potentially be enhanced using Machine Learning models. \-\-\-\-\-\-\-\-\-\-\-\-\-\-\-\-\-\-\-\-\-\-\-\-\-\-\-\-\-\-\-\-\-\-\-\-\-\-\-\-\-\-\-\-\-\-\-\-\-\-\-\-\-\-\-\-\-\-\-\-\-\-\-\-\-\-\-\-\-\- **Speaker 3:** MA Jianfei **Title:** Enhancing LLMs' Phonological Reasoning in Chinese via a Fine-tuning and Reinforcement Learning Framework **Bio:** He holds a BA in Translation and Linguistics from The Hong Kong Polytechnic University （PolyU） and is currently a first-year Ph.D. student there. His research interests lie in computational linguistics. Under his supervisor's guidance, he is currently working on speech disorders in autism, with future plans to explore AI for therapy. He is currently including one first-author EMNLP (oral) and one ACL (oral, second author), alongside three workshop papers. His work primarily focuses on analyzing linguistic phenomena within model mechanisms （interpretability） and leveraging these phenomena to enhance model performance. **Summary:** This talk addresses a key challenge in Chinese NLP: the language's complex phonological system leads to a vast number of homophones. Netizens often exploit this for wordplay or to circumvent content filters, which impacts tasks like high-quality web scraping and sensitive content detection. While Large Language Models (LLMs) possess some innate phonological knowledge, we argue that explicitly teaching them to align phonetic and textual information is crucial. To this end, we constructed a comprehensive Chinese homophone dataset, encompassing typing errors, ASR misrecognitions, and real-world online puns. We then developed a framework combining Supervised Fine-tuning (SFT) to mimic human-like reasoning and Reinforcement Learning (RL) to stabilize the acquired skills. Our results show that even smaller models can achieve phonological reasoning abilities comparable to their larger teacher models. \-\-\-\-\-\-\-\-\-\-\-\-\-\-\-\-\-\-\-\-\-\-\-\-\-\-\-\-\-\-\-\-\-\-\-\-\-\-\-\-\-\-\-\-\-\-\-\-\-\-\-\-\-\-\-\-\-\-\-\-\-\-\-\-\-\-\-\-\-\- **Time:** Thursday, December 18th, 2025, 18:30 PM to 9:00 PM HKT (Registration start at 6:45pm) **Venue:** The Centrium, Building **Address:** Bullish limited, 31/F, The Centrium building, 60 Wyndham St, Central

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Daytime charge 36$/h Nighttime charge 54$/h Ideally 2 persons max for one court Please confirm in the WhatsApp group if you are showing up Squash as minimum viable cardio at HK squash center or somewhere else I tend to book the sessions during lunch time or afterwork, don’t hesitate to join me, let’s burn some calories together :) If interested, let’s chat in the group or add me for pairing up Please note the timing is indicative and book the courts through your own smart play app after pairing up

Come to see **free** comedy in primal form. Have a laugh and a giggle. It's open mic, so get up and perform if you feel like it! No drink minimum. Convenient location in the heart of Central.

[ Join us ] Hello Everyone 👋🏼! This is the best awesome Group gaming in Hong Kong Let's get to know what's "The closest strangers, the best teammates ever" here\~🤼‍♂️ Team gaming, meet new people. Feel free to bring your TEAM! Friendly gaming mentality! \* When : Every Thursday \| From 8:00pm to 11:00pm Where : 3/F, West Wing, 66 Mody Road, Tsim Sha Tsui Centre, Tsim Sha Tsui East, Kowloon Fee : $400/person, Special offer for 2 ladies at $300/person Drinks : 2 classic cocktails/person Games : 3 bar games Guest : 24 guests (12 men and 12 ladies) max Prizes : CASH award for winner team Latecomers will just miss the games!!! \* [ Contact us ] First in first come! Registration and advance payment is required, you can ask through whatsapp chat https://wa.me/65398200

DMZ have a selection of games but feel free to bring your own game if there’s something you really want to play. They have some snacks and drinks available to buy, plus you can bring your own! Come join us for a night of board games fun with new (and old) friends! COST: it is $100 for play

*Follow us on Instagram [@hongkongpubcrawl](https://www.instagram.com/hongkongpubcrawl/) or reserve your spot at our [website](https://www.hongkongpubcrawl.com/lkf-crawl)! HKD 250 for Thursdays, HKD 350 for Friday & Saturday, for booking online and walk in participants.* Party with us and discover Hong Kong’s best nightlife spots in the legendary Lan Kwai Fong (LKF) Bar District as you meet other thirsty travellers, locals, and ex-pats, all the while enjoying our unbeatable drink deals. Happening since 2010. WHAT YOU GET * One free shooter at all bars * FREE ALL YOU CAN DRINK DEAL * Party with a team of experienced crawlers * Enjoy FREE VIP entry to the city's hottest clubs (typically priced at $300HKD and up) * Professional photographer privileges to document all the memories you won't remember ​ Crawl Itinerary * 8:45 pm Dead& Dive Bar and Welcome Speech * 9:00 pm Head to the first bar * 10:00 pm - 12:00 am Additional off-the-beaten-track bars * 12:00 am Clubbing at final nightclub destination ​ The night builds up and ends (and for some, just begins...) at our final nightclub, at around 12:00am. The nightclub is not an experience to be missed. Our drink deals don't apply at the nightclub, so remember to take advantage of them before! Free entry to the nightclub is included in your ticket, but you MUST have valid photo identification for entry. Don't wear flip-flops, sandals, or open-toed shoes.

**Decagone** Upon arriving for their first day on the job in a deep ocean research facility, it becomes apparent that the crew are caught in a uniquely horrifying situation. They’ve become trapped inside a time-loop, along with a number of rather peculiar and dangerous experiments. Every ten minutes, the crew finds themselves back in the elevator they arrived in. Unable to escape, and no time to call for help, how long until they've looped one too many times for their mind to handle? A Mothership adventure. **The Eternal Grind Cafe** Your hubris has angered the gods, and to teach you a lesson in humility, you have been sent to hell! Hell turns out to be a minimum wage job in a tip-based industry. In your own universe you might have been a hero, a demigod, or a villain, but here you are but a lowly barista of the Eternal Grind Café– and the breakfast rush is coming. **Discworld - A Rite Before Hogswatch** It’s the night before Hogswatch and someone’s decided that Mr Alfred Hinsley, owner of the Ankh Morpork Metalworking Factory, needs to be taught a lesson about humility, family, and kindness this winter holiday. Usually, this is a job goes to the big leagues ghosts, the ones that haunt opera houses and ancient moors — unfortunately, due to a clerical error they’ve been double-booked to haunt some *other* rich guy. The job now falls to you, the troupe of Treacle Mine Road Community Theatre — you’re not ghosts, and you're not that into morality plays, and honestly you don’t even know this bloke very well, but a gig’s a gig and you’ve done enough Hogswatch Panto to know how this goes. WHAT IS ONE-SHOT SATURDAY? It's a weekly meet-up in Sheung Wan/Central, focusing on indie games and single-session games (one-shots). 而家所有游戏係英文嘅但如果你要嚟玩中文游戏，我哋會無任歡迎。只要湊啱玩家就行！ You can drop in and play at any One-Shot Saturday – you do not need to have played in a previous session or commit to playing again. Whether you've played an RPG before or not, you're welcome to join us. Please arrive on time as once the games begin it becomes difficult to properly introduce latecomers. Join the conversation, make plans, suggest games to play, etc. — Facebook group: https://www.facebook.com/groups/oneshotsaturdays/ *** WHAT IS A TABLETOP RPG? It's a game in which you never know where the next stop will be, because it’s all down to the decisions you and your fellow players make. Usually one person is the Game Master (or "GM"). Everyone else will be players, taking the role of the characters in the game. The players get to say what their characters say, think, and do. The GM describes everything else in the world. Then... we play to find out what happens. The game is a conversation: I say something, then you reply, maybe someone else chimes in. We talk about what's happening to the characters we imagine and the world around them. We also talk about the rules, which help us decide what happens next if the next step is in doubt. The rules differ from game to game: some use dice to shape the story, others use cards or something else. It's always a conversation, though.

Tung Chung Toastmasters Club is closing the year with a reflective meeting with a theme of growth, lessons, and second chances. Members and guests will share personal stories about mistakes that shaped them, the second chances they embraced, and the powerful lessons that helped them grow. It is a safe, supportive space to practice public speaking, receive feedback, and celebrate progress together. Every mistake is a seed of growth. At this session, you will hear speeches and table topics inspired by the question: "What lesson changed you this year?" Whether you are polishing your speaking sklls, building confidence for work, or simply looking for meaningful stories, this meeting is for you. Event details: ⭐️ Date: 21 December 2025 ⭐️ Time: 2:45 pm - 4:45 pm ⭐️ Venue: NAAC Touch Centre, G/F, Left Wing, 15 Tung Chung Waterfront Road, Tung Chung ⭐️ Format: Hybrid (In-room and on Zoom) Guests are welcome, and no prior experience is needed. Scan the QR code on the poster for more information!

No entry fee, chess players of any ability welcome! Requirements * Purchase food or drink to support the shop. * Treat all patrons and staff with utmost courtesy. * Avoid foul language, we have younger members and don't want to disturb other customers. * Stronger players, please be willing to engage with and help less skilled players. To give yourself a challenge, feel free to play with a time or material disadvantage. * It is normal to change playing partners after a couple of games, don't be afraid to mix it up! * If you want to bring a guest, please send a message to the organizers. * If cancelling, please let us know as soon as you can.

Ignore the waitlist, message us here or on instagram (barhop.hongkong) to sign up. Join us for the Hong Kong Daylight Bar Hop every Saturday afternoon! Discover a new perspective on drinking as we embrace the vibrant daylight hours in Hong Kong. We'll bring you the most fantastic happy hour deals! As part of our adventure, we'll be taking a Hong Kong public tram ride from the first venue to continue our party at the bustling red light district, adding a touch of local charm to our journey. **What it includes:** - Free entry to 4 awesome bars including 1 live band bar - One complimentary shot at each bar - One complimentary Hong Kong public tram ride to party at the vibrant red light district of Hong Kong - Choose your favourite song to jam out in one of the bars! *Drinks deal priced $30 on average* **Meeting time:** 2:15 PM **Meeting Point:** Causeway Bay MTR exit F2 ( Hysan Place) **Entry Fee:** $135 ( Buy 2 get 1 Free for Students) **Walk Ins:** $160 *Reserve your spot through FPS/Payme to 68293890 Or CreditCard or ApplePay: https://book.stripe.com/4gweVY5B0dGrfAcdQW* *We hop every Saturday! **We are taking a regular tram ride (not a party tram) T&C on our website (www.barhophongkong.com)

(Partner's Event) English Corner Time: Every Wed, Fri & Sun 19:00 - 23:00 Location: The Crazy Coconut Bar, ShenZhen Longhua Baishilong, 3rd floor, 3N100, Above Metro Exit B2 (BaiShiLong Metro Station) 瘋狂酒吧， 深圳龍華白石龍地鐵站B2上方，3樓 Refer to the picture for details on the BBQ Sat event.

Time flies, and it's Christmas gift-giving season again. We hope members will bring gifts to exchange too. Ho Ho Ho, Santa comes to town, December 19th Friday, Pre-Xmas International Gathering 2025 will be at K-97 Lan Kwai Fong. Located on the G/F of the Cosmos Building (8-11 Lan Kwai Fong), K-97 a legendary bar in the HK scene, an elegant open environment with a soft and relaxed atmosphere during happy hour. In this occasion we will make a warm and Christmas oriented mood on our led walls. Feel free to join Friday after work, come early to get free Santa ��� hat, wear something red to blend with the Christmas atmosphere, meeting interesting people .... let's keep the fun continue, party till late! Pre-Christmas Networking Drinks @K-97 LKF Date: December 19, Friday Time : 6 pm to 11 pm ( Happy hour till 10 pm ) * This event only till 11pm , come join us early, thank you! K-17: G/F, Costmos Building , 8-11 Lan Kwai Fong , Central , Hong Kong. * Free-entry (Buy a drink) before 6:30 pm specials for early bird, re-entry not arrowed. * Door HKD100 (Cash) per person includes one standard drink, happy hour till 10 pm special, join early to enjoy Happy-hour & chat with members enjoy holiday mood! * Holiday Lucky draw Special at 10:30 pm, don't miss it ! \*\* The first prize is a bottle of wine🍾🍾... Standard drinks include: House white and red, Beer, Vodka, Gin, Whisky, Rum, Tequila, Juice & Soft drinks. The dress code : Smart casual. No shorts and /or flip-flops! W/ Santa's hat.... Come join early to enjoy special holiday happy hour, and get free Santa Claus hats (Limited supply)….lets enjoy the Christmas atmosphere under big screen with members... All guests must be 18+ and provide valid identification card with recent picture, entire door policy will be under the Company’s policy and the Company reserves the right to make the final decision for the guest entry! \* To facilitate venue’s handling for our events, please order a drink before starting to introduce yourself and chat with members ( Indoor & Terrace ). \* Kind reminder : Bring some cash.

**Miracle is a Christmas-themed pop-up cocktail bar that serves holiday cocktails in the most festive and nostalgic setting in the city - [CITIZENS TRUST](https://www.thecitizenstrust.com/). Featuring wall-to-wall Christmas décor, cheery social experiences, and a whole lot of Christmas spirits!** **Sip one of the many Christmas cocktails crafted by their jolly staff, take your profile picture in the Igloo, and connect with friends in the most decked out holiday bar in the city.** **START**: ***HAPPY HOUR at Buckeye Bourbon House*** (5-6pm). Select small plates and cocktails are about half price. *(note: Citizens Trust does not serve food, just cocktails)* **PARKING:** After 5pm, metered street parking is available. There is also a public pay lot on the same block (Metropolis).

Take a break from the craziness of the holiday season and relax at The Lion with us. This is an new (to me) place in Bexley that serves cocktails, beer and wine, coffee, tea, pastries, snacks, caviar--a little bit of everything. The cocktail they made for The Drexel to sell for screenings of "Wicked For Good" was one of the best cocktails I've ever had. Their tea list is also impressive. Take special note of the Emperor's Private Reserve Pu-erh! https://www.thelionbexley.com/menu I don't know how large the place is, so it's possible we might find places to sit, or we might need to stand. This is an informal event to explore this interesting location.