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Feeling Homey?<br />
Not up for the madness at a sports bar?<br />
Avoid Hong Kong’s football hooligans and<br />
stay home for a quieter match.<br />
Watch It Now<br />
Watch the games from the comfort of your own home by<br />
tuning into Now TV’s channel 651: the channel will broadcast<br />
all 51 matches of Euro 2016 with both Cantonese and English<br />
commentary available. On the go? You can also catch all the<br />
matches on the channel’s mobile app.<br />
$106 per month for basic channels, extra $350 for the<br />
Euro 2016 games, nowtv.now.com<br />
Hop Hop Hooray<br />
Feeling peckish when staying home watching the games?<br />
Order in. Deliveroo and FoodPanda both deliver straight from<br />
restaurants in about half an hour, meaning that you can order at<br />
the start of the match and the food’ll arrive before half time. Our<br />
suggestion: Order based on the cuisine of the countries playing.<br />
Ukrainian vs. Albanian? Challenge accepted.<br />
Busy Bees<br />
Can’t be bothered to pick up snacks from the<br />
supermarket? Check out new online grocery shopping<br />
service Honestbee. <strong>The</strong>se guys will buzz around town<br />
doing your grocery shopping for you, from giant bags<br />
of Doritos from American supermarket Gateway, to<br />
cases of hoppy brews from bottle shop Craftissimo.<br />
<strong>The</strong>y offer same-day delivery, and you can even choose<br />
a 1-hour delivery window to expect your goods to arrive.<br />
honestbee.hk<br />
Top Euro<br />
5Sickie Tips<br />
In Cantonese, to “seh bo”—“shoot the ball” means to call in sick for work.<br />
What better excuse than the Euros to seh bo for the sake of seh bo? Here<br />
are five great ways to call in sick.<br />
1. “I think I have gastroenteritis. I woke up at 3am to sprint to the toilet,<br />
and I haven’t left since. My bathroom looks like…” [Go into as much<br />
excruciating detail as necessary before your boss hangs up, horrified]<br />
2. Get mom to do it. No boss can refuse a mom.<br />
3. Arrange to catch hand, foot and mouth disease from the closest baby.<br />
That’s a week off work, easy! Don’t have a nearby baby? Consider<br />
borrowing one and getting it to cough on you.<br />
4. Say you ate a chicken the night before and are worried it had avian flu,<br />
so you need to quarantine yourself for the length of the Euros.<br />
5. Along with a few friends who are also calling in sick, stage an elaborate<br />
fake kidnapping involving your ransom back to work for a raise of, oh,<br />
30 percent?<br />
Reminder!<br />
DON’T put anything on social<br />
media, or your first day back at work<br />
will be a fun HR meeting!<br />
14 HK MAGAZINE FRIDAY, JUNE 10, 2016
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