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Stuart Lau

Queenie Rosita Law said she had “overcome” the difficulties of her kidnapping ordeal and may write a book to “inspire others” to be strong in the face of hardship.
In an interview with the Post, the 29-year-old Bossini heiress described a “180-degree change” to her life after spending nearly a month resting at home after the kidnapping, following by her finding “another world”.
She emphasised she was not traumatised and that the experience taught her a lesson to devote energy towards her “dream and goal” in life.
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“I think I’ve overcome it now,” she said of the kidnapping.
“I wasn’t too afraid. I don’t think it was a very traumatising experience ... [because] I’ve been a positive person throughout.”
She added that she expected she “would be fine” in the aftermath.
It was for this reason she was initially surprised by the intense media coverage over her case.
“When I was [freed] and realised it had become such a big thing, I was quite shocked,” she said, recalling a friend telling her of a seven-roadblock car journey from Kowloon to Hong Kong Island.
“I’ve been a positive person throughout,”
Queenie Law
“I didn’t expect ... a 180-degree change in my life,” she said, noting she had a meeting scheduled days after her release and wanted to attend it. “I thought there was nothing that had happened to me, I was fine and when I came out, I could go back to work.”
Her attitude changed after she was told by people around her to “slow down”.
Two days after her release, she made a public appearance at a press conference. Appearing solemn, she told the press she was scared but physically and emotionally unharmed.
“It was half my intention to [have a press conference]. My idea was that I wanted people to understand I was fine,” she said. “After all I feared people’s fantasy most. Perhaps in similar cases in the past people would think, ‘oh, some bad things must have happened’.”
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At the time she was extremely tired. “I forgot that my Instagram, Facebook were all set to public. I shut them down a few days after the press conference.”
After the appearance, she stayed secluded in her home for a month, a memory that remains vivid.
“It took me nearly a month to recover,” she said. “It’s as if I fell asleep for a whole month, which passed so fast that I was totally unaware.”
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“When a month went by, I thought, ‘oh, it’s been a month.’ I’d rested for a long time,” she said.
Law finally decided to step out to attend the Affordable Art Fair.
“It was as if I were in a different world,” she said. “I was a little bit overwhelmed.”
Law, who has her own production house, said she was considering ways to express her feelings “based on the recent experience”, either through a book or a gallery exhibition.
Maybe the good side is getting more focused on what you want to do ... I hope to inspire others to go for their dream.
Queenie Law
“I hope to inspire people in that ... even if something bad happens, you can overcome it,” she said.
“I want the theme [of the book] to be about dreams ... Even though it’s a very bad experience, I think there’s still a good side of it.
“Maybe the good side is getting more focused on what you want to do. When a lot of things happen, you may forget you have your dream and goal to achieve. I hope to inspire others to go for their dream,” she said.
Her primary focus at present is on her production house, she said, a place in which she designs and creates products with her own artistic ideas.
She said she would pay greater attention to less commercial projects, including the compilation of a book for up to 12 artists to present their different perspectives about Hong Kong through their art. She started thinking about the concept two years ago, and is now more determined than ever to publish it this year.
“Sometimes what you want to do most is not a super profitable thing, but at the same time it has meaning. That’s what I want to do now,” she said.

A few months after the ordeal, she managed to locate a 700 sq ft office in Sheung Wan, which she hoped would attract artists.
“Somehow I feel I don’t want to waste time anymore,” Law said. “I’m not saying what I had been doing before was a waste of time, but I became clearer in my path about what to do, and I became more determined to achieve it.”
Business, she noted, is difficult, especially in attracting customers who understand her vision.
“I hope people will be less interested in that incident, but more in my future work,” she said.


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