Rachel Lam

**Rachel Lam** (born 2 August 2004) is the twin sister of Raphael Lam and a member of the Carmelian PopStars. Her stage name is Setter Sis Rachel.

## Official character introduction

Rachel and Raphael are twins born in 2004. Although they did not do excellently in academic performance in their primary years, they started to strike a balance between volleyball and academic performance at CALFSS. Soon, they become top-flight students in terms of studies and volleyball skills.

## Biography

### Form 2 (2017-2018)

#### December 2017

Rachel and her brother Raphael, both as members of the CALFSS Volleyball Team, got qualified to the 2017 Jing Ying Tournament. As the champions of the Kwai Tsing District, both the boys team and the girls team got qualified directly to the Round of 16 on 28 December 2017. That day, Rachel's team played against the CHWSS Girls Volleyball Team and won 25:23-21:25-15:10.

After the match, Rachel and Raphael made friends with Josefin Chung, a Form 3 middle blocker from CHWSS whom they affectionately called "Josie".

#### February 2018

Rachel and her brother went to the Lam Tsuen Wishing Trees on 15 February 2018, during the Lunar New Year of 2018 upon invitation by Josie. They wished for the very best performance of Carmelian teams for the rest of the year.

### Form 3 (2018-2019)

#### December 2018

Both the boys and the girls of the CALFSS Volleyball Team got qualified to the 2018 Jing Ying Tournament, but this time, only the girls advanced directly to 28 December.

On the Boxing Day of 2018, one day before the 2018 Jing Ying Tournament, Rachel and Josie met at the Tsing Yi Sports Centre, which would host the tournament for the next five days. They discussed about inter-Carmelian relationships, how the media handled it and how their schoolmates handled it, as well as how they became friends one year ago, and about Mike, a boy from CSS who called himself "Carmel's Cheerleader" and vowed to cheer for both of them.

On 28 December, Rachel's team defeated LKS 16:25-25:19-15:9. The next day, they went on to defeat DGS 25:21-16:25-15:8, and advanced to the semifinals.

On 30 December, Rachel faced HYS at a fierce match, which unfortunately ended up in a tight loss (29:31-25:16-11:15). The match was attended by Josie, who supported her best friend after defeating CYTSS herself at the previous match. Josie cried out the name of Rachel loudly upon her loss. Rachel lost one more time on New Year's Eve against CYTSS (18:25-19:25).

#### Spring 2019

At a match before March, Rachel and Raphael met Francis Yuen, a wing spiker from CPU. On 23 March, they met Mike again at a match against PLK83. On 21 May, they presented the 2018-2019 volleyball season results of their school,

### Form 4 (2019-2020)

#### August 2019

On 25 August, the siblings comforted Mike, who was standing near the harborfront thinking about CPU denying joint-Carmelian student activities. On 30 August, they talked to Lucia Moyung, a wing spiker from CDGFSS, about her upcoming DSE exams.

#### Fall 2019

The siblings presented their groupings on 3 September 2019. On 18 September 2019, they complained about the HKSSF delaying the season opening date, and later received a phone call from Mike, who asked them to come to the match between CBT and CACTM on 23 September.

On 22 September, Rachel asked Mike through Instagram if he can attend her match against Yenching, but Mike responded that he can only attend her brother's match against CZM. Rachel said "never mind". On 29 September, Mike cheered for the siblings again.

The siblings later discussed about the cancellation of all October matches on 4 October*.* On 25 October, they wished CSS a happy 55th birthday and CPU a happy 40th.

At Halloween, the siblings announced that the Jing Ying Tournament will not be held in 2019 as scheduled and the Instagram account name will be changed to simply @carmelpopstars. On 5 November, they were seen watcing the English dub of the anime Haikyuu!! on Volley TV while announcing the rearranged match schedule. Four days later on 9 November, Rachel and Lucia bought charity flags for the Hong Kong Federation fo Women's Centres before watching the girls' match between the CPU and Valtorta.

On Christmas Day, they published a monologue about the match cancellations in October and late November. On 3 January 2020, Rachel appeared alone, promoting the match between her team and Chuen Yuen. She later appeared with her brother on 10 January to present their U15 groupings. In the profile picture, Rachel shouted "ASSEMBLE!" with other members in response to Mikael shouting "Carmelians!".

#### Spring 2020

Rachel expressed on 3 March that she has only played two matches in the entire season. On 13 May, Rachel received a phone call from Lucia and told his brother to work out.

### Form 5 (2020-2021)

#### Summer 2020

On 29 August 2020, Rachel told the Carmelian PopStars that Mikael has told her about new members from CSS and CDGFSS starting from 1 September.

#### Fall and Winter 2020

Rachel and her brother appeared in multiple campaigns promoting student union and house elections in the fall of 2020, and they sent a Christmas greeting on 23 December. On 29 December, Rachel and Josie discussed about the past and future of their teams and their friendship.

#### Spring 2021

On 8 March, Rachel talked about her aspirations of becoming a software engineer. On 16 April, Rachel and her brother announced their decision to take their first dose of coronavirus vaccines in early May in *Special Act: We're Getting Vaccinated!!*, and they later revealed on 2 July that the moment of injection was painless.

### Future

Rachel and Raphael obtained their BEng&BBA(COGBM) degree from the Hong Kong University of Science and Technology in 2027, and emigrated to Sweden to work at Mike's startup.

## Trivia

* The reason for having twins of opposite genders to represent CALFSS is because of the good performance of both the boys and the girls of their volleyball team, in contrast with CHWSS which has much stronger girls' team, CBT which has a much stronger boys' team.

## References

1. ↑ More about our characters!, @carmelpopstars (2020-03-24)
2. ↑ *Character Introductions - Rachel and Raphael Lam*, @carmelpopstars (2019-03-29)
3. ↑ 2017-2018 All Hong Kong Schools Jing Ying Volleyball Tournament Fixtures - Boys, HKSSF (2017-12-31)
4. ↑ 2017-2018 All Hong Kong Schools Jing Ying Tournament Fixtures - Girls, HKSSF (2017-12-31)
5. ↑ 5.0 5.1 *Memories of Jing Ying '17*, @carmelpopstars (2020-02-25)
6. ↑ *CALFSS vs CHWSS*, @carmelpopstars (2020-12-28)
7. ↑ *The Legend of the Wishing Trees*, @carmelpopstars (2021-02-07)
8. ↑ 2018-2019 All Hong Kong Schools Jing Ying Tournament Fixtures - Boys, HKSSF (2018-12-31)
9. ↑ 9.0 9.1 9.2 2018-2019 All Hong Kong Schools Jing Ying Tournament Fixtures - Girls, HKSSF (2018-12-31)
10. ↑ 10.0 10.1 Three Years of Friendship, @carmelpopstars (2020-12-29)