Miss Lo

After the episode of meeting a former teacher, I will meet another teacher very soon.
I promised to buy her tea for a long while.
Finally I made it.

But arranging the meeting was 'disastrous'.
I tried to behave 'professionally' but it was a mess.
I still could not get rid of my careless being in the past.
Still the same.

As usual, I was given gentle reminders about…
mixing up the dates,
being unable to arrange the meeting probably,
not finding her for a long time.

Anyway, nothing’s changed. I’ve returned to the good old days.

boxing day party

Time passes very quickly.
Yesterday, we had a sports day to celebrate boxing day.
We had basketball first. Then we went for 2 by 2.
We could barely remember how to defend or dribble. IT's so funny that we only defend the one without holding a basketball...gosh!

Then we went for badmintons. literally we were playing. In fact, we tried our best to hold on till the last minute.

Then we went for the basketball one on one defense again. We had a good time doing exercises and laughing.

So we went courageous enough to go for pool, another hour. We made two games. Also we found the trick to finishing the game. It's simple.

加快節奏!

That's it.

good article

因為約定，所以美麗《情留半天》與《日落巴黎》 若然

最近出席了很多婚禮，見證了不少約定，約定是美麗，因為當中充滿冒險，同樣跟隨著是代價。從這方面看，代價可以很浪漫。
　　《情留半天》（Before sunrise）及《日落巴黎》（Before sunset）這兩部電影的動人之處就是為約定製造時限，時間一到，玻璃鞋的夢想隨即破滅，一分一秒都變得重要和值得珍惜，因此死亡往往令人更認真面對生活。
　　沒有電腦科技的幫助，沒有美術設計的加工，具歷史意義的背景地點，為電影加添了深度，單憑對話帶動電影，很有法國新浪潮導演伊力盧馬（Erich Rohmer）feel，《情》取景於奧地利的維也納，《日》取景於法國巴黎，觀眾自自然然就期望美麗的偶遇故事發生。這故事發生在《情》片之中：剛失戀的美國青年在火車上，巧遇滿口法國口音的妙齡女子，同樣感到德國夫婦吵鬧的厭煩，心理貼近接通，兩顆年輕自由的心嘲笑著刻板、責任和規距。在火車將到威尼斯站時，男的邀請女的一同下車，同遊威尼斯。整個過程自然隨意，沒有很多activities，但有很多dialogue，不是行街睇戲食飯，也不是一二三埋身肉搏，反之是心靈交流和了解，談天說地，分享對世界的夢想。最後因為女的要趕著離開，分別之前約定威尼斯再見。
　　再見重遇終於發生，但已是十年後的事，地點轉到了法國，文字成了回憶的記號。男的成了作家，把那段艷遇在想像中重新建構，出了一本新書；女的突然出現在男在法國小書店的新書發佈會上。新書記載了男主角眼中當日的真實，在等搭飛機離開法國中間空出的幾小時，男女主角同遊巴黎這美麗的都市，從對話中摸索及重組失去的片段。直到中段，提回那個約定。究竟雙方有沒有赴約，女的坦然因外婆突然去逝，未能前往。男的說自己守約，但等不到她，非常失望。本來愛火重燃，幸福結局應該垂手可得。然而兩人因當日沒有聯絡方法的情形下，分別其間各自作出另一些選擇，女的不斷轉換伴侶，男的甚至結婚生子，雖然兩者均指現任伴侶不是心中所愛，但愛不可能比從前容易，男的留戀女的自彈自唱的歌聲，確定愛意的存在，讓時間流走，日落之前電影完結，導演讓我們在想像裡繼續發夢。這電影引領觀眾去代入主角的心情，煥起不少人心中的火花，身同感受經歷他們之間的矛盾和不確定，像第一身，也像第三身，兩部電影都在末段留了空白，在日出之前的約定是否會兌現？在日落之前他們是否會有情人終成眷屬？誠然如片中主角討論一樣，最後決定是讀者是怎樣的人，浪漫還是變得實際。二十歲跟三十歲的選擇有沒有不同？再過十年，又會怎麼樣？會不會再多拍一套before midnight，好回應一下mid 1ife crisis，看看約定有沒有變質。
　　兩部電影都以對話為主，不是每個人能接受，不喜歡的人甚至會覺得悶出鳥來。但如果你的心中還有愛，還有一顆自由的心，這個約定必會感動你。
　　人的約定不易持守，當中要克服很多內在的不安和環境的限制。但神的約定不同，是可靠、超越和真實的，而且已經在耶穌誕生中表現，並會在再來時得以完全，那將會是一個永恆的約定。


I like this article. Except the last paragraph. Anyway, I told the writer already.

best Christmas gift ever

Yesterday, another heart warming event.
I went to a dinner with pastor, his wife and Grandpa's family.
The dinner was terrific.
We just had a good time talking and joking.

To see old friend will always make me more alive.

a teacher

Yesterday I saw someone I was very familar with in my secondary school.

I recognised her immediately.
But I was not sure whether she was really there.

Then I wondered whether I should say hi to her.

It took me more than 15 minutes to make the decision.

My colleagues and an old friend also thought I should.

So I went to her.

When I walked, she hid her smile.
I was wondering whether I should leave.
But I did not do so.

I told her a few times that I was a secondary school student of her.

She was the same.

She could not remember me. That's normal as she told our class years ago.

But she remember my school friend. Then she could locate which year I was in.

Surprisingly, she was very different from the teacher that I used to know.

She was quite happy and she gave me a hug.

"A historical moment", indeed.

Louisa's "forty-thousand" smile. Not very successful. Ah Ho, myself and Daniel did not get in the screen... 

L&D wedding

Flowers and Candles @ Louisa & Daniel's wedding.

lazy boy

I think old people have their wisdom.
Laziness is the source of misery.

my private tutorial student is a horrible lazy bone.
He lacks initiative to work. One kick will make less than one move. So i am doing a terrible task of moving mountains.

He is very lazy.
He does nothing.
He always came to the tutorial with empty stomache.
Because no one cooks for him.

He's alway late.
because he is hungry.
So he fried an egg to eat five minutes before the tutorial.
So he was late.

"Why don't you make an instant noodle?"
"It's trouble to make instant noodle," he replied.
Too lazy to feed himself.

He was too lazy to say sorry to his teacher.

He is having a girl friend.
I am not sure whether this is real or not.
But maybe this is true.
He is having a girl friend because he is too lazy to reject her.
I will not reject this possibility.

Last week, he had a pimpled face.
Why such an out break? I am not sure.

He tried to put on "something" on his face (his sister's skin care, he said). He thought that would treat his acne.
But he was too lazy to find out what it was.
He just put it on.
It trickered the pimple, I suspect.

So we had an English tutorial about how to take of a pimpled face.
He found out that he had to wash his face before putting on acne cream.
Acne cream on a dirty face. It's a tragedy.

The last tragedy, he did not know that he had to clean his hands before touching the pimples. So you see why such acne outbreak.

Laziness is indeed a misery.

write

I've not been writing something for a long time.
Dont feel like writing.