June 4 in a Campus
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Posted:Jun 4, 2007 2:40 am
Last Updated:Jun 27, 2007 8:24 am 11969 Views
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18 years a flash. June 4th.
I was in in a Chinese high school campus where was filled with greens and fire-red phoenix flowers, and a lake as bright as a mirror.
On June 5th I heard our beloved history teacher Mr. Wong was brought to police bcoz he asked a higher grade class to salute in silence for the students at Heavenly Peace Gate. But soon he was released.
What a 16-y-o girl would do during this historic event? She listened to HK radio that brocasted perhaps some spiced up reports, until very deep night. She felt bloods boiling up, heart beating up. She even wanted to die for the country w/o hesitation. She exchanged info with the father who was in the govmt. Father said they were also support the petitions of anti-corruption and buildup democracy. Yet there's no enthusiastic reaction in their small city.
How was the campus? No heatup discussion abt it among fellow students. No teacher talked abt it. Everything remained the same. I went to school late as usual, absent for the morning reading class. I leaned on the balcony as usual in breaktime, looking over girls/boys passing by.
However, the school would never forget to educate us and resolve our puzzles. We had politics class in conference room to see the video film abt what's happening in Tian'an'men. We saw many young students, jam-packed there in front of PPL's Heros' Monument; we saw LA soldiers attacked by mobs but never fought back the hostileness.
18 years June 4. My friend who always challenges me for my 'money-driven' but 'consciousness-lacking' provoked me to write an article on a local newspaper in this regard.
I didnt, so came this.
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恐惧弥漫
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Posted:May 31, 2007 2:23 am
Last Updated:Jun 1, 2007 7:24 pm 11948 Views
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Chinese version of Pervasive Fears, see how brief it is?
我怕
天崩
地陷
月黯
海枯
虎侵城
人占林
海盗抢恶船
斯文夺希望
我怕
有楼
供款
欠人情债
收你无字短讯再见你的脸
今日喜欢你
明天疏远你
我怕假装
此刻没有恐惧
我不想你
在身近或远处
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Pervasive Fears
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Posted:May 31, 2007 2:05 am
Last Updated:Jun 12, 2007 12:07 am 11786 Views
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Everywhere, on Nan's, DVC's blogs, on AFF, on planet...
I fear
the sky would collapse
the earth would sink
the moon no longer shone
the sea ran out of water
the tigers invaded into city
and urbanners aggressed into jungles
pirates robbed off devil boats
civics ripped off desperate hopes
I fear
to own a house
to owe the banks
or their hospitality
to have your wordless messages
to see your face again
to like you so deep today
but desert from you one day
I fear to pretend
I dont have fears this moment
I dont want you around and remote
--p.s. Thanks Nan, my grammarian.
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Confusions - You Plus Me
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Posted:May 25, 2007 8:20 pm
Last Updated:Jun 12, 2007 12:08 am 11570 Views
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Dunno who you are
what you are
which is the real YOU
You, in bliss, ascended
You, in flicker, descended
as fickle as the weather under global warmth
And those happy acts and words
You need me to remember you
In the garden facing the mammoth Venetian
On the hill resembling tropical Thailand
Dunno who you are
what you are
which is the real YOU
For ME
Dunno who I am
what I am
which is the ME
In YOU
Are we two dices
giggle and struggle
in the night of greasy Macau
We roll'n'roll without knowing
where to stop while the croupiers watching
I justjust want the Indian ocean heat
brings you back
and we have TIME to honor
The real YOU
The true ME
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Drunken Dragon Dance
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Posted:May 24, 2007 3:31 am
Last Updated:May 24, 2007 8:20 pm 11952 Views
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pic.: Drunk Men Dancing w/ Drunk Dragon, source: Macautourismdotnet
Today is Buddha's Feast (Lunar April 8th), a public holiday for HK/Macau but I am toiling mentally in office.
Both in HK and Macau there are big ceremonies to celebrate. Yet in China there is no such festivity. Concerns have been raised that China should enshrine more traditinal holidays to avoid the dying of traditions. Quite right.
In Macau, we have the very characteristic celebration -- Drunken Dragon Dance by dancers, usually thewy men who dance w/ the long dragon, while dancing while pouring rice wine until drunk. Hence, the dance becomes wild, full of masculine power. This celerbration was rooted from fishermen's custom, now feasted by fish vendors.
Today, all the fresh stocks markets are closed and ppl fm every walk of society queue up in the fierce sun in the marketplace to get a share of Dragon Head Rice, which, is believed to bring good luck to eaters all the year long.
p.s. I would find a Drunken Dragon Dance pic later.
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Laugh in Translation
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Posted:May 22, 2007 12:54 am
Last Updated:May 24, 2007 8:05 pm 11598 Views
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Pic - Feel it before translating, source: internet
Here's the label on a Chinese hair treatment product:
湿發素wet send factor
保湿護發拉油keep wet nurse send pull oil
But it seems a world-wide phenomenon - laugh and lost in translation.
Here you are, pls tell me your top 3:
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Some times, things get lost in the translation...
In a Tokyo Hotel: Is forbitten to steal hotel towels please. If you are not person to do such thing is please not to read notis.
In another Japanese hotel room: Please to bathe inside the tub.
In a Bucharest hotel lobby: The lift is being fixed for the next day. During that time we regret that you will be unbearable.
In a Leipzig elevator: Do not enter the lift backwards, and only when lit up.
In a Belgrade hotel elevator: To move the cabin, push button for wishing floor. If the cabin should enter more persons, each one should press a number of wishing floor. Driving is then going alphabetically by national order.
In a Paris hotel elevator: Please leave your values at the front desk.
In a hotel in Athens: Visitors are expected to complain at the office between the hours of 9 and 11 A.M. daily.
In a Yugoslavian hotel: The flattening of underwear with pleasure is the job of the chambermaid.
In a Japanese hotel: You are invited to take advantage of the chambermaid.
In the lobby of a Moscow hotel across from a Russian Orthodox monastery: You are welcome to visit the cemetery where famous Russian and Soviet composers, artists, and writers are buried daily except Thursday.
In an Austrian hotel catering to skiers: Not to perambulate the corridors in the hours of repose in the boots of ascension.
On the menu of a Swiss restaurant: Our wines leave you nothing to hope for.
On the menu of a Polish hotel: Salad a firm's own make; limpid red beet soup with cheesy dumplings in the form of a finger; roasted duck let loose; beef rashers beaten up in the country people's fashion.
In a Hong Kong supermarket: For your convenience, we recommend courteous, efficient self-service.
Outside a Hong Kong tailor shop: Ladies may have a fit upstairs.
In a Rhodes tailor shop: Order your summers suit. Because is big rush we will execute customers in strict rotation.
Similarly, from the Soviet Weekly: There will be a Moscow Exhibition of Aets by 15,000 Soviet Republic painters and sculptors. These were executed over the past two years.
In an East African newspaper: A new swimming pool is rapidly taking shape since the contractors have thrown in the bulk of their workers.
In a Vienna hotel: In case of fire, do your utmost to alarm the hotel porter.
A sign posted in Germany's Black Forest: It is strictly forbidden on our black forest camping site that people of different sex, for instance, men and women, live together in one tent unless they are married with each other for that purpose.
In a Zurich hotel: Because of the impropriety of entertaining guests of the opposite sex in the bedroom, it is suggested that the lobby be used for this purpose.
In an advertisement by a Hong Kong dentist: Teeth extracted by the latest Methodists.
A translated sentence from a Russian chess book: A lot of water has been passed under the bridge since this variation has been played.
In a Rome laundry: Ladies, leave your clothes here and spend the afternoon having a good time.
In a Czechoslovakian tourist agency: Take one of our -driven city tours -- we guarantee no miscarriages.
Advertisement for donkey rides in Thailand: Would you like to ride on your own ass?
On the faucet in a Finnish washroom: To stop the drip, turn cock to right.
In the window of a Swedish furrier: Fur coats made for ladies from their own skin.
On the box of a clockwork toy made in Hong Kong: Guaranteed to work throughout its useful life.
Detour sign in Kyushi, Japan: Stop: Drive Sideways.
In a Swiss mountain inn: Special today -- no ice cream.
In a Bangkok temple: It is forbidden to enter a woman even a foreigner if dressed as a man.
In a Tokyo bar: Special cocktails for the ladies with nuts.
In a Copenhagen airline ticket office: We take your bags and send them in all directions.
In a Norwegian cocktail lounge: Ladies are requested not to have in the bar.
In the office of a Roman doctor: Specialist in women and other diseases.
In an Acapulco hotel: The manager has personally passed all the water served here.
In a Tokyo shop: Our nylons cost more than common, but you'll find they are best in the long run.
From a Japanese information booklet about using a hotel air conditioner: Cooles and Heates: If you want just condition of warm in your room, please control yourself.
From a brochure of a car rental firm in Tokyo: When passenger of foot heave in sight, tootle the horn. Trumpet him melodiously at first, but if he still obstacles your passage then tootle him with vigor.
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Everybody smiles on the bank II
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Posted:May 16, 2007 2:59 am
Last Updated:May 2, 2024 7:34 am 10923 Views
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pic. Smile as sunny as him by Lu
Mine:
I was queuing up in Bank of China, my sole banker in Macau. Luckily the line was much shorter.
Suddenly a smiling face appeared, I hardly forgot he’s the young teller of HKBC where I exchange HK dollars into Macau patacas.
‘Miss, you’ve counted your money? Did you forget some note? ’ He gently asked.
I gasped and looked up in my purse. ‘yeah, I miss $500.’
Still with a shyly smile, he led me back to HKBC across the road. Gorgeous sun gave off heat, this stranger bank staff was accompanying my steps for a short while just becoz of my carelessness.
I smiled w/ discretion, feeling ashamed of my troublemaker, ‘thank you so much.’
‘You are welcome.’ He softly smiled.
We reached at the bank entrance, where the Philippine security guy observes his duty. We both nodded and smiled to him. Without saying, I knew the storyline: when asked, he told the hunting staff my whereabouts. Thanks to his long eye track of meJ
I took back my missed note, which bears lota smilies and several caring trails. It’s more than a note. It’s about honesty and happiness.
I didn’t count how many smiles exchanged. Everybody smiles in and on the banks.
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Please note smile is impressional and contagious. Show it more. You smile will be chucked back and your grumble bubbled.
人人齊歡笑
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Everybody smiles on the bank I
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Posted:May 16, 2007 2:50 am
Last Updated:May 16, 2007 2:54 am 10754 Views
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pic: Smiling Thai by Lu
-- less grumble and more chuckles
How if this happens, is it a nicer world?
I love to make ppl smile and laugh
When I see them grin I feel it very bright.
And smiles and laughters are infectious, so are negative emotional signs.
Are banks liking places of smiles? Many would say no, see the long queue, no, see the stiff faces of staff, no, see the bureaucratic procedures, no, no….
Here you are, different stories about banks that deal with money.
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His:
I am a young DJ. I always hate banks, but for a credit card I had to go. I circled around 15 min. for a parking space and queued for 25 min. Finally my turn. The staff asked me lota questions but never knew how to settle it, as usual. It seemed as if they counted on to teach them the solution. She told me I missed one page of salary receipts. I had to ‘instruct’ her just to submit my application to see how. But then she had more and more queries, those silly and picky ones that they did nothing but kicked back the ball to me! I was fed up (sigh), at last I tore the application form into pieces and fled!
A commercial corporate should not have such practice. They should get more training before being pushed to the front. I’d never go to banks, I prefer click-clocking the computer on internet bank.
My comments: 50/50 true/false. Merely a matter of modern human’s restlessness, fightiness and impatience. Still, banks have space to improve as to training and mono-rigidness!
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Happy Adoption
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Posted:May 4, 2007 8:23 pm
Last Updated:May 13, 2007 7:58 pm 11952 Views
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My potential man and I plan happily to adopt several in China. (But honestly for me, one/two is pretty enough.)
For this same mission we can be happy together-apartners:
Why to adopt?
1) There are many abandoned girls to be loved.
2) Not sure abt a by ourselves, especially Macanese . Facts turn out they tend to absorb negative things fm both culture if brought up in Macau tiny island environ. But can choose by adoption.
3) So enriron-friendly. Not adding more pollution to the earth.
I sent an email to my 28-y-o Beijing cousin, she worked in adoption 'business' before.
(I say business is not exaggerated. We saw many many Americans, mostly mid-aged to old or even very old couples, push their adopted babies in trolleys strolling around Shan Mian, the consulates area in Guangzhou. Some parents look in bad shape. We doubt how they could benifit the . )
When she returned a mail saying she has the same thought but just having not a partner, i felt so happy to know that and to know her better.
For Chinese, they want more their own , would we dissappoint our family? Guess they will be half happy and half sad. haha...
Let's see...
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