Thursday, July 31, 2008

Lost in Translation

Bean is going on a business trip to Tokyo starting tomorrow. Probably for a month, if not more, and probably no fly-backs.
Time to plan a weekend there, while free accomodation is still available at the prestigious Roppongi. Too bad it's already August... not a good (cheap?) shopping season
From the second the trip was proposed, Mom has been busy at advising and instructing the packing, needs and wants, dos and don't, to-bes and not-to-bes, money exchanges...
Even at this hour, while the main character is busy at (and probably only interested in) personalizing her blackberry and I'm done with the mission of arranging taxi pick-up, mom is organizing Bean's purse...
Like many others, we are a family that is so used to travels, in particular business ones. Except, of course, mom. She's the commandor, headquartered at home.
So, parents and kids...

ps. pardon my ignorance, I finally got to know a company (besides Sony I suppose) that buys Sony Vaio notebook... I know, they look cool.
ps2. actually mom made a guess of Mac...

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Surprise

Got a surprise-present today. Thank you kids =)
Though I've been to this concert.

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Thursday, July 24, 2008

So Mean


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Tuesday, July 22, 2008

致潮女

在地鐵有意無意間看到別人手上"無料報"的一宗新聞, 標題大致為:
汽車撞牆冒煙
潮女醉駕被捕

不是說笑, 就是想起那個傻婆, 不由得心頭一震不安起來.
當然, 是因為"潮女"二字 (先不要 objection, 要知道傳媒的水準是差差差不多的了, 我只是代入那個水平去 interpret).
當然, 想必妳不會"醉駕"這樣不負責任幼稚.

立即就 eye-ball 一番希望盡快找到蛛絲馬跡去推翻這個念頭, 終於發現照片中的不是妳的小辣椒, 也就放心了.

喂, 總之快啲補鐘啦.
熟能生巧.
千萬要小心.

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Sunday, July 20, 2008

Montreal

Would say this is quite a personal song of hocc which destined to have an uneasy job to impress the audience. Yet I found the MVs quite touching - it's not hard to project or be intrigued to relate to oneself.
What's your dream?
Are you proud of what you have been doing?
Are you thankful for the people and episodes along the way?
What's next?
MV Episode I

MV Episode II

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宿命2

搵好位, 泊好車, 放好袋, 熱好身, 然後呢... 梗係落雨啦.
真係招風雨.
一走開避雨, 佢就停; 一走入場, 佢就落; 我一開車走, 仲出猛太陽添!
為咗coach嘅生計, 同埋我個荷包, 睇嚟要認真考慮抖抖暑.

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Friday, July 18, 2008

Learn How to be Less Useful



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Before but not After

Sorry comrade, we have a free press in Hong Kong
18 July 2008
(c) 2008 South China Morning Post Publishers Limited, Hong Kong. All rights reserved.

Sorry comrade, we have a free press in Hong Kong
Talk about closing the stable door after the horse has bolted.
Fifteen minutes after the China Banking Regulatory Commission's international department director-general Han Mingzhi had delivered his speech to a Hong Kong forum yesterday, journalists were told they could not report it.
Sorry comrades, we know it was called the "Thought Leadership Forum", but that's not the way things work here. With cable television and newswire services covering the event "live", the CBRC instruction was doomed to fall on deaf ears.
As one wag put it: "You're meant to use a condom before, not after."
Check out our report on the speech on page 4. We don't think you'll find anything too sensitive in it.
Our only explanation for the gag order is that Mr Han may have been worried about his speech, having been called upon at short notice to stand in for his boss, CBRC chairman Liu Mingkang, at the event organised by the Hong Kong Institute of Bankers. Our own monetary authority boss, Joseph Yam Chi-kwong, was also a no-show at the forum yesterday.
But it's a fair guess that those two gentlemen are preoccupied with extremely sensitive financial matters at the moment.

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Tuesday, July 15, 2008

Feel like to 拾人牙慧 today.

都話愈忙愈x. 唔想做就係唔想做.
http://pomxpom.blogspot.com/2008/07/blog-post_03.html

都話我好勇
http://shallwetalk.blogspot.com/2008/07/deduction-induction.html

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Sunday, July 13, 2008

又一週

這個星期會有怎麼樣的 moments of truth?
要作出什麼 "取" "捨"?
會 make a difference 嗎?
雖然 Snoopy 曾經講過: 100 年後, 又有什麼分別?
即是, 又如何?

傻婆終於買了大玩具, 可算是一個 milestone.
感覺個象徵意義就似... 大個啦, 自己照顧自己啦... 咁.
喂, 車得你多啦, 幾時車我? 連本帶利...
最緊要最緊要小心, 心情(萬一)唔靚就唔好亂片.
仲有兜風還兜風, 唔好 "兜" 其他無謂人等啦.

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宿命

零晨回家, 狂風暴雨雷電交加, 沒有混身滴出水來已算奇蹟. 一心以為早上的網球是打不成了.
8時許'扎'醒, 聽不見風雨聲之餘, 更見天色大亮, coach 話 the game is still on.
9時許 w 估估吓傳來 SMS 以為不用打, 然而 coach 再三肯定沒問題, 於是動身.
在球場放好家當, 還未開始熱身, 就下起雨來. 我們堅持了幾分鐘, 見沒有停雨的跡象, 場地也全濕了, 唯有打道回府.
這種天氣加上如此白行一趟, 真的比打球還要累人.

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Wednesday, July 09, 2008

走這一遭

走這一遭,真糟!
林行止

9 July 2008
(c) 2008 信報財經新聞有限公司版權所有


身兼港澳協調小組組長的國家副主席習近平,周日至周二「旋風式訪港」,隨他而來的,不僅是連場豪雨,其言行對本地投機市場、政治生態及意識形態亦造成相當大的衝擊。
習氏來港前,坊間流傳此行的官式任務在視察奧運馬術賽的籌備工作,實際是要了解香港情況、指導特區管治班子,為他兼管香港事務留下烙印。習副主席巡視了馬術奧運現場,又如樣板戲般走訪二個港人家庭,完成視察業務及親民活動;可是,這種鳥籠式活動,加上一個親疏有別的酬酢場合,並無促進與建制派遑論泛民主派人士直接溝通的安排,其對香港實際情況的了解,與下屬所呈報告又有多大區別?
有一點習氏應該知道而其下屬不一定將其反映的是,此地炒家對其訪港已予充分利用—首先是傳他會有諸如「北水南流」(內地資金來港「自由行」)之類「令人振奮」的公布,恆生指數因此於周一升近五百點;當周一晚他在晚宴致辭時強調時機成熟時推出的一項「好消息」是「商務部稍後(相信最快可於本月內公布)將與港府簽署有利服務業進入內地的安排文件」,「北水」並無「南流」的蛛絲馬跡,周二股市遂挫近七百點。有人利用國家領導人訪港在證券市場上下其手,是彰彰明甚的。
五十四歲的習近平,是黨國元老習仲勳的幼子,去年十月在上海黨委書記任上當選中共政治局常委,在統治梯階上三級跳,被「中國問題觀察家」視為「胡錦濤接班人」;事實上,撇開他在掌管福建省時獲得法學博士學位不談,從昨天練乙錚在「香島論叢」的陳述,習氏的確是「太子黨」中少有的受過高等教育、具備完整地方行政歷練的實幹派。可是,看他在本港的幾次公開談話(說「訓示」似乎較近實情),雖然不是態度囂張,也沒有擺出權威的架勢,但是內容了無新意,不僅空洞無物,說句「大眾化」的話,習氏所言,與提示港官「阿媽是女人」有何不同?
內地官場禮儀要求(或命令)港官排排肅立(為什麼日本四川救援隊代表可以坐對胡主席)聽訓示,如果訓話內容紮實,有新穎觀點或具體指示,不習慣這種「排場」的港官還能勉強接受、「甘之如飴」。可是習氏所說,真是幼稚兼無聊,他強調「保安工作是奧運重要一環,要結合香港特點,借鏡其他國家和地區奧運安保工作的經驗……要保證馬術賽期間,人員安全、馬匹安全、社會安全……」。這些「道理」,肯定所有不是白癡而是行政精英、負責此事的官員們早已瞭然並妥善部署(但絕不敢保證不會生意外),習氏所言,不但侮辱港官的智慧和能力,連旁觀市民,亦覺反胃!他還說要令市民感受馬術的歡樂氣氛,看來愛國學校學生屆時恐怕又要「走課」走上街頭搖旗歡呼一番了。
煞有介事的指導,是擺中央大員的官威?是向北京交代他有履行敦促港府提高管治效率的任務?還是刻意侮辱港官、港人的智慧和能力?令人不解的是,對著連篇廢話,行政長官曾蔭權亦要點頭稱是並且筆錄如儀。這是向其權力來源表示絕對效忠的表演嗎?
令人震驚的是,比過往訪港的國家領導人江澤民、曾慶紅和胡錦濤要行政部門及立法機構合作更進一步,習近平竟然公開鼓吹「三權合作論」,他指出:「管治班子應『通情達理、團結高效』,團隊要精誠合作,行政、立法及司法機關要互相支持」。真是乖乖不得了,行政和立法要起制衡作用,怎能合作?目的在監察行政機構以免其濫權枉法於有意無意間破壞法治精神的司法部門,怎能和政府部會及民選機構合作甚至互相支持。如果這是習氏「說漏嘴」(Freudian slip),日後京官不重提,亦就罷了;如果這是政策性改變,那便大大不妙。
眾所周知,內地所以法治不彰,上海所以極難(不管當局投放多少資源)成為國際或區域性金融中心,便是因為「三權合作」,令法官、律師、會計師及其他各種專業人士都無法依書直說、各本其「專」,結果是法理不彰,國際商家因而擔憂遇上商務糾紛時法庭不能公平公正地處理,因此不敢在當地尋求法律仲裁,上海因此不可能是什麼國際金融中心。假如香港真的走上「三權合作」之路,香港作為金融中心的地位肯定不保○得益的是新加坡和日本(如果東京亦成為日、英文並重的城市)。
從回歸後的連串事故看,筆者有這樣的感覺,北京以為香港的硬體設施不變,香港一制便完整無缺,「一國兩制」便得以保持;可是,假如軟件變質,則香港有別於內地一制,徒具軀殼,虛有其表,甚至可能是掛羊頭賣狗肉……。若干年後,香港特區必然要和內地合體,在此前提下,硬體不變軟件蛻變,也許是香港與內地無縫結合的應有工程,而且緩慢有序地變總勝於突然巨變,內地官員對香港各項軟件的微調,因此可以接納,可是,若把司法獨立變掉,那是開倒車,中國少了取「法」乎上的借鏡,香港作為在一個法治國際城市的地位亦化為雲煙!
許多殖民者遺留下來的陋規陋矩都要變,但是獨立的法治不可變!

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Sunday, July 06, 2008

兩個月冇買 cheese, 今日發現原本食開$28/100g的漲價到$34/100g.
六個星期冇買廁紙, $29.5 漲價到 $34.5.
都只是冰山一角.
條數真襟計.
正式宣佈: (已經又)進入減人工週期.
*sigh

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Wednesday, July 02, 2008

7.1

7.1.的一天, 原本有些想法, 也想去舒筋活胳一番.
誰知6.30 late afternoon 的一個 call, 一番盛情, 使我7.1傍晚得往SZ走了一趟.
其實心裏不踏實. 在各大空港可說如履平地, 但對SZ過關卻只有浮躁; 而且事情又來得突然...
畢竟要賞這個臉, 於是查好地埗, 從落馬洲過關再打的.
人少到呢...

回程叫車到皇崗, 打算再享用一下超爽的落馬洲過關加港鐵.
誰知司機哥哥竟開到直通巴士那邊的皇崗, 而我當然"唔知諚", 過了大陸關後唯有跳上往旺角的直通巴士(點知又要上車落車過香港關好煩)再轉折回家, 費時失事, 仲貴啲...

原以為還一個人情見一個面就好... 原來是有'手尾'的.
現在要好好的想想.

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