A quiet place in Wanchai

Kapok cafe has good coffee and cupcake (it sells other cute things too) - good to do some reading there. And I like the street's quiteness.
I used to go there visiting relatives.
In my memory, there were dogs on the street and buildings with no lifts.
THe place is now completely transformed.

About conserving central district

Last year I have submitted a proposal to development bureau and the officials do listen and act fast too, there is beautification works already going on inside central market. Hope that these are not piecemeal attention.
http://www.devb.gov.hk/tc/secretary/heritage/index.htm

I remembered that my secondary school Government and Public Affairs teacher Ms. Sum once told us in the class that she constantly submitted proposals (white paper, green paper consultations...). She set an example to us what an intellectual should be. The most remembered question she raised towards yr 16 teenagers :
you could choose to be either a 'happy pig' or 'painful scholar (Socrates)'(with a sacrastic tone) This question influences my choices ever after.

Meet Nature in Museum

Nowadays, Kids live in the Mall, play in the Mall, eat in the Mall
Their whole world is limited by the Mall
When you ask them what nature means
The answers you probably get:
The garden in the estate they live in
Or names of some theme parks
In a not very far away future
You will only meet nature in the museum
And the museum is a virtual one
You could click a button and surf
That is what we call ‘conservation’
Conservation is to contain 'nature' in a manageable environment
To the benefit of a few

我們的教育

我小學時學的是德智體群美
現在小學主攻數學/經濟
支持建新設施,$xxxx
買套票有折扣又為學校籌款$xxxx
仔女背句愈多,捐錢愈多,每句$X
凡事有價
先講金,後講心
不尋求內在價值,只為錢而做
冇錢,係咪咩都唔使做.

揾著數

最近發現商家很喜歡揾'大自然'著數,銷售樓盤說多綠化,多環保,借機拿其他人在周邊綠化的努力,作自己added value.然後樓賣貴了,利潤賺多了,就不再管環保不環保.這情况在藝術方面也一樣,面不紅耳不赤;功利得叫人汗顏。

表參道之丘與高鐵

讀建築家安藤忠雄,讀到東京迷熟識的表參道是如何重建,當中各方利益,對原地域感情,中間彼此的對話,竟令我想起高鐵事件,此書幫助我思考'城市'這課題。

韓式美

Mentees熱捧韓星,仲話好靚仔.
元斌ok,其他ma...
不過韓式美有佢獨特之處,
新派韓食Chum Chum味fusion得黎,不失韓國特色。

Okinawa p.s.

好relaxed
好多local produce
好啱family去
d魚生好抵
夜光貝好味
水族館好宏偉
Monorail theme park background music 好cute
雪糕好多種味
好大風
國外線機場好細
Outlet好一般
石垣和牛好有牛味

注意:無藥房,唔使旨意買潮物
國內線機場好多價格相宜手信
OTS租車DFS還車入口無OTS指示,見DFS切回位即是還車地方

旅遊後食癮

沖繩回來後,吃了煎釀三寶,車仔麵,港式燒烤,格仔餅.
天后燒烤店川勝在可散叫單件食物,很適合我一個人用餐,$15一件烤紐西蘭羊架,正!
http://www.openrice.com/restaurant/sr2.htm?shopid=37633
再去記食日本蛋格仔餅,誠意十足,但傳统d味啱我d,雞蛋仔英文叫Egg puff,第一次見英譯名, so interesting!

'Six Moral Tales'

http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/%C3%89ric_Rohmer
Film director died on 11 jan 2010.
I will dig out the 'Six Moral Tales' that I have and watch them as an act to pay tribute to the director

Google attitude

To me, Google is the best search engine. I need it!
It helps me explorating new knowledge and is my perfect research partner.
Love Google's attitude!!Having the guts of pulling out from a big market.

Trip to Okinawa

Retreat Camp; Be still, and know that you are God

Long time no retreat
Revisiting a place that brings back memory
All the teachings and the theological trainings I received before shapes the person I am today. Thank God and that is what dawned on me in the retreat camp.

X2

Go Tell it on the mountain X2 in my church and in my sister's church (sang twice 24 Dec and 25 Dec respectively.
Amazing Grace x 2- being mentioned in the retreat camp on 2 Jan and choir sang it today
2 Peter Chapter 1 x2 - the scriptures that the retreat camp I attended focused on; same Chapter was mentioned in today's sermon.

God, you speak it so clearly by repeating them twice. I got it.

If we do not know how to read sherlock Holmes

The new movie Sherlock Holmes is, in a nutshell,
Postmodernizing the modern Sherlock Holmes by calling upon traces of signifiers; deconstructing the myth by using science and technology.

The movie is quite visual and exotic. It is a movie that combines many elements. It will remind you some of the films you watched before. It re-defines a new Sherlock Holmes: emotionally dependent, strategic rather than logical, more masculine but at the same time more feminine, what I would say...a bit like Dustin Hoffman type. Watson is now the partner of Sherlock on equal footing.

That is not the part that bothers me. I was shocked when the young audiences next to me complaining that they did not understand the story. Can our young people still read 'signs'? Detective stories are not hard to read. It is almost a guided reading. You are led by the clues that the detectives reveal. But if we cannot even follow, there must be sth wrong. NO clues? What's left if we lose our ability to reason and to imagine?