Giant Piano

In An Hui, China

The violin contains an elevator to take you up the piano!

中山1.5日遊

中山真係無乜嘢玩咋。一日到黑記情响食同住到啫。

好好老公借架車，細佬做司機。團友分別重有 Mr. $ and Mrs. $。星期五 (April 10) 10a.m. 出發，到黃崗關口第 $s。「万分」多人。等咗大嘅 45+ 分鐘。再加上 60+ 分鐘車程，one, two, three 就去咗 check-in 先啦！咁多人去旅遊，系咪？

唔駛 RMB200 住到無黑邊廁所嘅大陸酒店。我決定中山人係 super clean 嘅！其實睇吓街就知中山幾乾淨！

攪完一大輪已經系 tea time 嘞！哪哪聲去 steakhouse。

跟著去到中山紀念乜乜同中山乜乜，全部都已經 closed －－ 5:20 p.m. 啦！不過第二日去，裡面啲嘢都系九唔搭八嘅 pottery 呀，禁毒呀 ......

於是乎又去食。

Day 2 後補嘅行程 －－

然後去咗呢間嘢，2:30 先搵到佢，但 closed，5 點先再開 ...... 唉 ......

上海 3 日 2 夜

我知，又係上海吖嘛。

東湖路 . 龍門陳

SOHO

Lost Heaven

豫園

小籠包

M on the Bund

houses

It's amazing how one body can show you the impression of 'a movie'. Enjoy!

逃避

聖誕後嗰個星期日去完西環間爛鬼 Panash 食晏 (唔關食物事，係服務實在低能。) 就逛逛粒豆咁細嘅三聯書店 (無文具...)。撞到老世 (agent) ，佢揾學/教英文啲書。我就搵 --

睇到一篇「死後才嗟怨」。話說 89 歲老伯伯 (曾是一名紀律部隊人員) 的子女探望他時都表現出一副不耐煩的樣子。老伯伯死後，子女收拾他的遺物時才後悔。作者認為應珍惜當下，過後才嗟怨是沒有用的。

人都很擅長逃避。Procrastination (延遲) 、吸煙、酗酒、吸毒、嗜賭、迷信...... 一律都是逃避的一種。可能「懶得面對」，事情複雜至「唔想理」，無法面對自已是一個很無聊的人亦可。面對死亡，甚麼怪反應也可能有。只是死亡不能再來一次。

English Spelling - 1 Where do the Words Come from?

看到這本書 『The Usborne Book of English Spelling』 想與大家分享。從此以後，英文生字不再那麼像外星語了！

Why English Spelling is Difficult

很久很久以前，不列顛島曾被許多族裔者入侵過。而他們打下子英語的基礎。

Celtic 凱爾特
Romans	introduced alphabet
Jutes, Saxons, Angles	basis of English
Viking	introduced Scandinavian words
Norman Conquest	introduced French

後來與他國有貿易往來而混入了些外語。復興時期，學者用 Latin (拉丁) 及 Greek (希臘)。印度曾經作為英國植民地有二百多年，所以英文亦有浸入印度語。現在當然不少得美國電影與文化的影嚮啦！
研究詞的衍生叫 etymology* (詞源) 。想了很多字源的細節需要一個特殊的詞源字典 etymological dictionary 。

*suffix 字尾 '-ology' = study of something e.g. biology (bio = life) = study of life 生物學

八號風球髮型

經常一起身，唔駛梳理，唔駛髮泥就有八號風球髮型嘅朋友，冬天將致，"to (wash) or not to (wash), that's the question" 人生交义點又嚟喇！

冬天比較凍，又冇乜陽光，人系會比較冇咁想起身，動作亦會緩慢啲。冲凉就更加唔駛唸，而且洗咗頭又要吹幹。無成粒鐘都唔駛旨意出到街。－ 咁咪重要早啲起？唔洗個八號風球頭 ......

你可以用一條細細塊毛巾仔用好熱嘅水浸過，扭幹，放响要馴服嘅頭髮部位一陣，頭髮就唔駛洗都軟化落嚟，任你攪！一大早帮个頭做 sauna，腦筋都會清醒啲。

More Expensive Air China Flight from Shanghai to ShenZhen

Bigger chair. More space for the legs. Cleaner carpet. Bread with BUTTER! Sooooo much better than the cheaper Air China flight from Shenzhen to Shanghai!

西人真率直

咪响到囉！

你要幾闊先？

做死人咩！

從 http://www.bigwhiteguy.com 中看到這一則：

Having just spent three days in your wonderful city I felt I must write to advise that the trip was spoiled by the persistent hawking of goods by Indian and Pakistani men. On each trip along Canton and Nathan roads and all streets in between we were constantly bothered by these men. It really is a shame that our opinion of your city was tainted by such behaviour. I felt discriminated against as they only targeted westerners. Also how rude of them to suggest westerners only come to Hong Kong for cheap copied goods and inexpensive tailoring. Surely the authorities should do something about this, I suspect unlawful, method of trying to sell goods. Anne Thomasson, Bitteswell, Leicestershire, England

其實，在上海亦會有一班外省人，手拿著 flyer 不停的叫「包包，手錶」( x 386 次)，而且會捉住你的手 ( 佢哋對 personal zone 毫無認識，身體接觸不是有惡意的 )。

我問：「上海人都興買假名牌？」

無人知道。但系有咁多呢啲人四圍叫人買，咁即系有呢個 market 啦。如果唔系鬼得閒幫你拉客咩？都搵唔到食。

所以我話阿 Anne 應該話 "It really is a shame that my people has a taste on these commodities.”