國慶

國慶於我真係冇乜特別意義, 除左多左一日假期, 我都真係諗唔到有乜野值得我高興. 國慶確實是一個勞民傷財的日子.

不過我要讚:
- 那些in perfect unison 的步操, 真係幾impressive的! 學無記新聞的評術話齋, d 胸線、臂線、槍線、乜線物線, 都真係有咁齊得咁齊. 是很壯觀的. 但一路睇我又一路諗, 呢d 人係練操個陣俾幾多個長官無理取鬧, 為左呢次國慶暗啞底過左d 乜野非人生活...

我要彈:
- 可不可以不要每個電視台都全天候播國慶的東東, 真係由早到晚冇停過. 大佬, 我放日假係都俾我抖下, 不要一路幫我洗腦, 聽左900幾次《歌唱祖國》.... 要知道, 不是聽得多, 就真係會去歌唱祖國的.

- 架香港花車可唔可以再樣衰的, 仲要330萬.... 炒左個designer 啦唔該, 仲樣衰過新年的花車巡遊, 徙錢!

- 其實係唔係真係有必要show 晒d 軍備出來呢? 好無聊呀... show 出來我就怕你咩? 很多事情在心中就夠了. 你諗下如果有個A-Level 6A 既人不停係你面前炫耀, 張成績單係你面前係咁 "羊", 你會唔會想打鑊佢?

- 全日的慶祝活動, 都是極之充滿共產黨色彩啦, 那些叫人作嘔的對答、口號、表演、歌曲... 真係有D 娘 lor.

- 北京d 慶祝活動又封街又封鋪, 唔俾人做生意, 唔俾遊客出酒店, 唔俾你開窗睇閱兵.... 這個政府真專制, 但你敢唔敢eh?

- 60年就搞到咁巴閉, 人地法國200幾年tim 啦, 你有冇見人地抬d 領導人d 相出來丫? 有冇見人地坦克大炮通街遊丫? (後按: Ah On 話France is actually one of the most-eager-to-show-its-miliary-power countries in the world..... 咁可能係我孤陋寡聞啦, 我真係冇見過其他國家國慶[共產國家除外]會搬d 導彈遠程炮出來... 都係個句, I don't see the point!) 小題大造, 是不是錢多到冇地方洗?

SAF's sense of humour

"For us it's unusual to accept that they're (Man City) top dogs in terms of media attention," he said. "But sometimes you have a noisy neighbour and you have to live with it. You can't do anything about them, they keep making noise, but what you can do - as we showed - is get on with your life. Put your television on and turn it up a bit louder!"

Don't we just love this old man!

童年時

昨日training後, 導師不經意地拋下一句: 你們這一代多是在九龍塘上幼稚園的吧?

然後我想, 導師也太看得起我們了. 看得起我們的家底, 也把我們看得年輕了十年. (我一直覺得在九龍塘上幼稚園是那些 199x 年出世的人的事吧) [當然我也不排除我們當中也確實有人是在九龍塘上幼稚園的. Anyway......)

的確, 現在的小朋友...... 出世要在私家醫院, 奶粉要吃外國的, 未上幼稚園先要上play group, 幾歲人仔要有一個彩色的portfolio, 去旅行要搭飛機......等等.

我想起我的童年, 沒有以上種種, 但不缺一點快樂.

我那家幼稚園不過是街尾那家, 貪佢方便, 也是女校吧. 那時讀幼稚園哪有現在那些變態的面試? 幼稚園是新開的, 爸媽就寫信去試一試. 所謂面試, 都不過是寫一寫字, 做點數學吧. 一個4, 5歲的人仔你想她懂些甚麼啊?

那時哪有play group 呀? 我們現在的英文也不失禮吧. 也不見得我們不懂同其他人溝通呀. 也沒有自閉呀. 好端端幾歲的豆丁, 為甚麼就是要她學這學那? 學英文呀, 珠算呀, 畫畫呀, 跳舞呀, 樂器呀, 游泳呀, 踢球呀一定少不了. 我們那時, 環境好一點的可以學點東西, 都是為了陶冶性情, 當然也可以有一技旁身. 現今的父母準時燒壞了腦袋, 個個要子女全才, 他們究竟知道不知道, 他們的一番 "好意" 扼殺了一個小孩的童年?

當年的物質生活確實不能與今日的同日而語. 不過我還是喜歡童年時的那份簡樸, 那份童真.

Le Billionaire

唔知大家近排有冇留意有個新推的樓盤叫豪門, 英文叫 Le Billionaire?

唔知大家見到個英文名有冇d O 咀兼想嘔呢? (雖然個中文都唔係好掂.)

我有。

屋苑/大廈名玩用法文用到濫已經見慣不怪, 不過今次係唔係玩大左呢?

真係買左ge人唔知敢唔敢話俾人知佢住係 "億萬富翁" 呢? 或者結左婚之後搬左入去, 會唔會話俾人聽嫁左入 "豪門" 呢?

唔怕生壞命, 最怕改壞名! 呢個名都算係極品中之極品.

Le Billionaire........ Je peux vomir! >.<

Who wants a virus?

I tried hard not to burst out laughing when I was reading this in office.

Alex Ferguson dismissed the claim that there had been a gentleman's agreement to transfer Ronaldo to the Bernabeu at the end of the season ---

"Do you think I'd enter into a contract with that mob? Jesus Christ, no chance," said Sir Alex. "I would not sell them a virus. That is a no. There is no agreement whatsover between the clubs.

The Speech, the President

Went online to look for Barack Obama's victory speech first thing back in office and what a beautiful speech it was! Absolutely striking. You can feel the energy, the emotion, the passion and the aspirations through the lines. It gives you butterflies. It sends thrills down your spine.

Political speeches in the west are always incredible. The language use, though often simple, is so powerful as if the words are digging deep into your heart. It's genius and to the ones who produce such extraordinary works of art, I salute you.

Was just talking with a friend about why Hong Kong / China has never produced this sort of speeches ever. Perhaps, I guess, there has never been such emotional occasions for these speeches to fit in - we didn't have any civil right movement led by Martin Luther King; there wasn't any deadliest terrorist attack ever (Thank God for that!) and we certainly do not (and I believe will never) have a black president. Mind you, we can't even vote for our CE yet for that matter.

So in the case of Hong Kong, political speeches are generally tons of flattering/meaningless numbers + facts and the delivery is often without any emotion whatsoever. Speeches in China however often comes with a few lines from some ancient literature / poems blah with "deliberate" stopping gaps (for some "compromised" clappings!! HA-HA). And our Chinese leaders like to do the thing in slow motion - uttering the speech word by word.

One word - Boring!

Anywho, on a side note...

In a congratulatory letter to president-elect Barack Obama, French President Nicholas Sarkozy writes, "Your election raises in France, in Europe, and beyond throughout the world, immense hope."

It does sound to me that while congratulating Obama being the new president, Sarkozy is also implying that George W. Bush is an ultimate useless, worthless, dysfunctional twat who brings everything but hope to the country (or even the world).

And he is probably right.

Right to the point

Stoke City manager Tony Pulis has responded to claims from Arsenal boss Arsene Wenger that the Potters "deliberately injured" his players during Saturday's Premier League clash by ridiculing the Frenchman for hypocrisy and trying to fool the public.

"I and my Football Club have tremendous respect for Mr Wenger and Arsenal Football Club, but as Mr Wenger is such a learned professional and on a great day in American electoral history, I would like to remind him of Abraham Lincoln's great quotation, 'You can fool some of the people all of the time, and all of the people some of the time, but you can not fool all of the people all of the time'."

Full text - http://soccernet.espn.go.com/news/story?id=589280&sec=england&cc=4716

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Suck it up, Arsene! Act like a MAN!