菩提樹

尤記得漫遊柬埔寨吳哥窟時看到一樣讓我很興奮的東西 - 菩提樹。我立即想到一首很"型"的詩辭:
菩提本無樹
明鏡亦非臺
本來無一物
何處惹塵埃

那些菩提樹矗立在馬路旁，旅遊巴惹起很大的塵埃。

我看到菩提樹，立即奔到它跟前拍照。雖然做不到那種菩提本無樹的忘我意境，但我覺得很開心。

菩提樹有粗壯而條紋仔細的樹幹，根部紮實而自信地抓著土地，樹頂撑得大大的，讓很多人及動物在樹下乘涼，樹與人渾成出那種靜謐的情境，看得好舒暢!

Thailand & Cambodia Trip

This was an amazing trip. Finally I had been Cambodia, a country that I had never thought about for leisure travel.

Thailand becomes a shopping paradise, people are friendly, it is quite a nice place to spend a weekend for spa, dining and consuming.

We visited Angkor Wat, Cambodia for two days. Temples, heritages and construction sites of hotels are everywhere. You can enjoy the marvelous scenic views in the city, but also witness the poverty of this place. Every time we arrived the tourist spot, there were a bunch of little kids, the youngest one might just be 4 years old, selling souvenirs to tourists. Sometimes they would wander around the entrance of our shuttle bus and asking us to buy. I could not imagine what they thought at that moment, by experienceing a stroke of cool wind from the air cond of the bus, what would they think about the outside world?

Afterall, I should say thanks to my company for this incentive tour. I enjoyed the trip a lot.

Happy Mid Autumn Festival

Hope everyone has a 'round and bright' Mid Autumn Festival today!! Although the weather is not stable tonight, we could see the large bright moon sometimes, people whistled and cheered when the lunar light sneaked out from the heavy clouds.

In this weekend, I practiced yoga twice, I started to feel that yoga can bring me tranquility. This morning, the instructor taught us yoga isn't just an exercise, it is a practice helping us to clean our mind. When you practice yoga, you should sweep away all the thoughts and concentrate on every posture, to listen carefully of every part of your body, and to feel your inner self. After the practice, I felt so peace and joyful.

That's great that we have one more holiday tommorrow. Enjoy!!!!!

Disneyland Hong Kong

The grand opening of Disneyland Hong Kong was on Sep 12, 2005. This is one of the most controversial 'developments' in Hong Kong in last decade.
Personally, I do not have the great enthusiasm towards this so-called dreamland. In 1999, when Walt Disney signed the agreement with Hong Kong government to build the fifth Disneyland in our territory, I wrote an essay called – ‘When Mickey and Minnie decided to migrate to Hong Kong – The environmental pollution problems caused by the construction of Disneyland’ for my Environmental Protection course of the Geography degree.
I did attach the negative feeling to Walt Disney since I worked on that essay (should be before, otherwise I would not pick a topic like this). After I flipped through a lot of related documents, I understood how the tremendous change of Penny Bay was. I also know well about the 'high efficiency' of those environmental evaluation which was implemented by the government to protect this orginally quite lovely seashore - they concluded that there were no severe destruction of the environment by the development. Not to mention I thoroughly understand how unfair the ‘treaty’signed between the government and the corporation was, and how helpless and ignorant of the public.
No offense but I don’t think geography or social science students are friendly in some ways.
For all those ungratefuk news about this dreamland in the recent weeks, for me it is expected, but just a bit too late to start the discussion.
When there are countless of kids over the world facing famine, war, plague and illiteracy, please do not advocate all those fake and coarse fantasy, and construct the so-called paradise by tones of money from rich parents and brainwash our offspring.

Curse is leaving

I believe the curse which bothered me in past 2 weeks is leaving. In last 14 days, unrecovered ill, endless works, countless (actually it is able to count) O.T. night, jobs with no indication or guidance from the senior, etc. everything seemed pissing me off.

Thanks god that I could sleep from morning to night in last weekend and I could have 'normal' working hours in these 2 days. In addition to my mommy's amazing Chinese medicine - honey with 'chuen pui', my horrible cough is almost recovered. Mommy is just like a powerful magician or practitioner, she would clean up everything or help you to find out anything or heal those minor ills by a flip of her magic wand.

The coming weekend is Mid Autumn Festival, the most romantic Chinese festival. In that day, Mommy used to prepare decoration, fruit, moon cakes and tea each year, and we had a family dinner that night. I love icy mooncakes most, which is made of green bean paste and much lighter than the traditional mooncakes. However, they are still high sugar content. It just reminds me that several years ago there was a splendid 'seven stars surround the moon' icy mooncake set in office. My colleague did not preferred the icy mooncake much and just eat a little bit. Then I had finished almost 90% of the whole set and surely I gained some pounds.

So what will you do that night? And whom will you want to stay with?

假如我變成濶太

假如我變成濶太我會跟其他名媛一樣，用肚子裡僅有的幾滴墨水去寫作，而我寫會是劇本。

我已定了該劇本的大網，是一個包含3個連續劇的話劇（音樂劇也可）。主旨為深度剖析香港打工仔長期OT及壓力嚴重超標的苦況﹕

劇一 瘋狂工作系列之搞我笑
講述主角阿X（未改名），男性，年輕有為，學有所成。不斷每天7至11(工作的7時至11時)多年，得到一個100呎乘100呎的房及經理職銜。慢慢，他發覺自己嫁給了工作，「嫁約」更是一張不平等條約。有一段時間，他難得跟一個女孩約會（是他的鄰居，因為貪方便及省回管接送時間），總叫墮入愛河，工作熱誠退了點，工作時間縮短為9至9。老闆眼中看見，心裡有點火，問道，為何近來你那麼懶不花多點時時間工作，放棄如此珍貴的學習機會？……

劇二 瘋狂工作系列之人都癲
主角阿X為保飯碗及向上爬，無奈地不停工作，女友覺得他是悶棍，幸幸然地跟別人走了。滿以為晚晚工作至夜深老闆會賞識，誰知老闆需索無度。有天老閭按著阿X的肩膊說﹕「阿X，你是很本事的年青人，我看好你。如果你連本來用來睡覺的時間來工作，你會很快上位。」……

劇三 瘋狂工作系列之永別
阿X真的做到24x7，但持續了三個月後不支倒地，住院一個星期後發現自己被解僱，解僱信中解釋的原因是工作態度極差。他後來發現真正原因是一個機械人代替了他位置，經濟效益比他好，又不會生病或請假。阿X忍無可忍，决定來一次反擊……

18歲與28歲的分別

18歲，8月31日我很無奈，因為9月1日要開學，半夜仍不能入睡。
28歲，8月31月我生病了，但仍工作至10時多，腦部太活躍，半夜仍不能入睡。

18歲，我的護膚品有只有洗臉奶。
28歲，我的護膚品有洗臉系列、面膜系列、潤膚系列、美白保濕控油抗氧化活膚......

18歲，人家問我有甚麼目標，我說是考入大學。人家再不厭其煩問那麼讀完大學後的目標呢？我說不知道，我想讀完便會知。
28歲，人家說我大學畢業了數年，我現在的目標是甚麼?我說是成為一名出色的市場研究員，但是心裏卻道「Baby，其實我在耍你，哈哈哈。」

18歲，我常跟爸媽吵架。
28歲，我常暗自咒罵老板們，但對著他們，仍很有禮貌，裝天真無邪的笑著跟他們打招呼。

18歲，如果你問我問世間情為何物，我想我會答你「情，係一種直教人生死相許嘅力量，佢可以令軟弱的人變得堅強，剛烈的人轉為温柔……呢…啦….囉…」
28歲，如果你問我問世間情為何物，我會同你講「我幫你做個research吖!分開兩部份，有 ‘Qual’同有 ‘Quan’。 ‘Qual’嗰部分我建議做個Focus group，揾8個人嚟傾計，4男4女，咁先有group dynamic嘛。跟住呢就喺focus group喥揾到嘅attributes，放喺 ‘Quan’部份嘅30分鐘問卷喥，我哋會Random sampling 咁做300隻samples，試吓quantify啲finding….聽日我俾個Quotation同proposal你呀吓!」

幸好，我仍覺得我的28歲比18歲開心。因為存在得比較實在。

Sore Throat & OT

I just wonder how weak I am, I had to report sick half day of today. Actually I deluded myself that I was fine for about two weeks, but Samantha kept telling me I looked bloating and exhausted in these few days, and I admit to myself that it was time to visit dear doctor again.

These two nights I had worked OT, and I bought some work to home and would work on it after I finish this piece of diary. Jesus, it feels like I am in the semester end and rush to finish the final year project, no matter how suck or how sick you are, you have to get the job done and shut up.

Actually the deadline of this project is next Tue, but I urged to do some template and let Ting Ting, our director to reveal my report first. Ting Ting is a 'famous' hands-off/auto-pilot advocator, that means he doesn't know or care whatever you have done until the very last minute. This is why I had to spend some time on the preparation first, to avoid that he rejects all of charts on 11:00pm of next Monday.

I look forward the 2 coming leisure trips in the late September.