感動

暑假過了大半,我跟孩子們黏在一起的悠長假期也接近尾聲!暑假剛開始的首兩個星期,我被兩位細袁生弄得團團轉,要出外管接送暑期班,要在家跟他們玩過不停,home schooling,包括畫畫,玩泥膠,讀書,寫字,做勞作, 行山,踏單車,又要不斷阻上兩位人仔每30分鐘一次的扭鬥°曾經有一次我在混亂中跌倒,腿瘀了一大片°

我跟朋友說,孩子的暑假就是我的暑期boot camp,我的導師(即是兩位細袁生)要我在短短8星期內將我的忍耐力,身手及領導才能極速提昇!

有次,我支持不住,哭著打個電話給大袁生,說我們一走了之....一晚,去看戲吧!當晚出門,兩位細袁生抱著我的腿不讓我走,要工人姐姐將他們從我身上「撕」下來°關門那一刻,聽到他們呼天搶地的媽媽聲(不是粗口),心又痛了!

一分鐘前才對他們恨之入骨,一分鐘後心又溶了!

我曾經擔心自己常急速遊走極喜極悲的狀態,是患了精神病°前幾天,讀過妹妹那本馬仔的<我的低能湊仔之道2>後,才放下心頭大石!原來馬仔也有幻想過用AK47指著她的BB,去迫她吃飯!

原來我是正常的!

上星期,我跟弟弟步行下山,去接上完手工班的哥哥°當天他們很乖,一個拉著我的左手,一個拉著我的右手,雖然我全身是汗,仍覺得很輕鬆°我們後面有兩位太太在傾談,其中一個跟另一個說:「一個帶兩個其實真是辛苦的!」

突然有不認識的人說這樣窩心的說話!

做了媽媽後,很多聲音從四方八面告訴我應怎麼做,書本上,網絡上,親戚朋友,甚至是路過的途人,有些出於善意,有些是惡意,有些自以為是,有些帶著目的(例如要賺你的錢)°經過多次訓練,現已學到不太執著別人的意見°

但這一次,真的有點感動!

A big book

I knew about 'Six Wives - The Queens of Henry VIII' through the seminar held by David Tang during the Hong Kong Book Fair 2011.  It was written by David Starkey and published in 2004.  I am reading this book through kindle.

The hard cover of this book has 880 pages.  It is quite a big book.  I am still at 7% of the kindle version, which is still talking about how the first queen, Catherine took her exhausted trip from Spain to England for the wedding ceremony, with Henry's brother, Arthur.

Royal stories are always captivating, as they usually consists of lust, politics, wealth, blood and darkness of human being.  Royal marriages, especially during the old time, were not about love of two persons but the alliance of power, or based on different kind of political reasons.  

Since I am still at the beginning of the book, I hope I can provide a full book review once I read the last page (not sure how long will stretch). However the first 7% of it tells me quite a lot about British history, and I can tell David Starkey is excellent in constructing each of the character in the book vividly based on those supposed to be boring historical facts.

A beautiful world

Too many violence and disasters around the world.  An individual may not be able to make any significant change, but at least we can do our part the best, to love people around us, treasure those who love me, be a good person.


I am not concerned when will be the end of the world.  You know, when there is an end, there is always a beginning.  Live at the moment and seize the day.