New Life

2011.07.10 - It's time to make it an end.  Acknowledge it, face it, feel it.

Be tough, boy.  You need to grow up.  Become a mature man.  No anger.
Life has to go on no matter what, right?

眼見今日共黨控制下的中國，政府在愚弄人民，權貴在壓榨窮人，是非黑白顛倒，公義得不到彰顯，百姓生命、自由和土地都得不到保障，貧者愈貧，富者愈富… 唉, 只嘆當年蔣公剿匪不力!

急救中文！

近日”保衞廣東話”運動鬧得熱烘烘，成功引起了不少人，包括我，對廣東話以及中文的興趣。作為一個以廣東話為母語的香港人，我真係覺得廣東話正過普通話多多聲：論詞彙豐富、表達能力、描寫事物的細緻程度、幽默感等等，普通話都係望塵莫及，我唔想一樣咁正既嘢就咁樣比共產黨班仆街搞掂。

加上在讀了不少陳雲先生的文章後，被他”點化”，認為作為一個competent的人，必須要認識和掌握自己民族的文化（well, what i am thinking are 廣東話、正體中文和嶺南文化，普通話和中共的無能中文不在我的agenda內，sorry），並加以保護、宣揚和運用之，使其能夠有活力地成長下去（就像一個小baby一樣）！要了解文化，必先掌握盛載該文化的語言：廣東話和正體中文。

(陳雲真係好很勁的，由政治論述，到文化研究，到民間風俗傳統，到中文寫作文法，什麼也懂，而且見解獨到，評論一針見血．．．勁到hihi。找天再談。）

之但係．．．

在進入大學後無修讀中文科，自己又沒有寫作習慣，基本上，中學畢業之後已經甚少寫中文。日久生疏，近年發現自己的中文寫作能力急降，就連用中文寫一篇正正常常的 BLOG 也感到力不從心。（其實打中文都係一個問題，打得咁慢，都無哂心機寫落去啦．．．well, 要賴，總有得賴的）總之，今次仆街，真係虧咗！

很多人說，一個人的思考能力與他的寫作能力是乘正比的：雜亂無章的文字和匱乏的詞彙代表了他思想混亂和內容空動單調。我十分認同。不止認同，簡直是感同身受．．．唔怪得知我成日連自己想表達什麼都唔知，成條懵撚咁．．．

ＯＫ！而家開始真係要亡羊補牢，急起直追，搞搞自己已經爛無可爛的中文，順便練習倉頡！

文化興亡，匹夫有責！

屌，寫咗成個鐘

Germany and Czech 2010 - 2

20 June 2010 (Sun) – Fussen – 天鵝堡

We got up quite early today, as there are free all-you-can-eat breakfast served in the hotel. The dining place is on the ground floor. The place is good. The food is also good. Many choices of bread, butter and ham. The bread is very tough, all German breads are tough. The breakfast are cold generally, except the egg.

We planned to go to Fussen, but the weather was not good. We asked the hotel reception – Vadim, and he told us that the weather wouldn’t be fine in the coming few days, which was unusual for summer Munich. We were unlucky, but we still stick on our plan.

We went to Fussen by train of DB Bahn. The train part of Hauptbanhof is very big, modern and new, with large food courts, souvenir shops and supermarkets. A very convenient place and it was only 10 minutes walk from our hotel. We liked it.

It is easy to travel by train in Germany. Particularly the DB ticket machines help a lot. You can buy the tickets, check the train schedule and even print a timetable with all essential information: train nos., nos. of transfer, time, transfer stations. It is very user-friendly.

The train ticket is expensive. We bought a Bayern Ticket. Eur 28 for 2-5 persons to travel unlimited ride of DB Bahn, S-Bahn, U-Bahn, tram, bus in one day.

It takes around 2 hours to go to Fussen. After that we need to take a bus ride to the castle areas which takes around 10 minutes.

The weather was really bad, it kept raining.

We visited the Hohenschwangau first, as it is located at the lower altitude.  We bought the audio guide to visit the castle inside.

保衛廣東話!

【丟那媽】廣州人起義了!大陸人久違了既大遊行!

在法治殘缺、公義不彰的專制統治下, 廣州人民甘願冒著被中共秋後算帳的危險, 站出來悍衛自己的語言和文化。他們的決心和勇氣, 實在令我十分敬佩!

希望這場抗爭只是第一步，是中國人爭取公義、自由、民主的第一步！

Toy Story 3

星期六晚與Candy看了 Toy Story 3, 很好看, 比預期中好好多!

中後段的情節是挺感人的, Candy更加睇到喊!

陳雲：民主就是不包容

(轉載蘋果日報:　http://hk.apple.nextmedia.com/template/apple/art_main.php?iss_id=20100725&sec_id=4104&subsec=14057926&art_id=14275375　）

陳雲：民主就是不包容

於選舉制度而言，民主是公開爭逐的場所。政黨可以轉型，政客可以轉軚，但必須自己承擔責任，向不向選民交代因由，悉隨尊便，但不可叫選民「包容」其轉軚，或散播語言迷霧，用文辭蒙蔽民智，說民主制度的精神就是包容。

只有暴君或昏君才會叫人民包容。民主制度，正正就是不包容。否則民主制度與封建帝制何異？選民在盤算之後，會用選票懲罰變節的政黨或議員的。有時即使領袖有功於社稷，但由於時代不同，民眾也一樣用投票趕領袖下台。二次大戰時期，英國首相邱吉爾縱橫捭闔，言辭激昂，但戰後的和平時代，邱吉爾的功用過去了，英國選民便用選票轟他下台，避免他成為有執政期限的暴君。精於權謀韜略與密室政治的領袖，戰時或可衛國，和平時期則禍國殃民。

包容是用於自由的概念上的。民主制度，人人有權參選，偏激者、變節者、敗德者，通通可以自由參選，由選民決定輸贏。社會上的自由，就是包容多元意見和寬忍異類行為，甚至脫法行為，例如街頭醉酒、行乞、露宿、擺賣、賣藝、未經申請而集會抗議等，在自由社會，即使法律不容，只要做得不過分，並不無理取鬧，民眾一樣包容，執法當局也酌情包容，不隨便懲處。公共空間要有自由，便要略為包容，你不用便不許人家用的話，大家便不能使用公共空間，於是成了只有警察和保安員管理的禁地，香港成為無聲色、無怪異的潔癖社會了。

民主制度的基礎，是憲政與共和，憲政是人民制定憲法保護人權和公民社會；共和是議會上的執政黨和在野黨要信守君子約定。在野黨可以撒野和撒賴，做出脫法行為，但執政黨不能隨便用法律來檢控或用情報機關來整治；在野黨一朝執政，也要持守同樣的約定，這叫執政黨的寬容。寬容或包容，是在野黨、無權力的小市民向政府要求的，不是有權勢或即將執掌權力的政黨向選民要求的。香港民主黨說「民主就是包容」，簡直荒天下之大謬！搞了幾十年民主運動，也弄不清基本概念。

政黨有溫和持平的，也有偏激和基進（ radical）的。議會有左中右政黨的組合，彼此制衡，便令社會的理性得到多方面的詮釋，不會出現「以理殺人」的唯理主義。政黨個個向中間靠攏，離棄意識形態分野，令選民無可選擇，絕非好事！過去幾年，西方國家的新自由主義經濟思想橫行無忌，缺乏其他政治經濟理論的制衡，最終引發財經詐騙、金融海嘯，蠶食百姓財產。香港的政黨發展，需要的是更多的偏激和基進，選民需要更多的投票選擇，而不是個個充當溫和持平，勸阻或詆毀激進行為，令到無人挑戰財閥壟斷，無人為小市民出頭。

Frustration

My 1-year (probably 2 years) Assistant Civil Engineer will be posted to HyD/Urban.

[發爛渣mode starts here]

Feeling frustrated about this ACE posting, I am really fucked up.

I am afraid. I am really afraid that I can't get opportunity to learn there... no projects, only maintenance, works orders, complaints... how can I equip myself for the professional exam and perm e interview? what the hell?

no other CEGs/AEs there, whom can I talk to? whom can I discuss with?

fuck why every time my opportunity is worse than other CEGs... we are supposed to be the same right? Why I am always the fucked-up one??? Why? Why? Why? FUCK YOU!

I feel so helpless. I can do nothing on this shit but just wide open my leg and enjoy this rape

[發爛渣mode ends here]

Whatever, life has to go on... it's not the end of the world anyway!

I think I am though enough to go through it... there are always opportunities ahead of you.

Hmm... what is my priority #1 task is to fix the professional examination. It really matters: prospects, money and living!

Germany and Czech 2010 - 1

As the first time to visit Europe, I think it's worth to write something for it.

First stop – Munich

19 June 2010 (Sat)

Our first stop was Munich. It was around 7 p.m. when we arrived the airport.

The Munich International Airport

The plane arrived at around 7. But the custom was slow. Long queue as the officer asked quite a lot questions. Luckily we prepared and printed out a copy of our hotel booking email and we gave them the whole copy to them for checking. They asked why we went to Germany, lived in where, stay how many days, how much you brought.

We reached the town by train. It was not a smooth one. We bought the Munich day ticket at the airport at Euro 18.8 (2-5 persons) and got on the train (S1). It was a right train. But on the train we met two HK girls (also to travel) and told us that we got on the wrong train! We took off at the next station and found out that it was the right train… finally we got to our destination – Hauptbanhof.

The weather was much cooler than we expected. And it was raining slightly. I think it was only around 15 degree. Candy and I didn’t bring enough clothing for it.

The S-bahn and U-bahn part of Hauptbanhof is quite old, 暗, and a bit dirty for us when compared to the MTR standard. I was quite grey about that. And we didn’t know the way to our hotel, though it’s only 5 minutes walk from the station. We asked some people, but their English was not so well and we couldn’t get much information from them. It was raining slightly which made the situation worse.

Finally we found the right exit and street after asking an Asian couple (dunno if they are Chinese or Japanese, they can speak English, anyway). On the way an old lady asked me if I can give her some money and I gave her Euro 1 without thinking… she should be professional for asking money from tourists… whatever we got to the hotel finally. We lived in Hotel Eder.

There were 2 people, one middle-aged and one old man, at the reception when we checked in. They were generally nice and could speak good English. I used some hot water to make a cup noodles for my 1^st dinner in Germany. Candy said she was not hungry and didn’t eat anything.

The room was neat and clean and quite big in size. We watched the World Cup. We found out that our plug adaptor was not suitable for the power plug in Germany! We were worried that we could not charge our cameras.

We slept early. We both were exhausted after long hours flight.