Sunday, August 22, 2004

Will My Mind

Sink and Ling came to HK yesterday, for sightseeing. Little Sister has acted as a tour guide and brought both of them around MK and SST these two days. Last night I had dinner with them in a restaurant of Brazil BBQ in SST. We ate a great much of food. In fact I just decided to initiate my diet on fruit, but it is ridiculous if I just eat fruit there. I put lots of meats into my stomach and intestine, making me have a feeling of vomitting at last.

Sink and Ling stayed at my home last night. It didn't matter as I like both of them. Sink is mature and Ling is cute and funny.

No one will be allowed to invade into my deep mind. I have my own one, and I will manage it.

Friday, August 20, 2004

Hehe

I decided to buy a notebook without a clear reason. Maybe having a notebook is cool, or maybe my desktop is too fucking old and I can hardly stand it..... Take it easy. But I am far much poorer than everyone could imagine. I think I've gone crazy anyway.

The only way I could purchase a notebook with a price concession is to approach one of the ENS freshmen to ask for his/her quota. I thought my daught Daisy and son Ricky could help, and therefore I told them about it. You know, both of them would be the Group Couple in the O camp. Many of my classmates decided to visit all of them at the nite of BBQ. Totally there were some 13 "Old Ghosts", as well as Crab King, an "Ancient Ghost" of ENS. Kareen, Hing and I arrived at Sai Kung more earily than the others to buy the freshmen and current and ourselves some to eat and to drink, costing $250. It was inexpensive.

All of us gathered at the bus stop. The time slot of the bus is at interval of one hour. There is no use to come so earily. We were standing, chatting and waiting.

We got to the camp site at 7:30 pm and the young Ensians were all having fun during BBQ. Henry came late. After BBQ there was camp fire show. That sounded funny but I missed, just because I was handling the questions from Michael's call.

There my son Ricky told me one of his daughter, called Hehe, was not buying any notebook so that I might take her quota. I approached her and we started familiarizing with each other. She said she was willingly offering me the quota, and I was super glad. She was very nice. And she acts and looks funny, really funny. She is quite okay, when compared to most of the silent freshmen, which would make you fall asleep within 3 mins when looking at their boring performance.

All Old Ghosts left at around 1:30 am, while Crab King was staying, just as usual.

The Little Prince

The Little Prince is a book that I hoped to read for a long time. In the past I tried to attain the book via libraries but in vain. I luckily found that Bobo does have this book in English version so I borrowed it from her a month before. I believe that English version must be far better than Chinese one.

I was always "busy with matters of consquence" and hence I could hardly escape to read the book carefully. I picked up the book two days before, after coming back for Shanghai and leaving all the jobs to the others to follow (actually I felt ashamed but I had no choice, as the job was virtually out of my capability. Thanks Michael, Hing, and Little Cathy again). I was told that the book is hard to soundly understand. The author really had a incredible thinking to create such a beautiful story, didn't he? Except Bible, The Little Prince should be the reading matter with most readers in the history. It is surprising for a short story book to be read by so many people in the Earth. There is no point, therefore, not to read it.

The story is pretty short and simple, but the meaning is so deep that I had to hesitate for a while every a few pages to figure out what exactly the author are implying or telling the readers, sometimes without success. Most people in the world are not smart enough to just read the book one time only before he/she could read the mind of the author's via the dream-like content.

I like that book so much. I dare say The Little Prince is a wonderful choice.


Tuesday, August 17, 2004

Will My Trip

Let's have a record, about the ever first long-distance-from-home trip. My destination was a little water town --- Tong Li, Shiangsu, in the northern part of China.

9th Aug:
As scheduled, all Solarcampusian in Hong Kong who were going to join skill share had to gather on the plateform at Shan Shui KCR Station at noon. That day I rather woke up bright and early to make sure everything was all right and well prepared before I stepped out of my house. I checked my baggage and other belongings over and over again. Still, I was somehow quite nervous and always assuming that I have something forgot to pick up but I didn’t notice. I virtually had lots of concerns and worries just because it would be a long trip and I took the trip serious. I understood one thing missing might probably cause great trouble to me, and my partners during the trip.
Our ladies were so punctual that Bobo and Cathy were already there before I arrived. Then there came Hing, Michael and Henry, while Gloria said that she had work to do beforehand and hence was delayed. She suggested we go to Sum Shun first and hoped she and us could join there later on. That was fine.
I started to feel nervous once we entered Mainland China, as I was kept on being told that Sum Shun is definitely a pour of crime, with thousands of thieves and robbers everywhere. I kept my eyes open and was taking care of all the belongings of mine and mates’. We rushed to the train station to purchase our tickets for the first ride to Guangzhou. There we still got a short period of spare time and then Gloria came to join us. She did not really come as late as we concerned. All of us could then be on the way to GZ.
The ride took more than 1 hour. In train was better than expected. It possessed nice desks and comfy soft chairs, on which we were sitting and playing UNO. UNO always provided us with great fun. I was happy in the train.
At last we came over to GZ. Gloria told us the GZ Solarcampusians were waiting for us in a Mcdonalds and suggested us to have our “lunch” there (actually it was about 4 o’clock in the afternoon). The decoration inside was very nice, and comparable with those in HK. We walked upstairs and found that the GZ youth were staying. Gloria acted as an introducer introducers ourselves to one another. There I met new friends from GZ and let me say something about their first impression to me:
繼風 --- One of the only two boys in GZ group. He was a late comer in Mc. He looked muscular and strong, and somewhat funny. I found he talked a bit too much.
Windy --- I knew this lady before. She came to HK and attended our meeting in Greenpeace office a few days before Skill sharing. She was nice and talkative.
瑋珊 --- She was good-looking, nice but quiet. We didn’t talk there.
周睿 --- She was a white, tall and quiet girl, who could speak clear Cantonese. She came from Beijing to stay Medicine in GZ.
書林 --- He was always talking about serious and academic things with others. He looked boring and different. He is 汕頭 people and therefore does not speak Clear Cantonese, while his Putonghua is very good.

Hing and Michael sited near the GZ group and started familiarizing with them (but Hing was actually cutting girls again, whenever and wherever he was). We were wasting about time in Mcdonald’s and awaiting the train up till 5:00 p.m. We then brought our baggage to the train station and got on board the train. The second ride lasted for some 22 hours and therefore our seats were in fact some beds. Individual place was allocated to one another via lucky draw. Actually one room composed 6 beds, with upper, middle and lower beds in a column on one side while the other 3 on the other side. We were holding two rooms, as a result.
People started getting close with each other, especially the new friends they just met. We HK SCampusians were playing UNO and were very happy. The beds were very comfortable and the atmosphere was wonderfully good. All the things were better than enough and really out of expectation. I was surprised that GZ guys had never played UNO before. Then we tried to give them a short lecture of “How does UNO work?” They was taught but still not familiarized with so many rules of UNO at the beginning and therefore were always making many funny mistakes which made us burst into laughter again and again.
That day when everybody was sleeping I kept chatting with Hing until 3 a.m. Both of us were very glad that we could have got close with our new core buddy, Cathy, who we believe is a super friendly girl to play with in the long near future. The framework of the HK skill share team could never be better. And we felt GZ guys were really good and not as boring as we pictured in advice. The is the reason of which we were so enthusiastic in the train.

10 Aug:
I was woken up at 8 a.m. on the train. Hing, Bobo and Cathy were already active and taking photos of those still in unconsciousness, I included. I would rather not brush my teeth than chewing gum. People woke up one by one and the rooms become crowded again. We played UNO again, up till the train stopped at Shanghai. We got down from the train and in turn travel by Metro to the place where our temporary hostel located. We walked for more than 15 min in the terribly hot sun from the Metro station to the hostel and we got all wet. The hostel is of the theme “Sailor” and “Captain” and something like that. The hostel was well decorated and so well air-coned that we felt like in the heaven once we stepped in from the hell outside. But we were soon deeply shocked by the new that our room was on the sixth floor but the life was broken down and didn’t function at all! Oh jezz~ that was the fucking worst news in the earth! We, without other choice, carried our god damn heavy baggage by hands form the ground up to the sixth flood. That action was nearly killing me! Every normal person got exhausted and even wanted to commit suicide. Worse still, the room was for temporary storage of baggage and therefore very small in scale, compared with the amount of people sitting, standing and hanging around. Some people, most of whom I never met before, were already there, including Yu Jie, a new Beijing campaigner, Noom and Pele from Thailand, three female Beijing SolarCampusians… I could not remember all of them.
We were set free to have lunch for several hours and we could hang around the most well-known place in Shanghai --- Waitan. We (HK + GZ) went around for while and randomly chose one restaurant to fill our empty stomach. The restaurant was no good at all and we all felt disappointed by everything inside. The food, the service, the price, blab blab blab…. That sucks! We were not aiming to waste our precise time in such a motherfucking restaurant and so we left as quickly as possible. We moved to Waitan and was walking between the historical building there without stopping taking photos. Shanghai is really one of the best cities in China, and is probably comparable to Hong Kong.
We were about to din then. We got back to the hostel and settled down again in the canteen. We met two campaigners. One is Stephanie (from Germany) and the other is Maureen (from U.S.). They look mature but pretty, and nice and friendly. Henry said before than both of them are successful campaigners of Solar Generation in their own companies. Here came Shu Yi, the Canadian representative of youth. She is Hong Kong people but studying in Canada. She can speak very fluent Cantonese, English and Putonghua. She is so friendly and talkative that I appreciated so much. I like chatting with such a kind of girls with an open mind and personality. All of us were having nice chat in subgroups till the meal was ready. The meal looked terribly bad and tasted disgusting. But I didn’t care.
After meal we had to pick up our baggage and move them onto the bus addressing to our final destination i.e. Tongli. Before getting on the bus, two late comer arrived.. They were the ones who we concerned about most. They are called Massaki (the new male Japanese campaigner) and Masako (a girl freshly joining Greenpeace). Both of them are obviously a traditional Japanese, with all Japanese characters in appearance. The bus trip took about 3 hours and I was almost exhausted that day and therefore I fell into sound sleep in bus. When I woke up I was already inside the water town. I felt like being inside a Chinese swordsmen film. Everything there looks ancient. That’s fantastic!
People in skill share were divided into two groups living in two different guesthouses, namely, 呂氏客棧 and 敬儀堂客棧. Most of the other friends were allocated to stay in the former, while Hing and I had to take care of most of the campaigners in the latter. In my guesthouse, there were: Red, Massaki, Noom and Pele. Hing and I arranged them to settle down in their own houses first. As told by Gloria, we knew that there were still two persons coming soon. They were Albert and Jasper from Philippines. They lived in the best room while Hing and I had to share one bed in the same room of Massaki and Red.

Sunday, August 15, 2004

What to Share?

No one is to guarantee with what in earth you will be provided, given, or granted. I believe what oneself could learn during a particular period of time in life is more or less dependent on how his or her feeling evolute and how the spirit interprets the surroundings and environment on the other side of the door of heart. Some parties in the communities, being both so native and aggressive, might make no difference between "expectation" and "demand" at all times. "Demand" is simply what the communities want and need, while "expectation" is merely the abstract ideal guess/estimation/assessment of something probably going to happen or appear. What should those interpreters do if so? Regardless, but significant. Different choice you make seriously mean different ends. How you pick up your way, therefore, is fairly critical and determinative, regarding the final results to which you are addressing youself. In fact, people may need not think too much, too deeply or serviously. The reason is that just becasue you carefully consider the issues doesn't mean the factors you think of could keep the ideal pace of development and let the issue end up as expect. But actully never could they.

So, let life restart in a daze!

Saturday, August 07, 2004

Offsprings of Mine

This afternoon about 4:30 p.m. I stepped into Greenpeace office again, for the purpose of packing up the stuff which is to be carried up to Suzhau next Monday. I was actually late, as I made the appointment with Hing and Cathy, a non-Ensial one whom was most freshly recruited to be a core member and is addressing to Suzhau with us as well. She's a little girl, with fairly white skill and somewhat a bit resembles Gill on the appearance. The feeling I could experience when I am looking at her is just the same as which Gill gave me before. As being told she likes and often goes hiking, my heart got shocked for a while, and could hardly give any reply. Gill is one of my best friends and must be unique, cus no girls could be more cheerful than she is. Now, and through the near future, I will be working intensively with this core, who might be the second Gill. Anyway, the future is not ours to see.

Let come back to the office. Today was office holiday. Most of the night was tuned out and the office looks dim. Only a few staff, including Gloria and Alice, were over there. Gloria was pleased to inform me the THINGS have already arrived. Guess what. They are my Sons and Daughters - leaflets and tee shirts relatively. I give birth to 2500 pieces of leaflets and 100 tees. They are actually handsome and pretty creatures. I admitted they was born with some minor bugs, and yet I really feel excited and satisfied.

No Defect, No Perfect.

Friday, August 06, 2004

The Flaunting Flag

As being told, Little Sister woke me up this morning at around 10 a.m. I planned to see a korean movie by the name of 太極旗飄揚之生死有情. After wash and dress and before stepping out of home, the rain started to pour down heavily. Jezz~ just putting me into trouble...... it, however, started at a right time. Let's picture what would have happened on me if I was walking on the road without any shelter and it started raining. I am lucky enough. A person should be see all things as an optimistic stuff, and then he would be probably living in a happier way anyway, I am trying so. And I am looking forward to every single bright daily life.

The movie was better than enough. Actually I never expected it would be better than Saving Private Ryan, not even as good as it. SPR, so far, is still the best. Well, the most valuble theme of the movie is the appreciation of love between brothers. My life will be change if I got a big brother taking care of me. Everybody must be hoping to be born with such a nice big brother after seeing the file, and I am.

Anyway, I have already been acting as such a good brother of someone. Cheers!

Thursday, August 05, 2004

Posthaste

Whilst people look busy and accountable for sth, I am just sitting still, with a few movement of my eye balls and my right hands and fingers, and yet my heart is rushing anyway. The first most terribly hard work since I have been a Solarcampusian has been tackling leaftlet-publication duty, and at the same time the leaflet is the first so called "professinal" team I have published/done. The amount would be 2,500 pieces, a marvellous digit I met. There will be 2,500 copies of productions delivered to people, chiefly university students. Marvellous, right?

When I was just a little boy, I asked my mother, "What will I be?"

Facing the computer day and night is an insant motion, which made me fully exhausted these days. I always understand that to complete a duty which you do not familiarize with would absolutely a backbreaking task The blockages in front of me is Greenpiss publication staff and the printing company. I got no experience in advance and therefore, I understood after it, merely one single uncertainty is many enough to make yourself fracture your own framework of your work ever done so far, and so make you far away from your final destination.

I enjoying working for Solar Campus mainly because most of my buddies are good human kind. They are more than somewhat reliable, helpful, responsible, funny and trustworthy anyway, for example, Michael, Hing, Henry, Bobo, Siuyin...... There were, certainly, some little and silly people among. 樹大有枯枝. Well, to me, more than three fourth of motherfucking girls existing in the earth are most disappointing, discouraging and unreliable. I always set a high standard on people and myself, since I believe every person can perform well, and I will never put up with the assholes who can't measure up for the basics. I believe the worst discrimination is to ignore one's failure or frustration to comlete the basic duties well. I believe the statement most far from true is "Girls are generally more prudential and chary then boys are." This is the shittest bull shit I have ever heard about. "Boy Revolution" is the right thing to do, particularly at the time when bitches keep appreicating their feminality. That sucks~

Bitches, havn't you heard? huh!

Monday, August 02, 2004

Am I Happy? It depends.

The draft of my new leaflet was not finished up till 5:00 a.m. Saturday. I jumped onto bed as quickly as I could and fell into sound sleep in a second. Well, I think something's wrong with my mind, my heart and even my soul.....

I naturally woke up at 12:00 p.m. Ensial Vice-President Kareen scheduled to throw a class activiy that day: To Play at the Fishery of Milla's Sister's. It sounded interesting enough, right? Depends. Some of the ensians get their own business to deal with on week days, and it is normal for a normal person to grab such a great chance to relax and play, and to forget all the other worries. Some of those are really insant, I included. I was upset, down and depressed, somehow by myself and some texts I read before. It's not secret that I am an impressionable boy. Everybody knows. Every single stimulation and change from the one I care is going to strikingly provoke my heart. Except it, you really can call me a happy guy, but I am absolutely not. Okay okay. I at last joined the so-called 'the last class activity' in this fucking summer.

She rang me after I got up. She asked if I was heading to join them, as my last answer was still "depends la". To me, it's a damn reply, without any meaning and point after all. But I now replied her with such. It depended. I came late, the last one to arrive at Saikung. Who cares?

I can picture the fishery, and my picture matched with the real one. That is a typical fishery, with pieces of woods combined together and attached by floating barrels below. It is suprisingly stable and won't rove much.

We stayed and released our belongings immediately. Ensians could afford no more delay and got dressed up with swim suit. Girls are too sexy, while boys looked like a monkey. Boats was soon ready to transfer us to the destination - the beach, which was somewhat noted because of numerous star fish over there. Little Sister and I didn't bring along any swim suit and was not preparing clothing for swimming afterall. The girls looked enthusiastic about the sun and beach, cus they're the bitch. I was supposed to be the photographer that day.

The beach was nothing special from the surface, but with much less swimmers. We looked around for a while, enjoying in the hot sun and the natural view. Some people were crouching on the sand and dragging sth. As told, I knew that they were aiming to seek for bivalves, which are eatable after cooking. Ensian, particularly girls, won't overcome the attractive force by the sea and were enticed to immerge over water. Sister and I were standing in the water, which prevented the underwear and the upper piece of clothes from getting wet. They looked amazingly happy, making me feel nice as well. There I took more than a hundred of photos unders the shiny sun and the blue sky (and the green sea ...). After no more than a second I noted that my underwear got fully wet so I didn't mind anymore and immerge myself too. Swimming is a happy game, in particular with whom you really want to be together. I could even cheat myself, leaving myself far away from the reality or truth, at least at that moment.

We got back the fishery before dusk came. We ranked ourselves for the sequence to wash up our body. I mean taking bath. Certainly Ladies came first. Their slow movement in the bathroom made us feel tired. Michael couldn't stand for long and fell into alseep soon. We had bbq at night.

Only the beach time was valuable.