日出照舊

...ppy holidays folks.

「夾心階層」

荷里活道。

讀書人

天星碼頭。

夜色

David Sylvian

The concert that yours truly has waited for, well, 25 years:

The few pics which david managed to take like a dumb teenage fan, like 25 years ago.

Oh well.

卑利街 2007

卑利街頂的茶居，恬淡知足，等「執笠」。



卑利街，以暴易暴，等發達。



卑利街腳的人，不知悔改，亦係等「執笠」。

élégance

Enough of causeway bay lah (sorry for the Malayanglish).

Upon this once-every-16-blue-moons occasion during which david actually accompanied a friend to shopping, we were chit-chatting about "good taste," as opposed to "MK"—Mongkok, Hong Kong's more common fashion ecology.

So the story went, we strolled past this cigar shop...

where the sales lady calmly waited for business reading a magazine in a better shawl—and dress and hairdo, and shoes—than anything we saw on the street level.

The topic of discussion promptly screeched to a close, and we quietly moved on.

substance

亦名：重陽節。

Causeway Bay again.....

mini-time
this poster-ad outside a chemist's says, roughly, "up, up and away!"
好高興「勃勃素」係香港製造的，真係好高興！
taken by mefriend Grace



small-time
ad for "fat-bursting" technology
爆脂科技………
仲以為香港地「潮」可以「爆」嘖，原來脂都可以爆。



big-time



premier league

This was supposed to become the largest applause for real estate in the world?

causeway bay

causeway bay 2007

銅鑼灣確實無奇不有，臨近番邦鬼節 d road-薄-loc 都奇怪過人。東角中心。

metta

At the Multi-faith Prayer Gathering for Peace in Burma, 2007/10/6, outside the Hong Kong City Hall (in response to the Global Day of Action for Burma):

Rev. Li Ding-xin of Hong Kong Christian Council leads a prayer



Ven. Dhammapala Bikkhu, my Sanskrit teacher, chants Metta

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Metta ("compassion and loving kindness" in Pali, the Indian dialect with which the Buddha is believed to have taught) is what the Burmese monks advocate,

and is probably what was going through their minds when they were whacked by soldiers with rifle-butts, to remind themselves to never return the violence.

Download a heavenly rendition of Metta by Ms. Imee Ooi, Malaysia. (mp3)

Metta

Pali	English
Aham avero homi	May I be free from hostility
abyāpajjho homi	May I be free from affliction
anīgho homi	May I be free from distress
sukhī-attānam pariharāmi	May I live happily.
Mama mātāpitu ca ācariya ca ñatimitta ca sabrahmacārino ca averā hontu	May my parents, teachers, relatives and friends, fellow Dhamma-farers, may they be free from hostility
abyāpajjhā hontu	May they be free from affliction
anīghā hontu	May they be free from distress
sukhī-attānam pariharantu	May they live happily.
Imasmim ārāme sabbe yogino averā hontu	May all yogis in this compound, may they be free from hostility
abyāpajjhā hontu	May they be free from affliction
anīghā hontu	May they be free from distress
sukhī-attānam pariharantu	May they live happily.
Imasmim ārāme sabbe bhikkhu-sāmaņerā ca upāsaka-upāsikāyo ca averā hontu	May all monks in this compound, novice monks, laymen and laywomen disciples, may they be free from hostility
abyāpajjhā hontu	May they be free from affliction
anīghā hontu	May they be free from distress
sukhī-attānam pariharantu	May they live happily.
amhākam catupaccayā-dāyakā averā hontu	May our donors of the four requisites, may they be free from hostility
abyāpajjhā hontu	May they be free from affliction
anīghā hontu	May they be free from distress
sukhī-attānam pariharantu	May they live happily.
amhākam ārakkha devatā imasmim vihāre imasmim āvāse imasmim ārāme ārakkha devatā averā hontu	May our guardian devas in this monastery, in this dwelling, in this compound, may they be free from hostility
abyāpajjhā hontu	May they be free from affliction
anīghā hontu	May they be free from distress
sukhī-attānam pariharantu	May they live happily.
Sabbe sattā averā hontu	May all beings be free from hostility
abyāpajjhā hontu	May they be free from affliction
anīghā hontu	May they be free from distress
sukhī-attānam pariharantu	May they live happily.

Please say a prayer with us for these oppressed folks living in lack and fear in Burma.

Dignity - into the shadows

甚堪咀嚼的軼事，令人低首。摘自 Matt Frei - Bush on Burma:

On my last visit to Burma in 1999, I was walking through the once beautiful streets of Rangoon when an elderly woman in rags sidled up to me. Her face was smeared with dirt. Her ragged clothes were disintegrating on her crippled body.

I assumed she had come to beg. But instead of an outstretched hand, she offered a greeting in perfect English.

"Forgive me for asking," she said in a whisper. "But are you from England? I apologise for my appearance. It has become so difficult to be normal and dignified in this country. Thank you for visiting. Don't forget us. Please don't."

I wanted to ask her where she had learnt her English, why she had fallen on such hard times, where she lived, what she intended to do in the future?

But the old woman, who was probably not that old at all, sidled off into the shadows.

The Burmese have borne their suffering with plenty of dignity - few more so than Aung San Suu Kyi, the opposition leader who won the general election in 1990 and the Nobel Peace Prize in 1991.

意大利羅馬市長韋爾特羅尼展開昂山素姬的肖像海報，紀念她 61 歲生日

By rights she should be Burma's leader. Instead, she is the best-known dissident alive in the world today.

明月夜

中秋，7‧1 吧。圓月、燈籠、佳餚、老友記……

和纔嘴又不怕人的兔子。

完美的秋節。

BunnyBunny

舊年影燈籠應景，今年影免仔。

另，阿 Roy 個頭若在明月夜移動幅度太大，會留低光暈。

貓貓近況

前事

話說小衲的老伴「貓貓」今年三月得了嚴重腎病，短短兩星期便變了皮包骨，瘦得眼睛也凸了出來：

住院五日脫離危險期後，終生也須每天吃藥和注射皮下水。

一個月過去，貓貓還是沒什麼胃口，整天還顯得很倦。橫豎是「活馬當死馬醫」，小衲便把藥師如來也拖下水幫忙……

每天也得為她注射，起初甚是不慣，手顛腳震的，一不留神貓便跑掉躲起來，壓力很大，人什麼時份都覺得累。後來貓貓發覺自己注射後便有胃口，就餐前定時趴在床上由得小衲怎弄了。

人貓合作半年下來，貓貓掙回了一、兩磅，神清氣爽，回復了在屋裡跟著小衲邊跑邊嘮叨的壓寨夫人本色了。

還有閒心欣賞藝術作品。

家裡有患腎病的貓的街坊相信不少，這是小衲的經驗之談：最重要的是讓貓兒增加胃口，其他可往後再說。貓兒若恢復元氣，往後的好辦；若長期貧血，便大事不好了。

順道介紹一下小衲家裡另外一頭「大帝」：

她叫 mui mui，不怎愛親近人，「攪屎棍」的力量卻是天下無雙。洗衣機在猛轉把衫 fing 乾時，她愛跳上機頂趴下享受 OSIM 樂趣。

下班回家

上班離家

米蘭掠影

966 X 768

Galleria Vittorio Emanuele II.

耐人尋味

於是我就開始撕個 six pack o既包裝……

米蘭大教堂

844 X 768

因為搬屋，廿幾年前影個張 Il Duomo di Milano 浮番出黎。相底一早冇左嘍；得番自己沖曬既 8R 一大張，要 Colan 幫手 scan 先有得貼出黎。

穿秋水

上週六一早起身去買o左五千幾蚊 David Sylvian 飛。呼… 這個 live，一等就廿幾年。

打撈番咸豐年前整o個 d fan 屎手作仔出o黎擺擺先！

Forbidden Colours David Sylvian/Ryuchi Sakamoto The wounds on your hands never seem to heal. I thought all I needed was to believe... Here am I, a lifetime away from You. The Blood of Christ or the Beat of my Heart. My love wears forbidden colours. My life believes. Senseless years THUNDER by. Millions are willing to give their lives for You. D O E SN O T H I N GL I V EO N? Learning to cope with feelings aroused in me. My hands in the soil, buried inside of myself. My love wears forbidden colours. My life believes in youonce again.

while doubting the very ground beneath me; trying to show unquestioning faith in everything. Here am I, a lifetime a w a y from you. The Blood of Christ or a Change of Heart. My love wears forbidden colours. My life believes. My love wears forbidden colours. My life believes in you once again.

© 1983 Virgin Music (Publishers) Ltd. Opium (Arts) Ltd. / Chadwick Nomis Ltd.