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.
Sunday, October 28
Saturday, October 20
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?
Friday, October 19
Sunday, October 7
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
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.
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