不會忘記

香港2019年社會運動到今天2020年二月底，特別的日子要不是機構鬼拍後尾枕嘅未敢忘記。每月月底則是對太子地鐵站警察暴力的控訴！政府在新冠肺炎下派錢$10000之餘又大幅增加警隊撥款，恐怕市民短期內都不會忘記。

 

€5.99, not cheese, 2 hours

€5.99 worth of not cheese but words.  it took me between a pre-bedtime lecture and a train ride tallying up  just under two hours in total to finish. i personally don’t have an affinity for management or self-help psychology reads. what drew me to the work is the famed one minute manager series prominently displayed inside the book by the same author. if u must also make a thin connection, how about cheese in the year of the rat?

indeed the storyline featured two mice, and two other characters who represent different attitude and psyche in their search for work, love, money, religion or whatever meaning in life.

it is not a long nor deep read and the morale is really simple – be ready and willing to embrace change.  if one doesn’t harbour any grudge against the current state of affairs worldwide  as a result of the economic systems,  it would make a good case for people who need a push out of their comfort zone for smoething more grand!

cover

the one-page summary

morphology, sound n more

flabbergasted
shenanigans
lollygag
kerfuffle
nincompoop
pumpernickel
thingamajig
whatsit

whatchamacallit
flummoxed
dingleberry
gobbledygook
canoodle
codswallop

dumbfounded? because of the sound or spelling or “port-manteau” or other imageries evoked? here r some words that i saw circulating in an online language forum. whether or u can recall or not the dark sour bread, hope u ain’t disturbed by the not quite rubbish brouhaha but be bewildered somehow or even embrace some of this superfluous prank when ur ideas are suffering a drought.

who needs to go to monastery?

sometime in september 2019 during my extended trip, a friend suggested me to visit a monastery to seek higher meaning of life. little did he know, nor i haven’t yet shown him the collection of videos i took.

 

one of the destinations was a beach called la barra. sitting on the edge of a national park, the nearest city is buenaventura, a 40min speedboat ride away. without portable water nor internet/wifi, i think i slowed myself down, if it were just for a mere 72 hours.

ps. the beach is actually much brighter and safer than it appeared in the video, if it had gotten your heart pounding a bit faster and harder.

歲晚收爐至另行通告？temporarily closed til god knows when

能夠令極端資本主義減慢下來的，不是社會運動，而是新冠肺炎。你有否見過黃昏七點便關門的麥當勞快餐店？如果不是商場阻止，麥記打十號風球都不會停下來。然而今次這商場因為過境的碼頭停用，內裡的商舖也頓變冷清。停止營業的計有銀行、餐廳、中醫、藥房等等，但看看通告便知各家的公關手段。個別受疫情影響生意難做的，幹嘛寫成“裝修”呢？大環境影響，又不是自己錯也不敢寫出事實，這些公司內部文化真是有啲問題喎！

neither typhoon signal number ten nor the prolific social movement of 2019 can barely touch upon the religiously capitalistic machinery of hong kong. then came covid-19, who made a steady and rapid ascent with the year of the rat, and like stepping on brakes did it achieve in sabotaging the capitalistic rat race with just a few dozens of cases and counting, in february 2020. whether it is tcm clinic, restaurant, bank or pharmacy, their branches in this shopping arcade which serves also as a ferry terminal to mainland china and macao decided to temporarily close the doors until perhaps the community outbreak of the virus retreats, if their leases last that long. what perplexed me was the lie a few of the notices posted “renovation” as the pretext, what were the management thinking? it wasn’t the company’s fault, but external, uncontrollable circumstances that require cost-cutting measures. if there is anything, it makes me think thrice about the integrity of these corporations for if they need a pretext foe something they didn’t do, imagine when they really make an error or put their customers in harms way, they probably would find tons of excuses to rid themselves of responsibility! so consumers beware, separating the good crops from the rotten few in the time of covid-19.

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