三月份花卉展的照片，現在才呈現。雖然晚了兩個月，季節上仍然對題。
pix from flower show almost two months ago, still the same season although it feels really hot as i write.
in bright colours
marine life on land 海洋生物上岸了
at a slower pace 慢活啊
perhaps someday you could fly 也許某天你能一飛沖天
for love is in the air 只因到處彌漫着愛
just like the eternal sun 猶如永恆的太陽
印象中上一代紅色的纜車也沒有運行怎樣坐過，眨眼間已變成第六代？（又再是兒時的）綠色纜車了。同樣是兩節車廂一起運行，否則正常時期本地人加上遊客是應付不了的。你知道中途可以呼喚停站的嗎？你又知否鋼纜是在纜車經過某一點才在軌道中露面？
hong kong’s peak tram, like the city’s shyscrapers at the same site, went through five incarnations already. the current, sixth, inaugurated 2022, brings back the retro green colour of my childhood. did you know you can request stop in one of the stations along the link between central and the peak just by pressing a button? did you also know that the (steel?) cable only makes its not-so-discreet entrance in between the tracks only when the tram reaches a lower elevation at whatever point you are standing / observing?
書展裏瞥見國泰航空七十年代的餐牌，除了英文外竟然有點造作之餘加了法文。中文係殖民時代是否欠奉是常態就不得而知。我倒是好奇這班連名稱皆印到餐牌上的 ” compassion tour group ” 乃何方神聖？另一張海報的亞洲女郎活像是蘇絲黃的世界跳出來一樣，嘴藐藐的但洗不掉那種西人對東方的迷戀。
à quoi ça sert le menu en français dans un vol de cathay pacific dans des années 70s? les lettres en MAJUSCULE de taille plus GRAND que celles en anglais, cela rend l’office québécois de la langue française jaloux hahaha. néaumoins, c’était un vol entre tokyo et hong kong, deux villes qui tiennent aucune relation francophone. la fille qui apparaît dans une autre affiche rappelle une caricature datée d’époque suzie wong!
有啲電影睇嚟睇去，都係睇唔明。close encounter of the third kind 第三類接觸 可以說是其中一。
小時候明珠台 http://programme.tvb.com/pearl 可能每一、兩年都會播放一次。話雖是syndication ，但我那時的年紀仍然太小，多年來轉台之間看過亦是不知所云！昨晚pearl又再播放，這麼多年後，焦點竟然落到法國導演 françois truffaut的身上。多謝維基百科，我才知道杜魯福客串了一角。另外令我記憶重新的是john williams的五個音 （first conversation） https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=AphKxQ2NsQo
那年代新浪潮的杜魯福應該較史匹堡著名很多。後者邀請前者演出，應該是識英雄重英雄！
（and a longer “conversation”）
sunny sky, warm and cosy feeling. if it were not for that baked good chain’s brand name exposing itself around the corner, this would have been a perfect picture to magnify, print and hang in the kitchen.
normalcy has not return, but will eventually someday.
c’est une oeuvre la plus traduite? la plus commercialisée? 2021 à hong kong, la société medialink a une exposé des sculptures et des tableaux de steven choi sous une license de pomase.
les images et les fascinations alimentent toujours ce livre, des quatre coins du monde.
voici une sculpture et un tableau de choi…
plus une citation touchée/récrite quelquepart qui m’arrive par whatsapp.
tout ensemble, ça sert à aroser notre monde d’espoir dans une ère de folie et de peste.
從2020走到2021,農曆鼠年差不多尾聲。往年不少人翻讀 卡繆的《瘟疫》 。 如果離題抽水講貓、鼠和疫症的比喻，2020的總結甚至到2021年一月尾這一刻都可以用一張相嚟形容。唉！
si on relie la peste, le rat et le chat mataphoriquement, la photo ci-joint présente un compte-rendu précis de l’effort mondial par rapport à la santé publique. le montagne russe reprend en 2021!
too much obituary but then here is another one.
Yau Ma Tei Carpark Building, know for the Gascoigne Road Flyover passing through the building on the 3rd floor, will be permanently closed next year, in 2021. The top three floors of the car park will off limit starting 1st nov 2020. disappearing landscape aficionados in hong kong are congregating on the 7th and 8th floors to savour the hustle and bustle of yaumatei on this last full day of its operation.
2020實在寫得太多訃聞，不過還是越寫越有。預告你知十一月仲有我想寫但未寫嘅。油麻地停車場大廈要重建／改建了。我期待的是地下的讀書館會變得更乾淨、更大、提供更多元服務等等。今日我就跟其他香港人追逐那些虛無縹緲、似有似無嘅回憶。油蔴地係五湖四海、人流複雜的地方。出入停車場大廈地下公廁的，有時有點駭人、像是吸毒癮君子、亦有神志不清的人。如果說資源不公，這里的圖書館和公廁都可以算是我用過之中的最污糟。希望這社區奇景消失之餘，政府會改善此地的各項服務。
此時此刻的地圖 library was marked in the middle of the proposed thoroughfare
another video after my errands at the library 去完圖書館再拍過:
低啲再影過 a closer look further down :
社交距離 / distanciation physique / social distancing or even
distanciamiento físico, distanciamiento personal, o distanciamiento social,
no matter how you call it, for three quarters of a year, it is tiring, frustrating or even sad for many. If this photo I dug up from my cell phone which I believed to have arrived at my possession in march 2020 could lift your spirit up just a little..
How would you title / caption it?
para mi, es “star wars vs. covid-19“
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.
un asiatique et son charabia 某亞裔噏得就噏 an Asian Guy's rigmarole 