un B1 – mor prend sa barre

des cours de francisation pour les immigrés. saviez-vous que le niveau exigé pour réussir un examen du français (TCF ANF – test de connaissance du français pour l’accès à la nationalité française) par rapport à la citoyenneté / la naturalisation est seulement un B1. (d’après le cadre européen de référence pour les langues c’est-à-dire (CECRL) ou en anglais common european framework of reference for languages CEFR / CEF / CEFRL) c’est vrai, tu n’es pas besoin d’être un expert de la langue de molière, plutôt il te faut une fondation suffisamment pour t’exprimer cette langue de ton pays adopté. je pense que d’être admis dans une université, parfois ils vous demandent d’avoir atteint un B2!

tous ça n’est que un des thèmes élaborés ici dans ces vingtaine de minutes, mais ce sujet d’y assister et y venir à bout m’intéresse. après tout ce temps, j’ai jamais essayé un examen pour but de qualifier mon niveau de français.

n’oubliez pas que mor a obtenu son diplôme de capitaine 500, un autre fait assez impressionnant.

學緊法文嘅朋友，你哋知道入籍法國只需要達到歐盟語言標準嘅B1，千真萬確 ! 相對考上某些競爭較大的大學可能要求入學時達到B2來說，移民豈不容易過入大學？如果你『聽』得明這條片（唔係靠估），又不需看字幕的話，恭喜你，移民考試嘅語言部份過咗關了。

2nd anniversary 6-12 兩週年

社會運動衝突兩週年，其實乜乜周年意思不大，因為遊行示威次數太多。政府警察傾巢出動，穿黑衣的市民俾截停、搜查。國家領導人把叫口號的愛國人民說成亂港分子。看來要時間證明一般市民是對的。

hong kong as a police state 警察話事的香港

叫/寫 香港加油 也犯法？ shouting/showing the slogan “hong kong add oil” alone is guilty?

those questioning “one country two systems” is out of shape are deemed as enemy of the state. 覺得一國兩制走了樣的人就被打成叛國者

那就等著看遠一點，看看誰是愛國的。一般市民還是離地權貴。 so let’s wait and see if the average layperson or the oligarch is more patriotic.

maineland 尋岸 documentary

february 2021. prc and usa are still in a de facto proxy (trade) war with my hometown still pretty much in the eye of the storm. a timely yet interesting documentary from three years ago helps shed some light on a tiny morceau of the multifaceted relationship between the two peoples.

maineland saw the camera followed two young, wealthy chinese students stella and harry spending their last two years of high school at fryeburg academy in maine. the tuition fees stand at usd 50k in 2021. why is such an exclusive school so depended on international students from china? half of the international students in 2017 were from china. and why a socialist economy can export so many  “wealthy second generations” 富二代 in their foreign endeavors?

two years ago was the only rare occasion when i didn’t argue with my vietnamese friends that china wasn’t and doesn’t look anything “social” to me with not many nor not so few privileged citizens. and you have to ask why the most powerful country in the world keeps on exploiting the hard earn money of its arch rival.

if there is anything positive to report on, it is that stella and harry weren’t spoiled brats at all. i am not so sure about some of the other characters around them!

a must watch if you dig sino-american politics.

prc usa cold war…

why should you choose one over another? no, it’s pure hypocrisy. the first use state capitalism to camouflage for socialism. the latter committed many war crimes. and this almost centenarian is good testament linking the two!

so dont think one side has a higher moral ground than the other because middlemen like kissinger show both sides are unethical.

讀談林夕

 在香港憤怒的2019、2020兩年，聽林夕嘅舊歌不知會否紓緩大家的心情。偶爾發現並挑讀其報紙雜文時，香港電台在兩星期內兩次討論他的歌詞、作品。如果你對香港認識不多，看看這兩個節目對這彈丸之地的語言、本地文化及“偉文”生本人略窺一二。

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文學講佢:

五夜講場 – 文學放得開 2020：今夕林夕
https://youtu.be/oykxuaJ-Ff8

哲學又講佢：

五夜講場 – 哲學有偈傾 2020：夕爺無限好
https://youtu.be/dHrwW3ezCRU

早一點嘅流行文化討論有個幾驚訝嘅結論:

五夜講場 – 歷史係咁話 2020：相愛也未算萬能
https://youtu.be/EWjsw890pHs

社交距離 distanciation physique

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“

clean hands save lives

“clean hands save lives” is a book i received as a gift from an academic public health event but never got around to read. that changed earlier this year because of covid-19.  thanks to the virus, medical professionals and laymen alike talked non-stop about infections and how not to get infected. so a long-held simple fact’s importance resurfaced and became à la mode again, for unfortunate reasons. here you can download numerous versions of the book for free!

https://tcrouzet.com/le-geste-qui-sauve/downloads/

 

le mal de terre en los tiempos de la corona

 

疫情之中，經朋友又發現一可以抽水的影片。吸引我是多人戴口罩的一幕。

話說歌曲唱的是環境問題、市民參與等等，但若果把covid-19放遠點跟愛滋病毒hiv、伊波拉ebola比較，人類愈來愈大的足跡，跨進少接觸動物嘅生態環境，是否一次又一次生化危機的幕後黑手？

a seemingly unrelated song on citizen engagement and environmental pollution, but the snapshot of everyone in masks caught my attention and brought us back to the current covid-19 crisis. are our footprints too big that the present and further problems are unavoidable?

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。

 

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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