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
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.
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.
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.
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.
the girl who lost the right eye to a bean bag round shot by the hong kong police on 11 August 2019 finally gathered some energy to give a brief statement. a lot of public anger in the past two weeks calling for “an eye for an eye”. i can’t imagine the courage and how poised she has been in the video. if i were put into the same situation, traumatized is an understatement.
lots of flyers/artwork also emerged and keep on pumping out on various lennon walls in hong kong. here are a few of the examples.
eye covered:
alluding to street fighters or protesters: 
another bloodied eye also appeared on the background towards the right above!
兩個月嚟的示威、抗議、遊行多不勝數，未能緊貼於網誌上更新是因為發生的事太多、太密亦沉重。先轉發一張電視台的照片，簡單闡述部分大事的經歷。
uncovered from my draft entries, last modification dated 13 déc. 2017 03:32.
she might or might not be a significant figure of the expat and missionary communities in nanjing china in the world war ii era, what is written on her and her personal experience will sure be a part of the war / massacre / peace / never again narratives for a turbulent era. her name is Minnie Vautrin.
so here is what I penned around the christmas season of 2017:
what to write or not -rthk late night documentary repeat had an episode on the massacre in Nanjing, sooming my focus in and out throughout the 50 plus minute, a missionary’s story caught my attention – Minnie Vautrin 魏特琳. Reading this in December when everyone walking into shopping centres got bombarded with jingles make the contrast more vehmenly sad. Vautrin, probably suffered a nervous breakdown from witnessing so many people dying around her, took her life within a year of returning to USA for a sick leave.
today, 14 may is the anniversary of her suicide.
孫中山粤語演講令到我想起廣東話的兩，三件小事.
佢嘅廣東話口音同香港人係二十一世紀講嘅係唔同的.其發音令人聯想到語言本質的變化，以及喺使用上政治角力嘅起落。有趣的是，聽到呢個粵語版本的時候，我亦發現1924年翻譯成法文嘅三民主義（見下圖）。九十四年前的軍閥肆虐嘅中國，同而家一權獨攬、張牙舞抓黨國不分嘅國度，到底係進步還是倒退呢？
dans l’epoque où des seigneurs de la guerre ont effectivement partitionné la chine dans les années 1920, cet enregistrement sonore de sun yat sen, promouvant le triple démisme et le texte traduit en français en 1924 documentent une chine au chaos. prèsque un siècle a passé, la vie des gens ordinaire a-t-elle été améliorée? je pense que chacun tient son avis au coeur.
June 4 is around the corner. After years of controversies with Wikileaks and its founder Julian Assange still in sort of house arrest, at the Ecuadorian Embassy in London, it came to my attention recently that some cables actually are related to the events surrounding the student uprising and culminating into the massacre on 4th June 1989.
The number of students killed might be different according to different accounts. Nevertheless, i felt chilled to the bone rereading some tense moments in the city through a “laowai”, whose mobility was probably more than the average citizen and was sure that minimal casualties through his eyewitness account were at least in the hundreds in this sad saga of Chinese politics and reforms.
https://wikileaks.org/plusd/cables/89BEIJING18828_a.html
un asiatique et son charabia 某亞裔噏得就噏 an Asian Guy's rigmarole 