明月一輪‧圓滿中秋

雖然很累，但是值得的。

這個中秋燒烤活動終於完滿結束，出席的人數不是很多，卻總算高朋滿座，感覺仍一樣親切，氣氛依然。成就我們渡過這歡愉的時光，還是要感謝朋友C的朋友K，若不是他的慷慨，願意借出這溫馨小窩，恐怕都未能有機會享受這個月光浴! 謝謝!

中秋為中國情人節，人月兩團圓，除了我和主人家的那隻黑毛尋回犬外，每個人都是成相成對，有的已結婚、有的將會結婚、有的仍然蜜運中、有的新歡上陣，自己心底裡也不禁替他們開心起來，更想起鄧麗君的... "人有悲歡離合，月有陰晴圓缺，此事古難全，但願人長久，千里共嬋娟。" 送上祝福。

2008年的中秋節，一切圓滿!

Movie Review: 10 Promises to My Dog 我和尋回犬的十個約定

今晚啱啱去完《10 Promises to My Dog 我和尋回犬的十個約定》嘅首映，去之前已經同朋友W講：「我一陣唔睇得咁投入應該okay!」睇完之後我第一句就講：「仆街... 我以後唔睇依啲戲!」因為我又係喊到豬頭咁行返出嚟... 套戲好好睇，好感人，我相信佢比起《導盲犬小Q》已經冇咁慘! 其實我覺得套戲可以啟發觀眾嘅唔單只係*愛狗*嘅訊識咁簡單，仲可以啟發到觀眾對佢哋所愛嘅任何嘢(可能係寵物、朋友、父母、男/女朋友等等...)嘅責任，唔好愛得太遲，因為人都只係活响時間裡面，每個人都有限期...

Ohohohoh... 唔好講得太遠，um... 我覺得特別適合想養小動物同一啲有寵物嘅人去睇，因為佢喺度educate緊觀眾點去對小動物有責任之餘，亦係remind緊你有幾愛你而家嘅寵物，以當中嘅*愛犬十誡*作警惕同反省。而身為主人嘅我，覺得自己都有80-90分嘅...

愛犬十誡 (以動物為subject...)：

1. 請耐心聆聽我的話語 (我相信如果你真係have this thing about animals，你好自然就會明白依一點。我覺得可以理解為同理心。)

2. 相信我，因為我一直都與你同一陣線 (我由小丙2個月大就已經養佢，好難會唔信架嗃...)

3. 經常和我遊玩 (依樣係我唯一對唔住我BB嘅一樣嘢，佢細個嗰時我冇帶佢出街，搞到大個咗佢唔鍾意出去，一抱佢出門口佢就扮無力一嘢就瞓低! 不過，我每日响屋企都會同佢玩，有時我甚至唔出街都係想留多啲時間陪佢，特別係依幾年!)

4. 別忘記我也有感情的 (都係嗰句，如果你係對動物有*FEEL*，只要細心觀察，好容易就會sense到佢哋嘅喜怒哀落同知佢想點囉!)

5. 不要和我打架，因為終有一天我長大了，我便會贏的 (我好少打BB，因為唔捨得... :P)

6. 我不聽話的時候，一定是有原因的 (依個我信，因為動物嘅反應係最真嘅! 所以我俾BB咬我塊面2次，每次要縫7-8針我都冇怪佢! hehe!)

7. 你上學，有朋友，但是我... 就衹有你 (當我每次出國，一落機我最想見唔係任何人，而係我個BB!)

8. 我老了以後亦請繼續做我的朋友 (OF COURSE!!!)

9. 我衹活大概十年，所以要珍惜一起生活的每一刻 (依個係我近年成日諗嘅問題，BB差唔多已經15歲，身體機能開始退化，雙腳開始無力... 帶佢去睇獸醫，獸醫都話係老狗病，我可以做嘅就係令佢開心過每一日，同埋學習面對生離死別... V_V 不過好彩佢冇啲咩病痛!! THANK GOD!!!!)

10. 我不會忘記一起渡過的日子，我死的時候，請留在我的身邊 (聽人講如果啲狗係好鍾意個主人，佢哋死嗰時係唔會俾個主人見到... 不過點都好，我就算點唔開心同難過，我都唔會俾BB咩嗰時係自己一個...!!!!!!)

**請留意圖中隻貴婦狗個頭係正方形!!! hehehehe!!!

F‧R‧I‧E‧N‧D

朋友之間嘅關係可以是千變萬化，好多種...

1.有啲唔會成日見，但一見面或聽到對方把聲就會感覺好親切，好似親人一樣，咩嘢都講

2.有啲臭味相投，成日去街，吃喝玩樂，亦可以坦成相對

3.有啲好少見一次，唔算太熟又唔算陌生(即半生熟)，但一見或偶爾講電話就有一大堆話題，可以分享個別心事

4.有啲素未謀面，好似你同我咁，卻可交換生活軼趣同埋某啲心底話

5.有啲一見面就上床，做完就落床，再見再做嘅朋友

而我其中一個朋友阿M，就係第3種。我認識佢係幾於工作理由，局住要同佢social、出差等等，不知不覺就傾多咗兩句。同佢經歷過唔多，但亦唔算少，每一次都刻骨銘心...

-試過同佢响蒙古嘅草原上，凌晨4點幾，摸黑揸住架四駒車去睇日出... 騎馬仔同玩駱駝...

-試過同佢响哈爾濱睇冰雕，變冰條

-試過同佢响泰國西北面嘅一個熱帶雨林，攀山涉水，避吸血蟲蟲<--唔記得嗰啲叫咩嘢

-試過同佢一齊俾人認錯我哋係泰國人

-試過同佢一齊被迫去咗個exhibition，一齊"OH"咀，唔知做咩

前陣子同佢傾電話講開一啲關於人與人之間思想衝突嘅問題，對於某啲事，我覺得佢比我睇得更開，更豁達。收線後，我左諗右諗，終於俾我悟到點去接受一啲supposed自己完全係接受唔到嘅道理，又稱歪理，講到底... 都係要多謝你，阿Mmmmmm!

Photo by Pink Sherbet Photography, flickr

The Bravest Thing

Congratulations, Applegate!! Just read the news that Christina Applegate has finally conquered her breasts cancer after undergoing some treatment. According to The Associated Press, Applegate's so thankful, saying that "Absolutely 100 percent clear and clean. It did not spread. They got everything out, so I'm definitely not going to die from breasts cancer." in an interview with ABC News' Good Morning America.

She says "I was so mad," when she first heard the news. "I was just shaking and then also immediately, I had to go into 'take-care-of-business-mode,' which was ... I asked them, 'What do I do now? What is it that I do? I get a doctor, I get a surgeon, I get an oncologist? What do I do?'"

Applegate fearlessly faced to the fact that she got breasts cancer and immediately took actions to tackle the problems. She fought it out.

The news has actually reminded me of how brave and determined my mom is. Mommy got breasts cancer last year. She's calm when she first heard the news and she knew what to do. THANK GOD FOR EVERYTHING! Mom is now back in very good shape and is happy with her life!

For those who are encountering breasts cancer, just don't give in and fight off! You will be fine. God bless ya!

Dedicate to mommy: I am so proud of you! - Your son, J.

Way Back Into Love

Way Back Into Love, a theme song of love comedy "Music and Lyrics", is a song that currently released my moldy soul.

Used to think that, in my love life, I am like the cactus in the picture, very defensive cloaked with a stingy skin so not to get hurt. Even how beautiful my sky is, I am just a dry poor little thing in the worlddd. But then when I ran into this song, I realized that I am not as poor as I think 'cause the inward part of cactus is pretty juicy and me is full of love, there must be someone needs me just as there are CAMELSS need CACTII.... "I know that it's out there, there's got to be something for my soul somewhere"....

Way Back Into Love

I've been living with a shadow overhead

I've been sleeping with a cloud above my bed

I've been lonely for so long

Trapped in the past, I just can't seem to move on

I've been hiding all my hopes and dreams away

Just in case I ever need em again someday

I've been setting aside time

To clear a little space in the corners of my mind

All I wanna do is find a way back into love

I can't make it through without a way back into love

Oh oh oh

I've been watching but the stars refuse to shine

I've been searching but I just don't see the signs

I know that it's out there

There's got to be something for my soul somewhere

I've been looking for someone to shed some light

Not somebody just to get me throught the night

I could use some direction

And I'm open to your suggestions

All I wanna do is find a way back into love

I can't make it through without a way back into love

And if I open my heart again I guess

I'm hoping you'll be there for me in the end

There are moments when I don't know if it's real

Or if anybody feels the way I feel

I need inspiration, not just another negotiation

All I wanna do is find a way back into love

I can't make it through without a way back into love

And if I open my heart to you

I'm hoping you'll show me what to do

And if you help me to start again

You know that I'll be there for you in the end

Wislawa Szymborska

Wislawa Szymborska, a polish poetess, ingeniously written one of my favorite poetry - Love At First Sight. She poetized the feeling of affinity in the air; concreted the inadvertent events that happen in life and utilized antithesis, which makes this poem even more consuming, persuasive, significant and beautiful.

Wislawa Szymborska, the winner of the 1996 Nobel Prize in Literature.

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Love At First Sight

Both are convinced
That a sudden surge of emotion bound them together...
Beautiful is such a certainty
But uncertainty is more beautiful still.
Because they didn't know each other earlier,
They supposed that nothing was happening between them.

What of the streets, stairways and corridors,
Where they could have
Passed each other long ago
I'd like to ask them whether they remember
- perhaps in a revolving door ever being face to face?
An 'excuse me' in a crowd
Or a voice 'wrong number' in the receiver.

But I know their answer:
No, they don't remember.
They'd be greatly astonished
To learn that for a long time chance had been playing with them.
Not yet wholly ready
To transform into fate for them,
It approached them, then backed off,
Stood in their way
And, suppressing a giggle, jumped to the side.

分分鐘需要你

Love is simple and it always is. Keeping it as simple and fresh as it is seems to be the best way that leads us to an everlasting one.

願我會揸火箭 帶你到天空去
在太空中兩人住 活到一千歲

都一般心醉 有你在身邊多樂趣

共你雙雙對 好得戚好得意
地Lum天崩當閒事 就算翻風雨
只需睇到你 似見陽光千萬里

有了你開心啲 乜都稱心滿意
咸魚白菜也好好味 我與你永共鈙
分分鐘需要你 你似是陽光空氣

扮靚啲皆因你 癲癲哋皆因你
為你甘心作傻事 扮吓猩猩叫
睇到乜都笑 有你在身邊多樂趣

若有朝失咗你 花開都不美
願到荒島去長住 做個假的你
天天都相對 對木頭公仔做戲

さんねんのひみつ (三年の秘密)

我一向好少响人前講關於自己的感情事，真係除非識咗10年以上的朋友之外，其他人我都隻字不提，一來因為我同那班朋友的感情已昇華到視大家如親兄弟姊妹的地步，無所不談！二來事過情遷，舊事重提又有咩用呢...？今次我諗住寫少少少少少關於自己的珍藏全因為受到A小姐的感染，佢最近因感情生活的唔如意而好唔開心，我見到佢就令我諗返起我對上一次分手的時候，當然個case就好唔同啦，不過我同佢的反應都一樣﹝可能我仲勁過佢tim﹞！

首先我想澄清咗我仲係SINGLE先呀！！唉... 上天對我有時又刻薄咗少少嗃，俾咗我一副咁可愛的面孔後﹝尤其係我對冇畫eyeline等於有畫eyeline的*dreamy eyes*﹞後就惹嚟一連串的誤會... 我知道好多人都以為我係嗰D拍緊拖但成日响外面*sa-sa滾*，玩完就飛人，鐘意拍散拖及鐘意玩ons的人，所以好多人都唔敢對我放開懷抱就走喇！哼... 佢哋仲以為自己好醒諗住冇上錯賊船，哈哈.. 出面都唔知有幾多披住羊皮的狼呀... :P 嗱嗱嗱... 如果你都係咁諗我呢就完全錯晒，雖然我成日口花花咁，但我敢講我係一隻100%擔屎都唔偷食的貓嗃，唔口花花就悶*do*死你啦... 呵呵呵...

三年前... 呀呀唔係... 係四年幾前的一個秋天，我遇上咗我個ex﹝點遇就唔講喇...﹞，我哋係一見鍾情架，好多野都好夾又有好多common interests嗃﹝雖然佢唔識中文又唔知道邊個係莫文蔚，但佢都好鍾意聽Karen的歌架﹞；另外，我哋好respect對方，亦都盡量去互相適應同share睇法及見解，同時我哋又係好buy浪漫的人，鍾意俾surprise大家，但我哋唔會在朋友面前態度過份親暱，親暱的只會在家中分享。記得有一次佢話要煮飯俾我食，入屋前佢叫我唔好開門住，佢yell咗幾次*just a second*但我就足足等咗成三分幾鍾，我仲講笑話：「are you hiding somebody in there? you wanna try threesome tonight?」門打開前，佢叫我合理雙眼然後帶到我入廁所，我一打開雙眼就見到全屋都熄晒燈﹝除了廚房﹞，廁所裡點滿晒香薰蠟燭，原來佢run咗個bubble bath俾我浸，仲有杯冰凍的white wine tim :P 跟住佢就去煮飯，煮完飯就叫我出去囉！依個只不過係我哋生活上的其中一個surprise... 仲有好多好多...

直到三年前多少少，因佢有事要搬返英國，我就陪佢返... 可能佢嗰個moment太忙陪唔到我，我就成日同其他friend一齊週圍去，結果足足幾個禮拜我哋都見唔到3/4次，終於.... 我發脾氣喇.... 開始講埋一D悔氣野，越講就越認真，加上我當時諗... 佢又想我搬過去陪佢但我又唔可以放棄香港的學業，不如做朋友算啦.... 我就一意孤行，冇正式坐低傾過，純粹inform佢我就走咗。返香港時，我未上機就喊到落機*non-stop-crying*，回家途中已喊到冇水出，我就*以為*自己開始可以接受到做返friend依個mode。直到一兩個月後我收到佢第一個、第二個、第三個email，我先realize我真係未放得低，但我冇同佢講我點諗因為佢好似已經move on緊 lu，mmm... 可能當初我走得太突然同埋我錯過咗佢好唔開心嗰part啩，所以佢可以make up佢個mind咁快？？我可以回覆佢的只係一D好好好simple的email and that it！佢最後的email係話佢覺得我變咗，估我連朋友都唔想做等等，之後我哋就再冇聯絡lu...

眨下眼就三年，依三年裡面我冇拍拖，亦冇白過，反而學識咗咩叫*愛*同*珍惜*﹝包括親友﹞。起初我真係有少少後悔當時那種衝動、幼稚、唔識珍惜的性格同埋唔負責任的行為，因為咁我有一段時間都會幾憎自己。由欲哭到無淚，由得閑無事就望住個天諗*where are you?*到望返住自己諗*where am I?*，由回望到盼望... 諗深一曾如果冇依件事發生，我亦冇依個機會去用咁長時間嚟反省，冇依個機會去成長啦，係咪！？我知道終有一日我一定會見到同我牽著同一條紅線的那個人，每個人都會！ 唔好再為過去的而皺眉啦！YEAH！！

***忽然提問：點解每當一棵大樹冇晒葉的時候就有人會話：「棵樹都冇晒葉啦！」而當一棵大樹生得好茂盛的時候就冇人會話：「嘩~ 你睇棵樹好多葉嗃！」呢？係唔係因為有D野一定要錯過咗先識欣賞？

*****特別鳴謝朋友V幫我打個Title的日文字！

TIPS on HOW to BE LOVED

Receiving love starts with being able to give love. Giving love starts with being able to love yourself.




Special Thanks:
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