tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-12179086680507711372024-03-15T11:27:01.325+08:00COCOA DESIGN LIFEantleelihttp://www.blogger.com/profile/09421353461350662583noreply@blogger.comBlogger402125tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-1217908668050771137.post-42441061985473269512024-03-15T11:19:00.002+08:002024-03-15T11:26:28.576+08:00Friend Link for my post in Medium...Testing, testing<p><b><span style="font-size: medium;">👉<a href="https://medium.com/the-daily-cuppa/im-robin-your-messenger-dd29d2bc1ef4?sk=aff2fe21d31c89ae8d29f7bd6695451b">I'm Robin, Your Messenger</a></span></b></p><div style="text-align: left;"><span style="font-family: 'Goudy Bookletter 1911'; font-size: medium;">Hi, hi,</span></div><div style="text-align: left;"><span style="font-family: 'Goudy Bookletter 1911'; font-size: medium;"><br /></span></div><div style="text-align: left;"><span style="font-family: 'Goudy Bookletter 1911'; font-size: medium;">It's been a long time away because I'm on another writing platform Medium, I've spent some time over there writing and enjoying the community, it's been almost 8 months, time flies!</span></div><div style="text-align: left;"><span style="font-family: 'Goudy Bookletter 1911'; font-size: medium;"><br /></span></div><div style="text-align: left;"><span style="font-family: 'Goudy Bookletter 1911'; font-size: medium;">But I didn't forget my friends here that you may not be a member of that platform, even if you can still find me via my profile page <a href="https://medium.com/@oiseaudistrait" rel="nofollow" target="_blank">Oiseau Distrait</a>, I'm trying to figure out to see if my posts can be freely read by you guys here via a Friend Link.</span></div><div style="text-align: left;"><span style="font-family: 'Goudy Bookletter 1911'; font-size: medium;"><br /></span></div><div style="text-align: left;"><span style="font-family: 'Goudy Bookletter 1911'; font-size: medium;">Usually, I will write around 5 posts per week on various topics, but there is no automatic system for me to link them here except manually, so let's try whether this one is working? If yes, I'll see if there are any possible solutions to update the list here per week or two.</span></div><div style="text-align: left;"><span style="font-family: 'Goudy Bookletter 1911'; font-size: medium;"><br /></span></div><div style="text-align: left;"><span style="font-family: 'Goudy Bookletter 1911'; font-size: medium;">You may ask what happens to my earnings if a free link is used, well, yes! I earn nothing via a non-member read, but the post can be read by you, so, it's fine. You can also share this link freely if it works, and maybe someday, if you want to join the community as a member, you're always welcome. If not, claps & comments do help...or even just read 30 sec, my pleasure.</span></div><div style="text-align: left;"><span style="font-family: 'Goudy Bookletter 1911'; font-size: medium;"><br /></span></div><div style="text-align: left;"><span style="font-family: 'Goudy Bookletter 1911'; font-size: medium;">To reduce my workload so I can concentrate on my writing, I won't prepare the picture here, but there is always one in the Medium post. And one more thing regarding the language written is still majoring in English. </span></div><div style="text-align: left;"><span style="font-family: 'Goudy Bookletter 1911'; font-size: medium;"><br /></span></div><div style="text-align: left;"><span style="font-family: 'Goudy Bookletter 1911'; font-size: medium;">Okay! Here is the first one, let me know if it works and whether you want to read more in the future.</span></div><div style="text-align: left;"><span style="font-family: 'Goudy Bookletter 1911'; font-size: medium;">Bye & see you! </span></div><div style="text-align: left;"><span style="font-family: 'Goudy Bookletter 1911'; font-size: medium;">Have a happy Friday.</span></div><div style="text-align: left;"><span style="font-family: 'Goudy Bookletter 1911'; font-size: medium;"><br /></span></div><div style="text-align: left;"><i><span style="font-family: 'Goudy Bookletter 1911'; font-size: medium;">Oiseau </span></i></div><div style="text-align: left;"><span style="font-size: medium;"><br /></span></div><div style="text-align: left;"><span style="font-size: medium;"><br /></span></div><div style="text-align: left;"><br /></div><div style="text-align: left;"><br /></div><div style="text-align: left;"><br /></div><div style="text-align: left;"><br /></div><div style="text-align: left;"><br /></div><div style="text-align: left;"><br /></div>oiseau distraithttp://www.blogger.com/profile/11366175430480169191noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-1217908668050771137.post-41533665006074469382023-10-20T14:28:00.000+08:002023-10-20T14:28:20.330+08:00兩個月的Medium 生涯不知不覺間已經在Medium 寫了兩個月稿,有趣的是,原來在剛加入時,內部正在調整政策,導致作者在九至十月間的收入大幅下降,對一些在此寫了多年並賴以為生的作者影響很大。你沒有看錯,真的有人可以以此為部份生活的收入來源,不過還好的是,對於我這個初到貴境的小人物,也就沒什麼影響了。而且早些改革,也會較易適應,可以逃過被一些舊有機制或漏洞影響,滿以為隨隨便便寫幾隻字便可以賺大錢⋯(從來也是不要得的想法)。<div><br /></div><div>每當一個網絡平台運作好一段日子,總會產生大大小小的問題,例如小圈子群體,又或是有心術不正的人鑽空子藉著漏洞找著數;這裏也不例外,尤其涉及金錢收入,還好的是暫時也算處理掉,可以讓我專心寫作。<br /><p></p><div>由於平台以英語作者和讀者為主,大家來自全球不同地區,以至在寫作題材上可以接觸或涉獵得更廣;但當然也會因著非母語的局限而影響文章的內容及質素,這也是必須要學習及好好鍛練的方向。兩個月長時間的閱讀及寫作,第一樣學會了的是:</div></div><div><br /></div><div><i><b>The first thing for a writer to learn is Humble!</b></i></div><div><br /></div><div>由-位作者猶衷地勸戒我們,不論是對舊或新的作家而言。而這確實是一個很重要的提醒,無論在登出的文章被讀者批評,又或是被編輯發還稿件,當中要經歷的即使並非全部和現實出書所遇到的一模一樣,卻也有不少相似的地方;接受批評肯定是其中一様,有些不一定是以文字回應,‘完全靜默不回覆’便是另外一種批評的方式,代表著自己的文字工作仍有很多要改進的地方。</div><div><br /></div><div>不過整體而言,平台內部存在著一個community的理念,即是希望互相幫助,讓更多人可以寫出好文章,也就是說讓讀者看到較有質素的作品,加上"尊重"是網路世界必須有的一個態度,但願可以繼續在這裏擁有自己的一片天空,藉文字工作造就一些非金錢可買的夢想。</div>oiseau distraithttp://www.blogger.com/profile/11366175430480169191noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-1217908668050771137.post-58305687070092177892023-08-22T16:23:00.005+08:002023-08-29T14:14:37.279+08:00Medium & Blogger, why not both?<div style="text-align: left;"> <table cellpadding="0" cellspacing="0" class="tr-caption-container" style="float: left;"><tbody><tr><td style="text-align: center;"><a href="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEjW9C3Ql2DyWcg1nLFI2MeOnPM0UCUuAImW5G5l65pAh6RnmryRu0HVgOm-HZe0wYUWMGpgLC3Dle95cLrpRZdoWjT05MMHVE6pCNMgHAO0Xc1AEeYoje3bzQ0PdeHXk3eJjPqEDskv5teUkr5vjuuzeaoQR6GW1ct6gBYMh-Oc6BcvU6TAzMQnsGYZ9VhN/s1366/IMG_0072.jpg" style="clear: left; margin-bottom: 1em; margin-left: auto; margin-right: auto;"><img border="0" data-original-height="1366" data-original-width="1000" height="400" src="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEjW9C3Ql2DyWcg1nLFI2MeOnPM0UCUuAImW5G5l65pAh6RnmryRu0HVgOm-HZe0wYUWMGpgLC3Dle95cLrpRZdoWjT05MMHVE6pCNMgHAO0Xc1AEeYoje3bzQ0PdeHXk3eJjPqEDskv5teUkr5vjuuzeaoQR6GW1ct6gBYMh-Oc6BcvU6TAzMQnsGYZ9VhN/w293-h400/IMG_0072.jpg" width="293" /></a></td></tr><tr><td class="tr-caption" style="text-align: center;"><span style="font-size: x-small;"><i>i'm grateful to write under this beautiful sky</i></span></td></tr></tbody></table><span style="font-family: 'Goudy Bookletter 1911'; font-size: medium;">Hi hi, </span></div><div style="text-align: left;"><span style="font-family: 'Goudy Bookletter 1911'; font-size: medium;"><br /></span></div><div style="text-align: left;"><span style="font-family: 'Goudy Bookletter 1911'; font-size: medium;">It's been a while that I'm writing nothing here, but actually I am writing in some where else - a platform I've discovered recently call <a href="https://medium.com/@oiseaudistrait" rel="nofollow" target="_blank"> Medium</a> (<i>not new</i>); which is a bit different from blogging, because first of all, you need to open a free account by start reading articles including you can view a maximum of 3 nos. of member-only articles per month; then you can write of course, but why is it so? </span></div><div style="text-align: left;"><span style="font-family: 'Goudy Bookletter 1911'; font-size: medium;"><br /></span></div><div style="text-align: left;"><span style="font-family: 'Goudy Bookletter 1911'; font-size: medium;">The member-only articles can generate a small amount of income to the writer in several different ways, although it may not support a full time writer, at least we can buy a cup of coffee to continue writing, that's great, right? and the most important is , the overall reading / writing atmosphere over there is different, more sincere, I would say.</span></div><div style="text-align: left;"><span style="font-family: 'Goudy Bookletter 1911'; font-size: medium;"><br /></span></div><div style="text-align: left;"><span style="font-family: 'Goudy Bookletter 1911'; font-size: medium;">You will find longer and deep dive posts, readers just willing to read more even if you don't put any images along with. I've been using half months time to go through articles and was being inspired a lot. I think it's really the culture of different platforms that could affect the overall reading or writing experience.</span></div><div style="text-align: left;"><span style="font-family: 'Goudy Bookletter 1911'; font-size: medium;"><br /></span></div><div style="text-align: left;"><span style="font-family: 'Goudy Bookletter 1911'; font-size: medium;">Being an author/writer needs to go through a deep learning curve, you may not agree because it seems there are so easy for us to publish anywhere online, but it's so true and I keep this in mind seriously. Unless you are well trained in advance, most of us are keep learning to improve ourselves while keep on writing and reading simultaneously, years after years. (except for the talented and the celebrities). </span></div><div style="text-align: left;"><span style="font-family: 'Goudy Bookletter 1911'; font-size: medium;"><br /></span></div><div style="text-align: left;"><span style="font-family: 'Goudy Bookletter 1911'; font-size: medium;">I have to tell you, as a reader, I do feel tired to find quite a huge amount of so call "coach" blogs which <i>teach</i> you "how to get 1000 followers" " how to get paid within a months blogging...",etc, etc. And on the other hand, as an indie author, what I really want to learn from our online mentor, is not the "TEN things I have to do", or "TWELVES tips to help you become a successful writer"..., etc, etc. Finally, I did find some good pieces over there, which helps me to write in another perspective; again, it take times but it's worth, I'm sure.</span></div><div style="text-align: left;"><span style="font-family: 'Goudy Bookletter 1911'; font-size: medium;"><br /></span></div><div style="text-align: left;"><span style="font-family: 'Goudy Bookletter 1911'; font-size: medium;">So, you may ask, am I saying that Blogger is not as good an Medium, and I am going to leave? No, no, no! </span><span style="font-family: "Goudy Bookletter 1911"; font-size: medium;">As I've mentioned they are different, I always feel relax to write here, even when I am not promoting my book...</span><i style="font-family: "Goudy Bookletter 1911";"><span style="font-size: medium;">Oh! my book, that is for another story to tell, may be later :P </span></i></div><div style="text-align: left;"><span style="font-family: 'Goudy Bookletter 1911'; font-size: medium;"><i><br /></i></span></div><div style="text-align: left;"><span style="font-family: 'Goudy Bookletter 1911'; font-size: medium;">Cocoa Design Life has always been a leisure & relaxing corner that we can <i>bird talk , </i>just like what antleeli & ricketeer's originally designed, that's why I would love to fly over here, stay for a while and keep talking to you if you don't mind; I wish you do feel the same, too! No stress, no target to reach, no expert webinar to attend but just a quiet bird talk.</span></div><div style="text-align: left;"><span style="font-family: 'Goudy Bookletter 1911'; font-size: medium;"><br /></span></div><div style="text-align: left;"><span style="font-family: 'Goudy Bookletter 1911'; font-size: medium;">See u :D</span></div><div style="text-align: left;"><span style="font-family: 'Goudy Bookletter 1911'; font-size: medium;"><i><br /></i></span></div><div style="text-align: left;"><span style="font-family: 'Goudy Bookletter 1911'; font-size: medium;"><i><br /></i></span></div><div style="text-align: left;"><span style="font-family: 'Goudy Bookletter 1911';"><br /></span></div><div style="text-align: left;"><br /></div>oiseau distraithttp://www.blogger.com/profile/11366175430480169191noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-1217908668050771137.post-76335663049955704622023-06-23T14:50:00.002+08:002023-06-23T14:50:29.754+08:00我是大坑西新邨居民<p><span style="font-family: georgia;"> <span face="PingFangTC-Regular" style="font-size: 12px;">"呢度都就拆啦!做乜仲花錢裝修呀?"十三年前裝修師傅的一句話,記憶猶新。當年隨丈夫搬回老家,生活開始了新的一頁,就這樣跟大坑西新邨連繫起來。</span></span></p>
<p style="font-feature-settings: normal; font-kerning: auto; font-optical-sizing: auto; font-size-adjust: none; font-size: 12px; font-stretch: normal; font-style: normal; font-variant-alternates: normal; font-variant-caps: normal; font-variant-east-asian: normal; font-variant-ligatures: normal; font-variant-numeric: normal; font-variant-position: normal; font-variation-settings: normal; line-height: normal; margin: 0px; min-height: 13.6px;"><span style="font-family: georgia;"><br /></span></p>
<p style="font-feature-settings: normal; font-kerning: auto; font-optical-sizing: auto; font-size-adjust: none; font-size: 12px; font-stretch: normal; font-style: normal; font-variant-alternates: normal; font-variant-caps: normal; font-variant-east-asian: normal; font-variant-ligatures: normal; font-variant-numeric: normal; font-variant-position: normal; font-variation-settings: normal; line-height: normal; margin: 0px;"><span face="PingFangTC-Regular" style="font-family: georgia;">相比起邨內大部份原居民,即自光民村年代的一群(本邨歷史在網上有詳盡資料,在此不贅),我在這裏的年資算淺,十三年前所聽到的重建傳聞,其實再早於十多年前已困繞著邨民,只是有些懷著既來之則安之的心態如常生活下去,但也有終日憂心的一群,特別是長者。今天,這個日子終於來臨,也就是全邨民必須面對的時候;說真的,近日邨內原有那悠閒安逸的氣氛確實消失了!</span></p>
<p style="font-feature-settings: normal; font-kerning: auto; font-optical-sizing: auto; font-size-adjust: none; font-size: 12px; font-stretch: normal; font-style: normal; font-variant-alternates: normal; font-variant-caps: normal; font-variant-east-asian: normal; font-variant-ligatures: normal; font-variant-numeric: normal; font-variant-position: normal; font-variation-settings: normal; line-height: normal; margin: 0px; min-height: 13.6px;"><span style="font-family: georgia;"><br /></span></p>
<p style="font-feature-settings: normal; font-kerning: auto; font-optical-sizing: auto; font-size-adjust: none; font-size: 12px; font-stretch: normal; font-style: normal; font-variant-alternates: normal; font-variant-caps: normal; font-variant-east-asian: normal; font-variant-ligatures: normal; font-variant-numeric: normal; font-variant-position: normal; font-variation-settings: normal; line-height: normal; margin: 0px;"><span face="PingFangTC-Regular" style="font-family: georgia;">近日媒體或某某對本邨都有"詳盡/獨特"的見解或評論,不論他們是否邨民又或是長年服務本邨居民的單位,所以每逢看到這些報道,總覺得可笑。其實"抽水"也應該有"抽水的道義"罷!而當看到一些較為中肯及貼近實況的報導時,心中也會慶幸世上仍然有盡責的主筆,為此而感恩。</span></p>
<p style="font-feature-settings: normal; font-kerning: auto; font-optical-sizing: auto; font-size-adjust: none; font-size: 12px; font-stretch: normal; font-style: normal; font-variant-alternates: normal; font-variant-caps: normal; font-variant-east-asian: normal; font-variant-ligatures: normal; font-variant-numeric: normal; font-variant-position: normal; font-variation-settings: normal; line-height: normal; margin: 0px; min-height: 13.6px;"><span style="font-family: georgia;"><br /></span></p>
<p style="font-feature-settings: normal; font-kerning: auto; font-optical-sizing: auto; font-size-adjust: none; font-size: 12px; font-stretch: normal; font-style: normal; font-variant-alternates: normal; font-variant-caps: normal; font-variant-east-asian: normal; font-variant-ligatures: normal; font-variant-numeric: normal; font-variant-position: normal; font-variation-settings: normal; line-height: normal; margin: 0px;"><span style="font-family: georgia;"><span face="PingFangTC-Regular">或許是一般報導篇幅所限,又或許事件中有太多細節,如果不是生活在本邨的人,確實很難有較全面的掌握,所以很想用這篇網誌說出一些我的所見所聞,盼望盡量為各方面作一個較客觀的闡述。(盡力客觀啦!畢竟我也是邨中人</span><span>😅</span><span face="PingFangTC-Regular">,見諒!)</span></span></p>
<p style="font-feature-settings: normal; font-kerning: auto; font-optical-sizing: auto; font-size-adjust: none; font-size: 12px; font-stretch: normal; font-style: normal; font-variant-alternates: normal; font-variant-caps: normal; font-variant-east-asian: normal; font-variant-ligatures: normal; font-variant-numeric: normal; font-variant-position: normal; font-variation-settings: normal; line-height: normal; margin: 0px; min-height: 13.6px;"><span style="font-family: georgia;"><br /></span></p>
<p style="font-feature-settings: normal; font-kerning: auto; font-optical-sizing: auto; font-size-adjust: none; font-size: 12px; font-stretch: normal; font-style: normal; font-variant-alternates: normal; font-variant-caps: normal; font-variant-east-asian: normal; font-variant-ligatures: normal; font-variant-numeric: normal; font-variant-position: normal; font-variation-settings: normal; line-height: normal; margin: 0px;"><span style="font-family: georgia;"><span style="font-weight: bold;">(A</span><span face="PingFangTC-Semibold" style="font-weight: bold;">)一般理解</span><span face="PingFangTC-Regular">:大坑西新邨是老人邨。</span></span></p>
<p style="font-feature-settings: normal; font-kerning: auto; font-optical-sizing: auto; font-size-adjust: none; font-size: 12px; font-stretch: normal; font-style: normal; font-variant-alternates: normal; font-variant-caps: normal; font-variant-east-asian: normal; font-variant-ligatures: normal; font-variant-numeric: normal; font-variant-position: normal; font-variation-settings: normal; line-height: normal; margin: 0px;"><span style="font-family: georgia;"><span style="font-weight: bold;">(B) </span><span face="PingFangTC-Semibold" style="font-weight: bold;">我見到的卻是</span><span face="PingFangTC-Regular">:有老年、有中年、青年丶學生甚至嬰兒,這是世代的繁衍,新生代的出現,甚至第二代回流。</span></span></p>
<p style="font-feature-settings: normal; font-kerning: auto; font-optical-sizing: auto; font-size-adjust: none; font-size: 12px; font-stretch: normal; font-style: normal; font-variant-alternates: normal; font-variant-caps: normal; font-variant-east-asian: normal; font-variant-ligatures: normal; font-variant-numeric: normal; font-variant-position: normal; font-variation-settings: normal; line-height: normal; margin: 0px; min-height: 13.6px;"><span style="font-family: georgia;"><br /></span></p>
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<li style="font-feature-settings: normal; font-kerning: auto; font-optical-sizing: auto; font-size-adjust: none; font-size: 12px; font-stretch: normal; font-style: normal; font-variant-alternates: normal; font-variant-caps: normal; font-variant-east-asian: normal; font-variant-ligatures: normal; font-variant-numeric: normal; font-variant-position: normal; font-variation-settings: normal; line-height: normal; margin: 0px;"><span style="font-family: georgia;"><span></span><span face="PingFangTC-Regular">這裏殘破,不宜居。</span></span></li>
<li style="font-feature-settings: normal; font-kerning: auto; font-optical-sizing: auto; font-size-adjust: none; font-size: 12px; font-stretch: normal; font-style: normal; font-variant-alternates: normal; font-variant-caps: normal; font-variant-east-asian: normal; font-variant-ligatures: normal; font-variant-numeric: normal; font-variant-position: normal; font-variation-settings: normal; line-height: normal; margin: 0px;"><span style="font-family: georgia;"><span></span><span face="PingFangTC-Regular">由於總共有八幢,各於兩段不同時期落成,所以在樓齡而言部份確是殘舊,而平民屋宇有限公司只作最基本的維修(即通常是治標不治本對策),直至極其嚴重如公共供水系統長期失效影響食水及冲厠水供應,才不得不新建明喉而至終把問題解決了。</span></span></li>
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<p style="font-feature-settings: normal; font-kerning: auto; font-optical-sizing: auto; font-size-adjust: none; font-size: 12px; font-stretch: normal; font-style: normal; font-variant-alternates: normal; font-variant-caps: normal; font-variant-east-asian: normal; font-variant-ligatures: normal; font-variant-numeric: normal; font-variant-position: normal; font-variation-settings: normal; line-height: normal; margin: 0px;"><span face="PingFangTC-Regular" style="font-family: georgia;">至於其他公共設施,如外牆翻新(當然是選擇性做較易的部份,不過也算有做吧!)、更換走火門、保安巡邏、(無奈地)為邨民棄置大傢俬甚至裝修廢料、修葺公園大樹和維修,、每月洗地、維修走廊長期滴水喉管(須然仍然失敗)、修補地面⋯等。</span></p>
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<p style="font-feature-settings: normal; font-kerning: auto; font-optical-sizing: auto; font-size-adjust: none; font-size: 12px; font-stretch: normal; font-style: normal; font-variant-alternates: normal; font-variant-caps: normal; font-variant-east-asian: normal; font-variant-ligatures: normal; font-variant-numeric: normal; font-variant-position: normal; font-variation-settings: normal; line-height: normal; margin: 0px;"><span face="PingFangTC-Regular" style="font-family: georgia;">或許可以說他們做得不好、不夠好,甚至在較舊的幾幢成效更不堪入目,但我確實見到這些工作在進入重建程序前仍不斷進行。</span></p>
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<p style="font-feature-settings: normal; font-kerning: auto; font-optical-sizing: auto; font-size-adjust: none; font-size: 12px; font-stretch: normal; font-style: normal; font-variant-alternates: normal; font-variant-caps: normal; font-variant-east-asian: normal; font-variant-ligatures: normal; font-variant-numeric: normal; font-variant-position: normal; font-variation-settings: normal; line-height: normal; margin: 0px;"><span style="font-family: georgia;"><span face="PingFangTC-Regular">至於不宜居的室內,確實有,尤其沒有升降機,住在較舊及高層或年長居民,即使想維修也有難度。但也有部份非以上情況的邨民仍可以為自己搭建一個舒適的窩居,我是幸運的一個低層住戶,不得不說:即使是龜速</span><span>wi fi , </span><span face="PingFangTC-Regular">我的家仍然很宜居。</span></span></p>
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<li style="font-feature-settings: normal; font-kerning: auto; font-optical-sizing: auto; font-size-adjust: none; font-size: 12px; font-stretch: normal; font-style: normal; font-variant-alternates: normal; font-variant-caps: normal; font-variant-east-asian: normal; font-variant-ligatures: normal; font-variant-numeric: normal; font-variant-position: normal; font-variation-settings: normal; line-height: normal; margin: 0px;"><span style="font-family: georgia;"><span></span><span face="PingFangTC-Regular">大坑西邨居民沒有公屋資格。</span></span></li>
<li style="font-feature-settings: normal; font-kerning: auto; font-optical-sizing: auto; font-size-adjust: none; font-size: 12px; font-stretch: normal; font-style: normal; font-variant-alternates: normal; font-variant-caps: normal; font-variant-east-asian: normal; font-variant-ligatures: normal; font-variant-numeric: normal; font-variant-position: normal; font-variation-settings: normal; line-height: normal; margin: 0px;"><span style="font-family: georgia;"><span></span><span face="PingFangTC-Regular">說真的,以前我也以為是這樣,否則不會是全港現今唯一的廉租私樓。但原來部份原邨民確實有其公屋資格(詳情參大坑西新邨歷史),因此把"大坑西邨居民沒有公屋資格"硬套用在他們身上,確實不公。</span></span></li>
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<p style="font-feature-settings: normal; font-kerning: auto; font-optical-sizing: auto; font-size-adjust: none; font-size: 12px; font-stretch: normal; font-style: normal; font-variant-alternates: normal; font-variant-caps: normal; font-variant-east-asian: normal; font-variant-ligatures: normal; font-variant-numeric: normal; font-variant-position: normal; font-variation-settings: normal; line-height: normal; margin: 0px;"><span style="font-family: georgia;"><span face="PingFangTC-Regular">加上,很諷刺的是,重建原是為了改善民生讓邨民及更多香港居民有屋可住(</span><span>+</span><span face="PingFangTC-Regular">業主有錢賺),但到頭來,有特別歷史背景及需要的邨民連恩恤安置也落空,由一個不合適居所搬到另一個不合適居所。</span></span></p>
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<p style="font-feature-settings: normal; font-kerning: auto; font-optical-sizing: auto; font-size-adjust: none; font-size: 12px; font-stretch: normal; font-style: normal; font-variant-alternates: normal; font-variant-caps: normal; font-variant-east-asian: normal; font-variant-ligatures: normal; font-variant-numeric: normal; font-variant-position: normal; font-variation-settings: normal; line-height: normal; margin: 0px;"><span face="PingFangTC-Regular" style="font-family: georgia;">或許大家會覺得,有補貼又有新屋住,怎會是不合適呀?</span></p>
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<li style="font-feature-settings: normal; font-kerning: auto; font-optical-sizing: auto; font-size-adjust: none; font-size: 12px; font-stretch: normal; font-style: normal; font-variant-alternates: normal; font-variant-caps: normal; font-variant-east-asian: normal; font-variant-ligatures: normal; font-variant-numeric: normal; font-variant-position: normal; font-variation-settings: normal; line-height: normal; margin: 0px;"><span style="font-family: georgia;"><span></span><span face="PingFangTC-Regular">大坑西邨居民享受了廉租這麼久,現在重建有補貼又有新屋住,還要求多多!</span></span></li>
<li style="font-feature-settings: normal; font-kerning: auto; font-optical-sizing: auto; font-size-adjust: none; font-size: 12px; font-stretch: normal; font-style: normal; font-variant-alternates: normal; font-variant-caps: normal; font-variant-east-asian: normal; font-variant-ligatures: normal; font-variant-numeric: normal; font-variant-position: normal; font-variation-settings: normal; line-height: normal; margin: 0px;"><span style="font-family: georgia;"><span></span><span face="PingFangTC-Regular">邨民當中有不同背景,先撇除非原租戶和已經漸漸有經濟能力而不想住在此的舊邨民。原災民、長者(也曾經年輕過,為香港付出過的人)、經濟問題、不能與家人同住問題、精神情緒健康等須要獨處⋯等等的一班人,願意以日日行樓梯住在基本維修的舊樓來換取廉租和一個喘息空間;或許我們不應用"享受"這個字眼,因為我看見的這一切,邨民在背後是要付上代價的,更何況廉價與否,都是有交租,在商言商,租戶與業主,各取所需。邨民只需一片瓦,就這樣簡單。</span></span></li>
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<p style="font-feature-settings: normal; font-kerning: auto; font-optical-sizing: auto; font-size-adjust: none; font-size: 12px; font-stretch: normal; font-style: normal; font-variant-alternates: normal; font-variant-caps: normal; font-variant-east-asian: normal; font-variant-ligatures: normal; font-variant-numeric: normal; font-variant-position: normal; font-variation-settings: normal; line-height: normal; margin: 0px;"><span face="PingFangTC-Regular" style="font-family: georgia;">(抱歉如果眼裏只有金錢這個概念的讀者,可以不再讀下去,免浪費你的寶貴時間)</span></p>
<p style="font-feature-settings: normal; font-kerning: auto; font-optical-sizing: auto; font-size-adjust: none; font-size: 12px; font-stretch: normal; font-style: normal; font-variant-alternates: normal; font-variant-caps: normal; font-variant-east-asian: normal; font-variant-ligatures: normal; font-variant-numeric: normal; font-variant-position: normal; font-variation-settings: normal; line-height: normal; margin: 0px;"><span style="font-family: georgia;"><span face="PingFangTC-Regular">再進深一層而言,部份長者除了體力問題、沒有人租給他們、沒能力在餘生重新適應等,因而不願一搬再搬,為的只求心態上的安穩狀態/安全感</span><span>= </span><span face="PingFangTC-Regular">安享晚年!這又豈止是本邨居民的卑微要求嗎?所謂的不合適,怎能在"以人為本"這個概念下撇棄這方面的考慮呢?!</span></span></p>
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<li style="font-feature-settings: normal; font-kerning: auto; font-optical-sizing: auto; font-size-adjust: none; font-size: 12px; font-stretch: normal; font-style: normal; font-variant-alternates: normal; font-variant-caps: normal; font-variant-east-asian: normal; font-variant-ligatures: normal; font-variant-numeric: normal; font-variant-position: normal; font-variation-settings: normal; line-height: normal; margin: 0px;"><span style="font-family: georgia;"><span></span><span face="PingFangTC-Regular">業主回遷安排合情合理?!</span></span></li>
<li style="font-feature-settings: normal; font-kerning: auto; font-optical-sizing: auto; font-size-adjust: none; font-size: 12px; font-stretch: normal; font-style: normal; font-variant-alternates: normal; font-variant-caps: normal; font-variant-east-asian: normal; font-variant-ligatures: normal; font-variant-numeric: normal; font-variant-position: normal; font-variation-settings: normal; line-height: normal; margin: 0px;"><span style="font-family: georgia;"><span></span><span face="PingFangTC-Regular">業主與邨民在重建上的溝通,如果以</span><span>10 </span><span face="PingFangTC-Regular">分計算,我眼見的是</span><span>3</span><span face="PingFangTC-Regular">分,反而由部份邨民組成的關注組是有</span><span>9</span><span face="PingFangTC-Regular">分的主動牲。我必須認同,在私人市場上業主就是業主,某程度上可操租戶生死權,我們的業主絕對有此霸氣,但又並非完全"無得商量";至少十多年後,我終於見到他們和居民見面解說,會收取意見書,也會安排社工進註,亦會有上訴審批回遷資格的可能,姑勿論後續如何,所以這三分是他們應得的。</span></span></li>
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<p style="font-feature-settings: normal; font-kerning: auto; font-optical-sizing: auto; font-size-adjust: none; font-size: 12px; font-stretch: normal; font-style: normal; font-variant-alternates: normal; font-variant-caps: normal; font-variant-east-asian: normal; font-variant-ligatures: normal; font-variant-numeric: normal; font-variant-position: normal; font-variation-settings: normal; line-height: normal; margin: 0px;"><span style="font-family: georgia;"><span face="PingFangTC-Regular">但至於回遷安排是否合情合理?在業主和上文提到的某某來說,又或者已經急不及待投資在本邨新建房屋的人來說,回遷安排是</span><span>101%</span><span face="PingFangTC-Regular">合情合理,無可挑剔。</span></span></p>
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<p style="font-feature-settings: normal; font-kerning: auto; font-optical-sizing: auto; font-size-adjust: none; font-size: 12px; font-stretch: normal; font-style: normal; font-variant-alternates: normal; font-variant-caps: normal; font-variant-east-asian: normal; font-variant-ligatures: normal; font-variant-numeric: normal; font-variant-position: normal; font-variation-settings: normal; line-height: normal; margin: 0px;"><span face="PingFangTC-Regular" style="font-family: georgia;">在部份邨民來說,一天未清楚解釋及承諾邨民對現在和將來的憂慮,亦不安置好有特別需要邨民的話,這個回遷安排肯定未合格,也就是大家很難理解為何在滿有疑慮的狀態下,業主不能稍停下來。</span></p>
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<p style="font-feature-settings: normal; font-kerning: auto; font-optical-sizing: auto; font-size-adjust: none; font-size: 12px; font-stretch: normal; font-style: normal; font-variant-alternates: normal; font-variant-caps: normal; font-variant-east-asian: normal; font-variant-ligatures: normal; font-variant-numeric: normal; font-variant-position: normal; font-variation-settings: normal; line-height: normal; margin: 0px;"><span style="font-family: georgia;"><span face="PingFangTC-Regular">我呢?我會說,業主有超過</span><span>100 </span><span face="PingFangTC-Regular">個理由,無論是可以或不可以又或不想公開的原因,目的是要把握時間展開工作。邨民有多過</span><span>100 </span><span face="PingFangTC-Regular">個理由,相對是較坦蕩場地公開原由,不想阻礙重建但至少不要臨老流離失所。我只有一個意見,當業主不再視自己為"主",試試作為一個邨民,現今的回遷方案是可以有改變,變得更人性化,更好,變得更合情合理,最終能更順利地推展這個原是三嬴局面的重建項目。</span></span></p>
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<p style="font-feature-settings: normal; font-kerning: auto; font-optical-sizing: auto; font-size-adjust: none; font-size: 12px; font-stretch: normal; font-style: normal; font-variant-alternates: normal; font-variant-caps: normal; font-variant-east-asian: normal; font-variant-ligatures: normal; font-variant-numeric: normal; font-variant-position: normal; font-variation-settings: normal; line-height: normal; margin: 0px;"><span style="font-family: georgia;"><span face="PingFangTC-Regular">大坑西新邨是私營還是公營,我相信業主與政府自有定論,其實表面字眼上也不怎麼重要;當真正以</span><span face="PingFangTC-Semibold" style="font-weight: bold;">民</span><span face="PingFangTC-Regular">為本(請別忘記除了各大香港居民之外也</span><span face="PingFangTC-Semibold" style="font-weight: bold;">包括本邨邨民</span><span face="PingFangTC-Regular">)的時候,什麼合不合資格(又不是炒家富豪),恩恤與否(能夠寬容一點嗎?),申請程序規定(規程是死,人是活)云云⋯要解決,其實不難,何必互相折磨?</span></span></p><p style="font-feature-settings: normal; font-kerning: auto; font-optical-sizing: auto; font-size-adjust: none; font-size: 12px; font-stretch: normal; font-style: normal; font-variant-alternates: normal; font-variant-caps: normal; font-variant-east-asian: normal; font-variant-ligatures: normal; font-variant-numeric: normal; font-variant-position: normal; font-variation-settings: normal; line-height: normal; margin: 0px;"><span face="PingFangTC-Regular" style="font-family: georgia;"><br /></span></p>
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<p style="font-family: Georgia; font-feature-settings: normal; font-kerning: auto; font-optical-sizing: auto; font-size-adjust: none; font-size: 12px; font-stretch: normal; font-style: normal; font-variant-alternates: normal; font-variant-caps: normal; font-variant-east-asian: normal; font-variant-ligatures: normal; font-variant-numeric: normal; font-variant-position: normal; font-variation-settings: normal; line-height: normal; margin: 0px; min-height: 13.6px;"><br /></p>antleelihttp://www.blogger.com/profile/09421353461350662583noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-1217908668050771137.post-65972917058014798072023-04-28T16:27:00.001+08:002023-04-28T16:27:12.517+08:00曾經<div style="text-align: left;">曾經有段時間很喜歡用英文寫作,其中一個主要因素是我打中文字很慢又費勁,思緒總會在查速成碼時被打斷…很沒趣;直到後可以用Apple Pen (註:比較起用手寫板來得流暢),便多了在 iPad 上寫作,也就擺脫了這個"魔咒",多暢快!</div><div style="text-align: left;"><br /></div><div style="text-align: left;">曾經每個星期六,刻意坐到電腦面前寫網誌,因為覺得是鍛練、是責任(持續提供讀者"新鮮"文章)、是維持"有人睇"的不二之法;直到覺得為寫而寫,由初時的享受變成後來的負擔,所以便停下腳步,不再介意溜覽數字。現在,是想寫才寫,享受之餘,負擔消失得無影無蹤,多輕鬆!</div><div style="text-align: left;"><br /></div><div style="text-align: left;">曾經花很多時間在不同的網上平台學習運作,追趕當下流行的玩意,創作銷售也好、聯誼也好、數據分析也好;直到後來發覺這個無窮盡的虛擬世界,在運作上離不開一些特定的模式,而能否達到我想要的效果?視乎我是否容讓無盡時間的消耗,彷如黑洞在無限吞噬般,生命正一點一滴在流逝。終於,我把不必要的媒介刪除,凍結,就留下一些我仍享受在當中流漣的平台,正如這個 blog; 換來曾經失去了的時間來看一本書、為盆栽翻一翻泥、煮一壼咖啡…,多美好!</div><div style="text-align: left;"><br /></div><div style="text-align: left;">曾經…仍然會有很多個"曾經",令我學懂了一些又或者失去了一些,它們都是我經歷的一部分,愚蠢了還是聰明了都不打緊,重要的是不時檢視一下自己的生活模式,調節一下,不抗拒改變也不介意停留,就這樣留下來想多一遍吧!</div>antleelihttp://www.blogger.com/profile/09421353461350662583noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-1217908668050771137.post-41790338572433434232023-04-08T16:05:00.000+08:002023-04-08T16:05:17.092+08:00一點燭光<p></p><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: left;"><br /></div><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: left;"> 復活節的星期六,春天的氣息漸濃,光禿禿的樹梢早已長滿新綠,在濕潤的空氣裏卻總帶着幾分老是不願離去的冷意。此刻,某地某人繼續在暖暖的被窩內享受難得的假期,又或者早已遠飛海外瘋狂購物,好讓疫後身心來個大解放。也有基督徒為著紀念二千多年前,耶穌為人類受死、埋葬、復活,讓我們得與神和好這件事,跑到神樂院內踏上一趟苦路禁食默想的旅程...。</div><div><div class="separator" style="clear: both;"><br /></div><div class="separator" style="clear: both;">帶着宗教意義的節期,總能給予一個平平無奇的假期增添多一份色彩,身心得到休息之餘,腦袋也可以有個喘息空間,反思一些在平日繁忙中不曾梳理的思緒。</div></div><div class="separator" style="clear: both;"><br /></div><div class="separator" style="clear: both;"><div class="separator" style="clear: both; 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text-align: center;"><span style="text-align: left;">凝望著這一點微光,慢慢感覺到</span><span style="text-align: left;">熱力把附近濕冷的空氣稍微暖和,慘不忍睹的燭爉面慢慢溶化,回復平滑而比較透沏的液態爉,我想,我有信心今次它可以完成任務,就這樣,它繼續燃燒。</span></div><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;"><span style="text-align: left;"><br /></span></div><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: left;">常言道:"愛"能夠化解一切,恩怨也好、冷漠也好,或許世間上沒有大愛足以和耶穌為人類付上的可相比;但只要有一丁點,就如小小的火光慢慢地燃燒,時間也許會很漫長;被搞垮了的關係、被冷待了的人心,就算仍帶着絲絲瑕疵,卻始終會有被軟化的一天,昔日跌蘯的心靈終得以平伏⋯唯一,必需要的是甘願被燃點直至完全燃盡的一刻,任務才算完成。</div><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: left;"><br /></div><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: left;">倘若你以為個人的付出微不足道,就正如火點不夠大,觸碰不到掛在高處早已凝固的爉碎,卻殊不知在不知不覺間,熱力便傳到周邊,與被遺忘的重新連結。</div><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;"><span style="text-align: left;"><br /></span></div><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;"><span style="text-align: left;"><br /></span></div><div class="separator" style="clear: both; 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margin-right: 1em;"><img alt="高街前精神病院石壁" border="0" data-original-height="1366" data-original-width="1025" height="520" src="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEgEcMPRWZb5jVgWJwXCkmsCZftTOV0hShwM12RjTxSS1-5cEnp4FfhdxxOeReWVJeNlwwancsBQd49l0uzFySSCITBk83z21LUXIJqvPs8clGfyE5EQ8EhPe1IqqUW11aJkguBoIPQL_VI5Xs5iFx2Oi6R-EtVanDJaWmfmWW7AG-6Nv8JMg_OCiX8d/w390-h520/205D3012-AA33-469F-8304-FAFA3DE44063.jpeg" width="390" /></a></div><br /><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;"><br /></div><span style="font-family: georgia;">三月份的香港,難得仍然有種乾爽涼快的感覺,和朋友一起往港島慢行,細味香港過去的一些痕跡,始於西營盤,邊走邊看⋯行到高街。</span><p></p><div style="text-align: left;"><span style="font-family: georgia;">也許不用我多説,很多香港人也會對於這間曾在日治時期被用來作為刑場、對面則是亂葬岡(現今是佐治五世紀念公園)的麻瘋/精神病院十分熟悉;它的名聲來自式各樣的鬼故事,有的繪形繪聲,也有由傳説愈傳愈變"真"的種種 "鬼屋經歷"。 以往,自己每次路經此地的時候,多數是天陰陰、乍暖還寒,所以也只會在外圍走走;今天卻在清風送爽之下,和朋友一起入內探索(現今是一間開放的社區大樓)。</span></div><div style="text-align: left;"><span style="font-family: georgia;"><br /></span></div><div style="text-align: left;"><span style="font-family: georgia;">由於朋友是位護士小姐,我們的話題自然地一邊想像、一邊嘗試勾畫出昔日病房內的情景,每個空間(現只遺留下走廊及立面外牆)和病人與醫護的生活日常。初時我們在推拷迴廊上可會有鐵欄?每個百頁窗會否相等於一間病房的闊度?房間有多深?又或者其實是一個很大的室內,放置了幾十張病床,病人被布帶挷在床上,醫護穿梭於病床之間,彷如那些戰爭片的軍用醫院一般? 又或者是⋯</span></div><div style="text-align: left;"><span style="font-family: georgia;"><br /></span></div><div style="text-align: left;"><span style="font-family: georgia;">當我們再發現了在石欄上似乎有些鐵枝遺痕的時候,並在正門入口一個模糊的門牌上隱約見到病院原本建築的圖形;又或許,這條美麗的迴廊,其實是一條連於左右兩座呈90度病院建築物的一條通道</span><span style="font-family: georgia;">,由於非病人所到之處,所以只需在頭尾加鐵窗?</span></div><div style="text-align: left;"> </div><div style="text-align: left;"> </div><div style="text-align: left;"><a href="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEjI4DFPo35Q54CpJJElClES4zZowmo1pOv0MdOIMb7JSZTHDyvh1OtweDzvqFbCEwXFR906cSrgFWCYlNG7KP4916Ssa-gsQvhJxqifX3rFmI4V79zjFVGmviF0p8UMiTmuU0SJ75CuAjFP2BdlnnQfKnTVOoGtc05kHvnwhQ5Io-OHiNAKRuas6q0g/s1366/B06A0A5F-118A-407D-87CD-98509FF9709E.jpeg" style="margin-left: 1em; margin-right: 1em; text-align: center;"><img alt="高街精神病院迴廊" border="0" data-original-height="1366" data-original-width="1025" height="538" src="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEjI4DFPo35Q54CpJJElClES4zZowmo1pOv0MdOIMb7JSZTHDyvh1OtweDzvqFbCEwXFR906cSrgFWCYlNG7KP4916Ssa-gsQvhJxqifX3rFmI4V79zjFVGmviF0p8UMiTmuU0SJ75CuAjFP2BdlnnQfKnTVOoGtc05kHvnwhQ5Io-OHiNAKRuas6q0g/w404-h538/B06A0A5F-118A-407D-87CD-98509FF9709E.jpeg" width="404" /></a></div><div style="text-align: left;"><br /></div><div style="text-align: left;">這樣,即是説病人其實不會見到外街? 他們是過著一個怎樣的生活呢?是如何的一個世界?這些曾經瘋傳的鬼故事,除了可以嚇人和增加此處的神秘色彩之外,可有提醒我們在很久以前,這裏確實有一大群活生生的香港人生活過?或許當年他們是在不得已的情況之下被安放至此,但今天,可有人也在不知不覺之間,被我們放在心裏面另一間"瘋人院"而漸漸地,他/她也被遺忘!</div><div style="text-align: left;"><br /></div><div style="text-align: left;">P.S. 後記~由於心有不甘,仍然很想知道此處的原貌平面圖,偶爾被我找到這個Blog <a href="https://blog.ulifestyle.com.hk/article/benng9413/4099023/%E9%A6%99%E6%B8%AF%E9%83%BD%E5%B8%82%E5%82%B3%E8%AA%AA-%E9%AB%98%E8%A1%97%E9%AC%BC%E5%B1%8B%E8%88%87%E7%98%8B%E4%BA%BA%E9%99%A2" target="_blank">https://blog.ulifestyle.com.hk/article/benng9413</a>入面其中一張相片,下層迴廊原本是有鐵欄的。</div><p><br /></p>antleelihttp://www.blogger.com/profile/09421353461350662583noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-1217908668050771137.post-18022291050944115992023-02-22T12:31:00.003+08:002023-03-03T12:47:09.284+08:00真真假假<p>如果你是網誌達人,又或是很早已經有追蹤網誌這個習慣的讀者,相信你也會意識到現今在網絡世界上有各式各樣可以發表的平台,日新月異。而且當人類愈來愈喜歡用圖像或視訊來代替文字的傳遞時,很多寫作人也會轉向多圖少字的內容,以配合讀者的閲讀習慣。或許,正因為這個轉變,不少 blogger 也退下來,要不轉向 IG, YouTube…便索性停產,又或是由向外開放分享與讀者聯係的初衷改為純紀錄個人的生活片段。</p><p>而近日令不少文字人(當然還有其他行業類別的人)議論紛紛 ~ChatGPT 的出現, 彷彿連文字這個獨特的表達方式也將要被 AI "取代"似的,即使並非全部,但肯定是大部分;那麽,作家、編劇、雜誌編輯、寫網誌…的人,還須要投入多少原創性去完成作品呢? 會否日後在這裏發表的內容,其實也不外乎是AI 工具合成的產物?那麼,為何要看換個包裝的產物,而不直接和 ChatGPT 結聯?反正,資料要多完備便有多完備、圖像要多細緻便有多細緻、分析視野要多廣闊便有多廣闊…(如果此刻用ChatGPT,也省得寫這麼多個字;P)</p><p>奇怪的是當人們把藝術、思考、分析、組織的能力毫不在乎地假手AI 的同時,從而衍生分不出原創真偽的問題,於是又要再運用AI 去設計一個可以辨識真偽的功能(例如以分辨所提交的畢業論文內容)…我很想問一句"搞竟你知唔知自己想點?"</p><p>地球的這邊:"聰明人"努力邁向新世代,即使不自覺地越過了邊界,甚至試圖扮演上帝的角色…幸而在地球的那邊,仍然有人記得自己即使是被造物,卻擁有每個人的獨特性、原創性,是不可能也不應該被替代的。</p><p><br /></p><p><br /></p>antleelihttp://www.blogger.com/profile/09421353461350662583noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-1217908668050771137.post-54113960079171420392023-02-09T23:29:00.006+08:002023-02-09T23:35:25.689+08:00簡簡單單 Découpage <div style="text-align: left;"><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;"><a href="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEg_RDajQT5jtpG5U4DfhD69elaJeDoybG_KiZKkV3-OPZQhyg9gPQdaVtJD9KcQkFvnYRwFacX7e16RLGUurIoff_0ek8t9OOFqsCBLGDN6GV6QRfR3fdcgX-rhqkSFikVSiwX7nW78lGwfdakKO0dYxYvG_KivvNTQRRcrYqbz-tCgbi1of0a38jjS/s1600/EFF9011A-AD3D-4EE1-A279-3CCE5F3FE07A.jpeg" style="clear: left; float: left; margin-bottom: 1em; margin-right: 1em;"><img alt="Découpage key tag & decor" border="0" data-original-height="1600" data-original-width="1278" height="405" src="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEg_RDajQT5jtpG5U4DfhD69elaJeDoybG_KiZKkV3-OPZQhyg9gPQdaVtJD9KcQkFvnYRwFacX7e16RLGUurIoff_0ek8t9OOFqsCBLGDN6GV6QRfR3fdcgX-rhqkSFikVSiwX7nW78lGwfdakKO0dYxYvG_KivvNTQRRcrYqbz-tCgbi1of0a38jjS/w324-h405/EFF9011A-AD3D-4EE1-A279-3CCE5F3FE07A.jpeg" width="324" /></a></div><span style="font-family: georgia;">源於法國的"蝶古巴特 <i>Découpage" </i>並非什麼新玩意,但到今天才真真正正地試玩。</span></div><div style="text-align: left;"><span style="font-family: georgia;"><br /></span></div><div style="text-align: left;"><span style="font-family: georgia;">記得初初在香港出現的時候,立即成為一種當時新興的手工藝;市面上出現了很多售賣各式各樣圖案的紙巾櫃位。單單看那些入口餐巾的圖案,花鳥蟲魚,有古典或大自然風格;又或是詩意十足的字句圖案⋯本身已經美麗悅目,在創意的運用之下用來復修小傢具,或者製作禮盒裝飾,</span><span style="font-family: georgia;">實在是一種容易令人有滿足感的手工藝。</span></div><div style="text-align: left;"><span style="font-family: georgia;"><br /></span></div><div style="text-align: left;"><span style="font-family: georgia;">不過,如果要做到真真正正的工藝,也並非簡單拼貼、塗塗膠水、過過沙紙及上上保護油便了事。原來要達到一定的"溶合"程度,即使是刻意營造的立體效果,也必須要有一定的技巧和耐性才能成事;大前題是做到完成後不覺得那些圖案是貼上去而是有印上去的效果,當然構圖用色之美感及創意是不能缺少。當時在大大小小的興趣中心有入門、進階教授班,甚至完成課堂後可以取得證書云云。</span></div><div class="separator" style="clear: both; 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text-align: center;"><br /></div><div style="text-align: left;"><span style="font-family: georgia;">事實上,除了紙巾,其他物料也可以用作拼貼,布和紙類也可;市面上也有套裝連同所需的特別膠漿和工具等,方便大家玩過痛快。但我還是喜歡就地取材(其實是有太多未能盡用的物資),用了手上有的馬拉紙、砌模型餘下的飛機木、已經不再用得著的防火膠板樣辨,永遠用不完的 Illustration marker, 油筆。再用一支忘記了放了多久的木工白膠漿加水混合代替專用Mod Podge, 最後還有小朋友手工用的透明保護油,就這樣玩了一整天⋯樂透了。</span></div><div style="text-align: left;"><span style="font-family: georgia;"><br /></span></div><div style="text-align: left;"><span style="font-family: georgia;">或許,你也可以在臨近的情人節,手作一份小禮物送給摯愛,管它工藝不工藝,心思加情意不是較 99 枝玫瑰花更珍貴嗎?預祝大家情人節人人快樂😘</span></div><div style="text-align: left;"><span style="font-family: georgia;"><br /></span></div><div style="text-align: left;"><span style="font-family: georgia;"><br /></span> </div>antleelihttp://www.blogger.com/profile/09421353461350662583noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-1217908668050771137.post-39426024151024100092022-12-31T00:00:00.001+08:002022-12-31T00:00:00.198+08:00Unveil the art<p> </p><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;"><a href="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEiRjrTs2AlE483WymknZZ-9uwTiQ_MFbJGM3bMD8bJJnYYEe4R9o9yn3UNqECHrRqraAeqC2o3PCy-FHQCprXQXtxUOf9UM6BBKh67MNnPUfTRPl5wKgZBMtBA9KqEABKj_5pLzdbrk69qB72M3f5hNQjAi06yp6GuN8fBZTtYfGhhng980usiOFiSsbA/s800/D11_42mxs2.jpg" style="margin-left: 1em; margin-right: 1em;"><img border="0" data-original-height="800" data-original-width="800" height="400" src="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEiRjrTs2AlE483WymknZZ-9uwTiQ_MFbJGM3bMD8bJJnYYEe4R9o9yn3UNqECHrRqraAeqC2o3PCy-FHQCprXQXtxUOf9UM6BBKh67MNnPUfTRPl5wKgZBMtBA9KqEABKj_5pLzdbrk69qB72M3f5hNQjAi06yp6GuN8fBZTtYfGhhng980usiOFiSsbA/w400-h400/D11_42mxs2.jpg" width="400" /></a></div><br /><p></p><div><span style="font-family: 'Goudy Bookletter 1911'; font-size: medium;">Hi, hi,</span></div><div><span style="font-family: 'Goudy Bookletter 1911'; font-size: medium;"><br /></span></div><div><span style="font-family: 'Goudy Bookletter 1911'; font-size: medium;">There is no way for me to skip writing this post because I really want to show you what exactly I saw...introduced by Li...created by an fabulous artist...a beautiful art piece in the window shop that was mentioned in <a href="https://google.prf.hn/click/camref:1011lk28W/destination:https:/play.google.com/store/books/details/Oiseau_Distrait_Au_Revoir?id=vbOYEAAAQBAJ" rel="nofollow" target="_blank">Au Revoir</a> on my last night in Paris. </span></div><div><span style="font-family: 'Goudy Bookletter 1911'; font-size: medium;"><br /></span></div><div><span style="font-family: 'Goudy Bookletter 1911'; font-size: medium;">Yes, they are real, they are for sale, they were in the arrangement of a hemisphere, the one Li said that she has to stopping by every time. I am totally agree that they are truly stunning when I saw them that night, the overall size is within one meter, hanging right above eye level of the passenger but you will never miss them. </span></div><div><span style="font-family: 'Goudy Bookletter 1911'; font-size: medium;"><br /></span></div><div><span style="font-family: 'Goudy Bookletter 1911'; font-size: medium;">There are some others in different colorways, smaller but cool ! I do wish to tell you where they can be found, but sorry again...I forget, because it's not the matter of where it were, if you love it, it will always in your heart, <i>au revoir :)</i></span></div>oiseau distraithttp://www.blogger.com/profile/11366175430480169191noreply@blogger.comParis, France48.856614 2.352221920.546380163821155 -32.8040281 77.166847836178846 37.5084719tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-1217908668050771137.post-44231247584555889222022-12-30T00:00:00.005+08:002022-12-30T00:00:00.204+08:00Au Revoir, Petit Paris<p><span style="font-family: 'Goudy Bookletter 1911';"></span></p><table cellpadding="0" cellspacing="0" class="tr-caption-container" style="float: right; font-size: large; margin-left: 1em; text-align: right;"><tbody><tr><td style="text-align: center;"><a href="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEg2JCPz4MQGAdwwvu5rSyp79AVJbA6Cx_bE_gTEgLXykVeB44W1KsCOB5fOafG_R2e4uBRUOyKAx85cErv2ZLAfnihdd6-4ly5ISaXTKVhZpCy2aQGVt0iWRzpt3Ro3_iYLD7lp6yf0_YaassPpeahLSrHC22KZyBCQscxk2pmqsyMwomRD3PqAyH_XmA/s800/Au%20Revoir_frontcover%20s2.jpg" style="clear: left; margin-bottom: 1em; margin-left: auto; margin-right: auto;"><img alt="Au Revoir book cover" border="0" data-original-height="800" data-original-width="601" height="400" src="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEg2JCPz4MQGAdwwvu5rSyp79AVJbA6Cx_bE_gTEgLXykVeB44W1KsCOB5fOafG_R2e4uBRUOyKAx85cErv2ZLAfnihdd6-4ly5ISaXTKVhZpCy2aQGVt0iWRzpt3Ro3_iYLD7lp6yf0_YaassPpeahLSrHC22KZyBCQscxk2pmqsyMwomRD3PqAyH_XmA/w300-h400/Au%20Revoir_frontcover%20s2.jpg" title="Au Revoir, Petit Paris" width="300" /></a></td></tr><tr><td class="tr-caption" style="text-align: center;"><i><span style="font-size: x-small;">click to enlarge</span></i></td></tr></tbody></table><span style="font-family: 'Goudy Bookletter 1911';"><br /></span><span style="font-family: "Goudy Bookletter 1911"; font-size: medium;">It will be hard to write this post I’m sure, the last post to end my series of Petit Paris ~ the first poetic travelogues that I’ve never had & the first e-book series that I’ve ever published. Three years are neither short nor long, long enough to write a book but too short for a forgetful bird to become an author, it’s only the beginning… I hope. </span><p></p><div><span style="font-family: 'Goudy Bookletter 1911'; font-size: medium;"><br />When this project was started three years ago, as I’ve mentioned in <<a href="https://google.prf.hn/click/camref:1011lk28W/destination:https:/play.google.com/store/books/details/Oiseau_Distrait_Au_Revoir?id=vbOYEAAAQBAJ" rel="nofollow" target="_blank">Au Revoir</a>>, time flies like a spark, when it has to end the journey which seems has begun not long before, I am a bit of emotionally un-detachable, at least, still at this moment.</span></div><div><span style="font-family: 'Goudy Bookletter 1911'; font-size: medium;"><br />Solo trip is always a valuable experience to whom you are, what you have or haven’t. You have to face everything on your own, surprisingly amazing moments or unexpected horror, imaginary or real. </span></div><div><span style="font-family: 'Goudy Bookletter 1911'; font-size: medium;"><br />You are the master of your time, a totally stranger on earth there ; you can mute in most of the time, just see and feel, think & rethink…or, you can seek, a new friendship that might start, to be an immigrant for a week, to act like a local for an hour.</span></div><div><span style="font-family: 'Goudy Bookletter 1911'; font-size: medium;"><br />You can capture all the moments by your phone (camera) or simply to remember the unique memory…just for you, yourself on that date, at that time…happy or sad.</span></div><div><span style="font-family: 'Goudy Bookletter 1911'; font-size: medium;"><br />You can try anything new, participate in an adventure that you’ve never did before or, have an apple in hand, just enjoy under the sun & relax. </span></div><div><span style="font-family: 'Goudy Bookletter 1911'; font-size: medium;"><br />You can follow the norm to all the hot spots or you can walk in your own way, your own destination in your own pace. </span></div><div><span style="font-family: 'Goudy Bookletter 1911'; font-size: medium;"><br />You can…<br />…Yes, I can find another angle to see the world, to discover more instead of following the norm; something I might mis-understood when it was presented without the truth in depth. I can listen the voices behind that might fainted for over a while…it’s not barely a vacation but also a chapter of my life started from October 2019 and keep on transforming in December 2022. <br /><br />The last book in this series is a wrap up of what I met during the trip, and because of it is the last one, it urge me to take the last chance of sharing of what were or might be overlooked, but really meant something in this series. </span></div><div><span style="font-family: 'Goudy Bookletter 1911'; font-size: medium;"><br />Actually I took almost 1000 photos, for all the selected photos, they should cover what I discovered in the whole journey; I do wish you can feel travelling with me while reading. </span></div><div><span style="font-family: 'Goudy Bookletter 1911'; font-size: medium;"><br />“A book has to be edited prior to publish.” I think this is the norm or general rule that I do agree but will leave it for this very first time. The free prose lead my thought to and fro from one moment to another, but raw and real time that I really want to attach, sorry for the free-flow' if it makes you feel lost sometimes :P </span></div><div><span style="font-family: 'Goudy Bookletter 1911'; font-size: medium;"><br />I am a real forgetful bird, it’s hard for me to remember the name of people I’ve met, especially for those I didn’t even ask. But, seriously, I do remember their faces, their tone of expression when we communicated; I still remember right at this moment…almost three whole years, so memorable. </span></div><div><span style="font-family: 'Goudy Bookletter 1911'; font-size: medium;"><br />Color & aroma, are the ever lasting sense for human beings, whenever I close my eyes, fly back to Paris, they are there, still there…all the same…!</span></div><div><span style="font-family: 'Goudy Bookletter 1911'; font-size: medium;"><br />I know I have to end right now, the post and the obsession to this journey. I am moving on for a new novel, in another language...may be; I don’t know when can this be completed? Hopefully not too long and is for sure not too soon, by that time, I wish you are still here to be my companion , <i>Merci beaucoup et Au revoir !</i></span></div><div><br /></div>oiseau distraithttp://www.blogger.com/profile/11366175430480169191noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-1217908668050771137.post-75360852859007115372022-12-26T11:25:00.001+08:002022-12-26T11:25:26.943+08:00Christmas is…<p></p><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;"><iframe allowfullscreen='allowfullscreen' webkitallowfullscreen='webkitallowfullscreen' mozallowfullscreen='mozallowfullscreen' width='417' height='347' src='https://www.blogger.com/video.g?token=AD6v5dyf-NngbvADmPUIkFww79hN8Fcdpfnolo7A-0XBjoaWpNNRUgc_Lr3zwJ9UBisKtji4NvW-bkpD43hmvnOlHA' class='b-hbp-video b-uploaded' frameborder='0'></iframe></div><br /> <p></p>oiseau distraithttp://www.blogger.com/profile/11366175430480169191noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-1217908668050771137.post-69969251110512361492022-12-23T16:23:00.000+08:002022-12-23T16:23:01.175+08:00Some year end review<div style="text-align: left;"><span style="font-family: georgia;"> A few more days to go will end the year of 2022, usually it’s the best moment for us to review everything, including the content of this blog. </span></div><div style="text-align: left;"><span style="font-family: georgia;"><br /></span></div><div style="text-align: left;"><span style="font-family: georgia;">We always wish we could concentrate into a specific genre of blog posts, so readers can search the content more easily and the reading experience of this blog can be more unique & consistent, but unfortunately it‘s not the way we were. In reality, not all things are related to design : beautiful, attractive, creative, impressive…lots & lots of “pebble & stones” could ruin the scene (hopefully not :P).</span></div><div style="text-align: left;"><span style="font-family: georgia;"><br /></span></div><div style="text-align: left;"><span style="font-family: georgia;">Sometimes we did want to end this blog and start all over again but when we reconsider deeply, after years of building a whole new blog, the result may still be the same, because this is us, the life of Cocoa, the implication of design, life of sweet & sour…as we shall say, what a complex but on the other hand fruitful. </span></div><div style="text-align: left;"><span style="font-family: georgia;"><br /></span></div><div style="text-align: left;"><span style="font-family: georgia;">By trial & error, this is the 14 years since the first post was published in <i>Coffeebreak</i>, our former name…time flies. It seems we have to be truthful of what’s going on, but we are thinking of removing “Cocoa Fabric Store” “Cocoa Grocery” and “Bird Talk” ~ another way to simplify our “complicated life”, what do you think?</span></div><div style="text-align: left;"><span style="font-family: georgia;"><br /></span></div><div style="text-align: left;"><br /></div>antleelihttp://www.blogger.com/profile/09421353461350662583noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-1217908668050771137.post-68935617397820340962022-12-14T15:56:00.000+08:002022-12-14T15:56:47.815+08:00自由、平等、博愛~ Liberté , Égalité, Fraternité <p></p><div style="text-align: left;"><br /></div><div style="text-align: left;"><br /></div><table align="center" cellpadding="0" cellspacing="0" class="tr-caption-container" style="margin-left: auto; margin-right: auto;"><tbody><tr><td style="text-align: center;"><a href="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEi_UREdLy7AuMjiEF_X3Mg0d5DpiZjaw6UuSd4dL7VZB_JL-atjdtM7ILD79q6UpmnQxRBMKgYxgxPhqbXQnKBv_CSxx-zIE2vkLrNTeJlYkRRkcXYNFX_iNaBPyvYlamxwiWzTTLmdejrsUc4c2Y9C8dClHachGUaybI5p4k2K0Om-25qdjU-CcKSV/s1200/liberte%CC%81_french.png" style="margin-left: auto; margin-right: auto;"><img alt="Giggle girl fly to cut & release balloons" border="0" data-original-height="1200" data-original-width="1200" height="398" src="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEi_UREdLy7AuMjiEF_X3Mg0d5DpiZjaw6UuSd4dL7VZB_JL-atjdtM7ILD79q6UpmnQxRBMKgYxgxPhqbXQnKBv_CSxx-zIE2vkLrNTeJlYkRRkcXYNFX_iNaBPyvYlamxwiWzTTLmdejrsUc4c2Y9C8dClHachGUaybI5p4k2K0Om-25qdjU-CcKSV/w398-h398/liberte%CC%81_french.png" title="Liberté ~ Giggle Girl World Series by Oiseau Distrait" width="398" /></a></td></tr><tr><td class="tr-caption" style="text-align: center;"><br /></td></tr></tbody></table><div style="text-align: left;"><br /></div><div style="text-align: left;"><span style="font-family: georgia;">最近忙著各樣大小事情,花在網誌的時間也相對減少;並非沒有想記下的事,只是太多也太雜亂。戰亂的瘋狂、</span><span style="font-family: georgia;">國家主權無限的宣示</span><span style="font-family: georgia;">、核武的氣燄</span><span style="font-family: georgia;">、移民/難民的浪潮、</span><span style="font-family: georgia;">氣候的危機、疫情的無奈、地球/太空資源的爭奪…;要説的還可以有更多,都是你我熟悉而非新鮮之事,也是全球在同步發生中,不管你是什麼1,2,3⋯世界。</span></div><div style="text-align: left;"><span style="font-family: georgia;"><br /></span></div><div style="text-align: left;"><span style="font-family: georgia;"><i>Liberté ~ </i>自由。是每個人都擁有的基本權利,如果各自運用得宜,天下太平;要是滲入了自私和霸氣,就在不知不覺間搶奪了他人的一份去成就自己的所謂自由。並非只有掌權的人才有機會妄用自由而誤置人民生死,即使是無權無勢的平民如我,也有可能在高唱“自由之歌”的同時影響到其他人,每當我想到這裏,心中不禁亮起紅燈。但為什麼原本是美善的質素卻可以變得“邪惡”呢?</span></div><div style="text-align: left;"><span style="font-family: georgia;"><br /></span></div><div style="text-align: left;"><span style="font-family: georgia;">我想了又想,可以這樣說嗎?原本擁有的自由在不會無故失效的情況之下,我可以適量及自在地享用;但一旦受到衝擊,特別是不平等的衝擊,隨之而來的反應便會很強烈,甚至為了“捍衛”有可能失去的而極力反抗,去到一個連自己過了火的地步也不自覺,腦海中只剩得‘我要...這是我的自由!其他的…我不管了!’</span></div><div style="text-align: left;"><span style="font-family: georgia;"><br /></span></div><div style="text-align: left;"><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;"><a href="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEh5Rd5lAecAGe1yq9Ezj6Pm7ljQ2oHHB5JYV6PjDw36ThxZMKG0LRH_sKkwl0CXYiDvkbkU56aK9iBaqeXoGXr7wiE2lYq_B4knd9XApVvZKwvxrVNE0Ifij4S55G6l4xXW3uTNu78JXxYpc2CLDQim4bdaqKREwOPF7p5jYu6ufpeR8JIZsdTUQl8J/s1200/e%CC%81galite%CC%81%20_french.png" style="margin-left: 1em; margin-right: 1em;"><img alt="Giggle girl with giant monster" border="0" data-original-height="1200" data-original-width="1200" height="397" src="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEh5Rd5lAecAGe1yq9Ezj6Pm7ljQ2oHHB5JYV6PjDw36ThxZMKG0LRH_sKkwl0CXYiDvkbkU56aK9iBaqeXoGXr7wiE2lYq_B4knd9XApVvZKwvxrVNE0Ifij4S55G6l4xXW3uTNu78JXxYpc2CLDQim4bdaqKREwOPF7p5jYu6ufpeR8JIZsdTUQl8J/w397-h397/e%CC%81galite%CC%81%20_french.png" title="Égalité ~ Giggle girl series by oiseau distrait" width="397" /></a></div><br /><span style="font-family: georgia;"><br /></span></div><span style="font-family: georgia;"><i>Égalité</i></span> ~ 平等。或許這就是自由與平等必須共存的其中之一個原因吧!要是世界上所有資源,包括機會也是較為平均分配的,只要每人再為自己的未來努力一點點,便可以安然居住,活在穩定及充足供應之下。但同樣地,要是有人被慾望和貪念所遮蓋,貧富懸殊隨即出現,因為有的想要更多,比基本需要的再多,即使佔據了其他人可得到的一份也在所不計,因為無止境的慾望得不到滿足~這,又何嘗不包含在我們想擁有的“自由”而言呢?!平等:讓每個人也可以有機會活下去、被尊重、被等同,享有生存的自由!<div><br /></div><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;"><a href="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEgefU3AMftt4tlouq4QqO0Xh9Vw3EVkdKt45KwMB9OnNOiorIcpI4Ka1A_hpdTrYDoA02vvRvyKFIQK5lzQcOleSxlm-ozIjB1FDNRjcvT2fyEZTkmdi0-GH5WskdCqMk3ByHPB4GxG9HvNarjd4TGQDJGr5olHMsHn7_bcBSqFFr2PJKV9S-hA-yBw/s1200/fraternite%CC%81_french.png" imageanchor="1" style="margin-left: 1em; margin-right: 1em;"><img alt="Giggle girl with cats" border="0" data-original-height="1200" data-original-width="1200" height="405" src="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEgefU3AMftt4tlouq4QqO0Xh9Vw3EVkdKt45KwMB9OnNOiorIcpI4Ka1A_hpdTrYDoA02vvRvyKFIQK5lzQcOleSxlm-ozIjB1FDNRjcvT2fyEZTkmdi0-GH5WskdCqMk3ByHPB4GxG9HvNarjd4TGQDJGr5olHMsHn7_bcBSqFFr2PJKV9S-hA-yBw/w405-h405/fraternite%CC%81_french.png" title="Fraternité - Giggle Girl World Series by oiseau distrait" width="405" /></a></div><br /><div><div><br /></div><div><span style="font-family: georgia;"><i>Fraternité ~ </i>博愛。要是能考慮到其他人,甘願放棄擁有更多,甚至保留比應有的更小,我想,沒可能沒有愛的成份在內。人性大多為自己的一生籌算,包括家人,特別是摯親;但除了在這個圈圈之內,會為著不認識甚至是本土以外的人,在各式各樣的事情上付上心神的…大有人在,也許就在你我的身邊。地球上有很多事情令人憤怒、無奈與歎息,唯有愛能化解一切,把不平衡和失去的挽回。在神人之間如是,在人與人之間也如是。自由、平等、博愛並非不可實現的空談,要是我們每一個肯付出一點點或更多,地球還是有希望的。</span></div></div><div><span style="font-family: georgia;"><br /></span></div>antleelihttp://www.blogger.com/profile/09421353461350662583noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-1217908668050771137.post-77966475977624901342022-10-22T14:36:00.245+08:002022-10-29T21:35:18.868+08:00Drawing Giggle Girl <p></p><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;"><iframe allowfullscreen='allowfullscreen' webkitallowfullscreen='webkitallowfullscreen' mozallowfullscreen='mozallowfullscreen' width='320' height='266' src='https://www.blogger.com/video.g?token=AD6v5dx60RC5-v5AopE9NyfTkcCzKQ9WkJ8Gn6E3NXivoJU3VLd6UM0DEi9u7HL9yymEkT0TThaarDYxjNJG4pjA5g' class='b-hbp-video b-uploaded' frameborder='0'></iframe></div><span style="font-size: medium;"><br /><span style="font-family: 'Goudy Bookletter 1911';">Hi. Hi,</span></span><p></p><div><span style="font-family: 'Goudy Bookletter 1911'; font-size: medium;">I love drawing, painting, illustrating, sketching…whatever you call, it’s always a pleasure to escape the reality for a while and creating anything possible. Sometimes, I doubt whether anyone, especially for those who are talented or well trained in painting as an artist has the struggle using digital apps/ software to draw. I am neither talented nor an artist, I just love to draw but recently, I do have some thoughts about it.</span></div><div><span style="font-family: 'Goudy Bookletter 1911'; font-size: medium;"><br /></span></div><div><span style="font-family: 'Goudy Bookletter 1911'; font-size: medium;">The fact is, both techniques require a learning path and lots of practices which consume time, a lot of time…, for sure if you are serious enough. Although some basic theories may be the same, such as use of colour, layout, lighting, texture (brush stroke)…, etc; and most of the drawing apps can imitate all of these smooth and nicely; there are differences still, in my experience, when I hold a real paint brush vs an apple pen in hand, the control are so different as some of you may aware, too. </span></div><div><span style="font-family: 'Goudy Bookletter 1911'; font-size: medium;"><br /></span></div><div><span style="font-family: 'Goudy Bookletter 1911'; font-size: medium;">Recently, I did try to use Fresco + iMovie to play with a “giggle girl series” , it’s easy to learn with fun; but I want more after all , then I may have to jump into GarageBand, Final Cut, Premiere, Lightroom….a never ending list in the digital world that could bring more satisfaction to my painting with motion in bonus. Then, how about my watercolour hand drawings ? I am lacking of the third & fourth hand…. :(</span></div><div><span style="font-family: 'Goudy Bookletter 1911'; font-size: medium;"><br /></span></div><div><span style="font-family: 'Goudy Bookletter 1911'; font-size: medium;">Digital drawing allows me to redraw and redraw until satisfy, whereas hand drawing is one off (mostly except oil painting may be a bit more flexible) but this is the exact challenge and goal for me to achieve, which also directly related to the effort of hard work that I’ve paid; a greater joy of satisfaction that I would assume if I draw a good piece one day.</span></div><div><span style="font-family: 'Goudy Bookletter 1911'; font-size: medium;"><br /></span></div><div><span style="font-family: 'Goudy Bookletter 1911'; font-size: medium;">So, what to do? I have my answer in my mind when I come to the end of this post, but let’s have fun with giggle girl for a minute, why not?</span></div><div><span style="font-family: 'Goudy Bookletter 1911'; font-size: medium;"><br /></span></div><div><span style="font-family: 'Goudy Bookletter 1911'; font-size: medium;">Remember to turn on the speaker, one more for you, enjoy!</span></div><div><span style="font-family: 'Goudy Bookletter 1911';"><br /></span></div><div><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;"><iframe allowfullscreen='allowfullscreen' webkitallowfullscreen='webkitallowfullscreen' mozallowfullscreen='mozallowfullscreen' width='320' height='266' src='https://www.blogger.com/video.g?token=AD6v5dz9j-1-dItvq7XrTtV5fp80lXKgCGFnY6hs4Frvvuk6dtWRF_iE39K7Lc9P9EmSWsJO-tYTVCDwBAnt5yf4yA' class='b-hbp-video b-uploaded' frameborder='0'></iframe></div><br /><span style="font-family: 'Goudy Bookletter 1911';"><br /></span></div><div><span style="font-family: 'Goudy Bookletter 1911';"><br /></span></div><div><span style="font-family: 'Goudy Bookletter 1911';"><br /></span></div>oiseau distraithttp://www.blogger.com/profile/11366175430480169191noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-1217908668050771137.post-67792456031940747992022-10-14T15:43:00.004+08:002022-10-15T11:27:36.451+08:00Forgotten Chap 02<p></p><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;"><br /></div><p></p><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;"><a href="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEg-ZKQaZSeQKEeCatzXMp-cYftMS3lwbTfN0-cwjlGTrlrtoWxnfeqD_ZTDJjZKgUhIuabx6gYO_ZdXEUYxIAQMCQSPObcJYxHbcHg-aEtDsV3FPnIfaQV5N6ZOOk5HLC7xJSita_bZY7aI-IeiWnxRO935q6MgnsihO5-mDr0hBxudrmYLWvZdHIdb3A/s2100/old%20chap%2002a.jpg" style="clear: left; float: left; margin-bottom: 1em; margin-right: 1em;"><img alt="Buildings in shadow highlight" border="0" data-original-height="1500" data-original-width="2100" height="350" src="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEg-ZKQaZSeQKEeCatzXMp-cYftMS3lwbTfN0-cwjlGTrlrtoWxnfeqD_ZTDJjZKgUhIuabx6gYO_ZdXEUYxIAQMCQSPObcJYxHbcHg-aEtDsV3FPnIfaQV5N6ZOOk5HLC7xJSita_bZY7aI-IeiWnxRO935q6MgnsihO5-mDr0hBxudrmYLWvZdHIdb3A/w491-h350/old%20chap%2002a.jpg" title="Forgotten Chap 02" width="491" /></a></div><br /><div><br /></div><div><br /></div><div><br /></div><div><br /></div><div><br /></div><div><br /></div><div><br /></div><div><br /></div><div><br /></div><div><br /></div><div><br /></div><div><br /></div><div><br /></div><div><br /></div><div><br /></div><div><br /></div><div><br /></div><div><span style="font-family: georgia; font-size: large;"><br /></span></div><div><span style="font-family: georgia; font-size: large;"><br /></span></div><div><span style="font-family: georgia;">Come, dramatically </span></div><div><span style="font-family: georgia;">without a sign </span></div><div><span style="font-family: georgia;">rejoicing…before thee</span></div><p style="text-align: left;"><span style="font-family: georgia;">Vanish, instantly <br /></span><span style="font-family: georgia;">not for another second <br /></span><span style="font-family: georgia;"><span>mourning…in front of me</span></span><br /></p><div style="text-align: left;"><span style="font-family: times;"> </span></div><div style="text-align: left;"><span style="font-family: times;"><br /></span></div><div style="text-align: left;"><span style="font-family: times;"><br /></span></div><div style="text-align: left;"><span style="font-family: times;"><br /></span></div><div><i style="color: #3d85c6; font-family: times;"><span style="font-size: x-small;">Oiseau Distrait </span></i></div><div><i style="color: #3d85c6; font-family: times;"><span style="font-size: x-small;">Autumn 2022 Hong Kong</span></i></div><p style="text-align: left;"><br /><span style="font-family: times;"><br /></span><span style="font-family: times;"><br /></span><span style="font-family: times;"><br /></span></p><div><br /></div>oiseau distraithttp://www.blogger.com/profile/11366175430480169191noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-1217908668050771137.post-39191674205732652052022-09-15T15:53:00.000+08:002022-09-15T15:53:03.506+08:00一年、一年又一年<p><span style="font-family: PingFangTC-Regular; font-size: 12px;">三年,就這樣進入最後的一季。疫情彷彿騎劫了一切,我們是被動中的無奈,又或是可以把握到意外的停頓,一刻鐘、一天、一個月,甚至三年?因為停頓,把這些時間儲存下來,一分一秒,一共有多少?</span></p>
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<p style="font-family: "PingFang TC"; font-size: 12px; font-stretch: normal; line-height: normal; margin: 0px;"><span style="font-family: PingFangTC-Regular;">要是計算一下,可能足夠你讀一本長篇小說、學會煮十個新菜式、完成一個語文初班、織一件毛衣;又或者調理好忙壞了的身體、重新思考信仰與生命、修補破損了的關係,⋯!</span></p>
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<p style="font-family: "PingFang TC"; font-size: 12px; font-stretch: normal; line-height: normal; margin: 0px;"><span style="font-family: PingFangTC-Regular;">時間天天在流逝,一秒過去了就永遠不能尋回。我很害怕與長嗟短嘆的人相處,他們每歎一口氣,寶貴的一秒就這樣消失了,我想幫忙捉也捉不住</span><span style="font-family: Georgia;">…</span><span style="font-family: PingFangTC-Regular;">是我沒有同情心嗎?又或是這個歎息狀態實在太長了,年復一年,流失了的時間也許本來可以把現況改善一點點?!</span></p>
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<p style="font-family: "PingFang TC"; font-size: 12px; font-stretch: normal; line-height: normal; margin: 0px;"><span style="font-family: PingFangTC-Regular;">人生總有脆弱的時間,尤其外在因素不能受控的情況之下;但人心郤可以是剛強的,接受了不能受控的景況,在緊有的空間之內一點一滴地重新開始,即使是斷斷續續,要是堅持下去,數年過後,一個(即使是)迷你的成果就在你能夠把握的分秒之內漸漸形成,難道不是一件值得高興的事嗎?</span></p>
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<p style="font-family: "PingFang TC"; font-size: 12px; font-stretch: normal; line-height: normal; margin: 0px;"><span style="font-family: PingFangTC-Regular;">生命的成果無分大小,只要由這一刻可始,如果我有一分鐘的時間被迫停頓,不能做什麼大事,我就</span><span style="font-family: Georgia;">...</span></p>
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<p style="font-family: "PingFang TC"; font-size: 12px; font-stretch: normal; line-height: normal; margin: 0px;"><span style="font-family: PingFangTC-Regular;">~唱半首勵志歌,成為我在下一分鐘的動力!</span></p>
<p style="font-family: "PingFang TC"; font-size: 12px; font-stretch: normal; line-height: normal; margin: 0px;"><span style="font-family: PingFangTC-Regular;">或者~做三下掌上壓,消消肥脂;</span></p>
<p style="font-family: "PingFang TC"; font-size: 12px; font-stretch: normal; line-height: normal; margin: 0px;"><span style="font-family: PingFangTC-Regular;">或者~發出一個短訊,向一位朋友問安;</span></p>
<p style="font-family: "PingFang TC"; font-size: 12px; font-stretch: normal; line-height: normal; margin: 0px;"><span style="font-family: PingFangTC-Regular;">或者~讀一篇文章,學一個生字。</span></p>
<p style="font-family: "PingFang TC"; font-size: 12px; font-stretch: normal; line-height: normal; margin: 0px;"><span style="font-family: PingFangTC-Regular;">又或者,大笑三聲,預備心情,愉快地接待即將到訪的客人;</span></p>
<p style="font-family: "PingFang TC"; font-size: 12px; font-stretch: normal; line-height: normal; margin: 0px;"><span style="font-family: PingFangTC-Regular;">又或者~向天父禱告,提取力量,勇敢地跨越下一分鐘的困境;</span></p>
<p style="font-family: "PingFang TC"; font-size: 12px; font-stretch: normal; line-height: normal; margin: 0px;"><span style="font-family: PingFangTC-Regular;">又或者~洗個臉,吃一塊巧克力補充能量,預備服侍即將由醫院回家的親人。</span></p>
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<p style="font-family: "PingFang TC"; font-size: 12px; font-stretch: normal; line-height: normal; margin: 0px;"><span style="font-family: PingFangTC-Regular;">三年之後:你可能是未來的星夢新星、或是一個擁有健美體魄的中年男士、或是一個和朋友建立了緊密聯繫的小伙子、或是一個學富五車的家庭主婦;又或是一個不單自己正向,甚至能扶助他人渡過困境的伯伯</span><span style="font-family: Georgia;">...</span><span style="font-family: PingFangTC-Regular;">。下一秒就開始吧!勿讓時間悄悄地流逝,願共勉之!</span></p>antleelihttp://www.blogger.com/profile/09421353461350662583noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-1217908668050771137.post-86595377912456023102022-09-02T00:00:00.001+08:002022-09-02T00:00:00.197+08:00Café de Flore<p></p><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;"><br /></div><table align="center" cellpadding="0" cellspacing="0" class="tr-caption-container" style="margin-left: auto; margin-right: auto;"><tbody><tr><td style="text-align: center;"><a href="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEg0O60mjANnKPsuXYsJyzoS6T9Yp2i8HRynnZ-NXo2B9eGX0zS3aM1x6d0ROkerk-NTvlGC7Bv0yXLdc3SUheU_bQn46mBQFa2sHXV63eIX7kjd7rhFcRBxCGHjdxeKhj4x4fHXmGbZu68JKkxDs2NZpU5myvtI2VFuFwQSQbPxZwBJqsfx8fzLbCJ7BQ/s1185/Caf%C3%A9%20de%20Flore.jpg" style="margin-left: auto; margin-right: auto;"><img alt="Watercolour of Café De Flore in the book of Dream a little Dream" border="0" data-original-height="921" data-original-width="1185" height="311" src="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEg0O60mjANnKPsuXYsJyzoS6T9Yp2i8HRynnZ-NXo2B9eGX0zS3aM1x6d0ROkerk-NTvlGC7Bv0yXLdc3SUheU_bQn46mBQFa2sHXV63eIX7kjd7rhFcRBxCGHjdxeKhj4x4fHXmGbZu68JKkxDs2NZpU5myvtI2VFuFwQSQbPxZwBJqsfx8fzLbCJ7BQ/w400-h311/Caf%C3%A9%20de%20Flore.jpg" width="400" /></a></td></tr><tr><td class="tr-caption" style="text-align: center;"><i><span style="font-size: x-small;">Click to enlarge</span></i></td></tr></tbody></table><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;"><span style="font-size: medium;"><br /></span></div><div style="text-align: left;"><span style="font-size: medium;"><span style="font-family: 'Goudy Bookletter 1911';">Café de Flore has always been famous since 1885, even there was </span><span style="font-family: 'Goudy Bookletter 1911';">one located i</span><span style="font-family: "Goudy Bookletter 1911";">n Omotesando in Japan (not sure whether they are from the same organisation). The name came from a sculpture of the goddess of flowers - Flora (<i>Flore</i> in French), and the season of spring in Roman mythology. </span></span></div><div><span style="font-family: "Goudy Bookletter 1911"; font-size: medium;"><br /></span></div><div><span style="font-family: "Goudy Bookletter 1911"; font-size: medium;">Delicious hot chocolate and elegant Art Deco interior design may be some reasons why people loves to visit Café de Flore, but most of all are due to the attraction by it’s history, a hub where the intelligence gathered around in the 1920s. Even though we may not know the story of each of them, at least, Ernest Hemingway, Pablo Picasso were the well known. </span><div><p></p></div></div><div><span style="font-family: "Goudy Bookletter 1911"; font-size: medium;">In my previous blog post introducing the book ‘Left Bank- by Agnés Poirier’ , Jean-Paul Sartre, Simone de Beauvoir and Albert Camus were the names among those that frequently appeared, as what they called French intellectuals who really acted as the icons here.</span></div><div><span style="font-family: "Goudy Bookletter 1911"; font-size: medium;"><br /></span></div><div><span style="font-family: "Goudy Bookletter 1911"; font-size: medium;"> Café de Flore was a place for them to hang around, expressing their thoughts, ideas, awareness of the world issues (political & culture) , especially for France & America; or in person (Female & Male, You & I) that matters, then transformed their avant-garde thinking into plays, writings, journals, music, poem…,etc; even though they might not be acceptable in those days. It became a place that dreams could be made, no matter what the reality might be in chaos.</span></div><div><span style="font-family: "Goudy Bookletter 1911"; font-size: medium;"><br /></span></div><div><span style="font-family: 'Goudy Bookletter 1911';"><span style="font-size: medium;">So I put this into the center page of my book, as a symbolic of the belief that any of us can embrace.</span> <span style="font-size: medium;">We can have numerous dream, great or humble, global or for one’s own; provided the motivation is not evil, there is always a path to reach the success, nothing to do with the rocket sciences but keep trying and move on. </span></span></div><div><span style="font-family: 'Goudy Bookletter 1911'; font-size: medium;"><br /></span></div><div><span style="font-family: 'Goudy Bookletter 1911'; font-size: medium;">Whether you like to stay in Café de Flore or Les Deux Magots; you are in Hong Kong, France or elsewhere; you are a teenager or old guy, male or female, rich or poor…, dream is no boundary once you act. </span></div>oiseau distraithttp://www.blogger.com/profile/11366175430480169191noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-1217908668050771137.post-30070379993078542372022-08-26T00:00:00.003+08:002022-11-30T15:15:09.834+08:00Left Bank & Dream a Little Dream<p> </p><div style="text-align: center;"><a href="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEgtks-Lye6OSNodTYNKYpLebxIvNascV18AIXTzhvYtpO7BLEFdlKTcIi-ydnPTYF29DUJpxAywqRCuirUIZgnxdZxOK-eTV2NFHnLcExiIYecrmz1rJaTIIofKS7X6MSizcAK17xSI3_UbSR4QupneqA-u5N1NB42ax9oAt1SgzL88tgxg0T1kypqnjw/s421/Left%20Bank%20xs.jpg"><img border="0" data-original-height="421" data-original-width="400" height="320" src="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEgtks-Lye6OSNodTYNKYpLebxIvNascV18AIXTzhvYtpO7BLEFdlKTcIi-ydnPTYF29DUJpxAywqRCuirUIZgnxdZxOK-eTV2NFHnLcExiIYecrmz1rJaTIIofKS7X6MSizcAK17xSI3_UbSR4QupneqA-u5N1NB42ax9oAt1SgzL88tgxg0T1kypqnjw/s320/Left%20Bank%20xs.jpg" width="304" /></a></div><p></p><p><br /></p><p><span style="font-family: 'Goudy Bookletter 1911'; font-size: medium;">Paris never fails us of her attractions, especially for those who love shopping. Whether the prosperity impression, luxurious living or the Bohemia life style , what people used to call; are actually a very different scenario of what Paris was experienced & had been transformed after WWII.</span></p><p><span style="font-family: 'Goudy Bookletter 1911'; font-size: medium;">While writing this series, I was accidentally found a book “<a href="https://google.prf.hn/click/camref:1011lk28W/destination:https://play.google.com/store/books/details/Agn%C3%A8s_Poirier_Left_Bank?id=GQ48DwAAQBAJ" rel="nofollow" target="_blank">Left Bank - Art, Passion and the Rebirth of Paris 1940-1950</a>” by Agnés Poirier. A book that opens my eyes wide and solve some of the queries inside me during the trip. </span></p><p><span style="font-family: 'Goudy Bookletter 1911'; font-size: medium;">During the WWII, the third republic lead French into a shameful act, allow the occupied of the Nazis without defense, it might prevent major casualties as they originally thought but in fact, not to the Jews here, as mentioned in the book, over 13000 Parisian Jews (one third are children) were sent to death in Poland in 1942 & 80000 Jews were sent from France to concentration camps…this is still an ached in some of the Parisians nowadays. That explains to me why so many Jewish memorial museum were built in Paris. I feel sad, too. </span></p><p><span style="font-family: 'Goudy Bookletter 1911'; font-size: medium;">The intellectuals, how they survived to face the lost of their Jewish friends each day but couldn’t say, would there be any hope to dream for their future? To continue their philosophic expression? Publication? Playwright? Artistic life? simply to live or left?</span></p><p><span style="font-family: 'Goudy Bookletter 1911'; font-size: medium;">Jean-Paul Sartre, Simone de Beauvoir, Sylvia Beach, Albert Camus, Ernest Hemingway, Jacques Jaujard, Pablo Picasso, Henri cartier-bressan…some of the characters in the book, the intellectuals who were there…their dreams didn’t vanish but transformed and camouflaged in another way to preserve the seed of hope. What they had been struggling, physically, mentally & emotionally (whether succeeded or failure) left a trace in the Café de Flore, café des Deus Magots, the Louvre and many other places in Paris. </span></p><p><span style="font-family: 'Goudy Bookletter 1911'; font-size: medium;">The huge impact in the field of their specialties & their “third way” are still influencing a lot of us in the modern age. Café de Flore may be famous of it’s hot cocoa, but in depth, there’s always been the stories behind like Hôtel La Louisiane, the Shakespeare & Co., Le Tabou…that flourished.</span></p><table cellpadding="0" cellspacing="0" class="tr-caption-container" style="float: left;"><tbody><tr><td style="text-align: center;"><a href="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEhmv8VbBZd0VThqJ8pwdUWDRrGOne90S7NXs3luIkMygENqmPej30X8Ql7YLIdXGuA3IHOGmXIYhiam4QotKg_RkhqSoOu9oY3ws45qoo6cPMsPs_QdrBgAUbDTwWSjK0VeUHLzhz7ME5utwdtqLiHC_-hqmauSnNqQfeZRNaptB-sgYK_a49o1C1tC3g/s669/DaLD%20cover%20s.jpg" style="clear: left; margin-bottom: 1em; margin-left: auto; margin-right: auto;"><span style="font-family: 'Goudy Bookletter 1911'; font-size: x-small;"><i><img alt="Dream a little Dream book cover" border="0" data-original-height="669" data-original-width="503" height="320" src="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEhmv8VbBZd0VThqJ8pwdUWDRrGOne90S7NXs3luIkMygENqmPej30X8Ql7YLIdXGuA3IHOGmXIYhiam4QotKg_RkhqSoOu9oY3ws45qoo6cPMsPs_QdrBgAUbDTwWSjK0VeUHLzhz7ME5utwdtqLiHC_-hqmauSnNqQfeZRNaptB-sgYK_a49o1C1tC3g/w241-h320/DaLD%20cover%20s.jpg" title="Dream a little Dream, Petit Paris" width="241" /></i></span></a></td></tr><tr><td class="tr-caption" style="text-align: center;"><span style="font-family: 'Goudy Bookletter 1911'; font-size: x-small;"><i>Click to enlarge</i></span></td></tr></tbody></table><p><span style="font-size: medium;"><span style="font-family: 'Goudy Bookletter 1911';"><a href="https://play.google.com/store/books/details/Oiseau_Distrait_Dream_a_little_Dream?id=C_Z3EAAAQBAJ&PAffiliateID=1011lk28W" rel="nofollow" target="_blank">Dream a little Dream</a> is the second last book of Petit Paris Series,</span> <span style="font-family: 'Goudy Bookletter 1911';">my first draft was finished in February 2022, the moment of the 5th wave of COVID-19 in Hong Kong, should I still bring out this message to my reader? absolutely Yes, without any hesitation! the hope to end this pandemic as same as the hope to end war. If they could survive in their own ways and achieved even more in 10 years, we can, it's not only a dream!</span></span></p><p><span style="font-family: 'Goudy Bookletter 1911';"><br /></span></p><p><br /></p><p><br /></p><p><br /></p>oiseau distraithttp://www.blogger.com/profile/11366175430480169191noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-1217908668050771137.post-82016873477952878392022-07-02T14:32:00.000+08:002022-07-02T14:32:12.417+08:00今天很平靜<div style="text-align: left;"> 2022年7月1日</div><div style="text-align: left;">上午8:00</div><div style="text-align: left;">香港</div><div style="text-align: left;">狂風大雨仍是三號風球</div><div style="text-align: left;"><br /></div><div style="text-align: left;">吃過早餐之後,原本打算聽收音機,聽了第一句新聞報導便關了機,就這樣決定今天不上網、不看媒體,倒在風雨飄搖的日子換來平靜的一天。</div><div style="text-align: left;"><br /></div><div style="text-align: left;">或許是習慣,每天手機接收着或多或少的無謂訊息,少看一天是難以想像的生活,以為就此會坐立不安,怕世界發生了什麼事而自己得不到第一?或二手資訊而被人視為脫節;但事實上,卻是必需的短暫抽離,或至少應該檢視一下值不值得去"追逐"這些所謂的貼身資訊。</div><div style="text-align: left;"><br /></div><div style="text-align: left;">已經不是第一次作這"短暫抽離"行動,始於"盲搶鹽"的年代。無論是由官商富豪,專家政要,各國領袖以至某某關注組的市民⋯所發放的N個資訊;再由從不手軟的傳媒、網媒及小民群眾無限轉發"forward",終於令我開始覺得"短暫抽離"行動的重要性,就等同電腦需要定時Defragment 重組一樣,否則似是而非混亂不堪的內容終有一天會令電腦死機!</div><div style="text-align: left;"><br /></div><div style="text-align: left;">行動於翌日(即現在寫網誌的今天)完結了,一覺醒來仍是八號風球的籠罩之下,沒有什麼大改變,甚至有時更加橫風橫雨;但是經過"執機"之後,不單平靜了,頭腦也清醒了多些,應該可以繼續迎接新一波的訊息轟炸,放馬過來吧 :D </div><div style="text-align: left;"><br /></div><div style="text-align: left;">寫於2022年7月2日</div><div style="text-align: left;">下午3:25分</div><div style="text-align: left;">香港</div><div style="text-align: left;">風平浪靜的八號風球下</div><div style="text-align: left;"><br /></div><div style="text-align: left;"><br /></div><div style="text-align: left;"><br /></div><div style="text-align: left;"><br /></div>antleelihttp://www.blogger.com/profile/09421353461350662583noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-1217908668050771137.post-74528944944992124782022-05-14T00:00:00.034+08:002022-05-14T00:00:00.205+08:00I love Haussmann<div style="text-align: left;"><span style="font-family: 'Goudy Bookletter 1911'; font-size: medium;">Okay, I know this is a bit weird to have all these cross over below :P but let me explain something:-</span></div><div style="text-align: left;"><span style="font-family: 'Goudy Bookletter 1911'; font-size: medium;"><br /></span></div><div style="text-align: left;"><span style="font-family: 'Goudy Bookletter 1911'; font-size: medium;">I am really obsess to the Haussmann architecture, especially the Attic floor. Well, you may think it's the smallest, least luxurious, most of all, it's usually for the maids... but, it has the best view overall! Don't you think it's quite difference from the concept, like us who live in Hong Kong? Lots of people are willing to pay extra to live in a penthouse of a high rise residential. What a contrary ? </span></div><div style="text-align: left;"><span style="font-family: 'Goudy Bookletter 1911'; font-size: medium;"><br /></span></div><div style="text-align: left;"><span style="font-family: 'Goudy Bookletter 1911'; font-size: medium;">Of course the reason is quite simple indeed, even thought the highest Haussmann building is only six levels, without an elevator in the good old days, there is no way for the bourgeois to climb so high, no matter how stunning the view is. In addition, how could they ask their VIP to climb stairs for gathering day & nights!</span><span style="font-family: "Goudy Bookletter 1911"; font-size: large;">That's why the construction concept behind is to have the best floor on level 2, which did make sense; regarding the stunning view? any where you see in Paris are "stunning" why restricted to the window views of your apartment? </span></div><div style="text-align: left;"><span style="font-family: 'Goudy Bookletter 1911'; font-size: medium;"><br /></span></div><div style="text-align: left;"><span style="font-family: 'Goudy Bookletter 1911'; font-size: medium;">Back to the modern time, I will be 100% excited to live in a Haussmann building on the 2nd level, but as a tourist, it's also interesting to stay for a while on the Attic floor, which usually has a sloped ceiling, with a small balcony open wide to enjoy your daily sunset... you can find it in some B&B rentals, and I am sure I will go for a try next time. </span></div><div style="text-align: left;"><span style="font-family: 'Goudy Bookletter 1911';"><br /></span></div><div style="text-align: left;"><table align="center" cellpadding="0" cellspacing="0" class="tr-caption-container" style="margin-left: auto; margin-right: auto; text-align: center;"><tbody><tr><td style="text-align: center;"><a href="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEg2fCQ67w1kQHFlestjYIUAX2VjFUZnoyAgUP5chpHpjwcf3yQz1WuPpIneQ2hJbQ-DzdZqm4UQ207JGoD_-ENP6phpxQOFcKFRD8Zun09a0ygX9TaSxZFP-3SMDJ-Wouque2wwbuuunqezArpo1hHelCv1tzX3s1dxk-nW1hj7rlr_myamIAkSZqEr9w/s1200/EX%20watercolor%20ms1.jpg" style="margin-left: auto; margin-right: auto;"><img alt="Watercolor of Haussmann architecture front elevation in the book of Exquisite" border="0" data-original-height="919" data-original-width="1200" height="306" src="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEg2fCQ67w1kQHFlestjYIUAX2VjFUZnoyAgUP5chpHpjwcf3yQz1WuPpIneQ2hJbQ-DzdZqm4UQ207JGoD_-ENP6phpxQOFcKFRD8Zun09a0ygX9TaSxZFP-3SMDJ-Wouque2wwbuuunqezArpo1hHelCv1tzX3s1dxk-nW1hj7rlr_myamIAkSZqEr9w/w400-h306/EX%20watercolor%20ms1.jpg" width="400" /></a></td></tr><tr><td class="tr-caption" style="text-align: center;"><span style="font-size: x-small;"><i>center page in the book of Exquisite</i></span></td></tr></tbody></table><br /><span style="font-family: 'Goudy Bookletter 1911'; font-size: medium;">In the mean time, what I can do is to draw a nice picture of her, to share with you in my new book & hope you will like it, too. But this is not the end, see what I've discover...</span></div><div style="text-align: left;"><span style="font-family: 'Goudy Bookletter 1911';"><br /></span></div><div style="text-align: left;"><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;"><a href="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEhsJg0tlgX4QydlvgyTodPNvemglBsZLzNk_5fO8QE_dyeaDYyzsI5U0XGqRcDA_Y1iCpb_Yg_xj952dGVB8d7-6piy9pJPK8MNVY3Z3RGRyhSvTUyfFHMDCs62y4KHxOFDW_HUPWQKbWrrmFQvFujoBfh8_p9vxA7IcEruABJFoeRsUvAL6R0mJEXMyg/s954/sim%20paris%2001.jpg" style="clear: left; float: left; margin-bottom: 1em; margin-right: 1em;"><img alt="Sim city game of Paris view in daylight" border="0" data-original-height="548" data-original-width="954" height="184" src="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEhsJg0tlgX4QydlvgyTodPNvemglBsZLzNk_5fO8QE_dyeaDYyzsI5U0XGqRcDA_Y1iCpb_Yg_xj952dGVB8d7-6piy9pJPK8MNVY3Z3RGRyhSvTUyfFHMDCs62y4KHxOFDW_HUPWQKbWrrmFQvFujoBfh8_p9vxA7IcEruABJFoeRsUvAL6R0mJEXMyg/w320-h184/sim%20paris%2001.jpg" width="320" /></a></div><span style="font-family: 'Goudy Bookletter 1911'; font-size: medium;">Ha ha! I am building a virtual Paris in Sim City! in my leisure moment, of course. A game I've found accidentally after returned from the trip, there are a lot to be developed, although it's not 100% real with so many restrictions, the Haussmann building are not bad, what do you think?</span></div><div style="text-align: left;"><br /></div><div style="text-align: left;"><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;"><a href="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEjQgS-v1wBWj47sylNglruoo9s6CUbkKF44HVycMt3e-hxK8RxUxtMgo4vNoD8yBfU-vR4lexurMmcWmhg4JuNbHN4ezDRaBZWuql3Snsf9KImQY5HzwXeLYbexsd4S2i2Y6-6nSz-DW-IZZLiAGTQx8n3Ri-bMSJT7VTkDQGUDqeOCmRMbh8Bq6Dpf2A/s1024/sim%20paris%2002.jpg" style="clear: left; float: left; margin-bottom: 1em; margin-right: 1em;"><img alt="Sim city game of Paris view at night" border="0" data-original-height="690" data-original-width="1024" height="216" src="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEjQgS-v1wBWj47sylNglruoo9s6CUbkKF44HVycMt3e-hxK8RxUxtMgo4vNoD8yBfU-vR4lexurMmcWmhg4JuNbHN4ezDRaBZWuql3Snsf9KImQY5HzwXeLYbexsd4S2i2Y6-6nSz-DW-IZZLiAGTQx8n3Ri-bMSJT7VTkDQGUDqeOCmRMbh8Bq6Dpf2A/w320-h216/sim%20paris%2002.jpg" width="320" /></a></div><span style="font-family: 'Goudy Bookletter 1911'; font-size: medium;">The night scene do imitate some of the mood in reality, I don't know how long will I continue to play for the expansion until a "longer <i>La Seine</i>" can be made, let's see.</span></div><div style="text-align: left;"><span style="font-family: "Goudy Bookletter 1911";"><br /></span></div><div style="text-align: left;"><span style="font-size: medium;"><span style="font-family: "Goudy Bookletter 1911";">Finally, I would like to share with you the photo below, a real scene of my beloved architecture I took viewing from the </span><span style="font-family: "Goudy Bookletter 1911";">Center Pompidou. One of my favorite view, neat & decent; not for the </span><span style="font-family: "Goudy Bookletter 1911";">bourgeoisie</span><span style="font-family: "Goudy Bookletter 1911";"> only, but for everyone who love to stay. </span></span></div><div style="text-align: left;"><br /></div><div style="text-align: left;"><span style="font-family: "Goudy Bookletter 1911";"><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;"><a href="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEjmIXehRd_089TV0kSKLNwU5lGQwxW6-Ipewn2b3t-8dXRdoWSz1eomP0Gm4Qn-hEqjgKoj0QlR5ZIu-Vynbzs0U8WqOKg5ngWd1GyzqdTSVbSdgfuwNhXjzGFXr58_9BiKb5pCT3Si5FfM8VwE4nu4r8g9jQWWW_ewh7PUnr_d5tl6i_GMW_B3zz8jjA/s1156/Beautiful%20Haussmann%20buildings%20s.jpg" style="margin-left: 1em; margin-right: 1em;"><img alt="A scene of Haussmann architecture line up under blue sky in Paris" border="0" data-original-height="768" data-original-width="1156" height="266" src="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEjmIXehRd_089TV0kSKLNwU5lGQwxW6-Ipewn2b3t-8dXRdoWSz1eomP0Gm4Qn-hEqjgKoj0QlR5ZIu-Vynbzs0U8WqOKg5ngWd1GyzqdTSVbSdgfuwNhXjzGFXr58_9BiKb5pCT3Si5FfM8VwE4nu4r8g9jQWWW_ewh7PUnr_d5tl6i_GMW_B3zz8jjA/w400-h266/Beautiful%20Haussmann%20buildings%20s.jpg" width="400" /></a></div><br /></span></div><div style="text-align: left;"><span style="font-family: 'Goudy Bookletter 1911';"><br /></span></div>oiseau distraithttp://www.blogger.com/profile/11366175430480169191noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-1217908668050771137.post-39715582194016413482022-05-07T00:00:00.002+08:002022-05-07T00:00:00.217+08:00Exquisite - Book Ten Of Petit Paris<p><span style="font-family: 'Goudy Bookletter 1911';"><br /></span></p><p><span style="font-family: 'Goudy Bookletter 1911';"></span></p><table align="center" cellpadding="0" cellspacing="0" class="tr-caption-container" style="margin-left: auto; margin-right: auto;"><tbody><tr><td style="text-align: center;"><a href="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEjXftDSCujIF_B-pNg-txxIoS0vPza_95ykwmwuvRKCdEw-vAVnWvCc7hRxpVAaIfMf3HKDzLyhTWa255_O2mSCtrwtcrN36xds-0jurqsUdIczsqn4mXs3dj6FLcByuIcggO6eSbwh-AOMeSzLXT2lN5sHRk_6f2fSPaGBo-E7Q0AU8psnJa_y6fgPQg/s836/Exquisite_frontcover.png" style="margin-left: auto; margin-right: auto;"><img alt="Book cover of Exquisite - Petit Paris" border="0" data-original-height="836" data-original-width="628" height="320" src="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEjXftDSCujIF_B-pNg-txxIoS0vPza_95ykwmwuvRKCdEw-vAVnWvCc7hRxpVAaIfMf3HKDzLyhTWa255_O2mSCtrwtcrN36xds-0jurqsUdIczsqn4mXs3dj6FLcByuIcggO6eSbwh-AOMeSzLXT2lN5sHRk_6f2fSPaGBo-E7Q0AU8psnJa_y6fgPQg/w240-h320/Exquisite_frontcover.png" width="240" /></a></td></tr><tr><td class="tr-caption" style="text-align: center;"><i><span style="font-size: x-small;">Click to enlarge</span></i></td></tr></tbody></table><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;"><span style="font-family: 'Goudy Bookletter 1911';"></span></div><span style="font-family: 'Goudy Bookletter 1911';"><br /><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;"><br /></div><span style="font-size: medium;">This is the most difficult book I’ve written in Petit Paris series, why? It seems there are so many elements that I can use to express “Beauty”, but is it the only thing that I want to say? No, I’m quite sure.</span></span><p></p><p><span style="font-family: 'Goudy Bookletter 1911'; font-size: medium;">Writing book is always for the public but at the same time also personal I shall say, and this is my own feeling during these few years, that’s why you may love it or not; but beautiful things created by artists, designers, architects, craftspeople …and the final piece are always dominated by commercial, religious or even political reasons in most of the time. Take it or leave it, getting rich or broke, being famous or no one ever knows…now or in the future!</span></p><p><span style="font-family: 'Goudy Bookletter 1911'; font-size: medium;">My thought was complicated while writing “Exquisite”, there are tensions between beauty ~long lasting ~preserve ~transform ~handmade ~technology…too many want to incorporate, too little can be captured, cos’ Beauty always has two faces, exterior & interior.</span></p><p><span style="font-family: 'Goudy Bookletter 1911'; font-size: medium;">I was a commercial interior designer, I knew the struggle inside to convert “the beautiful thing in your eyes” to the one in “their eyes”. It’s even harder for us to produce & complete them even we may not think it is good enough or even ugly…but it has to be done, no matter how. For the truly beautiful things can be demolished/ vanishing just by a simple decision from some powerful people/unit who knows nothing about beauty at all! Weird but it’s the reality.</span></p><p><span style="font-family: 'Goudy Bookletter 1911'; font-size: medium;">I think this is the reason to explain my excitement when seeing beautiful things that were preserved so well in Paris. Which also lead me to think of those behind who created and made them long long time ago. </span></p><p><span style="font-family: 'Goudy Bookletter 1911'; font-size: medium;">It seems the word <i>Craftspeople</i> is a bit old fashion nowadays, for everything takes time to complete may not suit in our new age, less and less youth are willing to take part in this sort of careers but not totally. Japan is a good example which did an excellent job in this field, recently in Hong Kong, there are also some young craftspeople who start to realize handmade items and to preserve rather than replace are valuable; furniture, book, glasses, cheongsam, leather goods, architecture…hopefully there will be a lot more in the future.</span></p><p><span style="font-family: 'Goudy Bookletter 1911'; font-size: medium;">It’s quite simple in my theory, whenever people is willing to spend time into a certain thing, to make it nicer, to bring joy to someone, he/she has a kind heart, the beauty inside. </span></p><div><br /></div>oiseau distraithttp://www.blogger.com/profile/11366175430480169191noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-1217908668050771137.post-73723488605762305122022-04-27T15:55:00.015+08:002022-04-27T16:46:54.408+08:00Forgotten Chap - 01<p style="text-align: left;"><span style="font-family: georgia; font-size: large;">INSANE</span></p><span style="font-family: georgia;">
</span><p style="font-stretch: normal; line-height: normal; margin: 0px;"><span style="font-family: georgia;">The land of mine…</span></p><span style="font-family: georgia;">
</span><p style="font-stretch: normal; line-height: normal; margin: 0px;"><span style="font-family: georgia;">no one knows why</span></p><span style="font-family: georgia;">
</span><p style="font-stretch: normal; line-height: normal; margin: 0px;"><span style="font-family: georgia;">they were there</span></p><span style="font-family: georgia;">
</span><p style="font-stretch: normal; line-height: normal; margin: 0px;"><span style="font-family: georgia;">long long time ago</span></p><span style="font-family: georgia;">
</span><p style="font-stretch: normal; line-height: normal; margin: 0px;"><span style="font-family: georgia;">arrogant of a human nature</span></p><span style="font-family: georgia;">
</span><p style="font-stretch: normal; line-height: normal; margin: 0px;"><span style="font-family: georgia;">who dare </span></p><span style="font-family: georgia;">
</span><p style="font-stretch: normal; line-height: normal; margin: 0px; min-height: 13.6px;"><span style="font-family: georgia;"><br /></span></p><span style="font-family: georgia;">
</span><p style="font-stretch: normal; line-height: normal; margin: 0px;"><span style="font-family: georgia;">The people of mine…</span></p><span style="font-family: georgia;">
</span><p style="font-stretch: normal; line-height: normal; margin: 0px;"><span style="font-family: georgia;">no one knows why</span></p><span style="font-family: georgia;">
</span><p style="font-stretch: normal; line-height: normal; margin: 0px;"><span style="font-family: georgia;">not from your womb</span></p><span style="font-family: georgia;">
</span><p style="font-stretch: normal; line-height: normal; margin: 0px;"><span style="font-family: georgia;">not being tied</span></p><span style="font-family: georgia;">
</span><p style="font-stretch: normal; line-height: normal; margin: 0px;"><span style="font-family: georgia;">nonsense of a human nature </span></p><span style="font-family: georgia;">
</span><p style="font-stretch: normal; line-height: normal; margin: 0px;"><span style="font-family: georgia;">like you</span></p><span style="font-family: georgia;">
</span><p style="font-stretch: normal; line-height: normal; margin: 0px; min-height: 13.6px;"><span style="font-family: georgia;"><br /></span></p><span style="font-family: georgia;">
</span><p style="font-stretch: normal; line-height: normal; margin: 0px;"><span style="font-family: georgia;">Creation of God</span></p><span style="font-family: georgia;">
</span><p style="font-stretch: normal; line-height: normal; margin: 0px;"><span style="font-family: georgia;">that is the truth</span></p><span style="font-family: georgia;">
</span><p style="font-stretch: normal; line-height: normal; margin: 0px;"><span style="font-family: georgia;">the master who own</span></p><span style="font-family: georgia;">
</span><p style="font-stretch: normal; line-height: normal; margin: 0px;"><span style="font-family: georgia;">you, too</span></p><p style="font-stretch: normal; line-height: normal; margin: 0px;"><span style="font-family: georgia;"> </span></p><p style="font-stretch: normal; line-height: normal; margin: 0px;"><span style="font-family: georgia;"><span style="font-size: x-small;"><i> </i></span><br /></span></p><div><span style="color: #3d85c6;"><span style="font-family: georgia;"><span style="font-size: small;"><span style="font-size: x-small;"><i>Oiseau Distrait</i></span></span></span></span></div><div><span style="color: #3d85c6;"><span style="font-family: georgia;"><span style="font-size: small;"><span style="font-size: x-small;"><i>24 April 2022</i></span></span></span></span></div>oiseau distraithttp://www.blogger.com/profile/11366175430480169191noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-1217908668050771137.post-67393921115805673162022-04-17T13:22:00.003+08:002022-04-17T13:24:38.624+08:00Geisha - 超市中的藝伎<p></p><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;"></div><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;"></div><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;"></div><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;"></div><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: left;">在短短數年間,香港的咖啡文化已經發展得很不錯,如果不是疫情限聚的關係,差不多任何時段,總會見到坐在小咖啡店的客人,悠閒地享受與朋友、或一杯咖啡的獨處時刻。</div><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: left;"><br /></div><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: left;">對於我來説,在這些文青感十足的咖啡店,或是在大街小巷老式茶餐㕔,甚至是一些港式"仿古"茶餐㕔內喝咖啡,感覺大不同。除了是豆的品種,混合及冲煮方式的分別之外,環境氣氛當然也有一定程度的影響。這些年間,每天早上在家中以一柸熱騰騰的即磨咖啡來展開新的一天,也是人生幸福的一大樂事。</div><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: left;"><br /></div><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: left;"><br /></div><table align="center" cellpadding="0" cellspacing="0" class="tr-caption-container" style="margin-left: auto; margin-right: auto;"><tbody><tr><td style="text-align: center;"><a href="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEhjj80y4ajWGZY50AVyqixMRWti3p2qgi5M7nvIyGVvUxBKXHNK4QckMSoT5XoSimZ9fiVYRJP5t4Q6EXYWoMCXzkj0qXsGnf4Q0douMQPrEQvwcKG1m1TXz-dXfDL1aTZ8CntPg_FbxMLgp-bjm-em7KsroBWAIysVWCGzyC19S872x7YwElczFxSu/s400/IMG_5873s.jpg" style="margin-left: auto; margin-right: auto;"><img alt="Geisha - 超市中的藝伎" border="0" data-original-height="400" data-original-width="400" height="320" src="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEhjj80y4ajWGZY50AVyqixMRWti3p2qgi5M7nvIyGVvUxBKXHNK4QckMSoT5XoSimZ9fiVYRJP5t4Q6EXYWoMCXzkj0qXsGnf4Q0douMQPrEQvwcKG1m1TXz-dXfDL1aTZ8CntPg_FbxMLgp-bjm-em7KsroBWAIysVWCGzyC19S872x7YwElczFxSu/w320-h320/IMG_5873s.jpg" width="320" /></a></td></tr><tr><td class="tr-caption" style="text-align: center;"><span style="font-size: x-small;">有機"藝伎種"咖啡豆, 淺至中度烘培, 日曬乾燥</span></td></tr></tbody></table><br /><span style="font-family: georgia;">還記得幾年前參加一個咖啡活動時認識了Geisha 這個品種,當年的我完全不懂欣賞,也喝不出任何特色所在. 而且當年這個品種剛流入香港,由於產量少, 是有特色的衣索比亞 (Ethiopia)原生種, 售價相對較高,並要在特定的咖啡供應商才能買到。我從來認為生活享受,應該是任何人可以輕鬆享用的,所以也就把這件事放下了。</span><div><span style="font-family: georgia;"><br /></span></div><div><span style="font-family: georgia;">大部分時間,我還是會在周邊的超市內購買咖啡豆,今年意外地也見到Geisha,於是便買回來一試。以下是一個十分業餘人的試飲報告😅<br /></span><br /><br /><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;"><a href="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEjuTaOMYhxiIwzjFp0XxPQLZt3rZJoFjdej0Ua29sCP4lXJFUPc44MVskolTgKBFefC39y4BkriQq3T9yoTo3ut0czzDsM-CNQie2sOn4nMPEhYMtFt7RTMp2jlS5VpfkpLo_XXoNibgO7_VtnkEkRvYm3hCalTI03AidiM9DVpFW_PzTEr7duG_xUJ/s400/IMG_5877s.jpg" style="margin-left: 1em; margin-right: 1em;"></a><table cellpadding="0" cellspacing="0" class="tr-caption-container" style="float: left;"><tbody><tr><td style="text-align: center;"><a href="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEj5daukY_QS3NOXMTejBsKAtmeL6lU4NUBXgxYQKD5QMOu4iOHWb_VvcQ-KR6vooaWWTI2iDvr_CO3gHB6iHhfCsS4i8OueoeaPmuYFQoP3RELS-4e-fHBtk4I8BCWu2YEebWwQbwcYjmZhBb92o2iLC-pB6OIlEY4xK6l53srwQV-yX9oshoiM28xs/s400/IMG_5875s.jpg" style="clear: left; margin-bottom: 1em; margin-left: auto; margin-right: auto;"><img border="0" data-original-height="400" data-original-width="400" height="200" src="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEj5daukY_QS3NOXMTejBsKAtmeL6lU4NUBXgxYQKD5QMOu4iOHWb_VvcQ-KR6vooaWWTI2iDvr_CO3gHB6iHhfCsS4i8OueoeaPmuYFQoP3RELS-4e-fHBtk4I8BCWu2YEebWwQbwcYjmZhBb92o2iLC-pB6OIlEY4xK6l53srwQV-yX9oshoiM28xs/w200-h200/IMG_5875s.jpg" width="200" /></a></td></tr><tr><td class="tr-caption" style="text-align: center;"><span style="font-size: x-small;">粗研磨</span></td></tr></tbody></table><div style="text-align: left;">由於Geisha 屬於單品咖啡,所以打算用手冲方式,即使未磨,豆香已撲鼻:淡淡花香是特色之一,混雜著蜜糖般的甜、果實的香,在研磨之後仍然散發著,甚至有少少酒香。</div><div style="text-align: right;"><br /></div><div style="text-align: right;"><br /></div><div style="text-align: right;"><br /></div><div style="text-align: right;"><br /></div><div style="text-align: right;"><br /></div><div style="text-align: right;"><br /></div><div style="text-align: right;"><br /></div><div><br /><table cellpadding="0" cellspacing="0" class="tr-caption-container" style="float: left; 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