Treadmill...to Die for ?!

Boom-boom-boom...

Boom-boom-boom... 

Why am I here? a baby of one year.

Mom,  what is this for, do I need to crawl? 

Hey, baby can you try once more,

as fast as you could so I can move

my teacher is waiting 

exams are haunting

I must be hurry cos’ year two is coming !

Hey, little girl don’t block my way,

I have proposals & dozens of meetings 

my clients are waiting 

big boss is haunting 

I must be hurry cos’ probation is ending 

Hey, young man please keep running,

We shall follow you on the same paving 

our business are failing

our mortgage is haunting 

We must be hurry cos’ the bank is closing !

Hey, Mr & Mrs don’t falling 

old pa & grandma are chasing 

keep the tread smoothing 

her doctor is waiting

Nursing home’s quota is holding  

We must be hurry cos’ our last chance can’t be missing ! 

Hey, everybody don’t panic 

I am done with no more rush

Plug off the treadmill cos’ I don’t need to run

The death of god is haunting  

My graveyard is waiting 

 send me a daisy if you are willing

the beauty of nature that I missing !

思維靜院

教會為着解構聖經中的書卷 ~ 雅歌，特別舉辦了這次三日兩夜的靜修營，也是我一早計劃好離職後給自己一個靜思的日子。

半小時的快速船，離開市區往長洲山上的思維靜院，和朋友一起步行上山，原本十多分鐘的行程，因為入錯分义路，在雨中花了差不多三十分鐘才到步.…忘記了告訴她，能夠一次順利到達陌生目的地，在我的前半生，出現的機率微乎其微, 不過現今有GPS, 我還是肯定在入夜前必定到達 :P

進入相對寂靜的世界，人聲、手機聆聲丶媒體資訊…被大自然的風聲、雨聲、鳥語、晨曦一一代替。完成每節的聚會之間，總能享受完全屬於自己的時空。

一望無際的海面，除了七八隻老鷹翺翔之外，也看到弟兄姊妹各自靜思於小角落；夜間，亦能望到山下長洲居民的燈火，船隻歸航的指示燈… 此刻，很舒服。

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

第一個晚上，在房間用風扇代替冷氣，除下口罩，打開窗，享受着雨後樹木的清香；思考着神與人/ 人與人之間關係的點點滴滴。第二個晚上，索性把風扇也關掉，讓風聲、雨聲、蟲鳥夜鳴陪伴入睡…. 此刻，很平靜。

 

這裡，有一個小角落，掛着一個手作風鈴，在疾風中發出噹噹巨響; 但行近細聽，柔弱溫婉的餘韻隨着中間水渠口蓋緩緩擦向鐵通發出，似乎有未完的說話…望着晴空的白雲，聽着聽着…此刻，忘我。

其實離開繁囂並不太難，離開資訊對某些人來說才是最不習慣；是恐防遺漏即時新聞還是害怕會被遺忘的一刻？

重回現實的晚上，關掉一切媒體裝置，雖然窗外傳來的是車響人聲，眼前的小山丘旁邊萬家燈火，心中卻傳來柔柔鈴聲，此刻 ... 重回我的小角落！

Transparent Integrity

 

Whenever a sunny day, there is always a wonderful moment in the afternoon for light to play with shadow, they attracts me, so I stop working to join them for a while, usually not a while but long enough for me to think of something that we've missed like...transparent integrity!

I forget where have I learned these wordings from, a book may be; but they were written on a post-it which pinned on my notice board since 2016. The shadow play in this afternoon reminds me of it, the transparency that has to be as crystal clear as this, I think, as a person, a human being...

I wish I won't lost mine!

重看星聲夢裡人～La La Land

Written & Directed by Damien Chazelle

 

今天是農曆新年初二, 説真的, 假期對我們這些自由工作者來說和平日是沒有太大分別的, 正如一個朋友年卅晚問我, 我也是一樣的回應. 但畢竟, 地盤是收爐了, 課堂仍未開始, 疫情下沒什麼聚會, 街頭上也相對冷清… 除了可以專心寫作, 寧靜地渡過節日也是幸福！

適逢最近電視重播明珠930～還記得是我多年前每每不用加班便在家追看的節目. 昨晚重播 La La Land 星聲夢裡人, 其中一部我較喜愛的電影. 它的"名氣" 不用我多説, 有齊電影賣座的元素, 而電影中的歌曲實在好聽. 主角  Ryan Gosling 及Emma Stone 把我們帶入如幻似真的追夢之旅, 原創歌曲 City of Star 是百聽不厭, 他們的演譯, 爵士樂演奏和舞姿也是細緻和優美.…

第二次重看, 卻被一場講述 Emma Stone 試鏡時所唱的一首歌深深吸引, 非常可能, 它會取代City of Star 在我心中的位置… 對了! 正是 The Fools Who Dream (節錄如下)

 

一個唱出來的故事, Mia ( Emma Stone) 劇中角色, 一心夢想成為演員; 述說姑姑在巴黎塞納河 的一次 ‘瘋狂’ 行為...

“Leapt without looking 

And tumbled into the Seine

The water was freezing 

She spent a month sneezing

But said she would do it again

Here’s to the one who dream

Foolish as they may seem

Here’s to the hearts that ache

Here’s to the mess we make...

... A bit of madness is key

To give us new colors to see

Who know where it will lead us

And that’s why they need us...   “

(Song:Justin Hurwitz/ Lyrics: Benj Pasek & Justin Noble Paul/ Performed by: Emma Stone)

無論對追尋成為純爵士樂手的 Sebastian (Ryan 電影中角色) 還是演員的Mia 而言, 對他們內心的爭扎, 還能有更貼的形容嗎? 追夢似乎是愚不可及, 尤其當我們山窮水盡, 生活拮據之時, 我們會懷疑自己的能力, 不確定的所謂才華, 甚至可能枉費了的時日.…但這裡卻再次告訴追夢者

 

追夢的瘋狂正是令你生命不再一樣的鑰匙 !   

 

你願意和我們一起瘋狂嗎 ?!

 

無止境的貪念

或許"貪念"真是人類的天性, 地土、資源、財富、名聲、權力、慾望...沒完沒了.

心想控制了便等於擁有, 以為這一切便會永遠屬於自己, 可以坐着為皇, 世世代代千秋萬世, 真的嗎?

世界上從來沒有一件物件、一個人類、一個思想是屬於我或你. 容讓我以宗教角度而言, 萬物都是神所造, 除祂以外, 沒有人能掌管、能強行佔據. 神尚且讓人類有自由選擇跟隨祂與否的決定, 那麼, 我們憑什麼要同等的他/她向我們"依附"呢? 稍微壓制自我的驕傲, 容讓別人有個喘息空間, 真是那麼"丟臉"嗎? 我們...都是活在同一天空下的受造物, 為什麼不能逆轉"權力令人腐敗"這個咒詛呢?

是我們不能? 還是不願!

你認為對我的 "好", 可以"溫柔"地讓我明白嗎?

如果我的 "愚笨"未能理解並接受你的 "好意", 你能耐心一點, 也嘗試學會明瞭我的憂慮嗎?

是什麼逼使人瘋狂? 不再理性, 不再有同理心, 不再憐惜身邊的人, 不再明白自己在世上只是寄居的, 沒有佔有權...我想, 是"貪念", 也源於驕傲.

倘若世界已經變得無處可容身, 有一個地方仍然屬於你我, 就在我們的心中...一個只有神及自己可以觸及的地方.

倘若你已經很 "疲累", 就在那裡稍作休息罷!

請不要, 也不能絕望.

2D,3D,8D⋯⋯

昨晚叔仔介紹我聽兩首用8D 技術製作的歌, 條件是必需用耳機 headphone 聽, 普普通通的也可, 結果效果驚喜不已. 正如提示所言, 我不覺得正在用耳機, 而是環迴效果在腦袋週邊360度播放, 空間感極強. 我對音響器材認識有限, 但因為 ricketeer  的原故, 加上以往工作上偶爾也需要為客人設計能配合聽音響的空間, 所以也略懂皮毛. 結果重重複複聽了四次之多, 甚至忍不住立即WhatsApp給好友分享分享.

之後...我驚歎科技發達之餘, 令我重想昨日的經歷. 由於教曾崇拜取消, 結果在家中意外地聽了三堂道. 早上是活石堂的網上崇拜, 下午收到深愛堂WhatsApp錄音版, 晚上收到好友轉發的YouTube 視頻版; 就這樣, 思潮起伏了一整天, 尤其在最後一輯講道中, 提及我一對好友在近期 半年内的種種遭遇, 正正讓他們夫婦的人生由2D 轉化成3D , 甚或將來的8D...

疫情令我們"被困", 不少人嚷着苦悶, 是現實環境把我們困住, 還是人生停留在2D 被自己所熟識的二維空間困住? 人如果沒有經歷跌盪, 又或經歷過後, 沒有反思, 依然固我, 停留在安舒區...以為一切也是理所當然的; 此刻, 我們仍然是一個沒有3D的生命, 因為欠缺了深度(D). 

或許這是我聽到8D 技術而情緒高漲的原故罷, 因為人生真的可以很精彩; 要把你遇到堪呵痛苦的際遇來成長? 又或是被困不能前行? 全屬你自己的決擇.

最後讓我引用以下一段時常提醒自己的説話, 亦是我最敬重的牧師對人生的一些定義, 祝願我這對好友早日身心康復, 活出更精彩的人生, 生命如煙花燦爛!

"生命的神蹟不是歲首煙花匯演, 叫全城的人嘩然.
         但神蹟的確是煙花, 叫身旁的人嘩然.
               不管是從哪一點開始,
                   你都可以叫自己的生命耀眼,
                       叫你身旁的人嘩然,
                           當你的生命迸出耀眼光芒的時候." 

（你欠生命一份神蹟～楊牧谷著)

Petit Paris - Pont Neuf

click to enlarge

Hi hi, 

It's been a while after our last chat, right? Cos' I am quite busy these days, to do what? To draw and write this, and finally released on Google Book this week...so...so...excited :D

Although it is only a short picture book that I've started with for this series, I did work onto it seriously, hopefully you can feel it, too!

Our publisher name is PROTOWORK,

you can find me from here also Oiseau Distrait

As a Welcome gift, a discount is offer right now until mid of March, Enjoy!

I am still working on to distribute in other platform such as Apple Book, and will be announced once it is ready.

If you would like to see the "story" of producing the watercolor painting inside, there will be another post in Cocoa Design Life Instagram a bit later, be our guest and hope to see you there :)

To write short, I better tell you "behind the scene" of this book in next post, good day!

P.S.- read book in landscape view to display double pages 

7 in Creation - Seventh Day

1. Thus the heavens and the earth were finished,

and all the host of them.

2. And on the seventh day God ended his work which he had made;

and he rested on the seventh day from all his work which he had made.

3. And God blessed the seventh day,

and sanctified it: 

because that in it he had rested from all his work 

which God created and made.

Genesis 2: 1-3
The Holy Bible (King James Version) 

 1. 天地萬物都造齊了. 

2. 到第七日,  神造物的工已經完畢,

就在第七日歇了祂一切的工, 安息了.

3. 神賜福給第七日, 定為聖日, 

因為在這日, 神歇了 祂一切創造的工, 就安息了.

創世記二章: 1-3節
 和合本聖經(環球聖公會)

7 in Creation - Sixth Day

24. And God said,
Let the earth bring forth the living creature

after his kind, cattle, and creeping thing, 

and beast of the earth after his kind:

and it was so.

25. And God made the beast of the earth after his kind,

and cattle after their kind,

and every thing that creepeth upon the earth

after his kind:

and God saw that it was good.

26. And God said,

Let us make man in our image, after our likeness:

and let them have dominion over the fish of the sea,

and over the fowl of the air,

and over the cattle, and over all the earth,

and over every creeping thing that creepeth upon the earth.

27. So God created man in his own image,

in the image of God created he him;

male and female created he them.

28. And God blessed them, 

and God said unto them,

Be fruitful, and multiply, and replenish the earth,

and subdue it: and have dominion over the fish of the sea,

and over the fowl of the air,

and over every living thing that moveth upon the earth.

29. And God said, Behold, 

I have given you every herb bearing seed,

which is upon the face of all the earth, 

and every tree, in the which is the fruit of a tree yielding seed;

to you it shall be for meat.

30. And to every beast of the earth, 

and to every fowl of the air,

and to every thing that creepeth upon the earth,

wherein there is life, 

I have given every green herb for meat: 

and it was so.

31 And God saw every thing that he had made,

and, behold, it was very good.

And the evening and the morning

were the sixth day.  

Genesis 1: 24-31
The Holy Bible (King James Version) 

24. 神說: "地要生出活物來, 各從其類;

牲畜、 昆蟲、 野獸, 各從其類."

事就這樣成了.

25. 於是,  神造出野獸, 各從其類;

牲畜, 各從其類; 地上一切昆蟲, 各從其類.

神看着是好的.

26. 神說: "我們要照着我們的形像, 按着我們的樣式造人,

使他們管理海裏的魚、 空中的鳥,

地上的牲畜和全地, 並地上所爬的一切昆蟲."

27.  神就照着自己的形象造人,

乃是照着祂的形像造男造女.

28. 神就賜福給他們, 又對他們說:

"要生養眾多, 遍滿地面, 治理這地;

也要 管理海裏的魚、 空中的鳥, 和地上各樣行動的活物."

29. 神說: "看哪! 我將遍地上一切結種子的菜蔬,

和一切樹上所結有核的果子, 全賜給你們作食物.

30. 至於地上的走獸和空中的飛鳥,

並各樣爬在地上有生命的物, 

我將青草賜給牠們作食物."

事就這樣成了.

31. 神看着一切所造的都甚好.

有晚上, 有早晨,

是第六日.

創世記一章: 24-31節
和合本聖經(環球聖經公會) 

 

7 in Creation - Fifth Day

20. And God said, 

Let the waters bring forth abundantly

 the moving creature that hath life,

and fowl that may fly above the earth

 in the open firmament of heaven. 

21. And God created great whales,

and every living creature that moveth,

which the waters brought forth abundantly,

after their kind,

and every winged fowl after his kind:

and God saw that it was good.

22. And God blessed them,

saying,

Be fruitful, and multiply, 

and fill the waters in the seas,

and let fowl multiply in the earth.

23. And the evening and the morning

were the fifth day.

Genesis 1: 20-23 
The Holy Bible (King James Version) 

20. 神說: "水要多多滋生有生命的物,
要有雀鳥飛在地面以上, 天空之中."
21. 神就造出大魚和水中所滋生
各樣有生命的動物, 各從其類;
又造出各樣飛鳥, 各從其類.
神看着是好的.
22. 神就賜福給這一切說:
滋生繁多, 充滿海中的水;
雀鳥也要多生在地上.
23. 有晚上, 有早晨,
是第五日.

創世記一章20-23節
和合本聖經(環球聖經公會) 

7 in Creation - Fourth Day

14. And God said, Let there be lights

 in the firmament of the heaven

to divide the day from the night;

and let them be for signs, and for seasons, 

and for days, and years:

15. And let them be for lights 

in the firmament of the heaven 

to give light  upon the earth:

and it was so. 

16. And God made two great lights;

the greater light to rule the day.

and the lesser light to rule the night:

he made the stars also.

17. And God set them in the firmament of the heaven

to give light upon the earth,

18. And to rule over the day and over the night,

and to divide the light from the darkness: 

and God saw that it was good.

19. And the evening and the morning

were the fourth day. 

Genesis 1: 14-19

The Holy Bible (King James Version)

 14.  神說: "天上要有光體, 
可以分晝夜, 

作記號, 定節令, 日子, 年歲,

15. 並要發光在天空, 普照在地上."

事就這樣成了.

16. 於是 神造了兩個大光, 

大的管晝, 小的管夜, 又造眾星, 

17. 就把這些光擺列在天空, 普照在地上,

18. 管理晝夜, 分別明暗.

神看着是好的 .

19. 有晚上, 有早晨,

這是第四日.

創世記一章14-19節 
和合本聖經(環球聖經公會)