2021/07/07
Treadmill...to Die for ?!
2021/07/02
Hear Me
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Hi, Hi!
What a super hot summer in Hong Kong right now, let's have some reading under the sun...or in your comfy air conditioned corner with a smoothie or ice coffee :P
The sixth book of Petit Paris series was released yesterday, you can say it do has some relationship with book 4 Jardins Secret & book 5 Point Zéro . You may aware there is an arrangement, not intentionally at the very beginning, but developed as time goes by:-
Book 1 - Pont Neuf......explore Paris
Book 2 - Entrée Sortie......explore Museums
Book 3 - Chat Noir......explore Belle épogue
Book 4- Jardins Secret......explore Gardens......reminding Friends & Families
Book 5- Point Zéro......breathtaking Churches......reminding Faith & People
Book 6- Hear me......"listen" to graffiti & the silent voices......reminding the Be-forgotten
Book 7....?
I've always has some difficulties to tell my friends what the genre of my book should be, because it consist of photograph, painting, song like text, a mixture of three but not quite definite as Photography, Arts or Poetry; so I will usually say it is my "sketch book" 公仔書 as I will describe in Cantonese - a sketch book of all my experience and thoughts to express through these three "channels".
It's always enjoyable while writing, to recap a lot of my pleasure during the trip, the amazing moment of different hours in a long day, them - peoples that flash into my mind! By the end of the book, I may be lost or sad somehow, but never give up Hope!
Two more books to finish in the year of 2021, I wish you can continue to walk through this journey with me, until the end of next year. Let's see what would Petit Paris lead us to...?!
Graffiti, merely?
I love walking, street, alley, riverside, local stalls...although it will drain off all my energy at the end, almost every night when I’ve returned to the hotel; but walking is really the most enjoyable activity in Paris, I can adjust my momentum wherever I like, “freeze” ......when attractions like this.
Texture & colour are the highlights which draw me close, all of the unknown fonts are transform into beautiful graphics; but in fact they do mean something for the specific group of persons or individuals in a specific moment.
Sometimes it’s sad to find them being painted on the public facilities, especially onto the heritage architectures which did shock me in the first place because I thought the citizens here do treasure them more than balustrade, mansion doors, pavement, post box...,etc. But when I walk along to discover more & more of them, I start to understand a bit more of their anger, the only way to express their accusation of being ignored by the government? the empowered? for months...years...?
2021/06/25
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!
2021/06/21
書
這幾年間,花多了些時間看書;應該説是幸福地可以騰出時間及心情來看書。隨了刻意地把家中所有設計書籍、畫册及雜誌重看一遍之外,也把所有中英文小説、信仰書籍都重看了。真的,在工作以外的時間,花了差不多三年;還沒有把新買及弟弟借給我的繪本計算在內⋯⋯好書~實在令我着迷。
朋友勸我還是去圖書館借閱罷,兩年前我認真地重新申請圖書証,終於展開借書之旅,結果借閲了不到十本,又回到買書的日子。也有朋友叫我閲讀電子書,結果嘗試了兩三頁,沒錯,不是兩三本,又回到買實體書的日子。幸好,我並非愛情小說迷,否則一定破產收場⋯⋯
上週,因為要找一些資料,從書架上取下Mitch Albom 的 the five people you meet in Heaven,由於有些內容已忘記了,於是又快速重看了一遍。就是這樣,在人生中不斷地重看,又是另一番滋味;翻開變黃了的首頁,寫下這是2006年買的,書背仍貼着$66售價的純白標貼,嘩!時光飛逝!
但每次藉着這小小的標記,令我回想當天買此書的時日情景(即使有些已忘記了),也很令人回味;或許,這也是我喜歡買實體書的其中一個原因,它,會陪伴你"成長,老去,再重生"
原本打算在這個網誌分享一本,我剛剛在昨晚看完的書,但是寫到這裏,有關閲讀的點點滴滴已不經不覺地把篇幅延伸了,也許還是遲些再介紹罷;又是我晚間閱讀的美好時光了,晚安!
2021/06/16
旅貓日記
這是一篇被遺忘了的網誌草稿,應該也有兩年之久。還記得那段時間重新到圖書館借書(包括這一本),前後還看了夏目漱石的"我是貓"和另一本,川村元氣的"如果這世界貓消失了",三本貓書,各有特色。