"紅著眼 走遠 昨天 還在草原安睡 靜靜的白茅搖曳 突然間變成了 刀和槍的樂園"
可能是最近看了兩部蠻爛的戲﹐也看了<死亡筆記>的兩齣電影﹐不自覺地對
小失望了。
戲﹐讓我走出戲院後記不起任何高潮。有點﹐哦﹐看完了﹐就是這樣的感覺。
只記得L還是很可愛。
比起粱導的"要講出來才能讓別人笑"的笑話﹐日本電影里的一個眼神﹐一個舉動都能讓觀眾了解﹐讓觀眾笑開懷﹐而不是用特別效果加以強調。當L被兩位小朋友拒絕了他串的甜點串時﹐那個苦惱又不解的表情似乎在說:"這是我最愛的東西﹐為什麼你們不要呢?" 好可愛喔!
故事有點莫名其妙。為了平衡生態系統而縮減人類的數目﹐不惜研究並開發生化武器。然後又為了錢殺人。
F 很面善﹐樣子也挺不錯的。M死得很難看。K呢﹐天真地被利用了。不見得聰明到哪裡去。為什麼L在電郵Watari的死訊﹐在選擇收信人時﹐在K的選擇格猶豫呢? 因為想起Kira?
那位泰國小弟是Near? 他在漫畫里不是洋人嗎?
唉。
<功夫灌籃>
並沒有第一時間沖去票房或戲院。反正又不會像演唱會門票一樣票數有限。幾個禮拜後去﹐大多數人看過了﹐電影院空了反而能更舒服地觀看電影。
<功夫灌籃>﹐賣的就是周。杰。倫。整個電影可以說是杰倫MV 的延伸版。啊! 杰倫灌籃! 啊! 杰倫射球!! 啊! 杰倫扮可愛!?!
只是﹐球賽的打法太混了。如果你知道你正在防守敵隊的主攻手﹐你會放他到處亂跑嗎? 可是戲里﹐要嘛不是杰倫﹐就是陳柏霖或陳楚河﹐在沒人防守的情況下蓋籃﹐很不合條理。那些誇張的Alley-oop特技雖美﹐但NBA還是比較刺激。比較符合邏輯嘛。
我是偏心的。我不會說這出戲爛到哪裡去﹐也沒爛到哪裡去啦。只是不要帶著鑽牛角尖的態度去觀看就行了。
只因我是籃球員﹐所以會計較。
<老師嫁老大>
大年初四去看了這部片。OK啦。沒網友們說的那麼壞。
只不過﹐真的覺得粱導有點在混。之前粱導的電影都挺有創意的﹐像去年的<我在政府部門的日子>那種新奇又大膽的題材﹐或是採用深入民心的話題。可是這次的弱男配強女已經不新鮮了。韓國電影<조폭 마누라> (My Wife is a Gangster),<我的野蠻女友>﹐等等﹐看都看膩了。
我不是個粱導迷﹐甚至對他有點反感。我去只是為了看范文芳扮阿窿的模樣。顯然﹐沒比申恩慶傳神。
而李國煌的馬來西亞腔太刻意了﹐聽久了挺煩的。
還是比較喜歡去年粱導的賀歲片﹐引出了比較自然的笑聲。
"So, what language do u think in?"
I was posed with this question by the one I look like some months back while we're having dinner during some meeting trip overseas. I was rather taken aback simply bcos, I dun have a definite/immediate answer to this. Its also just not usual that people would be conscious of the language that they use to think it. Or rather, is there a language whereby the brain communicates to the consciousness and the rest of the body?
Actually, I've been planning to blog this like, 2-3 weeks ago, but I just couldnt start/didnt have the determination to blog amidst all the other distractions/dunno how to blog it. Did some research and there are in fact, some psychological thesis done on this topic.
Do we think in the language we speak or do we speak in the language we think? Or is there really a need to express our thoughts in a language which our consciousness understands? Why cant we do our thinking using the electric signals which the brain uses to communicate with the nerves and nodes?
Ehh.. tough question. Even the theories are criticising each other, so being a layman psychologist, sociologist and economist, I shalt not attempt to explore too much into this issue.
But after being posed that question, I began to be more conscious of my thoughts and take note of the language which I usually use to think in.
Its English.
And more recently, I begin to notice that I tend to be fluent/converse more in English than in Chinese, which used to be my primary language some years back. This made me ask myself, "When did I change?" and "What makes me change?"
My English tongue used to be VERY choppy. I would probably start the sentence in English and after a few words, end in Chinese all the way. Or Singlish. Or I'll take very long to think when being posed some questions in English and to reply back in English. (This is my habit, I'll reply back in the language you speak to me in.)
Now, its the reverse. My Mandarin conversations would be littered with English, or Singlish, and I'll think a bit longer to use the correct words to express myself than I would in English. Its even to the extent that I've been using English to plot my lyrics before translating them into Mandarin, which is kind of weird.
So I believe this has got to do with the external environment. Our work emails and instant messages are/have to be in English, and the Chinese in there do not normally use Mandarin to converse. I am not saying my study environment is innocent. With all the English terms of Oligopoly, Queuing Theory, etc, which throws back weird-sounding translations when you look it up in Wiki Chinese, its just not practical to attempt to explore the Mandarin portion of the books. Therefore with the lack of chances to use Mandarin, my thinking process had been slowly reformatted to think in the English language.
Thus it made me realise that, "HEY! If I don't force myself to use Mandarin more frequently, its going to worsen my vocab and my lyrics expression!" Therefore the chinese blog posts, which I actually spent probably twice the time to type those than is needed to type this lengthy post in English.
And seriously, I don't want to sound like an Ang Moh Gang Dang speaking purified but insincere English nor angmohised Mandarin!!
Btw, is Mandarin THAT DIFFICULT??
A simple diagnosis to know what language you think in, ask yourself this, "What language do you normally count in?" I know most people just count and would not notice how they count. If you do not have a clear cut answer to this, maybe the next time you count something, this question would be niggering somewhere at the back of your mind and you'll be more conscious of it.
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我承認我是柯南痴。也可以說我是偵探故事發燒友 (因為我也挺迷金田一的)。
昨天看了阿窿戲後﹐閒逛時發現了<工藤新一の復活！～黑の組織との對決>真人版DVD﹐索性買了下來﹐凌晨時分還在與工藤新一破解案件。剛剛也在線上看完了第一集<名探偵コナン- 工藤新一への挑戰狀>。小栗旬飾演的工藤新一﹐嗯﹐不錯﹐挺迷人的。最搞笑/適合的則是陣內孝則飾演的毛利小五郎。誇張的臉部表情與肢體語言﹐看了就想笑。
雖然整體製作的不錯﹐也請來了江戶川柯南的原屬配音員高山みなみ﹐只不過還是有些小細節令我非常納悶。
疑點一: (也是非常重要的一點) 為什麼劇中的工藤新一觸碰證物時... 沒有戴手套或以手巾來拿!?!??! 醬會毀了證物上的細微的指紋線索而被新一的指紋取而代之。身為偵探應該非常清楚這個道理才對的啊。而且還不只一次。
第一部﹐當毛利小五郎特地戴上了手套來檢驗兇手假冒的死亡遺言﹐新一卻以空手拿起﹐還不經意地把它放在口袋﹐帶離罪案現場。
第二部﹐新一赤手拿出了兇手藏起來的凶器。該當何罪啊!!!
疑點二: 新一是十七歲的高中生﹐在漫畫里也挺遵從校規的。可是﹐小栗旬有刺耳洞! 抱歉﹐太吹毛求疵了。
疑點三: 在第一部里出現了"KIDNAPPER" 與 "KIDNAPER" 的字樣。"KIDNAPPER" 是兇手在恐嚇信上所寫的﹔"KIDNAPER" 是被兇手所逼的受害人寫的。然而﹐新一卻說兩個都是同樣的意思。英語詞典里是找不到"KIDNAPER"的拼法的。
而我購買的DVD﹐華文字幕有很多錯誤。愧它還是中國貨。
所以說﹐製作給偵探迷們看的戲應該需要比較仔細點吧。柯南看太多難免也會想太多的。
這是今早馬刺隊與尼克斯隊的戰績。芬利在比賽剩下0.4秒的時間進了3分球。
比賽進入加時戰﹐馬刺連進7分﹐以99對93獲勝。
在每場球賽﹐教練們往往都保留暫停機會到最後幾秒鐘﹐分數相近的話就是丟暫停大賽。球手一拿到球﹐暫停。暫停完了由中場繼續﹐就可以省個幾秒鐘。就這樣﹐一場48分鐘的球賽可以打個3小時。
記得10幾年前電視還有轉播NBA球賽的時候﹐因為轉播時間往往在我需要上課的時段﹐所以就設時把它錄下來﹐放學後奔回家觀看。就是因為那些暫停什麼的﹐有時會錯失了比賽的結尾。沒辦法﹐只好查看Teletext。的確﹐一秒也是能扭轉戰局。
現在﹐即使有cable TV﹐運動台都堆滿足球賽。就只有看NBA.com來解隱咯。
每逢大年除夕夜﹐咱們幾個家庭必聚集在阿嬤家。好幾個大人﹐好多好多個小朋友﹐嘰嘰喳喳的﹐聊個天翻地覆。話題從誰穿得進那條褲子(買錯尺碼﹐那些媽媽級人物就一一試看誰較適合﹐好像灰姑娘醬)﹔到小孩們什麼什麼的﹐就是每年都差不多一樣的話題。
圍爐吃火鍋﹐總是有驚叫聲。不是湯匙跌進湯里﹐就是在進行尋寶活動。要不就是一直聽到:"誰的蝦?" "還不熟! 還不熟!"
因為家庭很大﹐吃飯是要輪流﹐吃好了就去喝甜點。然後找位子坐。每年椅子都不夠。罰站咯。
就是這般﹐好不熱鬧!
拿掉了擋著你接收系統的障礙物﹐就能得知更多的訊息。(Read btwn the lines)
謙虛真的這麼難辦到嗎?
For 那個整個博客都是白色以為別人看不到你的文章的傢伙。
說真的﹐有些人就是辦不到。身段被強力膠粘在骨頭上﹐拔不出﹐放不下。有了一時的風光或名號﹐即使已經是過去式還是會不斷地提醒周遭的人:"Eh﹐我曾經是xxx"。到底是想向對方表達什麼﹐抱歉﹐我沒專心理學﹐也沒專動物學﹐沒讀書﹐不認識orh yee orh.. 我也不喜歡成天拿歷史來提﹐所以不要說那第一首賣出去沒出版的詞了啦。悶都悶死了。
此地無銀三百兩!! 去讀一點柯南吧! 雖然有可能你連我的這段話都沒機會看到
其實﹐我覺得謙虛一點﹐獲益應該會比較多。放下了一切的光輝﹐要拜師﹐就該有學生的態度。就好比服務業的宗旨﹐老師永遠是對的。(但要用腦想啦﹐如果老師說豬會飛就認定豬真的會飛。)
To 那位黑幫大姐大
拿自己來開刀吧。我應該是蠻謙虛的 (哇靠!實在不要臉說這種話)。
人家說:"Eh, 你O Levels 考10分hor?"
我心想:"So what?" (為何不讀初院是聽老媽子的話﹐poly 也比較好混。)
"哇!你在大公司做得不錯嘛﹐整天飛來飛去。"
"飛久也會累的啊。也只是個小職員罷了﹐沒什麼。" (真的不當自己是什麼。也沒什麼)
"哇!原來你會寫詞/打鼓/是籃球隊的啊!?!"
*微笑* (也真的是 So What?? 但禮貌上就是笑笑咯)
你的黑眼圈很深。。。
每間公司也一定會有一些實在囉唆/固執的人。遇到這種狀況﹐我是不會硬碰的。即使已經會了﹐或早就是高手了﹐就讓他講咯。(我老闆是其中一個) 有時會發現﹐呃? 他說得有道理﹐如此這般。
唉!寫到有點沒有焦點了。
或者我的偶像被奚落﹐我也是不會堅持他是天下無敵﹐你沒資格說他什麼什麼的。方文山﹐偶像﹐起初真的覺得他的詞很好﹐他很會寫詞。聽了教誨/洗腦後﹐重讀他的詞﹐真的﹐只限於美而已。我現在正瘋他的<青花瓷>﹐可是這首詞真的深到上KTV我都念不出那些華文字﹐當然也不明白啦。也無所謂啦﹐即使我挺護他他也不知道﹐所以又何必呢。
糟了。一大堆的繁體字﹐一定悶死。
喜歡是ok﹐只要不是一併複製﹐儘量接受批評再從中學習會比較好。要接受批評當然就要謙虛。而一意堅持著自己的作風﹐又何必花錢請老師教導? 當你不願意接受別人的看法﹐認為自己是最棒的﹐老師說的如此苦口婆心﹐牛都回家了﹐你也學不好半點東西。那些錢就省下來去買麥當勞來吃吧。
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為了跟隨Steve Kerr的腳步而練三分球的我
身為一名退了休﹐主打後衛的籃球員﹐我明白後衛與前鋒的攻勢。前鋒是"硬硬來"型﹐而後衛是需要動腦筋﹐做助攻手﹐控制整場進攻。雖然目的是一樣﹐就是進籃得分﹐然後贏下這場球賽﹐不過﹐前鋒往往都會比較自私點﹐爭個得分最多球員﹐把球賽當成"一人秀"而擾了大局。
新加坡與NBA的打法﹐按教練而定﹐後衛有時也是快攻手(陣形上他們站在前方)﹐也是隊中的小矮人之一﹐不過控球﹐觀察力﹐卻是最強的。當然﹐也有一些後衛是得分王﹐就像Michael Jordan, Tony Parker, Manu Ginobili﹐ 之類的(他們都是Shooting Guard﹐除了Parker以外)﹐所以也不能說他們只會防守而已。(NBA里防守力強的反而是前鋒﹐因為他們高又壯﹐可以搶籃板球﹐又可以阻擋敵方投球。)
聊太多球經了﹐扯回愛情。就像籃球一樣﹐我的模式跟後衛是一樣的。我比較喜歡靜靜地觀察狀況﹐分析情形﹐預測接下來會發生什麼事情﹐再做決定。而我喜歡的﹐是會動腦筋的控球後衛﹐不急躁﹐也不介意當助攻手的那位。可能我比較不容易相信人﹐所以前鋒型的(Power Forward)我倒是會反感﹐因為我不能說服自己相信一個
整天甜言蜜語的男人。如果甜言蜜語這麼容易說出口﹐那麼他的"我愛你"也會貶值﹐反正他可以一天說一百次也不會肉麻﹐有可能還會說到沒感覺。這些﹐少我是不會介意的。少反而會比較有價值﹐因為會比較用心斟酌如何開口是好。我也挺喜歡男孩子害羞又內心很掙扎地說出那三個字。應該是漫畫看太多的關係。
雖然也可以說控球後衛是比較狡猾的類型(他們洞悉整個局勢﹐也會知道如何走下一步才會"騙"得了你的心)﹐但如果他們願意犧牲小我而成全其他人﹐我多半會迷得神魂顛倒。對我而言﹐一個漂亮的助攻會比一個進球讓我留下更多更好的回憶。
順道一提﹐我最欣賞的籃球員還是Steve Kerr。默默無名的Shooting Guard﹐確是NBA里三分球率最高的一位﹐也在好幾場重大比賽中進了關鍵性的一球而讓球隊贏了比賽。
2007 年﹐ 沒有決議 (翻譯網站給的翻譯)﹐因為我知道我不會遵守。
2007年﹐也跑得太快了。不能否認﹐老了﹐跟不上時間的步伐。
所以呢﹐就來回顧一下2007年的大小事。(關於我的啦﹐世界太大﹐放不進這個博客)
1) 升職了。靠運氣﹐也有點靠"搶"回來的。因為公司里的某些無聊程序﹐而也因為某些政治理由﹐我挨了差不多半年的一人做兩人的工(那個該做的人不太會﹐也不太想做)﹐所以就是這麼不公平。那個人跑到了另一個部門去﹐雖然忙﹐他說至少是他喜歡做的事。然後要填補空缺﹐還要經過面試(之前那個人在舊的管理系統下直接拿到了那個位子)。其實真的考慮如果還是我要教另一個新人﹐我就跑人。還好順利拿到﹐不過還是多挨了兩個多月的雙重工作才等到填補我的空缺的新人進來﹐上手﹐才放心讓她管理。
升職了﹐搬桌子了﹐薪水多了﹐工作也特別多了。多到加班到8-9點後還帶回家做。忙死了。
2) 一年內買了兩架相機。但還是喜歡我的FZ5.
3) 因工作第一次被派出國﹐(新的管理層所開的區域會議。舊的管理層也有﹐但比較像是給員工們的獎勵﹐也都是自己人。這次真的去開會﹐雖然還是不太關我的事)。去了柬埔寨﹐然後就好多次的搭乘SG-KL航班﹐有四次吧。
4) 換了兩架手機﹐不是錢太多﹐而是E65給我不少的問題﹐電信訊號也不穩定﹐就換了現在的K770i。沒什麼大礙的話應該可以給我用個一兩年。
5) 隔了好多年又重遊動物園。
6) 跟五月天私奔到了月球﹐與周杰倫喝了一杯牛奶﹐然後再和粱靜茹一起慶祝情人節。
7) 爬了武吉知馬山。看了國慶慶典。也看了好幾部電影。
8) 到了日本旅遊﹐也到了香港。
9) 寫了至少25首歌詞。杠箍。
10) 拔了兩顆智慧牙。
應該就沒什麼了吧。。。就希望2008年一切風平浪靜。。
一個有趣的心裡測驗。
Forer's Effect
In a deal that was supposed to be I accompany him for Fish while he accompany me for Jay, I'm at this concert. BUT I CANT GET TIX FOR JAY IN SG!!! (Thus the watching his concert in HK part cos it was being held there while I was going there.)
Anyway, no regrets. Her vocals are the best that I've heard in concerts. Really soothing.. (& of cos the Ah Shin part, even thou he only sang like, one and a half song (知足&擁抱) after flying him 4 hrs over?)
$144 seats. Not the one buying the tix.
Rays of Light from the revolving discotheque ball thingy.
Ahhh Shiiinnnn~~
*drools*
He's looking kinda old.. or tired..
She was crying..
Encore Part. She looks sweet in this t-shirt n jeans combi. Oh her tee is some illusion thing. 2 faces facing each other.
Too bad its not the special one beside me.. Still missing anyway.
The usual round up.
Efficient Transportation
My, I LOVE their transportation. Far more efficient than our MRTs, SBS buses, cabs, combined!! Their MTR travels probably 50% faster than our MRTs; Cabs cheaper and controls the traffic very well; many bus services plough similar routes and drives at racing speeds. Simply woah~~ So long as they can get me to point A to point B in the minimum time possible, its good. Safety-wise, the road users all have some form of unwritten understanding and they dun horn all over when someone simply cuts into their lane.
Probably Singapore should address the issue of efficiency rather than simply raising transportation cost alone on basis that operating cost is going uphill. Damn I'm still pissed over the cab fare hike. This is a monopoly/transportation collusion in the making!! Forcing commuters with no choice but to abide. N the drivers are not the ones benefitting when demand for cab drops. Blah!!
Language Barrier
It wasnt as bad as I thot it would be, on account that BOTH of us doesnt know Cantonese. I can understand slightly but I'll still reply in Mandarin.
Food
I love their maggi noodles. HAHAHAH.. They call it 公仔面. And just like in Japan, their food tends to be more of the salty side. Now it got me wondering. Is it that they are salty, or that Singapore is too health conscious and people are "constructed" to be more salt averse.
Seriously I din spend a lot on this trip. Which is quite a good thing. Hehe. And for your info, my Jay Chou tix costs probably SGD 30 plus. Even the best seats are going for less than SGD 100. Singapore is too overpriced. Seriously.
Still a lot more of Hong Kong for me to explore the next time round.
Hong Kong Squeezed-In Trip in Detail
Hong Kong Squeezed-In Trip Day 1
Hong Kong Squeezed-In Trip Day 2
Hong Kong Squeezed-In Trip Day 3
Hong Kong Squeezed-In Trip Day 4
Hong Kong Squeezed-In Trip Day 5
At Senate Square, early in the morning.
Woke up freaking early cos we had a flight at 1020 to catch and we have not seen enough of Macau!!
Macau and HK is perpectually always misty while we were there.
Caltex service station just outside Casa Real.
Empty streets. Too early, even the tourist traps of portugese egg tarts are not open yet.
Statue at Sao Paulo Cathedral
Ruins of Sao Paulo
Beyond the gates
Mistress like this pic. Very "genuine".
It happened to be some 80,000 Walk Day while we were there, so we saw a lot of ppl on the streets representing their organisations. Some on casino tours.
The brightly lit buildings at night as seen in daylight.
Time to conclude the trip. We rushed our way to the airport for the Tiger flight back to SG.
Grand Prix watch tower.
Till next time.
Brr.. its cold..
Ok today we're going to Macau. Via ferry.
Early in the morning, we went to have some last sights of HK.
Had breakfast at another tea cafe along the streets.
Took a cab to Chung Wan to transfer to a ferry across.
Some museum.
Intercontinental HK
Took a walk along the Avenue of Stars.
Wow can still see the lines.
Butterfly~
Some sculpture at the park.
Seibu HK
The 1st and only mosque we saw in HK.
Chung Wan MTR Sign
Possession Point? Ekks! I dun wanna be possessed!!
We made our way to the seafood street near Sheung Wan to get some local products back to filialise our mums.
Due to space constraints, their flats are usually very very tall.
Hauling a few bags of cheap dried scallops, we went back to our hotel to check out.
Our room at Ramada Hotel
The cute shower
The exterior
The contrast
After which, we went to take the ferry over to Macau. Sort of missed the tickets timing so we could only wait for one hour plus for our next ferry available.
Checked into Casa Real at around 7+, took a while to clear the Customs again.
Took a walk around the neon lit town before having our dinner at Porto Exterior. Good food they have there.
Porto Exterior
Portugese Influence
Macau Police Car
Wynn
Of cos we couldnt miss The Venetian when we're in Macau.
The beautiful ceilings
Uber Grandness
Bcos we were there past midnight, the place looks dead other than a few tourists like us taking pictures.
Show me the MONEY!!~~ hahha
Schwaroski Crystals.. on the floor..
The exterior.
Man-made Lagoon
Mirror Image
We took more than an hour to finish walking the shopping alleys of Venetian. Its simply damn huge. It was close to 3 when we retire back to our hotels. Another early day tmr b4 we board our flight back!!
Hong Kong Squeezed-In Trip Day 5
