小學四

自我剪髮的樂趣。
擺脫了自我對美的執著的束縛後，有了一個新習慣。
花了五百大元，購買了兩把 Ninja Sword 牌的剪刀。
默默祝福自己的處女作不會有呻吟和見血的情況後便開始動工。
試問世界上（除非你是服裝設計師），一個人有多少的機會是全權負責自己的打扮？

衣物的長短早標了尺碼，車縫師父隨著你身體的各樣尺寸車的衣服都是別人的布料。只有身體髮膚是全部受諸於父母。也只有頭髮是最顯眼，最經常需要打理的。

替自己剪髮的感覺像是一個重新瞭解自己的手與身體的關係的過程。每一剪都是義無反顧的。赤裸裸站在鏡前一手小心翼翼地讓一片片的髮端落在慢慢乾透的背上，一小朵一小朵蒲公英似的短髮緩緩的掃著沒有乾透的腳。是一種自我的享受，是一種自己對自己的身體說愛你的表現。

大剪過後，再把頭洗濕，然後慢條斯尼的再作出適當的收剪，輕手的跟最後的一點說再見。

我期待一個月後的重逢。

小學三

以後切忌「以貌取人」。
可惜現代人忙於裝扮，所以此句與原意有別。曾經不屑世人花無限時間裝扮，化妝，天花龍鳳，彷彿自己快要上台唱粵劇。自己本身修身養性，自小相信美是由內至外散發的，自己也一直用這原則交朋友和追求知識。不為牌子所動，也不貪過廉的劣貨，只求謙虛謹慎，大方得體。但近有一念，我這樣亦是在「以貌」先入為主地「取人」縱使別人對「美」的解讀不同，畢竟那是他個人自由。我也搞不清「美」的意譯是否有高低之分。不過，不同人有不同取得自信，誠信和暸解的方法。自我做好自己份內的事便以足夠。

The Book of Eli

I have always thought Christians to be naive but have a sense of happiness, purpose and wholesomeness that is deep within and is radiated from within their soul.

Their naiveness comes from giving all glory to their God. Referencing all purpose of human lives, all origins of beauty to an artificially constructed figure/wisdom.
Can we not appreciate the beauties of the earth in their own right? Why must we explain the unattainable, the unexplainable? Are we incapable of being amazed by mystery for mysteries sake?

Admittedly, I am jealous of those who have attained their enlightenment. There is an air of resolution, of satisfactory and harmony with their surrounding that makes living for them such a joyous experience. I feel that my soul still has a gap of enlightenment waiting to be attained.

Whatever the future may bring. A few things stays true:
In order to be Buddha, one must be human.
In order to learn the teachings of the Bible, one must be humble and unbiased.
It is the harmony of my space and the space around me that I am concerned with.

I hope that one day, a voice will speak to me as clearly as I am speaking to you now, 'you have found peace and you may rest now'.

Gosh, I miss my brother, whereever he may be, may he find peace and happiness that I have yet to find.

Gosh, I miss him...


http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=JKfZrbS79To

友人問我

被問，為何你要戴佗錶。
其實我覺得時間是人類發明的一件很美麗的東西。

友人一問友人二：「你覺得自立是否一個很自大的人？」，當時我是這樣想的：
其實我是在自誇與自謙之中找尋一種收放自如的平衡。

兩次我都沒有講。

自視

如果你能從死亡的邊緣走回來，但沒有成熟多少，那麼你已經浪費了一個重新認識自己的機會。

We both can't stop

He loves making love with his music, I love making love with my thoughts,
that's the only difference.

Jamie Cullum on writing Gran Torino with Clint Eastwood - at Music Matters 2009
Jamie Cullum - The Singin' Umbrella mashup live at Music Matters 2009
Jamie Cullum live - Don't Stop the Music - Kulturjournal - NDR
Jamie Cullum Live - Mixtape (HQ audio !!)
Jamie Cullum - Seal, Adele and Michael Jackson Medley - live @ North Sea Jazz 2009 

... ok, I'm 6 years his junior and 60cm taller.

Gran Torino

If our existence is not an illusion and our scientific theories are not too far away from the 'truth', then:

The universe is 13.75 ±0.17 billion years old.
Planet earth is 4.6 billion years old.
Simple cells are 3.8 billion years old.
Humans are 200,000 years old.
Scientists predict that planet earth will last another 7.5 billion years or so.

The current world average life span is 67.2 years old.
How do you want to be remembered?

'Your world is nothing more than all the tiny things you've left behind'
---------- Gran Torino (2008), Jamie Cullum
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=NoLc43YuuTw&feature=channel

Time for a glass of double shot cognac on ice.

小學二

從最少的開始做起，愛人如己。

小學一

終於發現大學是學做人，從古人，今人學人。
決定找一些學不完的東西，
閒時可以再次復習，餓時可以再次咀嚼，晚時可以再次領會。
讓我小小的學大學之道吧。

小學一
用眼睛和耳朵和別人說話，心，是留給妳的。

Apple iPhone 4

Question:

http://www.apple.com/iphone/design/
click on 'Watch the iPhone 4 video >' 
What fascinated me most about the video?

Answer:

 V

 。
  x
  。

  。

Don't get it? Give you a hint:

00:20-00:30

Art from 0725-0846 in the morning

1.

Blue Flower
Georgia O’Keeffe
1918
Pastel on paper mounted on cardboard
20 x 16 in. (50.8 x 40.6 cm)
Georgia O’Keeffe Museum, Santa Fe, New Mexico Gift, The Burnett Foundation 

Is it just me, or...?
Nice colour anyways.
http://www.artdaily.com/index.asp?int_sec=210&p=1&id=437#inicio

2.

Cloverleaf Quadruple Housing (project) Pittsfield, Massachusetts, 1942.
Interior perspective. Pencil, colored pencil, and ink on paper,
28 1/8 x 34 3/4 inches.
The Frank Lloyd Wright Foundation FLLW FDN

Steel Cathedral (project) New York, 1926. Plan.
Graphite pencil and colored pencil on paper,
23 7/16 x 31 inches.
The Frank Lloyd Wright Foundation FLLW FDN

Steel Cathedral (project) New York, 1926. Plan.
Graphite pencil and colored pencil on paper
23 7/16 x 31 inches
The Frank Lloyd Wright Foundation FLLW FDN


http://www.artdaily.com/index.asp?int_sec=210&p=0&id=429&fid=0
Personally, Frank Lloyd Wright's architecture is about surprising you by constricting your human scale upon entry and then open up the exterior to surprise your senses with the dramatic change of scale and opening.
More than anything, he build his architecture with light.
My architecture friends, have a look at FLD's plans and section.
This is what I call drawing. It almost has a J.M.W. Turner quality.

'The beauty of Guggenheim is in its folding of the New York streets and turning the language of a long stretched street into a twirling gallery.' A.H.

 

The Fighting Temeraire Towed to Her Last Berth, 1838,  William Turner (1775-1851).
National Gallery, London, UK.

3.
Kapoor!!

'I am no silly Barbie Doll'
Kareena Kapoor
Age 30
 
No, not her... people say beauty lies in the beholder's eyes...

...
.......
............

...oops, I forgot what I was looking for...

Anish Kapoor!
http://www.artdaily.com/index.asp?int_sec=2&int_new=38536

4.
The New Porsche Museum.
I'll spare you photos of Peter Eisenmann's building. Forget the building, I want to see the cars!!
Damn, I thought I was already turned on.....
http://www.artdaily.com/index.asp?int_sec=210&p=0&id=414&fid

5.

Guess what people told Tim Burton while he was drawing in his youth.
'You can't draw'.

Hey, mum, I can't draw too, want to become my patron?
http://www.artdaily.com/index.asp?int_sec=210&p=1&id=440#inicio

I missed the show, but no worries, something exciting in MOMA as well!
Let's reclaim the water instead of the land, shall we?
http://www.moma.org/visit/calendar/exhibitions/1031

6.

George Lois American, born 1931
Cover for Esquire Magazine, Issue no. 414, May 1968, 1968.
Offset lithography.
12 5/8 x 9 7/8" (32.1 x 25.1 cm).
Gift of the designer.

Does it remind you of any politicians in Hong Kong?
He will look great on a magazine cover like this.
Catholics, please pray for June 4th.

7.

Georg Baselitz, "Portrait Dr. Ulbricht".
Oil on canvas, 1970, 250 x 200 cm.
Galerie Springer + Winckler, Berlin.
Art Cologne: 2010

For some reason, this painting really scares me.
For art Festivals, I'd stick to Setouchi International Art Festival 2010 and Echigo Tsumari Art Triennial 2012 if I were you.
And if you were really me, you better check out the place where I work.
Sense Art Studio in Wan Chai, Hong Kong.

8.
Oops, no time and space for Shanghai World Expo 2010. Well, I don't want my blog censored, so I better keep my mouth shut.

'Long live WOW! architecture. Yay!'
...with a few brilliant exceptions, of course, one being the Danish Pavilion... OMG!
Real water, real mermaid and the return of the bikes... the Danes must be laughing their Frikadeller's off.

One nice comparison between Shanghai and Copenhagen:

- Shanghai planning department are proud to present their high speed complex road networks, boasting the fact that any car, once you get on the high way, you can reach any corner of the city within 2 hours drive.

- Copenhagen government, 'our plan is to allow bikes to arrive at the sea front within 15 minutes journey from any point within the city'.

Score: Shanghai 1, Copenhagen 0.
Who wants bikes in this industrial, civilised, developed world, right?

I teared up.

Learning to distinguish patriotism and individual choices of doing what they think is morally correct.

Doing service for your country should not be termed as patriotic or mingled up with the 'grand plan' of a country, or should it?

We have fought wars and had conflicts for as long as human history can remember]. People say this is because of scarcity of resource and of our animalism. So what is the difference between us and the ant next door?

What is the human project and how should we position ourselves as 'civilised people' in the 21st century?

http://news.bbc.co.uk/1/hi/programmes/newsnight/8722835.stm

Give and take

Just peed and brushed my teeth in the shower, so I can continue to eat fishes in the sea.

My definition of something that is beautiful

1. My teacher Alex once told me whether a painting was good or not was to look at the internet version of it and then look at the real one. If the real one is prettier than the virtual one.
Then it has the potential to let your mind wonder in the virtual world of the real one.

2. If a musician can play his / her music as nice or better in live version than the CD version. And more importantly, know his history and be better than his contemporaries in a revolutionary way.
An example?
Jamie Cullum mixing Gene Kelly's Singin' in the Rain with Rianna's Umbrella.
They both talk about rain. And it's a mixture of old and new into a brand new style.
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=61tOzOUguF4&NR=1

3. You look into a person's eye when you have casual talks and you forgot who you are or what she looks like.

'I feel like if someone were to touch me, I'd dissolve into molecules. '
------- Jesse, Before Sunset (2004)

問題

問題

修頓球場

二零一零年四月十號

下午四點四十五分

又開一本新日記了。

寫作有一個問題，就是太多或太小。正如現在腦中閃過很多的念頭。

人在同一時間怎可以同時去感受那麼多的訊息？

在我寫這篇日記的同時，坐在我左側後的印度人和他的朋友已經在喋喋不休的說過不停，使我在坐下的兩分鐘前便和自己搏鬥，究竟要不要離坐換一個比較清靜的位置，但又想既來之，則安之吧。

望著雨後的球場上，依然有數位不見不散，衣衫襤褸，赤著上身的阿叔慫恿不迫地形成兩個依伴的三角形，來回掛高球。「喂」，「X你老X，個波lut皮lut骨既！」熱便脫衣，作悶就吸一口煙，這樣就是一個愉快的下午。

如果你聽到「噗」的一大響，然後場上四面八方一片的「喂 ！」 「喂 ！」 「喂 ！」，你會感到場邊有一種緊張的氣氛，然後本能反應的抬頭四處張望。如果球不是飛往觀眾席這一邊，那各位便會裝作若無其事一樣用理智把正在預備擋球，蠢蠢欲動的手停住，以免自己假想的預兆引起的準備動作成為他人引發暗笑的動機。

冷不防，穿藍衣黑褲的洗地工人中了頭獎，還好只是輕輕的碰到他的頭，不然那輕輕襯托著「叮叮」的「沙沙」水聲便會被一堆粗言穢語所取替了。

不過，無論如何，這是不會發生的了。因為那洗地的聲音只是我腦海中的一點殘餘回憶，印度人也在我不知不覺間走了，剩下他的友人獨自自個兒打發時間。就是這樣了，如果「文明社會」的知識基礎是建立在閱讀，然後思考，然後把它再轉化成文字的前提上，那麼這樣的知識永遠都是一個被打了折扣的大前提上被攝取的。

管他的，一路上思考的都不是這些東西。在坐下動筆前，原本想的是我沿途進球場的感覺，這又要追索到剛剛離開書店的決定。

原訂的計劃是在灣仔找一間「星巴克」，找個位置坐下並寫一寫我對於自己近期的看法，但礙於不相信城市空間裏連坐著寫東西也需要用金錢來換取，所以決定到修頓的觀眾席上拾筆行文，但畢竟敵不過檀香的菠蘿包和維記朱奶，所以花了$10作為換取修頓觀眾上的一席的代價。

沿途才發現自己的愚昧無知。球場邊的椅子早坐滿了六，七，甚至八十歲的老人家。穿運動裝的，戴鴨帽的，藍恤衫西裝褲，獨個兒的，受一個毫無血緣關係的傭人照料的。有的眼神目獨，沒有一絲人氣；有的夫妻倆靜靜靠著對方細味場上的一切，更有聯群結黨，指手畫腳論棋盤的。

我走得很小心，怕沾污了這一片神聖的靜土。甚麼都不懂的我，只希望廉價的菠蘿包能不惹來歧視的目光吧。

不過我最想問的問題是：「十分鐘前早已喝完的維記朱奶的吸管是否比以前的變粗了？」