Letter

I revisited the songs from Beyond again, after a long time indulging in electronics and classical.

遙望 is one of my favourite songs from our Hong Kong Rock'N Roll classic. Please allow me to translate the beautiful lyrics that can be only happen in Chinese (sung by Cantonese):

仍是雨夜 凝望窗外
Still a rainy night, I stared outside the window
沉默的天際 問蒼天可會知
to the silent zenith I ask, will the heaven knows
心裡的感覺 
What I really feel like

隨著歲月 無盡愛念 藏在於心裡
Time after time, all the affections stay that in my heart
像冰封的眼光 失去了方向
like the frozen eyes, I am so lost

* 讓雨點輕輕的灑過
Let the rain drops fall
強把憂鬱再掩蓋
to hide my sadness
像碎星閃閃於天空
The stars in the sky sparkle
叫喚你 
is calling you

遙望盼望
I look forward and I hope
能像清風 陪伴她飄去
as if there is a wind to carry her
讓孤單的臂彎 一再抱緊你
to give a lonely arm to embrace you
回望往日 如霧似夢
When I look back, the days were like dreams and mists
無奈的輕歎 是她的歡笑聲
I sigh, that was her laugher
風似輕吹過
carried with the breeze


Repeat *
# 每天多麼多麼的需要
Everyday I need you
永遠與你抱擁著
I want to hold you forever
忘掉世間一切痛苦悲哀
to forget all the sorrow in this mortal land
縱使分開分開多麼遠
However the distance between us
也會聽到你呼喚
I can still listen to your call
期待我這一生再會你
and hope I can see you again in this lifetime
Repeat # Twice

I started to understand the affection on how people miss each other has been engulfed by our instant contact by internet. Why should we feel bad if we can text or even see each other in a second? The need to wait has gone. We have each other every time.

No wonder, we all miss something. We miss our patience to each other, and we do not think twice before deliver our unprocessed emotions. Our languages unpolished and our feelings stayed raw. Our arts are generated without the sense of craftsmanship.

Will the vivid heaven know what I really feel like?

Two unrelated dreams

Last night I had a run practice after a year of hiatus. For so long, I looked back and thought why I started this sport that you surely would not have a company and in the end do it on your own.

And then I went back home and slept. The sleep was fragmented. Two or more dreams went to me.

There were messages from the dreams. The first one: I was building a castle in the sky. But it was almost finished, it just fell to the ground.

Another one was I dreamed that the distance between N and K was not long if N was working in CPH.

Pick up line

After watching the Before Sunrise, Before Sunset and Before Midnight, my thoughts are stirred up.

What will I say, if I see you again?

I still have not watched The Wind Rises(風起了), as the critics said it was not good enough. But I think I might need to prove them wrong. Your idea?

And, have you watched Diana in the end?

By the way, have you also watched this trilogy as well? This was perhaps one of the few movies I had recommended but not watched to you that time.

Oh.

I just can't help it.

Gandhi

When I despair, I remember that all through history the ways of truth and love have always won. There have been tyrants, and murderers, and for a time they can seem invincible, but in the end they always fall. Think of it.

Always.

M.K Gandhi

Leader

The success of the OCLP so far is largely because no one is listening to the so-called leaders. When Joshua Wong was arrested, citizens flooded into the streets with their own will and passion. Towns occupied and government terrified.

But it will be also a possible failure for the campaign to not build up their commending board. Now the event is apparently organized in a sense that there has been no violent event and target is quite unified: to demand for the genuine universal suffrage and the step down of CY Leung. But at the same time, nobody has any clues on what to do next. How to step up the gear when the government refuse to talk? And to make it complete, how to strip down the event magnitude to make it a persistent fight when occupied all the major towns seems unlikely?

It is not easy to drive the citizens who have great autonomy (which results in their own devotion to the campaign) to do whatever the leaders want to do. After all, the citizens have enough of what the OCLP leaders did at the prologue of the event: looked weak and powerless in not began the OCLP right after the students started their protests. At the same time, the students may look confident before the cameras and the reporters, there are still questions that if they have the charisma to lead the event.

Hong Kong actually a person like a Julius Caesar. Of course, A Caesar to fight for democracy and not totalitarianism.