$$$$$$

i hv been working for this job since 2004. at that time, the university cut 6 % of the salary of the staffs who were in the same post as me.

3 yrs later, i planned to quit this job. however, in this morning, i was told that the university will raise the salary for 7 % in next month. how stupid is it!!!!!!!!!!

A very hard decision......

If there is a job offer to you, which will give you 50% more than your recent one and will promise you a stable life in future, but just one thing, u hv to give up your dream, so what will u choose?

So hard to make the decision......

Finally, i didnt let myself to think 2 much, i choose my dream, and pass the offer to someone.

i dun no it was right or not, but i quite appreciate myself, appreciate my stupidness. I really believe that i m a fool, such an unrealistic crazy guy......

geisha girl goes to kyoto

yes.... this was my first time to wear "maiko" style kimono (maiko is an apprentice of geisha). i know i would look so so so so stupid.... but can't help trying it!

銀閣寺/雨月橋

建仁寺/cafe 茂庵

stone garden/flower of june

at a traditional insence maker shop, this beautiful kimono lady welcomes us/金閣寺

京都遊

一星期0既日本遊又話咁快就完左，真係好唔捨得，呢幾個月成日去日本，再加上Kae同Hugo、Anna同Yuko又0黎過香港，搞到都有0的分唔清自己0係日本定係0係香港！

唔講可能好多人都唔知，我同麻煩妹一個月都會見一次面，過去分別就係香港（12月）、北京（1月）、貴州（2月）、東京（3月）、港澳（4月）、東京（5月）、京都（6月），而未來既七同八月佢都會來香港，嘻嘻

其實可以咁樣去，除左我同麻煩妹份工都多假期之外，一定要多謝國泰航空公司0既恩人甲、麻煩妹個妹妹阿乙，同埋東京留學生低B丙。甲君為我提供特惠機票，每次實在心存感激。乙君唔介意比我去佢屋企住，仲陪我傾計同玩。至於丙君就有點搞笑，因為我先至係佢0既導遊，而佢極其量只係我0既翻譯，但無左佢，麻煩妹唔0係我身邊0既時候我真係完全變左一個啞巴！

講返今次既旅程，實在非常非常正！勁過癮！點好法真係唔知點講，只能夠記底一0的重點，等自己唔好忘記，亦等各位朋友仔羨慕下，嘻嘻！（只重點記京都，因為今次東京只留左一日半，無咩特別）

（21/6）晨早坐子彈火車（第一次坐，好快，但快唔過當年坐法國0既TGV）由東京出發，但搞笑0既係我地兩個都訓到唔知醒，去左大阪，搞到要坐返回程一個站。入住民宿，雖然平價，但個feel都唔錯。特濃拉麵，味道一般，算不上極好。短遊哲學之道，附近嘗自家製雪條同菠蘿汁，好鬼正，勁有睇日本卡通0既舊式小店feel，尤其咁鬼熱0既天氣。首杯京都飲0既咖啡，店開業自1950年，但竟然奉送「小強」一隻，店主連道歉都無句！黃昏再嘗Inoda大咖啡老店，環境一流，唯咖啡只屬中等。入夜一嘗京都料理，0黎個中日漢語辯論，非常搞笑。返宿後扮日本人去公共浴室嘆下，正！

（22/6）落雨。京都大部分0既店同景點都出奇地早關門（4點！），所以一定要盡早出門。晨咁早就去左金閣寺，0係寺內嘆茶同小點，幾好feel。去咖啡工房來個早餐，重點當然係咖啡，非常唔錯的咖啡，店主知我係香港人後仲送左個紀念品比我！之後坐京福電鐵（市內0既小電車仔）去天龍寺，都幾過癮0架，仲0係天龍寺食齋（好過香港寺廟0既齋一千倍），身處世界遺產0既寺院園林食午餐，超勁正！之後遊嵐山一帶，去左非常出名0既望月橋，又去左唔見有遊客但都唔錯既寶嚴院園林，再去勁欣賞0既超靚和服工場，見識左佢0既手工複雜同細緻，明白點解咁多日本女仔會以擁有一件為夢想。再花左好耐去搵咖啡店Yamamoto，環境好到你唔信，有一對播放Bach 0既大喇叭，咖啡則好飲到連飲兩杯，兼買多一包自家焙煎0既咖啡豆！晚上有期待已久0既豆腐宴，十道豆腐菜，再加自家製梅酒，無限感動！返宿後又再去公共浴室一嘆！

（23/6）再來個晨咁早起身，勁熱。麻煩妹話要一試藝伎大變身，0係等佢變身0既同時，我就自己去左遊町屋、高台寺一帶，街道之美，尤勝麗江！至於麻煩妹個藝伎look，嘻嘻 :p......遊清水寺，人多到以為自己返左旺角，不過真係好宏偉。午餐來個全豆宴，平、靚、正！租單車代步，再次感到龐大0既身軀係唔多適合日本0既一切，好似大人在踩小朋友車！遊建仁寺，佢唔算好出名好壯觀，但就係我今次最鍾意0既寺院，因為遊人唔多，非常安寧，園林令人心境平靜（靜到麻煩妹訓左40分鐘！）再遊南禪寺，品嘗茶道，可是跪坐唔夠三分鐘就頂唔順！再去1937年開業0既靜香（Shizuka）咖啡店，老板娘以前係藝伎，好有懷舊味道0既小店，又0黎兩杯咖啡！晚餐係濃味極品鐵板燒，超........好食！一個人去公共浴室，因為麻煩妹自己訓左先！

（24/6）訓到十點幾（之前咁多日都實在太早了）！又係雨天，遊銀閣寺，雨天有好有壞，壞0既就大家都明白，但好0既就係遊人較少，而且我勁怕熱（六月落雨0既話只得二十度，但陽光普照就有三十度以上！）再遊哲學之道、法然院，幾經艱辛先搵到0係山林裏面0既茂庵咖啡室，係間已經有九十年歷史0既木屋，非常滿足。再遊三十三間堂，全都係國寶級古物，出奇0既係遊人唔多，旅遊書大都只係係咁依介紹一下，但實在好得不得了，忍唔住買左本攝影集！之後去京都車站0既伊勢丹食超好食0既寶屋拉麵，再返四食葛根甜品，再去Cattleya咖啡店，一嚐佢聞名0既御神水井水沖0既咖啡，可識只係非常一般。最後晚餐0係伊勢丹0既壽司清解決（每次日本行0既最後一餐都係壽司），水準比唔上東京，但重要0既係夜晚0既京都車店 / 伊勢丹真係好靚！

行程報告完畢，最最最要多謝0既除左之前提過0既甲、乙、丙三君之外，當然係麻煩妹，無左佢，鬼可以係日本玩得咁痛快！

記住我今次教妳0既呢個字：過癮！

題外話：寫廣東話原來難過寫書面語好多，但係無計啦！

版主有喜，離港一星期，嘻嘻

版主有喜，本版將無野post一星期，因為終於又等到聽日同麻煩妹相會。今次除左東京之外，仲會去一直都好想去0既京都，開心之餘0係出發前都係咁依post返一兩句話留比各位朋友仔！


呢排超級勁忙，除左公事之外，尋日仲帶左麻煩妹個表妹遊香港，由朝頭早九點玩到半夜點幾，好在有Benny san既幫忙，唔係有佢流利0既日文幫忙下，我估我都唔知可以點，都叫幾順利同開心，希望佢地鍾意啦！


出發前0既晚上除左要開會外（開到成十一點），返到屋企仲要拿拿林寫埋篇論文比人，超慘，所以係咁依post兩句野，之後馬上繼續寫文！


下星期再post過！（或者考慮下0係日本post :p）

I love my job, i love my boss, but......

"I love my job", i think this is not the situation of most of the HK and JP people. But compare to "I love my boss", i think it is still common.

Yes, i love my job, and my boss. to be a HK junior salaryman, this is very unusual, i do think i hv very gd luck in this way. my job is full of meaning and achievement, i can decide everything by myself, my boss always accept my ideas, he never said no to me before even once.

However, i will quit my job soon, bcoz i need to run after my dream, i m not sure i can achieve it, i started to worry about it recently.

For me, i m not a person who want to live in a regular status, i hate to do the same things for long, i hate my life hs nth change, i hate to stop learning and creating...... to be a man who is going to be 30, this is a real problem i think, very unstable or very immature for some people. but i m sure if i m a boring guy and only want to live in a "normal", regular, ordinary, routine, flat, dull, and insipid life, 麻煩妹 wouldn't love me also.

Yes, it is a big challenge, for sure i need money for future, i still hv to take care of my family, also, i dun want to live in a low living standard with 麻煩妹. so, i m trying to explore all the possibilities to ensure i can surrive for my dreamed life with 麻煩妹.

結左先算？！

尋日0係地鐵上面到一個日本0既朋友，佢黎左香港16年，老公係香港人。當佢知道原來我同麻煩妹同佢地一樣都係0係旅行時識0既時候，佢表現得好開心，因為原來佢同佢老公都係0係去旅行0既時候識0既。呢件事對我呢個香港窮小子黎講，毫無疑問係一大鼓舞！


之後佢好快就問我地幾時結婚，我心諗，唔通係因為佢年紀比較大，所以認為一拍拖就要拿拿林結婚？原來一0的都唔係咁......


當我同佢講我地未唸咁快結婚0既時候，佢就話：「唔好諗咁多啦，結左先算，捉佢過來，咁就咩都得0架啦！」聽完之後笑左好耐，佢並唔係無道理的，唔通呢個係佢0既親身經歷？係咪真係得0架？但人地咁就十六年啦喎，如果係咁0既又好似幾好，嘻嘻 :p

new camera!

yes....! my bid was accepted for an online auction. the thing i wanted was a new digital SLR camera. wow... is this too much of a luxury for me?! should i save more money....?

started to feel a bit guilty...

ok, i am sure i will use this camera as much as i can, and will get this investment back in future and it will be in a form of beautiful masterpiece!!

hopefully.

coincidence!

i heard malaujai singing a song over skype. wow. it was the very same song that i had been singing!!!!!!


wow

wow

wow

wow....

so so so amazing. cant believe my ears.

pleasant stay?

finally, that girl has left my place..... its an old friend of mine, who stayed in my place for about a week until today.

i started to feel a bit annoyed with her stay, and so did my sister. i just found out some aftermath of her stay. trash dumped without sorting out in the bins (burnables and non-burnables are supposed to be desposed of separately otherwise they wont take them!), lights kept on, blanckets left in a mess, etc etc.... it does get me on my nerve.

i first met her when we were university students, that means i have know her for nearly 8 years. at first we were quite close, but after my graduation we got to see each other less and less frequently. well, this kind of thing happens sometimes. it was not that we hated each other, so i was not feeling sad or anything at that time. that was when some of my other friends lost contact with her too.
then about a month ago, she contacted me for the fist time in 2 years, saying that she was studying in london and asking me to let her stay in my place for a few days because she had nowhere to live in tokyo. of course, no reason to say no, i thought. i replied with a yes. and a few weeks later she came in, and told me she would like to stay a bit longer.
i dont know why but i cant help feeling pissed off with her every action in my place. maybe i was a bit too nervous, and so was she. maybe she might not be too rude to from some other people's point of view. maybe it was me who were becoming hyper-sensitive with an old friend.... we both have changed so much in the last few years.
last week i told her honestly that my sister was feeling a bit stressed with her stay. she said ok and told me she would leave the next week but stay here till some cheap hotel would be available. that was when i started to feel guilty. am i kicking out her? slumming the door shut at her face....? am i not her friend any more...??

friendship sometimes gets you in a difficult situation. there is no right answer, i think.

2 movies with you

Did anyone do the same thing like me and 麻煩妹？ we watched movie together.

However, we did not watch in cinema, we watched a vcd and a dvd.

We did not watch in the same computer, and did not watch in the same country. we watched the same movie by diff computer in different country!!!!

How a romantic and funny experience, we can hear the laugh (or even snor) of each other (and our family members), and we can look at each other by msn or skype when we a watching it.

But at the same time, it is also very troublesome, it is always not easy to make sure that the movie in the both side a in the same scene, same timing, esp when if i play the vcd (bought in vcd shop) and she plays dvd (rent in dvd shop).

In the past 2 days, we watched 2 movies together, 1 is very gd, and the other one is bad. 麻煩妹 slept during the bad movie, and i had much more fun by looking at her sleepy face rather the movie！hehe, sorry 麻煩妹 :P

The gd one is "Four Wedding and a Funeral". Wow, how young was Hugh Grant at that time!!!!!! a very english style movie, full of humor. and the actor/ress were very gd. when i was young, i watched it in tv for may be 15 mins, but i didnt feel any gd point to finish it, but today everything changed (including watched it with a "foreigner"), i can say how gd the movie was. may be i m mature (old) enough :P

the bad one was a HK movie, 《再說一次我愛你》, very stupid, emotional, artificial. it wasted the gd actors, not the main characterssssss, but the supporting actors, like 黃秋生, 許紹雄 and 林雪.

電影日

我愛電影，所以連續兩日去左兩套電影，對我0黎講其實好平常。

一套睇比想像中差，一套戲比想像中好，比想像中差0既係 cash back（《愛情回水》），尤其唔鬼鍾意個中文譯名，好俗，但估唔到原來套戲都係咁俗，所以真係無改錯名。不過又講返句公道說話，套戲只係個導演0既第一套長片，能拍得咁靚，其實已經好唔簡單，亦有好多好得意既笑位會令你睇得幾舒服，但係我0既期望本來真係幾高的！而且條「橋」真係有點老土！！！

另一套比預期中好0既係松本大洋0既大作《惡童》的動畫！全手繪、畫功一流、背景（舊東京城）仔細、動感十足、具鏡頭感，只係有好多人睇完都話睇唔明，但其實呢樣野都唔係真係咁重要姐！

實在可以比得上原作漫畫，預期不大係因為以往所有改編成動畫的，都叫人非常失望，但呢套卻叫人令眼相看！

白衫脏了

我喜歡吃各種各樣的民族料理，尤其喜歡的一種是韓國菜．我們公司旁邊有一家韓國料理店．它是很正宗，又好吃又便宜．如果每天都要吃的話也完全不介意！
這是今天中午我在那裡吃飯的時候的事情．我公司對服裝方面不太嚴格，所以除了下班後有約會的情況以外，我每天早上挑的衣服都是ok好看的．哈哈．但因為今天下午要去外面跟客人商量，所以我裝上了特別喜歡的白衫．很正經的．那時候我看著一本書在吃韓國的湯和米飯．剛要吃完我才知道那百衫上不知不覺有了無數的污點．．．糟糕了．洗干淨韓國湯的污點很不容易．所以我要裝著這件見面客人了．太害羞了．．．
所以，除了這樣的情況下，我很喜歡韓國菜．

In peace, the hero and the children of China

It comforts me by seeing 55,000 HK people did not only remember it, but walked out from indoor with air condition to the Victoria Park.

Many words in my heart, but dun no how to say, wish u all hv a peaceful life in heaven.

For the Government of NOT the People's Republic of China, "look at the power of the people, WE DID NOT, DO NOT AND WILL NOT FORGET!!!"

some may go their own way

last night was probably the last of all meet up with kae and hugo together. kae is going to UK in 2 weeks and hugo to germany in 3 weeks. though they will not be living together anymore, all the weekends they can spend in either his or her place, so they wont feel too lonely for sure. for some people the world is now much smaller than we used to think, at least in europe...

to be honest i felt bit sad and jealous at the same time. it feels funny to have this kind of mixed emotion. well, according to the law of the world when some has more, some must have less. no need to haste your way. no one can measure your happiness.

wish them my best luck for their way ahead. may our frienship last long.

18 yrs already......

18 yrs already......

The same time of 18 yrs ago, the army moved into Beijing, some students were still in hunger strike, and were forced to face their fate......

In that year i was 10, studied in primary school, and didnt understand anything.

Yrs later, i found out what had happened b4. But today, some people have changed their mind, their position. They forgot what they had said and did, and didnt admit what had happened.

If 18 is a number means a person who has already lived for 18 yrs and can be called as an adult, did our country become an "adult"? did the govt take their responsibility and admit their fault like an adult? The answer is very obvious.

王丹 wrote this poem in jail, let's read it and burn a cigaratte for the dead people, and for the people were still in jail who cannot smoke!!!

《沒有煙抽的日子》

沒有煙抽的日子
沒有煙抽的日子
我總不在你身旁
而我的心裡一直
以你為我的唯一的
唯一的一份希望
天黑了　
路無法延續到黎明
我的思念一條條鋪在
那個灰色小鎮的街頭
你們似乎不太喜歡
沒有藍色的鴿子飛翔　啊
手裡沒有煙那就劃一根火柴吧
去抽你的無奈
去抽那永遠無法再來的一耬雨絲　喔
在你想起了我後

I hope one day, our govt and our country will become a "real adult".

At the same time, I hope one day all the "real adult" will understand why they smoke, and why they dont. And i also hope the society will respect the right of the smoker and also the non-smoker.

dragon boat race and monet

today we had an very exciting day... dragon boat race!

the weather condition was good and there was no big wave, so it was supposed to be much easier than last year. and yes, we did have a very smooth run, with the head of our boat crashing to the nearby boat in the next lane..... as a result, unfortunaltely, we were disqualified for the race. too bad!! i think we were just too excited and spirited that the each push of the paddles didnt come together as one. hope we can do better next year!

after that i took some friends from the group to see an exhibition in yokohama museum. as far as i remember this was the 1st time i ever saw monet paintings . i thought i always hated impressionist paintings because i just dont see any meanings in any of those landscape paintings. but wow, the real things are so different! i was almost stunned as if id seen a magic. it was just like looking directly into someones mind, whoseowner was pondering in front of a lotus pond.

hmm....

Sooooooooo tired and jealous

尋日真係好忙，忙到要今日先寫返尋日發生過0既事......

尋日係我一生人第一次一日去兩個唔同0既墳場，上晝一早帶一班老師去左跑馬地墳場考察，搞左四個鐘頭，天氣熱到不得了，後來先知原來尋日有三十四度！

下畫同阿媽食完飯，就去左爸爸0既墳墓度拜祭，因為尋日係佢0既生日，所以無論幾辛苦都應該要去，之後我已經無左半條人命！

拜祭完又要馬上趕返教會講道，講左0的關於六四既野，唔經唔覺咁就過左十八年，一個成年人既歲數，但係就眼看中國政府仲未「成年」，唔肯承認責任！

講完道又約左班朋友去傾計，搞到返屋企之後除左想沖涼之外就係訓覺！

頭先麻煩妹打過比我，佢0係日本同緊一班香港人爬龍舟，仲話玩到濕曬，好累，我尋日都係咁上下，可惜唔係去左玩，真係羨慕麻煩妹！

Sorry JP friends or someone dun no chinese, i will type in Eng next time, cox 麻煩妹 said she needs to improve her chinese yesterday, for the reason of the chinese lesson on yesterday was very difficult. However, that is a Mandarin course, i dun think my post can help :P, anyway......add oil, and dun mix up with Cantonese and Mandarin, haha

chinese class

i went out this morning to attend a chinese lesson. i was assigned to a upper level class for the 1st time. in the new classi had 2 classmate, and wow, they just speak soooooo good.... i started to feel real embarrassed.... i hope i could speak like them one day.

Tetsuo Ishidate

i just heard this news that one of my long-time favorite actor tetsuo ishidate(石立鉄男) has passed away. as a student i really loved watching his home comedy drama series on tv. even at that time those series that he played the leading roles must have been on more than 3rd or 4th run, and people thought his acting style was too lame and old-fashioned.

at that time i think i only had a vague memory that i had watched them when i was really really small. until then i never regared him as my favorite, but soon after i started to watch it i found that on tv i realized he was a really brilliant actor. i especially loved the tone of his voice.

after a little while, some so called fashionable people brought those series up again as something cool and trendy. the time was ready to call him back to the spotlight, but he never appeared as they had expected. later i heard that he rather refused to do so.




May his soul rest in peace.

馬騮仔教廣東話

獻出左我0既第一次之後，我決定間唔中用下廣東話，間唔中用下英文，鬼叫「麻煩妹」係日本人咩，不過佢都識識地廣東話，普通話仲勁，大家千祈咪睇小佢呀，佢0既發音分分鐘準過我地！

不過要同各位日本朋友講聲對唔住啦 (to all JP friends, very sorry la, no method la, coz i need to teach her ma :p)！或者有一日，我又要同我0既香港朋友講對唔住，因為可能有日「麻煩妹」都會用日文，不過到時至算啦，我相信短時間我都未會學識睇！

無錯，我係唔識日文0既，但我快將會去學0架啦，等下啦！我一定會加油0既，請各位多多支持！

BTW, 咁樣學中文一點也不出奇，大家可以去睇下呢個網，人地有埋拼音同音標添，我就自問不如啦........ http://cantonese.hk/wp/

馬騮仔's 1st blog and 1st post!!!

As 麻煩妹 said, I do have to admit that i m really "not very familiar with this kind of thing", and didn't sign up until now, but i need to point out that, "someone" is also not very familiar with sending email, coz i've been using hotmail's service, not "hotamil" or "hotmil", so it was very normal that i had not received the invitation b4, haha

Tonite I watched a movie called "吳清源" ("The Go Master") with my very gd friend, ICE, who had also met 麻煩妹 b4. The movie is about 吳清源, a native of China, emerged as a prodigy at a young age, moved to Japan and rose to prominence as the top Go player (a kind of traditional chess use to play with 180 white and 181 black pieces) in the world during the period of 2nd world war. Since 吳清源's wife is a japanese, so i think it's such a coincident and suitable topic to use for my 1st post in this blog!!! The feeling must be different if i watch it b4 i met 麻煩妹!!!

The movie itself and the actor and actress inside are also gd, but sth can be better, such as the way of the story telling. Anyway ICE and i also share the same feeling about the impossibility of HK movie industry to make this kind of movie, very refined and serious scene, mise-en-scene, "mood" control, etc.

indian dinner

had a quick indian dinner with one of my colleagues in shibuya. she is such a cheerful girl, very typical of an osaka girl.

after dinner we hurried back to the station. got on the same train and said good bye as she got off at a few stations before mine.