復活節假期第一天一早七點Margot就來按門鈴。
我們約好今天一起帶孩子上Grouse Mountain 滑雪營。Margot一手抓方向盤﹐一手拿杯咖啡﹐講到滑雪﹐問我有沒有去過這兒那兒的雪山﹐她忘了我來自沒有雪的地方﹔原來她也不喜歡雪地運動。談到開車﹐她又忘了我們沒有十六歲拿車牌的文化﹐以為我也來自類似她的家鄉Ontario那樣的地方。
許多移民以為很難融入外國人文化﹐不愛和他們溝通。我倒發現不少西人並非排外﹐也沒介意我們的口音﹐只是我們不主動﹐人家也不知你願不願和他們聊。
I would say, disclose yourself, unpack yourself, you would be accepted somehow.
Tuesday, March 18, 2008
Saturday, February 16, 2008
上星期三晚LORD BYNG中學有個音樂會﹐學校裡選修音樂的同學上臺表演。每月有幾場。
工作了一天﹐在家吃過晚飯﹐駕車五分鐘去看場這樣的演出﹐實在很是一種享受。
看看稚氣未脫的大孩子在臺上演奏﹐有板有眼﹐有些還達到演奏級水平﹐看著他們比去聽正式的音樂會還要開心。你會看到人性被社會污染之前可愛的一面。有些男孩只穿了牛記笠記﹐隱約還帶著白天上學的疲累﹐一面認真地演奏。
觀眾都是在禮節上很有水平的家長﹐無論表演如何﹐一律報以熱情的掌聲。
這種表演大家都知是鼓勵成份為主﹐不像有些貴族學校聲名是模仿HOLLYWOOD或OSCAR頒獎典禮﹐弄得十歲八歲的孩子就知道買十塊港幣的朱而繩來纏上身﹐以博青睞﹐那已經和辦這類演出的宗旨想去甚遠了。
所以說﹐從未在外國生活過的人才會憑想象去模仿﹐以為什麼都"奢侈"包沒錯。其實﹐有樣東西倒是外國人(或常年定居外國的人)常有的﹐那就是平靜和沉穩﹐那是心理修行得來﹐是社會安定使然。
住在溫哥華的朋友﹐別浪費了這么一個個浪漫的晚上。
工作了一天﹐在家吃過晚飯﹐駕車五分鐘去看場這樣的演出﹐實在很是一種享受。
看看稚氣未脫的大孩子在臺上演奏﹐有板有眼﹐有些還達到演奏級水平﹐看著他們比去聽正式的音樂會還要開心。你會看到人性被社會污染之前可愛的一面。有些男孩只穿了牛記笠記﹐隱約還帶著白天上學的疲累﹐一面認真地演奏。
觀眾都是在禮節上很有水平的家長﹐無論表演如何﹐一律報以熱情的掌聲。
這種表演大家都知是鼓勵成份為主﹐不像有些貴族學校聲名是模仿HOLLYWOOD或OSCAR頒獎典禮﹐弄得十歲八歲的孩子就知道買十塊港幣的朱而繩來纏上身﹐以博青睞﹐那已經和辦這類演出的宗旨想去甚遠了。
所以說﹐從未在外國生活過的人才會憑想象去模仿﹐以為什麼都"奢侈"包沒錯。其實﹐有樣東西倒是外國人(或常年定居外國的人)常有的﹐那就是平靜和沉穩﹐那是心理修行得來﹐是社會安定使然。
住在溫哥華的朋友﹐別浪費了這么一個個浪漫的晚上。
Monday, January 7, 2008
飄雪
望著窗外的銀色世界
腦裡不斷飄過陳慧嫻的“飄雪”
皚皚白雪
看似伸手可及
其實飄逸清雅
作曲：K.Kuwata
填詞：簡寧
編曲：趙增熹
又見雪飄過
飄於傷心記憶中讓我再想你
卻掀起我心痛
早經分了手
為何熱愛尚情重獨過追憶歲月
或許此生不會懂
又再想起你
抱擁飄飄白雪中
讓你心中暖
去驅走我冰凍
冷風催我醒
原來共你是場夢
像那飄飄雪淚下
弄濕冷清的晚空
原來是那麼深愛你
此際伴著我追憶的心痛
雪絨花
the Captain - Edelweiss Lyrics
Edelweiss, Edelweiss
Edelweiss, Edelweiss
Every morning you greet me
Small and white, clean and bright
You look happy to meet me
Blossom of snow may you bloom and grow
Bloom and grow foreverEdelweiss,
Edelweiss
Bless my homeland forever
AWESOME
"AWESOME!" "AWESOME!"
This is the words she repeats almost every week, especially at the concert night of her school.
Every student whoever chooses music as selective lesson during the term will get a seat in a band, or string or orchestra. There are more than ten bands, or stings or chestra groups at the school. Even beginners got a seat!
It is a signal to hard working educators, esp those in HK today -- what out come do we expect when we worry about our kids education? Do elite schools raise up more talented students? What kind of the school could encourage students, enrich their confidence?
Students passed grade 5 grade 6 musical instrument exams and could not find a seat in a school band. It is very popular in some areas.
"AWESOME!"
This is what we parents and children's wish, and more valuable than any other elite outcome.
Tuesday, December 11, 2007
A few years ago, I went to a golf resort in Guang Dong province in China.
The dinner of first night is buffet in the big hall of the fancy resort. All travel groups show up for the delicious dinner.
When we were moving on in a line from dish to dish, there are so many people jumping around, budging into the line.
I think they believe if they don't want this dish, they just can skip one or the other, and move from the first one to the last one and come back to the second one.
If anyone would like to chase their footprint and draw down the line, one could easily find out a pattern of a spiderweb.
The generation grown up under the red flag never know this kind of behavior is a disturbance to others.
Now this disease is spreading around, first Hong Kong, because it is just cross the boarder, and second, Vancouver.
Disturbing!
Today, at the general office of a secondary school of west side of Vancouver, I was talking to a staff, (attention! I was talking! not finished!) a woman leaned on the counter right next to me, kept sticking her head into the counter, looks urgent, so we had to stopped, and the staff who serving me had to ask her first. Her situation is similar to me, about her child's application file. Why she is so urgent to stress the staff to serve her first?
So disturbing!
And her child will be at the same school with my child, and with all the Canadian kids.
We learn to be gentle. We learn to be not disturbing people in Canada. Why we allow more and more this kind of people coming in and DISTURB our tradition here?
The dinner of first night is buffet in the big hall of the fancy resort. All travel groups show up for the delicious dinner.
When we were moving on in a line from dish to dish, there are so many people jumping around, budging into the line.
I think they believe if they don't want this dish, they just can skip one or the other, and move from the first one to the last one and come back to the second one.
If anyone would like to chase their footprint and draw down the line, one could easily find out a pattern of a spiderweb.
The generation grown up under the red flag never know this kind of behavior is a disturbance to others.
Now this disease is spreading around, first Hong Kong, because it is just cross the boarder, and second, Vancouver.
Disturbing!
Today, at the general office of a secondary school of west side of Vancouver, I was talking to a staff, (attention! I was talking! not finished!) a woman leaned on the counter right next to me, kept sticking her head into the counter, looks urgent, so we had to stopped, and the staff who serving me had to ask her first. Her situation is similar to me, about her child's application file. Why she is so urgent to stress the staff to serve her first?
So disturbing!
And her child will be at the same school with my child, and with all the Canadian kids.
We learn to be gentle. We learn to be not disturbing people in Canada. Why we allow more and more this kind of people coming in and DISTURB our tradition here?
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