Care to join me?

Saturday lunchtime is the most relaxing to me.
Good food, nice coffee,
great sharing time with a good friend.

Care to join me next time?

Early reservation recommended.
No early-bird special though.

For the foodies out there, to save you asking -
this is back ribs @ Ginko House on Temple Street.

you were always on my mind.

Two songs are playing interchangeably in my mind these past few days.

Entirely different styles, and for entirely different reasons.

(1) 小小姑娘 This is a song dedication to dear Rafael.
(If you know what this is all about, enjoy it along with Rafa. If not, just let the tune pass, you'll be fine, haha.)

auntie judy humming frantically
to the tune of 小(小)姑娘

miss the dumplings made by rafa's
amazing papa in beijing

(2) "Sally's Song" (from the movie "The Nightmare Before Christmas" - a wonderful but dark-ish movie, perhaps not for kids?! Go go go watch it if you haven't. I just LOVE Tim Burton.)

In Joanna Wang's 王若琳 concert in Hong Kong, she sang this song and said it has a big influence on her music style. Found later that one of her favorite musicians is Danny Elfman. You can watch her sing it here.

It makes me want to watch "Nightmare" again, oh Sally.

The world which "they" live in.

我是一只貓頭鷹，昨晚早了點睡，不知怎地，今早清晨彈了起床，難得跟爸媽一起吃早餐，餐後更去了－晨－運－。（難怪有朋友指，我是「退休青年」）

早晨的街頭，人來人往，出發時有大群大群的小學生（附近有至少五家小學）、陪行的家傭或爸爸或媽媽，回程是有大群大群的上班族，一概是我久久未見的風景，有點那是「他們生活的世界」，跟我無關之感。－他們大概也久久未感受過，工作至清晨，看到朝霞、聽到鳥兒吱吱叫的美妙吧？！

但是，為了健康，我還是慢慢做回一只早起的鳥兒吧。讓我做那只吱吱叫的鳥兒好了。

"hear a pin drop".

Last night I went to Lisa Ono's concert (HK Arts Festival finale performance, 2 more shows but all sold out as I have been told, sorry we missed you), it's simply Bossa Nova heaven.

When she sang "Moon River", there's just light guitar and piano accompaniment, you could hear a pin drop in the room. Total silence, all ears and eyes (and all the other senses!!) focus on her tenderly voice.

If there's one thing I could change about my life (well, I can still start now, of course....), it's to learn a music instrument of some sort, of any sort. Music can do things even movies (haha) and literature cannot to one's soul.

mama mia

我媽媽煮菜奉行少油少肉原則，吃得極清淡，做人極有規律。不知何故，近年卻愛上看電視台星期日八點鐘的「好味呀好有口感呀好有肉味呀」飲食節目。今晚難得陪她一起看，我們一邊看，一邊在胡扯：

媽：「韜哥好胖哦！」
我：「對對對，看來好像不倒翁。」
媽：「食物多肥膩，整個碟底都油油的。」
我：「對對對，看完節目，光是用眼看都增加一萬個卡路里，膽固醇超標。」

看完「日日有食神」（今晚主題是澳門），卻又激發我跟老媽重新研究早前提過的吳氏四傻澳門之旅。她又問問我找工作的情況，最近翻譯工作的稿量。然後，她多玩一會「channel surfing」便去睡了。

然後，我開電腦收電郵，接到好友媽媽突然安息主懷的消息－猛然醒覺，陪媽媽看無聊（到爆）的電視節目，已是幸福。

《目送》－「冬，一九一八」

今天晚上，想到《目送》以下的話：

「人生本來就是旅程。夫妻、父子、父女一場，情再深，義再厚，也是電光火石，青草葉上一點露水，只是，在我們心中，有萬分不捨：那撐傘的人啊，自己是雜亂時代的孤兒，委屈了自己，成全了別人。兒女的感恩，妻子的思念，他已惘然。我們只好相信：蠟燭燒完了，燭光在我們心裡，陪著我們繼續旅程。

在一條我們看不見，但是與我們的旅途平行的路上，爸爸，請慢慢走，白日依山盡，黃河入海流。欲窮千里目，更上一層樓。」

Oscars go, went, gone!

As a viewer, this year's Oscars is less glamorous but "warmer", and quite entertaining too.

As a translator, it's actually a relatively easy show to translate, yet with more dialogues (cheaper budget, fewer props and less glamorous backdrop, so, they add in more dialogues! Some of us were cursing when we watched the live telecast this morning).

As a woman, I am charmed by the gentlemanly Hugh Jackman. Well, I consider Billy Crystal (I just love him) to be the "eternal MC for the Oscars", and Jackman nearly beat him. He sings and dances well.

As a person, the one point I was touched (I didn't watch much of the show tonight, left the office quite late, ended up watching only the last hour or so) was when Kate Winslet asked her parents to whistle to her, so that she could locate them. And her dad whistled, for everyone to hear. So sweet.

As a tired office worker, I really should sleep now.

Last but not least, as a movie lover, I couldn't wait to catch (1)"The Reader" and (2) "Frost/Nixon". Want to catch "Revolutionary Road", too.... wonder if it's still on or not.

As for the big winner, "Slumdog Millionaire", my bro and sister-in-law watched it on their side, and she thinks it's "my type of movie" (indie/ artsy-fartsy/ interesting in a certain way movie).