痕跡

能留下多少痕跡？

最近選舉期，免不了想起自己參與選舉的經歷。三年前16歲，還在讀中五，那年跑了去參選中學的學生會。內閣的名字是「Feather」，理念大概就是指，相對於人數過千的全體師生，由只有10個人組成的學生會內閣，確實是微不足道。學生會好比一條羽毛，縱是渺少，但假若得到師生支持，我們就像乘著風，同樣可以飛得好遠、好高⋯⋯

Week 74

I will be leaving HK in less than two weeks. I’m going to study in Shanghai for one semester. My future is full of uncertainty.

One thing I’ve been avoiding to talk about: procrastination. It’s serious, especially when I can clearly tell how many days I still have to deal with that large amount of works, but I’m still doing nothing at the moment.

Thought less about the past this week; imagined about my future. How would the days in mainland be like? Which university will I be studying in? When would be the next time I see that few people I wanted to see?

Surrounded by politics. How depressing it is that I can’t vote for the Legco. I’m departing the day before. Those electioneering forums are all terribly boring. I used to spend much time on watching 2012’s forums, which made me expected a lot from this year’s. The candidates suck. My favourite politicians are not participating.

Nujabes – Luv Sic

What I need is the break

Returned to Hong Kong last night. Travelling in Taiwan is more like leaving Hong Kong than actually travelling to elsewhere.

Didn’t think and read much throughout the entire trip. Except for the first night that we only drank beer in the hostel, every night we went to bars, pubs, clubs and nightclubs. Clubbing in Taiwan is horrible. They do no control on the gender ratio, and that made me feel like I had entered a gay club.

I'm not a smoker, but I smoked pretty much too. Never smoked such frequently, but I’m not addicted to it at all. I enjoy smoking. I won’t say I love smoking, but I like doing so. In fact, what I need is not the cigarette, not tobacco; I need the break. Sometimes I would really like to leave the group for a couple minutes, for or not for any reason.

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記事

偶然打開那部封塵已久、中毒已深的電腦，又看了一遍舊相片。我怪自己以前拍照不夠多，許多往事都未有好好紀錄；又怪自己為何沒有相機，合照常常要人家代拍，最後又拿不回照片。

我認為拍照是最好的記事形式。拍照除了能真實地紀錄畫面，更有一項常被忽略的優點──讓紀錄行為與被紀錄的事情同步發生。

異曲同工之妙

這句說話，意思也算是淺白，不用特別解釋。以前我不太喜歡用這句話，因為我總是認為，雙數音節的句子，讀起來就是欠缺節奏感。然而，世上彷彿真的是存在這條定律──實用的東西，必定是久奉美感。我一直都找不到另一句說話，來代替「異曲同工之妙」的意思。說着說着，便產生了感情，更反而覺得它有種參差美。

〈The Shade of the Mango Tree〉（YouTube找不到正常版，只有1小時長的版本）是我從Nujabes發掘出來的。他用了這道歌的旋律，作為〈Lady Brown〉的樣本。兩首歌的主旋律非常相似，但意境卻是完全不同，可謂「異曲同工之妙」的相反。

起初便覺得〈The Shade of the Mango Tree〉充滿南美風情，後來才知道，它是南美作曲家筆下的作品。我認為，這首曲是典型的好音樂。除了旋律、伴奏和諧以外，更重要的，就是它帶有濃烈的避世情調，讓人自我感覺良好。我想，這也是和曲的命名有關的，因為要想像樹蔭，首先要有個日光的背景。想到這裏，自然便會把想像引伸到，自己也坐在芒果樹下乘涼，或是遠離麈囂、或是守株兔，反正就是會產生一種「眾人皆醉我獨醉」的自滿感。

Week 70

Full of imagination about my future. Suddenly, I feel cold because I suddenly got a fever. Suffered my first heat stroke this Friday. It was no cool at all. Don’t try it.

Can’t think of anything to write about this week. Nonetheless I especially wanted to update this blog under such circumstance.

Quite a lot of things happened this week actually. I wrote my diary. I rarely do so this year.

For the first time a began to draw a DRAWING seriously. It wasn’t done but almost. I found myself quite passionate at drawing. But I’m not good at it.

I have a habit. I use font size 28 for the title and 13 for the rest. I thought 13 looks the best in my old computer. Now I’m using a MacBook but I’m still using 13. And since the first post I have been counting the week number. This is the 70^th.

Sometimes I can’t update on Sunday. So I post a blank post and edit it later on. So the date of the post will still be on a Sunday.

Why am I writing if nobody’s reading? I know nobody is reading this. But I believe one day I will be stalked. For at least once I believe. Okay. This post is for that person.

Thank you that person.

Kept coughing when typing this.