第一次在倫敦看電影--成功的滋味？
Sweet Smell of Success

頭痛欲裂，昨天10:30躺在床上又不小心睡到12:30，接了一通電話，就已經快一點了，趕緊出門，好在火車3分鐘後到達，1:20就到了Herne Hill Railway Station。我們轉乘後，來到泰晤士河了，我已經在此獨自散步了千百次，還不知道這裡還有電影院，看到最後一張照片了嗎？明明就是餐廳但是上面寫了Cinema，電影院就在裡面。令人驚訝的是，在台灣看電影，因為肺癌的關係，電影院只有兩三個人，這邊是坐得滿滿的，但是每個人旁邊的位子都是空的，即使是情侶也不能坐在一起，因為他們把椅墊拿掉了。

看了一場電影Sweet Smell of Success, The film tells the story of powerful and sleazy newspaper columnist J.J. Hunsecker (portrayed by Lancaster and based on Walter Winchell) who uses his connections to ruin his sister's relationship with a man he deems unworthy of her. 這是劇情片一直都在對話，不知道是頭痛的關係還是什麼原因，居然睡著了好幾次。必須坦承自己的英文程度要看沒有字幕的劇情片真的還是很吃力，所幸電影院黑黑的，也沒有人在乎有沒有人在這裡睡覺。倒是結束時，朋友說，真是太好看了，你也跟我有一樣的感覺嗎？只好點頭如搗蒜。要去喝咖啡嗎？還是你要吃一點東西？答：不想耶～我想沿著泰晤士河走一走…。啊！泰晤士河是你的最愛！是啊，可是我對這裡太熟悉了，可不可以告訴我一些新的景點、觀光客不會到的地方呢？

轉了一兩個彎就來到了這個地道，朋友是研究員，他說一位藝術家帶他來這裡的。泰晤士河沿岸的建築典雅，但其實走到街頭巷尾會發現很多不一樣的風景。不得不驚訝在英國，學者大部分都是馬克思主義的信仰者，因此學者領路，會看到很多前衛的彩繪以及頹廢的年輕人坐在街頭喝酒。

BNO去英國嘅細節出咗喇，竟然係要申請同埋要六個月financial proof。

P.S. 唔譯喇...英文好簡單（亦唔洗用傳心術解讀）。不過有句咁嘢：
"have not otherwise engaged in behaviour which the UK Government deems not conducive to the public good"

#即係有審查
#ByeByeFreeRider
#HomeOffice算唔算撥冷水
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Home Office Guidance原文：
British Nationals (Overseas) in Hong Kong
https://www.gov.uk/guidance/british-nationals-overseas-in-hong-kong

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Don’t get overawed (Lee Yee)

On the day that the National Security Law was passed by the National People’s Congress, I got a message of a friend from afar: “Are you secure?” I answered without even giving it a thought: ”No one is secure in a secure country.”

When maximal authority of a country is realized, individual rights are so minimal that no one is secure. Even in China where the plebs would answer with a big NO, are people in power secure? Was Liu Shaoqi, the late Chairman of the People’s Republic of China persecuted to death during the Cultural Revolution, secure? In the past 70 years, have most of the people in power of different levels been secure in view of the miseries they have encountered? Was and is Jiang Zemin, the former General Secretary of the Chinese Communist Party(CCP), secure? Is Xi Jinping secure?

The befalling of the National Security Law is likened to “the second handover of Hong Kong”. An online article points out “the difference between the first and second handover” is that “the people who resent the CCP in 2020 is countless times more than those in 1997, and in terms of reputation, conduct and calibre, the people who espouse the second handover in 2020 are not even comparable to those who espouse the first handover in 1997”. Another says that “Hong Kongers belonging to no country before handover used to live in peace and work with contentment”, and asks “where their homes are when they belong to a nation”? In China, even the movers and shakers evacuate their relatives by fair means or foul from their country to a strange place they call home in the West.

The Articles of the Hong Kong version of National Security Law was not announced until it took effect, so that Carrie Lam was unable to utter a word about the details of it on the day of implementation of the Law. Legislation as such is preposterous. The full text of it is awash with equivocal meanings of unfinished wordings, which is so jaw-dropping that even a layman would ask: What kind of legal document is that? Zhao Sile, a journalist from China, said online: “The Law is typically from China because the laws of China have always been ambiguous and ill-defined”. She continued, “How are they enforced? Arbitrary and flexible provisions are made by different administrative departments which then inflate in power unceasingly.”

Regarding the abovementioned, it is almost pointless to delve into every Article of it for clarifying under what circumstances does one offend and not offend the Law, and where the grey areas are. Take those dubbed the “four ringleaders of Hong Kong independence” and “gang of four that jeopardizes Hong Kong” by Chinese media as an example. While they are known to be opposed to Hong Kong independence and even anti-localist, and did not advocate the protest last year, China deems them to be guilty of all of the above by dismissing the actuality. Subsequently, some budding political groups disbanded in no time. However, if the CCP decides to recriminate, on no account can they escape. That being said, it is possible that China will sit on the issue of Hong Kong independence provisionally in an attempt to dilute the sanctions against it from overseas. With the arbitrariness and flexibility of laws of China and its enforcement, no one is secure, nor one is doomed to committing a crime. Falling into a trap is simply akin to running into a car accident.

Looking at the National Security Law, Hong Kongers, who are accustomed to living under the rule of law, will naturally get frightened and anxiety-ridden, and try to wash their hands of sensitive issues. They think they will stay secure by stopping short of slogans with content of “secession of state” or disbanding a political group. In reality, if the CCP wants to get you in trouble, it does not have to leverage the National Security Law. Manipulated by the CCP, the SAR government can do and will do whatever stipulated by the National Security Law. Is the Law retroactive? Wasn’t the disqualification sentence for Leung Chunghang and Yau Waiching, former Legislative Council members, retroactive? And the judge that brought in the verdict based on retroactivity was Andrew Cheung Kuinung, the next Chief Justice of the Court of Final Appeal to-be. Does it make sense to contemplate upon the situation differently before and after the enactment of the National Security Law?

Now that the CCP can do whatever it wants. Is the enactment of the National Security Law an unnecessary move? As Chinese officials said, the Law, like a sword dangling above Hong Kongers, is to get them overawed and frightened.

Scared? Surely. Yet, one should have been scared much earlier on. If one had been scared, one would have arranged for fleeing from Hong Kong. Those who choose to stay should not let fear take control of them.

I have always remembered what British writer Salman Rushdie wrote after September 11 attacks in 2001: “Amid the conflict between liberty and security, we should always opt to stand with liberty without remorse even though we make a wrong choice. How do we beat terrorism? Don’t get overawed and don’t let fear take control of you even though you are scared.”

The late U.S. President Franklin Roosevelt said, “The only thing we have to fear is fear itself.” If we let fear take control of us, we give up liberty.

This clip is from: Joseph Prince— How To Pray Powerful Prayers (16 Jun 2013) @josephprince

Are there moments when you wonder how much you mean to God? Perhaps when you ask Him for blessings or help, you question your own value. Perhaps you don’t feel of much value at all. Friend, you are worth so much to Him that He willingly gave up His only beloved Son to suffer and die for you, so that in Him you can have righteousness, blessings and eternal life (see Rom. 8:32). This was the hardest thing God ever had to do and it no doubt caused Him immense pain and heartbreak. But why did He do it? Because YOU are worth it.

Since your heavenly Father deems you so valuable that He gave up His only Son so that you might live, how much more will He give you everything else, such as healing and provision, that you ask Him for today? Child of God, don't doubt the immeasurable love of your Father, nor the tremendous and special worth He has placed upon you. It's when you recognize the truth of this that you will be able to fully receive and appreciate what the Lord has done for you, and how much He loves you!

You can freely ask of Him today, and be assured that He freely gives you every good thing (see James 1:17)! ??

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