My mother died exactly one year ago, today. It's been hard for me. Harder, if I hadn't had the support from my sisters and very beautyfull friends. I'...
My mother died exactly one year ago, today. It's been hard for me. Harder, if I hadn't had the support from my sisters and very beautyfull friends. I've put up a very brave and strong front, but deep inside, I died, everyday a different death. During the first months after she was gone, there were so many bleak nights when I went to sleep, hoping I would just not wake up, to face yet another dreary day. I never knew whether I would ever be okay again.
I think my mother would've hated for me to continue being this way.
Days turned into weeks, and weeks into months. And I slowly began to remember that it isn't my purpose in life to tread along with no aim, depressed and moribund. I know I'll never be the same again, but I have to slowly pull myself up by the bootstraps, out of the gutter, and try, despite this colossal loss, to soldier on.
One of the last conversations I ever had with my mother was about the song, 'Fly Me To The Moon', written by Bart Howard. She asked me if I knew the lyrics, and if I would mind saying them out to her, so she could write them down. I never knew until that day, that it was her favorite song. All the countless times she had been to my performances, never once did she ever request for me to sing that song for her. I guess to her, that would've been disruptive, and insulting to me as a performer, and an assault to her sense of what was 'proper'. I have a lot to be thankful to my mom for. The endless piano lessons and vocal classes when I was little, all the recitals she attended, and the plays and the concerts she would always make sure not to miss. I remember directing my first musical, The King And I, when I was 16, and watching her in the audience as I took my bow, teary eyed, and beaming with so much pride.
Thank you Mama, for always encouraging me to chase after my dreams, but most of all, for urging me to be true to myself, and follow my bliss.
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年三十晚,武漢肺炎疑似傳到我所在的美國城市。Amazon上的外科口罩被掃了清光。微域世界裡沒有國界。
讀到醫護抽生死籤的新聞,想起黑警怎麼對待醫護人員,陳肇始張建宗等庸官的嘴臉,只覺憤怒。
武漢的消息叫人更揪心。感染人數肯定比官方數字多出不知多少倍,醫療系統全面崩潰,想看醫生想住院的人甚至無法確診,只能在家等死,至死不能確認究竟是否感染了所謂「不明原因肺炎」。華南海鮮市場的野味買賣應要取締,但沒有人管。疫情剛發生時不去控制,教導民眾防疫隔離,還去抓傳出疫情消息的人。政治不透明,沒有民主,那是一個問題,但庸人治國,草菅人命,就不止是沒有民主的問題了。
確實是李屍朝鮮,京城裡的人開心過年,互道恭喜;疫區的人每天走路去醫院排七個小時的隊吊鹽水。
有時見到「某國人應該死清光」的言論,我真心感到心寒。真的嗎?他們值得死清光?他們就是生在一個封鎖消息,封鎖真相,封鎖言論的政權底下而已。就當他們當中有留意香港新聞的人對運動不理解,這真的完完全全是他們的責任?他們當中真沒有人爭取過?在大陸說半句真話的後果,真的人人承受得起嗎?在這樣的環境下過日子,不犬儒,不保守,過得下去嗎?
武漢有些人在封城前連夜逃離,我真心覺得害怕,怕他們去香港加重香港醫療系統負擔,或者連半點防疫意識都沒有,來香港住酒店去迪士尼,讓病毒滿天飛。可是,假如我是武漢人,在一個沒有一個消息渠道可信的社會,聞說要封城讓我們等死,我逃嗎?
開學第一天,我跟學生講切爾諾貝爾(車諾比)核災,沙士,還有武漢肺炎,講後極權社會的消息監控,講哈爾維說的「異見」(dissent):所謂異見人士,只不過是普通的作家﹑詩人﹑工人﹑醫生﹑老師﹑社會學家﹑物理學家,都是在做自己覺得必須做的事的普通人,但無意中跟權力正面衝突而已。我想起沙士的whistle-blower蔣彥永醫生。他沒有想過要成為甚麼異見人士,他只是一個將在301﹑302醫院裡所見所知說出來的老軍醫。後來他就被貼上了「異見人士」的標籤。
在這樣的社會,講真話的代價太沉重。十七年後,連這樣的醫生也不見了。
這段日子,我經常想的是,在香港進入更極權,更難以講真話的社會後,我們可以怎樣保守希望,繼續反抗?哈維爾說,在一九六八年蘇聯入侵捷克斯洛伐克,將坦克開進布拉格後,捷克斯洛伐克就進入了「a long period of moribund silence」。不止是沉默,還是死亡般的沉默。哈維爾說,唯有活得光明磊落,活在真相之中,極權才有鬆動的可能。
那種真相是集體的,但更是個人的。
希望大家意會。
新一年,望大家找到自己的真相,身體健康,戴好口罩,勤力洗手,健健康康的等待春天。
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【有片!警察喪打疑腦漿濺出 傷者無反應後才停手】【災難系列】
男公關寧願炒車都要Post咗先,希望大家俾啲壓力警察!但短片見到打到爆哂腦兼有黏稠血漿流出(唔知係咪腦漿)。
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醫護界收到料,可否傳出,寧炒車不可以多一個周同學
a few facts about Festival Walk:
- there is at least 1 moribund patient on 3rd floor in the staircase / toilet
- the cops denied emergency responses by paramedics
- the mall will be completely closed soon for corpse removal and cleanup
E護谷傳緊
真係封左三樓
晤俾記者加職員入
熄埋燈
留意:片中傷者唔知係咪盛傳的垂死傷者!
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有人傳來,自行判斷。
// 醫護界收到料,可否傳出,寧炒車不可以多一個周同學:
a few facts about Festival Walk:
- there is at least 1 moribund patient on 3rd floor in the staircase / toilet
- the cops denied emergency responses by paramedics
- the mall will be completely closed soon for corpse removal and cleanup
E護谷傳緊
真係封左三樓
晤俾記者加職員入
熄埋燈 //