人人都希望買在低點、賣在高點，這周我們跳脫看成交量、看屋組數等等，我們用非典型的指標，找可能的買點。
This we try to use untypical-index such as the stock market and the likelihood of purchasing durable goods with house price index to find better timing to enter real estate market. #盈盈來看厝

📌📝最近看到民調想起一個理論，rally 'round the flag、聚旗效應，是說在發生戰爭和危機的時候，執政者的支持率通常都會攀上高點，其實這是一種群眾心理狀態，因為危機與戰爭通常都會凝聚團結力，國家內部會放下歧見與紛爭，跨黨派支持當時的領導人。這個情況現在正在台灣、美國實際發生，過去也發生在911之後的小布希、古巴危機的甘迺迪等等。我想說的是，真的不用志得意滿、沾沾自喜，不是你們有多厲害，這是時勢造英雄的時刻呀。

#SocialDistancing #社交距離
#買房問題在頭期款呀
#原來消費者信心指數可以這樣用
#RallyRoundTheFlag

東北案抗爭者之一劉國樑(Keal)的女友，昨日探望了Keal，並寫下有關兩人生活點滴的書信。

Below is a letter from the girlfriend of Keal Lau, one of the 13 involved in the case of protest against NENT Development.

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劉國樑係好多人心目中既形象都係麻甩，大叔，hea,不過佢係我心目中就好唔同，諗起第一次同佢約會，面帶傻笑，毫無打扮，照舊踢拖，我果一刻覺得佢好特別，當日記得睇完屍殺列車，再帶我去一間茶餐廳食d充滿男人浪漫既野食，成個過程都好唔似係溝緊女既feel,哈哈

老實講自己身邊搞社運既朋友寥寥可數，佢算係我第一個認識參與比較多社運嘅朋友，深入了解佢發現尼位大叔雖然好懶，但面對不公既事同冇回報下盡力去幫去抗爭，佢有既係良心，仲話好想第時開間bar係for更多社運朋友仔係到相聚開會等等等等，雖然好多野講......但我絕對支持佢咁做，因為政府仆街，人所共知，相信係今日香港既暴政下，集結力量必有能力反抗

正正因為我覺得佢為人夠真，心地善良，對朋友又好又有義氣，任何時候都做番自己，相處落黎好舒服。（唔想讚佢咁多，出番黎睇佢會暗爽。）

講番佢既近況，近排我去探監探左佢兩次，第一次情況冇我想像中咁惡劣，令我安心既係囚友都對佢唔錯，係野食難食，倉房熱焗（好彩同佢係非洲訓練左），有電視睇下hea下，皆因佢係個好鐘意攤既人，所以佢都同我講，一入監獄就即攤。還有，藉著果次已經同佢交待好出面發生緊既事同埋其他人對佢既關心，而佢都係表露番個招牌笑容。
今朝同kc,伯母再探，伯母見到佢面色幾好，都安心哂，劉仲笑笑口同我地講食緊飯有個大隻黑鬼讚佢靚仔，果陣我幾驚佢唔再直呀！仲有，佢話生活好正規，早睡早起有波打，佢知道自己即將會變男神（嘔）～另外，全程佢講得最多就係話真係好悶，果到冇鐘睇，時間感覺好漫長，仲要可以睇電視既時間係冇野睇，所以都係果句，快d多d寫信，入下書同相等比佢望下解下悶（如果邊位人兄想，我同佢d戰友都可以幫下手），等時間快d渡過呢咁多個月😙～

雖然一切事，包括當時既事件沒有陪同係你身邊，但你仍然有著一班非常關心你擔心你的戰友朋友和現在的我撐你到底！
想念你，我愛你劉國樑！！！你唔係政治犯，你係良心犯！！

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Keal Lau in a lot of people’s eyes is “Ma Luck” (In Cantonese, grassroots and manly), appeared like an uncle, and often very chill. But in my eyes, he is very different than that public appearance. Recalling my first date with him, he wore a silly smile, not particularly well-dressed, with his usual slippers. I find him very untypical among guys – that day we enjoyed the move “Train To Busan” (translator: a non-fiction thriller of South Korea) and then we had dinner at Cha Chaan Tang, ordering a typical dish, which is known on the Internet “the romance of man”. Interesting enough, that night was not like any night that a man brings a girl out.

To be honest, I do not have many friends who participate in social movements, he was one of them who is more into it. Knowing him better, I find him particularly enthusiastic in defending against injustice, even though he looks older than people at his age or that he is lazy. What he upholds is his conscience. He often tells me that he wants to run a bar for his social movement friends to gather or hold meetings. Even though I may comment a lot on his ‘dream’, I absolutely support his idea. Because the Government sucks, everyone knows that, I believe in the present day of Hong Kong under the authoritarian rule, unity in our power must translate to ability to resist.

Because of this, I find him very sincere and kind inside. He treats his friends very well and at all times. He would just be himself, not pretentious, so he is in fact a easy-going person. (I don't want to praise him too much, he might be too carried away when he reads this when he is released).

Talking about his current well-being, I have visited him twice in the prison. In the first time, it wasn't as bad as I thought. I am assured to hear that his cell-mates treats him well. The main complaints are the tasteless food and the stuffy environment (luckily we got some training in Africa). He has a TV to spend his time on. Because he really likes to lie down and enjoy himself, therefore he told me that the first thing he did inside was to lie down. Besides, with that chance, I also updated him with what was going on outside and regards from others; he responded with his typical smile.
This morning I visited him again with KC (his friend) and his mother. Auntie was reassured when she saw him looking well. Keal also in a laughing tone told me that there is a black well-built guy praising him handsome, how frightened I was that he might be no longer a straight guy! Besides, he said that he has a disciplined life now, sleeping early, waking up early, gets sports everyday, he told us he is going to be a “boy-god” celebrity figure ( gross - ). All along the repeated message is that he feels very bored inside, there is no clock inside and he feels time passes really slowly; and when he can watch TV there is no good shows for him to see. So as I am repeating myself, please write letters to him, give him books and photographs to get him out of boredom. (If anyone have good suggestions, his friends and I would help out.) Hopefully time would pass really quickly.

Even though I couldn't be by your side throughout, including the protest itself, you still have a group of good friends who cares a lot about you and I. We will support you always!

Miss you Keal! You are not a political prisoner, you are a prisoner of conscience!

Translation Credit to Translators for dialogue in HK

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✉️ 寫信須知 Reminders on writing letters：
https://goo.gl/urwrkg

🔖 探訪物品須知（男生篇）Reminders on approved hand-in articles
https://goo.gl/pxjjfW

📋 支持在囚政治犯聯署 Petition to support political prisoners：
https://goo.gl/oUg8GU

【玳瑚師父出差錄】 一碗豆漿一份緣
Affinity over a bowl of soya milk (English version below)

在台中的那幾天，我幾乎每晚都到飯店對面的豆漿店吃宵夜。我很喜歡喝熱豆漿，更喜歡臺灣豆漿的純樸味道。

走進這豆漿店時，第一個感覺就是 – 可憐 （入門遁）。

看到店主時，人和店一樣 – 可憐。（相宅也相人）

但店主的服務很友善。她擺放食物和餐具在我們的桌上時，總是輕輕的，一點也不魯莽，是少數我見過態度溫和的服務員。我看她有點德，想指點她，於是我的學生邀她與我們聊聊。她很爽快地答應。果真有緣！

我沒等她說，就告訴她豆漿店生意欠佳。店主悲傷地落下眼淚，坦承做了幾年始終看不到錢的苦惱，更爲一直無法找到員工而頭痛。

我向她一一指出此店的風水缺陷：

- 廁所門沒關，導致穢氣沖進店内，既不衛生又犯煞。

- 店門朝著一間廟，屬靈煞之地

- 店内的鏡子過多

- 店内的財庫位堆滿了雜物。

- 店外的水槽位置錯誤

等等。

這樣的格局不只大漏財、員工失和、更無法拉攏客人的心，所以在周末晚上，客人也是寥寥無幾。我教導店主如何化解她店不好的風水，也為她免費測名、看相和擇日。

哈哈！我不是每次都做虧本生意，但遇到有德之人（現在少之又少了），我自然會想幫他多一點。這是他應有的福，他必能承受得起。我也知道對方得到我的指導后，他會回饋於社會，所以佛菩薩也會希望我能幫他。

店主很聽話，很快地就照著我的指示去做。我離開臺灣前，她還向我報喜訊，說已請到一位有豆漿店工作經驗的員工和那幾天的營業額也有顯著的進步。風水看得准，立杆就見影。

很多人說他們沒有空、沒有錢行善。你們知道嗎？其實一個能夠善待他人的人每時每刻都在行善。這樣的善，更難得、更珍貴。如果店主沒有這樣的善德，又怎麽會遇到一位願意為她指點迷津的師父呢？

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During my stay in Tai Chung, I had supper almost every night at the soya milk eatery opposite my hotel. I love hot soya milk and the soya milk in Taiwan is my favourite for its pure and rustic taste.

When I walked into the shop, my first observation was a shop in a pitiable state. (Art of intuitive insight upon entering a property.)

When I saw the shop owner, she was just as pitiable as the state of her shop. (Observation of the property followed by face reading of the owner.)

But the owner was very friendly in her service. She was mindful to place the food and utensils on our table lightly and without haste, with a gentle disposition very untypical of the servers nowadays. I saw the meritorious virtues in her and wished to give her some advice. My student invited her to have a chat with us and she readily obliged. We do have affinity indeed!

Without waiting for her to say much, I told her my observations that her business was poor. She broke into tears and admitted frankly that her years of hard work are unrewarded financially, further exacerbated by her inability to hire good employees for the shop.

I listed the flaws in the Feng Shui of her shop:

- The toilet door was not closed at all times, allowing
energy of filth to permeate the shop. This was both
unhygienic and a taboo in Feng Shui.

- The shop faced a temple and was situated on a land of
poor energy.

- Excessive use of mirrors in the shop interior.

- The store of wealth position was messy and cluttered.

- The sink outside the shop was installed in the wrong
location.

etc.

Such a Feng Shui layout not only resulted in a loss of wealth for the business, disharmony among the workers, but also affected the shop's appeal to the customers. No wonder customers were sparse and a few even on weekend nights, I taught the owner techniques to negate the lapses in the Feng Shui of her shop, and gave her a free analysis of her name, facial features as well as auspicious dates for the Feng Shui solutions.

Haha! It's not everyday you see me dishing out free advice of such magnitude. However, if that person is virtuous (which is such rarity nowadays), I tend to give him or her more. It's what they deserve, it's their merits earned from living a virtuous and morally upright life. I know that these individuals will put my advice to good use, and in turn, bring more benefits to the society. I am sure the Buddhas and Bodhisattvas would want me to lend a helping hand too.

The obedient shop owner implemented my advice in the shortest time. Before I left Taiwan, she came to me with the good news that she successfully hired a worker with relevant work experience, something she has been struggling with in the past. In addition, there was a marked improvement in her business the past few days! When a geomancer is accurate in his advice, the effect is immediate like the shadow that formed as soon as the stilt strikes the ground.

Many people often lamented that we have neither the time nor money to perform kind deeds. You know something? A person who can treat others with kindness and compassion in every moment of his life is in fact performing kind deeds all the time. For this to become a way of daily life makes such a person all the more precious and rarer. If this shop owner has not done such virtuous deeds, how would she have the affinity to receive advice of directions from me?