#日常生活小品

話說，人妻先生都真係好耐（大約有一星期）無俾仔溝，這兩天剛好有半小時的空檔，就約左個朋友飲杯咖啡。

言談間很是不錯，唯一令我有點擔心的是，佢今年24歲，我大佢8年，我真係覺得面對呢啲咁青春無敵的鬼仔，我有點不知所措。我一直覺得男人嘅食用時間係35歲以後，在這個歲數前，就好似未熟嘅芒果咁，係爽口多汁，但唔甜呀嘛，我鍾意爽口多汁我去左食蘋果啦下話？

Anyway... 講故唔好駁故，咁我地講返個故事先。其實一路都傾得幾開心，有文有路有禮貌，少少咸多多趣，在我禮讓三分後，都算flirt得有聲有色。

點知，竟然陰溝裡翻船。

「你來自哪裏的？」他看著我輕聲地問。
「香港，那個很小但很可愛的城市。」我是真心認為我可以勝任香港旅遊大使的職責。
「你該很慶幸你不在香港吧？」他可圈可點地問。
「一半半吧！我慶幸我不需要面對警暴，但我也為香港的家人和朋友擔心。這心情很複雜的。」
「我覺得香港這樣子亂下去也不是辦法，而且使用暴力去追求民主，也不是真正的民主。」

我心諗: X街，咁都撞到個藍絲！

「留意一點，這種武力與暴力是不對等的。如果你著眼於示威者的暴力，而忽略政權的暴力，其實你也不過在為更暴力的一方抬轎。再者，有哪一個國家的民主的抗爭過程是不激烈的？你有留意我們的鄰居— 法國吧？」先禮後兵，念在你有點可愛，也念在我大你8年，讓你兩招，我控制最低輸出。

「大家應該討論吧？難道不能用和平的手法解決嗎？」

更正：原來唔係藍絲，而係中立L...

「事實上，我們的特首也有嘗試過討論，說是聽取民間意見，但實質上能進場的人只有一百數十，能表達意見的更是少得可憐。而討論完後，她幹了什麼去回應市民？加大鎮壓力度。這是哪門子的和談？」我呷一口咖啡。

「還有，回歸過後，香港人和平地談了22年，結果越談越糟，你想像一下我們自你兩歲起，已經在談，談到你現在24歲大學也畢業好幾年了，也沒有起色。親愛的，我們談的是自由，不是戀愛，不用談一生一世的。」我朝他眨一下眼睛，太美的承諾因爲太年輕，他的世界大抵還是很美麗，粗俗一點說：咪即係左膠囉。

「我給你看，這些叫籠屋，香港有十多萬人住在這種狗籠裡。這些叫公屋，很多人一到十八歲就申請，然後再輪上十年，但新移民可以特快上樓。你想像到你其中一個的人生願望是住council house嗎？還有，這個是香港夜景，很漂亮吧？但每一盞燈都在代表一班在無償加班的工人，你信不信我現在（英國下午五時，香港凌晨一時）發封電郵到香港，仍舊會有人回覆我？對了，那個倒楣鬼應該還未能輪到公屋呢！還有環境、教育、公共交通與醫療的問題.... 香港只是看似美麗，但實質上有很多深層次的問題，令大家這麼憤怒，22年了，大家忍了22年，這一次是新仇舊恨，一次算清。」

「............」 他呆呆的看著我。

「Sorry for being not sexy, however, that’s the truth, which is not supposed to be entertaining.」我聳聳肩攤一攤手，意思是「完了吧？」

#一般我真係好識扮傻扮蠢扮唔明
#嘩真係架
#你好叻呀
#我唔識呀
#你教下我好唔好姐
#但香港嘅問題絕不能含糊
#我諗住霸氣外露之後應該無下文啦
#點知佢好欣賞我可以討論嚴肅的話題
#讚我好deep
#我答佢唔止deep仲好warm
#wanna_try?
#但我還是慢慢考慮吧
#對於湊仔真係無乜興趣亦無乜時間
#上gear戴頭盔先
#本故事內容純屬虛構

So it’s my birthday, I mean I didn’t plan for any party celebration, fancy dinner or drinking session. Not really in a birthday mood, just want to have a nice meal and chill, this is what I ever wish for this year. Maybe 2019 hasn’t been good to me although it’s only March but honestly I had enough bad luck… So far nothing good has happened to me yet. I got my first saman on the third day of 2019, I was so lucky that MBPJ sent me 2 red letters just because the first and only saman I have in my life; I was also hit by a car even though I was sober and I drove really slowly. On top of those, I was robbed just last week. I lost my first chanel, wallet, cash and a phone I just got like 2 months ago. So many things happened in a short span of time. I’m getting a slight emotional break down. I used to be a lucky star in my life but why do all of these keep happening to me? Maybe my luck this time is really running dry.

But no worries, life still goes on, good things gonna happen soon hopefully (trying to stay positive). I think I should write a book about losing stuff in my life. It’s gonna be super entertaining I assume. Lastly, thank you for all the birthday wishes, I appreciate that you spent a minute to write me birthday wishes or sing me birthday song through voice msg, that’s the effort I can tell! 😉 Don’t ask me how old I am, don’t guess my age wrongly, and don’t say I look older than my age.. you just gonna remember Alexis Grace is super hot, sexy, adorable, independent and a strong woman! And, HAPPY BIRTHDAY TO MYSELF once again... 🍰

生日到了，没特地搞任何派对庆祝或聚会。只想跟朋友吃一顿好吃的，一个意思就好。今年一点气氛也没有，可能2019我过得并没有很好，虽然三月而已，但是我的运气很不好......到目前为止还没有任何好的事情发生过。2019年的第三天我就收到了我人生中的第一个saman，特别幸运，MBPJ竟然给我发了两封红信催我还钱;即使我很清醒很小心地开车，我还是被车撞了。而就在上周我无端端就被抢劫了。我的第一个香奈儿，钱包，现金和我刚刚在2个月前买的手机都没了。在那么短的时间内发生了很多事情。我几乎情绪崩溃。我是曾经的那么幸运的一个人，为什么突然间这些一直不断的发生在我身上？也许这次我的运气真的干枯了。

可是，生活仍然继续，好的事情一定会发生（硬着头皮勉强保持积极态度）。我想我应该写一本关于我不见东西的书。我觉得这一定是本非常有趣的的书！

谢谢你们的生日祝福，感谢你花了一分钟给我写生日祝福，或者通过语音留言给我唱生日歌！不要问我今年几岁，不要猜错我的年龄，不要说我看起来比我年龄大......记得Alexis Grace是热辣，性感，可爱，独立又坚强女人就好！（哈哈）最后还是得跟自己说声生日快乐，又长大一岁咯......🍰

【筆尖碎碎念】😜
　
有經營粉絲團的朋友，一定都有感覺，
2017年中過後，觸及率都有一定程度的下降....😓
原來FB的演算法在CEO馬克的宣示下，
未來將以朋友、家人👫的社交貼文為主，
意思是粉絲團貼文在動態牆上的比例將會降低。
　
作為一個使用者，我覺得這是好的方向，
要不然我個人的動態牆都快被一些媒體新聞淹沒了，
但作為一個粉絲團的版主可就苦惱了，
這樣的改變意味著作品的機率降低了....📉
　
因應這樣的趨勢與改變，
如果你想要多看 筆尖溫度 的教學與作品貼文，
有兩個方法你可以做👇
　
1. 點選粉絲頁上方" 追蹤中 "的按紐，設定為"搶先看"！然後如果看到貼文的時多互動一下，按個讚、留言或分享。
　
2. 關注訂閱 筆尖溫度 其他社群的頻道：
　　
Instagram ( 照片與短片為主 )
👉 https://www.instagram.com/nib01tw/
　　
痞客邦 ( 有比較詳細的圖片步驟解說 )
👉 https://goo.gl/mLa3qf
　　
微博 ( 以簡體字發表 )
👉 https://goo.gl/VwBZ8k
　　
Youtube頻道 ( 可收看高畫質影音 )
👉 https://goo.gl/HEu2JB
　　
筆尖溫度社團 ( 討論分享大家的作品 )
👉 https://goo.gl/67NczW
　　
#碎碎念 #筆尖溫度

One of our big focus areas for 2018 is making sure the time we all spend on Facebook is time well spent.

We built Facebook to help people stay connected and bring us closer together with the people that matter to us. That's why we've always put friends and family at the core of the experience. Research shows that strengthening our relationships improves our well-being and happiness.

But recently we've gotten feedback from our community that public content -- posts from businesses, brands and media -- is crowding out the personal moments that lead us to connect more with each other.

It's easy to understand how we got here. Video and other public content have exploded on Facebook in the past couple of years. Since there's more public content than posts from your friends and family, the balance of what's in News Feed has shifted away from the most important thing Facebook can do -- help us connect with each other.

We feel a responsibility to make sure our services aren’t just fun to use, but also good for people's well-being. So we've studied this trend carefully by looking at the academic research and doing our own research with leading experts at universities.

The research shows that when we use social media to connect with people we care about, it can be good for our well-being. We can feel more connected and less lonely, and that correlates with long term measures of happiness and health. On the other hand, passively reading articles or watching videos -- even if they're entertaining or informative -- may not be as good.

Based on this, we're making a major change to how we build Facebook. I'm changing the goal I give our product teams from focusing on helping you find relevant content to helping you have more meaningful social interactions.

We started making changes in this direction last year, but it will take months for this new focus to make its way through all our products. The first changes you'll see will be in News Feed, where you can expect to see more from your friends, family and groups.

As we roll this out, you'll see less public content like posts from businesses, brands, and media. And the public content you see more will be held to the same standard -- it should encourage meaningful interactions between people.

For example, there are many tight-knit communities around TV shows and sports teams. We've seen people interact way more around live videos than regular ones. Some news helps start conversations on important issues. But too often today, watching video, reading news or getting a page update is just a passive experience.

Now, I want to be clear: by making these changes, I expect the time people spend on Facebook and some measures of engagement will go down. But I also expect the time you do spend on Facebook will be more valuable. And if we do the right thing, I believe that will be good for our community and our business over the long term too.

At its best, Facebook has always been about personal connections. By focusing on bringing people closer together -- whether it's with family and friends, or around important moments in the world -- we can help make sure that Facebook is time well spent.

香港10大無人能及的優點
Here are 10 things this great city does better than anywhere else.

1. 摩天大樓全球最多 Building into the sky

香港現時有1,251幢摩天大廈，數量全球最多，比新加坡要多一倍，形成叫世界讚嘆的維港景觀。除了高聳在城中，中銀大廈及香港國際金融中心等亦很具設計特色。
When you've got a heck of a lot of people and very little land, what do you do? Hong Kong's solution is to stack them up on top of each other, inside tall buildings.

2. 敢死的建築技巧 Daredevil construction

其他地方都是用鋼和鋁築棚，香港的竹棚技術讓各國驚訝。CNN甚至用「敢死(Daredevil)」去形容現時超過1,700位註冊竹棚工人呢。
Daredevil scaffolders dangling precariously on bits of bamboo suspended in midair are a common and heart-stopping sight in Hong Kong's streets.

3. 說廣東話的都是語言人才 Tonal talents

內地媒體日前傳言「說廣東話會生癌」，論點極具創意，而 CNN 卻從欣賞角度去看我們的語言 - 廣東話多達 9 個音，比普通話(4音)、泰文(5音)、越南文(6音)要多，每個音都有不同意思，足以讓外國人驚嘆其精細。而在香港，每日更有創新潮語豐富我們的日常對話。所以，識講嘅，一定係講廣東話。
Check out Carlos Douh's YouTube channel (https://www.youtube.com/user/carlosdouh), the Internet's most entertaining Cantonese language teacher, for quick and easy Cantonese lessons.

2. 極低罪案率 Staying alive

這裡不單只是全球罪案率最低的城市之一，還是全球最少兇殺案的地方之一，絕對是全球最安全地方。
Hong Kong - with an intentional homicide rate of 0.2 per 100,000 people in the last 16 years - only lost out to Monaco and Palau, where there have been zero recorded murders.

3. 交通發達 Getting you there

香港公共交通系統之方便享譽全球，相對歐美國家，香港對私家車的依賴低得多。CNN 亦讚港鐵的運作表現優良。
Hong Kong is really good at getting you where you need to go.

6. 低稅制 Letting you keep your money

薪俸稅只在15%-17%之間，而香港亦沒有消費稅(GST)，是工作生活的好地方。
As a financial center that's historically been seen as the gateway to the Chinese market, Hong Kong is a great place to make money.

7. 武打電影 Kung fu movies

香港出產了李小龍、成龍、周潤發、張曼玉等國際巨星，而武打電影更能打入荷里活市場。外國人都能數得出多部知名武打電影如「臥虎藏龍」、「精武門」、「黃飛鴻」等作品。香港電影業的輝煌，有賴邵氏的貢獻。
Bruce Lee, Jackie Chan, Chow Yun Fat, Maggie Cheung, John Woo, Wong Kar-wai ... the list of Hong Kong's cinematic heavy hitters goes on.

8. 優秀的國際機場 Soft landings

香港國際機場由1998年運作至今已取得逾 40 項國際大獎，更一直屹立於Skytrax的全球國際機場排名之中。縱使近年受到新加坡樟宜機場的挑戰，香港國際機場的載客量依然大幅拋離對手。
One of the most impressive sites for Hong Kong visitors is the airport. Sure, it's recently been toppled from the throne by Singapore's Changi Airport.But Hong Kong handles more passenger traffic, 53 million passengers in 2011.
Take that, Singapore.

9. 美食天堂 Foodie-ism

七百萬人，萬五家食府 (實際數字應該更多)，其多樣性和創意亦叫人目不暇給。雖然只是彈丸之地，香港有多家米芝蓮星級食府，這裡絕對是覓食的好地方。
Ever tried a syrup-slathered French toast filled with satay beef slices? Or instant noodles dressed in a cheese sauce?
No? You haven't lived.
Take it from this city of people who are very good at eating.

10. 喜愛夜蒲 Partying so hard the neighbors want in on it

中環蘭桂坊有超過 100 家酒吧蒲場，本地及外國人都集中在這裡狂歡。蘭桂坊的成功更被中國其他城市借鏡。
First time visitors to Hong Kong's party area, Lan Kwai Fong, might think they've entered a time warp, suddenly appearing in Ibiza or Cancun at 9 p.m. on a Friday night.

What other things do you think Hong Kong does best? Tell us in the comment section.

CNN 激讚 香港 10 大無人能及的優點
http://www.utravel.com.hk/DetailNews.php?id=ADIRYxEtA3E

你怎能不愛香港？ How can you not love Hong Kong?
http://edition.cnn.com/2014/04/20/travel/10-things-hk-does-best/

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