【我要】下樓，為什麼不是 go to the downstairs？

upstairs/ downstairs 雖然當名詞也是「樓上、樓下」的意思，但一般不會用來當作一個「要前往的地點」，而會直接改用它們的副詞屬性來說，例如 go upstairs/downstairs。

👇還有這些容易搞混的地方副詞，也千萬別用錯👇

【業力的黑洞】THE BLACK HOLE OF KARMA

（一）

「我不是叫你帶筆記本嗎？」

我看著男客人擺在桌上的那僅僅一張A4紙。

男客人不好意思地說：「我忘了。這是跟櫃台取的。」

「我千里迢迢來到這裡，因為你說你要改命。你就拿這樣一張借來的紙，來改命？一個半小時的看八字，夠你寫嗎？還是你不夠寫時，又要浪費我的時間去借紙？你的認真在哪裡？」

我雙眼直視著男客人的眼睛。

他連忙站起來，去借了多幾張A4紙。

•

（二）

「你怎麼帶那麼小的本子？夠寫嗎？」

我不可思議的看著，那如信用卡一般大的記事本。

男客人答：「可以啦！我只寫重點！」

「你這個是懶。我的每一句話都是重點。你的八字在我手上，你是怎樣的人，你不要以為我不知道。你不要跟我瞎掰，更不要有寫沒寫的，然後事後又發私訊重覆性的問回我一樣的問題，因為你沒有用心思寫下來。樓上有書店，要嘛你現在去買，我給你十五分鐘，要嘛我們今天就不看你的八字。你自己選。」

男客人十分鐘內，買了A4本子。

•

（三）

我為即將結婚的男客人看新家風水。

他來過我的風水講座數次，閱讀我臉書也有兩年多時間，應該很熟悉我的性格。事前，我提醒過他兩次要帶筆記本，兩次兩次他都跟我說謝謝提醒。

站在客廳看風水時，他抽出那張A4的屋子平面圖，壓在手掌心寫。

「我不是已經叫你帶筆記本嗎？」

他笑笑不語，沒有解釋，沒有道歉。

新家風水那麼重要，關係到你和你家人未來至少五年的興旺，你就在這一張軟綿綿的紙上寫兩個小時的筆記嗎？

以我對客人的要求，我本會叫他到外頭買筆記本，我們才繼續看風水。

但那天，現任屋主還住在那個單位，是特別約好時間讓我們進去看風水，對方也在等著我們完事後就要出門。

想想他過去兩年來常在我臉書貼文按讚，就給他一點面子，讓他在女朋友面前好下台，也算是報答他的支持。

於是，我看在眼裡，記在心裡。依我的經驗，沒把筆記寫好的，必會再來問我。

幾天後，他來訊詢問。當中有幾個問題，我當天已解說過。

我回他：「我雖不介意回答已經回答過的問題，但如果你那一天有帶筆記本，你必會抄下來。」

也就不用再問。

我也寫道：「我對你有點失望。」

他回我：「我明白也注意到你的失望。以後會更留意自己的念頭和舉止。」

「你應該跟我道歉。你忽視我的善意提醒本就不對。」

也猶如騙了我。如果你當初不想帶，直說，不要以假謝謝敷衍。

男客人過後道歉，也大方的同意我把這件事情寫出來，警惕大家。

如果你的未來註定會坎坷，無論是婚姻、事業、家庭或財富，你要比任何人都更注意你的一舉一動。

因為你細小的念頭，細微的決定，會一步一步引你掉入你命中註定的歹運。

你會漏掉寫下我千交代萬交代的事情。

你會寫錯、聽錯、記錯、做錯。

你身邊的人會影響你，告訴你不要聽我或任何能幫你改命的話，你如何如何讓她他不開心不舒服。

你會有錢也不要出錢，只是一直想博取我的同情，得到免費的幫助，然後稱說自己沒有錢。

你會任性，你會執著，你會覺得風水命理沒那麼厲害，你自己說了算，雖然你根本不怎麼樣。

因為你已變成一個弦线上的小木偶，被你那無情的業力操控著。

我的嚴厲，是要及時拉你一把，不要「青青菜菜」的過活，不要拖累你的家人和你一起遭業報。

不是每個人跌倒後，都能夠爬得起來。

誰不想做好人，讓每個人都喜歡自己？但自古，慈母多敗兒。

在現今社會裡，男人女人的自信，都是來自於事業，但每個人的幸福，都是源自於家庭。

所以千萬千萬不要自私。

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（1）

“Didn't I tell you to bring a notebook?"

I looked at the lonely piece of A4 paper the male client placed on the table.

Slightly embarrassed, the male client said, "I forgot. This was obtained from the counter."

"I come all the way here because you tell me you want to change your destiny. You bring this kind of paper to change your life? My consultation is 1.5 hour and you think it's enough for you to write? Or when you run out of space, are you going to waste my time to go and borrow paper? Where is your seriousness?"

I looked at the male client straight in the eyes.

He hurriedly stood up and borrowed a few more pieces of A4 paper.

•

（2）

"Why did you bring such a small notebook? How is it enough for you to write?"

I looked at the credit-card-sized notebook incredulously.

The male client replied, "Can! I only write the important points!"

"This is your sloth. Everything I said is important. Your Bazi is in my hands. Don't think that I do not know what kind of person you are. Don't talk nonsense to me. Don't write selectively and then later send me PMs asking me the same questions that I have answered in this consultation, just because you didn't put in effort to jot it down. There is a bookshop upstairs. Either you go and buy now. I will give you 15 minutes. Or we will cancel today's consultation. You decide."

The male client returned with a brand new A4 notebook in ten minutes.

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（3）

I was doing a Feng Shui audit for a male client who was getting married.

He came to my Feng Shui workshops a few times and have read my Facebook for over 2 years. Prior to the audit, I reminded him twice to bring a notebook and twice, he thanked me for my reminders.

While standing in the living room doing the Feng Shui audit, he drew out a A4-sized floorplan and wrote on it, with his palm as the backing.

"Didn't I already tell you to bring a notebook?"

He smiled back at me. No explanation. No apology.

The Feng Shui of a new home is so important because it determines the future of your family luck for at least the next 5 years. And you are going to write on this floppy piece of paper for the next 2 hours?

Given my expectations of clients, I would have told him to go and buy a notebook before I continued my audit.

But that day, the current owner was still living in the unit. It was by appointment that we were let in to get the Feng Shui audit done. The family was also waiting for us to finish things up, as they were going out.

I thought of the many times that he had Liked my FB posts these two years. So I decided to give him some face, and not make things difficult for him in front of his girlfriend. Also a very tiny way of me thanking him for his support all these while.

Hence, I put this incident in my heart. From my experience, I know that anyone who did not write the notes well will definitely come back to ask me again.

A few days later, he sent me messages, some of which were raising the same questions that I had explained on the day of the audit.

I told him, "While I do not mind answering the same questions again, if you had brought a notebook that day, you would have written it down."

You and I would not need to repeat ourselves again.

I also wrote, "I am slightly disappointed in you."

His reply, "Well noted on your disappointment. Will pay attention to own thoughts/actions for better changes."

"You should apologise to me. It is wrong of you to ignore my reminders to bring a notebook."

This is akin to lying to me. If you do not wish to bring, say it outright. Don't brush me off with perfunctory thanks.

He did apologised later and graciously gave me the permission to write about this, to remind my readers.

If your future is destined to be difficult, be it in your marriage, career, family or wealth, you must be extra observant of your every action and deed.

Because every little thought of yours, every seemingly minor decision you made, will lead you step-by-step to fall into the manhole of your pre-destined bad fortune.

You will miss out on what I repeatedly tell you to do.

You will write wrongly, hear wrongly, remember wrongly and do wrongly.

The people around you will influence you. They will tell you not to listen to me, or any well-meaning advice to transform your destiny. They will say that you doing so is making them unhappy and uncomfortable.

You will be unwillingly to fork out money even when you can afford it. You want to live off the compassion of mine and get free help, on the empty claim that you have no money.

You will be wilful. You will be stubborn. You will think that there is no big deal about Chinese Metaphysics and that what you say matters the most in your life. Despite not having any ability or past achievement to support that fat bold claim.

Because you have already become that little string puppet, being dangled around mercilessly by your negative karma.

My sternness is to pull you away from that manhole of mishaps. Do not live your life in a blur. Do not drag your family down with you to suffer at the hands of karma.

Not everyone can stand up right again, after a really bad fall.

Who doesn't wish to be that well-liked person? But since ancient times, an overly loving mother often leads to a useless son.

In modern society, the self confidence of every man and woman tend to come from his/her career. But happiness and bliss will always come from your family.

So never ever choose to be selfish.

父親節講《教父》算應節吧？

Vito最關心兒子們跟妻兒相處好不好，向Michael點出做男人之道：「I spent my whole life trying not to be careless. Women and children can afford to be careless, but not men.」婦孺大意尚有男人照顧，但男人一失足就累全家。教父Vito視自己為全家支柱，他絕不可以倒下，一旦倒下，眾人就失去依靠了。

天跌下來由他頂，父親沒有餘暇去慌張或哭哭啼啼。大仔Sonny被暗殺後的這一幕完全體現了作為父親的德性。養子Tom一個人坐在書房裡飲悶酒，正躊躇該怎樣跟爸爸講這個噩耗。半夜三更，Vito剛從樓上下來，離遠見到這位最機智的兒子落泊的身影，就料到不好的事真的發生了。

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=5YphD14PQQg

Vito坐在Tom旁邊，Tom恭敬地仰望，有話不能講般難受。Vito伸手說：「畀我飲啖。」有甚麼比兩父子同斟一杯更親切？「My wife is crying upstairs. I hear cars coming to the house. Consiglieri of mine, I think you should tell your Don what everyone seems to know...」全部人都知道，只得爸爸一個不知道，因為大家都怕這個打擊實在太大。

Tom：「Ah, I didn't tell Mama anything. I was about to come up and wake you just now and tell you.」

Vito：「But you needed a drink first. 」意思是Tom這種文膽也要飲酒壯膽，足見事情之大。

Tom默默低頭，還未準備好：「Yep...」

Vito：「Well, now you've had your drink. 」可以講了嗎？

Tom鼓起勇氣，聲線抖動哽咽說：「They shot Sonny on the Causeway. He's dead. 」

你真的要看影片，看看馬龍白蘭度的演繹，那一下噴氣包含了千言萬語 (這一日始終來到？為甚麼發生這種事？究竟是誰害的？為甚麼是他？)。他鼻頭一酸，千頭萬緒湧上眉頭，望着天花，無語問天。奇怪是，喪子之痛沒有進一步發酵，傷感驟斂，幾秒就消止。

因為這不是該傷心的時候，家庭需要他挺住：「I want -- all inquiries made.」他平伏多幾秒：「I want no acts of vengeance. I want you to arrange a meeting, with the heads of the Five Families. This war stops now. 」

不是該報殺子之仇嗎？Vito心繫的是家人的安危，復仇只會令父親失去更多。

傷痛再次來襲，Vito卻待不下在椅子上，有人正等待他去安慰。他站起走到Tom面前，讓他靠在自己的肚子上，撫慰他的背項。父親總是這樣，不想自己，總是顧着家人，知道Tom都極其難過，兩父子一同飲泣。他見到電話，想起曾求助的殯儀館老闆Bonasera：「Call Bonasera -- we need him now. 」

Vito逕自走開，背後傳來Tom撥輪和說話聲。他走到樓梯，望上二樓的老妻正在泣不成聲，每一梯級都比平時沉重難走十倍。

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Jh1sHhpXuZY

他們連同Sonny的遺體搭電梯下到殮房，Bonasera正在守候：「What do you want me to do? 」

Vito：「I want you to use all your powers -- and all your skills. I don't want his mother to see him this way...」他不想妻子見到Sonny難看的遺容，自己卻打開來看。Bonasera見到全身彈孔和血的Sonny，瞪眼驚呆。他和全場觀眾一同望向Vito的反應。

你親自欣賞勝過我文字轉述。Vito眉頭抖動，頭部右傾，難以接受，哭著感慨：「Look how they massacred my boy...」你睇下佢哋點屠殺我個仔？Vito掃視Sonny的遺容，這一刻，大部分東西都安排好了，終於可以釋放真正感受。

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=fuWkcKbBQkg

除了喪子反映父愛，父親的臨終叮囑更令人揪心。Michael是么子，Vito一直想他不混黑幫，過自己的生活，不要做人扯線公仔，要做扯人線的政客或議員。他好擔心Michael安危，臨死前花園這一幕，他劈頭就跟Michael說接下來的劇本：「So -- Barzini will move against you first. He'll set up a meeting with someone that you absolutely trust -- guaranteeing your safety. And at that meeting, you'll be assassinated.」預知兒子被暗殺是甚麼滋味？

他飲了一口紅酒：「I like to drink wine more than I used to -- anyway, I'm drinking more...」這一動作呼應Tom飲酒壯膽講Sonny死訊。

他們聊家庭，聊孫兒，聊到Vito提醒提防竊聽，Michael卻反提醒「我已經照你說話做了」。

Michael知道父親放不低：「I'll handle it. I told you I can handle it, I'll handle it.」

「I knew that Santino was going to have to go through all this. And Fredo -- well -- Fredo was -- well -- But I never -- I never wanted this for you. I work my whole life, I don't apologize, to take care of my family. And I refused -- to be a fool -- dancing on the string, held by all those -- bigshots. I don't apologize -- that's my life -- but I thought that --that when it was your time -- that -- that you would be the one to hold the strings. Senator -Corleone. Governor - Corleone, or something... 」Vito計劃是Sonny接教父之位，而想Michael做Pezzonovante(在西西里語即是一個重要的人，例如州長)。

然後，他道出了人父的最大感嘆：「Well -- this wasn't enough time, Michael. Wasn't enough time... 」永遠都不夠時間，好像有很多東西未交帶，又交帶不完，說到底是對家人的牽掛，至死不休：「Now listen -- whoever comes to you with this Barzini meeting -- he's the traitor. Don't forget that.」父親最愛叫你小心這個小心那個，他更怕有天他不在的時候，就沒有人提醒你了。

Michael怎也沒法撫慰父親的不安，他愛他，卻無能為力。唯一辦法，就是成為父親本身。讓我們跳到Michael喪女的一幕，好好哭一場吧。

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=QyaDlIirJnw

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各位大家好，歡迎來到HenHenTV的奇異世界，我是Tommy
離上次的六個童謠背後的恐怖故事之後，已經經過了兩年了，今天我就帶給大家六個童謠背後的黑暗故事，算是這個黑暗童謠的第二集。
童謠，朗朗上口的輕快的節奏，陪伴了我們的童年，以前只是記得哼那些童謠的旋律，但是卻不知道裡面的歌詞是什麼意思，大家知道什麼叫du du it de da di du, 你們沒有玩過？就是那種大家圍著把腳伸出來，然後就點到誰，誰就做鬼。有點像英國的black shoe game
其實正式它這首歌是： whose shoe is a dirty shoe.好像完全不同的讀音哦～～
那麼今天我們就來講一些童謠背後的黑歷史。
先知道，東方國家和西方國家的想法完全不同，西方國家會將一些時事，或是一些轟動一時的案件，再用這些朗朗上口的詞配搭一些簡單的旋律，用這些童謠來傳達，或是諷刺當時的君主，或是一些名人等等。
第一首，Lucy Locket，露西的錢袋
Lucy Locket lost her pocket,
Kitty Fisher found it;
Not a penny was there in it,
Only ribbon round it.
Lucy locket 不見了她的錢袋，被Kitty fisher找到了，但是錢袋裡面沒有錢，只有ribbon綁在上面。
看起來詞沒有什麼問題啊～～但是究竟Kitty fisher和Locy locket是誰呢？
其實Kitty fisher是在18世紀當時非常出名的妓女，她揮霍無度，而Lucy locket 也是妓女，或者是講交際花，所以很多男士就成為了她的錢袋，所以她的錢袋裡面沒有錢就是暗指很多男士資助她的生活。
Only ribbon round it這裡其實是暗指Lucy Locket是一名妓女，
由於當時的妓女有把錢袋藏在群下面，為了安全，他們會用ribbon把錢袋綁在大腿上。
用Kitty Fisher來撿到她的錢袋，也是暗指Lucy Locket也是妓女。
原來我們唱了那麼多年的童謠，講的竟然是妓女。
第二首： Mary Mary quite Contrary 瑪麗小姐真倔強
Mary, Mary, quite contrary,
How does your garden grow?
With silver bells, and cockle shells,
And pretty maids all in a row.
原版的是這樣的
Mary, oh Mary, so quite contrary,
How does your garden grow?
These silver bells and cockle shells
And pretty men all in our room,
When you see contrary Mary,
Told hereye, refuse to terry.
We spoke very soft and slow
Without your pretty men,
Mary, Standing in a row.
Mary, Mary, Mary, Mary.


這麼簡單好聽的歌曲，後面竟然有那麼黑暗的歷史。
大家如果記得我在以前的影片有說過Bloody Mary，當時有兩個歷史傳聞，一個說伯爵夫人，另外一個就是瑪麗皇后，她迫害和折磨了很多新教徒，所以有血腥瑪麗的稱號。
這是所說的院子是影射充滿屍體的墳地，那什麼是silver bells and cockle shellls呢？其實這兩種都是折磨人的刑具，銀鐘是夾手指的而Cockle Shells是暗指這個刑具，叫Choke Pear，這個東西是插進你的口，或是你的菊花等等，然後菊花開。。。滿地傷。。。
想到都痛哦哦。。。
第三首：Goosey Goosey Gander， 鵝鵝鵝
Goosey goosey gander,
Whither shall I wander?
Upstairs and downstairs
And in my lady’s chamber.
There I met an old man
Who wouldn’t say his prayers,
So I took him by his left leg
And threw him down the stair

這裡你們有看到這個童謠最後四句是說：我找到一個老人，他不會讀他的禱告文，所以我拿起他的左腳，把他扔下樓。
這是其實是在中世紀政治逼害，天主教徒不能讀拉丁文的禱告文，就算在家裡也不行，那些鵝就是指當年宗教逼害的官員，他們上門來檢查，如果發現天主教徒在家禱告，他們就會抓了他們嚴刑逼供，這個的who wouldn’t say his prayers應該是這樣意思，還有為什麼是左腳呢？原來以前的刑罰就是將繩子綁在他們的左腳上，然後扔下樓，重複直到他們死為止。
你還要給你女兒唱這首歌嗎？
第四首，
Baa, baa, black sheep,
Have you any wool?
Yes, sir, yes, sir, Three bags full;
One for the master, And one for the dame,
And one for the little boy Who lives down the lane.
原版的最後一句是no no for the little boy who lives downs the lane.
這裡是指在當時英國對於羊毛施以重稅，當時的皇帝叫愛德華一世，就是在電影Braveheart裡面那個老人家，當時的戰爭令皇室財務陷入困境，而當時羊毛就是英國最大的收益，他就將羊毛獲利三分之一歸皇室，三分之一歸於貴族和教會，剩下的才留給農民，而黑色的羊毛則是暗指當時的黑暗時代。
第五首：Little Miss Muffet， 小馬費特小姐
Little miss Muffet she sat on her tuffet,
Eating her curds eating and whey
Along came a spider who sat down beside her
And frightened miss Muffet away
詞裡面就是說她吃著凝乳，然後一隻蜘蛛出現，嚇到她跑了。
其實這個是真人真事來的，以前有個醫生叫thomas Muffet湯姆馬費，他是英國的博物學家和醫生，他很喜歡研究蜘蛛，甚至拿自己的女兒來做研究，就是餵她吃蜘蛛。。。。令她從此非常懼怕蜘蛛，雖然我在網上找了很久，並沒有找到證據馬費醫生真的有餵她吃蜘蛛，不過給滿屋都是蜘蛛一定讓她也驚嚇不少吧！
第六首：Lady Bird， Lady Bird

Ladybird, ladybird fly away home,
Your house is on fire and your children are gone,
All except one, and her name is Ann,
And she hid under the baking pan.

這裡的lady bird是指瓢蟲，也是暗指母親，其實這是影射當年的獵殺女巫，很多女巫被活活的燒死，有時包括她和她的家人和兒子，在這裡最後一句有不同的版本，有的是Porridge pan，有個的Baking pan，Frying pan，都是一些燒的廚具，

原來這些童謠背後是那麼的黑暗。

在此謝謝我的朋友Chanty 幫我唱這些童謠，實在是大材小用了，她是一名創造歌手，會自己作詞寫曲，當中也有唱一些翻唱歌曲，大家記得去到她的Youtube頻道Chantaliamusic，聽聽她唱的歌曲，順便訂閱她的頻道哦！

有時不知道要怎樣去教小孩，究竟要給他們知道世界的黑暗，還是讓他們像白紙一樣純潔呢？有時讓他們了解世界的黑暗，他們才會知道所謂的灰色地帶，就好像每天給他們喝太乾淨的水，他們的身體哪裡可以抵抗細菌的入侵呢？教會他們，然後讓他們可以自行分辨對於錯，黑和白，我覺得這是更重要的。

好了！今天的影片就到這裡，在看回我以前的影片有所體會，以前的影片雖然沒有現在的綠屏，也沒有現在剪得那麼好，但是卻是我用心製作出來的，所以我提醒自己不要忘記當初為什麼開始Youtube頻道的，是因為喜歡和人分享這些奇奇怪怪的主題，或是一些我自己覺得好玩有趣的話題，我會更加的努力，做更好的影片給你們看！！

謝謝大家的支持，我們下個奇異世界見，Bye Bye。