Saturday, July 12, 2008

7 wonders of the world

Glacier ruptures in rare winter breakup

(Agencies) Updated: 2008-07-08 08:24

Splinters of ice peel off from one of the sides of the Perito Moreno glacier in a process of a unexpected rupture during the southern hemisphere's winter months, near the city of El Calafate in the Patagonian province of Santa Cruz, southern Argentina, July 7, 2008. The Perito Moreno glacier, part of the Los Glaciares National Park, a World Heritage site, measures 250 square kilometers (97 square miles), and is one of the few glaciers which is advancing instead of retreating.



The glacier in El Calafate is vanishing, said the Agencies report on 7July. That’s my last destination in Argentina I had missed. It was one single morning, things changed 180 degree in just a couple minutes.


Remember the last
phrase of my adventure in Argentine, I got stuck in Mendoza because of a little mistake, a missing passport and a stolen bag with all valuables including a camera.
The accident left me with a backpack of dirty clothes. My journey detoured in Central Argentina, stopping me from getting to my dream glacier far down south.

Life is really funny. It was Iguazu Falls, the most fabulously splendid spectacular I've ever seen, that brought me to Argentina in the first place. And once I got to reach this dream destination, immediately I found another destination where could I yet to reach and soon has become my next dream - El Calafate, Perito Moreno Glacier.

Because of the thievery in Mendoza, I couldn't continues my trip to Patagonia which means I too couldn't hit the Moreno Glacier. However sad I felt, life brought me to
Puente del Inca (2,740m) instead, the first camp site to reach the Aconcagua (the highest mountain outside of Asia), and it all because of the French girls and the accident in Mendoza.

And you know well enough that if I the break-up and its turmoil didn't happen in Aug, I wouldn't make my trip to Argentina.

S, 我竟然開始習慣了用英文表達自己(是真的習慣了,抑或其實是掉失了用自己的語言表達的靈敏?)來到這裡,我不可以不寫中文了。是你說的他是個幸福兒,能夠分享我一生最快樂的日子,事實是你明明白白的了解,大概我人生的二十多年來,最愉快是跟他在一塊。

Destiny,若如你和他所說,我可否把我的,翻譯如下:如果05 年英國的大學選擇了我,我便不會去到多倫多,於是便不會認識這個英國人;如果家裡沒有意外,他沒有轉課程,06 年的秋天我們不會在北美再見面;如果沒有睡,我們一會不經不覺走在一起;如果沒有走在一起然後同居,我們便不會分手;如果那初秋沒有分手,07年
的秋天我或者會跟他在某處繼續撕磨;如果,你沒有從天掉下來跟我在toronto downtown 走了一個凌晨,我不會決定得了給自己克服恐懼、去一倘阿根庭;如果,沒有分手,沒有去阿根庭,便不會完了Iguazu Fall 的夢,也不會,發現原來世界上有像 Moreno Glacier 這樣的冰川。

在 Mendoza 月圓的一晚,我曾經很想很想跟他一起看冰川。S,花了整整兩天
站在瀑布底下明白,現在我可以肯定的跟你說,Iguazu 是應該兩個人看的。我曾經把我和他在Niagara Fall 前拍下的、被撕開了的合照,放在 Iguazu 的 Devil Throat 前面,試著扮拍合照。結果那張相,連同相機都給偷走了。

栽種有時,拔出所栽種的也有時。

我決定,那個冰川我絶對不會容許自己一個人看。在它溶掉進南極洋之前,如果我還未能容得下另一個他在身邊的話,你和我去看冰川吧。

2008 過了一半之後,我們終於再寫

一個婚禮, 一個葬禮
婚禮

六月,當K想起了她的葬禮,我答應了送她一個婚禮。我和
K這一對孿生雙子,因塔爾戈沙漠而緊緊聯結,在往後的日子裡各自追尋過去,然後又回到起點,重新起步,生命循環不息,也正是我們所說的WHERE EVERYTHING ENDS AND BEGAN。

這些日子我想了很多很多,婚禮上的細節、食物、人和事……但原來最後全都不是最想要的。K說,我要在葬禮上為她問一條心理測驗,我想,在我的婚宴上,也要問一條心理測驗,大概也還是那一條兔仔、人和鑰匙的問題。只可惜我已永永遠遠記住了答案和解釋,沒有運氣更改答案。所以也許要K成為我的MAID OF DISHONOR (最好仍是以南美洲樹精的造型出現),在人生的第二個階段開始前,把22歲我對未來的我,默默DISHONOR一次。

我希望那裡只有一張酸枝木桌,桌上有很多很多小火光,旁邊坐著我的家人。VIOLIN是我唯一的MAID OF HONOR,JUJU、DENISE、RO、JESSICA 這些陪伴我成長的同伴,是今日的見證,吳家心、鄭煒和BILLY是我的BEST MAN。詹前穎繼續做她的古希臘酒神,在長桌上瘋瘋癲癲,這就是我最喜愛最像她的樣子。可,我還是不喝酒,也不吃東西,席上只有一杯杯巧克力,古瑪雅時代的巧克力,不加糖,有一點焦苦、有一點辛辣,但還是會在腦中釋放出快樂的化學劑,因為到今日的我才明白,最完美完整的人生,就像最原始的巧克力一樣,往往有一點殘缺。

我對K說過,在我人生中大概從第一本中文書開始,就無法離開中國這個古代文明。可是我卻在拉丁美洲這個瘋狂的文化中,找到前所未有的平靜。曾經有人凌晨兩點在一間小小的DINER問我,是否相信DESTINY (這個字我無法翻譯成中文),他說,相信THINGS HAPPENED FOR REASON。那時的我答他,人類窮一生其實只能明白THINGS HAPPENED FOR REASON的意思,始終未有資格討論DESTINY。此刻的我忽然想起拿破崙送給JOSEPHINE指環上寫著的「AU DESTIN」,拿破崙和JOSEPHINE從澈情、背叛再相愛,直至最後因為王位而離婚,真真切切的愛了十年。離婚幾年後,JOSEPHINE死去,拿破崙把自己關了在房中兩天。如果可以,我希望VICTORIA可以在我交換介指時,幫我把這個故事講出來,這個故事,對我和她都有重大的意義。

生命循環不息,如果說葬禮是一個由結束而來的開始,那麼我願送給所有我親愛的朋友一個婚禮----在我們還未失去之前,還來得切重新開始。

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葬禮
Saturday, June 7, 2008 at 8:25pm

This morning when I was on the way to work, I thought about my funeral.

I would love to have Uncle William to say a few words. He might talk about our Tak Ming karaoke time and some weird sides of me facing family and love crises. Maybe he'll compliment on my photographing skills. He won't cry as he usually unable to, which is a good thing for funeral; he will even make some punch-lines out of it. I hope he'll be bold enough to squeeze a few minutes talking about trees and ecological living. After all, my life wasn't as worthwhile as trees and green-conscious-living.

Stella has to be the next sharing person. She'll laugh. I hope she'll begin with a clever psychological test, like those she used to game with me, that my friends will earn some insights about themselves on my funeral. She knows the most fragile and courageous part of me in our days of youth. It doesn't really matter what she says, honestly, but I wish Mexican will be there by her side when she weeps right after finishing her speech. I hope my going away will not trigger her too much.

It's up to PK whether he has anything to say. He's my adorable brother whose heart is sophisticated but always pure as a child. If he wishes, let him goes before Angela.

Angela, the brightest person with endless positive energy I've ever known, is a friend I deeply treasure. She will end the session with encouraging and constructive note, with a dazzling, lovely smile.

By the time I leave this world, I wish I have a child and a husband whom I had learned to love - knowing that neither can I possess anybody nor lose anybody. It is the hardest part of life. Listen to the very nature of human body and you will understand the reason why I wish to be buried beneath a tree - let it be fertilizer, may it generates other lives.

Tuesday, January 01, 2008

再開始

陳之之,

今天中午我剛好在想給你發個電郵,作為再寫字的開始,晚上回來,就收到你的電郵了。
回來剛好一星期的今天,香港很熱,感覺就似多倫多的夏夜,潮濕微涼。我比自己想像中過得好。落機後幾乎一直都沒停過,見需要再見面的,掉不需要保 留的,跑來跑去,還未適應時差。回來後第一天就到律師樓開了3個半小時會,第三天已經把自己的房間接近三份二的舊物和傢俱拋棄,幾天來見過曾經很親近的舊 朋友,也見過新近相識的陌生人,沒有一刻停過下來。多倫多的生活和一切在一星期之內變得好遙遠,終於有少少明白隔著塊厚玻璃的過去是怎麼一回事。又一個新 開始,這一次我比過去任何一次都好,有史無前例的忍耐和決心,方向和勇氣都比從前成熟。我不是誇口,但我感到自己真的長大了一點點,帶著過去兩年的成果和 離開多倫多時的一切祝福,開始work out 一個我期盼的alternative。離開多倫多前那幾天沒有停過,甚麼都趕因而也沒時間傷心。笑著上機,卻在飛機上哭了兩包紙巾,這兩年來每一個情境每 一種溫度每個認識的人都如碎片一次來飛來飛去,人大了,這種千絲萬縷的感觸,還是默默放在心裡比較好。

到最後我狠下心沒有跟英國說再見,爛了尾的故事,唯願如william所說,不過是故事的第8集,第9集已經開始了,任何一刻都可以是第9集開頭的第一幕。

之之,我明白你說的欲語還休和千言萬語,我卻真的很放心,由一開始我們已經步伐不同卻又很相同,這是我們最有趣的地方。我也曾經很擔心有一天我們會在路口走失了彼此,但多倫多那掉下來給我們的兩個星期,使我有信心和預感,無論如何,我們總會連在一處的。

要展開人生的新一頁了。珈琲時光是一世的事,一切再從來亦同一道理。

還是那一句,想念你。

我看了我們去年的書信,也是時候,再寫了。

一切要好,
劉恩恩

Wednesday, May 23, 2007

林夕

「風雨過後不一定有雨後的天虹/不是天睛就會有彩虹/所以你一臉無辜不代表你懵懂
不是所有感情都會有始有終/孤獨之後不一定惶恐/可是總免不了最初的一陣痛/
天大地大/世界比想像中朦朧/
但願你的眼睛只看得到笑容/但願你以後每一個夢不會一場空/
我不忍心再欺哄/但願你聽得懂」

「有時候有時候/相信一切有盡頭/相聚離開都有時候/沒有甚麼會永垂不朽」

「我想知如何令雪地花開/如何跡足走過茫茫深海/如何以兩手將水深海濶緩緩推開/
如好景不會漫長/為何迎面風涼/
離終點不遠路程/暫時別要扎醒」

「一百年前你不是你我不是我/一百年後沒有你也沒有我」

Monday, April 30, 2007

Oh my goodness....

大佬呀,拍戲咩,講到我直頭唔係人咁。同當年小王子測驗結果有得比。


You have 34 points. 你是第四種. 你是個充滿愛的人. 浪漫, 花和洒是你用來享受人生必要的東西. 你對承諾十分認真. 你是個很有家庭氣息的人, 你每個星期天都會打電話給你媽媽, 你永遠也不會忘記生日的日子. 不要讓你對浪漫的熱情與現實所發生的混淆一起.

http://www.mathsking.net/test/question.htm

Saturday, April 28, 2007

A Storyless Story (un-proofread)

(1) You told me that I owe you a story.

A story about me and myself.

I said I have no secret. My story is a story about life without secret. No, it should be the story itself. The story about me is that my life has no secret. This is my story. I have no intention of being tricky or pretentious. There is no trick at all. The secret of my life is I have no secret, at this age, at this point. And that is the secret of my life. With all these, I have told you everything.

You asked me to explain but there is no explanation. You will understand. I believe, you will, you do. It's all about timing. You are on your path in your labyrinth, with you own pace, own rhyme. You might well understood that you're my mystics. The omni-mystics. I'm sure you'll know one day, you will. And there is no clue. Oh, maybe there is some. Like what happens in The Fountain, the gorgeous movie we both addicted to.

And thus I promised that I will write a story. A story about the clue to my secret, a secret without any secret at all. I can never express how glad I am for meeting you, just like you could never realise how scary you're to me. Not because of anything but only the importance. The importance of the important. You passed by my importance, and start digging the land to put down root, as if you'll become a tree in the Big Fish. The giant in Big Fish.

It's always scary, even though I really am merry. And thus I promised that I will write a story. A story of the secretless secret. As a cleverest reader you may have already recognized that a necessary void would be inevitable in that story. No matter what the plot is and how the narrative goes, there would definitely be a void, lies between the secretless secret. The void, like Keller's depth, like the non-ontological sexual differences taught by Irigaray, is the beautiful darkness inside my bone that dark enough to see your light. It's like the blackhole/cave inside my body, being veiled with the other lips, that both you and I always want to penetrate.

The void is my scare and my sacred happiness. It is windy and shinny tho dark. Nixie is the echo of the void. She call it mystery. This word probably too melodramatic. You better offer your most generous understanding that for Nixie, mystery is nothing but the wonderland ever.

Okay, let's go back to the story. As far as we can know, all about this story is, it's a story with a void. We can hear Nixie, the echo of the void.

"Let there be mystery," Nixie said.

And that is where everything began.


(2) Questioning of Asking

Heidegger said every questioner ask questions that lead to an expected answer. Because one could never ask a question without knowing that direction of the answer. And thus, every questioner had set the tone for its question & answer.

People ask because they want to hear back. All inquiry is directional. Surprising, the question came out from the void of our story is never about answering. There is never inquiries from the void. All questions are for question's own sake. It works like resonance, going nowhere.

No destination.

She asks not because she want to know.

Sometime she asks, even though she knows the answer would not be pleasurable or even harmful. Listen, my cleverest reader, it's not as ridiculous as you think. The flying of Nixie might help you to understand. Nixie flies as she flies. It's her being and becoming. Merely flying. The importance of soaring lies in soaring itself. The questions from the void is the void's own essence. The essence of its own becoming. Without any destination.

In the void, there are mixture of dread and peace. If you wish, the Judea-Christian imagery of heaven and hell may fit into it. The mixture of heaven and hell. They both functioning at every single moment, together. Nixie sleeps while she creates. She asks question while she indulges in her dreams. And those question marks flowing in the void, like seeds, scattered everywhere. Not waiting for blossoms but resting, being dominated by this power of sleepiness in this restless void.



(3) Eternal Sunshine of the Spotless Mind

書信.重頭寫

陳之,

你一定要看The Fountain,一定要。最好能抽點輕巧的大麻。

那一晚我突然明白了許多事,都是關於自己的。再無辦法推翻或故弄玄虛,我第一次眼白白看見自己的怖慄,好像一個void / abyss,伸手就摸得到。

甚麼都不寫的這段日子,是我最惶恐和最愉快的時光。

2007初春,多倫多,我隱約望見自己的將來。

我開始預見自己逐漸消失,成了個半透明的。情形如地殼變動,我的世界在陸沉,漂流向另一個地殼板塊,消磨就撞又未撞埋去合而為一的歷史時刻。那將是我的世界末日,地動星搖,而我就可笑地(被)提到半空,半天吊。當然還是沒有翼。

所謂wonder和respect是先要維持differences。我所wonder的竟變成了wonder自己蒸發得比光更快。我指的消失是一種transforming,transparent transformation。

我們的路途,一路都是找尋身份。從香港,到全球化,到女性、大地宇宙,你都咪話唔遠。總有種未學行先學走的潛意識。但意識當然會告訴你,邊有呢回事,曉走果一刻咪就係準備好果刻囉,哪裡有甚麼預備不預備,過程不過程。

再看這裡,如重看我們的路標,都在這裡開始。年少時總以為重頭開始甚麼都會不一樣,珈琲時光不會太長,但原來一世人就是要不斷重頭開始,一次,再一次。結果,我又回到這一點上。

當找到瀕死的生命樹,那裡就有希望,那裡就有永恆,而我們就會在一起,因為根本就沒有死掉和長成,一切都是水火地風的總和又總和後千絲萬縷的面貌。

讓我們重頭寫,從這裡開始。

k

紀史三 - 再來,私人信件

再來,私人信件

和你談了一晚後的今天,我證實了你的開心大發現,我真的癲了。

今早晨起就頭痛m痛,拖著身子遲到了也去上堂,art, knowledge and life, 上了一半人幾乎倒下來, 後來的thanksgiving community lunch, 我沒有知覺地在student lounge旁邊的大椅上捲起身子發冷,一邊想吐一邊暈,人來人往,我像躺於月台長椅上的無家者,偶然有人來拿熱水,送膠袋, 外套和簡單問候。新相識的鬼妹待我非常好,據說有人甚至想馬上把我往醫院送。後來他把我送回家,陽光充裕披著3件sweater我仍然不斷發抖,卻死都不 肯上street car。回到家我衝進浴室想吐又吐不出來,卻發了瘋一樣蹲下來大哭,幾乎透不過氣,記憶很模糊,斷斷續續就由浴室變了廚房的地板,繼續發瘋,後來他說我才 知道,我嚎哭了一個小時。然後我抱著他好幾分鐘,才真正平伏過來。之之,我知道我真的癲了。我慢慢曉得我的病源自我的chaotic worldview 和absurdity of life,而完全不是感情。在最緊要關頭,x變成一具object,僅此而已。很久後他終於走了,我一個人去散步,不久就吐,一直吐到晚上9時許。這便構 成了我的中秋節。之之,瘋狂與自由,我實在想不清楚,我真的很《藍》麼?

甚念。
Posted on 10.7.2006 at 3:11 AM

紀史二

September 23


給將來,如果,我還在這裡:

其實再沒有任何原因有寫的必要,完全沒有。

二零零六年九月二十一日,多倫多,我二十四。朋友問,你想你的人生就這樣停在二十四麼?我不知道,沒意見,也無所謂。我知道我非常庸俗。歷史總是太長太長太長太長,才等到奇蹟出現。

二十四,我處身在兩個世界中間,一個擁抱自由經濟文明社會,另一個以簡陋的社群形態分庭抗禮,兩個也在艱險我奮進的天天抗爭,且以各自的方式溫情揚溢。開展於眼前,就像童話的兩道門故事,守門的青蛙說,前面的門一死、一生,你只能二揀一。可惜非童話的世界沒有青蛙,使我無法一手抓住牠求祈扔進門看牠有沒有死。不要跟我說我的煩惱非常幸福,也不要批評我拒絶世界,更別提我甚麼時候都得成熟地心存感恩。怎都好我不會抗辯,我沒意見,無所謂。一開始我就多麼渴望做快樂的豬,而不是痛苦的蘇格拉底。當然我不是哲人,不是理性動物,我甚麼都不是,我不過是從很早就把處身的世界理解為創造,然後產生太多無法回答的困惑的難纏的存在。僅此而已。學習不是解決問題的方法,真理不會愈辯愈明。天堂地獄最後審判,那怕全是修辭,都不重要了。一地的options任你挑,埋黎睇埋黎揀,唔買都睇下。我就是這種存在。

曾經以為人生最缺少勇氣,有就掂晒。那是何等青春和天真。眼下唯有想像力,是唯一救法,條件是,如果我還可以想像我的下半生。因此我還寫,沒有別的,或者只是表達自己的狼狽,給我的下半生,留個註,及盼望。
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S回信。
去紐約的前夕,心情忐忑不安。
翻出去年那條旅行後特意買下的彩色頸巾,放在水中泡洗,一手都是茉莉花的香味。
這幾天斷斷續續的想起k。最近一個畫面是大學時歐陽講《藍》的一堂,藉基斯洛夫斯基拋出人生最大的命題:當一個人被remove去所有的家庭包袱,拋棄過去,孜然一身時,是否真正自由?
......那個身在多倫多的k和台北的s,在城市中日復一日漫無目的的走,吃焗蕃茄煙肉雞脾,對一切無法有意見,也無所謂。生存下去,只是因為無法再回頭。
多年以後的我才明白,基斯真正所指的,原來是只有在受到重大創傷後才會出現的反常狀態。那時的她們,過去已經無所謂與不謂,但卻困惑地看不到未來。k,我們一生都在追求所謂的自由,卻原來只有置身這個狀態,才最貼近自由兩個字。可這時候,這時候,自由,對我們還有什麼用?
二十四歲,我還依然傻得相信勇氣,並準備將肉體推向極限。我擁有的實在太多太多,卻又是那樣的少......
都是村上春村那一句,他選擇了停留在十七歲,我選擇了活下去。所以,活下去。
如果還有將來,希望我們永遠記得這一年。


Posted on 10.6.2006 at 12:25 AM

紀史

信(二)
給S ,可能也是自己:


那4小時長途電話,在多倫多最長的街上邊走邊講,從北走到南,是數星期來最暢快的小時。
有陽光,踢著拖不停走路,大笑,仲想點。

你說得再準確不過。

我曉得我(們)是怪物,無能扮演正常人,也不可能興高采烈遇上誰都東拉西扯做反應,更不可能哭哭鬧鬧抓破臉求憐愛。我(們)的好勝與驕傲,狠狠將 隱秘在根底下的無力感低調粉飾,到了一種無藥可救的田地。來吧你可以說我(們)虛偽或偏執,那是我(們)自覺性情中最弱的一環,卻同時是唯一賴以區別他我 的憑據。而最好笑是其實我(們)是最最最典型的一類人,期許最傳統的全部。

擁不擁有也會記住誰,快不快樂留在身體裡。昨晚關上燈,在床上哭很久,早晨眼都腫起來,掛著臃腫眼眶跑去看覃樟柯,又流不出眼淚。他說,在最絶望 的情況亦總會在人體上看見動力,於我的版本,卻變成唯有大自然或動物界才壓得住我(們)多餘的躁動,或帶來盼望。寫給你的時候很想多看一遍蔡明亮的黑眼 圈,於是就出門,在後街站上一小時仍沒有票,然後回家,吃點酒,以及出門前焗好的蕃茄煙肉雞脾。類似的星期六晚上,想你住台北的時日也有過,你曉得我甚麼 意思。無謂快樂與否了,隨心所欲就好。

不打擾,是我(們)的溫柔。旅行的朋友,過去3個月的失去聯絡,我衷心感激。


K

P.S: 把信放在這裡不是懶型,不是無所謂,我覺得公開性,是面向現在這個自己很重要的環節。
Posted on 9.16.2006 at 6:15 PM

Monday, May 02, 2005

這是s

只睡了四小時的星期日上午第一次頭痛若裂,步入一直以為只有嶺南的屯門(或屬於嶺南的屯門),迎面而來一遍陽光。很久沒有去旅行了,以致在k的房間忍不住聽了《二零零一年的第一場雪》。沒有再戀棧嶺南,只是仍然有些不惑,關於一個再沒有嶺南、再沒有離開的夢。


animus

The moral of an animus dream is that the dreamer should pay more attention to her unconscious intuitions and feelings. There should be a lot of hidden abilities or potential that are waiting for your discovery, when you can cope with your animus, she will lead you to a balanced developement of your psyche.

When the animus is projected onto a person in the opposite sex(in a dream or in the reality), the animus usually gives rise to an intense feeling of emotional attraction e.g. falling in love or influation.

捧著電話一邊翻開解夢書,看到這一段手開始顫抖。差不多可以肯定他是animus,然後又找來一大堆persona。想不到她也是persona,結果是留了問題結他解決。過去的自己和今日的自己。

「其實,如果從上文下理這樣看,都可以接受。」

Saturday, April 30, 2005

試下架咋

自把自為在這裡向自己發邀請,把自己加進來。為的是我們需要獨立的名字。
午後,老細見工,見一個,花了 2 個半小時。
救命。