becoming

曾生時常走錯角色，在領導人面前虛怯僵硬，在群衆面前卻高傲過頭，官威十足，問題是我們都從一部錄影機看的片段，角色前後不連，這台戲還要多演兩年，未完場就要回水退票。

我有一建議，全速為自己塑造一新角色，天天排練，技術全面時，再調整心態，下台時一心一意為民而退。說真的我真有幾分懷念董生，交朋友嘛，笨拙的人受歡迎，精明的朋友最令人疲累。

曾生你的上任不止單為董生翻案吧，重看卡卡的片段，研究他為什麼得敵人尊重？

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張堅庭，卡卡vs.特首── 被愛與被砌。

Is it just me, or a really unusual sense of silence among Western media on the possible social/political/economical symbolism(s) of the “last domino” — the one with Chinese calligraphy on it, which remains standing at the end during the recent celebration in Berlin?

[And sorry for the long run-on sentence.]

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Update (11.19.2009): thanks fellow blogger Pakkin for the detail. The characters on the last domino weren’t Chinese afterall; They are artistic fusion of English alphabets written in Chinese calligraphy style, rendering a German translation of the Chinese poem 《釵頭鳳》by 陸遊.

美國總統 Barack Obama 剛嬴得本年的諾貝爾和平獎。

請恕我直言，我覺得很意外。

若說他向穆斯林世界伸出友好之手，我同意，但要走出一點可見的成果，我會說，他的路，仍然漫長。

我同意不少評論，說這獎是對Obama的一種鼓勵，希望他帶領各國，日後在這方面再加重力度。

然而，若是如此，諾貝爾和平獎就變成一種手段，要讓這位得獎總統，有點勢成騎虎之壓力。

而這也不再是獎項，卻是對得獎者的政治壓力。

是果，還是因？

有必要，攪清楚。

We are called to do things which people will see as subversive. And in a sense, they’ve all been right. Because the power of love, which is what the Gospel is all about, always challenges the love of power, which is what Caesar is all about.

Tom Wright, bishop of Durham

The Remington Group is planning to replace the current Market Village, with a all-new 800,000-square-foot behemoth shopping plaza — the Remington Centre.

Is it too much? I think it is. But not so according to our Mayor and Councillor:

[Mayor Frank Scarpitti] said both Pacific Mall and Market Village have been very successful.

They attract visitors to Markham, he said, adding the cluster of retail proposals is expanding that opportunity.

Alex Chiu, councillor for that area, agreed it’s not too much.

When it comes to money, who would say they have just too many?

Read it here, here and here.

From yorkregion.com:

Tony Wong, Markham’s regional councillor, died yesterday, York Region chairperson and CEO Bill Fisch announced this morning.

Mr. Wong had been battling an undisclosed illness.

Read here.

With Wong’s departure, will there be another Chinese regional councillor in Markham?

Please read the sharing below from a Christian brother of mine, and visit the provided website (www.vracommittee.com) to review the facts and make the appropriate action.

Justice is something that we as Christian should neither overlook nor neglect. Our faith does not concern only things that are spiritual; it must be solidly planted in the world we live in.

…perhaps you may have already heard about the incidence of a supermarket owner in Chinatown (金牛城超市東主陳旺) who was prosecuted with serious crimes like kidnapping, forcible confinement, possession of weapon, etc just becasue who tried to catch a thief and tied him up in order to hand him over to the police. Last Friday, a group called Victim’s Rights Action Committee (VRAC) launched an online petition with a view to urging the Federal government to review the existing Criminal Code and the Crown prosecution to drop the charges against the owner.

I am personally very sympathetic towards the owner and totally agree that he should not be charged with the offences which carry serious punishment. It is totally absurd and sends very bad signal to other shoplifters that they are being “protected”. The consequence of which is catastrophical to the shop owners in Chinatown who have to struggle for the living. I have signed the petition.

While charges have been laid, it is still possible that they can be stayed or withdrawn which is totally within the jurisdiction of the Crwon prosecutor. So the more signatures that VRAC can gather online, the better chance that the charges may be dropped as political pressure has been asserted…

Here is the website of VRAC : www.vracommittee.com where you can find the facts of the story and some video clippings of the incidence.

[link: www.vracommittee.com]

…紫陽先生，你早就「自由」了，可是我們至今仍被禁聲仍在夢裏掙扎幻滅，在君去後我寫過一段悼文充滿了樂觀期待，當時我說靈堂的大門張開了一條縫隙，寒天雪地裏有人遠來排隊只為前來看你一眼，只因20年前你亦曾來看他們一眼。

馬家輝：《今天幾號？5月35日。》

輔：《對中國民運的認識及反省資料選輯》（中大 1989.10）[link: 聞.見.思.錄]