Bro’s Wedding & Hamlet

哥哥結婚了,不會寫太多。
第一晚哥哥搬去新居後,感覺唔習慣。
婚禮期間,我答得最多嘅問題係
「幾時到你呀?」
「下一個係唔係到你呀?」
「記唔記得我呀?」
我嘅感覺係好開心,好感動,又不捨!
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經過忙碌嘅一天,今日好開心可以自己同自己拍拖,
度過咗3個半鐘文藝青quality time with myself!
真係港女的幸福星期日。
呢個關於Hamlet嘅review分開3部分:

1) National Theatre Live 
第一次睇倫敦National Theatre Live,非常有趣嘅entertainment experience。
首先,入場有場刊,
亦有20分鐘嘅中場休息(螢幕都係影住倫敦劇院嘅audience,dim燈時呢邊都一起dim燈),
現場有人咳都聽到,現場感十足。
非常欣賞中文字幕嘅專業翻譯,將Victorian Era嘅文字感情都翻譯得恰到好處。(我自己覺得,我唔係文人,但令我有想抄低嘅衝動哈)
因為有BC,全場爆滿!
更加有獨家嘅花絮,love it~!
2) Hamlet (The original)
我係冇拜讀過Hamlet的,orz。
These lines are just beautiful.
特別hit到我嘅對白 within these 3.5 hours:

To be, or not to be, that is the question:
Whether ’tis Nobler in the mind to suffer
The Slings and Arrows of outrageous Fortune,
Or to take Arms against a Sea of troubles,
And by opposing end them: …
生存還是毀滅,這是一個值得考慮的問題;
默然忍受命運的暴虐的毒箭,或是挺身反抗人世的無涯的苦難,通過鬥爭把它們掃清,這兩種行為,哪一種更高貴?

To die, to sleep –
To sleep, perchance to dream – ay, there’s the rub,
For in this sleep of death what dreams may come
When we have shuffled off this mortal coil,
Must give us pause.
睡着了也許還會做夢:——嗯,阻礙就在這兒;
因為當我們擺脫了這一具朽腐的皮囊以後,
在那死的睡眠裏,究竟將要做些什麼夢,
那不能不使我們躊躇顧慮:

Give every man thy ear, but few thy voice;
Take each man’s censure, but reserve thy judgment.
凡事需多聽但少言
聆聽他人之意見,但保留自己之判斷。

This above all: to thine ownself be true,
And it must follow, as the night the day,
Thou canst not then be false to any man.
最重要者——萬勿自欺;
如此,就像夜之將隨日,你也不會欺將於他人。

I have of late, (but wherefore I know not) lost all my mirth, forgone all custom of exercises; and indeed, it goes so heavily with my disposition; that this goodly frame the earth, seems to me a sterile promontory; …
最近——我也不知是為何——我失去了歡欣,對一切事務也毫無興致。說真的,我的心靈沉重的使我覺得這整個世界僅不過是塊枯燥的頑石。

What a piece of work is a man! How noble in reason, how infinite in faculty! In form and moving how express and admirable! In action how like an angel, in apprehension how like a god! The beauty of the world. The paragon of animals. And yet, to me, what is this quintessence of dust? Man delights not me. No, nor woman neither, though by your smiling you seem to say so.
人類是個多麼美妙的傑作,它擁有着崇高的理智,也有無限的能力與優美可欽的儀表。其舉止就如天使,靈性可媲神仙。它是天之驕子,也是萬物之靈。但是,對我來講,它豈不是朽如糞土?人已不能令我歡欣:不,就連女人也不能,你們在笑,好像不以為然。

Not a whit. We defy augury. There’s a special providence in the fall of a sparrow. If it be now, ’tis not to come. If it be not to come, it will be now. If it be not now, yet it will come—the readiness is all.
那可不必,我們不能迷信預感:因為連一支麻雀之死,都是預先註定的。死之來臨,不是現在,即是將來;不是將來,即是現在;只要對它有所準備就好了。

When the blood burns, how prodigal the soul lends the tongue vows. These blazes, daughter, giving more light than heat, extinct in both even in their promise, as it is a-making, you must not take for fire.

I could be bounded in a nutshell, and count myself a king of infinite space, were it not that I have bad dreams.

2) Hamlet (The play)
BC d 演技真係marvelous,brilliant,spectacular!!!
神級,巔峰,d outburst of emotions真係好強勁 >w<
d visual/atmosphere settings都好正!

 

 

飛機奇遇記

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實在太神奇啦!
首先我比人upgrade咗去business class先啦(我真係好耐冇比人upgrade啦)
然後只係delay咗15分鐘啦

最神奇嘅係,我係呢程2個鐘嘅飛機入面,得到咗三個人嘅卡片
(1) 地產商W___f嘅Chengdu GM
(2) 地產商S__o嘅China Projects GM
(3) property agency J嘅Head of Sales

然後仲join埋人地公司嘅公司車返屋企 XDD

其實,雖然我係10級 introvert,
我真係好中意同陌生人傾計。哈哈

其實係咁,我係同(3)坐的。
一上飛機聽到(1) and (3) 係度熱烈地講緊d property related嘅野,我又好難扮聽唔到。於是,等到食晚飯嘅時候,我就非常冒昧咁問(3)
“先生,你都係做地產架?”

呢個故事提醒咗我,無論係咩時刻,
(1) 都唔可以太頹(本來想著件oversized hoodies就算)
(2) 一定要帶卡片係身。

 

 

 

 

睡前服

前言:睇玩Sherlock,好失望呀,我真係有好高expectation架!/__\

原來轉眼已經係大陸做咗4個月野,真係唔經唔覺!
我又好似冇特別分享過祖國嘅working culture
(好似比較多係“一個人生活也是好好的” 同埋 “地產小知識” 哈哈哈)
等我隨心而發blog下先。

首先,myth,通常大家都有一個好錯誤嘅assumption:係大陸做野係一個好糟糕嘅experience,公司真係大整蛊啦,同大陸人做野一定好勞氣好辛苦,以為佢地賴得就賴,懶,貪,亂咁嚟,唔跟規矩,惡,冇禮貌,唔尊重對方,蠻不講理等等。其實事實並非完全如此。hmm,等我圍繞住呢個topics是但分享少少啦。

好好合作:係微信最常用嘅一個emoji,係一個“握手”嘅公仔 (whatsapp應該冇)。內地人最value嘅係“關係”,最緊要係要客客氣氣,認清楚d hierarchy。因為你對佢好,佢就會對你好。你對佢唔客氣,佢都唔會對你客氣哈哈。所以relationship building 係好重要嘅一環。while香港係driven by 白紙黑字嘅proper business emails,係內地係真係需要面對面咁做個friend,先好辦事。呢個好考功力,我係零功力的。

電話:係香港office望smartphone係罪,一定要鬼鬼祟祟。但係大陸office,電話就係你嘅主要working tool。btw我諗大家都知係內地唔會叫人做“小姐”,但係比人係電話叫我做“張女士”或者係“張美女”都覺得周身唔自在 XD

電郵:我寫中文email真係好慢。其一,因為我係用拼音打字(同事們都已經好習慣我會大聲朗讀d中文字哈哈例如:擴展..kuang zhan..ah唔係=o=…kang zhan?? .hmm…kuo zhan..yeah!!)另外business中文我真係唔識。因為我d中文唔夠禮貌,我相信已經得罪過唔少人。=_____= 所以都係叫同事幫我proofread先send出去會好d。

 

我的1.1.2016

今年的1月1日都幾有趣的,多謝b的安排,好開心好eventful。

whitesands

第一站係大嶼山長沙 – 我公司嘅獨立洋房項目。
(所有搞呢個project嘅同事都係”搞長沙” :P)
長沙唔係我嘅主力project,
我唯一嘅contribution就係 揀廚房同廁所嘅appliances (天音: 都係好重要嘅一部分嚟架~~)
由電腦rendering到今日見到真實嘅獨立屋係我面前,再一次提醒咗我this is what I love about working as a property developer

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第二站係葵涌廣場
小女子身為沙田友,真係第一次嚟傳說中嘅葵涌廣場。
一個亂七八糟strata-title (賣散咗業權的) 嘅商場,非常local但有超級多有趣嘅小店同小食。
好似尋寶一樣,好玩!

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第三站係叱咤
幾好睇。
我承認,雖然我明知《羅生門》今年一定係比《原來她不夠愛我》轟動,我依然投票比坤哥係純粹因為我想睇佢喊,我想被娛樂。
香港就係咁,中意食花生。
好似supper moment咁講,呢幾年香港太focus on 追夢,控訴現實,太多不滿,唔中意被上司長輩政府等等欺壓,所以我地中意鋤強扶弱嘅事情,強嘅我地唔喜歡,弱嘅我地會推到佢上神級。
成個show我特別記得一隻歌,rubberband嘅《挾持》,真係好聽。

Incredible Urban Hotels

2016年1月1日嘅第一個post!
首先祝自己同大家事事順利,心想事成,每一日都係開心快樂嘅好日子!

其實2016年第一個post,係同new year完全irrelevant嘅。
等countdown期間,又係度睇wallpaper* 嘅2015年best urban hotel
其中有3間被shortlist嘅酒店真係靚到我無話可說,happy share!
(for future reference if one day i gotta design my own home)

(1)The Larwill Studio, Melbourne, Australia

雖然係好minimalist,但又好creative地用上咗好bold/bright嘅顏色配搭,有d quirky但好突出。
窗外嘅景色感覺好一望無際,綠油油,Love it!

(2)Chicago Athletic Association, Chicago, USA

1893年本來係一個private athletic club,依家改建為酒店。
好中意呢種Venetian Gothic style,而且d furniture真係有 d sports 嘅element, e.g. 床前面嘅跳馬。原汁原味!

(3) Aman Tokyo, Japan

高尚,乾淨利落。有點trace of traditional japanese style but 係contemporary嘅。正!

1月尾會讀一個Cornell Hospitality Management 101嘅MOOC,希望有恆心讀落去啦。今日睇咗Running Wild x Barack Obama,Obama講到做人最緊要be useful, be kind同埋有persistence。希望2016年我都會謹記住呢幾點。