Shake hands with your neighbour

I was on the fly over today. It was the stunning scene in front of me.

I wonder how you feel if you live next to a high way. I think Hong Kong is the only place in the world you can see this scene. The flat is so close that you can really shake hands with the people living there while you are driving past :-) Or imagine when you open the window with a huge container right in front of you. It's not funny, it's the reality.

Once I heard an incident, don't know it was a joke or not. A car broke down on a fly-over on Hong Kong Island, where the flat and the fly-over is much closer than this one. The driver knocked on the window of the flat and asked for help. He asked the people in the flat to phone for him. (I think it happened long before mobile phones became popular)

Get ready for the Bun Festival :-)

Can he reach the top?

The coach - she took part in the Bun Festival in Cheung Chau Island.

I took students to do rock climbing today. It was my first time to see a rock climbing facility in an indoor game centre. It reminded me of my stunning experience of rock climbing at Kowloon Peak when I was eighteen. It was much fun and natural.

An inconsiderate example - a disgusting person

This person was sitting very comfortably on the bus. BUT...he was very selfish. He put his legs on the back of the chair of the person in front. He didn't know or care how uncomfortable the person in front feels.

Another sign

Be Mind Your Head!

Does it have the same meaning? :-)

Signs in Lok Ma Chau

When you reach the other side of Lok Ma Chau (the customs of the Chinese mainland), you might come across these two signs.

A drawing by an autistic boy

This picture of the Japanese MTR routes was drawn by an autistic boy who can memorise every single detail of the whole system. Isn't it amazing?

The candlelight vigil

I joined the June-4's 20th candlelight vigil this year. I was not enthusiastic in the past few years. I used to think it was the job of the activists. This year I thought I could not stay quiet any more. There were a few reasons for me to come out. First, to pay homage to victims of the crackdown and to call for vindication of those who lost their lives. Second, as the focus of this year, to pass the message onto the future generations. The Tiananmen slaughter is not known much by the youngsters who were born after 1989. For political reasons, the crackdown was not mentioned much in the text books. The whole incident will be distorted if the youngster do not know the truth. Third, thanks to our Chief Executive, Donald Tsang, who wanted to represent me. I came out because I wanted to tell him he could not represent us.

I was happy to join the vigil because I could be one of the 150,000 people to light a candle. I was pleased to see the young students who stood up to lay a wreath on the stage. I was happy to see so many young people there. I was proud to be a Hongkonger and shamed to be a Chinese. Why our leaders cannot put down their pride to accept the guilt? Why the fallen and their family have still been suffering since 1989? Why the Chinese people still do not have freedom and democracy? The communists in Russia and Eastern Europe were knocked down and why not in Chinese? That's what I am shamed of.

This is the candle I lit.