11/12/2006

Farewell Queen's Pier

Schedule of the day:
0900 to 1800 work
1900 to 2330 company event at Ocean Park
0030 to 0300 taking pictures pretentiously at the Ferry Pier

Work was okay and not too busy. After all it's Friday and we had an event after work. The Ocean Park outing was a lot of fun and I had a great time with my colleagues. But then obviously it was the hours spent at the Pier that made the day memorable.

Met up my two buddies Jur and Lo after midnight at the Pier. In the recent week people have gone crazy flocking there to take pictures, while the rickshaws and the newsstand guy turned superstars suddenly. I think this abrupt craze is also an implication of how fast we are going to pass over this Pier and Clock Tower, perhaps. There's nothing wrong but just very much of Hongkong style.

I need a decent camera and I didn't even bring a tripod. Anyway to me the pictures aren't as important as the last hours I was with the Pier, full of memories, but nonchalant.

My office is only steps away from the Pier but my personal connection with her was mostly before the 1997 handover. Deep down I always feel the Ferry Pier belongs the colonized days. Indeed I feel this demolishment is yet another move to get rid of the reminders of our past.

The Ferry Pier, the Queen's Pier and the City Hall are just not separable. They brought me back the memories when my classical music lover Dad brought us to concerts, when my family was on the way to the Peak for a Sunday outing, and the little space near the flagpoles was where we lined up waiting to get into the auditorium during Joint School Music Festivals.

However, weird enough, if you ask me what my impression on the Pier is all about, I would say it's the metal frames. It's not any great architecture, but I love its simplicity.

And the days when we buddies got together puking after many beers and having happy boat trips. Great that Jur took this picture...... it means something to me.

Byebye the Clock Tower.

11/06/2006

Lazy Sunday

Yesterday I was having lunch alone somewhere in Mongkok. Suddenly the street outside was cleared and cops and firemen were rushing here and there. The waitresses peeped outside and said somebody was going jump off a building. Then I saw the firemen pumping up the huge yellow cushion thing. I was really scared as I was facing the door and would be witnessing the fall if the lady had made up her mind to do something suicidal.
Rushed out of the restaurant and was shocked to see there were actually a lot of people watching and somebody was even taking a video clip with his cell phone. WTF!!! I dunno wht is in his mind. Does that mean he was actually expecting or even hoping that lady to jump??? This is simply sick.
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Took a nap in the Sunday afternoon and it was already dark when I got up from my bed. Daytime is getting short and it is getting cold too.
I wonder if anybody would treasure something historical. Shek Kip Mei Estate and the Ferry Pier in Central. They both mean something to me.
Heard 林夕 is going to publish a compilation of his lyrics. I hope he would not forget this piece.

擺渡的歲月
作詞:林夕 / 作曲:周華健

在操場內 玩耍中比賽
在試場內 挑戰著未來
在世途上 但願飛出天際
在旅途上 偏偏盼望回來
在鐘樓下 伴著知己感慨
在教堂外 多麼渴望戀愛

誰人在說 誰人在笑 曾在喧嘩嬉戲中惹禍是誰
誰人在叫 誰人在跳 誰讓光輝的記憶放在這裡
渡海輪上 萬家燈火裡
多少個的你或我 曾為這光景陶醉

11/02/2006

And the new Season Opens!!!

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