Songs that linger - Until

Old songs aren't necessarily better, but they usually linger with memories. Don't have too much to say today, just want to introduce a few songs that I like.

Until by Sting
This is the theme song for 《Kate and Leopold》, but I was caught attention by the lyric in the first place.


If I caught the world in a bottle
And everything was still beneath the moon
Without your love would it shine for me?

If I was smart as Aristotle
And understood the rings around the moon
What would it all matter if you love me?

Here in your arms where the world is impossibly still
With a million dreams to fulfill
And a matter of moments until the dancing ends.

Here in your arms when everything seems to be clear
Not a solitary thing would I fear
Except when this moment comes near the dancing's end.

If I caught the world in an hourglass
Saddled up the moon so we could ride
Until the stars grew dimUntil...

One day you'll meet a stranger
And all the noise is silenced in the room
You'll feel that you're close to some mystery.

In the moonlight when everything's shadows
You'll feel as if you've known her all your life
The world's oldest lesson in history.

Here in your arms where the world is impossibly still
With a million dreams to fulfill
And a matter of moments until the dancing ends.

Here in your arms when everything seems to be clear
Not a solitary thing do I fear
Except when this moment comes near the dancing's end.

Oh if I caught the world in an hourglass
Saddled up the moon so we could ride
Until the stars grew dim
Until the time that time stands still
Until...

Something about Movie

Not a frequent movie goer for quite some years so here are just some thoughts from what was showing on TV.

If you choose to blend in, will you still be the same person you were? Or will you become one of "them"?

The Devil Wears Prada (2006) - Anne Hathaway, Meryl Streep

Something mentioned in the "New on the Big Screen in October" on HBO about the movie "The Devil Wears Prada" caught my attention the other night. Andy, the newly recruited personal assistant to the famous fashion magazine editor-in-chief Miranda, found a decision effecting her personal life is in need to be made. The question, in short, asks how much would one be willing to sacrifice in trading of what he/she wants. This have been around for so long where the answer seems to be too obvious to mention. It is said one changes, or evolves, along the progress and the more one asks, the less one will remain the same.

An old film called "HEAT" from 1995 was shown on TV tonight.

Heat (1995) - Al Pacino, Robert De Niro
© Copyright 1995 - Warner Bros. - All rights reserved.

I still remembered it was one of my all time favor until now, for the movie was lead by Al Pacino and Robert De Niro, both are fabulous actors, and Val Kilmer. Although I am not that much into De Niro, the other two actors, especially Al, was and still is on my top 10 list. It's a simple movie about good guys and bad guys but with Al and De Niro's act, it's more then a cop and thief movie. It was like life to the extreme level when good and evil were meant to be face to face for one last time.

As to the gunfight scene, I personally think should be counted as the best fighting scene forever. I remembered there was no redundent sound effects for gunshots when the movie was showing in theaters, but all I can find online are those with effects. Was it my bad memory or was it the movie releaser to be blamed I am not sure, but here is the scene and hope you'll like it as much as I do.

靚妹同埋姐姐

寫o佐咁多o野，都應該o係時候寫d呢次去香港時發生過o既趣事。

其實小路o既年紀都已經有o佐少少，o係本地o既時候已經被人叫大姐都唔算，不過香港人真o係好好人，小路去o佐呢道，至多就俾人叫姐姐，仲o係一個媽媽同佢細o佬仔講o既。其他o既時候，小路都o係算靚妹多d，真o係高興o架！

點解本地o既人唔會咁樣講o野o架?
我諗其實人都中意聽人讚，如果本地人學習咁樣讚人，一定會多賺好多錢o既，o係唔o係?

迷城記(四)

聽說銅鑼灣是個購物天堂，在Sogo百貨前下了車往精品店走去，想要好好買點東西，卻找不到想買的... 鞋子還是不欣賞的樣式，衣服換季也換得太快了，雖然早就做好了血拼的準備，卻拼不到東西，真是傷透腦筋....... - -
累翻了，想到晚上還有攤，決定打個退堂鼓，回太子休息下先，順便去旺角吃吃那家被推薦的茶餐廳 呵呵~~

想不到出前一丁竟然在香港被發揚到如此犀利的程度！
不知道出前一丁是什麼的嗎?來解釋一下先。出前一丁基本上是日本泡麵的一種，照道理說，泡麵不就是拿來泡的嗎?不好意思，在香港，出前一丁可不只是拿來泡這麼簡單。

去過香港的人應該都有聽過或吃過公仔麵，所謂的公仔麵，據說就是出前一丁的升級版，也就是在煮泡麵的過程中依照個人喜好加入青菜啦、肉啦、魚啦、魚蛋啦之類的材料。在香港幾乎到處都可以看見賣公仔麵的餐廳，小路去的那間餐廳公仔麵一碗8元港幣，裡面好像只有基本配料，但菜單上可以加的料可是列了滿滿一張單，從青菜魚蛋這些常見的配料，到牛肉魚肉等比較貴的材料，每加一樣的價錢從4元到10元不等，如果想吃好一點，一碗公仔麵可是有賣到30~50元港幣的潛力，保証料多實在，讓人吃到翻過去。


小路當天吃的是"炒丁"，也就是炒出前一丁的意思，當地人特別推薦的是在旺角的極之好粥麵茶餐廳的黃金雞翼炒出前一丁，價錢比公仔麵當然是貴了不少，但一盤34元的麵其實還可以接受。等待的時間裡無聊地研究著帳單，發現負責做炒麵的，是餐廳裡的水吧。既然說到這裡了，那就再廢話幾句吧，香港的茶餐廳為了配合香港人從早吃到晚的飲食習慣，大多都可以在任何時刻同時賣早午晚三餐的菜色，而根據專業分工的結果，餐廳裡往往分成幾個不同的地方，各自負責各自的，水吧指的是負責出飲料的地方，因為早期茶餐廳應該是沒有廚房的，因此水吧也就加了個煎板之類的位置賣些不太需要煮的菜式，至於為什麼雞翼炒出前一丁是由水吧負責呢?也許是因為它只需要在煎板上炒就行了，不必水煮吧。

上菜了，滿滿一大盤雖然沒有像照片一樣排得那麼美觀，但包心菜、豆芽、青椒、紅椒、蛋絲和滿滿的出前一丁麵，配料絕對不比照片裡的少，加上四隻炸得金黃香酥而且不知道為什麼尺寸大到不行的雞翼，明明就是兩人份的菜讓小路只有乾瞪眼的份...







不管了，先吃再說。果然不愧是拿過出前一丁類食神冠軍的菜，味道還真是不錯，只不過偏鹹了一些，嗯，是蠻鹹的，而且量實在太多了，小路奮鬥了半天只吃完一半不到。前前後後的食客，卻不論男女老少都能吃得乾乾淨淨，嗯，香港果然有當美食天堂的本錢。

接下來又是個計畫之外的行程，太平山。很多很多年以前，曾經去過太平山，那天晚上沒注意到夜景，只照到了高高遠遠的圓圓月亮。這一回，不知道又會看見什麼。

搭纜車上山，風景雖然好看，沒有特殊配備的相機卻什麼也照不出來，還好山頂上有展望台可以彌補一下觀光客的小小心靈。














終於夜了，回太子睡覺囉，明日再戰~~~

燒肉之謎 (BBQ-that's some question)

烤肉這件事，不管橫看豎看，正著想反過來想，都不像是一種可以連續三天發生在十一點半之後的活動，但是，它真的發生了...

晚餐時間聞不到的烤肉味，幾乎是準時的一連三個晚上在十一點半剛過不久開始飄香，讓想像力有點過份豐富的小路開始懷疑那會是什麼樣的人，在烤什麼樣的肉...

其實這當然不是重點，重點在於晚餐吃得比較早的小路的胃在差不多十一點這個時候剛剛好達到消化結束的關鍵點，烤肉香卻又恰恰好從門窗飄進房裡是一件非常殘忍的事，畢竟很少有人可以聞著烤肉的香氣忍住食慾，更少有人可以無需忍受腸胃的抗議而睡得著的。

唉…這明明就是同一批人幹的好事，倒底是誰買了這麼多肉，這些肉要到什麼時候才烤得完啊…好餓…

Thinking about BBQ for a moment, alright, and you tell me if that's some kind of activity you do after 23:30 for 3 days straight. That was the fact, though, happened at the small park near my place.

What you won't smell during dinner time, of course I mean the smell of burned charcoal and grilled meat, somehow starts to float after 23:30 like an alarm. For some reason, I just can't stop wondering who will do things like this and what kind of meat that's sizzling on the grill...

That's not the key issue, unfortunatly, who's grilling what kind of meat. The problem is I have my dinners rather early most of the times so it becomes torture when the smell sneaking in my room late at night. How could I be possibly going to sleep with alluring smell of BBQ that makes my stomache and my soul hungry...

迷城記(三)

繞著繞著，旅遊路標指著半山電梯，一路向上的長長的電梯從中環將人送到半山，一路尋找著重慶森林裡那間緊緊貼著電梯的租屋卻毫無斬獲，照距離來看，有可能的幾乎都是餐廳，不會特別失望，畢竟時過境遷，沒有什麼是永遠的。

半山上被稱做南soho的餐廳區果然一如觀光手冊所說的貴，不過和紐約的soho佈滿各種國籍的菜色相似的地方，價目卻是翻倍的高，有些出乎意外。看著餐廳門外熟悉的菜色，和滿街對著翻飛的汽車廢氣享受沙拉和午餐的人，並沒有一絲食欲被鉤起。找到一條小巷，前後有印度菜，義大利菜，和也許是無國籍料理的店，坐在花壇邊上望去，忽然發現一種悠閒。

轉過街口，路標上列著的旅遊標示卻指向一條不起眼的小巷，走下階梯，架在樓房與街道半空之中的窄巷看不出通往何處，巴著窄巷旁的圍牆望出去，卻隱約可見腳底下的巷弄間此起彼落的招牌…

午後的巷弄裡，要不是舉目可見的招牌林立，悄然無聲的街道讓人絕難想到這裡是香港。

才不過下午，人卻已經慢慢多了起來…

時間差不多是下午三點，照旅遊手冊說，立法會就在不遠，而維多利亞港前那一片高聳入雲又壯麗的大樓群和天星碼頭也在左近，趕趕行程吧，在天黑之前。

如此的廊柱和建築，置身在寸土寸金的城市之中，讓人想起同樣身處於城市之中的紐約中央圖書館，和門前那兩隻會隨著紀念日改變造型的獅子。

門前就是電車站，剛向個好心人問完路，一轉頭自已就又成了問路的對象，這好像是小路的命運，說好聽一點應該叫適應能力強，也就是屬於變色龍那種，但小路實在是對那些挑上自已的人感到抱歉，畢竟小路只是"像"當地人。這回一旁剛被小路問完路的好心人再次出手幫忙，小路卻在接下來的電車旅程上和問路的加拿大老夫婦聊了開來，電車上層不乏舒服的涼風，從中環到銅鑼灣的路上，三個來自不同國家的人，在一個不屬於自已的城市，聊著各自的故鄉事。

錯車之間...

搭一次兩塊港幣的電車，可以好好的把香港島看個清楚

Very Superstitions

Superstitions--David Huang

Very superstitions,
Writings on the wall,
Very superstitions,
Ladder's about to fall.
Thirteen month old baby,
Broke the looking glass,
Seven years of bad luck,
Good times in your past,
When you believe in things,
You don't understand,
Than you suffer,
Superstition ain't the way...


With all the scientific evidences proving and/or saying superstitions ain't be counted, I still have to say, my sixth sense is horrifying when it breaks the leash...

You know, it's like something that just will make your hair standing and freak you out of your mind when happened. It did happened... well, let me rephrase it, they did happened... enough for me to try almost everything just to break out of the circle. Nothing was changed I end up figuring, when it stroke me today why I am where I am...

This time, I was really freaked out. The uneasy feeling followed me over a week already and is moving strong. I would want to escape from all these, but how...

迷城記(二)

和黃大仙廟比起來，文武廟就像是個沒人疼的孩子，一邊是香火鼎盛，一邊卻人煙稀少，繞了一圈只遇上三個觀光客模樣的纂著觀光手冊進門，三個上門參拜的信眾，和兩個廟方工作人員。


雖然人少，四處架著竹棚修葺中的廟宇裡卻掛滿了盤香，裊裊香煙之中的神袛看來熟悉而陌生，文昌君和關帝君的神像和本市裡的大不相同，一旁的偏殿裡成行成列的小陶俑不知是神抑或是其它的什麼，讓明明應該親切的地方充滿距離，轉了兩圈，繼續向前…







照觀光地圖上說，下一站是前中區警署，這只是小路打算拜訪的眾多警署裡的第一站，原因是什麼，當然除了是為追劇之外，還有部分原因是因為那是個古色古香的歐式建築。


唔…看起來不像是已經被封起來的房子對吧…

呃…看起來也不像是"那間"警署對吧…










那就…繼續往中環方向前進。

下一站是大名鼎鼎的蘭桂坊，路上依然找不到歇腳的地方，太陽大概有平時的三倍大，這個城市開始對小看它的旅行者展現威力。
走著走著，彎進了一條看起來像個小市場的巷弄，無時無刻不充滿行人的城市，小小的市場裡賣花，賣菜，還為了將至的金秋掛上了應景的燈籠。

迷城記(一)

還沒走出機場，就已經發現這輩子會的廣東話是真的不夠多…

除了在入境海關面前說了句"唔該謝"，接下來的兩個小時裡用英文可以完成的任務絕對比用國語和廣東話多太多，當然也多虧了香港機場裡個個服務人員雖然中文程度讓人不敢領教，但起碼都能"溜"幾句英文，真是謝天謝地。花了兩個小時，在遠遠望見了維多利亞港的夜景之後，巴士停在一棟肯定有了年紀的酒店前頭，名為旺角的酒店，其實身在太子 (Prince Edward) 地鐵站旁。已經很夜了，雖然執班經理很沒有服務熱忱，但暫時也就算了吧，誰讓自已千挑萬選的避開了電影裡四處都可能會有古惑仔的油麻地和旺角。

起身第一件事，當然是照著計畫趕不上變化的行程移動，上一回去黃大仙的經驗不佳，這一次就差燒香拜拜請大仙大人大量，別再讓香灰把人燙出水泡來了。

這一回，沒水泡，但卻有點別的東西…

求事業的籤，第38首，籤名陶淵明辭官…還沒當官…而且才剛要上班…

讓人辭官都不知該回家吃誰的……大仙嗎? - -



接下來的行程…就開始亂了…因為小小的香港島，讓人覺得坐地鐵太近，走路卻太遠，在換過了三班車之後，迷城從上環開始…

剛剛闖進過一間市場二樓的食肆，裡頭幾乎清一色是來吃便宜快餐的勞動人仕，為了坐下歇腿，顧不得周遭人的奇特眼光，一心只往招牌上寫著咖啡奶茶的小店去。煙霧迷濛而人聲喧嘩的食肆裡，跟坐在門口的阿伯點了杯凍奶茶，阿伯似乎沒見過人在中午只點奶茶，還要凍的，喃喃地問著是不是要喝凍的。阿伯說得太快了點，像是把我當本地人，聽不清楚，也聽不太懂，只好笑著重覆了一次，阿伯才點著頭進廚房開了一瓶出來。

喝完一瓶奶味極濃又甜又膩的凍奶茶，埋單的時候阿伯好心的問我是不是不吃別的了，笑笑，"唔吃了"，天太熱，什麼也吃不下，連奶茶也沒飲完。

這裡是上環的小街，一旁是文武廟，時過正午，傳統的上山階梯有些冷清，和黃大仙廟不同，這裡的人明顯多是住客，誤闖進去的，只是幾個背包客。