Standing still

The World Trade Center construction site is shown Friday, Sept. 11, 2009 in New York.

(AP Photo/Mark Lennihan)

Life moves on
When something stands still
in the dust
in the past
in the heart

I stand along
right next to you
feel your breath
your laugh
your soul

I stand alone
though you won't see anymore
I'll watch them for you
until

there's no more until

ain't over yet

Nine eleventh, sixth year after the twin tower collapsed, fifth year after NY was left behind, forth year after each other.

It ain't over yet.
Not till another life.
I'll still remember the rising smoke, the terror in your eyes, the tears on our faces. And my heart, my heart will still broke with you, when white dust covers this world, when everything turned into snow.




in memory of...

5th anniversary of 9/11

5th anniversary of 9/11

Thought I would be less emotional about this day, afterall it's been 5 long years already. Guess I was wrong.

8:30 AM 09/11/2001, woke up to watch the news about NYC mayor election and hope Bloomberg won't be elected even though Giuliani's tern was going to end. Reporters from NY1 and many other channels awaited outside of City Hall Park saying how mild the voting went. Can't remember what else went on on TV, the only thing remembered was daily routines went along with the news.

8:45 AM, just finished my morning coffee and wondered if I should turn on the computer. The news with mayor election still went on, but something started to bother the sun shine Autumn morning on screen. The reporter muttered something about an abnormal aircraft flew too low and accidentally the camera coughed the image of an air plane roaring across the blue sky of Broadway.

8:46 AM, the plane went straight into the north tower in front of reporters and all the news audiences. I switched the channel to NBC and the morning news anchor started to say a plane just crashed into WTC with possible aircraft failures. On screen, heavy smoke started to raise from the building and the voice of the anchors were mixed with unbilivable and confusion. Everybody thought it was a terrible accident and no one would have espected what's going to happen next.

9:00 AM, viewers and news reporters are still in a total dark of what went on while the situation at the north tower getting sevior. NBC's camera located on Rockfellor Center cought another air plane heading WTC. This time, it happened in front of everyone who's watching the news like bright day light.

9:02 AM, United Airlines Flight 175 made a turn and crashed into the south tower and the news started to announce these two inccidents were terrorism attacks. ( 911 attack by mcsubzero89 )

News started to make all kinds of assumptions and it was said there were at least another 8-10 aircrafts were hijacked. About half hour later, yet another airplane nose dived into the Pentagon, while United Airlines Flight 93 and it's passengers were struggling to take back the plane from hijackers.

09:59 AM, the south tower collapsed.

10:30 AM, the north tower collapsed and the World Trade Center formally went into history.

It must have been some kind of Hollywood film making joke I thought. How could it be possible? How could someone did such horrible things to innocent people? It was real, sadly. From that day NYC was surrounded with emotion, just like the ashed air that covered the city sky. News reports ran the follow up all day long, friends and families tried to reach their love ones from nationwide and across the sea. I just sitted there, wouldn't believe a single scene I've seen on TV.


Related materials:
911 Timeline (minute by minute timeline of 911)
9/11: Five Years Later (full coverage from NBC)
Heaven 911 (by snero02)

Yo Yo Yo! Kobe's in Town

好high喔!
雖然不迷湖人隊的小飛俠，但人來瘋的個性一開始就沒完沒了，一定要先上來寫一下才睡得著




就別管票是怎麼來的啦，反正是內線，一夥人吃完了飯，用閒晃的速度穿過新生南路，吃飯前看見的那堆據說是從早上就開始排隊的年輕人已經進場完畢。嗯，很好，可以不用擠了 (雖然我們根本就是用vip入口) ，跨過設計不良的台大體育館三樓的室外大水窪，門口看起來像是工讀生的弟弟正在對兩個後生仔說，<有票嗎? 沒票的話裡面已經滿了喔，不能進去了…>，亮出貴賓卷 (好用的內線) ，老人家們又繼續慢吞吞地往裡走。

哇，不得了，原來人這麼多，都快滿出來了，放眼望去都是人，找位子這件事變成一個頭痛的任務。但是冥冥中神戶 (牛排?! :P) 之神有在保祐的樣子，在人群之中突然一塊空蕩蕩的藍色觀眾席在第一排出現，距離不長不短，剛剛好夠坐5位老人家。坐定之後才發現，原來挖到了寶 (再笑一下) ，老人家面對的是安排成鬥牛型的球場的正前方，直視是籃球架和球場，抬起頭是兩個超大型螢幕，就從這一刻開始，人來瘋的種子就已經開始蠢蠢欲動了…

螢幕上的Kobe看到了不知第幾遍，活動時間還沒到，就在這個時候，老人家的冷笑話開始偷偷上演…有一個特別的冷笑話，在這一夥看球賽卻不特別愛Kobe的老人家之間，從聽到活動名稱的時候其實就已經開始了，那就是，<81精神?!那是啥米?…>，善良的內線差點氣得不准老人家們參加，<那是Kobe單場得分最高的成績…拜託你們不要給我丟臉…>。

好，老師有說我們就要聽，不過接下來這個冷笑話，就是由下在提供的…話說遠方的vip區前方走道上突然出現一位身穿81精神非賣品紫色T-shirt膚色黝黑的高個兒，身邊還有一群人圍著，於是我問，<那個是誰?>，<黑人啊!>，<我知道是黑人啊，我是問他是誰?>，<啊就是黑人啊，什麼誰…>，就在想抓狂的前一刻，內線咬著牙說，<就是黑人啊…陳建洲…>，呃…老師，我下次不敢了…


哈…哈…汗~~一待續就待了兩天，沒事，回來更新．．．

關於由在下提供的笑話一，根據內線的記憶，與事實有些出入，所以就把對話部分再寫一次啦…
<黑人來了…>，<在哪裡?>，<就前面那裡。>，<什麼人?>，<黑人啊!>，<我知道是黑人啊，那是誰?>，<黑人啊…>，<黑人是什麼人?>，內線咬著牙把聲音提高八度左右，<就黑人啊!!! 黑人陳建州!!!>

你以為笑話說完了嗎?當然沒有，接下來在Kobe正式出場之前，主持人照例要暖個場，送的是非賣品的81精神T-shirt，第一題當然是個送分題，問的是81是什麼意思，很快就有NBA fans答對了。接下來的題目開始越來越難，問到Kobe在對Toronto Raptors成為NBA史上第二高單場得分球員時，上下半場的得分各為多少，被黑人點名的那位fans夠犀利，竟然手裡拿著當天的水果日報回答問題 (水果日報不知是不是沒有攝影記者到場，第二天的報紙上頭居然沒有這位的照片，不然這麼好的免費宣傳可不是天天都遇得上的)。老人家群中此時有人問起，那單場第一高分的不知是哪位，場上的主持人也正好講到單場第一高分的紀錄保持人是張伯倫，接下來的對話是…
<張伯倫?>，<對啊，張伯倫，很久以前的球員…>，<是中國人喔?>，<是翻譯，他的姓是Chamberlain… - ->

笑話到此不得不打住，因為就在此時，主持人開始幫把體育館擠得滿滿的觀眾預演Kobe出場時大家應該有的表現，配合程度不是特別好，那當然，對著黑人喊"Kobe"一點意思也沒有…看完了主辦單位的新廣告，現場的燈光終於轉暗，等了差不多有一世紀 (那些從早上就來淋雨排隊的人而言，應該有吧) 的Kobe從球場正後方的巨大舞台邊現身，然後…在下的人來瘋因子就發作了……

Kobe的籃球教室時間，真的覺得HBL的小朋友打得都比SBL好…









Kobe的籃球教室親自示範時間，主持人早就說過Kobe的腳才剛動完手術，所以不太能跳，沒熱身加上動手術的關係吧，Kobe很…不準……







重點來啦!這張看起來不怎麼樣的照片，就是讓那天晚上參加活動的一干SBL和HBL球員痛不欲生的"seventeen"的開始…
"seventeen"是什麼呢? 那是Kobe所謂的"black-out"訓練，也是 (據他自已說) 他每天早上6點起床熱身完之後第一個運動…在70秒內在籃球場的短邊來回17趟，而且，這件事不是只做一遍就好，是跑到"blackout"為止…狠吧…那天晚上K教練就是這麼對待場上的球員的……一共跑了6遍，是17*6喔…在第3遍的時候已經有人開始目露兇光，當Kobe說第5遍是最後一遍的時候，大家勉強打起精神跑…
K教練卻摸到這一區前面對著在下的方向做出"no, no"的表情和動作 (一公尺，啊…和Kobe的距離只有一公尺…有點暈…)。在一群人已經有找兇器的感覺的時候，K教練宣佈最後一個bonous round最先抵達終點的獎品是，一雙最新Kobe代言球鞋，一套湖人隊球衣，一套夢幻籃球隊球衣，加上一件Kobe最新球季的24號 球衣，當然，上頭都有現場親筆簽名…



這下子HBL的小朋友們鼓起餘勇卯起來跑，居然連SBL的都想要 (可惜最快的那個讓K教練以摸魚沒踩線為理由"請"到場邊聊天去)，最後的冠軍是HBL的小朋友，可以看得出他在拿到那一大堆goodies的時候，絕對相信今年的聖誕節來早了一季。

玩夠了，接下來是個重頭戲，Kobe要寫毛筆字…不是吧…是滴…Kobe要寫毛筆字，真虧主辦單位想得出來，讓個一輩子沒碰過毛筆的籃球員寫毛筆，還找來一個戴著瓜皮小帽的書僮 (殺了我吧…)，這一段重頭戲，足足演了五分鐘，不能怪Kobe，人家又沒寫過中國字，拿起毛筆活像拿油漆刷，寫得出來已經很厲害了。 (不過當Kobe興高采烈起舉起宣紙的時候，坐在vip區的老人家們還是免不了看見了主辦單位用心地墊在下頭的另一張寫好了的範本，只可惜人家Kobe大爺沒看見，真是枉費了一番苦心…)

最後了，最後了，坐在樓上的排了整天隊的人潮開始閃人，所以Kobe開始做最後一件事，送簽名小籃球… <啊!!! 哇!!! Kobe! Kobe! (給我，給我…我要啊…)>
在下堅信，Kobe對著坐在vip第一排的老人家們使了個眼色，然後一顆籃球輕輕往這個方面飛來…下一個瞬間，右邊一個不吃小孩一把搶走了那顆離我只有10公分左右的籃球…

死小孩…

不過還是要說這真是個有趣的經驗，坐在vip看活動是很難得的，也讓當天晚上走出台大體育館的時候口乾舌燥，然後嗽聲…

又，有數位老人家在第二天的晨間新聞裡發現了老人們的背影，本來想放上來讓大家猜一猜的，可惜新聞全給9月9給擠掉了…蝦米都找不到…唉…

最後再來一張清楚的Kobe吧