Sunday, 16 November 2008

探索東京的靈魂之窗












說台場臨海濱公園(「临海副都心」)是東京的靈魂之窗(我說的)一點也不誇張,那地方有個高高的摩天輪,星光閃閃的彩虹大橋到了晚上燈火通明照耀大地,說不出的輝煌.我超喜歡那地方現代化的設計.而去這個地帶的“百合海鷗(类似轻轨系统的高架电车)也真的很高科技.彷彿每樣和临海副都心有關的事物都閃著:Back to the future!!的标志。

昨天原本沒有打算出門,兆立那家人永駐日本的中學同學由獅城飛過來探親,朋友讓她帶個朋友一起出去,牡丹總需綠葉來配襯嘛!這次輪到我去"濫竽充數".我很樂意偶爾扮演這樣的角色,因為我超喜歡那久違了的お台場.雖然一切都是人造的,但是那夢幻似的透明玻璃城和美麗的大自然有著回然不同的的風情.我喜歡探索他的靈魂,

由新橋轉站出發,經過日出橋,我們最後停在台場臨海濱公園,小孩子在muscle sport center玩的時候,不知不覺走到一個很熟悉的街景區.還有穿著唐山裝的算命大師在擺攤子呢,乍看之下以為自己真的置身於東方之珠
沿著指示標繼續走下去才有個台場小香港的大字樣呈現眼簾.

小孩子之中有個在日本上高中(17,8歲)的孩子,有个在SINGTEL工作的小哥哥,有个光头在金融界工作的大哥哥,还有一个日本男生。日本孩子是高中男孩的羽毛球夥伴.在Sony當工程師,所以我們隨他去了Sony的explora science center.體驗了一些科技帶來的感官刺激,如degital dream lab, 哈雷衛星立體體驗,見識了Sony最新型的LCD大型電視.接著,去和由丹下健三設計,具有幻想的神秘與未來夢幻色彩的建築特色的Fuji TV做零距離親密接觸.

在還來不及一睹大馬眼和獅城眼之前,我們登上了東京的摩天輪,在雨中的東京俯瞰“星光燦爛”耀夜空.和孩子們在一起的时刻我也變成了孩子,我們登高望遠,我們在摩天輪裡拍了一些好玩的照片.後來還去了豐田汽車公司的大型綜合展銷中心。展示有從概念車、賽車到私家車的各種型號的豐田汽車,展銷中心附近有個很宏達的遊戲場.那裏的おばけやしき、也就是鬼屋的恐怖效果製造得很逼真.孩子們愛鬧,我也跟著湊熱鬧,三組一個隊伍,我緊緊地捉住一根系著手電筒的繩子,在高中孩子和日本男孩的中間大喊大叫地穿越了間中令人心驚膽戰的鬼屋.

发觉好像不止年長的男人喜歡照顧人,這些可愛的孩子們呀和我的弟妹們一樣,老害怕丟失了小姐姐.真貼心的小朋友啊.我就是那麼幸運,只要自己不刻意選擇孤單,一路走來總被一些,真,善,美,的事物團團包圍.

Saturday, 15 November 2008

我的新歡





最近又破費了,一口氣在一個星期之內買了兩種和溝通有關的技術道具.我的新歡,一個身著黑色外套,小巧的一身華麗的紫色.

狮城国防部工作的JUGAS夥伴来日出差,顺道来东大找我一起见了Division of University Corporate Relations---The Bridge between Industry and the University of Tokyo的教授。我們假裝聽不懂日語,讓那氣宇軒昂的教授說英語.這教授在美國呆過一陣吧,那口美式英語將新式英語的氣勢給壓了下去.談判的是結果是,哎呀!东大是国立大学,拿得是纳税人的钱,日本政府怎么可能掏腰包替别人家做嫁娘呢。搞笑的狮城官僚朋友此行最大的收穫只是有我陪伴。

是日,我陪他去秋叶原走走看看。一个不小心买了最新SHARP电子辞典手写输入PW-AT780日英中韩。朋友说那是best buy. 特价销售也花了19000日元。(美金售价是189.99)

朋友離開之後的兩天,我的手機神奇似不見了,應該是走路不專心掉到某個一般人看不到的角落了吧?.等了一天還不見那銀色的飄逸伊人.我馬上去下北澤的softbank 店鋪引入"新歡", Samsung 821SC - 一台有機EL搭載的ワンセグ手機 ,由於她具有電視的功能.使原本就不受落的電視機被打入更深邃的冷宮.再用回softbank是因為他們提供了white Plan.學生有折扣,用相同手機公司的在半夜1點至隔天晚上9點之間通話費免費.缺點是如果和持有別家電話公司手機的朋友通話,費用驚人.我有太多非學生的朋友了,一個不小心曾經用上一個月1萬日圓以上手機費的紀錄.

Friday, 14 November 2008

四季



昀仙和婉真各在FACEBOOK和MSN上写着黎礎寧名字后面放了几个感叹号,让我留意起她。

噢!又隕落了一個星,《超級星光大道》的三班黎礎寧就這樣選擇燒炭離開人世,留下悲慟欲絕的父親,
人间如此多情,星光却这般短暂。四季,就如她的人生:「我的愛情已折斷了翅膀、無法繼續飛翔在風里飄飄蕩蕩、等待天亮好好大哭一場......』我不喜欢叫人难过的曲子,只是觉得她的嗓音还不赖。

我的四季呢?当然是快乐似仙子的咯,昨天完成了一个Presentation.前晚过于忙累,不小心弄丢了手机,走在外面时和世界脱离了干系.曾幾何時這個與人溝通的工具也開始駕馭起人們的情緒呢?唉!看來網絡和手機中毒不知不覺滲透了技術依賴症候群的靈魂.

又是一天之始,我打算在出席水越ぜみ之前到下北泽买个新的。

Monday, 10 November 2008

秋天的童话 再見蘋果花













第一次看到蘋果花,在小林老先生的家,花瓣呈白色,有的带有淡淡的桃红色,大多挂在枝頭.她的清新淡雅和茉莉水仙不相上下.暖洋洋的神韻和小林大先輩兩夫婦和善待客的態度很相近

白花花的蘋果花似云若霧,很快就成為紅彤彤的蘋果甜又甜.他們是深秋的仙子,也是松本的寶貝之一.記憶裡我每一次都和不同的人造訪甜蘋果的故鄉.第一次共同登上松本城的人,除了兩個日本人(記者和學者),其中一個已經不知所踪, 大學畢業那年,濱田老爺爺招待我家人遊松本城,而開始工作之後和香港的好姊妹黃美人以及還沒有當助產婦的青萍來過一次.那次小林常務夫婦也招待我去他們家吃飯.我於是帶著兩個朋友去吃免費大餐.

時隔多年,我又應邀去松本看楓葉,吃大餐,嘗蘋果.我的行動模式還是和过去一樣;每次帶著不同的女生朋友去作客.忙壞了小林媽媽,給我們做了好多美食.主食小林老先生還拿出了他最貴的萬壽酒來招待我們,拿一瓶酒以新瀉上好的米釀製出來,一小杯是三千日元.一瓶至少5萬日圓的"萬壽酒.獨樂樂不如眾樂樂,對於別人的善意,我老習慣帶著一群朋友去分享,讓那些真心招待我的人荷包大出血,希望他們不要怕了我才好.小林不僅是以前公司的老闆,也是大學的大前輩.在公司裡是高高在上的長者,第一次上小林家作客,那些日本員工們覺得很不可思議極了.我麼,就是那麼dont care而招搖.

這次,還見了久違的佐藤.丽清總說难以想像長得有點像香港影星王敏德,具備高貴氣質的他有個普通的無法再普通的妻子.那个时候佐藤提出想体验新式英語时,我推出當時在隔壁Uob辦公樓的麗清去接招.沒料到我倆竟然會在今日共遊松本見佐藤。麗清個性率直,他直言不諱若非佐藤有家室,一定窮追猛打.至于我呢,有機會和有史以來最疼愛自己的大哥哥同事重逢當然心裡也很雀躍了.

记住佐藤只因他說坚持我應該一輩子都保留孩子般的純真,一起工作的時候即使搞企業家交流會也捨不得讓我喝酒待客.每次佐藤都替我乾杯.他們對我的好給了我許多溫馨的回憶.在社會打滾了還得以保留一颗赤子之心應該是幸運的事吧?然而卻也间接種下了難以融入辦公室政治大環境的根.因此世間事的好壞優劣真的要看自己打算以甚麼角度去衡量。

如果以美的角度去感受這世間的美好,這家銀行所有同事帶給自己那慈母般的愛,就和記憶裡的蘋果花一樣芬芳.
但盼日後再見蘋果花之時,"我情依舊,他夢常圓".

Friday, 7 November 2008

Eu protegi o teu nome por amor, Em um codinome, Beija-flor

I had protected your name for love, in a codename Beija-Flor "Beauty Flower"
Codinome beija-Flor Cantor Luiz Melodia Code-name Flower Kiss

(Reinaldo Arias/Cazuza/Ezequiel Neves)


Pra que mentir
That you lied

Fingir que perdoou
And pretended you were doomed

Tentar ficar amigos sem rancor
Trying to remain friends without bitterness

A emoção acabou
The emotion ended

Que coincidência é o amor
That coincidentally is love

A nossa música nunca mais tocou
Our music never again played

Pra que usar de tanta educação
That we used so much in our education

Pra destilar terceiras intenções
To insinuate fourth intentions

Desperdiçando meu mel
In desperation, oh my honey

Devagarinho flor em flor
A little slowly a flower to a flower

Entre os meus inimigos,
Between my enemies

beija-flor
A flower kiss

Eu protegi teu nome por amor
I protect your name for love

Em um codinome beija-flor
In a code-name flower kiss

Não responda nunca meu o amor
Never answer me my love

nunca
Never

Pra qualquer um na rua
For anybody in the street

Beija-flor
A flower kiss

Que só eu que podia
If only I could be

Dentro da tua orelha fria
Inside your cold ear

Dizer segredos de
Telling you of the secrets of a

liqüidificador
killer

Você sonhava acordada
You awoke from dreaming

Um jeito de não sentir dor
A way to not to feel pain

Prendia o choro
You might stop the crying

E aguava o bom do amor
And showering of good love

Wednesday, 5 November 2008

黄巢



百花之中
惟有你的憂鬱
能感染一个季節
一个人的命运
一个世界的颜色

你是站着的
踩在落葉之上
你不想揮手作别
那些细碎的声响里
你还在朝哪个方向凝望



宋·陸游《九月十二日折菊》: 黃花芬芬絕世奇, 重陽錯把配萸技。 開遲愈見凌霜操,堪笑兒童道過時




  待到秋来九月八, 我花开后百花杀。
  冲天香阵透长安, 满城尽带黄金甲。


文化節(11/3)的午後,我和韓國女生柳文珠一同去探望米山獎學金時代招待過自己的濱田老爺爺.看到了他戰勝病魔努力地生存著的神采,心裡很是感動.濱田請我們吃過壽司之後還讓徒弟山名親手捏了幾包Soba給我們帶回家呢. 歸途經過我曾經好幾個元旦敲鐘迎新的高幡不動尊足を伸ばして造訪了寺廟裡的菊花.(秋季菊花展覽大會)

秋天正是菊花盛开的季節.看菊花,想起前幾年探望得癌症病後剩下一把骨頭的濱田,再想起自己得以完成一天之內整理好十本書的任務的興奮心情.觸動了靈魂深處一大片黃騰騰的菊花情懷.呵呵,待到秋来九月八,菊花節正是我的生日呢!!今天有人說我的名字很瓊瑤小說氣息,難道我的誕生只是一瓢秋天的傷?

其實我有戰鬥似的生活實踐,有行動力。自古逢秋悲寂寥,我言秋日胜春朝 。
再說,“秋菊能傲霜,风霜重重恶,本性能耐寒,风霜其奈何?”


The Last Chrysanthemum
by Thomas Hardy

Why should this flower delay so long
To show its tremulous plumes?
Now is the time of plaintive robin-song,
When flowers are in their tombs.

Through the slow summer, when the sun
Called to each frond and whorl
That all he could for flowers was being done,
Why did it not uncurl?

It must have felt that fervid call
Although it took no heed,
Waking but now, when leaves like corpses fall,
And saps all retrocede.

Too late its beauty, lonely thing,
The season's shine is spent,
Nothing remains for it but shivering
In tempests turbulent.

Had it a reason for delay,
Dreaming in witlessness
That for a bloom so delicately gay
Winter would stay its stress?

- I talk as if the thing were born
With sense to work its mind;
Yet it is but one mask of many worn
By the Great Face behind.

Monday, 3 November 2008

她受不了

在一個新朋友的部落格上讀到一些趣味的現象,覺得她寫得好好笑,忍不住要原文不動搬過來這裡娛樂自己,哈哈! 希望她不要太傷神,口裡唸著唸著就完成了學業.

她笔下的日本男生面面觀是早稻田的风情.我們中央的呀,影子早已經模糊了,No comment.東大的日本男生麼,在我眼中致命傷頂多是死好戀,眼睛長在鼻子上,有時愛說些教人笑不出來的冷笑話而已.一般上思考類型者居多.看在眼裡還不算太“乞人憎”.
喔!不對不對,應該说我向來不怎麼留意他們所以無法挑出可以搞笑的材料吧?
說來難以置信,一路走來,似乎沒有任何日本男生可以在我心湖掀起一絲桃色漣漪.(希望那些懂得中文的日本男生朋友如果有一天找到這裡角落,不小心看到這段文字不要難過啦)

Em啊, 你連我的中文名字都不知道,應該找不到我在網上落腳的地方吧?借用一下你的文字囉.

Yesterday (or rather last Thursday), during one of my Masters class, I saw an gesture/habit of one of the Japanese male students that confirmed my hunch that the young Japanese guys are turning into.... :x :x

Can any one of you guess what I had seen that guy doing while he was listening to the lecture? He was playing with his hair... :o :o His hair wasn't long, just average length for a guy.. Yet, there he was, touching and twirling his hair around his fingers the whole time!!! Oh my God!! If it was a girl doing that then it was still forgivable, even so I seldom see any girl playing with her hair for such a long period of time.... Well, if the guy was shaking his legs, digging his nose, digging his ears, doodling some obscene drawings, scratching his scab or took off his shoes and/or socks, I might not have so big a reaction..

This is really intolerable for me.. These Japanese guys are so freaking effeminate or "sissy".. Of course there is no lack of macho-looking guys around, but there is still a great number of them with effeminate gestures/behaviors.. Where else but in Japan can you see guys clasping their bags with their arms/ankles or wearing pointed high-heel boots??? They are just so "sissy" no matter where they are.. :o :x :o

Frankly I don't look highly upon these younger Japanese guys.. Other than the fact that they are slightly well-dressed, there is nothing fantastic about them.. Comparatively, they are not as hardworking as the Chinese guys; they do not take care of their families as well as the Malaysian guys; they are not as ambitious as the Singaporean guys; they are not as cheerful as the American guys; they are not as romantic as the French guys; nor are they as sensitive as the Taiwanese guys.. On top of these "flaws", these young Japanese guys are so weak/sickly, and yet they continue to behave so chauvinistically.. No wonder more and more Japanese girls are running into the arms of foreigners... Who wants to be with a weakling chauvinist?? One that can't provide a sense of security, a workaholic who prefers to hang around with his colleagues than going home to help his wife with the kids/chores, who assumed that his wife is his possession and has all the rights in the world to be served... I rather be single than to marry such guys...

To put it bluntly, I think I can, one on one, outfight half of these young Japanese guys.. :p Most of them are just too skinny, too frail and too wimpy.. :x :x

Maybe these are all my stereotyping.. Maybe I am not objective enough... Maybe I am biased against them, but unfortunately this is what I really think of them... Till this day, I have yet to meet one who will/can change this perception of mine..

後記: 今天中午出門去了,所以至今還沒有完成自己該做的事,我的「思想の科学」啊,只做了十分之一而已.
再八卦下去,今晚不用入睡了.

Sunday, 2 November 2008

记取11月第一天

同样的路,树上的叶子染色了。虽然风很大,却是一个秋高气爽的周六。


昨晚睡得晚,今天没来得及参加自己研究室的大型研究发表会,而去了一个国际资讯研讨会。睡虫不断和我打招呼,所以忍不住呼呼大睡了一会儿。最后一个环节的讨论和自己有兴趣的分野有关系,所以不仅听得全神贯注,还向几个主讲人提问了。相信今后自己会更加气定神闲,迟早有一天可以达到有条理地议论,不慌张的分析的表达水平。

会做学问善于从事研究的人不一定善于表达吧?那个叫远藤的女教授,发表的时刻并没有比她写的书的内容有魅力。北京大学的教授以英语发表了中国一些资讯。中日韩正考量着CJK的ユビキタス联盟计划呢!怎么日本的学术界总搞东亚联盟,将我们亚细安挤出门外呢?不行!总有一天我要储备力量让新马也从中分得一杯羹。



国际研讨会在秋叶原举行,东京新品种流行文化的集中地很热闹,在我提问之前没人认识自己,所以午餐时间一个人去附近用餐,然后顺道去了动画中心,和可爱的多来梦等等合照。

午饭吃了碗鰹節のお茶付け套餐,在生鱼饭上浇了昆布茶味道很奇特。我喜欢配饭那块绵绵的凉豆腐和南瓜。





研讨会结束之后,应邀参加了一个Madagascar人的生日会,在水道桥的“海南鸡饭”吃晚饭。餐桌上的人来自十个国家的东京工业大学的大学院生,人太多了,我只和坐在附近的美国,日本,悉尼,马来西亚以及没有上镜的伦敦人说最多废话。
一群说英语的在一起总难免稍微酸一下日本的了,可怜的新泻美女很努力要大家配合说日语,可是连我这个可以说得很流利的也假装只会一点皮毛。少数服从多数嘛!真希望她当大家说笑就好。不要放在心上。

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Life may change,but it may fly not; Hope may vanish,but can die not; Truth be veiled, but still it burtneth;Love repulsed,----but it returneth.人生の中に夢があるのではなく夢の中に人生がある. 没有花吗,有歌我献给你;没有歌吗,有话在我心里;没有话吗,有梦我告诉你。 I'm walking in the favour of God, his grace and mercy has brought me this far. I will believe all that His word says about me; lack and poverty, it's not my destiny. I'm walking, I'm living, I'm walking in the favour of GOD. His favour (his favour) is better (is better) than life to me, the blessings of Jesus make me rich in victory.

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