<The little belated Photos in Japan>

嗚… 終於救回人質, 從女友手中取得日本之行既相. 以下係比較有趣既 :

1. 志雄哥 : 留意相中央位置男仕, 同香港既志雄哥好似孖生咁. 志雄哥即係個位唔使張叔平做美指, 都自動似黑社會既香港演員.

地球, 是平的. 除左引証我前排話其實人都係幾百個模吸出黎, 我仲幾乎肯定日本人既祖先係徐福. 嚴重抗議小泉參拜靖國神社….

2. 我最討厭的動物 : 出現於相片右上角. 禽流感都殺佢 (地) 唔死, 畜牲既生命力真強. 哀哉.

3. 稻中既熊貓車 : 呢隻熊貓個腎唔好, 所眼袋同手腳有少少黃咁咁. 呢種車周圍都見到, 仲有長頸鹿, 河馬, 俾 100 yen 可以周圍去. 我唱左 40000 yen, 想坐住佢去機場既時候 (個陣係箱根), 圖中既兩兄妹一支箭咁衝左上車.

我返香港個晚即刻 BT 左十套松島, 愛田由同蒼井空報仇.

4. 箱根小王子博物館 : 小王子既作者係好勁抽, 但係 1350 yen 既入場券, 實在搵笨. 半個鐘就行完, 指示內容大部份日文.

5. 遊客勝地 : 京都金閣寺, 無乜特別. 順帶一提, 無乜學過攝影既女友, 拍出黎既相永遠比我既好睇. 好多野講天份.

6. 旅遊勝地 二 : 東京鐵塔. 攝於六本木山. 附送豬排飯, 超正.

7. 箱根水族館 : 女友日本目的之一 (首要及最重要既係喪拼). 1000 yen 入場費, 幾好. 好大塊既落地玻璃, 睇魚睇得好清楚.

順帶一提, 返黎先知 品川 (新宿對落) 原來有一個仲正, 仲大既水族遊樂場. 我俾人用嚴刑烤打左十日, 被狂吠點解個陣唔知道. 我死得好慘.

<Cont’ Japan trip>

1. I took the historical tram in Tokyo city, runing from inner tokyo to an old residential area of tokyo. Just like the tram on HK Island. Excellent. Small village with a lot of human element.  I just sit down somewhere and have the ‘octopus dumplings’, with two little girls reading jap comics, sitting next to me.  In front of me was the old tram, and the whole pic was rather ‘tokyo story’. If you don’t have time to travel to Kyoto or other cities of Jap to taste the ‘historical side’ of Jap, try this tram, running from Waseda to something like ‘Three xxx Station’.

2. I am supposed to rest my legs in this jap trip, though at the beginning i knew it’s rather difficult.  The reasons were that I sprained my knee some four months ago, and didn’t recover to the previous healthy level.  I recovered partly, but hurt it again during my Australia visit – I simply walked from the China Town, to the Darling Harbour, and finally to the Rock near Opera house.  In case you didn’t know, my wild guess is the distance is close to a full Nathan road on the Kowloon side, or King’s road on the HK Island site.  After three days in Jap, of course, I knew my purpose is doomed to fail. Today when i walked, my whole right leg was freaking painful, while i am feeling very good (I recalled the cult leader of hk originals said something abt phys. and psy. pain and happiness).

3. I never knew HK people can speak english (so poorly), until i came here.  When i was so fortunate to get a good place sitting and waiting for the night parade in disneyland, a mother and her lovely son (aged around 8) came.  It was very crowded and they have to stand. The lovely son was moving here and there, drilling into ideal place that could later see the parade clearly.  OK, fine.  When he was standing next to me, i found that my Donald Duck stuff (there is nothing except Donald Duck.  So, instead of using Disneyland stuff, i use Donald Duck stuff) was blocking the little corridor between the bench i am sitting and the next.  I moved the stuff below the bench and the lovely son, in less than 0.5 second, moved into the space. OK, fine.  This was exactly what i wanted – squeeze some valuable place, ideally.  The lovely son and his mum started chatting in cantonese.  Nothing special.

Right before the parade started, her mother looked around – i couldn’t understand why – and then asked her lovely son in English :

‘Is it ok?’ in English

The son in Cantonese : ‘Mother, i cannot see clearly’. 

‘Is it ok?’ in English

The son in Cantonese : I cannot see clearly’. 

Such conversation repated thrice.

Bitch.  Don’t show up your rubbish English in front of Jap of which over 99% do not even A-Z. When i was just about the tell her lovely son, in cantonese, to revert in English, Donald Duck appeared in the parade. Otherwise Wong Fai Hong will come out and say ‘Chinese doesn’t punch Chinese’ in Disneyland Tokyo.

I recall the story of ‘Let me cut into piece’ during my visit in Lan Fong Yuen of Central a year ago. 

4.  I visited the Roppongi Hill yesterday.  Excellent.  But i didn’t expect this is gonna happen in HK, though i know this is exactly what WKCD is gonna to learn from.  I tried the Fried Pork shop on the 5/F, in which there is a waitress who can speak mandarin (her surname was Chan on her name tag). Extremely excellent Pork.  Unlimited refill for rice and soup, costing $80 per head.  The Tokyo City View on 52/F worth its costs.  From there you could even watch the fireworks in other parts of Tokyo. Insane.

<Why do you have to provoke me?>

<Yeah yeah yeah>

1. I meet Toshiki, my jap buddy today.

2. Went to the Great Wheel Car, so freaking romantic.

3. Tried ToFu meal with Toshiki

4. We chatted a lot.

<Seventh Day in Japan>

1. I have roughly calculated that for the remaining days, my gf and i will have yen4000 to spend each day, covering transport, travel and other expenditure.

2. I have watched the Annual firework in ZinChao Temple (Ramen Temple), lasting for 1.5 hr. Excellent, and the most touching firework i have ever watched. 1,000,000 million firework in the air, with many jap guys and gals wearing their traditional dresses. Last year there were 1,000,000 people watching this event in the nearby area. This year i suspect the figure will exceed. Last time i saw so many people in the st. was the 71 march in 2003.

3. I cannot stop appraising the efficiency of Jap’s railway system.  Even with 1 m people sucking into three railways, the trains are only 60% full on average, and people don’t have to wait too long to get away from there.

4. Jap people are very polite.  Very professional.

5. Today is the end of my 7-day JR pass, costing 28300 yen (around HK$2000).  Again, i roughly calculated that with travelling to kyoto, it worths alot.

<First six days in Japan>

1. Girls in Tokyo are polarising – there are beautiful and ugly gals, but not in between them. The normal distribution of girls in terms of degree of beauty becomes concentrated on the two ends.  But the average degree of beautiful rose a little bit (the change in distribution is not symmetric). Many look like Ayu (Bun-kee-bu) and AV girls.

2. Beautiful girls are very tall – 5-7, 5-8. So if you are of the average size of HK guys, don’t expect to date a pretty gal right here.

3. I saw Andy Lau in the Japan Airport. Extremely handsome and look very young (20 something). Similing all the time, and when being asked whether want to use the VIP channel, he refused (though i suspect this was due to the fact that he was on the route for normal guys like me). Anyway, a real star.

4. As expected, my trip is flooded by Muji, Uniqlo, and more importantly, Donald Duck. I have visited 5 Muji stores in the first 2 days, 6 Uniqlo and infinite tonnes of Donald Duck in the first few days. I so hate Muji and Donald Duck now.

5. Some numbers : As expected, folloing 5, we spend 90% of our money in the first 20% of our trip in terms of duration. We eat Mcdonalds, Beef-rice and other cheap food. I think of something about economics on wage and prices in tokyo versus HK, and some interesting implications. ….. ok… stop.  BTW, watami in HK is 100% the taste in Japan.  And i lost my legs in the first days in Shinsuku, Disneyland and Kyoto.

6. The sun burnt my back and hands in Kyoto, a nice city. Even in such a city famous for sight seeing, we bought agnes-b, muji (!!!!) and many other stuff.  Insanity is increasing.

7. Luggage is around 100kg now, i guess. I suggest my gf to go home on foot so that i can take the luggage back to hk

8. I don’t feel like in Japan, though people are speaking japanese to me ALL THE TIME. I suspect HK is so similar to Japan that I don’t feel like in Japan.

9. The average english speaking skill in Kyoto is much better than in Tokyo.

<Pandora’s Paradox>

除了女友外, 還有不少朋友喜愛唐老鴨. 一位和我說 :

喜歡唐老鴨, 有人性, 有喜怒哀樂, 他古惑, 但心地不壞. 不像米奇, 小熊維尼整天也笑面迎人, 太假了, 不真實.

在虛擬的世界尋找真實, 在真實的世界追尋虛擬, 就是我們的生活. 直接一點, 每天活在矛盾與掙扎之中, 怎至乎用上與目的相反的方法去達到目的, 這就是人生.

當然, 世上所有事情的界線, 變得越來越淺薄與含糊.

於是乎, 老馮日寄之所以受歡迎, 全因它的拍攝手法真實 – 膊頭遮住半邊鏡頭, 不用路軌, 不打燈 - 令明明係假的故事看上去真實起來; 長毛梁國雄走進憲制裏, 是為了最終打到憲制; 我們每一天受老闆的氣, 吞客人的屁, 就是為了一天可以當老闆, 然後如此對待下屬及待從.

最明顯的例子, 就是發動戰爭, 以希望取得 “最終的” 和平.

還有梁朝偉演活了的臥底. 要捉壞人, 先演壞人. 而劉德華既反臥底, 做壞人, 又要先扮好人.

這究竟是自欺欺人, 還是要最後達到目的, 必先在短期內放棄它?

許多人想改變世界, 希望間中放底堅持與目標, 以為最後必取得勝利. 最後, 世界改變了這些人.

於是乎, 施丹為了使人三十年後仍然記得這個有血有肉的球王, 在德國足球場, 廿億對眼睛面前表演了法國武台劇劇目 : 鐵頭功怒破十字聯防.

如果以二流的劇目 – 法國拿得冠軍, 施丹光榮退休 – 作世界盃謝幕, 人們很快很容易就會忘記這球品一流, 腳法秀麗的球王. 完美的東西不真實, 不真實的東西容易被遺忘. 在一個不太真實的地方 – 包括了施丹那接近神奇既控球技巧 – 施丹做回了旺角麥花臣的中年阿叔.

為了令人們記得自己這個腳法完美的球王, 施丹像西班牙的蠻牛, 為了見紅而衝向成個球場最多仇家既臭馬, 馬特拉斯. 

施丹絕對是一個一流的編劇與導演.

於是乎, 潘朵拉的那個小盒, 最終必需打開; 不釋放死亡與疾病, 我們也無法得到希望.

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希望那一天到來, 無人知.

<world-cupism II>

以下就係早兩日講個張相 (其實係海報)

睇得唔清… 邊個知道有 UPLOAD 相既 HOST? (謝過 ami_aewws)

消息人仕透露, 下排右四乃胡國雄. 上排左二及左四其中一位為耶蘇.

至於我女友個老頭…

留意下個足球! 係最傳統個隻~~ 唔似而家足球似排球咁五顏六色.

<10%>

When you plan to visit Japan in about two month time, the Yen goes up to something like Y111/US$.

Half a year ago it was still Y120/US$. This means a 10% appreciation of Yen or a 10% reduction in my purchasing power in Japan.

Given my girlfriend’s purchase in Japan will be fixed in Japanese Yen, in order to compensate her 10% loss, in total I will lose 20% of my purchasing power.

F.U.C.K.

Fortunately and unfortunately, I did some pesudo-hedging when the Yen was 117 or 118. At the cost of interest income, I hedges around 10% of my planned budget.

What a 10%.

嘩哈哈哈, 雖然核突, 係大家唔恨得咁多.