一秒鐘的選擇與抉擇

一秒鐘，只是電光火石的一刹，但那一刻的選擇，也許能改寫往後日子的故事。

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若有一個人說「我冇得揀！」，那他或她是選擇了相信沒有其他更好的了；
若有一個人說「就是我喜歡！」，那他或她是選擇了只看眼前的，沒別的了；
若有一個人說「到底係邊個（引致咁既事）？」，那他或她是選擇了不去想自己有沒有責任，也不去想到底真的只是一個人的問題，還是當中發生了甚麼事？

記得每次跟某好友相約會面，他總比我早到相約的地點，然後，他會著我小心過馬路。於是，久而久之，我真的很留意路上的情況，尤其是行人路燈的指示。豈知，那天望著前面的綠燈，準備過馬路，右邉無端出現了一輛客貨車，車機無端在不能左轉的路口左轉，我差點給撞倒。是那一刻我沒踏出去，那一刻他轉了左，立時發現不對，轉右回到直路上去。

故事驅使我在想，當我盡了作為行人的責任，其他的人呢？然後，我又不期然想，我是要顧及（或許因為）別人不理會個人責任而帶來的後果嗎？

那邊廂，難道我不能放眼去看廣一點，用心去感受一下，才去想是否真的要追究那所謂的「責任」？最後，我給自己說，若有一個人選擇不去理解與體會，又或者一心認為所有發生的一切都該歸咎於一個人，並且不理會周邊的所有，亦不相信那個人有盡力去做好本份，繼而活在恨與痛當中，那也是他或她所取的抉擇。

到最後，不論到底是無可奈何，是（過份）主觀的判斷，抑或是經過客觀分析而作出的行為，那也是一個人在一秒鐘之間所作的選擇；同時，到底一個人會選擇記住不愉快的，繼而活在困局中，還是花點心思與時間去記著開心的時刻，並感謝每一位所帶來的快樂或得到不快所帶來的（人生）學習機會，自己決定好了！

後記：我未能完全忘記不快的，但至少我記得，我知道，身邊有某某、有家人和各位送來的祝福和關心。

其實，做隻豬，都幾好吖！

［你沒看錯，以上所見的不是白白豬，是白白牛，是我前些日子在法國遇上的。我想談的不是牛，是豬，可惜，我沒一張豬的相片，所以，借牛代豬吧！］

今天下午，我在酒會上遇見新朋友，她給我看了她在意大利所拍的相片，是一群豬，在意大利藍天白雲下的白白豬。

然後，我不禁說了一句：「其實，做隻豬，都幾好吖！」

實在，一隻豬，到底有沒有那所謂的思想，又或者對牠的生活，有甚麼意見，我沒法得知。對人類來說，牠就是會懶洋洋的，是「懶豬」，不會勞動的，然而，到底牠是在好好享受「瞓完又食，食完又瞓」的生活，還是不甘被人類冠以懶惰豬之名，而活在怨恨之中呢？

說到底，我不知道，猜牠也不知道，只要活著時，好好渡日，一生如廝，足矣。

What a day - surprising, interesting, beautiful.

8am on train to Guangzhou, China.  There was SUNSHINE!

What's this all about... TWO wine fairs... 

I need to calm down and chill out - after a  LONGGGGGG  & InterestinGGGGGGGG day!!!  [Read on..]

Foreword: I'm going to write this in English - so I can share with my business partner (and friend/ travelmate) who shared the super interesting day with me.  :)

What a day!?

Story began... 2-hour sleep last night, then I was there at Hunghom Station by 6.48am.  Got my Starbucks (there is only Starbucks where I could get the coffee... ) Caramel Macchiato + Cheese Croissant, I was ready to board the Kowloon-Guangzhou Through Train!

7.03am - I met my travelmate at tne gate of the train.  "I'm jealous!" She saw my Starbucks carrybag.  SORRY that I assumed she would have had breakfast with family in the early morning at home - so I didn't call her up and asked if she would like something from Starbucks.

7.05am - WE were at Starbucks.  "Hey - I got a RAT at home this morning!  Hahaha... " (I was like @_@")  

"RAT!!!!!!???????"

7.06am - "Yeah - a rat!  We live in rural area!  I was freaked out - I'm a city girl!" (I was like -_-")

7.25am - We were on the train... Chat chat chat chat...

9.35am @Guangzhou East Station.  "We are getting off," I said.  "Oh - we are HERE!?"

10.12am - we were at our 'destination', the fairground.  

bla bla bla... bla bla bla... bleh bleh bleh... ehhh... ehhhhh....

3.15pm - "We have time before the train at 16.56, let's go shopping!"  I said.

3.32pm - We were at a 'plaza'.  There was JUSCO supermarket, H&M, and Pacific Coffee.

3.40pm @Jusco supermarket.  "Hey - this is the GALLO olive oil from Portugal!"  I said.

3.42pm - We were in front of the WINE & SPIRITS section.  "Hey - look at that!  You can do instalment payment for the cognac, the Hennessy.. and all these!"

3.46pm - "Oh... Can I... go there..." - "I didn't have time to buy the special shampoo for my new hair style [my red juicy tomato]... let me get that here!" - so I bought my shampoo!

4pm - We ended up, "Let's go Pacific Coffee."

4.15pm - Oups.. I found a little creature FLOATING ON TOP OF MY CARAMEL LATTE!!  "@_@"

4.20pm - I got my NEW cup of caramel latte.  "Let's go!  It's time."  I said.

4.23pm @Metro station (3 stops away from Guangzhou East station).  "We have to walk a little bit faster..., " I said.

4.46pm @Entrance to the customs, then the train flatform.  It was CLOSED!!  "Turn over the ticket, it says you have to be here 10 minutes before!!.. bla bla bla bla bla...."

4.56pm @Ticket office, with four others who missed the train too.

4.56pm @Ticket office.  "Shall we take the train to Shenzhen, then back to Hong Kong?"  I asked.  "Let's go!"

5pm @(another) Ticket office.  "Earliest, 1-class, departs at 5.50pm," the ticket officer said.

"OK...," I said and paid.

Tickets then were in my hand - 17.40 departs, written there.  "Wasn't that the officer said departure at 5.50!?" - I thought.

5.07pm @Entrance to the train flatform.  "Hi, you are here too!" - my friend said to a lady we met at the 'first' ticket office, who missed the train.

"Yes, here I am too!"  the lady said.  "Oh hey... " - she saw the other two people who (kind of) missed the train right in front of her.  They are first-time visitor to Hong Kong/ China from Australia!

Here, four of us were there again, waiting for another train, but only to Shenzhen.

5.15pm @Waiting area.  My travelmate + myself + Ms. lady were sitting together and started chatting.... bla bla bla bla bla.. hahahahaha... 

"Oh, so you two are selling WINES!"

"Oh, so you are an architect from Hong Kong!"

"Oh, your last name as LUKE, but the Chinese is same as me!"  I told the lady - Ms. LUKE the Architect.

5.38pm - Travelmate + myself + Ms. Luke the Architect + the Australian couple @train to Shenzhen.

6.59pm - Train arrived at Shenzhen.

7.xxpm - "Where are the two Australian tourists?  Hope they didn't get lose." - Ms. Luke the Architect got off the train with my travelmate and myself.  We walked and chatted on the way.

7.xxpm - "Oh, here you are again," Ms. Luke the Architect spoke to the Australian tourists.  

7.xxpm - We walked altogether to the customs.  Then due to different identity documents each of us held, we went through separate counters.  Then we were finally at the ticket office at HONG KONG SIDE!!

I went to washroom.

I came back, "Where are the Architect and the couple?"

"I don't know - I thought they are here at the ticket kiosk..."

"Let's see on the order side at the counter.  Perhaps they don't have the currency!?"

So we went to the other side, we found the couple and the lady!  The couple didn't have enough change, so they had to go to the counter and get the ticket!

7.45pm - we were all on the train at HONG KONG side, sat down and ready to go back to the city!  

"We are back to the civilized," the lady said.

7.50pm - I was on a phone call, "Sorry, I missed the train, and I don't think I can make it to arrive there at 8.30.  Please don't wait, and kindly pass my message to...."

I missed the event, which i thought was important, and I really wanted to go.  I was supposed to be there to meet someone who just retired and is going back to his home.  I wanted to try best to make it, because either I meet him this eve, or we never know if we will ever meet.  And, I want to send my warm THANK-YOU to him, for his support during his time here.

He will leave Hong Kong next Monday.  But, I missed it to meet him before he leaves.

8.03pm - my travelmate got off, as she lives closer to the New Territories.

8.30pm - Ms. Architect and myself were on the taxi, going to Lan Kwai Fong.

"Bye there, we'll meet again."

8.42pm - I was walking along Wyndham Street.  Party animals around.  I felt like going somewhere for food & wine.  I was starving and tired.

8.48pm - Well... no... nothing interesting.  Let me go back home, cook and get my FULL bottle of Blanquette de Limoux by myself!

9.15pm @Supermarket nearby home.  I picked one thing I wanna get for my 'dinner'.... then I thought.. ok... save time - let me do all my shopping for the weekend/ next week.

9.22pm - [Whatsapp] "I couldn't find the booth number for these two exhibitors...."

9.24pm - I 'parked' my shopping cart aside.  With my new 'smartphone' - I was working there... finding the 'answers'... DONE!

9.35pm @HOME sweet home.  "Oh - my lotus flowers... what's happened?  Seems you are all so tired... like dying... oh no, please!"  

10.01pm - Salad + Spaghetti w/ Carbonara sauce + Blanquette de Limoux in glass @dining table!!!!  

10.38pm - FINALLY.  I'm back here, home.  Interesting day!

I missed the chance to meet someone I might never meet again in life.  

I met someone new friend, same last name (in Chinese character) as me, shared the similar experience - got stopped at the gate while the train was there at the flatform underground... then we met again at the station... all the way back to Central, Hong Kong.

It's the TGIF (Thanks God It is Friday).

I wanted to do something I wanted - not as I wanted at the end; I was not expecting something I probably would not want - but all a sudden, it happened.  

Never mind - life is full of surprises.  Nothing good or bad, nothing true or false, nothing matters as the end of the day (or life).

工作忙，也不忘說句謝。

當我整天在外忙著... 然後回家又忙著... 晚上十時在自煮自食自飲... 忽然覺得... 或許人生最美在於能夠邊工作, 邊自娛... 還有學會無論有多忙... 依然可以笑著堅持, 並懂得說一句"多謝"。

怪獸家長＠怪獸公司（下）

（接續）

上回以卡通片怪獸公司作收結，沒留一句心所想的。實情是，我不知該寫甚麼。今時今日所看的所謂動畫是成年人所製作的，到底那是自己的縮影，還是對現在小孩子的行為之反映，又抑或是成年人心目中所想的小孩呢？

或許每個世代也如是，父母總會希望給子女最好的，送上最無微不至的呵護，還有盡一切的努力去保護孩子。有人覺得現代人有福，要甚麼就有甚麼，更不知愁或苦的滋味，也許那真的是福，但若如是，而大部份的都是身在福中而不知福的話，那是真的幸福嗎？更甚的是，若然真的不知，卻不停在追尋幸福，那又如何？是福還是禍是端呢？

時代在變，加上現在的發達科技，大人小孩的行為都會被同化，那已是不容否定的事實了；經濟型的社會，知識是重要的，賺錢的能力是重要的，擁有這些那些物質也是重要的，人有我有（暫不談要有比別人優越的感覺好了），也是重要的......父母身處這樣的社會，為了要生存，或許不得不認同，小孩受到父母的薰陶或朋輩的影響，也不得不認同，最後，怪獸公司，其實就是這個社會的縮影，家長與小孩就是在這樣的環境下生活，因而成了怪獸！

那邊廂，我又想，當外在的世界不停在變化的同時，父母可以給子女的，又或父母希望給子女的，也隨著時代轉變而不大相同。例如今天的父母給子女的保護，到底是令他們避免受傷害，還是令他們於長大後，因習慣了被保護而不懂得保護自己，繼而更容易受傷？

簡單點去看，我是相信每個世代有著那個時代的一套規律，那是任何其他世代的人也不能明白或干預的，於是，我想，其實，最重要的是父母灌輸了一套怎樣的判辨思想給子女，能夠以正路的思想去過生活，他們就會於自己的世代，找到保護自己的方法，並且建立自己的人生。

執行李的習慣（下）

(接續)

又過了兩個星期！本想寫完關於執行李的下一篇才離開香港出遊去，那知，執完行李，又忙了兩天，出發以後，到埗即忙足五天，回來後又有點水土不服，最後，來到這天，才感好一點，可以安坐下來，寫幾句字。

執行李期間，除了發現我的習慣是改變習慣以外，還發現自己執行李再不如前，想是已經習以為常吧，出走又回來，回來又出走，結果是根本不用想，從我的「旅行抽屜」取出物品，全都掉進背包，就是了，確實不用十分鐘！

似是有點怪怪的，公幹還是帶著背包，不用那些有輪的行李匣，但到歐洲和酒莊，我較愛背包，感覺是隨身而行，而且在火車月台上等的時候，放置背包在椅上，我坐在背包前，它就有如是墊背的椅一樣，加上我個子不高，背包又比較高身，頂端的包子部份就有如我的頭枕，上落火車又方便，不錯呀！

那天，當我在執拾的時候，我不期然在想，那年買這個背包，是為了一整個月的歐洲之旅，而我帶著的衣服都是舊舊的，在途上可以丟棄的... 說真的，這一刻的回想，使我發現自己曾經沒束縛的出走，隨身的都不是價值不菲的，其實那一身輕的感覺，比身上帶著名牌或所謂「值錢」的，來得更開心。

或許，人生旅途，也如是，背著越多越貴的，未必一定令人開心呢！