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• 青川分享

  02Sep
  Categories: 旅遊 Comments: 0

  施，從來比受更為有福。
  為四川貢獻自己的力量，是何等該作的事，今次的旅程，我根本毫不猶豫。

  內地的政治環境，令這次旅程的性質變得模糊－－服務？探訪？接觸？遊歷？
  不要緊，只要是能出力，哪怕是掃地抹窗抑或擔抬托；再者，有機會跟他們分享藝術，讓當地的朋友經驗我們的專長，更為幸運。最後一天在橋莊二小，總結數天以來訓練，湊合成一連串的表演，表演質素其次，老師與義工們的用心才教我們感動。

  被安排入前進鄉是既驚且喜，山區的鄉村跟城市截然不同，在鄉數天的經歷實是難忘。每位小朋友的家跟學校的距離也不同，有些住在學校旁邊，只需五分鐘便能回校，有些卻住在遠處，每天要走上兩小時的山路。他們愛上學，無容置疑，上課時留心聽書也熱烈回應，休息時到空地跑跑跳跳你追我逐，時而仆倒在地上，時而使勁踏水窪，看見他們忘形的玩耍，不禁讓我們懷疑自己小時候固有的守則。可惜暴雨成災，他們根本無法回校，最後我們只能跟他們在一起三天，連說再見的機會有沒有。

  雨愈下愈大，路封了，車進不了村，我們一行人被困，反因禍得福，站在四面環山的村裡，望著雲霧攔山、河水湧流，難得與大自然如此親近；有一晚渡河行山，望著大地震時從山剝落下來的巨石，想像得到當時震動的力量如何龐大。我們一眾已有心理準備無了期留在村裡，誰知突然決定乘車離開，我反而感到不捨；當然，回到城鄉與同伴重遇，久別後相擁慰問，那一幕同樣教人難忘。

  祝願青川的每位生活安康，期待下次跟你們再相聚。

• 上海遊記

  07Apr
  Categories: 旅遊 Comments: 0

  

  由三月五日至十一日，在上海共一星期的時間。

  乘東方航空的飛機，飛機餐極度難食，幸好有 Haagen-Dazs；下機後乘磁浮列車，全程 300km/hr，八分鐘車程而已。

  

  先談居住環境，舅父一家三口住在一幢三層矮房的二樓，由於多了媽和我二人，有人滿之患，他們安排我獨自在下層一樓人家的單位內睡覺，原因不用深究，大概借用人家空置了的單位吧；

  

  很舊式，舊床舊電視舊雪櫃舊鏡子舊窗戶舊衣櫃，估計女孩不敢睡覺，皆因感覺邪邪的；廁所樓底較矮，如廁和洗澡時都有低下頭，暖氣要開著，否則洗手間溫度會過低，洗澡會冷病。

  除了探姨公與姨婆，其他時間也是四處逛逛；耳邊盡是上海話，我用心聽能聽到兩三成；閒來覺得悶，便上上網，打打機，看看戲；佔生活最多時間的，應該是－－吃！

  

  在第二天，中午去吃生煎包，超多人排隊，吃了半打，另點了一碗不太合襯的牛肉湯，然後在眾多燒烤店中買了羊肉串，羊肉肥瘦相隔，很有羊肉香！

  

  上到姨婆家，他們剛準備午飯，坐下，又吃了半打小籠包和一些涼菜，特別喜歡香芋荀，青青的，也清清的，對整個早晨都在吃肉的我來說，特別合適；看他們打上海牌，看了一會兒，只可對對糊混一色清一色，對近期愛好台灣牌的我來說實在有點單調；小睡片刻，張開眼，姨公遞上一碗紅棗雪耳糖水；吃罷，又說起程吃晚飯，望望手錶，才不過是五時多！到達酒家，很不錯的裝潢，有不少特別的菜色，例如墨魚蛋、鮰魚鰭，還有扇貝－－其實是鱔背才對，也有生煎包，配上芝麻底煎過，很香；喝了一小杯酒，還是喜歡可樂－－肥肥的 2.5 公升樽裝！

  

  表姐帶我夜遊外灘，走在黃浦江的旁邊，感覺跟從前的尖東海旁很相像，看見天上很多孔明燈，以為是甚麼節日或慶日云云，後來才知是商人賺遊客錢所製造出來的天空垃圾。

  

  第三天，在家後的街市逛了良久，超好玩！看到活雞活鴨在籠裡、熟到黑的香蕉被稱為芝麻蕉發售、各式各樣的荀等，上海人愛吃荀，不少菜也會放荀，晚膳想吃鱔糊，買鱔時親見老闆娘用小刀片去鱔骨，簡直神乎其技；除了街市，外圍的舊區也很特別，拍了很多照片，其中最喜歡的是第三張窗外晾衫晾被的一張。

       

  第四天，去了城隍廟，吃了小籠包，大概吃了廿隻吧……看到很多手工藝品，包括剪紙、玉石上微刻、手繒山水畫、草織品，神州果然是神州。

      

  跟老朋洋哥吃過一餐午飯，就在他負責建築的大樓地盤對面；去過他家兩次，一起看歐聯大戰呵呵！

  

  比起北京，上海人算有禮貌，乘車以外的推撞並不常見，另外痰延還是可以隨街看到，唔，始終也是祖國。

  

  阿叔拍照時觸目驚心呢！

  

  從地鐵的電梯上來時，碰巧望見這位阿伯發現扶手旁有垃圾，他拾起來，前行數步再拾起地上的垃圾，然後一併丟進垃圾箱裡；嗯，很感動。

  還有甚麼嘛？無軌電車，跟巴士無異，但這裡的司機駕車 “chok”，乘車一定要扶穩。
  週圍都是世博吉祥物的宣傳，很悶。
  最後，麥當勞的雪糕像雪，不 creamy，很難吃。

• Journal@Japan 14

  22Jun
  Categories: 旅遊 Comments: 5

  June 20th, Yokohama.

  This is the day of rest. I didn’t take any dance lesson but just travelled around at Yokohama. The feeling of Yokohama is really different from Tokyo. Its peaceful, leisure and comfortable. The buildings doesn’t stick together closely and there are only few people on the street. Cool! so good for me to relax.

  While searching for a place to have lunch, I found one American restaurant called Friday’s having a promotion of 50% off!!! I got in there without any hesitation and order a plate of steak. I was sitting at the window seat and the view was so great. You know, the refillable drinks also have 50% off, just cost me 75 yen!!!

  I did nothing special besides walking around. Landmark Plaza, Queen’s Square, Jack Mall, MM21 and 紅磚倉庫. I only bought a few souvenirs for friends and myself, but I put my focus on feeling the atmosphere here. If you have chance to come, don’t forget to walk along the seaside. Finally, I went to the 中華街 and had some chinese dim sum and rice as dinner. Not that delicious, but kind of experience more, worthy to try~~

  I didn’t play any amusement in Cosmo World or Wonder Amuse Zone. Taking photos is already enough for me. Hehe, look at the time of the Ferris Wheel. It’s 9:22, same as my birthday!

  

• Journal@Japan 13

  22Jun
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  June 18th & 19th, Tokyo.

  I went to 池袋 again to find the good things to eat. First of all, I had a ramen in 一蘭, the number one ramen restaurant in 2006. Its damn delicious!!!!!! The secret spicy sauce was completely matched with the pork bone soup! If you come to tokyo, you must try once.

  The second food I have to suggest is barbecue chicken wings (you can see the name from the photo). 6pm already many people were having a meal there. The wings are smelly and the skins were crunchy, really worthy to have a trial.

  

  The next day I went to Ueno Zoo to shoot the animals. It has been so long time that I couldn’t remember when did i go to a zoo last time. Lions, monkeys, gorilla, polar bear, hippo, differnt kinds of birds, zebra, etc.. I have spent about 3 hours in the zoo and finally, I found that the most beautiful animal is TIGER. Its really awesome.

  

  After taking 3 lessons, the last lesson of the day is the guest tutor Bobby from United States. I don’t want to think about it anymore, no even a second.. After taking the lesson, I felt so embarrassed that I told him I came from HK.. I walked on the street, thinking of whether I choose a wrong path of my career. I was totally disqualified to be a dancer nor a tutor.. I am absolutely a frog in the bottom of the well..

  Please.. please.. help me to get rid of this horror..

• Journal@Japan 12

  20Jun
  Categories: 旅遊 Comments: 2

  The mouse of the PC here is out of order. Its so difficult to upload the photos and impossible for me to type the blog (I can’t “TAP TAP TAP” to the POST button!).

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  June 16th, Tokyo.

  秋葉原. Many comics, figures, computers products, video games. I am so happy to buy the SEGA SATURN memory card in a shop which I search for nearly one year! I wanna play a RPG game of the old school sega saturn for long! Can’t wait for trying and playing the game!

  Japanese Culture time: Drinks, food are still put on the street for the people died in the accident last week. People would stop and pray for little bit in front of those food, both the elderly and youngsters do.

  

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  June 17th, Tokyo.

  Disney Sea! Finally I squeezed my time and find a day to the theme park successfully. What’s inside? Come on, it’s not difficult to predict. The rides, the disney mascots, the musical shows, the expensive food, but I still enjoyed it very much. (epecially I have no expectation of playing the TOWER!!!!! FXXK!!! It’s a free fall game!!!)

  The night was a nightmare. I have a class of the guest tutor Bobby but I spent about 30mins to find the studio. The map was too simple to find the way and I just kept running in the area nearby. I asked two japanese guys but they couldn’t help me for little! Finally, two English women read the address and led me there. Thanks too much.. I was already late for 40mins, which is impossible to join the class. Luckily the staff refund the money back to me.

  

• Journal@Japan 11

  20Jun
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  June 15th, Tokyo.

  This is the day of the Japan Dance Delight (Preliminary of Tokyo), the biggest dance contest in Japan. Though I slept at 8:30am, I still wake up at 1:00pm to watch it in Kawasaki. About 70 teams were divided into three sections. I watched the first two and left before the last one started as I had to attend Ari’s Jazz class today. I didn’t watch them all but I could still get the things that I wanna learn. Just a little bit disappointed as the best team supposed to be put at the last part of the show.

  Perhaps I was tired, I couldn’t balance well during practicing the combinations in lesson. I talked to Ari after the class for a while (He can speak Mandarin as he lived in Taiwan for a couple of years). He’s nice and I admire him from my deep deep heart. Um, anyway, thanks for his appreciation today =)

  Btw, I bought two towels of the JDD competition for my own souvenirs! Isn’t it cool?

  

• Journal@Japan 10

  15Jun
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  June 13th & 14th, Tokyo.

  You know where am I starting to write this blog right now? Those 24 hours “Eat Tea” computer cafe! The story is long but simple – Tonight I took the last JR train sucessfully, but it just terminated in the middle of my way.. My rule is always NO TAXI, so I would rather pay a thousand yen to find a place to stay overnight.

  These two days were really a long day. I attended a total of 7 classes and they truly exhausted me. And despite of the classes, I was invited to watch a dance show by a tutor yesterday. The show started at 12:30am and it was held in Roppongi, while its similar to Lan Kwai Fong. There were many teams and some of them were pretty impressive. No one can deny that level of dancers (underground but not the professional) are much higher than in Hong Kong. If you don’t believe in me, go to HMV and buy a Dance Delight DVD.

  The show finished at about 3am. After blowing water and shooting with the tutors, I still have over 90mins to wait for the first Metro train..

  Photo time! The first pic was shot at the Tokyo Tower after I went to 築地市場 in Friday morning and the second one was shot in JR station tonight. The train was the one I took wrongly, so memorable =P

   

• Journal@Japan 9

  14Jun
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  June 12th, Tokyo.

  I got lost again!

  Today I planned to go to a new studio in Meguro called NOA and try Yoshie freestyle class. But, I missed the most important point that the studio is not near JR Meguro station. I asked a Japanese after a couple of time and follow his instruction to walk forward. Then, I couldn’t find any building or road that can be read from my map and, finally, I could only give up.. The only thing I got is, I bought a box of fresh strawberry in 30% off during my 30mins walk in a supermarket..

  

  Japanese culture time – Though udon is a kind of Japanese traditional food, it’s not easy to find a udon restaurant in tokyo. Then what can be found easily? Ramen be sure!

• Journal@Japan 8

  12Jun
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  June 11th, Tokyo.

  The whole climate of dancing here is better than in HK. People go to learn jazz, house, punking, and hip hop among different age groups. You can find middle age students in every class, some of them are already gray. Besides, all of the students work very hard. They do stretching themselves and keep practicing during the rests. Last but not least, they can keep the interest of dancing for years, not like HK people only start for weeks but then disappear forever. No wonder many of them dance better than me. I’m not kidding huh.

  I went to 上野 Ueno today. I would like to walk on the street originally, but the result is.. I stayed at a 7 levels anime shops for an hour! One-piece, Totoro, Dragon Ball, Muscle-man, Keroro, Doraemon, Gundam, American Idols.. I couldn’t stop to pick them up!!! As I am planning to go there once again, I bought nothing as its better to check the prices in Akihabara first~~

  Master Inoue Takehiko (remember Slam Dunk?) is holding his last exhibition nearby. Of course I am not going to miss it! The gallery inside mainly in black and white. But its really awesome as he used different styles e.g. comic, “mountain and water painting” (like Chinese style). One special gimmick is, he put some sand on the floor of a room to pretend a beach because the paintings background is a beach! Look at the pic! Am I as cool as the Inoue’s character?

  

  P.S. Japanese culture time – You can easily find the automatic drinks machine everywhere. From my unofficial calculation, you can find another drinks machine within 100 paces from the one by your side. It means that its impossible to die of thirsty if you have 100yen in your bocket~~

• Journal@Japan 7

  11Jun
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  June 10th, Tokyo.

  Best day of travelling, worst day of dancing.

  My first lesson today was really fucked up. The name of the tutor is U*G. He taught so quick that I totally couldn’t follow.. 80% of the girls could learn the 6 eight counts within 10mins.. how come.. incredible.. I gave up the last time to dance but took up my DC to record the clips for practice.. Fortunately, the punking class (medium level) of Yoshie was good as she is very patient to teach. I will go to her free-style class on Thursday certainly.

  Daytime planned to go 池袋 Ikebukuro. I saw there is a bus stop in front of me! So plan A was changed to B, I took a bus to Ikebukuro instead of metro. Many elderly like taking bus because there is no need to walk the stairs and stand in a crowded train. After almost 50mins, I arrived finally.

  In spite of video games in SEGA, Sunshine city was the place I spent most of the time. First of all, there is a big TOTORO shop in basement!!! This year is the 20th anniversary of TOTORO. I bought a CAT BUS coins wallet and a story book for myself. And even though I went to Disney Store next to the TOTORO shop, I had came back for two times to look at the dolls and goods again!!! I really crazy about TOTORO!!!

  Namja town is another special place I went. I paid nothing to pass through the entrance because special promotion after 5pm, lucky~~ Its a mini indoor theme park stuff. You know, I can’t read Japanese so I played none of them. However, I spent about 1800yen on “doll clipping” and won a big One-Piece CHOPPER doll~~~~~~~~~~ I shouted so loudly when I saw the little brick fell down to my cage! Lucky! So skillful~~

  Picture time. Buy 1 get 1 free today.

   

  P.S. Japanese culture time – I saw 2 men nearly started to fight in JR station, 1 man fell into sleep when he was standing in the train, and 1 woman who got drunk fell of  twice in the train. Is this the lives of Japanese?