It’s not the kind of heavy and critical movie. The issue is simple: selling the land that’s passed on for generations to the gas company, Global, will make some instant fortune that can help the relatively impovished folks in the countryside who haven’t got much to sell; but it also surely will devastate the land which can provide them with some basic mean of life – and most of all the emotional attachment to their culture and dignity. It is a movie full of fun and humour, but not cliché. Arguments need not be made in hostile confrontation; romance need not endure hysterical fight; pollution needs not be explained by horrible, disgusting scenes. There was no harsh accusations to the gas company, nor their employees – “it’s just a job”. What is the most impressive throughout the movie is the lush green, peaceful scene of the countryside landscape; and of course, all the plain and rough – yet simple and kind – faces of the local people – old men, farmers, housewives, little girls alike – whose characters could only belong to this poor but gifted land. The people and their lifestyle will be gone when their land is sold. Aren’t these the strongest counter-arguments to the promised wealth and good life brought about by fracking shale gas?
Wednesday, May 01, 2013
"Promised Land" - A brief review
Saturday, November 05, 2011
Thursday, May 12, 2011
2011 - 2012 年各區巴士路線發展計劃 (RDP)
灣仔區
Saturday, November 13, 2010
2010台灣游

Sunday, August 08, 2010
粵普之爭的小感受
對於近來香港和大陸的粵普之爭,我之前都談過不少,現在還有一些感想,故想加上一個註腳:
一,7月13日個集星期二檔案講香港人講鄉下話的情況,值得一睇,圍頭話都仲係第一次聽到有人講,怪不得之前去元朗吉慶圍參觀,老人家唔講客家,而講歪歪地的白話,原來就係圍頭話;
二,香港就係一個咁奇怪的地方,白人老外來到住成世都唔使學中文,黑皮膚老外來到成世都學唔好中文,黃皮膚本地人卻想仔女唔好學中文! 梁啟智兄的文章可供參考。我估香港華人不少的上一代或兩代都唔係講粵語,對粵語無甚歸屬感,只係社會需要而講,所以唔覺得有義務保護粵語。不過如果社會開始關心保育舊建築、自然景觀,呢股風氣亦應可以帶到保護語言之上。
三,香港的法定語言為兩文三語,但偏偏學校只會教兩文兩語 (甚至連粵語都趕出學校者亦有,參考德望學校),餘下的粵語絕大多數人都無機會學,小弟好彩在中大有機會上左3堂 “語精”,先至識得粵語拼音,難道母語就唔需要學?
四,國內向下一代強力推普,尤其在校內,校外又係咁向公眾宣傳,實際效果就係小朋友用方言的機會同能力大減,成人亦少左機會為方言注入新內容,潛台辭就係要削弱大人細路講方言的能力,試問咁仲唔係要慢慢消滅方言? 溫水煮蛙而已! 最後變成點? 好彩的可能好似台灣的閩南話咁,只可活躍於鄉間/ 南部,但一種語言如果唔可以存在於大城市同年輕人之間(未去過高雄,唔知多唔多年輕人講閩南話呢? 但連 “海角七號” 去到墾丁都係講國語,我無寄於希望了),則生命力大減矣!
五,國內主要官員由外省人擔任並沒有問題,反而係好事,吸納四方人才,也可避免在地方盤根。保護方言不需要本地人任地方官,也不需要外來官做騒咁學本地話,只要佢任內的措施唔好壓縮本地人講本地話之空間就好了,就好似英國人管香港,甚少港督識中文,華人半 “被逼” 學好英文,但英國人無要求我地校內家內任何時間都要講英文,已經係對使用方言的德政。
Saturday, March 27, 2010
交通快語 -- 最擠逼的巴士站
中環干諾道中近畢打街口以西的巴士站,是我經歷過的最擠擁的巴士站。不是說這裏停靠的巴士最多,而是在中環的這個咽喉位置空間非常稀少,到下班時間要完成經近不可能的任務︰最前面有綠色小巴54, 55路的終站﹔接著有兩個巴士的長度負責接發中途停站的巴士路線,包括4x, 5x, 18p, 30x, 43x, 46x, 115, 603, 619, 720, 788, 930, 962, 967, A11, A12, E11﹔最後還有一個巴士的長度來停靠每10分鐘相繼始發的960A和X962﹔路邊的行人路只有約3米闊,但路過的人、排隊候車的人和沒隊可排的候車人一同巧妙地在這裏各取所需﹔5x大巴上車的人特別多,一停就是兩三分鐘,後來的巴士靠不了站,只有堵回車路上,一堵便堵到畢打街口後﹔始發的960A和X962為了盡量停在較後的位置,每每都要在這鬧市中倒車,這可以極不輕易的舉動啊。試問有那一個路邊巴士站是在如此壓逼的條件下運作 ?!
Sunday, March 14, 2010
2010瑞意遊選篇 -- 雪朗峰 (Schilthorn)
說到瑞士的雪山,大家馬上都會想到少女峰和遮馬特峰,但瑞士到處都是雄山峻嶺,可供遊玩的又豈止這兩座山峰,這次我便登上了跟少女峰隔山谷相望的雪朗峰(Schilthorn)。