過新年Happy New Year! When I was a child....

小時候,家裡是開個小士多店的。
When I was a child, my father was a little shopkeeper, run his own business in New Territories.

逢到過年前,爸爸會自己寫紅紙黑字的揮春,還有一對非常切合的對聯:『生意興隆通四海,財源廣進達三江。』把平民百姓最卑微與最偉大的願望都表達出來了。
As the Chinese New Year come, my father would write the expectation and hopes with black or golden water on the red paper: "Our business can be growing to oversea, the wealth can be reached to those three rivers." It's the common chinese traditional.

開年飯

弟弟走了,感覺是不一樣的。

媽媽準備了一大盤食物,再加一隻鷂,一些簡單的海鮮,我們都接受了,平復了。

可我知道,八十一歲的老祖母多麼盼望能看到兩位小孫子的再次見面。

『大概因為小時候你常常沖茶給我喝,現在我也是什麼茶都愛喝得上的。』二十四歲的外孫兒跟外祖母說起小時候的事,恍如昨日,也稍稍稍讓媽媽的心寬慰一點。

畢竟媽媽也帶了他七個年頭。

可不知道那兩個帶了九年十一年的小孩如今何在了?

距離 Distance

『她的前面有一堵牆。』
"There's a wall in front of her."

我又何嘗不然?
Me too.

其實每個成年人,因為各自的不同經歷,在不同的環境,不同的時候,都可能不自覺地為了保護自己而不得不築起了一堵不同高度的牆,分別的是,她或他們自己是否憧得在適當的時候自己拆牆而已。
People have different experience under different circumstances and different timing. They would build up a wall for protect themselves unwittingly. Just see when they have found this and push over by themselves.

凡事都需要有一個過程,羅馬不是在一日之間建成,再大的帝國,終有一日亦要結束。
Everything need to have a time for processing. The Rome Empire was not completed within one day. The big empire could be fallen down at the end.

『水到自然就渠成了。』
"As the water is coming out, a canal can be done."

但願如此。
Hope it will be.

二零零八年的五月,作客於休斯頓朋友家,發現原來只要我手上拿著一部電腦上網,千里之外的香港朋友可以直接溝通而毫無障礙。
In May 2008, I visited Houston and lived in my friend's house. As I was using a computer and working in the internet, there was no distance between the communication of Houston and Hong Kong.

同一時間,喏大的屋子,就只有我與朋友二個人,我們之間卻有如相隔千里而無法明白或感受對方的心意!
At the same time, there was only two persons in the house, me and my friend, but, we could not touch each other even though we were living in the same place.