都市抑鬱症

回到香港不過一個多月，已經很想念加州那綠悠悠的草地，怡人的天氣和優閒的咖啡室。明明在那裡生活悶得要死，但現在想起來，那時候的悶卻是現在在香港缺乏的「思考空間」。都說記憶是個犯賤的東西，你每每記住的都是失去了的事物的好，它的壞卻是在擁有的時侯才最銘心。

Nicholas K

New York has many ways to make you feel poor. Beautiful clothes being one of them.

Among my many dateless weekends in nyc, a lot them were spent in wandering the NOHO and SOHO neighborhood. People were extremely well-dressed and I, despite being a proud Californian, constantly felt out of place. It was a kind of emotion that resembled both disgust and admiration. So there I was, in a store called "Atrium", encountered some pieces of clothing that embolden my fashion sense and that I had no doubt would elate my confidence wearing them. Sold in the heart of the fashion capital of the country, they were of course priced out of my financial league even after discount. Being a discipline shopper, I fought off the idea of bringing them home on the spot thinking that, hold off, there might be better deals online. To my disappointment, this is not a well circulated label and the selection was limited on the internet as well. Obsessed nevertheless, I went back to "Atrium" whenever I was in the neighborhood and underwent the same internal battle every time.

Nicholas K was the name. 

It is a company founded in 2003 by brother and sister team Nicholas and Christopher Kunz. Its women collection conveyed a sense of subdue urban toughness and an almost uncalculated coolness. With all that said above, I am yet to own any clothes from them and can only adore them through the catalog. But one day, I promise, I shall wear them to the lecture hall - as the instructor.

大國崛起,盛世之初?

陳冠中先生的中國背景小說「盛世」是一個令人心慄的預言。

2013年，經過金融海嘯的洗禮，各國勢力大執位。美元大幅貶值, 中國不能獨善其身，民間出現恐慌，人心惶惶。政府在第一個星期先按兵不動，待民眾按捺不住反過來要求強勢政府介入保持社會穩定，再實行三個星期的嚴打，白式恐怖。其後一系列的措施迫令人民消費，經濟暢旺，中國正式進入盛世。

詭異的是國內絕大部份人都忘了這一個月。社會濔漫一片樂觀的情緒，人民對現狀感到前所未有的愜意，幸福感溢瀉。主角甚至無緣無故也會被感動得眼眶濕潤。民間沒有人去提及盛世前的一個月，這段歷史在資料報刊上當然也沒留痕跡，這個月就這樣從大家的記憶消失了。那些記得的反被標籤為社會上的邊緣份子，被孤立視為瘋子。書中的幾位主角想去追尋內裡的陰謀，但非常諷刺地，原來甚麼陰謀也沒有，民眾是自自然然忘記的。對於決心追求公義的人來說，哀莫大於麻木，既然民眾自願選擇忘記，真實到底是甚麼已沒有價值。

地鐵電梯

地鐵內的手扶電梯真是香港生活的最佳縮影。

香港人效率之高從電梯的速度可見一斑。地鐵電梯的速度之快 相信香港認了第二，沒人敢認第一。每次從電梯踏出，都感到被推前的衝力，最重要的是當一隻腳著陸後，另一隻腳使要趕快準備踏出，否則穿拖鞋的就有夾腳趾之慮。不像在美國，電梯快要終断時我一隻腳踏出後還可以施施然的拖著另一隻走。