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Thursday, 11 June 2009

  • Written by my sis Lily

    It's been 20 years.

    I was 10 years old. I did not understand why my mother was crying. I did not know why my father was angry. I asked questions, they answered...but I did not understand.

    Then I was 19. It was March 1998. I stood in the middle of Tiananmen Square. 7:20am. The sky was grey. In an instant, 150 years of China's modern history flashed in front of me. In my mind, I saw pictures of suffering people, burning land, corrupted emperors, empresses, pseudo-emperors, and governments. I saw a fertile land with awesome mountains and rivers; a beautiful land with an extraordinary history and culture. This is my home. This is a land, where people are suffering - where people choose to be blind and not see, so to preserve themselves... and then, the students! They were screaming, covered in blood. Their dreams were shattered. Their passion muffled. Their future truncated. They were running from bullets, tanks, their blood brothers were trying to kill them...and they succeeded.

    The kids...they had no weapons. The "weapons" they had was their empty stomach. They starved because they love their country. They were there because they cared.

    I knelled down. My hands touched the slate on the ground. I covered my face and cried. So many killed were my age. I know the passion. I know the faith that they held. I held just the same. Who would believe that your parents, your brothers, your guardians...would want to end your life - only because you believe in the goodness of their hearts? My heart was bleeding. I was never the same again.

    I hope that this cruel chapter of our government's history will never be forgotten. I hope that we will never lose faith - that democracy is the ONLY answer to a healthy nation, where information is free, where ideas flow like rivers. I hope that our young generation - those who are seeking knowledge in universities - are doing so not for money...but for the thirst of knowledge. The urge to know and to understand the world we live in.

    Yet how naive am I?

Wednesday, 03 June 2009

  • 今晚.維園見.

    二十年前的這一夜,天安門廣場的街燈熄滅了,坦克車封鎖了道路,解放軍向手無寸鐵的學生和市民開鎗鎮壓. 數以千計的平民死傷.

    往後的二十年,失去兒女和親人的平民百姓,還有希望為國家爭取民主的學生們,仍要流亡海外,有家歸不得;在國內的仍飽受政府監視,監禁,國家也從沒準許過他們公開的悼念死難者.

    不要再辯駁學生是否做得對.他們當時還只是孩子,天真的對國家抱持著宏大的理想. 所謂"反革命"或"煽動暴亂"的企圖,只是政府為了令自己的暴行合理化所堆砌的噁心名詞.

    殺人,是錯誤的; 政府屠殺自己國家的人民, 屠殺我們那些手無寸鐵的同胞, 更是可恥! 可鄙!!

    當年, 我只有十歲, 我也能分辯是非黑白; 今天, 你們這些不知名的官中老師, 應該比我還年長吧? 為何校長還未開聲, 你們已經要自我審查, 企圖禁止學生認識歷史? 你們居心何在?

    很欣賞學生們願意抱持開放態度認識歷史, 老師更認該把握機會, 讓學生從歷史中學習, 並了解自己的國家, 自己的社會.

    但是, 你們這些連走狗也不如的所謂"老師",竟然偷偷撕去學生張貼的壁報, 你們準備以身作則, 教導學生如此卑劣的行為嗎? 你們實在噁心!

    身為舊生, 我感到羞愧! 

     

Monday, 01 June 2009

Sunday, 17 May 2009

  • In Chicago Now

    經過一晚無眠執行李,加上14小時無眠直航,再加三小時過海關+車程, 終於抵達芝加哥.

    十分美麗,十二分美國的城市. 天氣相當清涼, 現在晚上只有9度,明天最高16度,很爽!

    今晚自由活動,有幸碰上了Chicago Symphony Orchestra的演出. 大夥去看了,由於抵埗才決定去看,買的是rush ticket,即是訂了票但最後沒來的人,我們可以佔用他們的位子. 在開場前鑽來鑽去,終找到四個相連位置的,loo要坐在其他位置.

    小提琴手音色很美,演的是beethovan violin concerto, 另外樂團演的是sibelius的symphony no. 4.

    還是上星期看的dresden starkskepelle勁. cso在香港的演出也比今晚好,可能是在hometown較輕鬆吧.

    不過能在芝加哥看cso,也很過癮.

    19號會在Northwestern University演出,據聞700張門票經已售罄!期待演出!

    十分想念細b,還有leilei,幸好妹和她bf幫忙看貓,希望他們乖乖地啦! 

     

Wednesday, 13 May 2009

  • 悼 5.12 一週年

    京奧過後,是否一切又回復原狀?!

    死於豆腐渣學校頹垣下小朋友的父母,有怨無路訴, 已失去最心愛的孩子, 他們一定自責不已, 認為替兒女揀選這家學校, 是自己間接害死兒女, 但即使希望為孩子盡最後的努力, 為他們討回一個公道也不行.

    有父母希望到北京找律師替遇難兒女申訴, 卻在飛機起飛前被不知名的人士拉下來, 不淮離開四川.

    記者取得採訪證, 到了當地, 公安又說證件無效, 不能採訪.

    有記者要以義工身份掩飾, 才能偷偷進行採訪.

    公安不淮災民接受訪問, 災民們見到香港記者, 趁監視人員看漏眼, 紛紛將字條塞進香港記者們的手裏. 訴說他們的苦況.

    一年前, 你們這幫領導人不是標榜資訊的高度透明嗎? 不是慷慨接受各界募捐的嗎?

    為何一年之後, 展現出來的, 卻像那班災民是罪人一樣? 你們究竟想掩飾甚麼?

    下午二時二十八分, 也即是一年前發生大地震的一刻,主席到映秀鎮一家己倒塌卻經過粉飾的廣場做秀, 一大堆西裝骨骨的官員使節在佈景版上獻花, 你們, 你們有沒想過還有多少屍骨埋在瓦礫下?

    你們為何為了做這場秀, 便將整區封鎖, 不淮死在這片土地上的人的至親前來憑弔?

    似要向911的肅穆小號演奏看齊, 那穿白色軍裝的小號演奏者吹起酷似九流西洋電影配樂的"旋律", 加諸秀麗的河山, 還有震撼人心的死城景象, 實在不倫不類至極!

    實在很不想承認, 但似乎, 一年前的開明政府只是一場戲!

    .....草泥馬!

     

     

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