A strong and good man, succeed or not

*tears* to read this.. how many people can uphold their noble principles, beliefs and ideology and fight like him until the end of the day?

In his final wish, Chin Peng wrote: "In the final analysis, I wish to be remembered simply as a good man who could tell the world that he had dared to spend his entire life in pursuit of his own ideals to create a better world for his people.

It is irrelevant whether I succeeded or failed, at least I did what I did. Hopefully the path I had walked on would be followed and improved upon by the young after me. It is my conviction that the flames of social justice and humanity will never die."

2013年 中秋節感想

農曆八月十五，德國漢諾威夜晚，烏雲密佈。
沒得賞月，獨個兒吃買來的月餅。

快樂可以很簡單--把月餅分成8份，想像每天吃一份，就可以快樂8天/8次了（物以稀為貴的原則). 結果我把事情搞複雜了，因為我忍不住吃了3片 >.<

回想起最讓我‘津津樂道’的月餅故事是...記得有一年在倫敦，我送給碩士班導師一塊市面上普通大小的單黃蓮蓉月餅，告訴她可以配她最愛的意大利咖啡一起吃。結果就在那個下午她吃完了整個...隔天告訴我月餅真好吃，太好吃了結果吃不停索性就整個吃完了，那晚她的肚子很難受拉了整晚。臉上露出驚恐的我說:"老師，忘了告訴你，月餅不是這樣吃的...”

所以，從此以後當我送月餅給老外當佳節禮品時，一定提醒他們‘正確的吃法’。

中秋節快樂！

（p/s: 明年我要提燈籠！）

向瑞典社會民主式的福利國借鏡

文章鏈接：《瑞典对资本主义的驯化》

文中所提到瑞典社民黨的核心價值觀給我很大的啓發：“自由，平等和团结”，讓我體認到三者如何息息相關。

沒有自由，就很難會有平等（比如說，存在著擁有自由和特權的階級之分）；有自由沒有平等，自由的意義和作用也有限（沒有人要‘被歧視’的自由）；要團結“意味着对相互条件的理解关心和相互体贴” ...沒有自由平等，各群體心裡懷芥蒂各自計較得失，不能互相信任，就不能夠對他人關心和體貼。

所以，要國民團結主要在於這國家能不能確保國民都能自由平等，有尊嚴地生活。特權這東西，無論是合法的或隱性的，若用得不當，即不能體現社會正義，也肯定會損‘自由平等團結’這三個價值觀。

綠色運動505后路線 --小小見解

我看到朋友在面書po與黃德的合照，我問他有沒有跟黃德談接下來綠色運動要怎樣走下去，才能逼使到政府最後妥協并停止萊納斯廠的運作？簽名運動後又會是什麽呢？現在政府都不聆聽不理會這些簽名的訴求了。

依照目前的政治現實，感覺要政府停止該廠的運作，似乎不大可能。若轉提要嚴密地加強監督稀土廢料管理也許會讓不少綠色運動支持者覺得被出賣...這個選擇真的不容易。但依我看來，目前的第二項選擇（監督工作）是最實際和最能保護人民的健康安全的下一步，以便收集最新證據來對抗萊納斯，說明公害是真的，該廠正在危害著人民的健康。這樣才能繼續為運動保溫，危機感增加了人民的怨氣，可以再喚醒和增強人民抗戰的決心。

梁文道的《在魚池上降落》

什麽叫‘永續性發展’？

梁文道娓娓道來溫哥華的故事，告訴了我們經濟發展與環境保護是可以互相兼容的。可惜我國的萊納斯稀土廠，邊佳蘭石化工業，武吉公滿的山埃黃金提煉廠，砂拉越的各大水壩工程，有哪個是可以‘永續性地發展'? 我一直掛在心中的問題是，一些經濟發展計劃真的那麼重要，可以罔顧環境的破壞嗎？我國的發展商可以至少像溫哥華機場承包商讓全民參與監督以確保發展工程沒有發生狀況？

On Shadow Cabinet post GE13

Although I must doubt the real intention of KJ and Nasrudin (Pakatan MP for Temerloh) behind the call for the parliament shadow cabinet, I do think that it is timely for the call and reasonable for Pakatan Rakyat to do that. The Parliament session has already convened, Pakatan needs to show that they are political organisationally different than BN, and they are serious enough to form a convincing coalition and hence able to put up a credible shadow cabinet line-up to persuade voters for their policies.

These days I read fewer news about Pakatan MPs discussing about policies (besides TPPA), this kinda bothers and worries me. What happens to the Manifesto, and who will be in charge of certain policies and further develop them? There are burning questions from some voters among us who have high interest to pursue for detailed policies and further clarification. Functionally, a shadow cabinet will allow ministers-in-waiting showcase to the public what their alternative Pakatan policies are, compared to BN's one. This is totally healthy, and the public has the right to know and to be informed about what the government-in-waiting could offer also.Then only this can be called a Two-party system (not a One-party system with a shadow opposition that doesn't dare to come forward).

On Australia latest General Election

No forever winner and no forever loser in a truly democratic nation. Labor will come back strongly next time round, this time they have to let voters teach them a lesson they will never forget. 
Though i think it is a bit harsh to punish them on the issues of party infighting...in the end, politics (read: election outcome) is always about perception. To Tony, you are just lucky to harp on your opponent's misfortune!

怕胖團 與 Pop Punk

我認識這個來自台灣的怕胖團，因為觀看了《逆光飛翔》這部電影。那個主唱，很胖也很punk! 這是他們的最新單曲。

這種音樂風格的搖滾，一般被歸類于Pop Punk (流行龐克)。Pop Punk是因為歌曲較著重歌唱調調要聽者容易朗朗上口跟著唱，曲風也比較輕快開朗，吉他電音、節奏與玩法也是有一定的特徵。Pop Punk真正當紅時是在大約14年前，由美國的Blink 182獨領風騷。曾幾何時我也是那音樂曲風的歌迷。現在聽到怕胖團的歌，感覺讓我年輕了很多。=)

p/s:黃裕翔是該片《逆光飛翔》的男主角，是個盲眼的天才鋼琴手。這部電影真的很棒很棒，如果你還沒有看過，我大力推薦你去看，非常的勵志熱血。這是一部關於理想與奮鬥真人真實故事的電影。

同性戀者與無神論者 homosexual and atheist

在宗教色彩濃的文化保守國度，我明白同性戀者不出櫃並不是因為他們認為那是一個錯或罪惡，而是他們擔心會遇到普遍社會的譴責，朋友和家人的不諒解不接受然後疏遠。其實無神論者也是一樣的。

In a deeply religious and conservative nation, I understand why some homosexual individuals avoid public declaration (even when they are questioned). They choose not do so it is not because they think it is wrong or it is a sin, but they worry about social condemnation/repercussion, worry if their friends and family cannot accept and start to alienate them. In fact, atheists also share the same fate.