(給紐約的京先生：看了V & A的Diane Arbus展覽，極精釆，馬上把Lee Miller比下去了。V記也辦得比National Portrait Gallery有意思。)
*雨霖鈴*
記心向來差，讀詩詞老記不住，每當身在風景裡，想從腹中的墨水瓶掏幾句來唸唸，都難。倒是詞牌，一讀難忘。像今天，冷陰天呆等倫敦那些蝸牛鬼巴士，簷蓬滴滴答，便是【雨霖鈴】。才三個字，竟已聲畫俱全。紅樓裡的香菱學詩，黛玉問她覺得如何，她興奮地形容有些字「唸在嘴裡倒像有幾千斤重的一個橄欖。」我說她這形容更是把那粒橄欖放在甘草裡醃，越發有味道了。小聲唸著，雨霖鈴，雨霖鈴，彷彿口裡也含著幾粒滴答糖，薄荷的。
邊吃糖邊胡思亂想。連下三天以上的雨為「霖」，古時沒有不鏽鋼，雨淋鈴，淋上三天，鐵鈴大概生鏽，還能響麼？
*鼻樑*
手上無書，搖巴士時便發呆看別人的鼻樑。實在愛看人的鼻樑。這「樑」字改得好，一管鼻骨撐起了臉盤，鼻樑建得好，臉難看不到那裡去。好看的鼻筆直，線條幼細秀氣，末端輕輕回一個勾，像巧匠出手的屋檐，即使流鼻涕也不過是檐前滴水。只是千萬不要寄居了燕窩才好。
那麼打兩個鼻環的鼻，不就是「樑上有雙燕」麼？金燕子，或者銀燕子。
然而英國人的鼻子一般不好看，都像戰時建築，實用多於美觀。但難看也有難看的看頭，我就這樣巴巴盯著車廂裡的人，看久了，一管管鼻子竟都像外太空寄居生物，一隻隻蜇伏各人臉上。只是伏得久了，長了根，被寄居的人也就習以為常，若無其事上街起居生活。只有小孩子不習慣，所以你問他們，嗨你的鼻子呢？他們馬上伸手摸摸，看看那頭寄居怪獸，還在不在。
想遠了。我愛看別人的鼻樑，說到底因為自己的長得不成材。
*Winter, Burn & July*
下午有一對情人到店裡訂婚戒。我著那位先生在單據上寫名字，一看，Alex Winter。姓冬天的人，真吸引，譯成中文，是不是佟先生？可惜名主已有花。日後太太生孩子，春天夏天出生的，也姓Winter吧？怪怪的。西方人不講什麼五行風水，要不是，生了個女孩子，不如叫Violet Winter，起碼有一點暖色，減減寒氣。也曾有個女客人姓Burn，若和Mr Winter配成一對，不知是相生還是相剋？
美國Indie演員/導演Miranda July的新片＜You and Me and Everyone We Know＞正在倫敦上畫。看trailer時畫面一打出她的名字，我又魂遊太虛：若她不叫Miranda，firstname叫May，middlename叫June，不就是May June July嗎？
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我倒覺得英國人面上的一鈎一劃都好看，臉夠傻氣。
天氣冷了，真難敖。
208: 哈，蜜司李，原來妳喜歡傻氣的鼻。下次妳要發學生們的脾氣，快快盯著他們的鼻來看，或可收降火之效。
209: 10-17度，還不算太冷；就是一味的陰沉，天色比氣溫更磨人。
"古時沒有不鏽鋼，雨淋鈴，淋上三天，鐵鈴大概生鏽，還能響麼？"
所以古人多用銅(合金)做鈴 :)
This20:)
Winter/Summer(water/fire)....crash ?
so very true.......but?!
That20:)
but,if there's a diamond ring, a symbol of love.......
diamond(earth) neutralizes and harmonises fire and water.......so does a metal ring which take energy from fire(summer) and give life to water(winter)
This20:)
if your customer knows about this ancient art of balance and harmony, you'll probably sell more and bigger diamond ring.......earning more commission, no ?
208: 阿修羅，銅不也一樣生鏽嗎？
209: 20/20, Thank you for ur suggestion. But as those existing myths about diamonds are rampant enough to lure the world, may be there is no need to add one more bullshit about this overrated substance, right?
你對文字的敏感真令我羨慕啊！
紐約的冬天太晴朗，就算剛下完雪，太陽還是會跑出來，不近人情地諷刺雪中蹣跚著的眾生。
紐約的冬天太晴朗，白雪烈日，城市整個地over-expose.
香菱，不就是那個菱花空對雪嘶嘶
208: 鐘樂佳，過獎了，大部份時候還是囫圇吞棗的多。
209: 京，正是那入了秋便香不起來的雪菱花。倫敦剛過Bonfire Day，天一黑家家戶戶爆出小花火，熱鬧得教人心煩，就等那佳節元宵之後，煙消火滅之時，落了靜悄悄耳根真乾淨。
T20:)
we're just kidding about earning more commission.......
can't agree more with you about the myth of diamond in the 'relative truth' world.........but then the myth does create jobs, put food on the table, feed babies and pay the rent......come to think of it, isn't it why jewellery store come into existence ? and more ad on TV and in the fashion magazines because of it ?
taking another turn......a la Joseph Campbell........myth can pass on sacred knowledge through the 'Diamond
Path'.......if only you'll go see buddy-buddy ?!
just for fun.......we went to see our scientist friend (from Oxford) and asked him to put some bio-data into his quantumn computer and there's what we found.........(to be continued)
from T20/20 and friend:
[5-Elements Matrix]
LEE MILLER
wood....water(L)....wood......fire
fire....wood.....earth.....earth(Y)
(L): one's own life element
(Y): year of birth element
Wood takes energy away from Water(L)..
Earth(Y) kill/subpress Water......
both Wood and Earth elements weaken Miller's life force and she's 3 Woods surrounding her life element(L) and 2 Earth elements in her overall matrix ......one of the Earth(Y) is in the birth year, extremely negative for her life element Water(L)
Miller died of cancer on July 27 1977........1977 was a killer year for her, it was an Earth year !
(Diane Arbus)
wood.....fire(L).....fire......water
earth....earth....earth.....water(Y)
Earths (3 0f them) takes energy away from Fire(L)........
Water(Y) extinguishes Fire(L)......
Arbus committed suicide on July 26 1971,a killer year for Arbus......it was an Earth year !
Burn配Winter
Burn如是苏格兰女子，则绝对相生：苏格兰英文中burn有时解作小溪(Gerald Manley Hopkins的Inversnaid第一句）。
冬日小溪，极好。
hey 208/209,
wish you are well :-)
here is just the same, after the one hr adjustment for the winter time, it is dark after 5:15pm. getting very cold at night too... busy and stressful but i asked myself to keep doing yoga... better. you have to take good care too... :-)
for some reasons, i can't get your email link on my message board, sorry. so can only respond to your question here.
or you can write me via email so we can talk further.
for the music player, mmm...
if you don't want to use radio blog (like the one sun never set and one bean are using), and just want the quick time embeded inside the entry post like this one
http://aahsun.com/wpblog/?p=670
seperate hosting is needed.
as you use blogger, i guess you don't have any of your own hosting space.
mmm... you can try asking some friends if they mind to put a few songs on as the files are not big (always good to share with friends, like one bean's music acutally is stored on one of my hostings, and other musicans friends also upload their music on my server).
i am not sure if there is any free hosting out there, there must be some. let me ask friends and tell you.
if you can get any free hosting, follow these steps for the dew player:
http://sidekick.myblog.hk/archives/2005/11/02/670/
if you want to do the radio blog on side bar, info here:
http://sidekick.myblog.hk/archives/2004/11/07/255/
pls do write if you have any further things you want to know. :-)
my email here:
http://www.aahsun.com/email.htm
dress warm.
hey, one petit note.
i tried to find free hosting for you. and acutally even registered one. they have web based uploader that i think is good for you as i guess you don't know how to manage ftp accounts.
yet, i realize there is a big problem -- they have limits to the size of the file, some are just 800k to 1mb.
so it's hardly enough for a song even in 112kbps(bit per sec, transfering rate) though they haev 100bm in total.
so... will see if there is any other hosting you can use that can upload at least 2bm files at a time.
take care.
208: 20/20，什麼？？那些金木水火土與英文字有何相干？莫明奇妙的為什麼L字會屬火了？
209: frisson，冬日小溪，聽起來明媚得不得了。
208: aahsun，再次多謝妳的指教。電郵上談吧我們。
ha,ha.....let's try it one more time.....
DIANE ARBUS's matrix :
(top row) representing 'Heaven':
Wood...Fire(L)...Fire...Water
(bottom row) representing 'Earth':
Earth...Earth...Earth...Water(Y)
(Vertical columns)from left to right, time line matrix :
(hour)...(day)....(month)...(year)
wood....fire(L)...fire.......water
earth...earth....earth....water(Y)
(L) denotes Diane's day of birth in 'Heaven'
(Y) denotes her year of birth on 'Earth'
the interaction/interfacing of the 5 elements will give information about one's destiny and life pattern.......
it's not rocket science to understand, is it ?
and it's not b.s. either....... billionaire like Lee Kai Shing and Donald Trump have advisors to guide them on their 5-elements......even Chair Mao picked a certain day and time as the national day for the then new China ruling party.......
we may not like these people, but they certainly know something that the general public don't.....the have always have an edge over the have-not and so does those in power.....
it's all about information and misinformation, no ?
208，銅鈴也會生鏽。不過，生鏽歸生鏽，其終亦能響。
遊戲文字一篇，或能解惑：
http://asuraa.blogspot.com/2005/11/blog-post_09.html
208: 阿修羅，謝謝你的解說與詩興。12句60個字的詩，竟要出動６個注釋，厲害。
209: 你這樣說，倒提醒了一件事： 或許雨霖鈴鏽後，鈴有了經歷，響起來，聲音更有味道。例如毒後餘生的Marianne Faithful.
208: 20/20, it's all about confusion and deception...
confusing, so very true indeed.......
we're very skeptical when we first encounter this '5-elements' thing.....think it's unscientific and some kind of age-old Chinese supertition (it's true that there're people out there who use this to deceive people and make money from it, we call them the fortune teller, right ?).......
but then one day we see the light(thanks to our team of research scientists).........
it's very much like when we first talk to some western doctors about Chinese medicine and their reponse is that Chinese medicine is not science-based, therefore, it's not valid as a medicine.......doing acupuncture is like some kind of voodoo practice to them.......how can an illness be cured by sticking needle under the skin ?!
if one goes a bit further, one finds that the 5-elements, '8 words' and Chinese medicine practice are all based on the ancient Chinese philosophy of living one's life in harmony with nature.......this is not some of kind voodoo philosophy......
in the example(5-elements matrix) we've given, there's a top row of 'Heaven elements' and a bottom row of 'Earth elements'........we all living under the influence of these 5-elements which are just symbols representing the 5 primal energy forms that exist in our universe....
therefore, man(woman) DO live between Heaven and Earth !
confusion ? deception ? it maybe true to the uninitiated or mis-informed.......kind of remind us of much of the contemporary art practice......many people find it confusing and think contemporary art is a piece of junk.........
we'd better stop now before it gets a bit 'mashy-mushy'......yes, 'mash' as in mash-potato and 'mush', you guess it , as in 'mush-room'......
Thank you 208/209, for being patient and allowing us to talk a bit of nonsense or b.s. here........open source, free speech........very nice :)
someday, maybe, just maybe......you'll understand "What we talk about when we talk about......."
T20/20:) good night.......
208，係有點妹仔大過主人婆的。但為避免被誤解，又怕事後被問及時失憶，還是先寫下注釋較好 :)
209，繡蝕如歷練，就是這個意思。
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