For tonight

Just realized how much music has helped me in passing through all these routine works, and sometimes this ordinary life :)(Now still trapped by winter cardigans I desire for summer aaaah衝浪!!!)

午夜凉

我跟自己说，要找个唱歌像杯冻柠檬水的女孩。寻遍不获，却给我找到了个静静喝着凉的茶，细细抽菸的她。

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Gotta shout it out real loud again: discipline is so empowering and liberating! Okay I know there's still a looooong way to go but let me rejoice over a tip of achievement tonight first. just tonight :)

Longing for summer

Vivaldi and Jasmine Green saved my life in this pacific ocean of emails and papers.

World on fire

突尼斯(Tunisia):「茉莉花革命」推翻了本.阿里政權，引發移民潮至意大利；歐盟方面表示將于2013年前向突尼斯提供2.58億歐元經濟援助，其中1700萬歐元用于"支持民主改造進程"(?!)

埃及(Egypt): 二月十一日，18天抗爭成功，穆拉巴克下台，軍方凍結憲法並解散國會，修訂憲法條款，承諾會監督在半年內轉型民主統治

伊朗(Iran): 32年前同一天，伊朗人民革命成功推翻獨裁政權；32年後，數千名示威者在德黑蘭市中心舉行了反政府抗議活動

巴林(Bahrain): 佔人口近70%的什葉派一直不滿遜尼派統治者,要求更多的政治自由，希望政府大幅改革; 遜尼派統治者發放少量現金並承諾加大媒體改革力度

也門(Yemen): 糧食價格飛漲、貧窮普遍、失業率高，人民要求一九九九年開始執政的布特弗利卡下台，政府則以「禁止公開抗議」回應

阿爾及利亞 (Algeria):反腐敗、反失業、反漲價等口號，要求政治變革；政府日前下令關閉互聯網服務和Facebook

They share similar problems. They were all initiated by the young generation. What will be the next steps? Why do we need a next step? Who will lead the following steps?

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The more they seem to change, the more they stay the same. Don't you think it's strange ... Heard this in bar and remind me my days of Corinne Bailey Rae. Where have those days been? Sometimes it's about what people telling what but how you evolve around. Yes, what am I doing this for? How should I justify my choice?

Read a great inspirational article today saying that the tension of mass today is not about vertically for the flow of history anymore but more horizontally for the state of now, the space. Very true. And then I think, I'm so distant now. I have always been so distant. Did I make the right choice? Or it's like what is said, sometimes you really need to go half way around the world, to come full circle? Looks like I'm seriously drunk period

The story of the fence and a run-away - 400 Blows

(Rebel without a cause?)

We always associate France with all kinds of adjectives of beauty. Paris is a romantic city and its country is the capital of art. French women are desirable and French is elegant as silk ...

But the veil comes from its unconventionality.

From the revolutionary Saint Joan of Arc to the French Revolution, all the way down to the legendary George Sand, then to the contemporary music bad boy Serge Gainsbourg and the enfant terrible of the fashion world Jean-Paul Gaultier, this country seems to be the synonym of rebellion to me.
If we follow the logic of the Hong Kong officials, then we must ask whether they had put "Rebellion" as a subject of their curriculum.

François Truffaut himself is also a rebellious drop-out like Antoine Doinel in 400 Blows. He is what the society called "uneducated". Yet ironically he pioneered the French New Wave and produced this movie that makes the "educated" like you and me pretend like we know something about education and art as we watch it.

People say education is for upward and outward social mobility. Then can it propel inward mobility? And why do we need "mobility"? Why can't we stay as we are?

Antoine Doinel is, actually, and like most of us on Earth, also looking for "mobility", though in a slightly different form. He ran away from a dysfuntioned family, he ran away from school, he ran away from the custody, until the end of the scene where he kept running in the changing scenery and stop in front of a seemingly limitless sea, looking lost and confused. Yes, where am I running towards?

He ran away because he wanted to get rid of the fences, as they are everywhere. In the police office where he stayed for a night after he was caught stealing the typewriter, in the car which he was sent under guard to the the observation center, and then, of course, in the observation center. But it is his own family and the school (the teacher to be more precisely) that being the biggest fences he wanted to escape from. So at the end, he escaped from fences of the football ground of the observation center and ran towards an unknown future.

Antoine Doinel is for sure a impuissant vandal of the fences. While education is all about how well we can paint those wire of fences, destroying it will only make us a criminal drop-out of a normal system. The fence will recover itself, waiting to contain even more running wild kids, and fight with those who try to run away.

I had escaped! He looked directly into the camera as if asking, who are you? The fence painter or the vandal? Or is he also clueless, asking if there's another way out?

Or, is it just that I'm thinking too much? It's just simply a story of a childhood that you and I had been though more or less, nothing more, nothing less.

The track of revolution

Facebook and twitter are more than just a "social" network. In a time when digital bridge is shortening the geographical distance, they are network of revolution. Not just WikiLeaks.

Now the question is, what can I do, besides from sitting here and typing all these empty words?