研究完成後,用了一整年復修,畫鐵閘、選門款、排階磚、有死昆蟲的神秘半層... 終於等到開幕派對了,在建築和保育世界中,很多項目動輒便是五六年,有機會第一次經歷從研究到完成是一件很神奇的事!總覺得 YSS很幸運,本來整條街都是建於三十年代三層高的房子,年月洗禮下鄰居都長成二十多層高的巨人,連中學時常流連的成和道星巴克都搬家了。街上只有三座能保存至今,它便是其中之一,而且一直遇上有心有創意的好主人。橙黃色的它好像被夾在鬧市中的可愛小玩具。
巧合近日正回想近兩年來做過的事,感覺沒有完成過什麼大事 - 畫了些地圖、寫過很多信、寫了些文章、負責做完了一份關於各國建築保育制度的研究、讀過寫過很多關於維多利亞城的歷史(上環街市、大坑、跑馬地、中環、茂羅街...)、賣過數盞燈、畫了些故事、做了些藝術品、在天橋底的雙年展、在赤柱海旁的藍天、中環街市上的黑板、吃了些好味道的魚、游過很多水,開始了一個舊香港網頁、一個關於淨食的、依據自己步伐生活,沒有達成很大的成就,在工作上學懂了很多,但相比其他經驗豐富的偵探們仍屬幼兒班。朋友說她見我開始了淨食廚房日記後自己亦開了一個,本來不願意分享,今天給我看過,雖然我們吃的東西完全不同,但我很享受閱讀她們那個,令人大開眼界,想追看下去 - 雞尾包、腸粉早餐、蒸魚晚飯、西多士、杯麵 - 有時驚訝其他人每天竟真的在吃那些東西哈哈。生活中困難時刻很多,未知充斥每一天,但希望無論以後將會做什麼,都能一直看到事情和人們漂亮和有價值的一面,經常對身邊的事物存有好奇心,並做一個值得自己喜愛的人。
"What will it matter to him if he notices that he is growing old? Has he any reason to envy the young people whom he sees, or wax nostalgic over his own lost youth? What reasons has he to envy a young person? For the possibilities that a young person has, the future which is in store for him? "No, thank you," he will think, "Instead of possibilities, I have realities in my past, not only the reality of work done and of love loved, but of sufferings bravely suffered. These sufferings are even the things of which I am most proud, though these are things which cannot inspire envy." --Victor Frankl, from "Man's Search for Meaning"
“Life is a process of becoming, a combination of states we have to go through. Where people fail is that they wish to elect a state and remain in it. This is a kind of death.” ― Anaïs Nin
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