我…不愛戲院了嗎?

曾幾何時，戲院實在是我的避難所，我不介意它在播甚麼，只求它關住我。
只要它關住我一陣子，我出去以後就開始感到放鬆…

但最近，實在有點怕去戲院。
可以選的早場/少人的場次實在不多，
我討厭獨自去看戲時有人坐我旁邊，
那人會阻礙我不按牌章地哭與笑。

況且，不論那場人很少，
依然有電話響起可怕的鈴聲、
依然有人細細聲討論劇情、
依然有人開場後在畫面前走來走去、
依然有很大聲的咀嚼薯片同啜野飲聲、
依然有人依依um um…
總之就好煩厭。

可能是因為資訊流通得極快，
今天歐美上的戲，明天安在家中就可看到。

我情願，關掉房燈，
瞓在床上，蓋住棉被，
細看電腦螢幕的光與影。

也許…我以後去戲院，只看港產片。(唉，其實看得港產片的觀眾，部份都做盡我討厭的事。)

也許…是不是像上海世博請文明小姐叫市民不要穿睡衣上街一樣，請那些好靚的文明小姐，在戲院門口宣傳，「我是文明人，我看戲會收聲，否則有人會打鑊我」行動

Life magazine Finds: Funny delicate ads.

Thanks google for hosting Life Magazine for Free. As Easter is coming, I search what Life had publish for Easter, And I found this lovely Vintage-like Rum advertisement.

The drawing of those drinks are so delicate and 50's! Superb drawing for my colleage project!

Wow. my dog little Leo is in the old Life Magazine! He is one lucky dog, always picking up food on my house floor.. Poor and Lucky dog.. :p

我的黑皮革記事本

From My First Handmade Journal

香港的手作人，大多都有一個共通點，就是無論材料是深水埗來還是來佬貨，只要加上「handmade」、「溫柔」、「自家製」、「獨一無二」等關鍵的無謂詞，即刻自動升價百倍。今天才在某小書店看見香港「藝術家」賣的書簽，寫着handmade，我頂，你明明printer印出黎架咋麻。創意心機實在無價，我很多時都是拎上手，面帶笑容，心裡就不屑一句，我都識做啦，洗唔洗賣咁貴。因此，我有理由懷疑，那些創意心機值好貴的手作仔，都是賣給不懂做勞作的路人甲乙丙。

如若我說，他們都很孤寒，會惹人討厭嗎？眼見外國的手作人，一有新手作的意念及做法，大多都會提供tutorial在部落格一張張相一步步教人，你當然可以說那些tutorials只是餌，使你買她出的手作書。至少，別人也肯分享，那些手作，實際上睇完係人都識做，況且，資訊開放大家才有進步啊。

見介紹香港有一手作人專造書，便冒名到寄賣之地看看手造書有多漂亮，如若很美，我甘願花錢買。拿上手，我嚇了一跳，索價三百幾，我心想，即使我不會做書，買本moleskine再用布包書皮都唔洗咁貴啦。況且，紙不過是普通水彩紙，有些更是牛皮紙，布不過是深水埗貨色。創意說不上，bookbiding這門藝術，有好幾百年歷史；可能因為香港寸金尺土吧，香港人每秒的心機原來也很貴，貴到嚇親。

到其網頁一看，原來有開造書班，索價六百兩堂，造書這種東西真的只是有錢人玩意嗎？只限於有錢的中產濶太小朋友才能去學的嗎？無理由咁就送六百俾你的，我唔信呢個世界無人免費分享造書的方法。實在只要在google search，how to make a notebook/ how to make a moleskine like notebook，即刻有step by step 教你點做。

我跟着做，真的做了一本Journal出來，不算漂亮，但也不差。最令我快樂的，是我相信資訊自由是做福貧苦大眾，是沒有錯的。我雖窮，但不代表我不能愛造書啊！當網上有天使免費教造手作，為何要花六百元？我用羊皮做Journal封面，整本成本不過四十元，即使要賣，吊高三倍價錢好未？都不過百二蚊。

況且，外國出了那麼多有關造本子的書，只要花百多元就買到一本，何解我要大花金錢？

是的，我是有點討厭這種本是便宜的興趣，一經包裝，就成了有錢人的玩意。我不願花錢學，因為那些東西本來不用錢的啊……

這兩個website常常都有精選的tutorial 推介你去動手動腳做，信我，手作仔這門東西，是不需花錢學的，只需要一點點錢買材料，與一點點時間而已。

http://whipup.net/
http://blog.craftzine.com/

如若你對造本子有興趣，大概可以看看這個部落格:
http://myhandboundbooks.blogspot.com/

Watch out of your mail box, friends!

From Outgoing mail

From now on, I will record every mail I sent out.

March 30, watch out friends. You may have got a mail !

寄信

From Mailing

我知實在無人想睇我寫英文的，所以寫多個中文簡介囉。我知實在無咩人黎我個blog，但係都廢事被人話我寫西文扮晒野啦。

我實在是喜歡寫信同寄信的，我有試過寫信給朋友，始終香港太細科技太發達，要講的一早講左，信實在無咩好寫的。我喜歡寫信，我喜歡寧靜的感覺，我喜歡拎起枝筆係咁寫的快樂。發現了這個世上原來有人和我一樣這樣愛寫信，結果我二話不說付出三蚊美金參加左Letter Writer Alliance. （即sidebar個logo）當我在等信來的同時，又找到另一個pen pal project, 我在那個blog留了言不久，就有人回覆想跟我做筆友！嘩哈哈，我梗係第一時間寫信比佢啦。

笑樣個封信就係我寫比佢架勒！係咪好得意呢！

我發現左新材料做小手作，就係security envelope, 中文唔識譯，反正就係寄單比你個啲信封，入面其實好靚的，只要將信封反轉，再黏好，就可以寄多次信，即係笑笑口個個信封呢。之前做過細細細細本筆記本，今次用Security envelope整，窗口位可以放相，好玩好玩！

中文版係短啲架勒，所有連結睇返英文版啦，highlight 左個啲就係link，唔洗我教啦吓嘩…

In love with mailing

From Mailing

Did I tell you I joined the LWA? While I am waiting for my membership card and badge and penpal, I discover something awesome. It's call the pen pal project. I left a message and someone reply me and want to be my pen pal! How awesome!

So I wrote Amanda (my pen-pal-to-be) a letter after I've got her address. Can you see the smiley face on the envelope? Yup, that is my first letter to her!

I always like writing letter. I tried to invite friends and write letter to each other. Hong Kong is a very small place and everyone is using the modern tech that always stop us from writing. So, writing to someone far away is a much better idea. I like checking the mailbox and be surprised!

From Mailing

Guess who I am writing this postcard to? Some one far away and I don't even know the one's name. It's a postcard to Tanzania. I found this heart unity project at postcrossing. Spreading love and cheer in just one postcard, what a simple yet amazing idea?

From Mailing

Yup, postcrossing. I sent out six postcard to people I barely know. It's fun and I am waiting for the postcard sent by someone I don't even know. Five to the State and one to Germany. The postcards may look a little bit un-ordinary. I picked them up at G.O.D. A place sell Hong Kong style stuff. I think it's much fun to have something unusual. You are bored by the razzle dazzle cliche picture of Hong Kong, right?

From Mailing

Have you discover something unusual from my mail / postcard / notepad? Beside working with magazine and magazine and magazine, I found something funny to work with! Security Envelope! You know those billing mail always use a security envelope. Those envelopes actually have a pretty pattern! I discover one is using numbers as pattern. So I cut out 12345... from the envelope and made a postcard for the heart unity project kid. Hopefully, they can find the numerals on the postcard. Kids like game, right? :p
ideas and tutorials on how to work with security envelopes: http://www.girlontherocks.com/knit/blog/tag/security-envelope/

No kidding, I really love writing and mailing. If you do too, leave me a msg or email me and we can start penpaling!

Updates

First thing,

I just have my twitter account as you see in the sidebar.

Talk to me with anything you like.

Follow me if you like.

Since I got fire, I got plenty of time updating the twitter thing.

Get ready to be annoyed.

Second thing.

I have become a member of Letter Writer Alliance.

Trying to regain the pleasure of writing letters.

Want to know more?

Click on the sidebar.

Also, I just joined postcrossing,

Going to send out six postcards around the world.

Waiting to be surprised by getting all the postcard around the world.

So much for now. See ya.

Did I tell you I made my own Journal?

From My First Handmade Journal

Am I being too annoying that telling everyone I have just made my Journal ? Did I tell you I made one?



It's never too late to have a 2010 schedule in the beginning of March, right? It's an exciting project. A book I am going to use for a year is totally handmade by me. I didn't even attend any class or pay anyone to teach me to do so. Just key in "how to bind / make a book" in google and many nice people are offering tutorials to teach you how to make your own notebook. Love is all around and angels are everywhere.

I kind of like vintage stuff. So I make the Journal look old too. I use yellow paper for the pages. Black leather with a brown ribbon as a book mark.

I made the rubber stamp specially for the first page. You can see, the frame which inside is written Ms. Five's 2010. Handwritten the day and week which almost drive me crazy and cost me two hours. But I think It's wroth it! Don't you think?

There are two blank pages between months. So that I can put anything I like in between months to cheers me up or reminding me happiness is within me.

I love it! Friends of mine who touch and see the real thing said it is nicely done. Yup, I know they are being too Kind, as always. Ha. Told ya, Love is all around.

不是惡搞，算是創作掛

偶然發現美國Artist Austin Kleon的 Newspaper Blackout，實在好玩，兩個星期前終於買了marker，但遲遲沒有動手在報紙雜誌上删字，創作「新」詩。

這陣子生活都圍住鄧小宇，看鄧小宇小時候演張愛玲編的小兒女國語片，在星巴克看鄧小宇在號外的專欄，晚晚煲錢瑪莉的串咀生活，有時翻看鄧生的羅宋餐的日子。今期的明周（2156期）主題是懷舊，訪問了不少五六七八十後，鄧小宇榜上有名，有一小篇口述關於六十年代的世界，終於有題材讓我玩Blackout。原文當然不載，因為這是我的再「創作」啊！要看去圖書館或買本睇吧。

From Magazine blackout poem

人生
充滿了耿耿於懷
未完成的遺撼

Seriously, who am I to judge?

Who am I to judge? 廣東話翻譯應該係：「你有咩資格話我？」

即使她身邊同時與三個他拍拖談情發生關係，即使身邊的誰誰誰指責那個他他他做得不對，然後背後三姑六婆再答那個誰跟他就唔岩啦，如我係我就咁咁咁，是的，在背後說是道非的我你他，總站在道德高地以聖人自居，但每當那些「如果」發生在自己身上，卻不知如何應對做錯決定，那些高傲一剎那像空氣消失。

實在心知沒有哪個人是完美，卻無法接受身邊的那個誰的一點點不完美，同時要求別人接受自己的缺點，還將那些缺點縮得很細，以為沒有誰看見。然後，我你他都自以為是聖人，很有資格話人。

每次都忘了自問，其實，我實在無咩資格話人。Seriously, Who are you to judge?