一個懷舊的人，如我。好事嗎?
近日公司閒時又愛上高登，回想起年輕時上starzine cybercity的年代，大家都很單純。chatroom內沒有粗口，沒有罵人。
有一晚我一邊聽收音機，一邊從chatroom知道嘉利大火的最新消息，記得其中一位說正在附近，吃完杯面就下去看熱鬧。
又記得每晚我們都會開private chatroom，randy做主持人就最多。
又記得當時大家都是打英文，港語英文出現的機會不多。後來才漸用中文除替。
當時chatroom多是男生，有在旅行社做的randy，有在多倫多讀書的quartz，有在城大讀書的wah23，又有作歌的‥那時的我，第一次入chatroom，不知就裡用hyoung做nickname。到之後去cybercity，先正式開始用minna。都只是因為我喜歡大口仔，而其名字是minna no tabo，我才以此為名。
自此之後，我所有網上名稱都是用minna，易記方便~
上星期剛投了個車牌，minna。意思不只是一個nickname，是一個超過20年的回憶‥
Friday, June 24, 2011
Wednesday, June 22, 2011
An Unexpected Occurance
But I’m getting ahead of myself, it looked like it was going to be an evening like any other. We were watching the Olympics on TV, then suddenly the screen went blank. My dad got up to bang the TV, that’s how he fixes things, he bangs his fist on things. “Oh, damn!” said my dad, “I was so looking forward to watch the Olympics.” Since I had nothing to do, I walked out on to the balcony to look at the stars. There was streak of light flash across the night sky, I thought it was a comet, so I lowered my head and made a wish.
Suddenly, my dad shouted “Look son! Something just hit the nearby forest, why don’t we go check it out!” “Hit the forest.” I thought. “So it couldn’t have been a comet! A comet would’ve wiped out life as we know it!” So I put on my coat and went to the forest with my parents. But when we reached the forest, policemen were already cordoning the area, a policeman came to us and asked us to go home. Before we were just curious, but now we burning of need to get to the bottom of the mystery. So we doubled back and found our way to the crash site without getting spotted. What we saw of first was glowing, then when we went closer, we realized it was a satellite in flames, on the side of the satellite, I could just make out the words said “OLYMPIC NO.1” “Then it hit me, the screen must have went blank when the satellite started to crash! That was why we weren’t able to watch the Olympics.” “Hey, what’s that!” shouted my mum when she pointed to something in the sky. “It must be a parachute!” I said. “So it was a manned satellite with an ejector seat!” said my dad. My dad is very clever and always says things like that. The parachute got tangled in the branches, fortunately my dad climbed up the tree and cut the strings of the parachute with his pocket knife. “What happened?” I asked the astronaut. “I don’t know.” He said “Another satellite must have crashed into my satellite and fell to earth.” “And by the way, is there anything I can do to repay you for helping me?”
“Well, are you any good with TV’s?” I asked. “No but I have this new gadget from NASA that doesn’t require satellites to watch the Olympics.” He said, while taking out a silver tablet out of his skinny trousers. “You can use it while I ask NASA to pick me up.”
“Go, Michael Phelps!” I yelled, jumping up and down, suddenly a firm hand gripped my shoulder, “I thought I asked you to go home.” said the policeman, but his grip loosened when he saw the tablet, “Hey! Isn’t that iPad3?” “Yeah, come to watch with us?” asked my dad. So in the end there was a different kind of glowing object than the one that began this story.
Suddenly, my dad shouted “Look son! Something just hit the nearby forest, why don’t we go check it out!” “Hit the forest.” I thought. “So it couldn’t have been a comet! A comet would’ve wiped out life as we know it!” So I put on my coat and went to the forest with my parents. But when we reached the forest, policemen were already cordoning the area, a policeman came to us and asked us to go home. Before we were just curious, but now we burning of need to get to the bottom of the mystery. So we doubled back and found our way to the crash site without getting spotted. What we saw of first was glowing, then when we went closer, we realized it was a satellite in flames, on the side of the satellite, I could just make out the words said “OLYMPIC NO.1” “Then it hit me, the screen must have went blank when the satellite started to crash! That was why we weren’t able to watch the Olympics.” “Hey, what’s that!” shouted my mum when she pointed to something in the sky. “It must be a parachute!” I said. “So it was a manned satellite with an ejector seat!” said my dad. My dad is very clever and always says things like that. The parachute got tangled in the branches, fortunately my dad climbed up the tree and cut the strings of the parachute with his pocket knife. “What happened?” I asked the astronaut. “I don’t know.” He said “Another satellite must have crashed into my satellite and fell to earth.” “And by the way, is there anything I can do to repay you for helping me?”
“Well, are you any good with TV’s?” I asked. “No but I have this new gadget from NASA that doesn’t require satellites to watch the Olympics.” He said, while taking out a silver tablet out of his skinny trousers. “You can use it while I ask NASA to pick me up.”
“Go, Michael Phelps!” I yelled, jumping up and down, suddenly a firm hand gripped my shoulder, “I thought I asked you to go home.” said the policeman, but his grip loosened when he saw the tablet, “Hey! Isn’t that iPad3?” “Yeah, come to watch with us?” asked my dad. So in the end there was a different kind of glowing object than the one that began this story.
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