阿傑故事很秋天
我曾經追蹤臺灣流行音樂，無意中在網路上發現滾石MTV前導演馬宜中寫的《他們的第一滴淚：馬宜中和那些有故事的人》，於是拜託友人從臺北幫我買，好讓我在國外的旅途中好好讀一番。
身為伍佰樂迷，第一個細讀的藝人故事當然就是他。馬宜中細數以前幫伍佰拍〈煞到你〉、〈返去故鄉〉的故事，我才發現原來伍佰真的在乎要保護家人的隱私。話說馬宜中與攝影團隊跟著伍佰 and China Blue 在嘉義走透透拍MTV，好像是伍佰老家附近的樣子，然後有個記者死纏爛打就是要拍照又怎樣的，原本答應拍照之後不會公開，結果還是在那記者服務的報紙上登了出來。 Continue reading “馬宜中筆下的第一滴淚 (Republishing Oct 2017 Piece)”
Singapore was the first country to have received Pfizer vaccines. This is a good news for the island nation, and the influence of the positive development is going to spill over to other parts of Asia, as the transport minister Ong Ye Kung said he was confident that Singapore could become the centre to distribute the vaccines.
This is no easy feast. Other than Singapore Airlines Cargo’s effort to rehearse the process of transporting the vaccines from Belgium to Singapore just one week earlier, it also takes herculean efforts from DHL, UPS, FedEx as well as SATS Coolport to make this possible. SATS facilities are able to produce four tonnes of dry ice each day to facilitate the transportation of Pfizer vaccines which require -70 degree Celsius storage. Continue reading “亞洲第一批輝瑞疫苗 First Pfizer vaccines in Asia”
太妃糖最近軍心大振，繼上週挫敗切爾西的登頂夢想之後，今週再來2比1打敗阿申納，結果讓兵工廠一直深陷排名第15名的窘境。若下一輪賽事又敗陣或打和而剛好布萊頓勝出，兵工廠可能下跌至第16名。 Continue reading “艾佛頓抬頭 兵工廠陷困”
Two months ago, many content creators would wring their wrists when they learned about the death of writer Rehman Rashid. Radio hosts of BFM 89.9 were always talking about him in recent programmes and they respected him a lot. They were of the opinion that it was great loss of Malaysian writing scene.
I went to look for his old books at Gerakbudaya and only managed to find Peninsula. The other title, A Malaysian Journey, which was more famous, was said to have been out of print. I wonder if his previous publisher would like to republish for him.
Rehman Rashid’s writing was no ordinary English writing. He did not elaborate in a simple and straightforward way. Contrarily, he was always cutting into the topics from sideline while adding a lot of background knowledge into his stories.
Some details of the years of Mahathir, Anwar Ibrahim, Abdullah and Najib were cited in his stories while he led the readers to travel through time. And his writing left no traces of time. Given such an outstanding feature, other Malaysian writers might find it difficult to fill his big shoes. Continue reading “細讀《半島》之穿梭時空 Travelling through time with Peninsula (Republishing August 2017 piece)”
如今每週追看伍佰開跑車到處趴趴走已經變成這兩週固定的娛樂。這一集亦是不乏驚喜，因為伍佰竟然下廚給江振誠吃他自創的饅頭料理。至於這位搖滾天王利用什麼食材將味道引領出來，大家可以慢慢看，有空可以動手自己做。江振誠特別製作的鮮蝦料理，他形容是給搖滾歌手的菜餚，若我懂下廚，我也很想實驗一下這一道菜。
這一集的主題是初心與原點。江振誠介紹他最愛的石牌早餐店，伍佰則是介紹臺北市信義區一個果汁攤，因為當初他在臺北未拚出頭的日子裡，他最喜歡去那個攤位請老闆給他榨一杯葡萄汁。根據伍佰和江振誠的說法，老闆的葡萄汁有一種倒鉤的感覺。收看的時候大家還真的必須耐得住飢渴，因為看起來真的很好喝。 Continue reading “伍佰的跑車人生2 Drive around Taiwan with Wubai 2”
This film titled The Sinking City: Capsule Odyssey screened in 2017 revealed the acute housing problem in Hong Kong. The actors and actresses were ridiculing in a wacky and lunatic manner to present this theme.
Pakho Chau in the movie was an editor writing online articles to introduce apartment units on behalf of real estate companies. Despite his great writing skills to promote buying properties for investment and speculation, in real life he was only a young man who was priced out of the property market. Upon graduation, he failed to move up the corporate ladder and was encumbered by study loans. Shiga Lin played his girlfriend in the movie. They rented a flat for HK$10,000 a month. Later on, he lied to his girlfriend that he had to work in New York for a year or two before returning to the Cantonese-speaking city. Continue reading “舊片重溫：《西謊極落》之苦中作樂 Self-deceiving as if you had a bigger room”
艾佛頓在主場古蒂森公園球場的這一輪賽事迎來切爾西這支冠軍熱門隊，這是睽違多時之後第一次有球迷作後盾，球員比賽當然也特別醒神，雖然觀賽人數祇有以前將近四萬人的20 分之一。
開賽方才20餘分鐘，切爾西門將門迪離開龍門在小禁區外絆倒艾佛頓中場多米尼克勒溫，結果裁判判罰點球，冰島中場西於爾茲松一腳定江山，讓切爾西吃下對壘艾佛頓的第三場敗仗。切爾西在卡洛安切洛蒂執教的太妃糖領先之後當然不願放棄，一直嘗試敲開艾佛頓的大門。 Continue reading “太妃糖攪局 藍衫軍有難”
在英超歷史中，布萊克本流浪者是九十年代競逐冠軍盃的熱門球隊。該球會曾經是前英格蘭國腳的老巢，包括前鋒謝勒、中場薛爾伍德、後衛拿索斯，以及門將科華斯。布萊克本曾經在1994/95賽季贏得英超冠軍，祇是後來一直無法重演這段歷史。謝勒隨後也轉會至紐卡索，拿索斯則加盟切爾西。
更加不堪的是，球隊降級至英格蘭冠軍聯賽，之後回升英超，近年再從英冠降至英甲。這個曾經輝煌的球隊已經與諾丁漢森林隊、保頓流浪隊齊名，因為大家都曾經贏得重要賽事的冠軍盃，但是近年來一直無力重返英超。 Continue reading “布萊克本流浪者與大馬經濟 Blackburn Rovers and Malaysian Economy”
I watched a Porsche programme on YouTube last week. Surprisingly, the German car manufacturer invited Taiwanese rock star Wubai as the host to drive around Taipei with Chang Chen. Their task of the day was to take photographs with the theme of conflicts and contradictions.
Ren’ai Road of Taipei City has lines of coconut trees. This was what I learned from this episode. In the past, I used to think that in Taiwan we can see coconut trees only in my university NTNU, or other universities including NTU. Continue reading “伍佰的跑車人生 (1) Drive around Taiwan with Wubai (1)”
今年的新加坡金融科技祭從12月7日至11日舉行，形式是現場與線上結合的混合模式。由於今年國際旅遊大受限制，各方有志於瞭解金融科技(Financial Technology, FinTech)發展的朋友可以在線上追蹤連續五天的活動，而且票價祇需要星幣75元、加上服務稅合共80.25元（新台幣1695元）。 Continue reading “新加坡金融科技祭 Singapore FinTech Festival (SFF)”