Thursday, August 07, 2014
沒女=蝗語
想不到一星期內要鬧TVB兩鑊，我在此呼籲大家不要使用沒女一詞，老實說，用普通話讀還算語帶雙關玩字音，在香港說就真是低俗不堪了。何況有幾多人真正百無？樣貌天生無得說，但身材勻稱可靠運動，學識更是努力可得；不過有缺點不肯改善的人也多的是，電視台硬要無限放大爭取收視，實在缺德。
Tuesday, August 05, 2014
Sports highlights: International Champions Cup, MLB, NASCAR
I stayed home quite a bit this weekend and thus watched quite a bit of sports. First of all, MLB trading deadline was passed last week, which kinda grabbed my attention and I watched a bit of these 3 series during the weekend:
SF vs NY Mets: the Jake Peavy deal hasn't helped the team yet as he went 0-2 in the first 2 games with the Giants (he did pitch a few perfect innings in his 2nd game) Hopefully he still have something left in his tank. And ironically SF won all the other 3 games showing quite a bit of offense and power.
Oakland vs KC: the A's lost the series. Maybe trading away the All-star outfielder Yoenis Cespedes hurt them after all. The only game they won was started by Jon Lester (the pitcher they traded Cespedes for) so it's still not that bad.
Yankees vs Red Sox: Red Sox traded Stephen Drew to the Yanks at the deadline. Drew got 4 RBIs on the series finale while Cespedes hit .143 with 0 HR and 0 RBI in 2 games with the Red Sox. Enuff Said.
Even though the World Cup is over, the fever has not totally subsided. EPL is starting in 2 weeks anyway.
Man U vs Real Madrid: I know it's a meaningless pre-season game. Still, a win is a win. (A US-record setting attendance means something too) No complaint.
SJ Earthquake vs Seattle Sounders: another record set: it's the first ever game played at the new Levi's stadium in Santa Clara. And it's won by the local team (and the underdog) Victories would not be something I look forward to there.
I usually watch my NASCAR races tape-delayed by days. Well, finally I had time to watch all 3 on Sat and Sun! What an exciting finish of the Sprint Cup race at the Poconos! The leaders were trying different strategies: Biffle was in fuel-saving mode. Gordon got 4 new tires. Jr got no new tire. Jr managed past Biffle after the restart. Gordon was not able to get back in front while Harvick was charging hard to the front. Then another restart. I thought Harvick might be able to win it but at the end Jr held on.
SF vs NY Mets: the Jake Peavy deal hasn't helped the team yet as he went 0-2 in the first 2 games with the Giants (he did pitch a few perfect innings in his 2nd game) Hopefully he still have something left in his tank. And ironically SF won all the other 3 games showing quite a bit of offense and power.
Oakland vs KC: the A's lost the series. Maybe trading away the All-star outfielder Yoenis Cespedes hurt them after all. The only game they won was started by Jon Lester (the pitcher they traded Cespedes for) so it's still not that bad.
Yankees vs Red Sox: Red Sox traded Stephen Drew to the Yanks at the deadline. Drew got 4 RBIs on the series finale while Cespedes hit .143 with 0 HR and 0 RBI in 2 games with the Red Sox. Enuff Said.
Even though the World Cup is over, the fever has not totally subsided. EPL is starting in 2 weeks anyway.
Man U vs Real Madrid: I know it's a meaningless pre-season game. Still, a win is a win. (A US-record setting attendance means something too) No complaint.
SJ Earthquake vs Seattle Sounders: another record set: it's the first ever game played at the new Levi's stadium in Santa Clara. And it's won by the local team (and the underdog) Victories would not be something I look forward to there.
I usually watch my NASCAR races tape-delayed by days. Well, finally I had time to watch all 3 on Sat and Sun! What an exciting finish of the Sprint Cup race at the Poconos! The leaders were trying different strategies: Biffle was in fuel-saving mode. Gordon got 4 new tires. Jr got no new tire. Jr managed past Biffle after the restart. Gordon was not able to get back in front while Harvick was charging hard to the front. Then another restart. I thought Harvick might be able to win it but at the end Jr held on.
Monday, August 04, 2014
俾個like陳校長，俾個dislike CCTVB
香港的電視劇，我好少承認我有睇（除左今年那些年情懷爆燈的《女人俱樂部》）期望既然不高，就算再差也懶理；但今次這套《我們的天空》離譜得令我不能不「幫港發聲」
話說香港一位陳葒校長義務為學生補習，傳媒表揚他實在應該；但無線這集《我們的天空》之《非常校長》標明以陳校長真人真事為藍本卻歪曲事實，必須譴責！劇中校長被香港人業主迫遷，受內地富商捐助支持，陳校長出post證實純屬捏造，甚麼人被刻意醜化及美化，明顯不過。
話說香港一位陳葒校長義務為學生補習，傳媒表揚他實在應該；但無線這集《我們的天空》之《非常校長》標明以陳校長真人真事為藍本卻歪曲事實，必須譴責！劇中校長被香港人業主迫遷，受內地富商捐助支持，陳校長出post證實純屬捏造，甚麼人被刻意醜化及美化，明顯不過。
Free admission to museums
Growing up I am used to paying admission fees to get into popular museums like the Space Museum in Hong Kong or the MET in New York. Then I found out a lot of museums have free admission days (like every Wed in most museums in HK or some Sundays in SF) so I would plan my visits accordingly. Finally, there are museums that are free all the time, like the Smithsonian in Washington DC, Cantor Arts Center in Stanford, Triton in Santa Clara (which I just visited yesterday for the exhibition of 10 artists inspired by John Lennon's "Imagine" and 2014 Photography competition) BTW, the $25 admission fee people paid at the MET is actually the "recommended" amount only. I could have paid $0.01 to get in :(
What started this post though, was the HK government backed "Sport For All" day: all government-run sports facilities (e.g. public swimming pool) were open free-of-charge to the public yesterday. Inspired by this, one newspaper columnist suggested that the government should offer full-time free admission to all museums in HK to encourage creativity of its people. At a first glance this seems to be a great idea but then I read the comment sections and saw a ton of naysayers: most think such policy would be abused: those free museums would have been "occupied" by the elders or tourists who simply enjoy free A/C and also kids treating the places as playgrounds (and the displayed pieces as toys!) This is sad but true: a reflection of the quality of the people (or the lack thereof.) There's no such problem with the free museums in the US from my limited experiences.
What started this post though, was the HK government backed "Sport For All" day: all government-run sports facilities (e.g. public swimming pool) were open free-of-charge to the public yesterday. Inspired by this, one newspaper columnist suggested that the government should offer full-time free admission to all museums in HK to encourage creativity of its people. At a first glance this seems to be a great idea but then I read the comment sections and saw a ton of naysayers: most think such policy would be abused: those free museums would have been "occupied" by the elders or tourists who simply enjoy free A/C and also kids treating the places as playgrounds (and the displayed pieces as toys!) This is sad but true: a reflection of the quality of the people (or the lack thereof.) There's no such problem with the free museums in the US from my limited experiences.
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