Three poems__SL Kong

Posted on April 27, 2013 by acyho

Uneasy Dawn
My Sandy Rill
Evening Continue reading →

The Pasta Cometh__d

Posted on April 26, 2013 by acyho

The Pasta Cometh

Over the Christmas holidays I received a pasta machine as a gift. It is a simple device. It is manually operated and nothing more than 2 wheels with grooves. It was beautiful, shiny and elegantly sitting on the counter waiting to be explored. The little grooves on the dial of the machine look like little mouths that keep saying “Try me!” They are most certainly waiting for the wonderful dough which will be made into pasta.

Pasta had been around for a long time. Almost every nation has its own version of pasta. When we mention pasta, we only think of Italian, but when we say noodles, and then everybody understands it is the long strand, stringy, dough which can be cooked up with soup, sauce, baked and anything you can imagine. Continue reading →

Application and Assignment Essays for Top U.S. Universities__Jason Leung

Posted on April 25, 2013 by acyho

[In 金榜題名, Don Chen (71) shares the experience how his son brought up in LA applied to top U.S.Universities. Here, Jason’s experience is able to offer more insight on this topic. Jason, son of Terence Leung (71), was brought up in Hong Kong and is now a lawyer in Hong Kong.]

“We are native speakers of Cantonese who have not lived in any English-speaking country for more than 14 days. Our son, Jason, went to Yew Chung International School (耀中國際學校) for his primary education up to P.5 and thereafter studied for a term at Kowloon Junior School and was then promoted to Shatin College (沙田書院) on a through-train basis since these latter two belong to the English Schools Foundation (ESF) system.

At the age of 17 and all through high school, Jason remained a top student, but not one of those star pupils, and it was kind of odd that he wanted to go to college in America because ESF schools, by tradition, have no or very little affiliation with American universities. Continue reading →

April Morning__SL Kong

Posted on April 24, 2013 by acyho

April Morning

Early morning
Trees shining
They stand tall and about
Over hills in and out Continue reading →

禪與詩意境的自由__江紹倫

Posted on April 23, 2013 by acyho

自由與責任

參禪與寫詩一樣，主體憑着感覺器觀接觸世界，又憑着個人經驗和需要認知一切，在日常生活中處理生命中的大小事情。

但是，參禪和寫詩的活動進行時，主體可以放下客觀世界。前者心馳空虛，求達空明，見真體悟。後者則遊浮在〝第二世界〞之中，用主觀及自由的天真心靈，處理人與事物，不拘泥真像，或者人為價值。詩人甚至不顧文字的規法，只管探求一種純真的美、滿足和快樂。

詩人有自由按照自己的意旨和一時衝動，去揣摩內心的感受和聲音。他亦可以打破語文的法則，不理字的一般含意，袛求能夠表達特殊的意義和意境。

不過，詩人在自娛之餘，寫詩是給他人看的，所以他對讀者負有責任。這種責任的體現，使詩歌由〝狂言〞變為〝藝術〞。俄國文豪托爾斯泰在《藝術論》說：〝如果一個人體驗到，或者想像出，愉快、歡樂、憂鬱、失望、灰心、或爽朗等感情，以及由這些感情轉化而成的意境，用色調、聲音或文字把它們表現出來，感染別人，使他們像他一樣同感，就是藝術。〞

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