Top Ten Possible Use of a Crack Pipe

(Through Rose-Coloured Glasses)

On Thursday, Police Chief Bill Blair announced Toronto Police has unearthed the notorious video tape of Mayor Rob Ford, the one showing him appeared to be smoking crack cocaine. Next day, Ford’s lawyer and brother Doug demanded the police to release the video tape to the public immediately, so that Torontonians can view it themselves and draw their own conclusion. “Picture’s worth 1,000 words, so let’s come out with it.”

To help our dazed and speechless citizens to draw their conclusion, here are some of our suggestions and a picture of a crack pipe.

 

Top Ten Possible Use of a Crack Pipe

  1. To blow bubbles
  2. An inhaler for asthmatics
  3. A new musical instrument — a Crackamonics
  4. A cigarette holder
  5. A drinking straw
  6. A whistle blower
  7. An Aladdin lamp to wish the scandal goes away
  8. A new smoke signal machine to communicate with my best friend for more parcel delivery
  9. A single serve coffee maker
  10. An opium gun

 

《四时田园杂兴》__范成大 (1126-1193)

writen by T.C. Lai秋日田园杂 (8)

新筑场泥镜面平
家家打稻趁霜晴
笑歌声里轻雷动
一夜连枷响到明

Autumn (8)  translated by SL Kong; calligraphy by T.C. Lai

On the newly paved yard smooth as a mirror
All families thresh the harvest grains in frosty fine weather
Singing and laughing the joy rambles like gentle thunder
The rhythmic frail beats go on until dawn without hinder

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《In Praise of Autumn》_《Autumn Thoughts》 by Kong Shiu Loon

fall coloursIn Praise of Autumn 

A season you are
Not like any other
Golden leaves lingering on trees
Ready to mix with other colours to please

Wonders in your cloudless sky eternally shine
Bounty melons fruits and corn witness farmers’ pride
Where sheep and cattle graze meadows are left bare
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麻雀三字經__岑建成

以下內容部分取材自退休三字經及許冠傑打雀英雄傳

打麻雀 樂其中 勝下棋  打兩圈 就離席

四圈起 八圏止 不磨蓆 講衛生 磨爛蓆 確無聊

游亁水 不濕身 手運動 舒骨絡 腦筋靈

注碼小  可怡情 賭身家 最冇形

想食糊  諗心機 戒急躁 氣和平

講章法  勿亂來 頂上家 誅下家 贏要谷 輸要縮

過兩棟 轉轉運  紅衭子  邪對手

移移燈  換換凳  放放水 轉個運 確不同

不吸煙 空氣清  不粗言 牌品美

勿貪勝  要知輸

摸到齊  四隻東 被搶槓 真陰功

Kan kan 糊  要自摸 最難食

十三么 叫絶章 係咁橋 摸一筒

知己聚 手談歡  千萬記 莫痴迷  麻雀樂 樂無窮

退休三字經

ABC终于专函向华裔道歉


 

DO YOU THINK THIS IS ENOUGH?

吴仙标说,「这是一个值得我们亚裔反省和学习的时刻。这件事表明了自立维权的重要性」。吴仙标呼吁亚裔将沮丧转换为行动。「如果我们的族裔能够像在美国的犹太人一样,我们能得到的答复一定会比现在更令人满意得多」。

华人权益组织「美华协会」(OCA)26日指出,该组织已向「联邦通讯委员会」(FCC)提出申诉,要求「联邦通讯委员会」就ABC灭华言论迅速采取行动。「美华协会」也要求ABC道歉,并制定执行计画,确保不重蹈覆辙。

(Through Rose-Coloured Glasses)

 

“殺光所有的中國人”

(Through Rose-Coloured Glasses)

上周美國廣播公司 (ABC) Jimmy Kimmel 的深夜脫口秀 (吉美雞毛秀) 中之“小孩圓桌會議”上, 有名六歲孩童, 在談及”美國欠中國的1.3萬億美元, 該如何来償還”時, 居然聲稱要”殺光所有的中國人”来避免還債, 立時震撼了美國輿論及各地華人。此事更不断升温, 已有超過3萬人在白宮網站發起請願, 要求删除这个助長种族仇恨的節目。很多華人更呼吁 ABC 道歉。

照理, 童言無忌, 不應上綱上綫, 大可不了了之。但該節目主持, 和 ABC 的負責人, 都是有經驗, 有見識的成年人, 就不應選擇播出这种含有种族主義的節目, 这只会助長了种族仇恨。作為一個公正, 政治敏感, 負責任的媒体, 散播这种扇動性的言論  (雖然是發自一名孩童口中)  实在令人費解。

試想想, 如果有孩童狂言, 要殺清所有黑人, 那不立時引起全美暴動才怪呢! 又如果要殺清的是所有美國人, 那又会引起一片打倒”恐佈份子”的叫吼。

再者, 風從那裡来? 孩童言論, 不会空穴来風, 無中生有, 一定是從父母, 長輩, 老師, 媒介反映过来的。而在这一言論背後, 所反映的, 和帶来深遠影響, 及其嚴重後果, 卻又令人三思, 不寒而栗了。

有借有還, 上等人也。但借錢不還, 還要殺人, 是強盗邏輯, 是赤裸裸的横行無道的霸權主義。發窮惡, 連六歳小童, 都殺殺作聲, 這顯露出一個超級大國經濟和權勢的衰落, 正作翻身的爭扎。難怪这社会的怪現象, 擁有槍械是美國公民的基本權利, 以備格殺勿論。

这, 又多可悲矣!

PS   Obama should listen to our Prime Minister, Stephen Harper, “You’re darn right, pay the money back!”  🙂

白居易詩 英譯__江紹倫

Visiting West Lake in Spring   錢塘湖春行

Lone Hill north looks on the Jia Pavilion east
Beneath low clouds the lake water brims at ease
On the sun-warmed trees orioles compete to trill
With mud in beak to where goes the swallow
Seeing so many flowers my eyes are dazzled
On the short grass soft banks horse hooves show
How can I stroll the east bank enough I love so
Under green willow shades the White Sand Dyke glows


Tune: Eternal Pining
 長相思

As the BianRiver slowly flows
So is the Si River chattily goes
They reach the ancient dock at Gua Zhou
The distant hills in the south mark my sorrows

My longings continue to show
So do my complaints endlessly go
They will cease whence my love returns to me
Now I stand alone on moonlit balcony
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