2012/12/27

食夢貘


(這個場景,就是每個故事發生前的導引,有春夏秋冬的不同,四季蒼生的轉化。)

從12月的聖誕節前夕一路往跨年的活動,
彷彿送舊迎新的慶典獨缺我一人,
看著臉書上大家紛紛和親友出遊聚餐,
用以彌補生活中缺乏社交的空白。
好似食夢貘暗自地把這些歡愉收下,
自以為吃下的是讓人飽足的精神食糧,
沒想到越吞噬越空虛,這就是眼不見為淨的寂寞陷阱,
看了這些紀錄,難逃「生也寂寥」的惆悵感...

2012/12/21

未知的世界末日



塔羅牌偉特13號「死神」,表結束、轉變、重生、該做決定的時候、改變之意,
在西方13為不吉利的數字,但真正更深的意涵是捨棄老舊的人事物,徹底自我改造。
在圖像上,騎著白馬的黑色骷髏騎士,手拿著神秘玫瑰的旗幟,代表死亡,
身邊圍繞著國王、教宗、女人、孩童,
意味抗拒死亡,或接受死亡,或不願面對死亡,或對死亡一無所知者,
都逃不過生命的循環與轉化的自然過程,唯有死亡才得以重生,
遠方有個太陽代表生命的永恆,
河流則是流經伊甸園的冥河(Styx),表生命循環不息。

2012/11/13

三十而立




沒有過生日的習慣也懼於過生日的你,
沉默地切斷了所有可以外傳的訊息,
僅在自己的牆上寫下給幾年後會回顧的自己,
敝帚自珍顯得可笑,但放在你身上卻又如此貼切,
反思度過的時光吉種種,生活被清描淡寫般,自然地翻到了下一頁,
生命的第一旬在今天屆滿,雖然身處越南異鄉國度,
在地球上度過了第10,958個日子。
[Five hundred twenty-five thousand six hundred minutes
 How do you measure, measure a year?]

2012/09/04

Re...union



睡前看到Samuel Lien為Reunion轉貼龍老師的訊息,
淡薄的愁雲莫名地湧上心頭,
一抹悶氣在單人房裡嘆息。
原來在記憶裡還有兩個窟窿從未被填滿撫平,
這只是其一,
雖然物換星移,讓人暫時遺忘那段黑暗的時光。
而過去總總早就換了場景,
只不過龍老師這次終於願意履約到訪,
為自己未能出席感到遺憾。

2012/08/28

Pumpkin Meets


excerpted from Pumpkin Recipes

一眼望去,今天晚餐的菜色中有清蒸南瓜,
基於就在這邊半年的飲食經驗,
其實不信任會有什麼好味道,
因此基於健康飲食只拿了兩塊淺嚐。
沒想到在過度調味的菜色裡,
南瓜的清淡甜味反而別顯獨特,
果肉蒸熟成泥更突顯濃郁的口感。

2012/08/11

Life in Viet

Saigon Notre-Dame Basilica

I've left my blogger idle for a long time. Though developing a habit takes 28 days said by experts, how soon to abandon a habit depends how much we rely on it. I am not good at introducing cuisine and jaunt, so it may be much easier for me to exert my soul of writer to express what I feel inside.

It has almost been half year to work in Vietnam, and my life become much simpler than before. Since we have internet to surfing the world without limitation, we still need to experience the real face on face. What you love most are excluded out of where you stay, you may easily feel hollow. That's why people say long-distance relationship is difficult to maintain.(well...seems kind of digressed)

In addition, the traffic of where I stay is really inconvenient, and it takes 90 minutes to leave for Ho Chi Minh City by car. I cannot be a backpacker based on the work time of 6 full days one week, and I suppose that I will not have the chance to ENJOY the Vietnamese slowness. Therefore, how to lead a normal life after work is the main issue. Reading and watching American or Japanese dramas become much important for me to enrich my life, learning Vietnamese as well.

I get one week off every two months, so I am planning to go abroad. But the obstacle is that our company limits our flight between Taipei and Ho Chi Minh, I am enforced to rearrange my schedule. At this moment, I am much envious of my friends who work in banks enjoying their 2-week vacation every year.

2012/03/17

離開

(年輕的郭桃與朱先生)


憑著印象,聽過于美人說過這段話:
母親的一生就是不斷地承受分離,
從孩子呱呱墜地的那一刻開始,是第一次分離,
爬行的孩子學會走路,離開母親的懷抱是第二次分離,
等到上了孩子小學、中學、大學,又是一次次不捨的分離,
孩子離鄉背井去深造、去工作,又是一次分離,
須臾,孩子結婚成家立業,亦是分離。