每当变幻时

Happy 2008! This is my first blog entry of the year, sorry that is getting a bit dusty here, so here I am to do a bit of spring cleaning since spring is round the corner, and will be doing it in English, since some people say they can't understand Chinese, haha... Time flies... Recently I watched a movie named 每当变幻时, english name, "Hooked on You", by Eason Chan and Miriam Yeung, it is one movie that really touched my heart especially when I am still a bit of a Hong Konger in my heart. I think it is even one of the best in years, since Hong Kong is making a lot of not so nice movies nowadays. Maybe I am quite emo recently which made the movie even more touching. Here is the story:


The time frame of the story is from 1997 to 2007. A girl by the name of 阿妙 (Miriam Yeung) is a fishmonger that works really hard day and night to help clear debts for her father that was addicted to gambling and prostituition, on a particular morning, some misunderstanding between 阿妙 and 鱼佬 (Eason Chan) another fishmonger next to her stall made both of them foes. However through time 鱼佬 found that 阿妙 is a nice and hardworking girl and decided to help her out in life and both of them fell in love with each other, however 阿妙 has a dream, that is before she gets 30, she will get herself married to a rich guy to get rid of the poor life she was living and 鱼佬 was of course out of her choosing category because he is not a very rich guy and most importantly 阿妙 wants to get out of the wet market life. In year 2000, her father died and surprisingly left her with quite a number of money to grant her with her wish to leave the fish market life and 阿妙 left 鱼佬 without any notice to pursue her own dream, in the end, when she had a successful career, she found out what she really missed was 鱼佬 however when she finally made up her decision to get back to 鱼佬, she found out that he is already married...

This is just a brief description of the story. Just to give you all some background information, this movie was filmed in collaboration with the returning of Hong Kong to China 10th anniversary. The message that is brought out by the film is really meaningful. The movie actually uses the couple to bring out the mentality of Hong Kongers and the wet market as a metaphor of Hong Kong, its a movie that expresses 对香港的情怀。In one particular scene, the government was going to tear down the wet market, however 鱼佬 does not want to give up the wet market and he fought against the police until the police used force to drag him away from the market, that moment when his eyes were fixed to the wet market as he was being dragged to the ambulance, that 不舍得，无奈的表情，让我心里酸了, at the very moment, I know the director wants to express his feelings for the Hong Kong that was gone 10 years ago. The movie continues to bring us through time frames like the 2003 SARS and so on. Miriam Yeung's character portrays the mentality of younger Hong Kongers, wants to succeed in life but in the end realize that they have missed out a lot in life. Eason Chan's character portrays the older generations, those who will stay and love Hong Kong as long as they live, because this is where the grow and lived, they are extremely emotionally rooted with Hong Kong. The movie tells us to cherish the things we have now and grab hold of the opportunities in life because once gone, things will never be the same again. One point to note that Eason Chan and Miriam Yeung's acting awed me, I know Eason Chan is a great singer but never did it came to me that he is a great actor until this movie and Miriam Yueng is the one that made me 眼前一亮, gone were her 大笑姑婆 style of acting, but here she becomes really sophisticated and handled her character's emotions really well. I like the last sentence of the movie, "以前，我会觉得我很失败，可是现在我成功发现一切只不过是一个过程”。The theme song of the movie is cover of an oldies, the cover is sung by Miriam Yeung and the song name is 每当变幻时, the lyrics is very meaningful and let me reflected a bit on my life... A 4.5/5 movie.



每当变幻时 (电影{每当变幻时}主题曲)

曲：周蓝萍
词：卢国沾
编：黄丹仪

怀缅过去常陶醉，一半乐事，一半令人流泪

梦如人生，快乐永记取，悲苦深刻藏骨髓

韶华去，四季暗中追随，逝去了的都已逝去

啊......常见明月挂天边，每当变幻时，便知时光去

怀缅过去常陶醉，想到旧事，欢笑面常流泪

梦如人生，试问谁能料，石头他朝成翡翠

如情侣，你我有心追随，遇到半点风雨便思退

啊......常见红日照东方，每当见夕阳，便知时光去

如情侣，你我有心追随，遇到半点风雨便思退

啊......常见红日照东方，每当见夕阳，便知时光去

Time flies... We must cherish all we have for now...

Really have a lot of worries recently, but thank God last week that through Stephen Tong's sermon, I was being reminded again by God, really thank God for that. I need to learn how to hand over all my worries to God and believe that he will guide me through, though I might not entirely handle that well now. Fear always grip me and I seriously need God's help to get me out of it.

Anyway, since I have long never posted any entries recently, just show you all some main highlights of what I have done these few weeks.

First time in my life as a dark angel! Haha... Very happy to be involved in the gospel camp last year, fun to be dark angel but really stuffy and hot to be in that costume!!!

Went to Vinc's house for Christmas and of course to play with cute Leah!!!