nsk兄, I never had the guts to try skateboarding down Kwong Ming St. I'm sure it was fun. 我好細膽
do you recall the left-wing school just beside 基立? ... 海陸豐, I think... every morning after their assembly, they'd have the routine political speeches & play 東方紅... purposely positioned the speakers right at us just to intimidate, haunt, & provoke... we had to change our uniform from blue to grey to differentiate ourselves from them... good strategy & initiative but for a poor kid like me, those few bucks to get new pants were hard to come by! ..
I also recall the free gifts on Wed nights... usually a pond of fluor & I'd sell it along on the way home... if I got more than expected, I'd pocket the extra & spend it on 公仔紙! ...the bag would say 'Donated by people of USA' . Even as a little kid, I was so intrigued by this & determined to go there to find out for myself why they were the donor & us the recipient! like, where did we go wrong! After all, we have a great history behind us!... my dream finally came true when I finished secondary school, my elder brothers (me being youngest) 已'出身', 有嘢做, 合力送我去加國讀書. 一去便是三十年... 現在老了, 又有一些鳥倦知還的感覺...
Duck 兄, 我無參與彌撒 .但我每次回港, 都一定回母校, 聖堂, 光明街,進教圍 一帶徘徊, 回憶後便入聖堂, say a prayer, 放下奉獻, 滿懷感觸後離去.. I guess I never rejected or resented it, just that my faith has diminished quite a bit over the years.... Having said that. 這宗教, 聖堂在我極度難苦的時刻幫個我, 我屋企及一班好似我一樣的弱世社群, for that I'm forever grateful & 永不忘記... It's worth noting that decades later, in this affluent & prosperous HK, there're still so many people that are as poor as (or poorer) than I ever was... with surpluses in record number, it's just despicable that there's so little money or resources allocated in the budget to help them.
Duck 兄, the new church is nice but I really miss the old one. Would 羅國輝神父 have some pics saved somewhere during the design stage or before it was torn down? if so, is there any way that we could post it here or somewhere else?
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