Macbeth 馬克白

星期五早上9：30上課上到下午4：30，因為要談FYP本來約了人吃飯也放棄了。晚上七點急急腳趕到中環看Macbeth，飯也沒吃。

而我係香港人但我係路癡我係香港問路我俾人歧視我下次扮自由行。

到了香港大會堂還有時間，本來想買些什麼吃，但看到全都是些什麼什麼飯就不想吃了。結果快十一點我在地鐵七仔買左件蛋糕當晚餐，我咬了一半飛左一半落街，當下感覺自己有點慘。

可是我用學生價買人家的好位置，想起回家時都陰陰嘴笑。

不過也不能開心多久了。



說回Macbeth。

舞臺設計簡單，三根柱子幾個演員演活了整個故事。

一開場舞臺兩邊泛出迷離煙霧，4D湧向觀眾。然後女巫出現。演員在微焦的氣味下舞動。肢體動作代替語言，舉手投足間充滿張力。

Macbeth描寫了人性的黑暗面，講述因利欲昏心而背信棄義的故事。劇中毫不避緯地描寫殺人和性之類的場面，並加插幽默元素，看過會更明白故事內容。

看過感覺是沙翁真的很厲害。雖然我英文不夠好，（最上方的中文字幕幫了我不少）還是能感受到他遺詞用字的高超本領。

要好好學習語文。

The Consolations of Philosophy

Alain de Botton illustrates the ideas of the ancient philosopher Lucius Annaeus Seneca (塞內卡) to help us deal with problems of life, which provides some insights for me.

Anger:

"what makes us angry are dangerously optimistic notions about what the world and other people are like."

"We must reconcile ourselves to the necessary imperfectibility of existence: Is it surprising that the wicked should so wicked deeds, or unprecedented that your enemy should harm or your friend annoy you, that your son should fall into error or your servant misbehave? We will cease to be so angry once we cease to be so hopeful."

Shock:

As

"there is nothing which Fortune does not dare"

and man is only

"A vessel that the slightest shaking, the slightest toss will break... A body weak and fragile, naked, in its natural state defenceless, dependent upon another's help and exposed to all the affronts of Fortune."

Seneca proposed that

"Nothing ought to be unexpected by us. Our minds should be sent forward in advance to meet all the problems, and we should consider, not what is wont to happen, but what can happen."

"Fortune gives us nothing which we can really own... We live in the middle of things which have all been destined to die. Mortal have you been born, to mortals have you given birth. Reckon on everything, expect everything."

Note:
Italic = Quotation from Seneca
Others = Quotation from Alain de Botton

FYP

Makes one frustrated.

Always room to improve.

R.I.P. Steve Jobs

Shocked when I learned the news of Steve Jobs.

Maybe intelligent people are just like fireworks, they burned out, and faded away.

Just wanna share a talk by him.

(Originated by 這雙手雖然小)

去年六月，蘋果電腦的Steve Jobs到Stanford出席畢業典禮並發表演講。

他說了有關他生命的三個故事──「No big deal. Just three stories.」

第一個故事，叫connecting dots.

在大學唸了半年書後，他決定輟學，因為學費太貴，而他也著實看不到那些必修課有什麼價值。

接下來他以旁聽生的身份，在大學裡泡了十八個月，期間他學了不少英文書法。

當時完全不知道學來幹什麼。

直到十年後，他和朋友發明蘋果電腦時，靈機一觸，決定把這些美麗的書法用到電腦裡去，成為我們今天用的Arial，Times New Roman, MS Sans Serif等等。

Steve Jobs說，由於Windows不過在抄Mac，所以如果當年他沒有輟學的話，我們今天就不會在電腦上看見這些秀麗的字體。

有些事，你今天看不到它的意義，但「you have to trust in something — your gut, destiny, life, karma, whatever.」

唯有若干日子後往回看（connecting the dots backward），才看出一切彷彿早有前因。

第二個故事，講他被蘋果攆走。

蘋果電腦由他和朋友在父母的車房裡發明，後來成了獨當一面的企業。

他們請了不少人才回來作管理。但他怎也想不到，公司的董事局其後一致決定要攆走他。

How can you get fired from a company you started?

他當然心有不甘，但想到他仍然深愛他在蘋果所做的一切，他開始抖擻精神，先後成立了NeXT和Pixar兩間公司。

後來蘋果電腦買下了NeXT，Steve Jobs又回來了。

而如今令蘋果重生的一系列技術，皆來自當天的NeXT。

沒有當天的失業，沒有今天的iMac，iTunes或iPod。

最後一個故事，和死亡有關。

Steve Jobs小時候就聽過一個說法，大意是如果今天是你臨死前的一天，你還想做今天要做的事嗎？

他用這個方法作了許多重要的決定。

如果明天都要死了，在這一刻，你毋須為其他人而活，你儘管幹你想幹的事。

在死亡面前，只剩下最重要的事。

他在不久前被診斷出患上胰臟癌，活不到半年；

但幸運地，一天之後，醫生告訴他，他得的是一種罕有能治癒的胰臟癌，經過手術後，現已無大礙。

那是Steve Jobs最接近死亡的一次。

從中他領悟到，死亡原是生命裡最了不起的發明之一。

生有涯。別浪費時間，應做你想做的事，然後「everything else is secondary. 」。

在Stanford發表的演講不過十五分鐘，唔睇就執輸。

1/10 Dinner with friends

Had dinner at Monster Sushi, whiched located in TST I-square, with four other friends to celebrate one of the friend's birthday. Nobody remembered it's national day until we saw so many polices and people hanging around. Foods were yummy. (as well as the prices)

After the dinner, we decided to head back to PolyU Main Camp. to enjoy the birthday cake, and avoid the crowd. Surprisingly, when we arrived the bridge outside Poly, we saw the tip of the firework sparkled behind those high buildings. Quite lovely, as you can hear the thunder at the same time. Though it'll be much better if you're standing right down the fire. (but you really had to have the mood and patient.)

You know, I really like the way it(Poly) looks at night. Peaceful place with romantic touch, a sense of solitude. Surrounded by red-brick buildings and tender lighting, we shared the cake and enjoyed ourselves.