Dream a little dream

半山行人扶手電梯剛建成不久，穿著長衫的我，獨個兒探索，以嶄新角度俯瞰那原本熟悉的街道。天橋跟半新不舊的樓房並不相襯，但我卻打從心底喜愛這高度；還有那微傾的電動通道，在上面走動時，腦袋會活躍起來，或向前走或向後溜，原地轉圈轉圈轉圈，環視四周，那角度景觀都是全新的。

我在想像，若果天橋上那些綠色鋁材都變成透明，這空中走廊將變得有趣。

那時候，蘇豪區還未成型。
特色的店舖卻已不少。

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This is the first year I attend Christmas party. To make it memorable, some women in MTR step on my right foot so that I can hardly walk in the evening. -_-!

We girls have wonderful time before the Christmas party. Our teachers arrange a private movie show and discussion for us. The movie is called “The Tango Lesson”. I love that movie, especially it reflects part of my findings towards tango. Those are tiny, sentimental moments in daily life, so easy to fade away without being noticed. I hope to find DVD of the movie… it’s nice to have a movie like this to touch one’s heart.

People comes at 19:00, and we’re busy preparing the ‘bring-a-dish’ buffet dinner. We have great varieties of food, while some of them are prepared by themseleves. I love the bread, salad and chicken wings most, and I’ve drunk so many glasses of wines… red wines, white wines, sparkling wines, 桂花酒… and I feel so right!

We tango! H says I’m so happy dancing with Anita!

Yeah~~~ I’m so happy tango through the night!!! Just can’t hide my happiness dancing with great people there!!!!

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Recording session resumes in this holiday season. We have been working with Believers, the man’s singing group of Shatin Baptist Church for couple of months, and the released day will be on March 2005. The recording schedule will become more packed as the deadline approaches. We’ll try our best to make another high quality album within tight schedule and budget.

At 23:10, I receive a phonecall. Ivor of Frontline tells me that my boss / producer / Frontline’s vocal coach and producer, Steven Ip, is on air at Metro Finance FM104. And the song on air is Frontine’s “Emmanuel”. I’m very excited, however, we don’t have radio in studio. And most importantly, we’re having recording session in the meantime.

Steven is in the recording booth, and at the same time, on air?!

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My latest show will be on Christmas Eve, singing duet with Florence Lin. She has chosen the song 《兩個女人》 which we want to sing for years. (The song is originally sang by 葉德嫻 & 劉天蘭, later by 梅艷芳 & 林憶蓮 in 2002.) After the first rehearsal, we decide to sing 《Don’t Call Him Up Anymore》 (covered by 齊豫 & 潘越雲, original song 《Make No Mistake, He’s Mine》 by Kim Carnes & Barbra Streisand) next time. Both songs are talking about love triangle between two women and a man.

We come into consensus that it’s better for me to play piano by myself. So I start to practise in last week. I’ve spent time in writing the score, making every chords are okay. I learned to play the song in yesterday’s piano lesson.

I practise again last night, and find it’s too difficult to sing and play together, especially for such a hard duet song. I admit that I’m a bit discouraged, after knowing the fact that I’m still not an able player.

Then I switch to another song to cheer up myself. It’s 陳奕迅’s 《Lonely Christmas》. It’s in key of C and 3/4 beat. The mood is light and easy, a bit cute too. I enjoy the time striking the keys of my Roland A-30 when listening to Eason’s voice, writing the score simultaneously. He’s great in singing, and I really enjoy playing “accomplishment” for him.

Actually A-30 is a good keyboard, except that my cats love to play with it too… and cause some semi-dead keys there. When I play those keys, it gives me sound with full velocity, and I can hardly practise with it. I plan to buy a new keyboard as soon as possible, so that I can learn piano more efficiently.

However, when I play 《Lonely Christmas》, I feel good and not affected by those semi-dead keys. I really enjoy the time yesterday night, wearing my SONY headphone, striking on the keys happily~~

這個聖誕好寂寞，沒有寒冷的感覺，毛衣皮褸還是寂寞的躺在行李箱。
頸項圈著火紅圍巾，穿的仍舊是短袖薄毛衣。

心感單薄。

說喜歡聖誕，其實是喜歡冬天。

喜歡呼呼北風打在面上的那種痛快感覺，徹底的冰冷，雙頰紅粉緋緋，又赤又冷，那種疼痛，好矛盾，好赤裸。

我怕，我忘了冬天，春天就來。
逛商場，希望可以找點甚麼留住聖誕和寒冬。

前年，是一盆聖誕花擺設。
去年，是無印良品的 acrylic 聖誕樹。
今年，是 Franc franc 的木製聖誕樹。

昨晚，recording session 取消了，便回家替聖誕樹做手工。
好友說，若果可以加上雪人、小屋等，那冬景會好吸引。

也許每年儲一件吧！
就用一年時間去找，要不然，自己做一個也可以。

喜歡一個人，靜靜的，去渡過這個聖誕。

Lonely Christmas

作曲　李峻一
作詞　李峻一
編曲　Terry Chan

誰又騎著那鹿車飛過　忘掉投下那禮物給我
凝視那燈飾　只有今晚最光最亮　卻照亮我的寂寞

誰又能善心親一親我　由唇上來驗證我幸福過
頭上那飄雪　想要棲息我肩膊上　到最後也別去麼

Merry, merry Christmas
Lonely, lonely Christmas
人浪中想真心告白　但妳只想聽聽笑話
Lonely, lonely Christmas
Merry, merry Christmas
明日燈飾必須拆下　換到歡呼聲不過一剎

誰又能善心親一親我　由唇上來驗證我幸福過
頭上那飄雪　想要棲息我肩膊上　到最後也別去麼

Merry, merry Christmas
Lonely, lonely Christmas
人浪中想真心告白　但妳只想聽聽笑話
Lonely, lonely Christmas
Merry, merry Christmas
明日燈飾必須拆下　換到歡呼聲不過一剎

明晨遇到　亦記不到　和誰在醉酒中偷偷擁抱
仍然在傻笑　但妳哪知道我想哭
和誰撞到　亦怕「生保」　寧願在醉酒中辛苦嘔吐
仍然在頭痛　合唱的詩歌聽不到

Merry, merry Christmas
Lonely, lonely Christmas
人浪中想真心告白　但妳只想聽聽笑話
Lonely, lonely Christmas
Merry, merry Christmas
明日燈飾必須拆下　換到歡呼聲不過一剎

Merry, merry Christmas
Lonely, lonely Christmas
人浪中想真心告白　但妳只想聽聽笑話
Lonely, lonely Christmas
Merry, merry Christmas
明日燈飾必須拆下　換到歡呼聲不過一剎
換到歡呼聲不過一剎

今天時間比較緊逼，在 7-11 買早餐回公司吃。

• • 奇華餅家龜包
  • 香橙／西柚味活性乳酸菌低脂乳酪飲品（駛唔駛咁長呀個名！）
  • Perrier 有氣礦泉水

你聽過龜包嗎？從小至大都喜歡吃這個，麵包內沒有很多空氣，吃完後不會感到飽飽脹脹。顏色、味道都很特別。那隻乳酪飲品一直都在做特價，所以每次都買兩瓶。

Perrier，很久沒碰了。
往昔補習學生的家庭說 Perrier 可以治喉嚨痛，所以那時候我經常喝呢！

今天，不知道為何，一邊喝，一邊想念在夜店工作的那段日子。好像在喝啤酒似的。這是一個工作間的啤酒替代品呢！

今晚，很想去「蒲」！

那節鋼琴課後，好友找我晚飯去。
帶她吃橫綱拉麵，我認為那是全港最好的拉麵店！

那個晚上，我需要上佳的食物！

可能是我極力推薦的關係，不經不覺叫了極多的菜式，包括那錯誤送來的 Asahi 生啤，小小的吧檯放滿了日式食物。吃的時候覺得好滿足好滿足，悶在心裏的東西好像都跑了。我才明白，食物真的能令人感到暢快，是種生理上的滿足感，令人沒有反抗的餘地。

怪不得失戀的人（特別是女人）或是暴肥或是暴瘦，許是因為她們想儘快快樂起來，當然另一個極端就是她一直都想沉溺於不快樂的情緒！

而我，選擇了食物！

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How can I let you know, how brilliant and talented you are?
How can I let you know, how much I want to be your student since the first time we met?
How can I let you feel my happiness since the first lesson we have?
How can I let you understand the things you teach me do help me a lot in other fields like tango and singing?
How can I let you know my guilty when I don’t have enough practice before seeing you?
How can I let you taste my hopelessness in playing songs last week, knowing I’m clueless at all?
How can I let you know, even I don’t know what’s going on?

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昨晚參加了一個快樂的婚宴，我的兩位好友經過１２年的愛情長跑，終於在１２月１２日結婚了。

１９９０年我開始上教會，認識了新郎和他的哥哥。一年復一年，他全家歸主，父母和四兄弟都認識了。

至於何時認識新娘呢？

其實我跟她的家庭是世交，我們的父母於１７、１８歲時已認識，距今已差不多４０年了。所以，我跟新娘也認識了２Ｘ年。（這個不好透露囉～～～）也是她把我邀上教會的。

他們認識了一段時間，就開始交往，一晃眼，已是１２年－－觀看他們的舊照片時，感覺尤深。

昨晚我們一家四口，很多 uncle auntie （即是爸爸媽媽跟新娘父母的朋友們），還有教會的兩對夫婦，共坐一席，渡過了快樂的晚上。

在此祝福 Ivy 和 Pele 共創美麗人生！

跟好友飯局之前的一晚，還有另一精采飯局，更精采的是，她送聖誕禮物給我！是手動磨咖啡豆機。
 
今年，我好肯定，我會收到很多很多聖誕禮物！！！因為距離月尾還有兩個多星期，我已經開始收禮物！！！
 
各方好友，我隨時應召～～～
嘩哈哈～～～
 
今晚，在家吃過晚飯後，便拿了新玩意出來，調較了研磨的粗幼度後，我便將 Mocca Harrar 放進去，細心的轉動那手柄，咖啡香氣隨即四溢。看那些咖啡粉粗幼度頗為一致，是值得推介的產品呢！

磨豆以先，我已經將虹吸管注了水，正在加熱呢！將適量的咖啡粉放在虹吸管的頂端後，便插在咖啡壼上，待下層的沸水升至上層，與咖啡粉混和，略煮後熄火，靜心等待咖啡經隔濾芯返回咖啡壼後，一杯香濃咖啡便出現在我面前。
 
其實這過程就已經令我很享受。
虹吸管確是很吸引的東西。
 
當然，在公司就不能用虹吸管了。唯有改用法式瀘壼，喝別種風味的咖啡！
 
手裏握著溫熱的咖啡杯，坐在梳化上，看《我和彊屍有個約會》，是這個晚上最佳的舒壓良方！
 
朋友，有空我們一起喝咖啡去～～