Sunday, March 27, 2022

西草

 

我媽媽近來天天都跟兒時朋友傾電話,因為那朋友老公剛去世,很傷心,所以天天打電話來。
剛聽到他們說兒時往事。
當年朋友行路返工(她們都是車衣的)
左腳 kick 右腳 ONLY, 但跌斷咗隻手碗!!!! 
嗰陣佢拎住隻手 !!! WTF
as in 右手拎住隻tiu tiu feng 嘅左手
幸好有好心人,叫的士車咗佢去聯合醫院 (無叫白車)

佢話依家諗返起仲覺得唔好意思 ,嗰陣一生人都未搭過的士 (留意佢哋只係工厰妹住屋村)

呢個朋友秀玲 跌親手腕時已是二十幾歲了。
她小時候住在西草灣的木屋,即係現在的藍田,那時爸爸媽媽很忙,完全不理他們,幫他們四兄弟sister 報小學,就係無幫佢報。
去到學校門口,老師反複睇人名表都話無你個名喎。
兩個哥哥都入學校去了。就只有她一個站在門外,無書讀 。

結果她要去牛頭角讀,小學時每天要一個人自己行四十五分鐘上學,每天都遲到,被老師打兩下手版,後來有次大發雷霆,但從來無問她為什麼遲到。
補充,她媽媽只是第一天帶她上學一次,那天就沒接她放學,她要自己找路回家 - 由牛頭角回藍田..... 

她自十一歲肚就好痛
所以小學都畢唔到業
(她有腎病,我自細就知呢個姨姨無咗個腎)
最後堂哥看不過眼,送了她去私家醫院 - 浸會
看診做手術要一百蚊。

她的腎已塞了,但佢哋無錢,所以被轉介去當時新開的 QE

那次做了什麼她其實不清楚,
做完手術出嚟一直很痛,流水和血流到成床都係,但醫生就話你可以出院了。
也不用覆診。

跟住出院後一直痛到十七歲

阿媽話heyyyy 依家開咗間聯合喎
去到就話要切了這邊腎,遲點來,另一邊都要切了。

中間她也返過大陸睇,和工聯會的醫生。
但大陸醫院叫她回香港買啲顯影劑上來大陸再幫她照過。
那次手術的傷口很大,由腰前去到腰後的.

係咪嗰代人個個都咁多故事的
因為呢個auntie (無咗個腎)我自細就聽我阿媽成日話,唔好食咁多鹽,但我覺得相比我所有朋友,我根本食得好少鹽,其實少出街食嘢已經好大差別。但時至今日,我阿媽仲覺得我係鹽魔

so, 我媽這個朋友秀玲的老公鬍鬚佬,係完完全全無病痛的情況下,突然有天吞嘢有問題,發然肝癌末期,三個月後即是剛剛的年初四就死了 :O

我阿媽同阿婆講故事都好正,係咪所有阿媽同阿婆都係講故事高手來的。
我知我用過這張相不止一次。但我真的很喜歡這張相。
跟愛的人一起的時間過去了就沒有了。
我很喜歡我婆婆,但她一直覺得我是又唔靚女又搗蛋的。
不過也很慶幸在她年老不適的日子,有段時間是我們兩個人在家,我堅持會帶她去堅尼地城買砵仔糕,一起看youtube 等等。

Thursday, March 3, 2022

烏克蘭

Anything war can do, peace can do better.
My heart aches and breaks for all those people who were forced to leave their homeland. Even if one fortunately escaped all those attacks and bombs and crossed the border, sadly it'd still be a long and difficult road ahead, think of being uprooted from your home all of a sudden. 

It's miserable to think that, even millions of people were protesting against the Russian invasion on Ukraine, we cannot stop a few people's madness. 

We must continue to reflect, and think of how we can do better, as world citizens. Don't let the helplessness numb us. 

In my high school alumni network, everyday there are Europeans reaching out, offering homes to the fleeing Ukrainians, connecting people, providing transportation information; but also, some who were asking for advice to get their family out of a particular city, but had no ways to do so, two days after that city was heavily bombed. There were also families of three generations with kids, all escaping by foot, not knowing whether they'd succeed.... 

Quoting my Ukrainian friend "War. Day 7. Putler continues wiping out Ukrainians, city by city. First by bombings and shooting, next by humanitarian crisis. I wish everyone to never know how it's when your old relatives have to spend nights in cold shelter, constant sirens, when kids scream they don't want to die... and then they die..." 

Indeed, even if you don't know anyone from Ukraine personally, but the distance between us is really not that big, like they say, all blood is red. 
 https://linktr.ee/RazomForUkraine