Beating the Petty Person = 打小人

Hhahaha, read this funny article from the Apple Daily today(2009.04.26), i must post this up here...i am sure it will become an interesting memory when i re-read this some years later....

hahaha...i ever tried such customary activity, wanna to see what is it~~~ 其實我都未去過打小人，究竟個過程會係點嘅呢？哈哈，要約埋老何去睇下先!!! ^_^

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《 時 代 》 周 刊 選 出 洗 滌 心 靈 良 方 打 小 人 榮 登 亞 洲 最 佳 事 物!!!

Best for the Soul
'Beating the Petty Person'
By LING WOO LIU
H.L. Tam

Best Way to Get It Off Your ChestHong Kong

When it comes to dealing with a malicious co-worker or pushy family member, some of us go for confrontation. Others try to keep a philosophical distance. But for believers in the Waking of the Insects — a Chinese lunar festival in early March, observed almost exclusively in Hong Kong — there's nothing better than paying an elderly woman $6 to take her shoe and beat the pulp out of a crude paper effigy symbolizing the traducer in question.

Gu Yanzhi, 77, has been "beating petty people" for seven years at festival time. She sits beneath the Canal Road Flyover — the customary gathering point — equipped with her effigies, paper tigers (representing malevolent forces that must be placated) and an old Rockport shoe. Lines of customers form in the early morning. Crouched on plastic stools, Gu and other practitioners lay their effigies on bricks before furiously slapping them with slippers, shoes and, in some cases, high heels. Some chant "I am beating you, petty person! You have air, but you can't breathe! You have feet, but you can't walk!" （haha，chinese is: 「 打 你 個 小 人 頭 ， 打 到 你 有 氣 無 得 唞 … … 」)

Given the financial climate, many of this year's customers have sought job-related vengeance. "Some got fired or laid off, some feel betrayed," says Gu. "They want to get back at people." Elaine Wong, a logistics saleswoman, says that the practitioners "can erase all of the devils around us."

For added malice, some practitioners use needles and blades on the effigies. But, says Chien Chiao, a Taiwan anthropologist and expert in the ritual extensively, "the purpose of beating the petty person isn't to kill someone. The purpose is to tell people to stop messing with you." Feel like outsourcing your anger? Gu has a big shoe for hire.

— with reporting by Anka Lee / Hong Kong

Find this article:
http://www.time.com/time/specials/packages/article/0,28804,1893324_1893306_1893302,00.html

睇碉樓 + 大鵝蛋

Joined a short tour to 開平睇碉樓 last weekend for Easter。 開平 is my籍貫。雖然係我印像中，我好似只係鄉响10嵗嘅時候返過一次鄉下，但唔知點解, 今次去開平硬係有种親切感~~

Anyway, when i walked along the way to those 碉樓，i found something interesting!!

Most of the hawkers there were selling 鵝蛋; 有滷水啦，有鹽焗啦，仲有咸鵝蛋!! which is only RMB$2 隻!!! 我記得早排老何係鵝頸橋用咗HK$12買咗隻滷水鵝蛋，見到呢度only$2隻，梗係要買黎試下啦。。。你睇~~幾大個蛋黃!!! 個蛋黃比較creamy，而個蛋白就好鬼彈牙，感覺幾得意!!!

碉樓真係幾特別，用石屎同鋼根起，真係好實淨

超大隻, only RMB$2 each!!!

搞笑對話 -- 西環仁民酒店

hahaha....好搞笑，今晚聼到阿媽打電話問西環仁民酒店有関食自助餐嘅野，與酒店個阿叔嘅對話超搞笑，一定要寫出來~~


（請想像一下D阿叔以唔好老呸嘅口吻)

媽：係咪西環仁民酒店
酒店：係呀~~ (拉長講，唔好老呸嘅口吻）
媽：我想問下聼晚食buffet
酒店：等等先，等我睇下聼日咩日子先
媽：下？聼日？聼日咪禮拜四lor!!
酒店：係呀，聼日係“家庭日”
媽：下？家庭日？咁即係點呀？
酒店：家庭日咪有7折lor!!
媽：係咩?
酒店：係呀，星期一係“學生日”，星期二“女士日”，星期三“仁民服務日”，星期四“家庭日”，星期五呢。。。哎~~唔好講啦，講到聼日都講唔完，你聼日來咪知lor~~
媽：咁即係簡單來講日日都有7折啦？咁7折即係幾多錢呀? 係咪即係$1xx 7折呀？我黎過2次ga啦
酒店：hey....你都黎過lor，咪一樣lor，咪 $1xx 7折lor
媽：我點知jeh，上次係我D friend訂，我點知喎~~
酒店：哎~~~縂之你聼日來咪知lor~~ 咁你依傢係咪訂位呀？
媽：。。。。。。（訂位過程完畢~~）

估計呢個酒店阿叔淨係日日重復講星期一係咪日，星期二係咪日都講到口臭，由其係對住D西環師奶，所以會有咁嘅搞笑對話!!! ^o^

想找好男人？別匆匆上床！-- 2009.03.30

Hehehe, this passage is funny!!! So, want to post it here, share with my girls' friends (also me as well) .....

雖然我um太認同Game Theory 係可以apply落“研究男女關係”上，不過我的而且確覺得在男女関係上係有某D formula可以應用到。如果以Psychology或human nature的角度上來看（以女仔角度出發），how much you willing to give up，好多時會係 the more you may gain......

By the way, a small and thin book want to recommend here....it's a book talking about the art of "flirting".....it talks about the history of flirting, which country of people are best in flirting, the techniques on flirting, etc.....quite interesting..... ^_^

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2009年3月30日
想找好男人？別匆匆上床！
陳頌紅

阿媽成日教，千萬不可以在第一次約會就跟男孩子牽手接吻上床。她說，太早讓對方為所欲為，對方會看不起你。我一向尚算聽教聽話，所以初戀只維持了二十八天半就玩完了。原因是我在這二十八天半內，既不讓對方牽手，也不肯跟他接吻，上床更不必說了。我們去逛宜家傢俬，我也刻意避開床上用品部，免得對方胡思亂想。結果他責怪我「吊高嚟賣」，很快便變了心，轉移目標愛上了我們經常光顧的一間餐廳的美少女侍應。理由極充分，因為她第一次跟他上街，就跟他牽手接吻了。我一直暗暗埋怨是媽媽的教誨毀掉我的初戀。

最近我才發現，原來媽媽又是對的。連外國科學家都撑我阿媽的理論，就是「想找好男人，必須拖延交配期」。

今年一月，由倫敦大學學院（University College London）、華威大學（University of Warwick）及倫敦大學政經學院（LSE）的科學家以「博弈論」（Game Theory）研究男女關係，證明若然女方在男方求愛期期間，把上床這件事拖延，會有更大機率找到好的伴侶。因為，一個肯為守身如玉的女方繼續等下去的男人，而不會在這段時期外出偷食的，就很大機會是好男人。這群科學家以博弈論解釋這項研究：男女雙方可被視為博弈的兩方，在博弈行為上，由於大家都有自己一套盤算，以及自定目標中要取得的利益，所以必須在博弈期間不停考量對方各種行動的可能性，從而為自己的下一步行動作出應對性修改，以求找到對自己最有利的方案。

那即是說，當男女雙方仍處於求愛期，大家在時間、精神甚至金錢上都有付出。在這段看似被蹉跎的歲月，其實是可以令女方搜集更多關於男方的資料，包括性格、喜好、處事態度等，因而能更有效地剔除一些急色而沒耐性的壞分子。參與該項研究的華威大學醫學教授Peter Sozon指出，女方很難從男方外表得知他的為人，這種策略，雖然大家都要付出更多時間，但是好男人會因為真愛，因為想得到交配作為最後獎賞而不介意等下去。反之壞男人因考慮到自身利益而早就逃之夭夭。啊，原來如此。再一次證明，我阿媽可以做科學家。

圓明園馬首銅像

每年清明節都要過去澳門拜山，今年都唔例外，所以，其實澳門對我來講真係無mud特別好去嘅地方；特別係呢幾年，太多人去澳門，太多車，太多casino，太過commercial；反而鍾意以前，有小鎮 feel，樸實D，有澳門特色D。

Anyway，今年買左好多新衫俾阿嫲同阿爺，當然唔少得“錢”啦~~ 有歐元，有美金，哈哈，應有盡有。由于驚D錢會貶值，今年買多D，等佢地可以如常洗錢！！當然仲有“炮將”啦，等呀嫲同呀爺開心下~~~ ^_^

拜完山梗係要去下賭場啦，去坐下免費車，去飲下免費野，去睇下D人賭，自己玩下老虎機咁.....今次去左新葡京（細佬去左永利），順便影下何鴻燊隻馬首~~

同場加影馬首隔離嗰粒218卡嘅鑽石, with Flawless Clarity!!!即係"零"瑕疵....wow~~~ 不過係D grade only.....哈，唔知第日何生去左之后，呢粒鑽石會俾邊個阿太呢?? :p

哈哈...btw....特然覺得依家自己棚牙有D似隻馬!!! ^o^