胭脂扣

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會在4月1號前夕

看這部電影

純屬巧合

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漢學導論今天的課

講了青樓文學

從長安到香港

所以特地安排了這部戲

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前天我嘗試看

找到 Youtube 的版本

不過字幕和發音不相稱

另外一個則沒有字幕

不過癮

所以就不看了

只是讀過大綱就算了

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反而看了半小時的阿飛正傳

然后看完了金枝玉葉

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但是今天上課

老師說他不排除

考試會以電影為出發點

來探討妓院文化和城市的發展

所以今天又乖乖的看完了

咦 第二部分的字幕對稱了

真好

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但是原來知道劇情來看電影

是有這么大的落差的

少了一份緊張的感覺

只是想從電影 pick up 

一些和課文有關的畫面

作為討論例子

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看著電影時

一直都想象

張國榮和梅艷芳都還在人世

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戲中也有講到

戲如人生 人生如戲

演戲就是上演著人生的一幕幕

但是兩位主角的命運

在現實幾乎差很多

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為什么十二少自殺會獲救

而張國榮則走上了一條不歸路

3811 如花和十二少自殺的那天

沒看過電影的人不知道

看過了也未必會記得

3 月 8 號不是婦女節咯

（不知道作者選 3 月 8 號

也是有這個雙重意義）

但是我們卻永遠記得

4 月 1 號不只是愚人節這么簡單

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戲中如花最愛情的至死不渝

最后死在十二少的懷抱

現實里 梅姐卻找不到

陪她走最后一程的那個人

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片中的如花為情郎等了 5 3年

歲月摧殘了十二少

七年了

永存在記憶的哥哥

都會是那個最美的男子

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去年的這個時候

寫了一遍 懷念哥哥

希望明年今日

我還是在這個地方

再寫多一篇

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今年過了一季

是時候醒來了

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Mum’s Kitchen - Yau Char Kway

no ammonia bicarbonate

no alum

no dark-coloured oil

this is 50% healthier

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why never we thought of that

Yau Char Kway is actually fried bread

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while we were baking bread last Sunday

set some dough aside

 

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added in a pinch of baking soda and salt

and here we get YCK

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word of caution

while i was frying YCK

i realized how frying food is so fattening

because we dip the old thing into hot, boiling oil

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using oil absorbent paper does help

but much more oil  has already being absorbed

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this is just like chinese french fries

high in saturated fat

so…

instead of taking YCK + soy bean as breakfast

please substitute it with wholegrain bread

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YCK happened to be the by-product

the star of the day

 

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p.s.

i stood more than 1 hour frying the floss

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Coconut Mania

i am crazy over coconut

all the coconut related kuih

grated coconut

fresh coconut

yummy yummy

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coconut processing

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recap of what we have made so far

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other coconut delicacies that i enjoy

(but we dunno how to make leh…)

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here comes the bad news

calorie count for coconut milk

too much of saturated fat

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the same applies for coconut meat

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cut cut cut

or my diet plan will fail forever

dearest coconut

i should learn to hate you

just like how Snoopy hates coconut flava cookies

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No-joke, My Silly Haircut

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my new broom hairstyle

amid all the stresses

who still care about hair and look

i just wanna be freed…

gosh.. but i have already started regretting it

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Mum’s Kitchen: Kuih Ketayap

one of our favourite kuih

it looks a bit discoloured

but this is the original Pandan juice colour

after we ran out of grated coconut

tried out with Kaya instead

as usual, it’s home-made

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Mum’s Kitchen: Best Bread ever

we have tried making bread

but this is the softest, fluffiest ever

even after days

recipe from Ohbin

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mom was so addicted that

within a week

we actually made 3 times

experimenting with different flavours

but the main reason being is course

we are bread-eating people

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chicken floss

coconut

raisin

the best is the coconut filling  

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actually the ingredients are simple

sufficient time for the dough to rise

and effort on kneading the dough

will determine the “fate” of the bread

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some bread out there

the softness and fluffiness

are contributed by some additives

so it’s like lack of real weight and taste

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but for ours one,

they are soft yet compact

the solid bread

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try compressing a loaf of bread

for a solid one

the shape will remain intact

but for the not so natural one

it will be twisted and deformed

and obviously shrink in size

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secret to tasty coconut filling

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