MCGREGOR: Do you believe in God, sir?
HANKS: Father, I simply believe that religion -
MCGREGOR: I did not ask you if you believe what man says about God. I asked you if you believe in God.
HANKS: I’m an academic. My mind tells me I will never understand God.
MCGREGOR: And your heart?
HANKS: Tells me I’m not meant to. Faith is a gift that I have yet to receive.
-- Angels & Demons
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I find the film just so-so , but you've got to love these lines.
Sunday, May 24, 2009
Friday, May 1, 2009
給YT
許多年後，當他坐擁甚麼門、甚麼山、甚麼碧海藍天的豪宅時，總有一刻，在夜闌人靜的那麼一剎那，正為一單大deal 、孩子的入學或老婆的囉嗦而心煩的時候，憶起年少輕狂的歲月：在大學時代， 那時還未真正懂得人生的甜酸苦辣，卻曾經有這樣的一位女孩，對自己真心地發過山盟海誓；雖然可能有些一廂情願，但那種純潔堅定，比起身旁熟睡的女人手指上的鑽戒，更來得耀眼 -- 周遭的千萬豪裝和潮服，突然變得庸俗不堪。 午夜夢迴，惆悵往往令人措手不及， 因為，這叫人生。
Out
So, CD-players are "out". Not only out, but they are hardly even available in the shops.
I woke up to this fact when I was trying to look for a small bedside radio-cum-CD-player to replace my old radio. I had in mind those portable ones - perhaps an updated version of those radio-plus-tape-and-CD-playing combos that used to be very popular a few years ago.
I checked a number of shops and, to my horror, none of them had such products anymore! Instead, there were many alarm-plus-radio-cum-i-pod / i-phone-players - what people apparently put on their bedside these days.
It appears then that the market expects everyone to have at least an i-pod or an i-phone. Perhaps that is right - when even the Queen uses i-pod, so should everyone else, shouldn't it. In a recent visit to the UK, Michelle Obama gave the Queen an i-pod loaded with specially selected songs as a present. As Michelle Obama is a fashion icon these days, nothing can be more symbolic of the apparent fact that "CD-players are out" than her choice of present to the Queen.
In the end, I managed to find one radio-cum-CD-player set, of some unknown brand, at Fotomax (!). As I couldn't be bothered to load the contents of all my CDs to an i-pod or an mp3-player or a memory stick, and would quite simply like to play a CD directly, I bought the set. It works fine. However, its existence in my room reminds me, constantly, of the "generation gap" between myself and my own generation. What irony.
And for that matter, I think CDs will also be out before long - we may only be able to buy mp3 songs, probably to be loaded to our i-pods at the shops on payment. CDs go to the musuems.
I woke up to this fact when I was trying to look for a small bedside radio-cum-CD-player to replace my old radio. I had in mind those portable ones - perhaps an updated version of those radio-plus-tape-and-CD-playing combos that used to be very popular a few years ago.
I checked a number of shops and, to my horror, none of them had such products anymore! Instead, there were many alarm-plus-radio-cum-i-pod / i-phone-players - what people apparently put on their bedside these days.
It appears then that the market expects everyone to have at least an i-pod or an i-phone. Perhaps that is right - when even the Queen uses i-pod, so should everyone else, shouldn't it. In a recent visit to the UK, Michelle Obama gave the Queen an i-pod loaded with specially selected songs as a present. As Michelle Obama is a fashion icon these days, nothing can be more symbolic of the apparent fact that "CD-players are out" than her choice of present to the Queen.
In the end, I managed to find one radio-cum-CD-player set, of some unknown brand, at Fotomax (!). As I couldn't be bothered to load the contents of all my CDs to an i-pod or an mp3-player or a memory stick, and would quite simply like to play a CD directly, I bought the set. It works fine. However, its existence in my room reminds me, constantly, of the "generation gap" between myself and my own generation. What irony.
And for that matter, I think CDs will also be out before long - we may only be able to buy mp3 songs, probably to be loaded to our i-pods at the shops on payment. CDs go to the musuems.
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