作個悶演說

有時會奇怪,為甚麼有些人說話,永遠都可以沈悶到不行︰明明是有趣的話題,變成催眠曲;明明是有深度的主題,就變得冗長而瑣碎。就以大家由小學到中學都聽過無數次的「勉言」或「致辭」,你記得有多少個可以用「精彩

幸福如飲水

有個朋友,丈夫忠誠可靠,兒子聰明伶俐,自己則是個盡心盡力的妻子和母親,雖然也有一份全職的工作,但照顧一家的起居飲食都無微不至;在一般人的眼中,我這個朋友的生活就是幸福的寫照。

她可能真的很幸福,然而,這

和你在一起

很舊的歌
但無論什麼時候聽都舒服

悼念好友爸爸—單車

那晚聽陳奕迅演唱會,聽到「單車」這首歌,不期然想起我那已離世的父親。期間,湊巧亦收到好友傳來的電郵,得知他爸爸剛離開了的消息。

不管是那個年代,代溝總是永遠都存在的問題,父與子的溝通問題,好像又份外嚴重


The Young Victoria ("宮廷眷戀─維多利亞與阿爾拔親王") ------ 不太有看頭的宮廷愛情片!

























Film : The Young Victoria (2009)
Directed by Jean-Marc Vallée
Written by Julian Fellowes
Starring Emily Blunt/ Miranda Richardson/ Jim Broadbent/ Paul Bettany/ Mark Strong/ Rupert Friend/ Thomas Kretschmann/ Julian Glover/ Michael Maloney/ Rachael Stirling
Music by Ilan Eshkeri
Running Time: 105mins

1. 近幾年好像有很多齣宮廷片,都是一些少不免的權力鬥爭,勾心鬥角的內容!

Testing in the face of popen()

Suppose that you have a program that runs another program and uses itsoutput; for example, you have a high level analysis program that runsa low level state gathering command (or several commands) to gathervarious information.Here is something that I have recently learned the hard way:

You really want to give your high level program an option to getthis status output from a file instead of by running the commands.

Doing this saves you from having to recreate a specific scenarioeach time you want to test how your


The White Ribbon(白色恐懼) ------ 自身產生的恐懼

























Film: The White Ribbon (2009)
Directed by Michael Haneke
Written by Michael Haneke
Narrated by Ernst Jacobi
Starring Christian Friedel/ Ulrich Tukur/ Josef Bierbichler
Running Time: 144mins


1. 看此戲絕對地因為導演是Michael Haneke,他之前的作品令觀眾所產生的恐懼完全是內在而生的(睇過"Benny's Video", "Hidden", "Funny Games US"都知佢

眼見未必真

昨天有個同事用電郵傳了一張演講的宣傳海報給我,我看到講者的名字印錯了,應是"Perelman",海報上卻是"Percelman"。於是我立即回電郵告知同事,誰知他說海報上分明印的是"Perelman",還順便指出其實我們的眼睛時常會作弄我們。我

The Last Station(最後車站) ------ Love Vs Freedom

























Film: The Last Station (2009)
Directed by Michael Hoffman
Written by Screenplay:Michael Hoffman/ Novel:Jay Parini
Starring Christopher Plummer/ Helen Mirren/ James McAvoy/ Paul Giamatti/ Anne-Marie Duff/ Kerry Condon
Music by Sergey Yevtushenko (Russia)
Running Time: 113mins

1. 其實我對於Leo Tolstoy(托爾斯泰:1828-1910)這個人一無所知,看過此片後才知

AJAMI(以巴火藥庫) ------ 作為半Documentary,比"Hurt Locker"更出色!

Film: Ajami (2009)
Directed by Scandar Copti/ Yaron Shani
Written by Scandar Copti/ Yaron Shani
Starring:  Fouad Habash/ Ibrahim Frege/ Scandar Copti/ Shahir Kabaha/ Eran Naim
Music by Rabih Boukhari
Country: Israel/ Germany
Running Time: 120mins








1. 今年HKIFF我第一套看的戲,是個不錯的開始!

2. 其實我對國際政局所知有限,看這類型片子是有點