The Snow

by Elgar from Britain (op26)
O snow, which sinks so light,
Brown earth is hid from sight,
O soul, be thou as white,
As white as snow
O snow, which falls so slow
,Dear earth quite warm below;
O heart, so keep thy glow,
Beneath the snow.
O snow, in thy soft grave
Sad flow’rs the winter brave;
O heart, so soothe and save,
as does the snow.
The snow must melt, must go,
Fast, fast as water flow.
Not thus, my soul, O sow
Thy gifts to fade like snow.
O snow, thou’rt white no more,
Thy spark’ling too, is o’er;
O soul, be as before,Was bright the snow:
Then as the snow all pure,
O heart be, but endure;
Through all the years full sure,
Not as the snow.
http://www.musiceducationworld.com/choral.html
http://www.musiceducationworld.com/files/The_Snow_-Brighton-Michael_Griffin.mp3
http://www.dwschorale.com/audio/-The_Snow-2.mp3
初起,小提琴音拉出滿地雞皮疙瘩的蕭瑟
潔白的雪花覆蓋大地初生的靈魂如雪一般純潔
斂藏在白雪底下的是大地心臟般雀躍等待春發的搏動
心在孤獨與等待的墓穴中得到救贖
而雪終究是要融化倏忽逝去如我的靈魂消失嗎?
不,雖然不再雪白但靈魂的光芒仍在
如淬煉後的靈魂如雪,依然潔白卻不稍縱即逝
Quoted from http://chinghwa65.pixnet.net/blog/post/20549396
Our School Choir performed it in the Annual Concert when I was in Form 3 (or 4?) and engaged in the performance.Elgar expressed the loneliness, sadness and cycling of lifes in the song strongly. My memory recalled after I've listened to Plane performed by Jason Mraz. Their sadly feeling resonated me. Stress burdened on me increasingly, I should find my way out. Work hard for A Level!

聽音樂

自宿營回來，愛上了聽歌。聽Plane十餘多次，那悲憤歌聲不斷與我的心境共鳴。香港現代濫情的歌曲我一定沒有興趣。原來世界還有眾多繞樑之音，待我發現。

香港當代的流行曲都不錯，起碼字正腔完，吐字清楚，還可以學到中文呢(準備會考高考的大都相當功利)。

基督宗教之心理功用

宗教可使人對事積極樂觀，也有助建立良好之品格如仁義禮智；信望愛等。

祈禱
與自己溝通，透過靜心反思，從而思索得答案或問題之解決方法，解除壓力，得到「平安」。
查經聖經充滿了人生哲理，都導人向善，尤著重謙遜,希望，有助人積極面對逆境。與查論語之功用類同。

彌撒/團契/崇拜
音樂，如詠唱等可使人愉快。
重要的社交場所:鄰社互相問候關心，免除失落造成之傷感。同輩交往得到認同,建立歸屬。

有人表示到「平安」,得到積極樂觀之人生觀，良好之品格，是神的緣故。此言無從考據，因無人能証明或否定神存在。

可以肯定的是這些宗教活動，有助人樂觀。

若有人通過反思、閱讀人生哲理、交友、音樂、運動等，而得到積極樂觀之生活。他還需要信神嗎? 其目的在?

本文並不詆毀任何宗教。皆因不少人仍須從宗教才能得到樂觀的境界。

請參閱李天命, 《哲道行者》之神秘樂觀篇。

良心

人之初，性本善？有人稱辦別是非的能力為性善或良心。是否建基於長遠利益上呢?姦淫擄掠，大家都會視為錯的，因為這損害大部分人的利益。

寫日記

我要寫多些日記，就算一句都要，已經不單是練習表達寫作，而是有太多想法沒有時間記錄。Too much work, not enough time. 我浪費了初中，除了讀書上課外，沒有做其他。沒有入校隊玩運動，操體能，足球傳波無力，不慬控球，中二己沒有再接觸。籃球水皮，不慬過人。游泳三十秒完成不了五十公尺。小提琴學到四級停了，仍不能辨音。沒有去圖書館發摒更多知識，沒有看球賽，甚至到現在球星、歌星，大都不通。很少打機，不慬Winning 、Warcraft，AOC到現在仍不能十八分升城，當然Lf2,Sim city, Flight Simulator 都識少少。我想學很多課外活動，然而會考佔據了我大部分時間，高考只剩下半年時間，將佔據我更多。我要做更多事,做更多..............

AYP Camp -Lost

Came back from the Camp. I exposed to a whole new world just like electric beam crossed my mind. It was interesting to chat with people who didn't meet before, discuss with groupmates of unfamiliar with. Most activities were satisfactory.

My group was a little bit shy which also have least members, two girls often talked themselves, one boy isolated himself, listening to mp3 player. Still we got a very helpful boy and a talkative girl. We allocated our cooking work efficiently, every group member had to prepare for the group a meal, all were delicious although one was a little bit unhealthy. The talkative girl was very creative, she composed a poem as our group slogan, beside chatted a lot, however with other group, had very good Cantonese pronunciation( found out many mistakes from me, what a shame). The helpful boy contributed the group a lot, like did washings, gave meaningful suggestions, of course I did so too. However, our group didn't cohere well, which was a flaw.

The OC member prepared the camp well, especially the detective game, their plays were lifelike. The base games on the second day were creative like betting for someone being able or not and biding for BBQ food. We had to use our game point to bet whether someone could do something like drinking 6 glasses of water in 1 minute or having 40 clothes-peg on face. Then we used those point earned to bid food for BBQ. These activities provided chances for us to really chatting with each other. Also it is excitning to bid food that only the clues but not the namesof the food were given, so we had to guess it.

After the campfire, 3 boys and me talked a lot in the bed room. We discussed many interesting topics. I haven't been so excitiing and relaxing for a year.

Overall, the quality of the activities were satisfactory, although someone disliked the campsite, I thought it was acceptable. The most important thing is : I met really good friends.

E-field

今天八時起床，然後去了荔枝角游泳，等圖書館開放後溫習。經過一天的努力我做完物理電場的MC及structural Q! 我終於找到高考的溫書方法! 先看一課,然後將該課所有題目全做。

八月十三日計劃

明天我要做完Phy note e-field 及溫完bio bk1,有時間看埋論語看觀古今。

懶

Ben終於去完Orientation Camp了，我們又可以繼續打羽毛球。從早上七時打到八時，大家都沒有練習一週了，結果又生疏了，擊球乏力。本來我可以立即去游泳，又或在家中溫習一會，結果拖泥帶水，十一時才出門到荔枝角圖書館，再次被Shek Kip Mei Myth所吸引，三時下午茶當正餐，之後又要去石峽尾做義工。結果又沒有溫到書。>=< 只餘下十八天！

快醒來

近來愈來愈遲起牀，明知暑假快將完結，溫書時間所餘無幾，每朝醒來拖拖拉拉就沒有了很多小時。終於到了圖書館，過自修室門前又不願入，到了隔壁的浩瀚書海尋尋覓覓。今天不知何解拿起本講香港房屋史的Shek Kip Mei Myth看到關門，明知與高考沒有關係。時日無多！

澳門遊

Ben昨天表示今天將到澳門。於是我毅然決定請母親陪我去。早上趕忙起牀為了乘撘八時船，早餐也沒有吃，奈何遲到，不能跟Ben同一班，只好乘八時一刻船。經過一小時多青山
綠水的風光船程，高速船緩緩減速駛進外港碼頭。第一次踏卜澳門土地，感覺有的像到內地。碼頭鋪上色沉悶的白色瓷磚，圍上疏糼的白漆鐵欄，再加上巴士總站的混
濁空氣及單層老舊的巴士，如果沒有繁體字的指示和左行的汽車，兩地也相當難分辨。其後，我們倆續去不同的地方，終於發現澳門的特色了。
我們乘巴士從碼頭到澳門巿區，景色漸變，起初見到一大片荒廢的雜草地上偶有零星破舊的工廠及廢車場，接著建築
漸多，大路兩旁是灰色六七層高的商住樓宇，尤如馬頭圍。向城中心推進，建築歷史越為長久，然而它們的保養則越
來越好。新路兩旁聳立古老的維多利亞式建築，精雕細作的粗柱樑，磗砌的圓拱的走廊及窗戶，如邸政局，民政總署
，以及錯落分佈的多古老大教堂，還有有鬆上各種顏色的古老唐樓，其向街的騎樓及幼鐵枝的窗枝皆保留原狀。沒有突兀高樓大廈破壞景觀，一整區都劃一高度。就連街道也於九三年重新鋪上精緻的白色碎石。城巿充滿生氣。
你也可在這裡可以找到不少仍保留六七十年代格局的馬賽克地板，七彩繽紛幾何瓷磚裝潢的冰室、咖啡廳。我經過一間經營數十載的中藥店，本在門口拍照，好客的老板居然讓我在櫃枱內拍攝，不勝感激，對談得知政府甚至為此店設計郵票。也許政策是保存澳門文化的重要元素。
我細看這充滿文化的巿區，是充滿活力的西環，不，這就是澳門議事前地。我期望香港也有這樣的一天，希望這並非奢望。

送友

Gary八月二日將過洋到美國升學。大家朋友多年當然為他安排活動歡送。於是．我跟Ben 安排好時間跟他羽毛球，再約踏單車。祝君順利