Saturday, June 23, 2012

Anti-hegemony/Duanwu Fest

During this Duanwu Festival, we're gonna do this anti-developer hegemony musical in two different public housing estates in Tuen Mun and Tai Po.

And you know what?
 
FOUR more illegal structures were discovered at CY's home on the Peak.

How ironic.

Anyway, I'm gonna sing and dance in memory of our patriotic poet Qu Yuan.

"Qu was said to have advocated a policy of alliance with the other kingdoms of the period against the hegemonic Qin state, which threatened to dominate them all. However, the king fell under the influence of other corrupt, jealous ministers who slandered Qu Yuan and banished his most loyal counselors. It is said that Qu Yuan returned first to his family's home town. In his exile, he spent much of this time collecting legends and rearranging folk odes while traveling the countryside, producing some of the greatest poetry in Chinese literature and expressing fervent love for his state and his deepest concerns for its future.

In 278 BCE, learning of the capture of his country's capital, Ying, by General Bai Qi of the state of Qin, Qu Yuan is said to have written the lengthy poem of lamentation called "Lament for Ying" and later to have waded into the Miluo river in today's Hunan Province holding a great rock in order to commit ritual suicide as a form of protest against the corruption of the era."

(http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Qu_Yuan)

So, once again, this ironically reminds me of Li Wangyang, who was no less patriotic as Qu Yuan. While Qu Yuan was believed to have committed suicide to "protest against the corruption of the era", Li Wangyang was mysteriously "suicide-committed" probably because of his "protest against the corruption of the era".

-_-

Tuesday, June 19, 2012

For the Record

1. Yes, call me a Christian who's struggling with homosexuality, or a homosexual who's struggling with Christianity, or just simply "gay". I'm proud of who I am because I believe that I'm much more than just my sexual orientation or my religious background or any kind of "labels" given by others.

2. Yes, both my mom and my dad are cancer survivors, and I can't be more proud of them just because of that.

3. Yes, I've stopped attending church services, prayer meetings, and cell group gatherings since August 2011, plus I've been getting some counselling since then. Deep down inside, I still wish to believe that God's still here, and that God still loves me, and, yes, I still pray to God once in a while.

:)