Eighteen Thumbs Up!

Celtics didn't play very well with Lakers last night. It's the first game of NBA Finals and they will still be playing in Los Angeles coming Sunday for Game 2, and then back to Boston for next Tuesday and Thursday's Game 3 and Game 4. Although I have been a supporter of Lakers for years, I still would play devil and support Celtics during the game as some of the Celtics players are very good players. One of them worth mentioning is Nate Robinson who is only 5 feet 9 Inches tall, and 180 pounds. He always plays with great passion though some audience may find him a bit dramatic. Cheer up Celtics, Lakers is very strong, but you still stand a good chance to defeat them and make history!

It was beautiful sunshine yesterday and this morning is a little cloudy. The mild temperature makes my sleep even deeper and I didn't wake up until 8:35am. Esther doesn't need to work today and after the freshing up, we ate our breakfast. The angel cake made by Katherina is so beautiful and tasty that the last piece is being consumed and settled with it's tasteful memory. (*Thank you Katherina!) By 9:30am, I am already set for the telephone interview planned with famous and experienced local radio host of AM1320, Mr Lo Ka-Lai. On a row, we recorded two episodes, each of about 20 minutes long (for a program of 30 minutes in total), and a short break for each 10 minutes. Due to the good preparation of Mr Lo, and his skillful leadership during the interview, the recording went very smoothly. The two episodes will be aired on 13th June, and 20th June, 2010, both on Sunday, at 4:00 - 4:30pm, at Radio AM1320 in Cantonese. Now it becomes our tradition that I titled today's posting as Eighteen Thumbs Up! Thank you Mr Lo Ka-Lai, thank you Pavic and Jennifer, thank you for your continuous support in this Blogger and of course, like you said, I do hope all these "positive energy" can keep growing and reproducing themselves, until the day our community is fully filled with the positive energy.

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Today is June 4th, for most of the Chinese who borne before the 80s may still remember what happened 21 years ago in Beijing, or now simply called "Tiananmen Incident". Time may be able to wash away some of our memory, but some of the memories simply more difficult to be washed away. It was little hard for me to forget our marching to the Xinhua News Agency in Wanchai under typhoon signal No.8 (and later reduced to No.3). Our body was wet from head to toe and from outside to under. We set in the middle of the road, blocked traffic in both directions and holding our fists high up in the air, against the strong wind and rain, and shouting with full lung. We later, in another event, joined millions other to walk to horse-racing track inside Happy Valley. We were sitting among strangers but all were there for the same objective. There were no seats and we simply put out butt on the grass. We sang songs and shouted slogans with our full breathes. None of these could change what was happening in Beijing. After a few sleepless night and in the early morning of 4th June that we learned about the incident and what happened in Tian An Men, which is now part of our history and memory. May the dead ones rest in peace. You surely died with a clear and meaningful purpose!

This picture has won a lot of news photo award, but yet no one can identify and finally found the guy standing in front of the line of tanks. The power of this picture is more symbolic than actual, a human being with human fresh has the gut to stand in front of the troop of tanks to stop them doing something disastrous. Imagine the courage of this man, or some may rephrase it as mere stupidity. Once your will power lead your thoughts and behavior, miracles can happen! Never under estimate your ability. If you think you can, you can! And people will remember! We will remember!