Hong Kong Park (4)

The "artificial lake" in HK Park. That's Murray Building in the back.

Before I started, the teacher asked, "Are you going to remove the building and draw a sky instead?"

I said, "No, the building is the focus too."

Teacher said again, "How can the building, the trees in the centre and the person in the front all be the focus?"

I thought, "Only you said ther person is the focus. She's only a 'side-kick' for me".

Westlife - You Raise Me Up

A two-hour sketch, obviously not my expertise

Hong Kong Park (3)

The path from to the bridge to Citibank Tower, where I walk through every morning.

Every week at drawing class, some classmates would come and say "嘩！好靚呀...張相。" (Wow! It's beautiful...I mean the photograph.) [I took lots of pictures of HK Park for this painting project.]

失業綜援碩士生 VS 納稅人

這兩天因為「失業綜援碩士生」的報導，我聽了幾次「我都有份納稅，佢唔係咁洗我D錢嘛？」

自 問只是普通人家，又無樓，不用（直接）交差餉。雖然每年要交兩個月人工的稅，但我相信仍然不足以支付我每天使用的道路的維修和清潔費；街燈和紅綠燈的電 費；每天上班時經過的香港公園的保養費；花了$200買了一個全家全年入場證便經常參觀的康文署博物館的策展及保養費；當我懷疑鄰居發生家暴事件後報警， 前來調查的兩個警員的人工...還未計算偶然仍然會使用的公共醫療，甚至兒時的免費教育、學童保健、交通津貼...

有時，我也會認為自己交的稅款比我的負擔能力高。只是，我亦不認為交了稅的人就一定比沒有資格交的人強。

一個紀錄 (P.S. 陸永好好多)