有人要求喺屋企步行範圍內先做

文中的僱主說應徵者：「有人要求喺屋企步行範圍內先做。」

記得當年在中途宿舍實習要跟進一個個案，服務使用者希望找一份活動助理的工作，自力更生，不需繼續領取綜援。可是，她對工作的地點卻很揀擇，遠一點的，連申請的意慾也沒有。當時我簡直暴跳如雷：「又話自力更生？左揀加揀，世界邊有咁美好？」

見過幾次面之後，我開始明白她的想法：一個活動助理月薪$5,000；外出工作要在外面午膳（中途宿舍包三餐，但沒有人會包起飯菜「帶飯」返工）；多轉幾次車交通費便更昂（當時宿舍的地點有點不方便）；中途宿舍也要交租…，其實薪金已所剩無幾，難免要斤斤計較。

在最後一次的 supervision，我把自己的想法告訴 supervisor（宿舍的主任）。記得她當時微笑者對我說：「你終於也學懂與服務使用者同步，只有這樣才可以做一個好社工。」

小老闆咆哮：請李卓人收口

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謝安琪 - 女人KING 第六集 - 絨裡手套 (ATV 10/4)

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謝安琪 - 女人KING 第四集 - 孭帶 (ATV 27/3)

I have a love-hate relationship with these plaster figures

HK Scenery (1)

Let's walk away from HK Park and oil painting for a while.  This is the Heritage Museum with colour pencils and pastel.

HK Park (5)

Yes, I know the windows at Murray Building are way bigger than real.

Yes, I know I paint the HK Park as if it's a forest.

謝安琪 - 女人KING 第三集 - 朱古力 (ATV 20/3)

謝安琪 - 女人KING 第二集 - 雞毛掃 (ATV 11/3)

謝安琪 - 女人KING 第一集 - 衣車 (ATV 6/3)

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)

"Constance" and her pet

... walked from my old phone to the new one.

Happy New Year, Happy New Year!

A new eraser for a brand new year, and bye bye to an old pencil.

This one...

isn't quite done yet, but I give up.

All drawing classes will break till 2011. Finally have my Saturdays back for other purposes.

Hong Kong Park (2)

This is the oil painting of the previous pencil sketch. I think it looks more like a forest than a park.