Jamie
Childhood Memories
Cuisine
Dim Sum (點心) and hotpot, the latter especially in winter. Cliché Hong Kong answer, truly. Our family ate dim sum almost every weekend when I was young. We had a habit of over-ordering, and leaving the restaurant more stuffed than we’d like. Dim sum is what I call “happy food” (like desserts, or seafood, etc.); I love pulling out almost bite-sized food from the bamboo racks, a perfect size for myself without having to share.
My dad and I had our special dish, spicy chicken feet (鳳爪) that only the both of us (aka more for me) would eat. The rice dumpling (珍珠雞) was never short of being divine, seasoned sticky rice with an aromatic trace of lotus leaf. We also didn’t finish without barbecued pork buns (叉燒包), even though most of us, except one, could do without it; somehow, dim sum isn’t a completed event until the buns are at our table.
Not all that Chinese cuisine offer can make it to my top 500, but some do represent home, regardless of where I eat it.
From Forever Friends, by Cookies
記得當天一起唱著[告別校園時]
那些愉快動人琴聲
仍像奏到面前 讓我輕閉著眼睛
記住同學每張臉 這感覺 彷彿更新鮮
這天翻開這本記念冊再想到你
小心用膠紙封了錶 來讓我更希冀
若照片有日退色 你在文字裏給我
好天氣 應該也很美
曾共你天天相對 失戀也一起
共你擔心功課 趕不到限期
班房裏放影機 逐格愉快記憶
在倒退 讓我看真你
明日我翻開筆記 即使記不起
學過數理經濟 通通都拋棄
一想到你筆跡 或滿載我記憶
在心裏沒有忘掉你
得到過 我心中有你
若有一天翻開記念冊 你可會笑
有些造作一點句子 其實心絲不少
my pen is blue，my friend is you
今天再看 也可使我微笑
Graduation
We sang Forever Friends for our Grade 6 graduation. The melody and lyrics are reminiscent of my childhood years and the decade we grew up in. Listening to the song again, I find it possesses a pastel-y energy, something many Chinese songs embody. I didn’t know the song when we sang it, yet for some reason it has stuck with me. Somehow, the melody still gives me a sense of momentary ease. It’s funny, because lately I’ve been thinking about my grade school friends from time to time, whether I should connect with them, or see what they’re up to etc. I do know that we’ve gone very separate ways after graduation, and I’ve bumped into one classmate a few times since. I’m curious to know where everyone has gone…
