{"id":1804,"date":"2014-02-20T00:55:14","date_gmt":"2014-02-20T00:55:14","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/web02.carmelss.edu.hk\/buddingwriters2\/archives\/1804"},"modified":"2015-05-24T07:10:15","modified_gmt":"2015-05-24T07:10:15","slug":"a-letter-to-myself2","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.carmelss.edu.hk\/buddingwriters\/archives\/1804","title":{"rendered":"A letter to myself"},"content":{"rendered":"\n

23rd<\/sup> Nov, 1967<\/p>\n

Dear Chris,<\/p>\n

\u00a0<\/p>\n

How\u2019s life? Wonder how you feel when you see this letter. I\u2019m You from the sixties of Hong Kong. I was accidentally transported from your time to the past.<\/p>\n

How\u2019 re mom and dad?<\/p>\n

\u00a0<\/p>\n

Well, I\u2019m now in the year of 1967. That\u2019s the year before the birth of mom. But I\u2019m still struggling in finding grandpa and grandma because the sixties is such a turbulent period of the town. You know, what\u2019s happened here recently? Riot! The Hong Kong 1967 riot\u2019s just ended here. People against the British Government clashed violently with the Police Force from May to Oct. Half year long and 52 people died! So till now I can still hardly find any trace of grandparents.<\/p>\n

\u00a0<\/p>\n

I\u2019m now working at a factory producing plastic flowers. I carried boxes of products from day to night. I guess I\u2019m much muscular than you. Ha! The job is boring anyway. But life here is interesting. Every day I meet lots of people speaking different languages. Many of them are from the Mainland, like my friend Wen Shen. He comes from Wenzhou. I could barely understand what he meant when I first saw him. Let\u2019s say, the word \u201cfly\u201d in Putonghua should be \u201cfai\u201d. But he always pronounces it as \u201cbee\u201d. You see, language barrier! Some of the people also come from the UK., but I seldom meet them. You must know why if you don\u2019t have the brain of pea. Ha! Here I can also see lots of things I\u2019ve never seen before, like the rickshaws and hand-made leather shoes. I can also try to use the old telephone, which I have to turn the plate on it to make a call. Everything here seems to be weird and old-fashioned, but at the same time fresh to me.<\/p>\n

\u00a0<\/p>\n

People here are nice, though. Unlike Hong Kong in the 21st<\/sup> century, we\u2019ve very close relationship with each other. If you lack anything, you can definitely borrow it from anyone living next to you. We even share the toilet and kitchen. We dine together, play together and enjoy watching TV together (well, not many families can own one!). You know who is Chan Po Chu? She\u2019s the main character of many movies here. She\u2019s so charming and pretty. Many children here regard her as their idol and like collecting her pictures. Ah! Wenshen also got some. That\u2019s why I always call him \u201cBig Child\u201d.<\/p>\n

\u00a0<\/p>\n

By the way, I dislike the hygiene here. It\u2019s so poor. Every night, I can hear mice walking on the roof. Scary! I was also extremely scared of the cockroaches at first. But now, I can bravely hit them with my super ,yellow, slippers. You just imagine how many \u201c Siu Keung\u201d \u2019s could change a human being like that. What\u2019s more, people here are not that hygienic. They know nothing about \u201csterilization\u201d. They use soap only once a day. Yep, they never wash their hands after using the toilet and before having a meal! Awful, isn\u2019t it? I dare to say it\u2019s related to the low education level here.<\/p>\n

\u00a0<\/p>\n

Oops\u2026 It\u2019s time for work. I\u2019m afraid that I\u2019ve to stop here. Remember to study by heart. Really. If you don\u2019t want to do my job, listen to me. Good luck!<\/p>\n

\u00a0<\/p>\n

Best wishes,\u00a0<\/span><\/p>\n

Chris in the 60s<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"

2r<\/sup>Nov, 196<\/p>

Dear Chris<\/p>

<\/p>

How\u2019s life? Wonder how you feel when you see this letter. I\u2019m You from the sixties of Hong Kong. I was accidentally transported from your time to the past.<\/p>

How\u2019 re mom and dad<\/p>

<\/p>

Well, I\u2019m now in the year of 1967. That\u2019s the year before the birth of mom. But I\u2019m still strugglin.........<\/p>Read More<\/a>","protected":false},"author":14,"featured_media":8474,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_acf_changed":false,"footnotes":""},"categories":[1],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-1804","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-uncategorized","language-en","classlevel-others","schoolyear-35"],"acf":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.carmelss.edu.hk\/buddingwriters\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1804","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.carmelss.edu.hk\/buddingwriters\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.carmelss.edu.hk\/buddingwriters\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.carmelss.edu.hk\/buddingwriters\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/14"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.carmelss.edu.hk\/buddingwriters\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=1804"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/www.carmelss.edu.hk\/buddingwriters\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1804\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":3372,"href":"https:\/\/www.carmelss.edu.hk\/buddingwriters\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1804\/revisions\/3372"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.carmelss.edu.hk\/buddingwriters\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/8474"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.carmelss.edu.hk\/buddingwriters\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=1804"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.carmelss.edu.hk\/buddingwriters\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=1804"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.carmelss.edu.hk\/buddingwriters\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=1804"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}