February 18, 2007

  • 大年初一

    在法國醫院

    陪著祖母渡過最後一段路…

     

    為什麼要選這天?

     

    年初一﹐大清早起床便和爸爸媽媽一起到醫院去見住了院四天﹐還在休克的祖母。

    爸爸家那邊是很大又很傳統的上海(寧波)人家族﹐平時溝通常用上海/寧波話。爸有五個姊﹐但由於我是第一個內孫﹐所以當時祖母對我十分疼愛﹐織了很多毛衣給我﹐又叫我妮妮(音ni ni – 寧波話”囡囡”的意思)﹔而她要我叫她阿娘(音ah nyang – 寧波話”祖母”)﹐但由於我自小咬字不清﹐讀了做”nee nyag”﹐從此我便改不了口﹐到現在都是這樣稱呼祖母。

    小時的我很”貪靚”﹐祖母經常用半上海半廣東話再三叮囑我:
    “女仔靚無用o既!! 一定要叻! 知道未? 最緊要叻!!”

    好一個上海女強人。

    之後這件事﹐是爸爸告訴我的:

    當我剛剛學會說話的時候﹐祖母給我看她的一個鑽石戒指

    “個戒指靚唔靚呀?”
    “好靚呀….”
    “不如阿娘死左之後送俾你呀”
    “阿娘你幾時死呀?”

    我真係一個白痴。

     

    由數年前開始﹐祖母的健康急劇下降﹐右手癱瘓了。一年前起還不能走路﹐要靠輪椅代步﹐看東西也不清楚﹐經常以為我是弟弟。記性也不好﹐不停地問媽媽我找到工作了沒有﹐媽媽每次都要耐心解釋﹐
    “妮妮入左醫學院呀…”

    之後祖母便會對我說: “妮妮﹐快D醫好阿娘啦!!”

     

    上星期二﹐吃完晚飯媽媽突然收到從東莞急急回港的爸爸的電話﹐叫我們馬上到醫院﹐聽說祖母突然暈下來﹐舌頭疆硬了。好像很嚴重的樣子。

    入到病房﹐只見祖母睡在床上﹐要靠氧氣機呼吸。

    “阿娘﹐是我呀﹐妮妮呀。”

    我在她耳邊說﹐但是也沒反應。

    之後四天﹐祖母也沒起來。我照常上大學﹐媽媽照常上班﹐但爸爸放下工作全日留在病房。媽媽下班我放學都會到病房去。

    見著蒼白的祖母﹐我不禁想起以前的日子…

    每個星期天﹐如果不用打棒球﹐我都要和爸爸那邊的親戚飲茶吃飯。當時剛回香港的我把英國車牌換了香港車牌﹐接著那個星期天爸爸便叫我到祖母家去接她來飲茶。平時是爸爸接她的﹐那天祖母一見到坐在司機位的不是爸爸而是我﹐她歡笑著說:

    “我的妮妮長大啦!”

    有一個星期天我有棒球比賽不能飲茶﹐那晚媽媽問我﹐

    “車裡那個Nemo Cushion 是朋友送你的嗎?”
    “是呵﹐為什麼這樣問?”
    “沒有﹐只是阿娘很喜歡﹐下車時緊抱著不放﹐我們不停說是你同學給你的禮物﹐她才勉強把它放回車內。”

    之後那個星期我不用打波﹐在茶樓我把那個Nemo Cushion 遞給她。

    “阿娘﹐送給你的。”

    祖母開心的大笑了﹐又緊緊抱著我。

    之後不停地給媽媽和其他親戚看﹐自豪地大聲叫度﹐

    “快看看!! 是我乖孫送給我的!!!”

    令我怪不好意思的。

    可能平時我不夠孝順﹐才令祖母這麼易對我滿足。

    阿娘﹐對不起。

     

    拜個年後﹐見祖母的情況也算穩定﹐我們便出發去沙田外婆家。

    見到身體健康心境開朗的外婆﹐我自己心情也輕鬆了起來。她興高彩烈地問我要不要飲可樂﹐飲益力多﹐叫我從存盒拿瑞士糖吃﹐還馬上到櫥房煎年糕給我。

    突然聽到爸爸電話一響﹐之後聽他說 “好﹐馬上來”﹐我大約估到發生什麼事。

    真是第一次見爸爸在80km公路上開至120km﹐衝幾個紅燈再過雙白線﹐不理會”No U-turn”的牌後連續切幾條線… 五分鐘由沙田去到九龍城法國醫院﹐我都不得不戴安全帶…

    上到病房﹐見到祖母的傭人﹐五個姑媽﹐表姑媽﹐姑丈們﹐紛紛圍著躺在病床上﹐面上沒半點血色的祖母。病房只聽到哭聲和醫學儀器的必必聲。心電圖上只有寂寞的一條直線﹐陪伴著一堆不再懂改變的數據。醫生說她所有身體機能都停止了。

    討厭自己這個愛逞強的性格。在那麼多人面前﹐我不敢哭。

    我扮醫生上前嘗試摸她脈博﹐但摸到的只有微暖的﹐疆硬的皮膚。

    但是揭開祖母的被單﹐見到棉被下祖母的手抱著的﹐

    便是我送她的Nemo Cushion。

    我終於忍不住熱淚滿眶了。

     

    那個Cushion我會把它和祖母一起土葬。

    I hope you will understand and respect my decision.

     

    今個農曆新年沒有行花市也沒有什麼氣紛。沒想到十多年沒有慶祝﹐第一個在香港過的農曆新年會是這樣的。

     

     一定要叻! 知道未? 最緊要叻

    Grandma, I’ll make you proud. I promise I will.

    rest in peace.

January 25, 2007

  • Family follow up project

    It’s one of the coolest project anyone can ever have in school. It’s compulsory for all CUHK medics, following a child’s growth and development since birth (yes, we all had to spend one whole evening in prince of wales hospital to persuade mothers into joining this project..) until s/he’s 4 yrs old, taking account of his/her home environment, family background, up-bringing and everything related, then we’ll have to write a detailed report at the end of every year. There’re 2-3 students per group (per child), and we have to visit the family at their household at least a few times a year.

    Right, so I’ve just got home from the first Family follow-up visit, took a few pictures

    Baby’s 3 months old now, growing perfectly normally.

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    Take care, ying ying~

January 17, 2007

  • Dear all,

    Just a quick reminder that there’s only 4 days left that my very first book [Panoramized] will be sold in Page one Times Square (Until this sunday, 21 Jan), and there’s only 3 copies left. I will try to add 10 more by Friday if I can still squeeze a few hours out of my tight schedule which now only consists of AMSA, softball, baseball and school work, to DIY a few more book covers.

    For those who’s still interested, but do not have the time to visit page one by this Sunday, please drop me a line so I can reserve a copy for you.

    $83 and 100% of the profits will be donated to one of the organizations I have worked with over the past year (in Ecuador, Namibia, Zambia or Zimbabwe). You guys can tell me your preferences actually, since I haven’t decided and will not donate until everything’s sold

    I gotta admit, I’m more than surprised about its sales to the public. It’s far beyond my expectation, consider it’s my very first book and no one even knows me… I had always hoped to inspire someone, in whatever way, and through this event I wish this has already been achieved. Even better so if an impact, however insignificant, has been made on those who’s read my book.

     

    Thank you for your support, everyone who has bought or read my book,

    and above all, my friends and family, for making everything possible :)

    Lucci Lugee Liyeung

December 31, 2006

  • Heyheyhey
    Check out what I’ve got myself from Japan….

    P1110928

    HAHAHAHAHA

December 26, 2006

  • day 3 + 4

    Yayyyy Hirafu~

    Weather is a hell lot better, too bad some snow started melting… pretty icy at some point…

    Right, something you guys would LOVE to watch, keke:


    Here we go~ a BIG jump ahead…


    Oops, wrong timing…….


    OWW


    OWWWW


    OWWWWWWWWWWWWW


    OUCHHHHH!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!


    I Think I’ve got a broken hip…

    Pelvic girdle hurts….. Don’t care, still boarding tomorrow (Still in one complete piece!!)

December 24, 2006

  • 2nd day in Hokkaido, time for a quick update

    The whole day has been spent on travelling yesterday, arrived the
    resort on about 8/9pm, had dinner then blew water then read some PFOS
    (like 1 slide……….) then slept

    Then, as expected, we kids rushed straight to the mountains first thing
    after we woke up while mom and aunties sit around and drink coffee.
    It…. was….. FREEEEEEEEEEEEEZING COLD UP THERE!! It’s like the
    COLDEST snowboarding day i ever had! Wsa completely numb and frozen on
    the ski lift; tried to bury my face into my scarf fromthe snow storm.
    My brother and cousin said for one moment they thought I was dead,
    haha…

    And I can’t emphasize enough, what I hate most about snowboarding –
    SKIERS who just love to ski sideways, as if they were crossing the
    track — slowly!!

    Anyway, the slopes were really good if it werent that cold, powdery snow, doesnt even hurt when I tumble.
    Don’t worry, I’m still in 1 piece…. 1 complete piece, hopefully, I’ve
    tortured my scaphoid so many times already, Can anyone tell me which
    nerve will be affected? Look for any clinical signs when I come back.
    wahahah

December 22, 2006

  • How many years has it been?

    This year I will be in Hokkaido

    Last year I was in a hospital in Ecuador

    The year before last I was in a primary school in GuiZhou, China

    I can’t even remember how Christmas is like…

    All I want for Christmas is you

December 21, 2006

  • 正常人

    當聽到朋友會去日本﹐

    第一個正常反應:

    “喂! 手信! 手信!”

    點知﹐呢條友仔竟然……….

    “…. 你唔洗買咁多野俾我架啦…”

    吹漲!!!!!!!!

December 12, 2006

  • I’ve waited for so long,

    finally

    I’m publishing my very first BOOK—

    [PANORAMIZED]
    -A panoramic collection of my humanitarian trips to South America and Africa

    A Book made all by myself, not like a part of another book, or a page in a magazine. ALL MINE.

    All those sleepless nights doing all kinds of  tedious editing, scanning, arranging, pai barn, talking to + bargaining with printing/publishing companies etc in the middle of my exams has been much more exhausting than I expected. Fell asleep in front of my dear iMac so many times – on top of a pile of anatomy notes. I do hope they will be well paid off.

    Sorry friends for being kinda anti-social for the past 3 weeks, going home straight away after school everyday and not coming out during weekends, then looking like shit at school everyday. V Show has delayed my work schedule a great deal (excuses excuses…. )

    Well, I realized I havent proof read enough though, since rite after everything’s sent to printing I found quite a few flaws in the illustrations, as well as a significant amount of grammatical errors in the text. I was like wtf-how-could-i-not-notice-that… Well, couldn’t care less now, too tired… Only gonna print 200 copies anyway, this is afterall my sort of experiment to get to know Hong Kong’s market in this field, to understand how it’s like to have a book published. All I wanted is experience for any future work.

    Life as a freelancerXdoctor-in-training is NOT easy

    Anyways, it will be sold at

    Kubrick Bookstore, YMT:
    23 Dec – 3 Jan

    and

    Page One, Times Square:
    8 Jan – 21 Jan

    $98 - profits will be donated to one of the humanitarian organization I’ve joined during the past year. I haven’t really decided which one yet, probably Children International Ecuador: so stay tuned.

     請多多支持

    From today onwards, 100% of my time will be devoted to studying!!

December 4, 2006

  • 繼weekend 的失聲+ Burning Throat + non-stop-lung-collapsing cough and sneezing + waterfall-like runny nose 之後

    今日仲要頭痛+眼乾+發燒 and the list goes on

     

    所以戴左口罩返學﹐俾人叫我收聲。

     

    不過都係做Lab o個時驚

    因為要Take Blood Sample 做實驗﹐我出左去Dook 手指抽血。

    其他人分幾兩分鐘搞惦﹐
    但係一到我….. 唧極都係得o個一滴仔﹐
    用盡九牛二虎之力都唧唔到….

    個Technician 都問…”咦﹐點解你無血o既…..”

    係呀﹐我係有低血壓ga… 仲有低血糖添…

    好啦﹐到咁上下佢都放棄啦﹐用其他人四陪時間先唧到人地一半咁多血…

     

    點知

    我一企起身﹐突然全世界Black Out, 成個人仆左落地。

    唔知係唔夠血糖定血壓太低定血氣唔平衡啦….
    仲要加埋今日病+頭痛

    即時嚇親幾個同學仔…. 真係唔好意思….

     

    起返身就返埋位扒低﹐不過都係頂唔順﹐即刻衝落樓下 Med Can 補充血糖…

    一大杯朱古力奶+蛋撻

    唉﹐以後真係要記住帶+食足夠既Glucose 返學la….

     

    其實類似事件已經唔係第一次發生… 每次穿耳都會﹐打波﹑跌傷又會….. 突然Black out 之後仆地

     

    有時幾驚….

    有無人可以幫下我呀﹐到底我有咩問題呀? 點先可以血壓+血糖高D呀?

     

    最後﹐要感謝今日問候我(唔係爆粗呀….)既朋友﹐

    真係多謝晒~ 我無事o既!!