【 #香港國際文學節 Hong Kong International Literary Festival x 馬米高 MMG】
In my debut book, "The Truest Stories Ever Written by MMG”, I wrote about my own experiences --- not just the good ones, but also the bad ones, and even the terrible ones. Some experiences I wished I never went through, painful as they were because no one likes to relive the moments they felt weak.
Sharing your own stories is not as easy as writing your best Instagram caption. In the process, you stir up a sea of memories by delving into your inner thoughts, according to 'Inside Out'. You find the fragments of the past and the shards you find, even though rusted, are still as sharp as the first cut. Scars are revisited and wounds are cut open again. As I put the pieces of the past together, I hesitated - 'Am I inviting the world to laugh at me? I mean I am naked in my book, literally. But I feel even more naked to let the world see the worst part of me.'
To my surprise, I found that sharing my weakest moment did not put me to shame. When the book was released, the feedback I received was all about how my stories inspired my readers, and how my book empowered them. The power of literature - It can turn someone's weakest moment into the strongest remedy for someone else.
I recommend a powerful collection of stories - #50People50Stories. I AM ASIAN. This book embodies stories collected from Asian communities all across the world. Each story is an important episode of the author’s life. They courageously shared their stories of racism, coming out, self-love, identity crisis, and so many more. In reading this book, I can guarantee you will gain some new perspectives through understanding theirs. What makes the stories even more compelling is that you can reach out to them because their social media handles are at the end of each story. 50 Stories with living proof.
Thank you #HKILF for giving away 10 Festival passes! (Each worth HKD500) If you are interested, please email michaelmammg@gmail.com with the subject 'HKILFxMMG'. First come, first served. For details, please go to festival.org.hk
現在多了作家身分的馬教練,自然要肩負起推動香港文學文化的使命。#香港國際文學節 邀請我推介一本我喜愛的書,最近all in推出的《英文寫真》,當中除了零下10c兩點盡露,去紀錄自己body的巔峰狀態,我亦用文字去紀錄自己大大小小的血淚史,令我對寫作有小小的感想,籍此想跟大家分享。
去分享自己的故事絕對不是容易的事,你要把自己的經歷在原本平靜的腦海中往海底翻土,把散落四周的碎片一塊一塊地撿起來,然後然後發現每塊碎片依然鋒利無比,滿手傷痕地拼砌後寫成一個故事,再把寫成有血有淚的文字公諸於世,給我們這些陌生人窺探他們的生命中的插曲,當中的勇氣更加值得人去欣賞。
我推介這本 50 People, 50 Stories. I AM ASIAN. 收錄了50個來自世界各地不同的亞洲人50個關於自己的故事,雖然他們已經是二、三代移民,但外國人總對亞洲人有着嚴重的stereotypes,矛盾亦來自於自己傳統亞洲的家庭和接受外國教育環境下長大的自己,當中包括種族歧視,追夢的困難,出櫃經歷,移居的煩惱,面對自己生命中的創傷,學去接受和愛自己的過程等等。
50位亞洲作者用的文筆都是最真實的文字,沒有刁僑扭擰的修辭手法,每一篇都像他們日記中撕下來的最重要幾頁。而我覺得最特別的是,每個故事的結尾都有作者的聯絡方法,他們都歡迎任何對故事有共鳴的朋友聯絡他們,更加讓我感受到,每一個都是活生生的故事。
多謝香港國際文學節送出10張Festival Pass(價值HKD500)活動將於11月5號至11月15號舉行,會採用現場直播和線上活動舉辦70項不同文學活動,當中有來自世界各地的作家和演講者!如果想知更多,可以去 festival.org.hk 睇睇。想得到pass的朋友只要LIKE這個post,然後EMAIL michaelmammg@gmail.com,subject註明「香港國際文學節x馬米高」,先到先得!
If you are interested in reading👇
Asian & Loud 50 Stories, 50 people amzn.to/36fRE10
#英文寫真 The Truest Stories Ever Written bit.ly/361sZvk
同時也有1部Youtube影片,追蹤數超過7,590的網紅Lesley Chiang Official,也在其Youtube影片中提到,This was my Goodbye Letter. In 2013, I was on my balcony, writing this song. This was before I realised the severity of my depression. I decided to ...
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living in hong kong writing 在 李怡 Facebook 的最佳解答
Hong Kong awakened this year (Lee Yee)
2019 was an important and meaningful year for Hong Kong; it was also the most important year in my life.
2019 will go down in history. This year, Hong Kong awakened. The awakening was a milestone in a history of 200 years. It was somewhat sudden but not coincidental. It was the awakening of Hong Kong people and it would pass along generations. It would be a path of no return. There would be no looking back.
At the end of March this year, I announced in this column that I would stop writing news commentaries,but bring out a memoir of my life in the days to come.
My life experience are insignificant. Nevertheless, fortunately or unfortunately, I have been living in an era that China, Taiwan and Hong Kong have undergone significant changes. I have been in the highly sensitive media industry, which observes, reports and comments on changes in these three places. I have witnessed the sinking of Hong Kong media, which used to be able to observe and comment on current affairs and politics with much greater freedom than its counterparts in China and Taiwan. The credibility of Hong Kong media has been on the decline because of self-censorship and political correctness in the face of pressure from advertising and on editorials. I have seen how the advocacy of “Hong Kong today, Taiwan tomorrow” has become a statement of caution and suspicion for Taiwan people. In this era of change, my social role, my background, my work, my family and my struggles at crossroads in life are rather unique. I want to leave some enduring marks in my remaining years.
I said this would be my last wish at the age of 83.
But rather unexpectedly, from April onwards, I have been much impacted by the anti-extradition bill protest and no longer had the mood to reminisce about the past. I have been so concerned with everyday happenings that I cannot refrain from writing my feelings and comments on the current situation, and re-examining my ideas in view of the changes in the political scene. I have awakened in many aspects. I have let go of my last wish because I thought that my life experiences were no longer important even for myself.
Lu Xun said: Undoubtedly, I often scrutinize other people but more often, I engage in introspection ruthlessly.” I have also done a lot of soul searching throughout my life and have awakened at different levels, from awakening to socialism and the Communist Party to awakening to patriotism and China. Such awakenings run through my writings. At the age of 80, I had supposed that my ideas and my understanding of the Hong Kong society would not waver. However, the anti-extradition bill protest shook me up totally.
Some months ago, a young writer Lewis Loud asked me in an interview whether I felt running out of time. I guessed he was referring to my memoir. I told him, “Yes, but I will just go with the flow. I have wanted to write a memoir but now I think it’s OK if that cannot be accomplished”. Although we have to be rational in writing politics, men are emotional beings. Our lives, our decisions and our choices are dictated by emotions, not reasons. I find it hard to leave Hong Kong behind because of my emotions; I put aside my memoir also because of my emotions. Things happen right under our very eyes, we are propelled into actions by our emotions. We can resist many things in life but we cannot resist our emotions.
Life is full of uncertainties and so I will cherish every moment and seize the day. To worry that one’s days are numbered, or to think that many are the years to come is equally futile.
A young friend who read the interview suggested that I write my feelings of last year in the first chapter of my memoir and look back at my life from there.
What a good idea! If it is to written, it is going to be an important chapter, a chapter of final awakening. All the elements of this chapter, which were in the commentaries I wrote in 2019, are included in this book. (Preface:Hong Kong awakened – 2019, a milestone in history)
living in hong kong writing 在 Eric's English Lounge Facebook 的精選貼文
Eric's English Lounge 到底在做什麼啊?是補習班嗎?
Recently, I have gotten quite a few emails asking if I do private tutoring. Some have asked if I have a bushiban or run the page with a team. While our readers know we publish English learning posts, what exactly is it that we do?
最近,我收到一些信件,詢問我是否有提供私人家教,也有人問我是否為補教業者或有一個團隊在經營這個頁面。我們的讀者都知道,我們在粉專上發布英語學習的貼文,但我們究竟是做什麼的?
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To be completely honest, I am not sure if there is a category suitable for our page. My current positions are a doctoral student and an educational consultant for e-learning companies and policy makers. In addition to hosting my classes, I use the page mainly to provide free resource and perform charitable activities.
坦白說,我不確定是否有相關的類別適合我們的粉絲專頁。目前我是一位博士生,也是網路公司的教育顧問。除了我開設的課程之外,我主要透過本專頁來提供免費的英語學習資源,並執行慈善計畫。
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I started the page in 2012 as a lecturer and the general manager of an overseas study company, and the aim was to share learning materials with my students. I would occasionally compile information online, edit them, and publish them for free. I started investing more time around 2014 and 2015, and we had about 20K fans at this point. I did not commercialize the page, so people did not know what I was doing (they literally wrote and asked me). I left my position as the general manager, and I was unsure of my next move.
起初,我以海外留學公司總經理兼講師的身份,於2012年設立了這個粉專,以便與學生們分享資訊。我偶爾會整理網路上的資訊並加以編輯,免費與大家分享。在2014年與2015年期間,我開始投入更多時間,當時我們約有2萬名粉絲。我並沒有將粉專商業化,所以很多人確實不清楚我在做什麼。之後,我辭去了海外留學公司的所有職務,但不確定自己的下一步是什麼。
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I did not want to open a test prep center like many suggested. I did not want to sacrifice my ideals to meet business goals, and I felt I could do more to make use of my experience and strengths as a curriculum writer and teacher. I started consulting educational organizations and worked on my own online classes. It was a difficult path because there was simply very little demand for “educational consultants” in Taiwan. I had to carve my own path, and worked with numerous organizations such as ETS-Taiwan and the British Council to do so. Meanwhile, I kept writing and compiling information on our page, and it became arguably one of the largest databanks of free bilingual learning resources in Taiwan.
我知道自己並不想如許多人建議那樣,開設一間補習班。我不想犧牲自己的理想來實現商業目標,而我也覺得可以發揮身為課程編寫者及老師的經驗與力量,做更多的事。因此,我開始為教育機構提供諮詢,並開設自己的線上課程。這是一條艱難的路,因為臺灣對「教育顧問」的需求非常少。我必須開闢自己的道路,並與許多機構合作,像是「ETS-臺灣」以及「英國文化協會」。同時,我持續在粉專上撰寫與整理資訊,而這似乎也讓粉專成為臺灣最大的免費雙語學習資料庫之一。
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It was around late 2016 when I started regularly posting news in English (https://bit.ly/36o3Z1e). I felt that students need to be aware of current events and think critically rather than focusing only on basic linguistic features. While vocabulary and grammar are undoubtedly important to second language learners, there are already ample resources in these domains. Given my interest in international news and years of experience living and working in both Taiwan and the US, I aim to offer language learners a unique perspective in learning. My posts began to cover the news, social issues, and educational editorials. We reached about 30K subscribers around 2018 with this approach.
大約在2016年,我開始定期用英語發布新聞 (https://bit.ly/36o3Z1e)。我覺得學生需要關注時事,並能從不同的角度思考,而非只是專注在語言本身。儘管詞彙與文法對第二語言學習者而言無疑是重要的,但在這一方面已經有相當多的資源。鑒於我對國際新聞的興趣,以及在臺美兩地生活與工作多年的經驗,我想為語言學習者提供獨特的觀點。我的貼文開始涵蓋了新聞、社會議題與教育觀點。藉由此一方式,我們的粉專約於2018年突破了3萬名的追蹤人數。
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Early 2020, we broke 50K fans on FB, and I knew it was time for me to post more regularly. I added two people to my team of one, and we started regularly posting bilingual news, education editorials, posts on empathy, and of course, free English learning resources. We also have periodic giveaways of books and educational materials. Our subscribers now include students, parents, and teachers primarily from Taiwan, Hong Kong, and the US.
2020年初,我們的追蹤人數突破5萬,我便知道是時候定期發布貼文了。我邀請了兩位成員加入這個原本只有我一人的團隊,我們開始發布雙語新聞、教育評論、翻轉視界的系列貼文,當然還有免費的英語學習資源。我們也定期贈送書籍與教育資料。現在,我們的訂閱者包含了學生、家長與教師,主要是來自臺灣、香港與美國。
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Some have advised me to just completely turn the page into a business since we have significant following. However, I have held back from doing so because I view myself more as a teacher and not a business owner or a social media influencer. It is not all about traffic flow and commercialization. In fact, I place many restrictions on commercial cooperation, turning down opportunities to advertise and work with many large language edu companies.
有些人建議我將這個粉專完全轉為商業用途,畢竟我們擁有可觀的追蹤人數。然而,我之所以不這麼做是因為,我認為自己是一位老師,而非公司的老闆或網紅。並非所有的事物都關乎流量與商業化。事實上,我為自己以及商業合作設下許多限制,婉拒了諸多廣告宣傳以及與許多大型語言教育公司合作的機會。
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Currently, Eric’s English Lounge is not a company. I do have online classes through VoiceTube and other platforms, and I do have a team of two editors. However, all other sources of income from collaboration with businesses and influencers on my page are donated to charities in a transparent manner: https://bit.ly/3fKytik. I started this project (http://bit.ly/3990snT) this past year and plan to move the page in a sustainable, non-profit direction.
目前,Eric’s English Lounge 並不是公司。雖然我在 VoiceTube 確實有線上課程,也有一個團隊(我與兩位小編),但其餘與企業或具有影響力的人(influencers)合作所帶來的收益,均以透明的方式捐贈給慈善機構:https://bit.ly/3fKytik。
去年,我開啟了公益講座計畫(http://bit.ly/3990snT),並計劃讓粉專朝著可持續且非盈利的方向發展。
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I hope to provide as much free resource as I can. You might have noticed that I am in my 40s, a tad older than most online influencers. I come from a low-income, divorced family, and I started working when I was in junior high. I became independent when I turned 18, and took numerous jobs just to make ends meet. I am already fortunate compared to many, as I had some remarkable teachers and received aid and scholarships from the government. Nevertheless, it has been a long climb, and this has allowed me to empathize and connect with some disadvantaged students.
我希望竭盡所能地提供免費資源。也許你已經注意到我40幾了,比多數在網路上有影響力的人(online influencers)要稍年長一些。我來自一個低收入的單親家庭,國中時便開始打工。18歲那年我開始獨立自主,從事許多工作以維持生計。與多數人相比,我已非常幸運,因為我遇到許多非常傑出的老師,也獲得政府的補助與獎學金。這無疑是段漫長的過程,但也正因如此,讓我得以更加瞭解那些缺乏資源與引導的人,並與他們有所連結與擁有同理心。
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Thus, this is the general background of the page. In all honesty, our page is still growing and evolving. It is used to provide free resources, to spread ideals of empathy, to do charity, and to sustain myself. I aim to continue using the page to provide educational resources, raise awareness of social issues, and offer students diverse perspectives. These are my current goals for this page. After eight years, Eric’s English Lounge is still going strong. May we all continue to learn, think, and grow together.
以上便是粉專的基本背景。老實說,我們的粉專仍在持續成長。粉專旨在提供免費的資源、提倡同理心、做慈善,並維持我個人的生活。我的目標是繼續藉由粉專為各位提供教育資源,提升社會議題的關注度,並為學生帶來不同的觀點。這些都是我當前對粉專的期許。歷經八年的風風雨雨,Eric’s English Lounge 仍屹立不搖。願我們繼續學習、持續思考,並且共同成長。
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P.S. You know that ERIC stands for Education Resources Information Center, right?
It is an online digital library of education research and information sponsored by the US Department of Education: https://bit.ly/2TzYF5L
Vision & Mission 宗旨與目標: https://bit.ly/2Uo9sAK
Equity in Education 教育公平: https://bit.ly/36qYor4
Developing Empathy 同理心的發展: http://bit.ly/3990snT
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公益講座計畫:http://bit.ly/3990snT
慈善機構捐贈:https://bit.ly/3fKytik
英文學習資源大全: http://bit.ly/2klC66h
living in hong kong writing 在 Lesley Chiang Official Youtube 的最佳解答
This was my Goodbye Letter.
In 2013, I was on my balcony, writing this song. This was before I realised the severity of my depression.
I decided to release this original English version today, not for only mental health and suicide awareness, but also as an act of reaching my hand out to anyone who’s been there, or is struggling now. I felt really alone that night, and I don’t want anyone else to ever feel that way.
You are never alone. There is always hope, always a guarantee that life will get better. I know I say this a lot, but I truly am living proof that happiness is possible after such darkness.
This song is very heavy, and in all honesty, I’m pretty darn scared to share it with you all. Because it’s just too personal.
But I made a commitment a few years ago to share my story in order to help others, and I’ll continue to proudly be a part of this movement. We must talk openly about these things, in order to change the stigma around it.
It is okay not to be okay. It is okay to be struggling.
We’ll get there. Life is oh so beautiful. I promise you!
PS
“3 years later I am here today…”
The end of this song was recorded 3 years after my darkest night (it still took me a while to be ready to share this with everyone), and I am so happy to say NOW? 6 years later! I am STILL here today!!
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Tonight
Composed by Lesley Chiang / Yu
Lyrics by Lesley Chiang
Produced by Team One Sound / Lesley Chiang
Starting to really think
That I am really sick
I’m unhappy everyday
And the only thing that will really make me feel okay
Is if I just keep on lying
“Everything is fine.”
And you are still my man
Don’t ever want nobody to know that our love has ended
I do not know how I have sank so low and
I cannot let go
I’m incomplete
I feel like it is time
As If I had just died
This pain goes on
So endlessly
I have lost my mind
Pathetic little piece of shit
Not even strong enough to face this
I know my place this time
I’m just your fan, a nobody
I won’t stand in your way
Say goodbye tonight
I’m leaving tonight
Our story ends tonight
Tell me, where did I go?
It’s like I’ve lost my soul
I can’t feel the love no more
Is there even a reason why I should keep living on?
So much time has gone
And I still can’t move on
Would it even be a threat
If I say to you that I really just might go and end it?
I should mean more to you
I was right there for you
I still think our break was incomplete
I will give you more time
I’ll reflect and rewind
I will love you endlessly
I have lost my mind
Pathetic little piece of shit
Not even strong enough to face this
I know my place this time
I’m just your fan, a nobody
I won’t stand in your way
Say goodbye tonight
I’m leaving tonight
Our story…
It’s my one last try
To make things alright
My heartbreak ends tonight
3 years later I am here today
Can I just say that
I am still alive
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If you or someone you know needs help, you can call the Suicide Prevention Services 生命熱線 at 2382 2007.
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