很久没有排这样的戏。
又歌又舞又演。。。
Friday, October 31, 2008
Thursday, October 23, 2008
BEN: 大卫必佳的心声
很多人对Michael Jackson最熟悉的歌应该从专辑Thriller 或 Off The Wall 开始。
Billy Jean, Beat it, 还有他那让人惊叹不已的Moon Walk舞步，强劲动感的节奏，到现在，你看那些Bollywood的歌舞片，还能看到MJ的影子。
当然MJ的私生活，还仍是许多人残酷笑话的材料。
我最喜爱MJ的歌曲是他在1972年唱的Ben。那时他才14岁，BEN是他的第二张个人专辑。11岁就已出道，但是唱片行却骗说他才9岁，制造出一个小天才的假象，让人以为可爱的小不点却能唱出如此动人的歌曲。
看到他那清纯的样子吗？据说年纪小小的他，常被爸爸虐打。在一次的访谈中，他吐露了那时小小的他，常常感到无比的孤独。
BEN 这首歌是一部有关老鼠的电影主题曲，说的是一个很孤独的男人Willard，却非常喜爱老鼠，而其中一只老鼠名字就叫BEN。Ben喜爱他的主人，但是后来嫉妒其他老鼠更获williard喜爱，而要害死 Willard.
孤独的孩子，唱 着孤独的老鼠的心声，尤其感人。
每次听到这首歌，小孩的嗓音，充满很多的渴望，很多的寂寞，让我的心隐隐作痛。
Billy Jean, Beat it, 还有他那让人惊叹不已的Moon Walk舞步，强劲动感的节奏，到现在，你看那些Bollywood的歌舞片，还能看到MJ的影子。
当然MJ的私生活，还仍是许多人残酷笑话的材料。
我最喜爱MJ的歌曲是他在1972年唱的Ben。那时他才14岁，BEN是他的第二张个人专辑。11岁就已出道，但是唱片行却骗说他才9岁，制造出一个小天才的假象，让人以为可爱的小不点却能唱出如此动人的歌曲。
看到他那清纯的样子吗？据说年纪小小的他，常被爸爸虐打。在一次的访谈中，他吐露了那时小小的他，常常感到无比的孤独。
BEN 这首歌是一部有关老鼠的电影主题曲，说的是一个很孤独的男人Willard，却非常喜爱老鼠，而其中一只老鼠名字就叫BEN。Ben喜爱他的主人，但是后来嫉妒其他老鼠更获williard喜爱，而要害死 Willard.
孤独的孩子，唱 着孤独的老鼠的心声，尤其感人。
每次听到这首歌，小孩的嗓音，充满很多的渴望，很多的寂寞，让我的心隐隐作痛。
Monday, October 13, 2008
The Wickedest Doing Good
"Capitalism is the astounding belief that the most wickedest of men will do the most wickedest of things for the greatest good of everyone. "
John Maynard Keynes
金融风暴到今天，还在狂风扫落叶。
不知道多少人的身价财产已经被卷入无底黑洞内。
现在听到的谴责都针对因为资本经济的放任自由，造成现在的惨淡局面。大家也纷纷指责银行的贪婪。星期天一千多名新加坡人，去了芳林公园示威，要求政府介入。
记得当年，政府曾鼓励民众把积蓄拿去投资，并保证新加坡的银行体系的健全。
我去银行时，发现很多的柜台服务人员不遗余力的推销。一位在银行工作的朋友告诉我，她在柜台工作，备受上司的压力。银行认为储蓄利润少，所以要柜台服务人员尽量推销投资产品，而柜台服务人员的工作表现，酒以兜售多少投资产品为绳准。于是，柜台服务人员不得不努力的兜售。当然，兜售时，更不忘提醒，产品能带来的利润，而且会比储蓄来得丰厚。当顾客觉得有兴趣时，柜台服务人员就让投资顾问来服务顾客。投资顾问（而不是投资产品销售员）这个名字取得真好。仿佛就是为顾客的利益而给予意见。这个名字却匿藏了这项服务的终极目标：销售产品，增加银行利润。
是的，Keynes的话，言犹在耳。
现在发生事情了，而且又是和政联有莫大联系的银行，政府却没表现立场。可怜民众的钱可能一江东水。
昨天，听到的是，国际舆论纷纷要求自由市场需要更多的监督。然后听说，英国政府将会出资拯救英国的四大银行，并会取得银行百分之五十的股份。
自由市场现在出现了政府的干预。以保护民众的利益为理由，经济资源又回到了政府的手上。现在，政府的力量更大了。反讽的是，现在的情，仿佛是资本主义的失败，社会主义的崛起，一如马克思所预言。只是，少了群众的革命，但却看到肇事者，毫无损伤，还大捞一笔。
John Maynard Keynes
金融风暴到今天，还在狂风扫落叶。
不知道多少人的身价财产已经被卷入无底黑洞内。
现在听到的谴责都针对因为资本经济的放任自由，造成现在的惨淡局面。大家也纷纷指责银行的贪婪。星期天一千多名新加坡人，去了芳林公园示威，要求政府介入。
记得当年，政府曾鼓励民众把积蓄拿去投资，并保证新加坡的银行体系的健全。
我去银行时，发现很多的柜台服务人员不遗余力的推销。一位在银行工作的朋友告诉我，她在柜台工作，备受上司的压力。银行认为储蓄利润少，所以要柜台服务人员尽量推销投资产品，而柜台服务人员的工作表现，酒以兜售多少投资产品为绳准。于是，柜台服务人员不得不努力的兜售。当然，兜售时，更不忘提醒，产品能带来的利润，而且会比储蓄来得丰厚。当顾客觉得有兴趣时，柜台服务人员就让投资顾问来服务顾客。投资顾问（而不是投资产品销售员）这个名字取得真好。仿佛就是为顾客的利益而给予意见。这个名字却匿藏了这项服务的终极目标：销售产品，增加银行利润。
是的，Keynes的话，言犹在耳。
现在发生事情了，而且又是和政联有莫大联系的银行，政府却没表现立场。可怜民众的钱可能一江东水。
昨天，听到的是，国际舆论纷纷要求自由市场需要更多的监督。然后听说，英国政府将会出资拯救英国的四大银行，并会取得银行百分之五十的股份。
自由市场现在出现了政府的干预。以保护民众的利益为理由，经济资源又回到了政府的手上。现在，政府的力量更大了。反讽的是，现在的情，仿佛是资本主义的失败，社会主义的崛起，一如马克思所预言。只是，少了群众的革命，但却看到肇事者，毫无损伤，还大捞一笔。
Sunday, October 12, 2008
快乐吃了我
最近看到一个广告。
这个广告的概念其实不新。以前也有类似的广告。
番薯快乐地进入厨房工厂，愉快地被刀子削成一片片的薯片，享受着被撒上盐（怎么伤口不会痛呢？），包装后，满怀的希望被人类大快朵颐。
画面的颜色鲜艳，配乐轻快，原来番薯这么的希望被吃，原来番薯一生下来，便悉天命，知道自己就是人类的腹中物，功德无量！
刺激消费的欲望，被合理化并转化成这么残酷的意象，也凸显人的自大。人一厢情愿地笃信自己是主宰世间万物的上帝，万物皆是为人类而存在。
有时想，人处处想要了解这世界的一切，目的不是因为对一切现象的敬畏，而是希望有朝一日能控制一切。
人越想要控制，却忘了，自己也是这个现象的一部分。恐怕，最需要了解的不是外在现象，而是人。
这个广告的概念其实不新。以前也有类似的广告。
番薯快乐地进入厨房工厂，愉快地被刀子削成一片片的薯片，享受着被撒上盐（怎么伤口不会痛呢？），包装后，满怀的希望被人类大快朵颐。
画面的颜色鲜艳，配乐轻快，原来番薯这么的希望被吃，原来番薯一生下来，便悉天命，知道自己就是人类的腹中物，功德无量！
刺激消费的欲望，被合理化并转化成这么残酷的意象，也凸显人的自大。人一厢情愿地笃信自己是主宰世间万物的上帝，万物皆是为人类而存在。
有时想，人处处想要了解这世界的一切，目的不是因为对一切现象的敬畏，而是希望有朝一日能控制一切。
人越想要控制，却忘了，自己也是这个现象的一部分。恐怕，最需要了解的不是外在现象，而是人。
Friday, October 10, 2008
I HAVE LOST EVERYTHING BUT I HAVE NO REGRETS by JB JEYARETNAM
An Excerpt of the Introduciton to
MAKE IT RIGHT FOR SINGAPORE
published in 2000
by Joshua Benjamin Jeyaretnam
I have, as a result of going into politics, lost everything. I have no bank account to speak of and do not own any property in Singapore nor hold any stocks or shares in any company. My practice has suffered as a result of my entering into politics way back in 1971. I drive a car but it is one that my son has lent me. I count it as the Grace of providence that I have not been detained and made to spend long years in prison like Mr Chia Thia Poh who spent 23 years in prison and often in solitary confinement.
This book is my humble presentation to the people who in any democratic society are the final judges of what is good for the society they live in. The speeches have one constant theme running through them. That in any democratic society it is the members of the society - the people - who matter.
That they should determine collectively the good of the society and not have it determined for them by anyone above them, however benevolent.
That the society as a whole should take responsibility for its affairs and participate in the making of decisions that affect them.
That power belongs to the people and the government only exercises powers delegated to it by the people.
That the people are the masters and not the government which is only a servant of the people.
That if this does not obtain in any society it ceases to be a democratic society and the people are reduced to being slaves in their own country. Slaves have no say in what their master ordains for them.
It follows that in every democratic society, the individual matters, however lowly he may be. The dustman is as much entitled to his dignity and the rights to preserve that dignity as the highest person in the land is.
These rights which have been termed human rights are inalienable and no person should be deprived of them even in the supposed interest of the community. It is a blot on the community even if one person is deprived of his rights.
It is only by protecting the rights of every single individual that the community as a whole is protected.
The rights are those that are necessary to the full development of the individual's dignity as a human being.
The rights to housing, education, medical care, food and clothing. Besides these material rights, are those inalienable rights but no less important. The right to liberty, freedom from arbitrary arrest, to think, to speak his mind, to associate with his fellow beings in speaking together, to move freely and the right to live his life without fear under the law.
To know what the law to which he has agreed through his elected representatives prohibits him from doing and to live his life fully without transgressing the law. That he can only be deprived of any of his rights after it has been proven to him that he had broken his contract with his fellow members of society.
Deprive a human being of these inalienable rights and you make him less than a human being however well off he may be materially.
A person loses his dignity if he is not allowed to think and give utterance to his thoughts whether alone or in the company of others. I am a passionate believer in all these. We are at the highest level of creation when we have taken on the image of God.
The speeches scan the period from June 1997 to November 1999. Although a full Parliament was in place in January, Parliament did not meet until the end of May. The government functioned without Parliament. In a parliamentary democracy government takes its authority from Parliament but in Singapore the government was constituted and exercised power before Parliament was sworn in. This was also the position after the 1988 and 1991 elections..
The right to justice is an integral part of human rights. Indeed it is justice that protects and safeguards human rights. I am concerned at some unhealthy trends in Singapore in the administration of criminal justice - the part of justice which protects human liberty and freedom. It is a concern that many lawyers in Singapore share.
It is my hope that Singaporeans may find some inspiration in my speeches. Although, as I said, I have lost everything. I have no regrets.
My reward has been the esteem I have met everywhere I go in Singapore and that is something no amount of money can buy.
I thank God that he has given me the health and strength to render such service as I have tried to from 1971.
- J.B. Jeyaretnam (1926 - 2008)
MAKE IT RIGHT FOR SINGAPORE
published in 2000
by Joshua Benjamin Jeyaretnam
I have, as a result of going into politics, lost everything. I have no bank account to speak of and do not own any property in Singapore nor hold any stocks or shares in any company. My practice has suffered as a result of my entering into politics way back in 1971. I drive a car but it is one that my son has lent me. I count it as the Grace of providence that I have not been detained and made to spend long years in prison like Mr Chia Thia Poh who spent 23 years in prison and often in solitary confinement.
This book is my humble presentation to the people who in any democratic society are the final judges of what is good for the society they live in. The speeches have one constant theme running through them. That in any democratic society it is the members of the society - the people - who matter.
That they should determine collectively the good of the society and not have it determined for them by anyone above them, however benevolent.
That the society as a whole should take responsibility for its affairs and participate in the making of decisions that affect them.
That power belongs to the people and the government only exercises powers delegated to it by the people.
That the people are the masters and not the government which is only a servant of the people.
That if this does not obtain in any society it ceases to be a democratic society and the people are reduced to being slaves in their own country. Slaves have no say in what their master ordains for them.
It follows that in every democratic society, the individual matters, however lowly he may be. The dustman is as much entitled to his dignity and the rights to preserve that dignity as the highest person in the land is.
These rights which have been termed human rights are inalienable and no person should be deprived of them even in the supposed interest of the community. It is a blot on the community even if one person is deprived of his rights.
It is only by protecting the rights of every single individual that the community as a whole is protected.
The rights are those that are necessary to the full development of the individual's dignity as a human being.
The rights to housing, education, medical care, food and clothing. Besides these material rights, are those inalienable rights but no less important. The right to liberty, freedom from arbitrary arrest, to think, to speak his mind, to associate with his fellow beings in speaking together, to move freely and the right to live his life without fear under the law.
To know what the law to which he has agreed through his elected representatives prohibits him from doing and to live his life fully without transgressing the law. That he can only be deprived of any of his rights after it has been proven to him that he had broken his contract with his fellow members of society.
Deprive a human being of these inalienable rights and you make him less than a human being however well off he may be materially.
A person loses his dignity if he is not allowed to think and give utterance to his thoughts whether alone or in the company of others. I am a passionate believer in all these. We are at the highest level of creation when we have taken on the image of God.
The speeches scan the period from June 1997 to November 1999. Although a full Parliament was in place in January, Parliament did not meet until the end of May. The government functioned without Parliament. In a parliamentary democracy government takes its authority from Parliament but in Singapore the government was constituted and exercised power before Parliament was sworn in. This was also the position after the 1988 and 1991 elections..
The right to justice is an integral part of human rights. Indeed it is justice that protects and safeguards human rights. I am concerned at some unhealthy trends in Singapore in the administration of criminal justice - the part of justice which protects human liberty and freedom. It is a concern that many lawyers in Singapore share.
It is my hope that Singaporeans may find some inspiration in my speeches. Although, as I said, I have lost everything. I have no regrets.
My reward has been the esteem I have met everywhere I go in Singapore and that is something no amount of money can buy.
I thank God that he has given me the health and strength to render such service as I have tried to from 1971.
- J.B. Jeyaretnam (1926 - 2008)
Sunday, October 05, 2008
700,000,000,000
700,000,000,000
这个天文数字是来填补贪婪的人留下来的漏子。而，这只是美国要付出的代价。欧盟也正在担心几时风暴会袭击欧洲。到时，还不懂又要投入多少的钱。
有人指银行贪婪。也有人指责政客也逃不了关系。
最可怕的是，即使钱砸下去了，也不能解决金融界里的问题。
这几十年来，资本主义的抬头，带起了投机的风气，无止境的消费，肆虐的贪婪。
每个国家都投入了这样的一个循环。大家都知道，没有经济，没有消费，这个世界就运行不了。但是，大家也知道，这样的耗费，世界迟早就会玩完。
可是，好象也回不了头。
大家都深陷泥泞。能做的就是，尽量拖延末日的到来。
这个天文数字是来填补贪婪的人留下来的漏子。而，这只是美国要付出的代价。欧盟也正在担心几时风暴会袭击欧洲。到时，还不懂又要投入多少的钱。
有人指银行贪婪。也有人指责政客也逃不了关系。
最可怕的是，即使钱砸下去了，也不能解决金融界里的问题。
这几十年来，资本主义的抬头，带起了投机的风气，无止境的消费，肆虐的贪婪。
每个国家都投入了这样的一个循环。大家都知道，没有经济，没有消费，这个世界就运行不了。但是，大家也知道，这样的耗费，世界迟早就会玩完。
可是，好象也回不了头。
大家都深陷泥泞。能做的就是，尽量拖延末日的到来。
Wednesday, October 01, 2008
JBJ
很多次在地铁站外面看到他。
不知道是不是错觉，总觉得他长得很高的。屹立在熙攘往返的人群中，兜售着“铁锤”报。远处看，他真象是一只
‘铁锤”。
有人跟他买，还叫他在报上签名。他笑了，笑容有点腼腆，和传闻中，报章上的报道，PAP的渲染，有很大的出路，没有咄咄逼人的感觉。或许，只有面对不公义时，他才会变得强悍。只见他低下头，签了名，然后再跟那人说了几句话后，他的动作变得大而有力。“铁锤”正在挥舞着他的生命，让人生敬生畏。
我看着找他签名的那个人：身体有点退缩，不知道为什么当初要找他签名。或许常在电视上看到他，或许是因为同情，甚至怜悯这位老人家多次遭到当权者的羞辱，所以就伸出同情的手。但是，当直接面对了他，却被他吓着了。
被温驯的新加坡人碰到了这么顽强的斗志，总觉得哆嗦。
如果他是胜利者，这样的斗志就被渲染成是一种崇高道德式的付出，接受并敬仰，是大体。可惜的是，他没有成功，甚至多次的被羞辱。新加坡人面对了他，因此显得如此的局促不安。看到他，就觉得内心里那处被叮着了。所以，在他面前，我们总显得过于渺小。于是，以同情和怜悯的心对待他，这样，大家会好过一点，也没那么的自卑，也算是一种补偿。
他看到了找他签名的那个人的窘态。他点点头，那人微笑，然后走了。
”铁锤”继续兜售他的报纸。
昨天，他走了。
今天，我们哀悼。我们到底哀悼什么？哀悼他壮志未酬？还是哀悼自己。哀悼，我们没有他一样的勇气？还是哀悼，连情感转移的对象都没有了。
十分钟后，一切会恢复正常。而且，从此以后，没人会在你回家时，在地铁站外提醒着你，抗争的斗志是不分失败者或是胜利者的。
不知道是不是错觉，总觉得他长得很高的。屹立在熙攘往返的人群中，兜售着“铁锤”报。远处看，他真象是一只
‘铁锤”。
有人跟他买，还叫他在报上签名。他笑了，笑容有点腼腆，和传闻中，报章上的报道，PAP的渲染，有很大的出路，没有咄咄逼人的感觉。或许，只有面对不公义时，他才会变得强悍。只见他低下头，签了名，然后再跟那人说了几句话后，他的动作变得大而有力。“铁锤”正在挥舞着他的生命，让人生敬生畏。
我看着找他签名的那个人：身体有点退缩，不知道为什么当初要找他签名。或许常在电视上看到他，或许是因为同情，甚至怜悯这位老人家多次遭到当权者的羞辱，所以就伸出同情的手。但是，当直接面对了他，却被他吓着了。
被温驯的新加坡人碰到了这么顽强的斗志，总觉得哆嗦。
如果他是胜利者，这样的斗志就被渲染成是一种崇高道德式的付出，接受并敬仰，是大体。可惜的是，他没有成功，甚至多次的被羞辱。新加坡人面对了他，因此显得如此的局促不安。看到他，就觉得内心里那处被叮着了。所以，在他面前，我们总显得过于渺小。于是，以同情和怜悯的心对待他，这样，大家会好过一点，也没那么的自卑，也算是一种补偿。
他看到了找他签名的那个人的窘态。他点点头，那人微笑，然后走了。
”铁锤”继续兜售他的报纸。
昨天，他走了。
今天，我们哀悼。我们到底哀悼什么？哀悼他壮志未酬？还是哀悼自己。哀悼，我们没有他一样的勇气？还是哀悼，连情感转移的对象都没有了。
十分钟后，一切会恢复正常。而且，从此以后，没人会在你回家时，在地铁站外提醒着你，抗争的斗志是不分失败者或是胜利者的。
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