"10 minutes, just 10 minutes to go we'll make it, no sweat" "Eight, seven..." "Six, five..." "Four..." "Three..." "Two..." "One!" "Happy New Year!" "The first fatal accident this year happened at 12 midnight in London... two blocks from Trafalgar Square where the 1997 countdown took place..." "Mum, it's Dad!" "Rubbish, it's not your Dad" "Look, it's really Dad!" "Can't you tell it's Dad?" "Shut up!" "It's not him!" "Dad's doing business in Hong Kong How can he be in England?" "But it's true, look!" "This is not him!" "Mum, what are you talking about?" "Look!" "We've got to go to London right now" "This is not true and I am not going!" "Happy new year, mate Same to you, mate" "So, you're saying, that the deceased gentleman was your father... but the woman who was with him at the time of the tragedy... was not your mother" "Well, I mean... yes..." "So, who was she then?" "She's my mother" "Sir, this is the young lady from Hong Kong" "And your father couldn't come either, I suppose" "Yeah" "I'm his son, are you her daughter?" "Are you two related in any way?" "Listen, I don't know him, and he doesn't know me" "Only my mother knew his father and that's about it" "You understand now?" "That's all" "They didn't just know each other, sweetheart" "We checked with the Royal Hong Kong Police... and were informed that they had a joint bank account in Hong Kong... and a house there under both their names" "Their personal belongings" "You may take your respective parent's body home after the autopsy..." "Or you can have the bodies cremated here in London" "But it'll be a lot less complicated and everybody will be a lot less miserable..." "If you have the bodies cremated here in London" "But it's up to you" "God of hope and giver of all comfort..." "We commend to your tender care those who mourn the loss of loved ones" "Give them the peace that passes all understanding... and make them to know that... neither death nor life can separate them from your love" "We have entrusted Raphael and Vivien to God's merciful keeping... and we now commit their bodies to be cremated" "Ashes to ashes, dust to dust" "In sure and certain hope of the resurrection to eternal life... through our Lord, Jesus Christ... who died, was buried, and rose again for us" "To Him be glory for ever and ever" "Amen" "I'd like to go to...138 Pokfulam Road" "What "flam"?" "Quick!" "what's this?" "I can't read your hand-writing" "Driver, please reverse a little" "Miss, this is not even a pick-up zone" "And you have the nerve to ask me to reverse?" "Do as I say" "The meter's leaping anyway" "You'll buy that, Brother?" "I want to go to Hong Kong U..." "What 'You'?" "Hong Kong..." "Hong Kong University" "Hong Kong University, that's a big place" "Step aside, I'll do the talking" "The house is not far past HKU" "Just before Queen Mary Hospital, turn into a downhill road" "And go right up to the end, that's it" "You, remember to lock up" "The house isn't yours alone" "You look so dumb" "Remember to go to the lawyer's office at Prince's Building tomorrow" "Do you know where Prince's Building is?" "It's in Central" "Do you know where Central is?" "Look, I was born in Hong Kong" "I know where Central is, OK?" "If you're born in Hong Kong, don't speak English, show-off" "I hate that girl" "I hate this city I hate this whole damn thing" "What the hell am I doing here anyway?" "That girl is just like this city... a bunch of flashes and inside nothing" "Gotta finish everything as soon as possible and get the hell out of here" "Hong Kong, my ass!" "Well, Uncle Derek?" "Just call me Derek" "Though I'm your Dad and Mum's friend, first name will do" "Then please go on, Derek" "In fact I've known about their affair all along" "Once I was thinking one day" "I'll be handing their divorce cases" "Yeah, Mum says you're most good at divorce cases" "A connoisseur!" "I handle all divorce cases that make cover stories of Gossip Weeklies" "You knew my Dad very well?" "Of course, as well as could be" "We went to university together as fellow Greenhorns, ragged by "Seniors"" "It's like going through the Vietnam War together" "How could I not know him well?" "We are the champions!" "We are the heroes!" "We are the Ricci boys!" "We are the champions!" "Champions are we!" "We are the heroes, always will be!" "Ho Sai Hall girls, pretty and sexy" "Ho Sai Hall girls want to be my wife" "Born beauties, but alas so lonely" "Attracting bugs, rats, cockroaches rife" "Raphael gave all he'd got in doing anything" "Sometimes even the boys felt he's going too far" "That time the Seniors wanted to stub his pride" "They punished him to use 50 dirty words in one sentence... and to yell it out in public" "Every word had to be a swear word, that's tough" "In HKU's history only James Wong," "Andrew Wong and your Dad did it" "Vivien was punished by her Seniors too" "She had to go to a designated store to buy ice-cream... and give to the Chairman of Ricci Hall Association" "She's not allowed to take a ride but to walk back up" "And the ice-cream must not melt" "It was August-September weather!" "You rag freshmen this way now, they'd sure complain" "It's no big deal" "No big deal?" "It's very big deal" "Human Rights Law, Equal Opportunities Commission" "Environmental Protection Department..." "They'd definitely sue your pants off!" "On second thought, if you want to sell the house... you'd better wait till your parents return and confirm by signature" "Lest you two have any arguments again" "But you can put it on the market now" "Ask them to come back when you've finalized the terms" "Well, whatever" "David, remember to take Buster with you when you go" "Maggie, please bring Buster in" "Buster?" "Who's Buster?" "You mean they've even got a kid..." "No, Buster is the puppy your Dad and her Mum kept" "Every time they went abroad they left him with me" "Quiet, don't be naughty" "Why me?" "Why not her?" "Well, "see a man about a dog", right?" "Come on, Buster, be good..." "Hubby, there's a lot of leakage stains S'that so?" "The leak-proof here is lousy" "Wife, d'you think there're termites here" "No, we've lived here so long and haven't seen one termite." "Relax" "But this house is very tattered" "Course not, it's only 5 years old" "The paint on the wall's a bit cracked just whitewash it." "Relax" "Renovating this place will cost a lot" "Course you've got to brush up a bit before moving in" "Madam, this place suits your fancy?" "This place is out of the way, and this shack is worn-down" "Cut the price" "Madam, come on" "It's a quiet surrounding See the beautiful seaview?" "It's hard to find in Hong Kong" "Miss, we're just an ordinary household... buying a house to live in Our kids are small" "This is a remote spot" "Don't ask for too much" "Quiet surrounding and nice view?" "That's good for keeping a concubine, means nothing to us" "Forget it then, We're not selling!" "OK, Miss, meet you half-way, I'll up $0.2M" "Not selling!" "Not selling!" "D'you hear?" "Young man, you're a sensible one How about this shack?" "You heard?" "This shack's not for sale now" "Go shack-up elsewhere" "Let's go, wife Our money's good for any house" "Scumbag!" "People nowadays are so foul mouthed, all babblers" "Yeah, your Mum's hardly a concubine, at most a mistress" "Why don't you dry up?" "So what's your Dad" "Gigolo?" "Paramour?" "Or home-breaker?" "And don't forget your Dad and my Dad were friends" ""Thou shalt not covet thy friend's wife" know that one?" "Don't you try to intimidate me with big words" "How d'you know it wasn't your Mum who seduced my Dad?" "How dare you suggest my Mum's a seducer?" "Say it again and I'll sue you for libel!" "Lunatic!" "I don't know what you are talking about" "Banana, stop speaking English" "It's out of fashion" "Now we go for mother tongue teaching Practice your Putonghua" "Who cares what's fashionable in Hong Kong?" "You ugly Hong Kongers rude and money-grabbing" "I don't know why my Dad would fancy your Mum" "Got to be bad taste!" "I don't know what my Mum saw in your Dad either" "Ioud bugger" "Who're you calling bugger?" "You and your Dad and your dog" "Iimp and loud cur!" "Buster!" "Shit!" "Buster, no!" "Hey, no!" "What a dog!" "Be careful!" "Uncle, please page Room 432 for me" "Just call me Henry" "They've been calling me Henry for 52 years" "432, please come to Reception" "432, please come to Reception" "She seems to be out" "Right, what's the dog doing here?" "He belongs to 432" "I'll leave him here" "Please give him to her, OK?" "No can do." "Dogs're not allowed here" "It's against the rule, you know?" "I don't really care I've enough trouble as it is, you know?" "Young man, relax, I'll figure it out for you, OK?" "Rules are sometimes made to be broken" "Take the female residents in the past, after midnight..." "Henry, please page 432 again Come on now" "What's the hurry?" "You must be courting 432" "What's that?" "432 is the daughter of she who used to be 403" "And 403 was an even more popular girl 613 and 809 of Ricci Hall went up to the roof all the time... to teach her play ball they said" "613 is now in Legislative Council, a fence-sitter" "It's 20 years ago" "Ah, time for dinner" "Dressed like that for High Table Dinner?" "How time's changed!" "Please be seated" "I'd like to introduce our guest speaker this evening..." "Doctor Bernadette Tsui" "The dilemma of a modern educated woman in an ever changing society... is often reflected in the difficulty of forming any positive orientation..." "Comprehendeth I not a single word of yon banana's utterance" "It giveth me fright stupendously" "Fear thee not, for she be nought but a stupendous stupid one" "For you" "Thanks" "What gift doth young hero present?" "It be a thornless rose" "Barn dance on Saturday night, OK?" "Call me and we'll talk about it later" "Your Ho Tung Hall phone is always busy" "Come on, say you'll come" "Go first, hurry" "See you Saturday This flower is a pledge" "It's only Wednesday How can it last till Saturday?" "Put an aspirin in the water everyday and it'll last" "I don't believe it The Medic boys taught you that?" "The English Literature boys did" "It's a deal, OK?" "An aspirin a day, while he is away" "Thank you." "Thank you" "Woolly Susie!" "Hey, Woolly Susie!" "What're you doing here?" "To give you back this dog" "Nuts, it's not mine" "He belongs to both of us" "Buster was kept by both my Dad and your Mum" "He belongs to both parties" "Listen, man's belongings to the man woman's to the woman" "This dog is male." "He goes to the man" "How can you tell he's male?" "I can't even tell if you're a girl?" "What?" "You having male menopause?" "Take him back I don't want him" "Buster!" "Where shall we sup?" "Kwan Yick Street" "Called your Ho Tung girl already" "Really?" "Is she gorgeous?" "Of course" "Look out, a dog!" "Buster!" "Buster's knocked down!" "You hit a pup!" "Get down and look" "Clumsy fool, don't you know how to pedal" "Buster's bleeding!" "What shall we do?" "Is there a vet nearby?" "There's one down in Water Street" "Taxi, I'll call a taxi..." "It's just downhill." "It's faster to cycle" "Can I borrow your bike?" "Sure, take it" "Taxi!" "Go to hell!" "It's just down the road" "Wait for me!" "Come on" "Remember to return after use to Ricci Hall C-9" "Okay." "Okay" "Help!" "You sure you can handle this?" "Yes, shut up" "I'm scared!" "Don't worry" "It's come to, alright Bring it back tomorrow for follow-up" "Sorry to have kept you so late" "It's OK Tell your girl friend to make it rest" "She's not my girl friend" "Sorry, your sister?" "She's not my sister either" "Whatever." "By 1997, everyone's a comrade" "Right, thank you You're welcome" "Buster Baby" "You must be obedient" "Your masters are gone, never coming back" "If you're disobedient, nobody'll keep you, you know?" "Now you're left on your own, you hear?" "Buster, why did they go just like that?" "Without even saying goodbye" "They didn't love you, so you've got all those hang-ups" "Is everything they keep so weird?" "Why do you say that?" "Well, I feel that Buster's just like me" "Ask him to go east, he goes west" "Ask him to eat, he sleeps" "Ask him to sleep, he pees" "Rebellious and obstinate" "Come to think of it, he's a bit like me too" "Cool, tough" "Zero EQ, but full marks in lQ" "And always challenging the existing system" "Enough, enough Don't you know you're exaggerating?" "Is he heavy?" "Let me carry him for a while" "Careful with his leg." "It hurts" "No, I don't want to rush it" "I'll marry you" "He didn't enter, so it should be okay" "But lingering about is risky enough" "When was your last period?" "Mine's very irregular" "Sometimes in 2 months, sometimes 3" "Sometimes even only once in 6 months" "That's bad." "Why did you give way?" "No market value now" "I didn't want to... but hated to push him away" "I only gave half way" "Give him an inch and he takes a yard, the rogue!" "He's got a whole yard?" "It's a saying!" "What d'you mean a whole yard?" "Did you or didn't you do it with him?" "Was it nice?" "Get lost, you nympho!" "Nosy Parker!" "See how nosy you look" "Nosy?" "I'm not nosy!" "You are, Fatso!" "Wake up, time to work!" "It's so damn noisy here all day long!" "I'm starving" "Beautiful, really beautiful Let's have a snack" "Let's go to Water Street for sweet soup" "I'm starving" "Sweet soup, OK?" "Herb and egg tea?" "Ah!" "7001, you're gorgeous!" "Here it comes again" "Everybody says his girl friend is 01 of her class" "What're you looking at?" "Come here" "This place is pretty cool So this is a Mini Hall?" "Yeah, it meets the Hong Kong Housing Department specifications 35 square feet per head" "That's different That's for resettlement areas" "This is a resettlement hostel" "Be satisfied" "Chow time!" "Let's play "Spin The Bottle"!" "What's that?" ""When, Where and With Whom", your first time" "The one pointed at by the bottle must confess!" "When: 18, where: 7-1 1, with whom: sister 13" "Wow, 3 seconds!" "Fastest gun in the west" ""When, Where, With Whom", shoot" "And it has to be me?" "Just your luck Stop whining, talk." "When?" "OK, sweet eighteen" "Where?" "At my place" "With whom?" "Actually it's outside the door of my place" "It's so damn noisy!" "I give up!" "With whom?" "Michael" "Michael who?" "Michael Chang?" "Michael Jackson?" "Michael Douglas?" "Go to hell!" "Nuts, forget it!" "Next" "Spin again..." "Me?" "Speak, "When"!" "I was 20, she was 18" "Who?" "Where?" "The place was her house..." "outside her door" "Outside the door again?" "Well it was outside the door" "With whom?" "I'm Michael" "Your turn at last Yes, big shot?" "OK." "Ready?" ""When"?" "On my 21st birthday" ""Where"?" "A bedroom en suite facing the sea" "How romantic!" "How classy!" ""With whom"?" "Even if I tell you, you don't know her" "Wait, I heard you're only 20" "Can't I plan my next birthday gift for myself?" "You're a virgin!" "Woolly Susie, he's yours" "You're so foxy, fox him!" "Fox him!" "Fox him!" "Fox him!" "Cut the crap!" "Box him!" "Box him!" "Box him!" "I quit, next one" "Down with Japanese militarism!" "Defend the Diaoyutai Isles!" "In today's Diaoyutai Movement everybody may have a halo overhead" "But the same movement in those days was not widely acceptable... because it's impossible then" "Demonstration?" "10, 5 or 3 people that's unlawful assembly already" "Arrests were made every time" "So when you went on one you felt like a martyr" "This sort of thing is unimaginable for people nowadays" "Don't forget the 8 years war!" "Beware another Japanese invasion!" "Defend the Diaoyutai Isles with our lives!" "Don't forget the 8 years war!" "Beware another Japanese invasion!" "Defend the Diaoyutai Isles with our lives!" "Let's go." "Arrest for unlawful assembly leads to a criminal record" "No fear!" "If I join the Police Force" "I become their superior!" "Defend the diaoyutai Isles with our lives!" "Down with Japanese militarism!" "Protest against Japanese invasion!" "Listen, you mob" "Your assembly is unlawful" "You have one minute to disperse" "Or else the Police will make arrests!" "Diaoyutai, ours..." "Ready!" "Charge!" "Yes, Sir!" "Charge!" "Push!" "Push!" "Push!" "Raphael, let's go." "Will you listen to me" "No!" "God damn it!" "Raphael!" "Go, Vivien, never mind them Hurry and go!" "Raphael!" "Let go of me!" "Raphael!" "Hurry and go!" "Never mind them!" "Tiger, have you seen Vivien?" "No, I haven't" "Shut up!" "Let's go!" "The demonstrating crowd has not yet dispersed after dark" "The Police will bring unlawful assembly charges against these 21 demonstrators" "This concludes our report at Victoria Park" "There was great confusion at the scene" "The demonstrators retreated from the Park into the heart of Causeway Bay" "Baby, don't mix up with such impetuous people" "The Cantonese in Hong Kong are trouble makers" "The Police arrested 21 demonstrators altogether" "They are Gus Mok, Ng Chung Yin, Wong Hing Wah" "Raphael Hui, John Sham, Chung Ling Ling..." "Baby, where are you going?" "Your hair's still wet" "Leave me alone!" "Bookie-learner, your wife's here to see you" "We are the best!" "We are the best!" "I was so worried you'd be arrested too" "How's your head?" "Still hurts a little, no sweat" "I brought aspirins for you" "An aspirin a day, while she is away" "Wash it down with a glass of water" "No need." "I'm good in swallowing medicine" "They've confiscated the"Yukio Mishima"" "Says it's Japanese and gives wrong ideas" "Leaving just this "Gorky's Collection"" "They think he's a Chinese named Gor" "Go now." "Girls shouldn't stay here long" "No sweat There're so many cops here, it's safe" "Are you really OK here?" "I'm OK" "You heard them calling me bookie-learner" "All those "ring leaders", "big bosses" take good care of me" "There are many drug addicts here" "When it's urine test time, I substitute my urine for them" "I "pass water" for them, they "carry water" for me" "I provide the urine for the whole detention center" "They take good care of me." "I'm fine" "Ping Ching and Derek couldn't get permission to visit you" "Maybe they've taken their pictures during the demo" "Ping Ching asked you to keep cool" "They also asked me to bring you this sweet soup" "I got it from Water Street" "And this tape" "I've applied for ages to bring it in" "Listen" "I'm going" "Pissing for others?" "I'll beat the piss out of you!" "U boy!" "U boy!" "Hands off, you've got nerve!" "I sentence you, Raphael Hui, to three months' imprisonment... but you will be put on probation for two years" "Dad, let me carry it for you" "Have you signed in this month?" "Yes, I have" "You're graduating in 2 years and you had to get into such trouble" "How can you find a job in future?" "I've talked to my Warden" "He'll help me lift the probation order" "He knows people inside" "In Hong Kong, gweilos talk better with gweilos" "So you understand that" "This is only Hong Kong, why make trouble" "Registered mail, please" "Shut up in your hostel all day, you don't know it's tough outside" "One stamp short and the letter can't get out of the Fragrant Harbor" "Dad, I'll go first" "You're mistaken" "First foor, not ground floor" "What a lousy postman!" "Sorry, sorry" "Dad, I'll continue my study in France" "France?" "What are you doing in France?" "Hong Kong is hopeless" "Go to France?" "You think it's as simple as sending a letter?" "You have money?" "I'll figure it out myself" "Don't worry" "(1971-The Fiery Age for University Students)" "I never thought my Mum's been a revolutionary" "And I never thought my Dad's been in prison" "And just for a far away and remote isle" "My grandpa had fought against the Japanese" "So he'd had a part in World War ll, right?" "My great grandpa was sort of a revolutionary too, fighting the Manchus" "Great grandma said his name's on the 72 Martyrs' Tomb" "So what have our generation ever done?" "9701, you're gorgeous!" "Here it comes again!" "I meant to build a bridge here in Hong Kong" "Every big city should have a beautiful bridge" "In the U.S.A. you've got the Golden Gate Bridge" "In Italy, the Bridge of Sighs" "In England, there's Cam Bow" "Cam Bow, what a nice name for Cambridge I like it" "Where are you going to build this bridge" "Don't know yet Got to look down from a plane... to see which is the best location" "Why don't we go and learn to fly a plane together?" "Good." "And I promise you the first day I've learnt how to fly... we'll fly together that very first day" "So let's go and have lessons tomorrow" "I'm leaving next term" "You really have to go?" "I've made something for you when I was inside" "Your hand?" "See, identical" "The lines of your palm are so complicated" "It's my name!" "My lines of life, Career and Romance... are all composed of your name" "Come" "Where to?" "Don't you want it very much?" "Don't be silly" "Maybe next time" "Raphael, it's me" "What time is it at your end?" "Can't hear?" "Can you hear now?" "How are you?" "I'm very well over here, you hear?" "Is your job over there tough?" "The job's fine, fine" "Anybody making soup for you?" "Sure, smoked oysters with octopus and pork bones" "What bones?" "Pork bones" "Did I wake you up?" "I told you not to move out of Ho Tung" "Couldn't find me?" "Yeah, my boss is a jerk" "Every time there's a call for me he says I'm not in" "How are you?" "When are you coming over?" "Soon, I've got many jobs in hand" "Two private tutoring, two evening schools." "Please wait for me" "Stand in for me tonight, please" "Thanks, I'm counting on you" "Please" "Paris, 3 minutes, Raphael Hui" "Raphael, it's me" "You haven't called for so long" "I'm very busy these days, no time even to eat" "Really?" "I thought you've had another girl" "No, you hear?" "The French girls here are ugly" "They don't shower, just spray perfume" "Don't be silly, OK?" "But when are you coming back?" "You've taken so long" "Well it takes that long to read Architecture" "Why don't you come over first?" "I can't." "The way my Dad is how can I go away?" "Why don't you try to understand my situation?" "You keep saying I don't understand you, d'you understand me?" "I've told you I won't come back without a degree" "This I'm determined" "I say so and it'll be so" "Hello?" "..." "What?" "Hello?" "..." "Say something, there's no time" "You don't make a sound, it's wasting money" "Next time..." "I'll..." "I'll call you again when I've saved enough money" "Substitute" "Tutor them for me I'm going to evening school" "Hello" "when your grandpa passed away, your Mum didn't say anything" "She just went on studying and took up 7 part-time jobs... making $700 a month" "$700 was quite something in those days" "I know, she very much wanted to go to France at that time" "But she never mentioned it, not a word" "Pity my Mum didn't go to Paris" "Or else she'd have reunited with your Dad" "Wouldn't that be nice?" "But you can also say it's a pity my Day went to Paris" "If they hadn't parted, wouldn't it be even better?" "If that's the case, then wouldn't you become my brother?" "I guess so" "Who wants to be your sister?" "Who wants to be your brother?" "If that's the case, that's tragic" "If, if, how can there be so many if's?" "Baby, that young man's not bad" "Good guys are hard to come by" "Granny, it won't work" "Why not?" "Cause he's Raphael's son" "So?" "What's wrong with that?" "Granny, he says he won't have girlfriends until 30" "Thats sensible A man won't mature until 30" "Take your Mum's case" "If she'd met Raphael later... wouldn't it be nice?" "But these things are hard to say" "Sometimes it's too early, sometimes too late" "Who knows?" "Just like the English word you just mentioned." "What was it..." "You mean, 'Timing'?" "What 'ming'?" "It's T-l-M-ing, Granny" "Ah, T oo-lncomprehensible-Mystify-ing" "Today we practice pronouncing plosive sounds" "Paste the strip on your nose and repeat after me" "Ping as in pingguo (apple)" "Ping" "Pin as in pinbo (strive)" "Pin" "Pin as in pinqiong (poor)" "Pin" "Pan as in panwan /yearn)" "Pan" "In 5 years Hong Kong will return to China's sovereignty" "If you don't grasp the time to learn Putonghua... by 1997 you'll lose out in all aspects" "You are all top executives of large organizations" "I'm sure you understand this and I need not say more" "OK." "Next, who'd like to try?" "OK." "You then" ""The 7th month of 1997"" ""The silly month of nineteen ninety silly"" ""Hong Kong Special Administrative Region"" ""Hong Kong Special Apprehensive Region"" "Not"Apprehensive Region", "Administrative Region"!" ""Apprehensive Region"" "Try again Yes" ""Si Shi seized the sail and sailed the seven seas"" "See See See See See See See" "We are the best" "Have you been seeing the old classmates?" "I heard that Ho Tung Hall will soon be torn down" "Yeah, but Tiger and her gang had all emigrated" "Two-thirds of my classmates are gone" "Even Mum has gone to Vancouver... and taken an English name called Nancy" "Sounds like a dance hostess" "She flies between here and there, free as the wind" "Well, all the emigrated Riccians have come back" "There's no place like Hong Kong" "There are so many opportunities here" "Is Ping Ching in Vancouver?" "No, he's in Toronto" "He says there's more business over there" "He works as an immigration lawyer there He's doing fine" "How about your wife?" "She's in New York with our son" "Both of them don't like Hong Kong" "Having got the passport, they didn't want to come back" "And you?" "How about you?" "I live at my Mum's place" "My daughter's keeping me company in Hong Kong" "I want her to have a good grounding in Chinese" "But I've also got an advertising company in Shanghai" "So I'm always travelling between Canada, Hong Kong and China" "And you?" "Have you seen any old friends?" "Sometimes" "I see the university guys more often" "And the revolutionary ones..." "less" "Why?" "Mao Zedong said, "Revolution is not giving dinner parties"" "Now I'm often giving dinner parties for my clients" "Revolution..." "I guess I'm a revolutionary renegade" "After all, revolution comrades are mostly momentary hotheads" "Friends at university, however, are slow water that runs deep" "Ladies and Gentlemen" "Let's welcome my old friend Raphael Hui to sing for us" "No, Paul, you sing" "No way, didn't you sing this song every time you're here?" "Let's give a big hand for a lovely beautiful song..." ""Try to Remember"!" "This is Mrs Hung." "Is Ping Ching there?" "Mrs Hung, Mr Hung's gone to a meeting in Kingston" "Thanks" "Vivien, it's me" "Are you interested in learning to fly with me?" "OK, Raphael." "We'll just check the oil" "Undo that, just bring it out far enough How much is it?" "Five quarts?" "Yes, that's correct" "So just pop it back in again" "Take out some gas watch its color, then smell it" "If no water's got in then it's OK" "Be especially careful with the propeller" "It might have been hit by rocks and has cracks" "That will affect the safety of flying" "OK, I get it" "Clear prop!" "Hong Kong Tower, Cessna India Golf, with information Charlie... request taxi to light aircraft holding point" "India Golf, you are cleared to light aircraft holding point" "QNH is 1007" "Hong Kong Tower" "Hotel November, taxiing to the holding point" "Raphael, we need to stop just behind India Golf" "Tower:" "Cessna India Golf ready for departure runway 13" "India Golf, runway 13" "Your are cleared for take off" "What?" "It's impossible" "No drain pipes at all, and you call it a skyscraper?" "Raphael, what is it?" "It's outrageous!" "Every time I go up to see it, it's not ready" "Well, now the whole building's erected... there's no sewer pipes toilet pipes or water pipes... whole building no pipes!" "Ah, no-pipe building!" "Shit!" "No wonder you're mad" "You can't win They've got the upper hand" "I'll draft a new contract for you and call the municipal council" "We'll sort it out, OK?" "Thanks" "Happy hour?" "No "happy hour" for me, I'm dining in" "Going home?" "Yes" "Going home?" "Yes, going home" "When did you become so well-behaved?" "I'm going home, you have a happy time" "Foget it, Mr Hui, experience the vicissitudes of life" "You mean"viscosity"of life?" "I'll pack up and leave Really, not tonight" "Hello?" "Hello?" "Hello..." "Hello?" "I just can't get these few notes right" "Never mind, take your time" "There's no time." "I've promised Mum that I'll return to the U.S... after selling the house and watching the hand-over ceremonies" "Is there anything you want to do before you go?" "I'll keep you company" "I..." "I don't want to wait until I'm 30" "Come over here" "Look at this one. she suits you, the Prom Queen" "What Queen?" "Queen of puddings?" "No way, too far" "Don't be too choosy" "There are 8 universities in Hong Kong now" "Quality's average" "How about this one?" "She's the model wife type" "That one's gorgeous" "Which one?" "That one, beside the Lily Pond" "She's gorgeous?" "Yeah" "Really gorgeous?" "Very gorgeous" "OK, I'll go get her for you" "The one standing by the pond!" "Yeah, the one by the pond" "A bit more, more to that side, right" "Good, that's it" "OK" "You really got the pillar box at auction" "Yeah, the goddamn Cultural Center" "Even stolen goods are priced so high" "How much?" "$25,000" "That's expensive!" "Only nostalgic dinosaurs like us will buy such things" "When my Dad was a postman" "$25,000 was 5 years' wages for him" "I think this looks like the one outside Ho Tung Hall" "It really looks like it... the pillar box where I sent you letters everyday" "Vivien, look" "All the letters I sent you!" "20 years, all here" "They'd gone round the world, finally returning to Hong Kong" "Let's put them all back in" "1973, go back in" "This one..." "It's your birthday, remember?" "Is that so?" "And that one" "This one?" "Yeah, Valentine's Day Right" "And this one, another birthday card I sent you" "Yes, I still remember that winter I received this..." "Rephael!" "Raphael!" "Surprise!" "Surprise!" "It's a pity Ho Tung Hall will soon be torn down" "We've grown up together with her" "Together we lost, together we won" "Now, let's relive the joys and sorrows of those days" "Recognize yourself?" "So young and strong" "We'd better break up" "You've said it many times" "This time I mean it" "As you please" "All the classmates are back" "When I see them..." "I feel so guilty" "Then go home and be a good wife" "From the very beginning I wasn't a good wife" "Nor a good lover" "I'm going" "From now on, you needn't call him furtively behind my back" "And you needn't find excuses yearly not to spend your birthday with me" "And Valentine's Day..." "Moon Festival..." "Christmas..." "New Year..." "I hope you won't forget... each day that we were together... was so happy, and I loved you so very much" "Then I hope you'll remember the days when we're apart" "I love you most when you're not by my side" "Looks awful!" "Raphael, have you seen Vivien?" "No, I haven't" "Where have you been?" "Just looking around" "Why are you here?" "What are you doing here?" "I remember that year..." "greenhorns raiding the gong" "You Riccians grabbed our gong right here" "Who's the one who grabbed it that year?" "It's so long ago, I don't remember" "D' you remember?" "No, was it Derek?" "Of course not!" "It's Raphael who grabbed it from Vivien" "Don't think I've forgotten" "Let's go" "What's to become of us?" "Don't worry too much." "It's no use anyway" "When we were students, we thought we could control everything" "Now we know nothing's up to us" "That's true" "But one thing I can be sure about What?" "I'm sure we'll both get our pilot's license next week" "Let's fly together then" "Next Sunday's your birthday Let's fix on that day" "Good." "We'll train up and fly out of Hong Kong together" "Yeah, where do you want to go?" "I want to fly to England" "To look at the Thames from up above" "Flying from bridge to bridge all the way to Cam Bow..." "Ladies and Gentlmen another private pilot!" "Drinks are on me today!" "Cheers!" "Vivien" "Happy birthday!" "Raphael's present for you" "Where is he?" "He can't make it He's got business in Mainland" "I know." "His wife's suddenly come back" "But today's my birthday" "And the first time I've learnt how to fly" "And our first time to fly together" "He promised me" "Let's go!" "Derek, does Raphael really love me?" "Yes, of course" "So does he love his wife too?" "Well, it's like this...he..." "You mean he does" "Can't say he doesn't" "Put it another way, you can't say you don't love Ping Ching" "How come a person can love 2 people at the same time?" "Even a clever one like you can't answer that" "Sis, if I can answer... how come a person can love 2 people at the same time..." "I'd have got the Nobel Peace Prize before Nelson Mandela" "Good answer!" "I've got my license today and can take passengers" "Hop in" "Come on" "Are you scared?" "You're such a nice guy, too bad I don't love you" "Please stop talking... and concentrate on flying I'm really very scared" "Take care of Buster for me" "I'm going to a meeting in England" "After that I'll stay there and have a break into the New Year" "You'll be over there into 1997?" "Yeah" "You're leaving Raphael behind?" "Tell him I'm through with him" "Tell him not to look for me" "If we go on like this I'll go crazy" "I think my Mum wants to be buried with your Dad too" "This should be the best way" "Yeah, I think you're right" "Let's get Uncle Derek to help He knows many people" "I checked already The biggest one is sixteen inches... and shoots up two thousand feet... and stays there 20 seconds Pretty cool, huh?" "20 seconds?" "Yeah, that's long, right?" "Well, my Mum's loved your Dad for over 20 years" "I miss Dad again" "It's just daybreak, who are you calling?" "I'm calling Dad" "David..." "Listen" "Hello, this is Raphael" "I can't answer your call right now" "Please leave your number and I'll call you back when I return" "We've made it look so nice, and we have to leave" "It's really beautiful" "Give me the books and records" "You can take the plants and goldfish to your hall" "What a pity" "Soon as we make them lively they have to leave this home" "Never mind" "Buster, you'll live with granny from now on, you know" "You've finished composing this song?" "Yes" "This number is in memory of my days in Hong Kong" "I dedicate it to you" "Thank you" "What's the title?" "I haven't named it yet Let's use your name" "OK" "Actually, what's your Chinese name?" "Cam Bow" "Why?" "It sounds awful?" "My Mum gave me this name" "If it sounds awful, let's use your name" "No, I'm also called Cam Bow" "My Dad chose it for me" "When...when's your birthday?" "I won't tell you" "In an hour's time, Hong Kong will return to Chinese sovereignty" "There'll be a fireworks display, the largest ever, in Victoria Harbor" "Many citizens have come to the waterfront to take up vantage points since noon... making both sides of the harbor overorowded with spectators" "Hurry, there's a crowd We'll be late, quick" "Have you brought everything?" "Yes" "Sorry we're late, Derek" "You almost didn't make it This is Samcon" "Here's your pass." "Come with me, quick" "Hong Kong should have its own separate trading and financial system..." "The establishment of the Hong Kong Special Administrative Region... is a celebrated event for the Chinese Nation..."