杭州觀察（十一）

 

馮儁熙

 

二零零四年一月十二日

 

期末札記

 

期考終結，又是收拾行裝，回家過節時。終於可以在香港過年啦！在劍橋三年，每逢春節，總有一份遊子的感覺。雖然友善的同學們會懂得對我說： “Happy Chinese New Year!”，愛好音樂的朋友們會出席我們的Chinese New Year Concert，但畢竟早上鬧鐘響起時，我還是要準時起床穿衣，不是去拜年「逗利是」，而是去聽課。

 

回家了，行李中是一本又一本的書。小時候，爸媽怕我不愛看書，常常帶我去書店買書；如今，卻是怕我買得太多，家裡新添置的書柜轉眼又滿了。那時候，媽媽怕我不專心溫習，總是叫我其他事情別理會太多；現在，卻要對我說：「讀了這麼多書，總有一天要考慮一下找份工作，就算不帶錢回家，也要能養活自己才行啊！」過去，父母鼓勵我要培養多方面的興趣，要做所謂的 “All-round student”；今天，他們卻憂慮我興趣太多，因而事業方向不明。我一日未「出身」，他們的退休日子就會是遙遙無期……幸好，我家算是有重視知識的傳統，所以可以容得下我這個只愛鑽牛角尖，不愛幹實事的人。

 

無論如何，這個學期在杭州的生活擴闊了我的眼界，也讓我有一個明正言順看「課外書」的機會，對我來說是一個恩典。日常生活中也會有不開心、無聊、煩惱，以致懊悔的時候。但這也是人之常情。總之，把握現有的機會，努力以赴就是了。

 

求你指教我們怎樣數算自己的日子，好叫我們得著智慧的心。（詩篇９０：１２）

 

互勉之。

 

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Observations in Hangzhou (11)

 

Isaac Chun Hai Fung

 

12th January, 2004.

 

Notes at the end of semester

 

The end-of-semester examination has finished. It is again the time to pack up and go home for the festival. Finally I can spend Chinese New Year in Hong Kong! For three years in Cambridge, I always had a feeling of away from home during Chinese New Year. Although friends in university were so friendly to me and remembered to say, “Happy Chinese New Year!”, and those who were fond of music would attend our Chinese New Year Concert, when the alarm clock rang in the morning, I still had to wake up and get changed, not to visit relatives and receive the red pockets, but to attend lectures.

 

Going home. In my luggage, there are piles and piles of books. When I was small, papa and mama were afraid that I did not enjoy reading, so they often brought me to book shops to buy books; now, what they were afraid of is that I bought too much and that the newly bought bookshelves are going to be filled up very soon. In those days, mum was worried that I did not pay attention in revision and always told me not to bother other things; now, she has to tell me, “After spending so many years as a student, you have to consider going to find a job one day. Even if you don’t bring any money home, you still have to earn enough to take care of yourselves!” In the past, my parents encourage me to develop interests in various aspects and become a so-called “all-round student”; today, they are worried that as I have too many interests, my career prospect is uncertain. As long as I have not yet entered the job market, their day of retirement will still be rather remote….Fortunately, my family can be considered to have a tradition of attaching importance to knowledge, so they can tolerate such a person who takes pains to study something useless but does nothing practical like me.

 

At the end of the day, my life in Hangzhou this semester has broadened my horizons, and give me a chance to read “extra-curricular books” properly. It is a grace to me. There would also be time in daily life that is unhappy, bored, worried or even regretful. But that is normal. In short, what I can do is to seize the present opportunity and try my best.

 

Teach us to number our days aright, that we may gain a heart of wisdom.　(Psalm 90:12; NIV)

 

Let this be an encouragement to us all.

 

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