Qiu yue Page #4

Are you...

Happy?

I don't know.

For 30 years,

I was never free.

I think I have at last found my freedom.

You're very wet.

This is like being young again.

I thought you were going to bring

your guitar.

It's too cumbersome to carry.

We'll just have to sing

without accompaniment.

What time do you usually go to bed?

- About this time. And you?

- I have no set time.

Damn!

Game's over.

I expect to get five distinctions this year.

- That's very good.

- Nine would be even better.

Do you expect to be promoted

to a higher class?

I don't know.

The light's too bright.

It's time you studied harder.

Next year I'll join my sister in America.

I'll do Year 12 there.

- Are you coming to bed?

- I'm not sleepy.

My sister's studying computing.

I want to do that, too.

Then I'll major in nuclear physics.

Not many do that course.

My sister tells me it's not popular.

When I graduate,

I'll be sought after by the big

companies in the US and Japan.

After a few years' experience,

I may start my own business.

It's chilly.

It's late. Let's sleep.

Careful, Grandma.

Don't stand up by yourself after the bath.

Call out to me and I'll help you.

Don't stand up by yourself. Understand?

- What's wrong?

- I forgot the incense.

- I forgot to pray.

- Do it after your bath.

Please, Grandma!

Let me help you light them

and place them on the altar.

- I can manage.

- Let me help you.

- I'm all right.

- Sit down.

Go and sit down.

Let me help you, Grandma.

Careful, Grandma.

Dad was very happy when he telephoned.

He said he'd bought a house by the sea.

He said he'd never lived

within sight of the sea.

My brother likes the house, too.

It's close to his university.

Mum says there's direct transport

to Chinatown.

No one's asked me what I think.

I suppose that means

we'll be leaving Hong Kong soon.

I asked her about her boyfriend.

She said she'd forgotten him.

I told her

she shouldn't forget him.

When she was a kid,

she used to come here to fish

with her parents.

Because in autumn

the fish are fatter and more delicious.

But in the last few years,

her father has been busy

making money to emigrate.

So he's never brought her here again.

According to her,

this used to be a fishing village,

but the young people

began to leave for other jobs,

and the remaining old folk

all seem to have died.

Tonight is the Mid-Autumn Festival.

In Japan we have

the Bon Festival in August.

The Chinese people

light lanterns and eat moon cakes.

The moon is said to represent family union.

You demon!

You idiot!

In Japan, on August 13,

we welcome the spirits of the dead,

who come to visit us.

Then on the night of August 15,

we watch them go.

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