感覺-香港 美國 澳洲 Feel

A trilogy of personal documentary about my experiences and feelings about the places I have lived in.

For English title, I am not sure. The first word came up was "feeling", then "feel", then esthesia, aesthesia, aesthesis, esthesis and impressure.


感覺-香港

感覺-澳洲

感覺-美國

Images of places I grew up in. For example for Hong Kong. This is the place where I lived in when I was born. The thing about Hong Kong is that everything, the landscape changes every once in a while and often you don't get to revisit some of the places of your childhood. City One is somewhat of an exception. I lived there. Yeah, I went to this school. I still remember my first grade teacher's name. She was about late 50s or 60s when I was there.

This the one of the rare case, the tea restaurant I went to usually for breakfast is still here after some 20 or more years. This sport store is still here. Pretty amazing.

It's funny coming back, living here. I am, in a general sense, not accepted as a Hong Konger now, although part my heart is here. I care about Hong Kong's democracy movement, education system, our mini constitution that guarantee our rights and freedom of expression that separates us from the rest of China. One time I was in Mongkok and I prided myself on my fluent Cantonese and I would try to be local but people can tell, especially in places like Tai Po or Mongkok. I reckoned that I might get a better bargain if I act local but after the purchase, they asked me, "So where are you from?" It was a bit of a shocker. I thought I did quite good. And I would tell them I came back from America. I often skip the Australia part because it might get a little complicated and confusing, and it doesn't really matter to them.

I think it's also my body movement, clothes I wear, hairstyle and body language as well. I also don't look too Chinese, at least not the stereotypical Chinese look. I got Korean, Malaysian, Japanese, Indonesian and etc. But as far as I know, I am 100% Chinese. It might has to do with the curly hair I inherited from my mom side.