Continuum Fathering : May 2010

Activities:

I am a full-time dad. I am proud of it.

Babywearing, Co-sleeping with a baby, Advocating Breastfeeding and Baby-led Weaning, Continuum Parenting

http://continuum-fathering.blogspot.com/

Cycling (past - no time now)

*See here:

http://franklenchoi.blogspot.com/2005/12/blog-post.html

Playing with SS, my dearest lovely cat (now let DS and DD do this).

Caring for DW, DS and DD, three most important persons in my life.

Living with IBS: (almost recovered)

http://franklenchoi.blogspot.com/2007/09/blog-post_16.html

Perhaps also living with RSI now.

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Interests:

Life skills, production for life, not for profits

Photography, reading, my house, DIY

Learning responsible fatherhood

Adult Education, Child Education

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Favorite Music:

Johannes Brahms

Wolfgang Amadeus Mozart

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I like the tone colour of acoustic guitars, violas, and recorders. I prefer sophistication in simplicity, as in Mozart's music, but I also enjoy Brahms's deepness. With a few exceptions, I don't like electronic music - feeling that it's far less green and healthy.

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Johann Sebastian Bach

Ludwig van Beethoven

Leslie Cheung

Tat Ming Pair

Sissel Kyrkjebo

Angelita Li (Hong Kong)

Shirley Kwan

Eva Cassidy

Fritz Kreisler

Pachelbel's Canon in D

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誰能明白我、追憶、究竟天有幾高 (George Lam)

一個人在途上 (Tat Ming Pair) 看海的日子、仍是老地方、當我傾心愛上 (Hacken Lee) 未來之歌、月正亮、當愛已成往事、最愛 (Leslie Cheung) 這麼遠那麼近 (Anthony Wong with Leslie) Shall We Talk (Eason chan) 約定、暗湧 (Faye Wong) 天堂夢(Danny Summer) 不要問究竟(Danny Chan) 鷹與星(Sandy Lam) 忽略(Sandee Chan) 殘夢(Michael Kwan) 如泣如訴(Alex To)

Notturno for 4 Orchestras in D Major, K.286 (Mozart)

String Quartet in D minor, K421 (Mozart)

The late quartets of Beethoven (e.g. op.132)

Winter (from Antonio Vivaldi, The Four Seasons)

Air (from Bach, Orchestral Suite No. 3 in D, BWV 1068)

Viola Concerto in G (Georg Philipp Telemann)

Recorder Sonatas (George Frideric Handel)

Concierto de Aranjuez (Joaqui'n Rodrigo Vidre)

Enigma Variations (Edward Elgar)

Arpeggione Sonata in A Minor (Franz Schubert)

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Favorite TV Shows:

Dae Jang-geum (大長今) (I love it!)

The Benny Hill Show; -)

The Misadventure of Zoo (流氓皇帝)

Chinese Folklore (民間傳奇)

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Favorite Movies:

Hayao Miyazaki (宮崎駿)

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I like the feeling of regretfulness:

Cinema Paradiso (星光伴我心) (cinema version) (& its music)

Love Letter (Japan) (情書) (& its music)

Ashes of Time (東邪西毒) (& its music)

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Stephen Chow, esp. with Jeff Lau (史提芬周/劉鎮偉)

Sean Connery, Kate Winslet, Robin Williams, Dustin Hoffman

Tim Burdon

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Favorite Books:

Tezuka Osamu (手塚治虫) (I read "Black Jack" since I was a kid)

壽星仔 (Seung-gun Siu-keung [上官小強])

Zhuangzi (莊子)

Friedrich Wilhelm Nietzsche

Michel Foucault (anarchy is an ethic)

Jean-Paul Sartre (once I considered myself an existentialist, but I am not sure now)

Sutta Pitaka (Theravada Buddhism) (巴利五部經)

Books on Ecofeminism

Man Si-wai (文思慧)

Chou Wah-shan (周華山) (before 1997)

Ken Kifer (on cycling)

Henri Cartier-Bresson (on photography)

John Dewey (on education)

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Favorite Quotations:

"Mum, where is us going to have gone to go?" (by gullit, aged 10)

"siu gu ah, sui do hey foon lei, Saamsam mew mew giu" (sing Doraemon to bb)

"Wa law or law e sai stream!" (sing Lipovitan)

"How, Where, When? Oh! How, Where, When will we touch again?" (Cleo Laine sings Canon in D)

"Bach? Oh...!" (to pretend that you deeply know music when being asked about the composer)

「霧月夜抱泣落紅，險些破碎了燈釵夢。喚魂句，頻頻喚句卿須記取再重逢......」(Yam Kim Fai, the Legend of Purple Hairpin)

"May the force be with you." (Blessings between Jedi Knights)

"Is there anything more pretty than a ride late at night with the stars overhead and, from time to time, a falling star?" (by Ken Kifer)

"To me, photography is the simultaneous recognition, in a fraction of a second, of the significance of an event as well as of a precise organization of forms which give that event its proper expression" (by Henri Cartier-Bresson)

"In my life I did nothing bad. Why does it have to be like this?" (the last words of Leslie)

"I am dying in this town!"

and

"If I were thinking clearly Leonard, I would tell you that I wrestle alone in the dark, in the deep dark and only I can know, only I can understand my own condition. You live with the threat; you tell me, you live with the threat of my extinction. Leonard, I live with it too. This is my right. It is the right of every human being. I choose not to suffocate in the anesthetic of the suburb but the violent jolt of the capital. That is my choice. The meanest patient, yes, even the lowest is allowed some say in the matter of her own prescription. That by which she defines her humanity. I wish, for your sake, Leonard that I could be happy in this quietness but if it is a choice between Richmond and death, I choose death." (by "Virginia Woolf", the Hours)

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About Me:

http://continuum-fathering.blogspot.com/2010/03/interview-in-babynews-ii.html

A post-post-structural socialist (considering becoming a social ecologist or ecofeminist)

Then:

http://franklenchoi.blogspot.com/1997/06/blog-post.html

Now:

http://www.franklenchoi.org/#franklen

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Contact Information

Website:

http://continuum-fathering.blogspot.com/