Star

Went to the campus on a Friday afternoon. I do go there two or three times each year for various reasons, but every time I am surprised with all the constructions and new buildings.

We see a dramatic expansion of the university over the years. Yes, that's by and large a good thing. I still remember the vivid picture of my classmates catching snakes along the road between the student hostel and the lecture theater, or I seeing hundreds of cockroaches on the grass behind the RRS Hall.

Now, you see only the same number of suspicious looking teenagers who called themselves university students over that place.

A sordid place it was, we did enjoy much happy moment. Many of the evenings we just stood or sat on the grass when we passed by and appreciated the starry night - the sky was often clear and there were not many tall buildings around to obscure the view.

And now you just could not affording looking up the sky while walking over there, for you would sure be stepping on some other's foot, or falling into a hole left behind by some construction workers.

As Franz Kafka said: 在有增無減的群眾中,愈來愈孤獨了.

PS. To be fair to whoever, it is not only the cement forest that blocks the stars: it is the heavy smog, the fuzzy orbit, and the uncountable electric currents underneath the wrinkled forehead.