2008年7月29日 星期二

Dated back record for March 2008

just read from a programme of a local drama, it says "there are ups and downs arranged, just take those downs as holidays given and believe things will turn good after"
She just asked for more care from me, from the content of her trip to spending more time using web cam, was it the last call for our relationship? is my life really going to the finishing point?
is everything pushing me to the dead-corner until i can't stand?
thank you, mtr, you fined me at the super good timing, i will remember this.


you know what? i'm really disappointed at the one besides me. I have never had this thought before blaming for my mate until the conversation I had with a colleague.
1. we both heard from our mates that "you actually don't need to come out if you are that tired like a dog"
2. we both agreed that we were not as bad as we should have been treated, if so, we should have a better than the present girl e.g. better figure, more beautiful face and you name it
just now, tonight we had a big fight again before we go for a little break at HKDL and the hotel there. The most heart-breaking thing was again I was being ignored totally. I have been working for a whole day outdoor, what was I supposed to do? Think about when and where we should go for breakfast? When I was again taking risk to remind her to exercise, she was meeting her handsome Sin again. Am I being respected at all? Has she ever cared about my feeling throughout the years waiting for her weight losing? Does she really know how I feel working outdoor with some other guys who don't even know the english word "earth"?
you freaked me out, you did. I know thing would not happen on me separately but all at the same time. You know what? I will be soon rejected by Immi. What I will do? Kill myself? Break up with her? Keep working under the damn sunshine for my whole life?

2008年7月23日 星期三

最低工資

剛出席了一個電視台主辦的時事討論節目,談的是香港的通脹與貧窮問題。電視台透過社區組織邀請了兩位新移民婦女參加對談,有個還抱著一個出世才兩個多月的孩子一起出席,突顯她們的處境困難。

面對已成事實的具體案例,我們當然應該本著人道主義的取態予以援手,但在制訂政策去處理實際問題時,卻不能只顧同情,而不理客觀現實。所以,我既贊成要對這類所謂「五無」人士施以援手,亦要制訂政策避免更多的這類新移民源源不絕地流入香港。因為這種發展,對香港與他們自己,都沒有好處。

這類女性新移民,是嫁了港人的丈夫,才獲申請來港生活的。她們的丈夫,很多本身在香港也找不到好生活,年紀老邁仍沒法在香港找到伴侶,才返大陸娶妻。可以想像得到,他們能夠娶得的妻子,本身亦是教育水平不高,難靠自己的技能去追求理想生活的一群。否則怎肯接受一段這樣的婚姻?

她們原以為,嫁來香港會有更好的生活,誰知丈夫收入微薄,在養自己還不夠的情況下,仍要她生孩子,結果可想而知。很多社會悲劇就是在這樣的環境下衍生出來的。

香港社會相對富裕,有條件在物質上予他們一定的支援。但這種支援並不能改變他們長期在社會上處於相對貧窮的處境,令他們感覺不到可以靠自己的力量去改善自己命運的希望。在這種環境下,家庭的倫理關係一定難以健康地得以維持。

做妻子的容易因此而感到所託非人,小則導致夫妻間經常爭吵,嚴重的則會出現拋夫棄子,移情別戀。試問在這樣環境下成長的孩子,心理狀態怎會健康?如果第二代又因此而誤入歧途,那隔代貧窮的情況下可會一直持續下去,變成這類家庭的宿命。

香港已轉型成一個以金融業為主導的大都會。大都會的生活條件比較好,很多人都渴望能過大都會式的生活。然而,要過這樣的生活必須具備一定的技能,否則不容易在激烈的競爭中找到自己的位置。

很多從大陸來港的新移民,本身都不具備在大都會生活應有的技能,硬要參與這場競爭,只會成為失敗者,令自己的命運變得非常可悲。這絕不是他們明智的選擇,我們的社會政策,不宜鼓勵他們繼續去做這種錯誤的選擇。

此之所以,我不贊成為這類新移民提供太多的社會福利,以及為那些已經供應過剩的低技能工作提供最低工資。我擔心這只能令他們誤以為,只要能來香港生活,就一定有好日子過。

人只能透過工作才能改善自己的命運,留在有適合自己技能的工種的地方生活,才能令生活有希望。明知自己的技能在香港是沒有競爭能力的,來港生活怎有前景?

By 施永青