休止符

屈指一算，自從到大陸當工，已有一年多沒有跟這班"歌神"唱K了。回想昔日的情境，我們真有點瘋狂。每逢週五，我們的娛樂定必是一群人躲進K房內，唱到聲嘶力竭，我沒有誇張，真的聲嘶力竭。我們會通宵達旦，唱倦了，便躺在K房的沙發上小睡，直至有人喚醒，起來再唱，其餘的人繼續睡着，如是者，直至天亮，才一起到酒樓吃早餐，餐後分道揚鑣，有的回家，有的上班。也許有人會覺得我們這種生活很"頽"，我們倒沒有這樣想。沒有昔日的瘋狂，那有今天的回味。

如今有人提議唱K，當然樂於奉陪。他們純熟的取房手法，更令我相信，闊別一年，他們唱K的狂熱沒有減退。他們向服務員查探不同時段的收費，同時又問用那間銀行的信用咭有折扣，並要求服務員安排某個編號的房間(因為他們知道那間的音響比別的好)。到了房間，他們第一件事當然是爭着輸入自己要唱的歌曲。不知怎的，我竟然沒有跟他們一起爭，小有小有......當他們各自輸了自己的歌後，我拿起搖控，準備點歌之際，有朋友跟我說︰"拿咪吧，這首是為你點的。" 哈哈，難得有朋還記得我的 "歌路"，真有點感動。......唱歌時，隱約聽到有人問︰"你們唱歌時，有多少人會留意歌詞說什麼﹖"......就這樣嘻嘻哈哈消磨了半個晚上。

回家途中，在巴士上不斷想着友人那句說話。一首美妙的樂章，尚且間或有休止符作停頓。我的生活，為何只是往前衝，連自己最熟識的歌曲，也沒有靜下來細味其歌詞意義﹔連每日跟自己並肩作戰的好同事，也沒有注意他們今天衣著的顏色﹔每日總是走着同樣的路上班，從來沒有花時間往公司附近的地方走走，只是工作，休息，再起來工作，難度我想逃避些什麼，連自己都不知道。不，不要怱怱忙忙走完這一生，我要停下來欣賞沿途的風光。

Take a  rest

Time passes like a flash. It's been nearly a year that I haven't gone to karaoke with friends of mine since I got a job in the mainland. In the past, we were karaoke-goers, almost three times a week. At times, we even stayed there till the next day, then had a breakfast together and went to our own ways - some went home, the others to work directly. How crazy we were then! You may find we were dreaming away our time. But we didn't think so. Without the crazy in the past, there's nothing making our memories rich.

Today, someone suggested going to Karaoke. That's a good idea to me. Judging from the ways they got a karaoke room, I think they are still the regulars - checking the charges for each interval and any discount by using which bank's credit card. They even requested the receptionist to arrange a certain room for them. ('cause they knew that the equipment of that room is the best). While a waitress was leading us to the room, someone had already gone ahead of her, getting into the room, grabbing the remote control from teapoy, and inputting their favourite songs. Oddly enough, I'd no intention of joining the scramble. Till the scramble was over, I picked up the remote control and selected my favours. Someone patted on my shoulder and said, " Pick up the microphone, this song is for you." How touching it is! Friends of mine still remember what my favours are...During my singing, it seemed someone said, "How many of you will take notice of the lyric while singing?"... That's the way we while away the half night.

On my way home, I tried hard to think of what my friend said in the bus. Even a piece of beautiful music has a rest, why can I only go forward driftless? I never stop to read the lyric of a song which I know well; I never notice the colors of my colleagues' wear today even we work in the same place; I never get to know the neighborhood of my workplace. Maybe I wanna get away from somethings, which I don't know actually. No. I shouldn't keep this way going on. I've to take a look at the beautiful scenery along my life.