So my grandpa is dying...

今天去了士嘉堡慈恩醫院探我正在病中的爺爺﹐劉紹傳。他在香港曾經是一名粵曲唱片監製。我媽媽昨晚叫我去探訪我爺爺。所以我放工後即時到醫院探病。看來他的情況幾嚴重﹐全身都瘦了。奇怪的是﹐他在整天說話完全不清楚。我完全聽不懂他想跟我說些什麼。我便要求他把想說的話寫下來。可是他好像不太明白我的意思。他只是拿著紙﹐也不肯拿起支筆。之後我便嘗試收回張紙但是他不肯放手。他唯有繼續說話。我所聽到的是他在說以前在香港的所謂“威水史”。其實我少時候經常都會聽我爺爺講起以前的事。我知道他不是亂作的因為那些香港老牌粵曲歌手如崔妙芝等等都會經常性地探訪我的屋企人。我也收過它們送來的禮物。Anyway, 我到現在還是不太清楚情況。我會查詢下去的。


Went to Scarborough Grace Hospital today and visited my grandfather, Lau Shiu-Chuen.  A retired Hong Kong record producer.  I was told by my mom to pay him a visit today and so, I did what I was told right after work.  He seemed to be in a very weak condition and he was looking very thin.  Strangely enough, he was muttering all day and I couldn't understand a word he was saying.  I asked him to write down what he wanted me to do.  But somehow, it didn't quite register to him.  All he did was held onto the paper and refused to hold the pen.  So I tried to remove the paper away from him but he wouldn't let go.  And he just kept talking.  From what I picked up, he kept talking about his heydays in Hong Kong when he used to be a producer for Cantonese opera records in Hong Kong.  He would always tell me these stories about it.  I knew he never bluffed about it since some of these well known Cantonese opera singers would come and visit us in Toronto.  (Once my internet is running again at home, I will tell a bit more and type 'em in Chinese to identify some of these people.  But I'm sure many Hong Kongers, particularly the older folks, would have heard of them somehow.)  Anyway, I'm still not sure about the situation at the moment.  I'll find out later.

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