On July 27th, the U.N. Secretary General Antonio Guterres issued a dire warning: “The era of global warming has ended, the era of global boiling has arrived.” According to World Weather Attribution (WWA) which analyzed worldwide weather patterns and statistics, the month of July was possibly the hottest period in Planet Earth’s 120,000 years of history.
我父母親年輕未婚時來自潮州；但我們六個兄弟姊妹都是出生於越南。全家一直住在華人聚居最多的「堤岸」。華人都是做大小生意為生的。連本地越南人都學會說粵語，特別需要在生意上能用粵語溝通，他們也讓自己孩子去華文學校讀書。
Born in Vietnam, my siblings of six including myself, lived in a Chinese town called “Cholon”. Cantonese was the business dialect that even the native Vietnamese learned to speak. Many of the Vietnamese natives sent their children to Chinese schools.
Heatwaves in many parts of the Northern Hemisphere captured the public’s attention. The inadequacy of the central air conditioning units in many of the northern cities testifies to the unexpected increase in air temperature across Northern Europe, Asia and America.
在父親節那天，也是2023年6月18日東部夏令時間上午8點，一部由探險公司海洋之門（OceanGate）的總裁兼創始人史塔克頓‧拉許（Stockton Rush）所設計並親自駕駛的「泰坦號」觀光潛艇，在加拿大紐芬蘭省港口城市的聖約翰斯向東約375海哩處潛入海裏，為要探索那艘在111年前沉沒在海底，一萬三千英呎、號稱「永不沉沒」的巨輪「鐵達尼號」。
On June 18, 2023 at 8 am EST, a state-of-the-art submersible led by OceanGate Expeditions’ founder and CEO Stockton Rush, made its descent in Canada’s Newfoundland province approximately 375 miles east of the coastal town of St. Johns. Its objective was to explore the unsinkable Titanic’s wreckage, which sank 111 years ago, its mysteries and at a depth of nearly 13,000 feet below sea.
基督信仰告訴我們，人只需要憑信心接受耶穌基督為救主，就可以得救上天堂。然而，一直以來，人的觀念是要行善積德，如果一信耶穌就得救，豈不是太便宜嗎？還有，難道人不用行善都可以得救嗎？
在1975年南越政變後，我和二哥（榮光）和弟弟（榮南）就讀的「同心」中小學，从私立成了公立學校，取消了學校制服。由於不夠老師，加上政府監控學校制度，又撤銷所有華語課堂，規定只准許學習當地越南文。
