Egress Stairs

With Agyness Deyn.

Very attractive.

How Boyish or Girlish Are You?

Take the quiz here:
http://www.blogthings.com/howboyishorgirlishareyouquiz/

As usual I'm not surprised with my results...

You Are 50% Boyish and 50% Girlish

You are pretty evenly split down the middle - a total eunuch.
Okay, kidding about the eunuch part. But you do get along with both sexes.
You reject traditional gender roles. However, you don't actively fight them.
You're just you. You don't try to be what people expect you to be.

I have to say this is very true though - "You reject traditional gender roles. However, you don't actively fight them. You're just you. You don't try to be what people expect you to be."

16 Stories

Each box is filled with a story:

(top, left to right)
1. someone eating lollipop
2. eye staring among a pair of lovers
3. honey scooping out of a jar
4. house with smoke
5. checkered pants around the zipper
6. people on glazed travelators
7. scissors cutting on coloured paper
8. hourglass with poem

(bottom, left to right)
9. plan view of a shower room
10. a patterned blouse
11. knife with tomato on cutting board
12. matches in a box
13. outlets on a wall with tiled floor
14. toaster with 2 slices of bread
15. macbook screen/keyboard
16. phrase of the day

As for the creation of this, I started with some random shapes and lines on the double page, then divided the spread into 16 pieces, and drew something in each box in various scales and point of view integrating the existing shapes/lines. Pretty fun to do this I would say. You never know what you will come up with.

(high-lighted lines are the initial random shapes/lines)

WTF????

I'm seriously very mad when I read this article on HK Yahoo. This is b*llsh*t - both the specific school principal and Equal Opportunity Commission.

What's wrong with wearing dress pants to school, especially the school rules allow it? It's not like the teacher is wearing unappropriate clothing or birthday suit to school. And since the school authorities love teachers wearing skirts and dresses, why don't they make male teachers wear skirts to school too??? That will be so cool! I don't get it.

As for Equal Opportunity Commission, I'm wondering what do those guys do? Hmmm... I guess day dream all day long? If this kind of cases are refused, what would they accept? And what's the point of having and calling themselves 平機會 (Equal Opportunity Commission), if they chose to ignore unequal opportunities situations? Funny.

The original article is posted here: http://hk.news.yahoo.com/article/090406/4/bjwt.html

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不滿被迫穿裙 女教師求援被拒
明報記者 何素文, 04/07/2009

香港中國婦女會馮堯敬紀念中學前女教師鄺小姐，2007年向平機會投訴，指她依校規規定穿整齊西褲回校，但校長卻要求她一定要穿裙回校，更拿出聘書暗示如繼續穿褲回校，便會裁掉她。07年至今因校方拒絕出席調解，去年她向平機會申請法律協助被拒，年初在教育界立法會議員張文光協助下，她獲平機會主動接觸，稱會再考慮申請。

張文光介入 平機會稱再考慮

香港中國婦女會馮堯敬紀念中學校長孫莉華否認有關說法，但她指自己不想回應及詳細交代，以免引起罵戰。

07年起在該校任教的鄺小姐透露，首天回校即被叫進校長室，校長指她要尊重校規，穿裙回校，但她當時反駁校長，並指校規規定可穿西褲回校。

她翌日再穿西褲回校，但再被召入校長室，「提醒」她如果每日要穿褲子，就要穿整套套裝，鄺小姐答允，但校長隨即拿出聘書，朗讀條文「中止聘任」的一欄，但就指現時不能裁走她，「還要看你的表現」。鄺小姐指雖然校長沒表明不穿裙就要裁走她，但她感受到校長的用意。她指出，事件已拖了兩年多，身心疲累，但校方一直不肯出席調解，最後她只能申請訴訟解決。

團體指勝算高仍不獲批

香港人權監察主席莊耀洸表示，一直由07年協助鄺小姐，就《性別歧視條例》這是一個很好的案例，如果上庭相信勝算很高，但平機會卻不批出法律協助。

My Postcard Family

Since the lovely sibling of my poster baby (read story here) arrived a few days ago, I decided to take a picture of the current family of two.

Baby #2 is Salvodor Dali's original Persistence of Memory (1931, oil on canvas), before it got disintegrated (see it here).

Baby #1 is a snapshot of the wall in Anne Frank's room.

Let's hope my family will grow soon!