18 years after June 4th, 1989 – (Part 2) – The End of the Beginning

In the 18 years since that faithful night and day, I have done something special every year to commemorate those men and women who died in Beijing in 1989.

Over the years, I had went on 24 hours hunger strike, attended huge protest with over one million HKers, attended a medium-size protest in Canada with a federal politician, smaller protest (10-15 well-meaning people), and even simply wandering around and standing near the Chinese consulate general office quietly reflecting just by myself. All these are different form of remembering.

Today, I am not wearing my special protest T-shirt (the same one since 1990). I have no plans to attend any commemorative event. In fact, I am going for an all-you-can-eat sushi lunch (the opposite of a hunger strike (big smile)). With all these things that I am *not* doing. I am symbolically defining it as “The End of The Beginning“.

Instead of just remembering, I guess I have started doing and taking a more active role in my small way. In 2005, “Long Hair Revolution” was my first step to shake the system in a very small way. The making of “Egging Chairman Mao” is just another way of remembering and moving things ahead.

Of course, all these may just be an excuse for me to have my all-you-can-eat sushi lunch. (smile)