The philosophy of a bowl of poached egg noodles. / McDougal: My Mom and Me
If you see an uncle who looks like a wheat dub on a deserted path, push carts to sell noodles. Please be sure to try a bowl of his poached egg noodles.
Although not all things, dialing, dialing, turning, turning, all can come together like poached eggs. But being close to the land and listening to him tell the story of McDougall may not be so sad and bored, and perhaps the person who has come here and lost will want to go back.
The art of eating chicken. / The Story of McDougall
You can ask him, when is the best turkey to eat?
"The taste of turkey is already at its peak between what it is about to eat and the first bite."
Can paper wrap a chicken?
"It's okay, especially a small piece."
What, you still want a bowl of fish egg fans?
"There are no fish eggs, but the thick noodles can also be."
This is the story of McDougal, and today is McDougall's twenty-fifth birthday.
"My name is McDougall", and the long flesh is full of power every day
Mai Du was born on June 22, 1995, the father of Mai Bing, the mother of Tan Yulian. / The Story of McDougall
Twenty-five years ago today, Mrs. Mai saw a rubber hood swirling around her head. She thought it was an auspicious omen from heaven, and hurriedly made a wish, hoping that her son would be as handsome, smart, and lucky as Zhou Runfa and Liang Chaowei in the future.
Mai Tai hopes that her son can be as handsome as Zhou Runfa and Liang Chaowei, smart and clever, and Ji Xing Gao Zhao / "The Story of Mai Du"
The rubber basin "poof" landed on the ground, and Mai Du was born. Like fate made a joke, McDougall, this little pig, has mediocre qualifications, is not tall, not handsome, not smart, and even somewhat unresponsive. But it is this somewhat congenitally deficient McDougal, with his sincere and kind "stupidity", in his ordinary McDougall story, creating his own innocent happiness.
At the Springfield Flower Kindergarten, Mai Du and his friends sang the most beautiful songs / "The Story of Mai Du"
In the world in Mai Du's eyes, there are small animal classmates who are as stupid as himself and sing nursery rhymes, there are also teachers and principals in human form, and there are some people who look terrible like demons and ghosts. Mai Du's favorite place to eat chicken is not Canada, Japan or Thailand, but the shopping mall near the kindergarten, and he can't forget the Maldives in the TV that "blue sky and white clouds, coconut grove tree shadows, water and sand white".
Mai Tai coaxed Mai Du to take medicine, and when he was well, he took him to the Maldives / "The Story of Mai Du"
In the life of The Maldives, Madhu is like a sugar cube that tricks oneself into drinking medicine.
Once When Mai Du was sick, Mai Tai said to Mai Du, after drinking the medicine and getting well, I will take you to the Maldives.
"Really?"
"When did your mother lie to you?"
So McDougall drank all the bottles of medicine and excitedly went to his mother and asked when he was going to the Maldives. Mom denied, "We'll make a fortune and go again." ”
After Mai Du drank the medicine, he first carefully used the Advertising Words of the Maldives to remind his mother to fulfill his promise, and then found that his mother was not attentive, and he realized that when his mother changed the topic of denial, she did not know how to refute it. / The Story of McDougall
Mai Du cried bitterly, and Mai Tai had no choice but to agree to take her son to the Maldives next week. But the cold balance figure on the cash machine made Mai Tai take a breath of cool air, and she thought of a compromise solution, that is, to take Mai Du to Play in Victoria Peak, Hong Kong.
When you go to the Maldives, of course, you have to show off to your good friends at the first time. / The Story of McDougall
McDougall sat on the cable car, looking out the window and thinking he was on a plane.
This clip is very impressive, when I watched it as a child, I remembered that the cable car flew in the sky, it was a fish bento, and I really thought I was in the Maldives. Looking back now, I understand why the cable car can fly and why the "Maldives" can go in the morning and return in the evening. All this, Unbeknownst to McDougall, became the best day of his life. At that time, he shared with his good friend on the phone, thinking that he really wanted to go to the Maldives, the Maldives with "blue sky and white clouds, coconut grove tree shadows, and clear sand and white water".
In Mai Du's imagination, it was the sea fish in the Indian Ocean that was caught, but it was actually Mai Tai who hid behind and caught the prepared fish for him. / The Story of McDougall
It's good to have imagination, and in McDougall's imagination, the world is so beautiful. Two cable car tickets became airplane tickets, the fish bento prepared by my mother was caught in the Indian Ocean, and the bay was the "Maldives" in McDougall's eyes.
I thought I went to the "Hong Kong Airport", but in fact I just went to the "Cable Car Terminal" / "The Story of McDougal"
The world that can be called beautiful after imagination and processing may be very fragile in the face of reality. Such a "spiritual victory method" seems to be somewhat helpless. After all, always using vegetarian meat-like tricks to fool a child who has not eaten meat is a bit cruel in itself.
Later, when McDougall grew up, he gradually understood that there were originally some things, no, that is, no, no, no.
No fish balls, no thick noodles, no trips to the Maldives, no medals, no treasures. It's not funny to think about it.
A lot of things, really not that funny. / The Story of McDougall
"Turns out stupid isn't that funny. Stupidity will fail, it will disappoint, and disappointment is not so funny. Fat, not necessarily funny. Fat, not necessarily strong. Powerful, not necessarily. ”
When I grew up, I realized that not every McDougall, in the face of a hard state society, can still have soft dreams.
"My aunt's name is Mrs. Mai", but where did Daddy go?
When McDougall is still just a wheat pocket, he does not need to face the social pressure of the hard state head-on. But this pressure is not nothing, it is just hidden. McDougall came from a single-parent family, and that was his initial stress.
Yesterday was Father's Day, and everyone discussed the complexity and importance of the "father" role, but this topic is unfamiliar to McDougall. Because he never knew where his dad had gone. He asked Matthew, "What about my dad?" Most of what you get is "your dad hung up." Such a "warm" answer.
Mai Du's father Mai Bing left a letter and left Mai Du Ma Yu Lian. / McDougall: The Prince of Pineapple Oil
In "The Prince of Pineapple Oil", Mai Tai tells Mai Du that Mai Du's father, Mai Bing, was once a prince, but later lost his throne for some unknown reasons. Before Mai Tai gave birth to Mai Du, Mai Ping left. He said he was going to go far away to reclaim his throne.
But many viewers are still confused after watching it, and they don't know where his father went.
Maybe what matters is not where Mai Bing went, but where he left.
Every adult used to be a child who came into the world with the expectations of his parents. / Crayon Shin-chan: The Adult Empire Strikes Back
There seem to be two types of fathers in the world, one is like the crayon little new father Nohara Hiroshi, who will work hard, earn money to buy a house, take care of the family, life is not easy, but still carry the weight of the beloved family forward. There is also a category like Mai Bing, who will collect toys, suddenly want to learn to draw, and walk away to travel and write poetry, as if they will never grow up.
The most important thing to be a human being is to be happy. / McDougall: The Prince of Pineapple Oil
When he first wrote About Mai Bing, the author said, he wanted to show a male midlife crisis, a man full of romantic fantasies and poetry, slowly falling into a six-pence world, and then it was as if something had been lost. Because of this failure, they are not willing to think about the future, nor do they want to stay in the present, they will only see the white moonlight outside the sky, they do not think much about the present, they are not willing to think about the future, and they cannot see their connection with others, so they can only stop in their past.
The assembly line made Mai Tai an alienated worker. / McDougal: My Mom and Me
So in McDougall: My Mom and Me, we see Mrs. McDonald as a single mother, and she has another extreme in her body. Without writing poetry or dreaming, she can be a worker on the assembly line of Modern Times, she can go to the construction site to move bricks, and do multiple odd jobs. Mai Tai's characteristics of striving for the upstream are actually very Hong Kong characteristics, and she is willing to try every opportunity and every possibility, and she is always looking for opportunities to improve her quality of life.
But no matter how hard Mai Tai tried, some things, no, no, no. / McDougal: My Mom and Me
On the other hand, she is also a mother, and the eighteen martial arts that are flexible and fickle and fight for their livelihood may seem a little chaotic, but they are tender because of her simple motives.
I often lament how much love it takes to cultivate such a silly but warm and kind wheat pocket.
McDougal always failed to win the lottery, saying he was a "moldy pig hand". / McDougal: My Mom and Me
Mai Tai ran a show, calling on everyone to buy the lottery number drawn by Mai Du's "boy hand", unfortunately, none of the numbers drawn by Mai Du have been won. McDougall was devastated by this incident and suspected that he was a "moldy pig hand". But he used reverse thinking, drew out the "absolutely do not buy" 36 unlucky numbers and handed them to his mother, asking her to buy and draw the remaining numbers, and then she could get rich.
As a result, they really "got rich". Mrs. Mai bought her son new clothes and took him on "trips" to eat all kinds of things. However, in order to keep a low profile, it is still necessary to play several jobs to pretend to be poor. Later, Mai Du realized that the lottery he bought by his mother was the number he won, and he did not win the lottery at all.
Fool, of course, Mom will only buy the number you choose, your hand is not a moldy pig hand. Because you're Mom's lottery. / McDougal: My Mom and Me
The so-called "development" is nothing more than a lie made up by Mai Tai in order to let Mai Du have a happy and contented childhood. When the white lie is exposed, the adult world remains the same, but the world of McDougall is changed. It was only many years later, when McDougall recalled this lie again, that he truly understood his mother's good intentions, and what mother in the world would believe that her child was a "moldy pig hand"?
It's hard to leave, and I want to hug it tighter. Don't cry, Mom just went to space as an astronaut. / McDougall: My Mom
This belief and love is a four-fold oven, a turkey that has been eaten for more than half a year, a bargain for a song and a harmony in the wet market, a letter translated word by word in an English dictionary, and until his final death, Mai Tai lied to Mai Du that he was taken away by the space headquarters on a mission.
Love you to the heart and liver, believe in you to the fingers. / McDougal: My Mom and Me
Mai Tai has no culture, and her love for her children may no longer be the far-reaching "I am for your own good", but the "people all over the world do not believe in you, I will believe in you." People all over the world don't love you, and I love you too. I love you to the heart and liver, I believe you to the toes. ”
Later, McDougal looked back and saw that his mother seemed to have always kept what he had won and what he had lost to himself / "McDougall: Me and My Mother"
In order to earn money to shoot menopausal drug advertisements, Mai Tai can shed a few tears at any time. In her own words, it is easy for a woman of this age to squeeze some tears. She gave all the laughter to her son.
It's not a flaw, it's that you're not in your dreams
"When I was a kid, I was stupid and I was a little slower to learn anything." McDougall's second pressure comes from his "slowness."
All kinds of real estate advertisements and psoriasis piled up behind McDougall and ran after him. / The Story of McDougall
Born in 1995, McDougall grew up in a time when Hong Kong was in a bubble that was gradually receding, with former villages slowly developing into dense and oppressive empty urban spaces, the city folding under the shadow of high-rise buildings. The disorganized buildings, the crooked psoriasis, these far-flung elements are seamlessly superimposed and reflected in McDougall's subconscious.
Villages were demolished, television stations went bankrupt, long-established businesses went out of business, my mother lost her job, and life didn't get any better because of the city. / McDougal: My Mom and Me
Hong Kong people in this era still maintain a high-intensity rhythm of life, adapt to assembly line work, watch high-rise buildings rise, and watch buildings demolished. The question arises in my heart, how to adapt to such a life in a day like smoke. And what the author wants to ask is, is such a city tolerant of people who are as slow and leisurely as McDougall, who do not argue or grab?
In the face of McDougall's "slowness", the teacher gave a most gentle note: "He is not incompetent, he is just kind." / "McDougall"
The story of McDougall is related to a news story in which some people with mild intellectual disabilities wanted to build an activity center, but they were rudely opposed by nearby residents. They blindly feel that this will make their living environment worse or cause property prices to fall.
The author, Xie Liwen, said that he wrote the story of McDougall more to tell the stories of some vulnerable groups. Like McDougall, who grew up in such an environment, can he allow himself to continue to retain his indisputable orientation, or whether he must change himself and become a self that is accepted by universal values, but in fact he does not like himself very much, into a mediocre person.
A few points are destined, a few points rely on hard work, this is really difficult to say. / The Story of McDougall
Can those who are in a weak position rely on their own efforts to achieve a better version of themselves? In The Story of McDougall, we see that "luck" is important in life, even more important than hard work.
For Mai Tai, working several jobs a year, working so hard for so long, he still couldn't afford to buy two plane tickets to the Maldives, couldn't afford to build a building, and couldn't send his son to a better school. For Mai Du, he also learned the art of the teacher, the sister learned windsurfing to win the Olympic Championship, and Mai Du practiced hard to grab Bao Shan, but the result was "no opponent, no competition, no one knows".
If things that have been worked hard for a long time are denied because of almost luck, then what is their significance?
Mai Tai wrote to the International Olympic Committee, hoping to include the "grab the bag mountain" in the Olympic project. Because it is an electronic dictionary, it is translated verbatim, and the last paragraph can still see the grammatical errors, which can be said to be very detailed. / The Story of McDougall
When I was a student, I always regarded the harvest from hard work as a famous saying. But later I will know that cultivation may not be worth mentioning in front of "watching the sky and eating". Effort doesn't necessarily pay off. If Mai Duyi was born like Mai Tai made a wish, "like Zhou Runfa and Liang Chaowei, so handsome, luck will not be bad." With such luck, McDougall's life should be easier in the future.
But this is not McDougal, Mai Du wants to tell is not like many popcorn movies, let the audience laugh after the joy of home story, but want the audience to have a recognition of McDougal after watching it, recognition and respect for the "weak". Not all people must rush forward in accordance with the expectations of the outside world, and if they do not progress, they will be squeezed out by the times, "the weak eat the strong, the survival of the fittest", not always so it must be right.
Older people read fairy tales and can always give some sharp comments. For example, from a genetic point of view, the ugly duckling should be a beautiful white swan when he grows up, and the probability that The wheat duck will grow up is just a second brother who worries about three meals.
I hope that my mother will not be so hard, as long as my mother is happy, I am willing to never eat chicken again. / "McDougall"
But this does not prevent us from liking the Wheat Pocket who used to learn to grab the bag mountain for my mother, try to get an A, eat and sleep every day and then go to find the true meaning.
Today is McDougall's 25th birthday, whether he has become a wonderful and happy little prince or not, and I don't know if today's work is going well. I still wish that when he comes home at night, he can have a soft dream, dream of his mother in space, dream of the good times when he used to grow flesh every day and be full of power.
Happy Birthday, McDougal!
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