只是覺到自己的傾向、與隨之的渴慕，朦朧指向某種深厚的温柔、知道痛苦與流離失所的溫柔——誰不？我在Nayaara Noor 身上見到那種「知道的」溫柔。她不能再緊的眉頭一再緊、曲子婉轉手掌打開的一下，裡面，有痛苦和同樣密度的甚麼接住那給拋擲出去的。彷彿聽到猶豫與折損，一轉念間待著，坦然接納那痛苦、一把托著跑出去的嗓音，不能自已。不是技藝，她都沒學過唱歌。
Nayyara Noor 1950年生於Assam，父親是西巴基斯坦人、母親是東巴基斯坦人，1971年她出第一首單曲，1971年印巴戰爭、巴基斯坦與東巴斯基坦分裂，隨後東巴宣佈獨立，即今孟加拉。Nayyara Noor 唱巴斯斯坦「國語」烏都語、也唱國內至少六千萬人會說的旁遮普語。旁遮普則是另一個前傳：1947年英人將「英屬印度」的旁遮普分為東、西旁遮普，前者後來成為巴基斯坦的省、後者成為印度的部份，裡面的血淚、流徙、同化與排擠、以錫克教／印度教／回教信眾為肉參的「宗教衝突」政治，讓研究者頭昏的。因為名詞所指，畢竟雅潔。
from Thapa／平哥, a Nepali bar bender who goes on strike:
BAR BENDERS SUFFERINGS
I am a bar bender. I have been involved in this occupation since the past 11 years. So, I am putting forward here, the things I have seen and experience.
I hope you already know by now, how our bosses deduct our daily wage from $1200 to $550-$670 and extend the working hour up to 9 hours.
Now, I would like to tell you about the ill-treatment faced by us from the bosses. There is one word that we frequently hear and experience at work……that is “my sai jou a lei“!! This is the word we frequently hear when we work a little slowly, drink water or go to the toilet. Like:
1. Lei jou gam mang, my sai jou a lei!
You are working too slow, don’t you want to work / you can go!
2. Gam duo yam seui lei, my sai jou a lei!!
You are drinking so much water, you can leave if you don’t work!!
3. Gam dou wu liu lei, my sai jou a lei!!!
Why are you going to the toilet so much, you can leave if you don’t want to work!!!
Another problem is, the provision for the boss to sack the workers anytime. For example, if the boss is angry, he will say “get out right now!” or “don’t come to work from tomorrow!” If it rains around 10:00a.m., he will tell us to go home and give us two hours pay only.
The sweat from our body wets even our shoes. During the hot days, we eat very little during lunch because we will have vomiting if we are full and do hard work during the day. Due to the excessive sweating from heat, the muscles of our hands and feat begin to cramp. Even during times like that, the bosses, instead of showing sympathy, term us as powerless or weak person.
Despite all these ill-treatments and misbehaviours, we cannot work for more than 20 days in a month. Now, you think yourself and say, is our demand for daily wage of $900 and 8 hours of work reasonable or not?
匆忙安排下，與「inmediahk.net」及「中大學生報」的朋友於十一月底訪問了「Association of Indonesian Migrant Workers 」(ATKI-HK) 的主席Eni Lestari Andayani， 訪問於「Asia Pacific Mission for Migrants」(APMM) 於佐敦道佑寧堂的辦公室進行。Eni亦邀請了 「United Filipinos in Hong Kong」(UNIFIL-HK) 的主席Dolores T. Balladares 與我們見面，兩位所屬的組織均為「亞洲移居人士聯盟」(AMCB)的成員。坦白說，一時要分清AMCB、APMM、 UNIFIL-HK 它們孰誰、工作重點與組織性質有啥不同，實非易事；作為「社運圈」外的熱心路人，準備訪問前的家課亦是如墮十里霧中。AMCB 作為香港「監察全球化聯陣」等組織的成員，在去年WTO MC6 期間的抗爭、以至多年來就最低工資與各種勞工議題的運動中，每每迅速動員數以千計的示威者，在印尼中爪圭地震救災、菲律賓法外謀殺等人道、人權事件中，助於本土／跨國運動的開展與延續，在主流媒體眼中，卻始終被一籃子稱呼為「外勞團體」，亦每每只與本地個別相關題目之討論／公關造勢的氣氛寒暑牽連，似乎未能與本土其它各式運動深化扣連。
我們避而不談、不予正視、以資調笑而生成的冷漠，在被廹人擠人、每刻必得跟陌生人同路共處而又互相競逐的都市裡，逐漸，就促成了一種默契似的次文化與社會語 言，莫論「巴基 X 坦」、「賓妹」、「垃圾婆」也好，「老綜」、「阿差」、「韓農」、「行古惑」也好，它流通於我們的俗語、爛Gag 與歇後語，然後又投射進報刋電視的內容、電影情節裡去，又折返而擴大生衍、置入約定俗成的文化想像：階級與情慾機制互連而成制度化的暴力，顯見日常而透明無視。
回說朱的文章，誠然，被人拒於千里的感覺確是難堪，畢竟我們對許多問題的體會—— 就算是有—— 也總是有點太過書卷氣、理想主義而又自我感覺良好，說穿還是自我保護、自我認同的戲法與呈現！關注人家的抗爭故然是出於良好意願，或曰 Solidarity，惟自身經驗與理解的貧乏以致溝通的橋樑沒能搭成、生活的況味未能共感同語，說到底其實是自己的問題！尤其在此種壯大的力量演示之場合，你班操廣東話曉上網的沒事人就更有犬儒的政治表態之嫌，就算你多麼了解，多麽多麽的關心，人文主義者、人道主義者，都還一樣是主義者，跟反對的一方操 作無異，常為脫離游戈，豈容收納？The people defeated will never be united.
