Bulletin Special Supplement Ever in My Heart: Professor Ambrose King and The Chinese University

中文大學校刊 · 特刊 Chinese University Bulletin · Special Supplement 24 可以談談你的退休生活嗎？ Please tell us about your life in retirement. 我的退休生活是安適的，生活節奏不再像退休前的緊張了，至少作息 已不需靠鬧鐘了。我有較多的時間看書，特別是專業以外的書，以前 想看但未看的一些影帶都心安理得地看了。去年底，我從頭到尾看完 了《大長今》，真好。不久前與老朋友遊吳哥窟，有意思。不過，我 必須說，退休後，我遠遠沒有享受到「自由、自在」的生活境界。還 是有頗多的會議要開，在本港和外地的，仍有不少諮詢性的工作要 做，有些學術演講依舊推辭不了，甚至我原計劃每周寫一次毛筆字都 做不到。一本英文書的稿我早排好了，就是沒有時間定下來校閱。自 己都覺得這樣下去不行了。我必須在作息上再作調整，至少我要留多 點時間跟雋軒Adrian玩玩，他是我的小孫兒，一歲多，正是牙牙學語 時候。他是我退休生活中最大的快樂。 Retired life is relaxing. My pace of life has slowed down and my hours are no longer dictated by the alarm clock. I have more time to read, especially books outside my speciality. I could watch with no qualms videotapes that I had always wanted but had no time to watch. I finished all episodes of the Korean serial drama 大長今 at the end of last year. It was good. I went to Angkorwat with some old friends not long ago. It was memorable. But I am still a long way from a free and leisurely life. There are many meetings to attend both in Hong Kong and overseas, and much consultancy work to do. There are academic lectures I cannot decline to give. Even my original plan of practising Chinese calligraphy once a week has to be postponed. The typescript of an English book awaiting publication is sitting on my desk but I never got around to proofreading it. I cannot carry on like this. I must n n