劉倩怡。LAU Sin Yee
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傳媒,曾經是我的夢;現在,生活更重要。唸社會學;讀神學;學攝影,能吸收的,都跟我的脂肪與血液混和了;不能的,都排了出來。生命中的實踐最重要。一個永遠的造夢者,走過大街小巷,終來到更接近自己的地方 ……
Media has once been my dream, but living is my priority now. No matter what one studies and learnes, how he actualizes in his real life is the most important. I have always been a dreamer, experiencing different spectrums of life. Now, I finally come to where I can be myself……
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足底按摩由最初被以為帶有黃色事業成份,到這幾年普及化,店舖在香港成行成市。裡面的按摩師傅,從前有些本地女性,近年大部分都是從內地來港的新移民。
常光顧的一間店裡有 25 個女師傅,當中差不多20個都離了婚。無論是因為面對婚姻失敗而走進這行業,還是因為幹這份工作導致丈夫猜疑,而要面對婚姻中的不快,這行業對內地女性來說,收入較豐,能讓她們自力更生,勇於面對婚姻問題。
即使如此,不能不強調她們的辛酸:她們的新移民身份和工作性質帶給她們的自我價值;工作令手指變型,肢體受苦;再加上離婚的痛苦,之後的孤獨,單親帶孩子的種種問題下,心靈著實需要安慰。
事實上,受訪者在訪談過程中也曾吐出了一句話:「為了生活,可以忘記痛苦!」
Massaging was once considered a horny business. Nowadays, it is getting popular, salons are everywhere in Hong Kong and most of the massage ladies are Chinese immigrants.
The salon I am familiar with has 25 female employees, 20 of whom were divorced. Some of them work as massage ladies after a divorce, some of them face failure because of the nature of the job which was not accepted by their husbands. Undeniably, the income from massaging is much better than any other kind of alternative jobs they have. Higher income and better living standards are what make it easier to cope with the failure in marriage.
Yet, they pay their price. They suffer a lot psychologically and physiologically due to the job nature.
One of the interviewees during the photographic sessions revealed the truth of their lives, “To make a living, we forget the pain!”