October 5
- Peter K F Cheung SBS
- Oct 5, 2021
- 2 min read
FADE IN.
Act 1
INT. STUDY - MORNING
PETER taps on the phone screen.
PETER (V.O.): Today is October 5.
Pausing.
PETER (V.O.) (Cont'd): I'll do what I feel like doing.
Peter taps his phone
PETER (V.O.) (Cont'd): I've done my my daily investment.
Later, we hear phone notifications "Ding" and "Ding".
PETER (V.O.) (Cont'd): Fulfilled. Let me make other memories.
Picking up his swimming bag, Peter exits.
Act 2
EXT. GOLDEN COAST - AFTERNOON
Swimming, Peter tows a yellow-green swim bubble. He swims past two SWIMMERS towing orange ones.
PETER (V.O.): Yes, we're want to manage the risk.
Pausing.
PETER (V.O.) (Cont'd): One of my late wife's unfulfilled bucket list was to swim when she was too ill to do that.
Pausing.
PETER (V.O.) (Cont'd): I believe I've internalized her in me.
EXT. FAIRVIEW PARK - LATER
Peter walks along the lakeside path.
PETER (V.O.): My late wife and I used to walk here on Sundays from 1983 - 1992.
Pausing.
PETER (V.O.) (Cont'd): Here's my old memory lane.
Seeing two white swans in a distance, Peter captures the moment.
PETER (V.O.) (Cont'd): Those days were excellent ones.
INT. PETER'S NT HOME - LATER
Background music. Peter is decluttering.
PETER (V.O.): The kind of life I want is to retain good memories.
Peter reads some papers.
PETER (V.O.) (Cont'd): I'm confronting myself to let go as much as I can, as tomorrow isn't promised.
Peter puts some papers aside.
PETER (V.O.) (Cont'd): If I could live long, I don't want to throw away my memories prematurely.
Peter puts some into a garbage bag.
PETER (V.O.) (Cont'd): To strike a fair balance, I've been throwing away one garbage bag of stuff/memories every time I return home.
Pausing.
PETER (V.O.) (Cont'd): When I've done the quota, I'd reward myself with ice lollies, and now, several rounds of the Chinese-idiom video game.
Having played a round, Peter studies the stories of the idioms.
PETER (V.O.) (Cont'd): Oh, the verse before 貧賤夫妻百事哀 is 情知此恨人人有. How poetic.
Later, Peter sees a Quora notification and is anxious to respond.
PETER (V.O.) (Cont'd): The Quoran asks me if one has already lived to 97, can s/he live to 100. He wishes his loved one to live even longer.
Peter types "Logically Possible" on the phone screen.
EXT. ROADS - EVENING
Driving past a car repairer, Peter slows down to take a look at it.
PETER (V.O.): My Nissan 200SX is on the top of a car rack. It can still be repaired. My late wife drove it occasionally from 1989 - 1991.
Pausing.
PETER (V.O.) (Cont'd): Things end. Memories last - as I've been documenting and sharing them.
Pausing.
PETER (V.O.) (Cont'd): My memories are my soulful treasures.
Act 3
INT. STUDY - NIGHT
The TV is on. We hear: ...the Hong Kong stock market has ended up rising today...
PETER (V.O.): Trading stocks is one item on my bucket list. Playing a literary-uplifting video game is another. I'm fulfilling them.
Pausing.
PETER (V.O.) (Cont'd): On October 5, 1979, my late wife and I got married.
Pausing.
PETER (V.O.) (Cont'd): Her main bucket list was to learn how our son would grow up.
Pondering.
PETER (V.O.) (Cont'd): He has been doing very well. She knows that via me.
FADE OUT
THE END
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