June
2017
I was going down the escalator of a neighbourhood shopping mall when I
was pleasantly captivated by some beautiful piano music – Somewhere over the
rainbow! I quickened my step to get a look of the pianist.
He was a very typical middle-aged bald man. Seated with his face to the
big floor-to-ceiling glass wall, he was all absorbed in his own world of music
not to be disturbed. I stood and admired from some distance. His fingers were
almost flowing effortlessly across the black and white keys while his feet were
stepping on and off the pedals with equal lightness! He made my day which
otherwise was gloomy and stuffy.
I started imaging what made him sit down and start playing the piano. He
could not be showing off because he was not fussing around. Was he too early
for an appointment? Did he forget his house key and got locked up? Did he own a
piano? Was he simply re-visiting some long gone hobby? He could not be a piano
tutor trying to attract some business! For sure, he was not one of those
buskers for he would have played in the busy streets of Tsimshatsui or Mongkok!
But of course, the piano is too big for street performance. He could not have
been a mall employee because otherwise, he would have been all dressed up like one
of those performing in the posh shopping arcades in Central!
Well, I had fun lifting myself somewhere over the rainbow way up high!
Oh, someday I'll wish upon a star
Wake up where the clouds are far behind me
Where trouble melts like lemon drops
High above the chimney top that's where you'll find
me, oh
Somewhere over the rainbow
Way up high
And the dream that you dare to
Oh, why, oh, why can't I, I?
