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Drawn to graffiti 塗(鴉)看天下

It started as a normal morning some time last month with the same train ride to work, apart from spotting a few passengers taking photos of the train after alighting. I wondered what was special about the train, and I found out when I alighted: one whole carriage was completed painted over by pink and golden graffiti. But I only caught a glimpse of it since I was in a hurry to change trains. 上月某天上班坐火車,看到中途有人下車後為火車拍照,很是好奇,待我下車後便明白究竟:原來其中一車卡整卡被人噴漆塗鴉,一片鮮粉紅一片鮮黃的頗搶眼,不過人多且趕換車,所以祇是匆匆一瞥。 Little did I expect that I would travel on the same train back home! It was indeed a rather rare occurrence, with so many train services in a day and the possibility that trains would switch lines in a network of more than a dozen lines. I decided to sit in the ‘graffiti carriage’ to mark such an unlikely coincidence. It was bright sunny outside and the carriage was flooded with a dreamy mix of pink and yellow light as the sunlight shone through. The usual views outside the window were replaced by the huge