The walls of his little room, in which the sole "modern" conveniences are a gas stove and an electric fan, are covered with Chinese calendars dating back to the fifties and sixties, their dusty, yellowing pages displaying pretty young film stars from Taiwan and Hong Kong in outmoded hairstyles.
屋內幽黯，其中的木板隔間看來絕不比木屋的外貌堅固。月曆板上掛滿了中文月曆，從五、六十年代一直到最近，蒙塵泛黃的月曆紙上，老髮型、老化的港台明星，稚嫩年輕地搔首弄姿。書桌上星散著書本紙張帳單，其中還有一隻信封，老派克深藍寫著「鄭保收」。