years, is indeed the most ruthless thief.
News came in the morning that Luo Qirui, the director of " Thief of Years ", passed away. In the evening, a news pop-up almost made me cry: Ni Kuang passed away. It is said that the time of death was 1 pm on the 3rd, and he passed away peacefully at home.
Ni Kuang, Jin Yong, Huang Zhan and Cai Lam are known as the "Four Great Talents in Hong Kong".
Jackie Chan posted a message to mourn Ni Kuang and said: "What happened today... I just learned that senior Ni Kuang has also passed away. The Hong Kong talent in our hearts represents the splendor of an era. I miss you." A few hours ago, Jackie Chan just posted a message to mourn Luo Qirui. director.
Andy Lau, who once played Wesley in the movie "Wesley Blue Bloods", said that Ni Kuang is a learned elder and a wise old man. He has consulted the teacher many times and benefited a lot. It is a rare fate to know him. I wish him the best. Mr. Ni Kuang has a good trip.
The media called Ni Kuang’s daughter-in-law Zhou Huimin . Her agent said that she was in grief and hoped that the media would not disturb her.
Huang Zhan once wrote in a column that Ni Kuang’s coming to Hong Kong was a legend.
In his writing, Ni Kuang came to Hong Kong and rode a thin horse on a winter night, galloping thousands of miles in the snow. It sounds like a martial arts novel written by Gu Long .
Later, Cai Lam asked Ni Kuang about this matter, "Some people said that you rode a horse, like a knight, all the way to Hong Kong..."
Ni Kuang said that this was nonsense: "It's such a long way, ask them to ride it for me. Look. "
But it is true that Ni Kuang writes as fast as a horse.
His fastest writing record is 2,500 words in one hour. For several years, he wrote 20,000 words a day, 10,000 words in the morning, and another 10,000 words in the afternoon, because he was writing long serials for 12 newspapers at the same time. Ni Kuang once joked that he is "the person who writes the most Chinese characters since the beginning of mankind."
It was during his brief period of ghostwriting for Jin Yong that the readers who hated Azi for " Tian Long Ba Bu " vented their anger and wrote Azi blindly. When Jin Yong came back, he had to work hard to bring the story back.
is also Ni Kuang. He gave birth to a son named Ni Zhen and married a peerless beauty named Zhou Huimin.
In 1992, Ni Kuang moved to San Francisco. Except for shopping for groceries and newspapers, he never left the house. From then on, this Hong Kong romantic talent gradually turned into the father-in-law Zhou Huimin described by the media. Even if Ni Kuang passed away today, many media would add a line in front of his name, "Eunuch Zhou Huimin."
The new generation of young people no longer read "Wesley", and they don't know that he is Huang Zhan's close friend and Gu Long's close friend, nor do they know that his most proud couplet in his life: repeatedly wrote screenplays for Zhang Che, and once wrote novels for Jin Yong.
Like the media writers who added the words "Eunuch Zhou Huimin" before Ni Kuang's name, the new generation no longer knows what is so great about the romantic talent who was famous in Hong Kong back then.
The epitaph written by Ni Kuang for himself during his lifetime: "Think more about the benefits of my life, and don't talk about the disadvantages of my death."
Since many people no longer know or remember, I will talk about the benefits of a generation of romantic talents during their lifetime. explain.
At this moment, the white horse of time is far away. I am afraid that this generation will never be able to imitate that gorgeous Hong Kong entertainment era and the style of a generation of romantic talents.
1. Writing the most profitable articles
Those legends who traveled far away are actually anchors in time.
The world is like a boat, time is like a river, and the boat is sailing on the water. Only these anchors can help us grasp the glory of the past.
Hong Kong has many legends, but when it comes to writing, none is more legendary than Ni Kuang.
At that time, he compiled 261 martial arts films for Shaw Brothers , single-handedly writing a golden age of Shaw Brothers martial arts movies. He has written 145 Wesleyan science fiction novels with over 80 million words, leading the science fiction trend for thirty years.
But all stories begin with lack of money.
Many years later, someone ridiculed: Ni Kuang's writing ability is directly proportional to his lack of money. The more money he lacks, the faster he writes.
In 1957, 22-year-old Ni Kuang came to Hong Kong. He first took a train to Guangzhou, then took a boat to Macau, and finally arrived in Hong Kong from Macau.
Later on "Undefended Tonight", Cai Lam asked him "What was the first thing after arriving in Hong Kong?" He replied: "Eat a bowl of barbecued pork rice."
Ni Kuang also recalled and praised that there is such a good thing in the world. Barbecued pork rice!
A big bowl of rice was filled with a few pieces of barbecued pork on top. It was so fat that the oil overflowed. Ni Kuang said that the feeling was something he would never forget.
Although Ni Kuang's parents were in Hong Kong at that time, Ni Kuang did not want to increase the burden on his parents, so he and a large group of young people were at the construction site of Tsuen Wan , waiting for the foreman to call to start work.
's daily salary is three yuan and seventy, and the foreman takes eighty cents, leaving two yuan and ninety cents.
At that time, the workers were very united. Those who were working took the money and went back to have dinner with those who were not working. If you don’t have enough money to eat, you use it to drink coffee, because sugar is free and you can take it as you like.
Once everyone was waiting for work to start at the construction site and read the newspaper in their free time. The most popular ones at that time were the martial arts novels in the supplement. Ni Kuang said while reading: "I can also write this kind of thing."
Everyone didn't believe it, Ni Kuang I spent an afternoon writing to them. After
was finished, everyone encouraged Ni Kuang to contribute.
Ni Kuang wrote an article and submitted it. A few days later, the editor came to negotiate with Ni Kuang. Not only did he adopt it, but he also paid Ni Kuang 90 yuan as a manuscript fee.
html What is the concept of 090 yuan? Back then, Ni Kuang earned 2.9 yuan a day as a worker.After that, he submitted more than ten articles at the frequency of one article per day, all of which were adopted.
Finally, he simply wrote a column in the Industrial and Commercial Daily. The column was called Shengfanji, which means that if you write every day, rice will be born.
Later, he helped Taiwanese celebrity Sima Ling ghostwrite a series for several weeks, which received rave reviews from readers.
When Sima Ling learned about it, he was furious. After reading it, he said to Ni Kuang, "The sequel is very good." Ni Kuang laughed and said: Not only is it very good, it is simply written better than you.
As his fame grew, Ni Kuang had to deal with requests for articles from 12 newspapers at the same time.
He hammered 12 nails on the wall, clipped the novel manuscripts correspondingly, took out one at random, and started writing.
Once upon a time, Ni Kuang was invited to write the science fiction series "Mulan" and the column became extremely popular.
My daughter stayed up all night before the exam to read the Magnolia story. She knocked on his door at 5 o'clock in the morning and said, your story makes no sense.
Ni Kuang said: I read nonsense all night long.
Although the column is very profitable, it was his old friend Jin Yong who really helped Ni Kuang become the Ni Kuang he is today.
Ni Kuang first wrote martial arts novels in Ming Pao. In 1962, Jin Yong encouraged him to write his own novels. At that time, two of Ni Kuang's martial arts novels were serialized in the newspaper. But Jin Yong asked Ni Kuang to write another novel of the new school. After hearing this, Ni Kuang said, "Instead of writing about the new school, it is better to write something completely different from the old one."
If a popular author does not write the most popular martial arts novel of the year, there is a high probability that other editors will I don’t agree, but Jin Yong is not an ordinary person.
Jin Yong agreed, and Ni Kuang turned from martial arts to science fiction. The era of founding a sect is coming soon.
One day Ni Kuang was taking a bus and passing by Wesley Village in Hong Kong, and he named Wesley the protagonist. Created the "Wesley" series. When the
series was at its peak, there were rumors in the publishing industry that even if Ni Kuang published a wordless heavenly book, it would be sold out quickly.
Later, Wang Jing and TVB all filmed this series. Chow Yun-fat , Xu Guanjie , Luo Jialiang , Wu Qilong , Andy Lau, and Shawn Yue all played the role of Wesley.
Jin Yong commented on Ni Kuang: The infinite universe, endless time and space, infinite possibilities, and the eternal contradiction between the impermanent life are woven from this head.
With this brain weaving, there are endless royalties. At the peak of
, Ni Kuang wrote twelve serialized novels and four or five columns a day. The manuscript fee plus the copyright fee for publishing the book is not a small amount.
No wonder Huang Zhandu lamented that almost no one in Hong Kong can make a fortune by writing, including Jin Yong. "There is only one Ni Kuang, my eldest brother."
But writing a book is not enough.
At that time, martial arts movies were on the rise in Hong Kong. Director Chang Cheh knew what he had in mind and was good at turning routines into magic, so he came to see him personally.
As a result, Ni Kuang wrote "One-Armed Sword" in a few words. Zhang Che recruited Wang Yu to shoot, creating a new trend of martial arts movies in Hong Kong, with a box office of over one million, and has become a genre of its own since then.
Later " New One-Armed Knife ", Ti Lung "Bodyguard" and " Stabbing Horse " co-produced by Ti Lung Jiang David, and later "The Heroes" filmed to commemorate Chang Cheh's 40th anniversary in the industry, the scripts were all written by Ni Kuang .
In addition to working with Zhang Che, he has also collaborated with Chu Yuan and Liu Jialiang . The martial arts movies back then were huge hits as long as they had Ni Kuang's name on them.
Therefore, Ni Kuang's script fee has always been the ceiling in the script industry.
started with 5,000, and by the time he wrote the last one, it had reached 50,000.
Many fellow screenwriters lamented: "It was Ni Kuang who increased the salary of screenwriters. Otherwise, the script would be disproportionate to the film production fee."
In 1972, Ni Kuang also wrote a script for an action star who had just returned to Hong Kong to develop his career. . At that time, he was reading the news in the newspaper and found out that Huo Yuanjia had a great disciple, so he wrote the book "Fist of Fury".
This star is called Bruce Lee .
"Fist of Fury" was released, and Bruce Lee took Ni Kuang to the theater to watch it. Bruce Lee was so nervous that his palms were sweating, but Ni Kuang was very calm.
The movie was a box office hit and received rave reviews. Some scholars began to study Chen Zhen's life. When Ni Kuang heard this, he laughed and said: I made up all Chen Zhen’s stories.
2, Make the best friends
Although he has made extraordinary achievements in his life, the ranking of fame, fortune and friendship in Ni Kuang's heart can be seen from the couplet written by Ni Kuang - "he has repeatedly written scripts for Zhang Che and once wrote novels for Jin Yong."
It can also be seen from this that Jin Yong holds great importance in Ni Kuang's heart.
In 1960, Ni Kuang serialized "The Legend of the Hidden Dragon of the Southern Ming Dynasty" in "Ming Pao", and at the same time also had a pen battle with Jin Yong in other pages.
The next year, the second anniversary of the founding of "Ming Pao", at the cocktail party, Mrs. Cha asked loudly: Is Ni Kuang here? He scolded us like this, how dare he come?
Ni Kuang said with a smile, I’ve been here for a long time, and I’m right behind you. Both laughed.
At the cocktail party, Jin Yongli invited Ni Kuang to work at "Ming Pao". This realistic plot is quite martial arts.
Ni Kuang said that the happiest thing in his life was getting drunk at Jin Yong's house and yelling at the waiter to bring him some wine, and Mrs. Cha immediately handed him whiskey .
Jin Yong loved talents, and the two of them were playing cards. Ni Kuangshu got so anxious that he slapped the table and left, and Jin Yong even called to coax him back.
Once, Ni Kuang lied and said that the money he lost was supposed to be used to buy a camera. After hearing this, Jin Yong immediately gave him a brand-name camera.
To what extent did Jin Yong trust Ni Kuang? He wrote martial arts novels throughout his life and only found one person to write for him, and that was Ni Kuang.
When Jin Yong went to Europe, the serialization of "Dragon and the Eight Parts" could not be discontinued. After much deliberation, it was handed over to Ni Kuang. Before going abroad, Jin Yong repeatedly told Ni Kuang that no character could be "written to death" and he also asked another well-known writer Dong Qianli to help supervise.
You can’t write a character to death, but Ni Kuang didn’t like Ah Zi, so he made her blind. When Jin Yong came back to see it, he had no choice but to write a new romance between Azi and Zhuang Juxian to heal his eyes.
When Ni Kuang serialized "Wesley" in "Ming Pao", he wrote about the plot of "The Furnace at the Center of the Earth": Wesley jumped from the plane after arriving at the Antarctic, and killed a polar bear in order to fill his stomach and keep warm.
A serious reader wrote to Ni Kuang repeatedly: Where are the polar bears in Antarctica on earth?
Later, Ni Kuang simply responded in a large font in a separate issue of Ming Pao: There are no polar bears in Antarctica, but there is no Wesley in the world.
In the end, Jin Yong came out to smooth things over and said: The reason why there are no polar bears in Antarctica is because they were eaten by Wesley.
Ni Kuang and Jin Yong are intertwined because of their talents, and they are congenial with Gu Long.
Ni Kuang has many friends, but among his best friends, Gu Long is the most loyal.
At that time, Gu Long's novels were marginalized in Taiwan, China. After Ni Kuang read it, he asked him to write " Peerless Two Prides " for "Ming Pao" and became a close friend from then on.
In those years, he often flew to Taiwan, and he would never return until he was drunk with Gu Long. Once he went to Taipei without notifying Gu Long. After Gu Long learned about it, he immediately searched Taipei hotels to find Ni Kuang.
Gu Long values love and justice, and so does Ni Kuang.
Later, Gu Long was accidentally transfused with hepatitis blood and died soon after. The old friends and friends disappeared in an instant, and only Ni Kuang immediately rushed to Taiwan, China, to prepare for his funeral.
Ni Kuang wrote a 300-word obituary and said it was the best article he had ever written in his life.
During the funeral, he stayed at the ancient dragon head for seven nights, expecting to dream of his old friend. But after that, he dreamed of many people, but not Gu Long.
Gu Long valued Ni Kuang's friendship very seriously. He once said: "If someone wants to kill Ni Kuang with a knife, I am the only one in the world who can block his knife."
Gu Long never had the chance to block Ni Kuang's knife in his life, but Gu Long is a worthy friend.
As for Cai Lam, it was Ni Kuang who first introduced him to Ming Pao to write for Jin Yong.
When Ni Kuang was playing in the world of mortals, Cai Lam carved a chapter for him: There are four remaining good qualities: wine, sex and wealth.
In his later years, Ni Kuang and Cai Lam said, forget it, please help me change it to "all four elements are empty".
As a result, Cai Lam really sent a print, with only four empty columns.
As the saying goes, it is originally empty, so why fill it with words.
No wonder Ni Kuang once praised Cai Lan, "Although he was a famous scholar in the Wei and Jin Dynasties, he was still not as good as him."
3, Photographing the most beautiful woman
In the engraved seal, Cai Lam commented that Ni Kuang's life was one of "wine, sex and wealth", which is absolutely true. But if not, Hong Kong Entertainment may be missing a legendary variety show that scored 9.5 on Douban.
In 1989, Ni Kuang fell in love with female nightclub managers who still had charm, and the three of them often went to nightclubs to tell jokes to the girls.
As a result, the female manager failed to catch up and the money was wasted. Ni Kuang was very sad, and Huang Zhan said, instead of spending money for them, we should make money by telling jokes on our own shows.
After saying that, he went to the TV station to find someone. TVB would not do this kind of program, but ATV was happy to do it, invested money and resources, invited three talented people, and produced the famous "Undefended Tonight".
In the program, the three of them are like ducks in water, laughing and cursing without any defense in the program. Most of the male stars on the show are top superstars like Leslie Cheung, Chow Yun-fat, and Jackie Chan, or great directors like John Woo and Huang Baiming.
The female stars who can appear on the show are all the most popular and beautiful female stars such as Brigitte Lin , Wang Zuxian , Maggie Cheung , Rosamund Kwan , Chung Chuhong , and they are indispensable.
The goddess Maggie Cheung was once asked by Ni Kuang: Why did she participate in a beauty pageant when she debuted? Was it because of vanity?
results Manshen actually said to the camera generously: Yes, it is definitely vanity.
Lin Qingxia generously told the story of her love affair with Qin Han, Rosamund Kwan thought she had "no worries" about getting involved, and Joey Wong said he took the initiative to ask for a kiss from Qi Qin.
No wonder Chow Yun-fat said to the three of them when he was on the show: "I heard that this is not called talk, it should be called nonsense." Despite this, the audience was very happy to watch it, and it repeatedly set ratings records.
Once Cai Lam was making a movie and asked Ni Kuang to make a guest appearance as a writer. He said that he could drink Louis XIII when he came.
Ni Kuang played well, and Cai Lam asked him to play the prostitute again. As a result, Ni Kuang became extremely drunk before filming even started. Sammo Hung had to carry him on the field. When the movie
was released, someone approached Ni Kuang's wife Li Guozhen and said that it was really indecent for a great writer to play a prostitute.
Mrs. Ni said: "Writers and prostitutes all act in their true colors."
Ni Kuang likes to flirt with women, but he always has a harmonious family and puts his wife "first".
The most practical thing is to give half of the money earned from writing articles to his wife, but fortunately, this prevents him from draining the family fortune.
Although Ni Kuang has become more and more withdrawn in his middle age, the film and television dramas adapted from his works can be said to be a collection of outstanding Hong Kong films. Just one " Yuan Zhenxia " has gathered Michelle Reis , Zhu Yin , Hong Xin , Faye Wong and other famous beauties.
Ni Kuang is good at photographing beauties. His son Ni Zhen is not as talented as his father, but he is quite good at marrying beauties.
He pursued Li Jiaxin when he was young, and had scandals with Chen Farong and others. Finally, he married Zhou Huimin, and the scandals continued. As a result, Zhou Huimin left the best response article in the entertainment industry.
In 2020, Zhou Huimin also posted a group photo to celebrate her father-in-law Ni Kuang's birthday. In the photo, Zhou Huimin is leaning on her father-in-law's shoulder, both of them are smiling. Zhou Huimin wrote next to the picture: "I love your dad, happy birthday."
Zhou Huimin once said that her father-in-law Ni Kuang is a special old man with a pure heart. As a daughter-in-law, she doesn't have to deliberately maintain her relationship with her father-in-law, and can get along with him very comfortably and easily. He also praised Ni Kuang for always maintaining a praising attitude toward things, so he lived a very happy life.
Later, Cai Lan came to visit Ni Kuang's room and was suddenly attracted by a wall calendar. Because the cover of the calendar is a Hong Kong actress.
Cai Lam deliberately asked: "Wow! Who is this, I don't know, haha..." It turned out that the female star was Zhou Huimin,
Ni Kuang's face was full of happiness and he smiled with "hahaha".
Ni Kuang loved beauty all his life, but he was only romantic and never obscene.
In a sense, Ni Kuang was also born in a good era, because it was catching up with the golden age of Hong Kong entertainment. The people he had worked with, such as Wang Zuxian, Brigitte Lin, Chung Chung, and Michelle Reis, were at the peak of their beauty. In Ni Kuang's works, they also left She had the most peerless appearance.
The most glorious days of Hong Kong entertainment are no more.
4. Only Chua Lam is left among the four great talents in Hong Kong. There will no longer be any talented people in this generation.
Chua Lam once commented on Ni Kuang, saying, "Ni Kuang is not a human being, but an alien. His mind is very flexible, and the things he thinks about are very strange and strange." He's weird, so it's very pleasant to talk to him, and we laugh a lot."
But Cai Lam is probably a little lonely now.
He is the only one of the "Four Great Talents in Hong Kong" left in the world.
The last time Huang Zhan, Ni Kuang, and Chua Lam, the three great talents in Hong Kong, were in the same frame was in the program "Cai Lam's Life Is So Fun".
In 1992, Ni Kuang went to live in the United States and left a statement: "I have decided to fade away. From now on, the clouds and cranes are wandering around the world; I am drunk with the world, the sun and the moon in the pot; I sit in the bamboo and read among the flowers; there is no self in the world, and the troubles are caused by it." He knows old and new friends, and if he accidentally thinks about it, it can be regarded as an early bliss."
After arriving in the United States, he did carpentry, raised flowers and birds, played with shells, cooked good food, and concentrated on enjoying life.
In order to see his old friend, Cai Lan made up his mind: "Since the monk can't come to the temple, we will move the temple to the monk's place!"
So he asked TVB to send a location team and directly bring "Huang Laoxie" to kill Go to Ni Kuang's home in San Francisco.
Huang Zhan asked Ni Kuang, what are you doing now?
Unexpectedly, Ni Kuang complained that I am so busy now. Huang Zhan looked surprised.
Ni Kuang explained with his fingers that now he has to buy vegetables, cook, sweep the floor, take out the garbage, plant flowers, raise fish, read books, listen to music, watch videos, plus sleep and daze... 24 hours a day is not enough at all. use.
Huang Zhan laughed loudly: "You are busier now than when you were in Hong Kong."
In 2006, 71-year-old Ni Kuang returned to Hong Kong to settle down, and still indulged himself in words and deeds.
When the paparazzi took pictures of him, he never shied away. Instead, he took the initiative to get into the paparazzi's car and asked them to help him get to his destination.
But Ni Kuang in his later years was actually already plagued by diseases. He suffered from a very serious skin cancer before his death, but he chose not to receive treatment, saying that he was too old to do any treatment, not to mention electrotherapy and chemotherapy. He said, just use some ointment to reduce the pain.
He has stopped writing novel scripts a long time ago.
Because one time he suddenly realized that his writing quota had been exhausted, he took the initiative to write Wesley, and the last one was titled "Old Friends Only".It is written that Wesley and Bai Su boarded an alien spacecraft and traveled in the sky from then on, with their whereabouts unknown.
In 2012, Ni Kuang won the Lifetime Achievement Award at the 31st Hong Kong Film Awards .
Ni Kuang, 77 years old at that time, slowly came on stage and took out his speech. Everyone thought he was going to have a long speech.
In the end, he just said: "Don't worry, everyone, I won't talk for a long time. Thank you to the conference, thank you all, thank you." The presenting guest Tsui Hark on the side said:
For so many years, I have been filming martial arts, not science fiction. I’m just waiting for the technology to mature before I can shoot your classics.
Ni Kuang replied with a smile: It’s up to you, I don’t care. Then left the scene.
Ni Kuang’s last public appearance was at Mr. Jin Yong’s funeral. Now that he has left, there are not many old friends left to see him off.
In fact, life is like this. Legends eventually become old things and eventually disappear in the fireworks of the world.
Once when Cai Lam came home, he saw Ni Kuang looking at flowers for more than 4 hours, just waiting for them to bloom.
And the flowers bloom and fall, the original number is ordinary. In the end, the romantic past will inevitably wither in the gaps of time.
is actually more than just Ni Kuang?
Among the beauties he had a drink and chat with on "Undefended Tonight", Joey Wang has long since retired from the film industry, Brigitte Lin has returned to her family, Maggie Cheung is engaged in rock , and Rosamund Kwan stays alone in her mansion.
The past is separated by mountains and rivers, dancing in pavilions and singing stages, and the wind is always blown away by the rain.
When Gu Long passed away, Ni Kuang and a group of friends who were addicted to alcohol prepared to bury 48 bottles of foreign wine in the ground for Gu Long. As a result, someone in the crowd said, "He must be lonely drinking down there alone."
As soon as Ni Kuang heard that it made sense, he drank dozens of bottles of foreign wine with his friends.
In 2002, Zhang Che drove Hexi to the west. Above the mourning hall, Wang Yu, John Woo, Chu Yuan, Xu Guanwen , Huang Zhan and Cai Lan supported the spirit.
There is a couplet on the mourning hall, "The sound of nature spreads in the mountains, and the one-armed tree carries the majestic wind." Gao Shan refers to "High Mountain Green", and "One Arm" refers to the movie "One-Armed Sword". The elegiac couplet was written by Huang Zhan. After finishing writing, Huang Zhan made a special call to Ni Kuang to ask how it went.
Cai Lam asked: "What did he say?"
Huang Zhan: "He laughed four times and said it perfectly. If I die another day, you will write it."
Unexpectedly, Huang Zhan passed away two years later. . After hearing the bad news, Ni Kuang couldn't eat for three days.
As time goes by, those old friends who once shone in Hong Kong have been taken away one by one by time. One after another, Zhang Che left, Huang Zhan left, Leslie Cheung left, and Mr. Jin Yong left. In the past two years, Wang Yu left, and now Ni Kuang is gone too.
Every time one more person leaves, another part of the world is missing, but as time rolls forward, farewell will come sooner or later.
White clouds gather and disperse, life is separated, it is a common thing. There is no difference between the theater and the human world, and time changes in just an instant. Master
takes his final call, the theater lights turn on, and after the show is over, life continues.
I just don’t know what kind of elegiac couplet “Huang Laoxie” would write for Ni Kuang if he were here.
Maybe he would write like this - the first line is, a laugh spreads across the sea, the second line, the tide is rolling across the Taiwan Strait, horizontal criticism - ups and downs follow the waves, just remember the smile of the day.
