Man proposes, God disposes

A few days ago, I chanced upon an old HK movie, starring Miu Kiu Wai and Ken Tong as sons of two rival Taikos. The scene when I watched it was when one of the fathers was already dying in hospital, yet the rivals wanted to settle some score. As usual, there were devious scheming and back-stabbing within each group. But what struck me was the dying man's instruction to his elder son (Miu) that sibling rivalry will tear them apart and it was his duty to uphold the family business (or was it their Triad group's?) name of 'Hing Loong'.

To cut the long story short, the elder brother actually sacrificed his life during a gun battle, not only to save his younger and naïve (in Triad terms) brother's life, but so that he could carry on the family business on a clean slate. He even told the police officer that he was responsible for all the crimes linked to his brother. The father had earlier got out of Triad connections, but we have often seen in films, something very difficult to sever completely.

Towards the end of the film, an antique chair was shown with the comments, 'Nobody could or dared to sit on this chair', followed by another picture of the same chair in an antique shop with the price say, $385 crossed out to show $285! This goes to show no matter how great a person had been, 'Man proposes, God disposes'.

I had come across people commenting about a certain property, 'The owner will never sell, no matter at what price.' But come the next generation, if not the following generation, the original cherished sentiment will mean nothing to the descendants.
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