Do you remember me?
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Posted:Jul 30, 2007 12:02 am
Last Updated:Aug 19, 2007 8:25 pm 12354 Views
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Do you remember me?
I doubt if you do, after so long a time...
Today, while i boarded on a long haul bus from hometown to Macau, a woman called out my name, no, actually, my sister's name. I told her my true name.
Then she said she was my classmate. My eyes big open, 'are you my classmate or my sister's? i do not have any clue!'
She looked a bit disappointed, but she smiled and kind of encouraged me to think again.
'ah, are you Li?' Suddently i recalled her face as a Li in Junior High.
'No, my name is Wang...' Now she had to tell me.
My! This is a classmate fm primary school! She told me i was a monitor every term, and that she even visited and we played together in my first house in town.
'How old were we then?' I couldnt wondering.
'Not sure.'She answered.
We chatted for a while. Strangely, several classmate names fm that primary school sprang up to my mind. Yet how pitiful, we both had very little memory of those days. We exchanged sth abt current status. What's amazing, she's still single.
Just a funny weird encounter. Until now, i still could not recall how Wang looked as a girl. But i would remember her face in the sunshine while she got off the bus and stayed a bit at loss being in a new place. I waved my hands to her through the window but she did not notice...
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Back To Blog & Time to Love Again
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Posted:Jul 24, 2007 9:22 pm
Last Updated:Sep 11, 2007 1:51 am 12938 Views
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Finally back to blog. I was deep in my neck in work. So luckily i still remember my password.
How are you friends? and what's happening here? as if i were a new baby just opening its eys to this new world...
Today looks fine, sunny, breezy, light. Time for a cycling in the less populated Taipa, in the morning or evening; time for a good facial/massage; time for some clubbing; time for meeting ppl; time to pick up the long parted thick books; the waiting movie; and......; to write to you my words that cant be conveyed by mouth, i guess!
What's more important, time for spending a longer weekend with my grandmother, take her for some sunshine, massage her back, chat with her while there's not much time left...
Time for everything, time to love again!
Haha...
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Poemdom
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Posted:Jul 1, 2007 8:00 pm
Last Updated:Aug 16, 2007 9:25 pm 11844 Views
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Life is so superficious.
I would like to find time to share with you more Chinese ancient excerpts of poems, digging into its historic background and stories...
as if we were living still in the poemdom, where there's only dreams, drinks and plenty of trips around the country on a , in a boat...leaving behind many beautiful yet regretful memories...
A getaway out of today's realistic yet unbreathable modern life.
Contributions are cordially welcome! Pls you could also take us back to your poemdom.
Moreover, i'll start this only if there's enough interest from you. I dont want to play music to the buffalo.
I. 陌上花開, 可緩緩歸矣
(Hard to decide on a debut, pls allow some foreshadowing)
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Tight and Loose in Love Relationship
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Posted:Jun 29, 2007 9:43 pm
Last Updated:Aug 30, 2007 3:01 am 12350 Views
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I dont understand why you hold me so tight but love me so damn loose. -- Lyric, Mary Queen of Alaska (?)
Yes, same for me.
I dont understand why i hold you so tight but love you so damn loose.
How to be? the tense and fastness in love and in any human relationship.
Too tight, no good;
too loose, no good.
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How far is your home?
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Posted:Jun 26, 2007 5:54 am
Last Updated:Aug 2, 2007 2:35 am 13182 Views
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Dont ask me where i am from
My home(town) is in the far
-- San Mao, Taiwanese Writer (1948-1994?)
How far is your (physical) home from your (spiritual) home?
Is your home your ideal home?
What's home? What's home?
Well, dont be swayed by me. I just want to talk about what's the proper distance between your workplace and your home for relaxing and sleeping.
I know in Europe or the States, people get used to spending long on driving or commute, even for some hours.
I grow up in small city and now live in small city. So my home distance is always within walk and bicycle. But with my pesent-day residing place - Macau - becoming more and more busy/crazy, i want to move awaay. Yet still have to make a living in Macau.
Last night I found my dream home when i visited a friend in the outskirt of Zhuhai, a city adjacent to Macau -- the apartment in villa style low building located near the beach where both the moutain and cloud seemed so close; trees swing, worms sing in the night; the moon look at me from above the balcony; fresh breeze caress me while i read comfortably on the veranda...few people, few noice but just nature...it's like staying in a forest park!
I wanted to rent this apartment when the friend move out to antoher bigger one, to try one month first then further decide to rent or buy one in this property. I am sure i will be more myself staying there!
But, but the only concern is the distance. To reach my future home, i need to take the self-run bus by the property management for 40 minutes before reaching the Macau/Zhuhai border. Then cross the border with customs/immigration check and walk or bus to office. Imagine a double trip like this every other day.
Ok, to simplify it, I would spend 60-75 minutes more on the road for each trip btwn workplace and living place than in Macau, where i can always walk.
Would it be tiresome? I wonder.
How far is your home from work and the centre? how do you treat the long distance? How should i decide? The restful night away from the hectic Macau seems necessary for me, as i was told i became sick these days.
Tks for your ideas, if any...
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Do You Miss Macau?
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Posted:Jun 22, 2007 8:15 pm
Last Updated:Jun 29, 2007 2:18 am 11891 Views
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Well, Miss Macau beauty contest has stopped for some years. And, Miss Macau Restaurant named after the four legendary Macanese sisters crowned Miss Macau has also closed.
But do you miss Macau after returning from a short or long trip abroad? Hard to answer today? How about ten years back then?
Many friends like Macau ten/twenty years ago, much more peaceful and friendly. You could sip a coffee in the square outside Lisboa Hotel, then stroll down the willow path along Sai Van Bay. You could even walk in late night in any Macau street safely and leisurely, which would be deemed a crazy thing in current busy, polluted and seedy Macau.
Some say present-day Macau is not suitable for living and it is bad for health, citing its pollution of air, noise, light and overcrowding. My friend from Zhuhai who bet her holiday on Macau instead of Thailand was shocked by the car exhaust fumes attacking her anywhere she went. “Worse than Hong Kong!”, she commented. Exceptions are still Coloane Village and Hac Sac Beach, which are intact and ideal for people who love laidback environment with some fresh air. A Hong Kong songwriter chose to settle in Taipa, “Because Hong Kong was very tiring, yet Macau is now becoming tiresome…”
Possibly ike most of us, now it is hard for me to say ‘I miss Macau’ after leaving town for a period, at least not as easy as before when Macau nostalgia seemed to linger on us. I guess this is worrying: if one doesn’t miss one’s town, it merely means it is unpleasant, and, it is losing those characteristics that generate our feeling of belonging.
Some long-term Macau residents have chosen to stay away Macau. One of them is Lu Siva, a veteran pressman/editor, who stays only one third of the year in ‘new Macau’ and the rest in Asia.
Look at his feedback to my ‘do you miss Macau?’ question:
“What do I miss in the ‘new Macau’? More than what I miss is what I do not welcome, such as:
The gigantism of the new casinos and residential developments;
The super-over-crowded places;
The bursting-at-the-seams road traffic;
The pervading feeling of not belonging (just an overnight mad gambling place);
The sudden general anxiety of "make quick money from the boom before the bust";
The blatant unpreparedness of the government for its own big gamble...”
Does this Macau escapist take out your words?
According to Macau economist Ieong Wan Chong, Macau is a micro-economy. So do I say, Macau is a tiny territory characterized by leisure culture, a view shared by many insightful locals and Macau lovers alike. Despite how Macau is on the edge, when I walk in early morning or in evening, Macau is taking a brief rest from its bustle. I feel it lovely ‒ under the rarely blue sky small sheep (motorbikes) travel along pedestrians who walk with poise and greet one another in the narrow streets. What a uniquely idyllic tiny kingdom! You cannot find such ambience in any Chinese city, whose people have livelihood anxiety.
However, last night while I climbed up Macau’s touristic landmark S. Paul Ruins from its back, aspiring to some relaxing moments, a shining mammoth ‒ MGM casino tower ‒ stands up there in antic. To that point, I understood why so hard to say, ‘I miss you Macau’.
-- Wallow In Salt,6/22/07, the Macau Post Daily
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My Days
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Posted:Jun 21, 2007 3:32 am
Last Updated:Jun 21, 2007 7:51 pm 11842 Views
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days
noun plural
Etymology:from their being reckoned from the heliacal rising of the Star (Sirius)
Date:1538
1 : the period between early July and early September when the hot sultry weather of summer usually occurs in the northern hemisphere
2 : a period of stagnation or inactivity
For me, days mean my dry season; in Chinese perception, days mean miserable days one lives like a homeless dog. My days are characterized by:
1. Sultry and dry, no inspiration.
2. Soul bored, no inspiring lover/friends around.
3. Buried in non-profit work like a numb dog, in danger of losing freedom.
4. Gasping uneasily in the heat, body and mind stiff.
5. Searching for an ideal home but not hopefully...
What's more?
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High Mountain and Flowing Water Fm 3000y Ago
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Posted:Jun 13, 2007 8:33 pm
Last Updated:Apr 28, 2024 12:49 am 11177 Views
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pic: Guqin Elegancy fm Chinadaily
-- How to descripe it?
-- High Mountain and Flowing Water Fm 3000y Ago. The plunk touches your soul like the gurgling brook running pass a barren desert, then meandering through a deep emerald valley.
I like Guqin and this article for you to glimpse into Guqin is worth sharing. Please go find some Guqin music and enjoy the profoundness and naturalness it conveys.
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A Living Musical Fossil
Source: chinadaily
By Michelle Qiao (Shanghai Daily)
Guqin, the seven-stringed zither, was the most revered of traditional Chinese instruments, and playing it with skill and refinement was one of the four attainments of literati.
"It's like a beauty in her sweet sleep, breathing and gesturing so gracefully." Modern Chinese novelist Jia Pingwa thus described a guqin, a seven-stringed zither, in his essay "Red Fox." He named the instrument "Red Fox" because of its red-colored wood; he bought a big bed for the zither that measured as long as 130 centimeters.
As far back as 3,000 years ago, the guqin played the same important role for the Chinese literati who considered it the most refined of instruments.
"The guqin is an extremely beautiful ancient flower, a mirror of traditional Chinese philosophies and cultures," says Gong Yi, China's top guqin player.
"Among qin (guqin) qi (chess) shu (calligraphy) hua (painting), the four arts of the gentleman of the old Chinese scholar class, qin specifically indicates guqin, not music or other instruments," says Gong. "Most ancient Chinese literateurs were good at playing this instrument, such as Tang Dynasty (619-907 AD) poet Li Bai, Song Dynasty (960-1279) scholar Su Shi and even the great Confucius."
Four years ago guqin was named by UNESCO a Masterpiece of the Oral and Intangible Heritage of Humanity along with Kunqu Opera.
"This is because compared with other Chinese instruments, guqin is the only one that has both written and archeological evidence to prove its history of nearly 3,000 years," says Gong. "Those guqins unearthed from thousand-year-old tombs are rather similar to modern reproductions in terms of the structure, shape and the performing methods."
The guqin has no bridges and its effective vibrating length is longer than that of other instruments. The large vibrating amplitude and rich low tones are perfect for conveying the sounds of nature. More than 100 harmonics can be played.
Guqin is a beautiful instrument, and beautiful in an elegant way. The shape of the guqin is said to resemble the mythical phoenix. Actually, it's more like a long rectangle; it consists of a long narrow upper board and a wider lower board; it does not have a "neck." It is usually 130 centimeters in length and 20 centimeters in width. It has 13 studs on its sound board harmonic, and long, silky tassels.
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Famous guqin compositions
"High Mountain and Flowing Water"
The pieces were based on the legendary friendship between guqin musician Yu Boya and his soulmate, woodsman Zhong Ziqi, who could always understand what he tried to convey in his music. The piece describes the magnificence of high mountains, the power of flowing water, and their great friendship.
"Wild Geese Descending on the Sandbank"
This popular piece was first seen in a score published in 1634, 10 years before the collapse of Ming Dynasty (1368-1644). Famous for its relaxing melody, it appeared to be immune to the unstable political climate at the time.
"Xiao Xiang Shui Yun" ("The Clouds and Waters of the Rivers Xiao and Xiang")
It was derived from the feeling of many intellectuals in the Song Period (420-429 AD) of the Southern Dynasty (420-589 AD), who urged the government fight against northern invaders. There's anger in the piece, but also love for the beautiful scenery of their motherland
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No Women No Cry?
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Posted:Jun 12, 2007 12:21 am
Last Updated:Jun 13, 2007 8:18 pm 11846 Views
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Luv, dont shed tears for me...
--fm a Chinese Pop Song
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But TEARS said to be women's most mighty weapon...
So much so that a woman's cry toppled down Great Wall
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Why women cry?
No women no cry?
Men and women:
under what situation would you cry?
Do you hide your cry?
Do you make others cry?
What's your most unforgettable cry?
Men:
You dislike crying babes?
Women:
You like tearful honeys?
hoho...
---Swallow, post-cry
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Cooldown in Heatup
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Posted:Jun 8, 2007 2:13 am
Last Updated:Jun 8, 2007 2:21 am 11140 Views
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Hey friends.
Guess it's good to cooldown in heatup.
For blogging.
For loving.
For investing.
For everything.
even though the feeling's not fabulous.
You miss the passion
the push and pull.
the tick and tack.
the fun, zest, jelousy, guesses.
But guess it's also good to have breathing room and some void.
So when it comes back, it bursts again, with the colour, and wild beauty.
What's meaning of our existence, suddently.
Hey, dont be sleepy, next time let's see how to flirt well, open your eyes, protrude your lips.
p.s. The weather must attribute to our status quo.
Look, Guangzhou, 35 0c; Beijing, 36 oc, Macau, 32 oc, HK 34 oc; Bangkok 36 oc; Singapore 35 oc; some German city 28-32 oc; Lisbon - 30 oc; London - 26 oc....
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