Friday, October 30, 2009

Looking forward to Dec
























Yesterday finally all of us met on Skype. We booked the tickets from Cartagena to Bogotá. It was just around 50 euros per person. Nice!

Now the plan is to take a bus from Bogotá to San Gil. From San Gil, we can make some trip around. Later we will continue with the bus trip to Santa Marta. Then we will be just at the beach.

Now I have to apply the visa for Colombia. Visa...

Thursday, June 04, 2009

Fabric Fever

Now my sewing fever is really growing. Bàrbara gave me an address of one fabric store. Lovely!!! :D Now my fingers are dancing...my sewing machine is calling me.

Unfortunately my budget for sewing machine is low. I could only get a normal home deco machine ¨Elna 6200¨. Maybe one day I will buy a serger with overlock function. Now...Hmmm...I will work with zigzag.

Tuesday, March 31, 2009

Spinning Jenny





K invited both of us for the event of Spinning Jenny. The idea of presenting new designer's work in such small scale event is quite nice. Designers provide a short clip of video of their collection. However, only few of them really serves the purpose. They should be clear with a outstanding theme.

Monday, March 30, 2009

巴黎的兰州拉面


It was a surprise for the trip to Paris.

Night Ride Home by Joni Mitchell





It was an amazing song for me, which few can take you somewhere else with them. I still remembered those old cassetts, which came with the magazine "音乐天堂"。Unfortunately...I lost most of them...but...of course the memory will be always there.

The "both sides now" from "Love actually" touches me again. I was looking for the singer... then once again I found Joni Mitchell after all those years. I checked out both version of the songs from the internet. One is from 1970 and the other from 2000. 30 years...her voice becomes...rich...







Tuesday, March 24, 2009

Zenet: Club Sala Apolo Barcelona




My first concert in Barcelona: Zenet. I bought the CD immediately after I watched MTV video of "Estella" on TV. The voice attracted me. The concert at Apolo was amazing. He has the charm. :D The magic of his songs on me is that now I really would like to learn Spanish. The language is really passionate.

Tuesday, February 24, 2009

food extinction

Today I watched BBC program 60 minutes: mystery of super superfood, bio-products et al. It claims that scientifically speaking, superfood or bio-products may contain more nutritions. But whether they show incredible health improvement on you??? We may doubt about it.

However, my concerns arise here is the nature beauty of food: the taste. Do you care only the nutritions??? The dry term of Vitmains??? Of couse, the taste of food may be too subjective to measue. But anyone do understand that wonderful experience on your tongue. Otherwise, we may just tube all those nutritions directly to our body.

Have you heard about extinction??? Yes, animal species in danger! How about food? Are apple species in danger or other ordinary food??? The answer is a definitely YES. Last X-mas, I spent a great holiday with Jutta. She owes a farm. Her special interest is rare sorts of our ordinary food. The blue potatos and carrots really catch my eyes and my appetite. She told me that in fact some old sorts of our ordinary food are disappeared or near to extinction. Of course, if one sort is difficult to grow, it will out of market even it has wonderful taste. The report will give all the data and claim it just has the same nutrition as the less tasty one. Of course!

Now we live in ansupermarkt life. All the food are packed, wraped, and in the right shape (I could not believe that there is a EU law for that). I do feel sad sometimes.

Saturday, February 14, 2009

Estela, Zenet