St. Jordi day

Chocolat!, Divinas (Club Capitol Barcelona)

It was a big surprise from St. Jordi day. We and "Slovenians" just bumped into them on the street (Rambla). They performed for a radio station there. They was singing "Crazy people". I love it! And...the big surprise is that there is a 50% off for St. Jordi week. Haaaa....

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...

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.

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.

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...

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.

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.

Estela, Zenet

陈云林，台湾，学生静坐，六四学运

陈云林走了，台湾的抗议围城运动也截止了，留下的却真是值得反思的。台湾学生现在还在静坐抗议。我也天天跟新闻有不少的感想。

1。警察行为是否失当？
也许，但现在无法鉴定，唱片店的负责人可以控告警察失当。比起单纯的抗议，大家吵成一团好。

2。改集会游行法？
可以谈，提出具体改的方案。我很同意新台湾星光大道的提议，集会还是要申请，警察也好控制，万一又有“黑道混入”怎麽办，地点要控制，交通至少的顺通的，但如果违例，不用拒马，一条黄线就好，冲过就可以拘禁。

比较六四学运，那时谁也没经验， 现在我相信同样的事件发生，政府会有不同的应对的，这不正是民主的发展吗？

3。民主，和平？
六四时，我还是六年级，只记得电视画面的混乱，有军人被烧死，有车辆被摧毁，也许我是被洗脑的，但士兵也是人，天安们母亲的痛苦，这些士兵的亲人也是有的。六四学运的诉求是对的，但后果呢，社会的混乱，谁来负责，学运的领导者都跑了，他们的血是没流的。

同样台湾的警察的伤和血似乎没人理，暴力小英，5点半也是走的。

最后在野党是应该抗议，天天街头见呢，还是积极参政，做实事呢？

Fuehrungszeugnis

Finally today my fuerungszeugnis arrived after...exactly four weeks. In fact, with German bureaucratic system, I waited for three weeks. Afterwards they sent a fax and I got it within two days.
My document and myself totally got lost in this bureaucratic chain. Luckily, it is written with KEINE EINTRAGUNG. :D

Umbrisch-Provenzalischer Markt 2008

Aix-en-Provence und Perugia

Little bus from Colombia!

30.08.08, Meilen, Amden, Switzerland

Meilen, Church



















Zurich lake



































Amden

Shakespeare Retold

Shakespeare is immortal. The "Shakespeare Retold" series is really brillian. Great literature should live forever since human nature (the passion, love and hate) is universal.

Macbeth: it is quite funny to see three garbage men instead of dancing weird witches. Of course, they do the fortune-telling as well. In the same way, it works for Macbeth, for his desire.

The taming of the shrew: the main female figure is a bit over done. It is hard to sell the "husband center" idea nowadays. Sometimes, two worst can be a match made in heaven.

Messenger Bag Project: makemagazine!!! :D

Matlab problem with Leopard!

Today finally I can run matlab on my macbook with Leopard. It seems that X11 should be installed automatically during the installation of Leopard. Unfortunately it is not. When you try to initial matlab app, it just pops out and disppears forever!!!

Thanks Xquartz project!!!

Here is the link: http://xquartz.macosforge.org/trac/wiki.

Miss Pettigrew Lives For A Day 另一场倾城之恋

Amy Adams 唱的 if I didnt care 真的是打动了我。
这里伦敦上空的警报成就了两个人的倾城之恋: Miss Delysia Lafosse or pain, old Sarah Grubb 和 Miss Pettigrew.

• We’re going to war, arent we?
• Yes, we are.
• And that is why you must not waste a second of this precious life
• listen to me.
• Once, I too had ambitions
• Not your grand ones, Simple ambitions
• Marriage, Children and a house of our own
• He died. In the mud in France.
• A good, solid man.
• You would call him dull, no doubt.
• but he smiled whenever he saw me, and we could’ve built a life on that.
• Your heart knows the truth, Delysia.
• Trust it, for life is short.

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If I didnt care

if I didnt care
more than words can say
if I didnt care
would I feel this way?
If this isnt love
then why do I thrill
and what makes my head go round and round
while my heart stands still
if I didnt care
would it be the same
would my every prayer begin and end
with just your name
and would I be sure that this is love
beyond compare
would all this be true
if I didnt care
for you

from thank you for smoking to conversations with other women

Conversations with other women

There are always nice people around you. You can definitely find someone nice and loves you. You probably fell in love with him or her too. However, keep the relationship going, specially in the right track, could be hard. Do cherish what you have, otherwise there would be just memory left for you.

La Teta y La Luna, 1994

Growing up is an amazing journey for everyone.




Beijing 2008 Olympic: Spanish people do have humor. :D