Freaking lunch, too much but finished.

test 3

test 2

iphone testing

This one too.

Dont know why, but I like this pic very much.

In-I does remind me of Cafe Muller

How good can human goodness to be?

without boundary, I would say.

Supposed to be Mandarin Oriental, Beijing

Not too bad even now.

A late post.

Cant verify from the site of AI, but the image is from

here.

FOC.

Composition is not that great, but the color is
astonishing.

The most beautiful thing in life is always free.

I knew the sky would be different when I stepped out today.

(straight from camera)

Gift

Gift

A day so happy.
Fog lifted early. I worked in the garden.
Hummingbirds were stopping over the honeysuckle flowers.
There was no thing on earth I wanted to possess.
I knew no one worth my envying him.
Whatever evil I had suffered, I forgot.
To think that once I was the same man did not embarrass me.
In my body I felt no pain.
When straightening up, I saw blue sea and sails.

禮物 

如此幸福的一天。 

霧一早就散了，我在花園里干活 

蜂鳥停在忍冬花上 

這世上沒有一樣東西我想擁有。 

我知道沒有一個人值得我嫉妒。

我遭受過的邪惡，我都已忘記。 

想到我曾經是這同一個人并不使我難堪。 

在我体內，我沒有感到痛苦。 

當我直起身來，看見蔚藍的大海和船帆。

by Czeslaw Milosz

Can pain be beautiful?

Is there a intrinsic nature of joy in Pain?

Or just a perversion from Goodness.

'Why is so much pain depicted in the art of the West? Beginning with a meditation on Auschwitz, the prizewinning author then takes us on a journey that encompasses the stone-bound screams of classical sculpture, the many depictions of the Crucifixion, the Massacre of the Innocents and St. Sebastians pierced with arrows, self-portraits of the aging Rembrandt, and the tortured art of Vincent van Gogh.'

from the description of the book.

A snap from my living room window. A min ago.

他用感受思想，或者說用身体思想，而不是用理論或學說思想

如今，敘事作家越來越多，以小說為主的文學刊物數也數不過來，電影敘事已經成為市民生活中必不可少的形而上的世界。据說，敘事作家的本領全在于對生活感覺的敏感，能夠感受出黃昏的恐慌，清晨的厭倦……生活中的每一個人都有自己的故事要說或想說，而且，有獨特感受力的人并不少見。每個人都在切身地感受生活，感受屬于自己的黃昏和清晨的顏色，衹是程度和廣度不同而已。為什么不是每個人都是敘事家？對生活的敏感衹是成為敘事家的充分條件，而不是必要條件。生活的敏感滲透到生活的隱喻中，往往讓人失去言語的表達能力，這就是為什么盡管對生活的隱喻世界有所感的人并不少，而敘事作家卻不多。講故事需要一种運用語言表達對生命中的微妙音色的感受，突破生活的表征言語織体的能力。生活在言語中，人人都在言語中生活。敘事家是那种能夠反向運用語言，進入形而上的文字世界的人。人人都在生活，但生活有看得見的一面──生活的表征層面中浮動的嘈雜，有看不見的一面──生活的隱喻層面中的輕微的音色。 敘事家大致有三种：衹能感受生活的表征層面中浮動的嘈雜，大眾化地運用語言的，是流俗的敘事作家，他們絕不缺乏講故事的才能﹔能夠在生活的隱喻層面感受生活，運用個体化的語言把感受編織成故事敘述出來的，是敘事藝術家﹔不僅在生活的隱喻層面感受生活，并在其中思想，用寓意的語言把感受的思想表達出來的人，是敘事思想家──基耶斯洛夫斯基就是這樣的敘事思想家，他用感受思想，或者說用身体思想，而不是用理論或學說思想。

愛的碎片的惊鴻一瞥 -- 劉小楓

Could have.

It could have happened.
It had to happen.
It happened earlier. Later.
Nearer. Farther off.
It happened, but not to you.

You were saved because you were the first.
You were saved because you were the last.
Alone. With others.
On the right. The left.
Because it was raining. Because of the shade.
Because the day was sunny.

You were in luck -- there was a forest.
You were in luck -- there were no trees.
You were in luck -- a rake, a hook, a beam, a brake,
A jamb, a turn, a quarter-inch, an instant . . .

So you're here? Still dizzy from
another dodge, close shave, reprieve?
One hole in the net and you slipped through?
I couldn't be more shocked or
speechless.
Listen,
how your heart pounds inside me.

by Wislawa Szymborska

(a screen capture of a movie)

Man Thinks, God Laughs.

by Milan Kundera

This is a snap of my friend I took in the middle of a dinner.  I spotted the scene on my way to toilet and requested her to be taken.

Arbitrariness always constitutes a major source of beauty

for me. It is a foundation element in my works, as well

my life. 

The best way out is always through.

by Robert Frost.

At least I think.

In my college days,  photos by Herb Ritts, Mapplethorpe, Avedon often caught my eyes.  

I recently found out about Alexey Brodovitch, the art director of Harper's Bazaar from 1938 to 58.

Avedon was also his student, no wonder.

I think that's it.  

Just a glimpse of his work will make me speechless.

Fashion and Art should be intertwined. At least I think.

deja vu II

(photo source unknown)

I forgot where I found the above pictures from the web already.

But, hey, deja vu again.

Luce Irigaray again.

I dig this book cover so much.

A poet looks at the world the way a man looks at a woman.

by Steven Wallace

當我還是蝴蝶的時候，我不知道自己如此地快樂。

....

我遇過這叢花嗎？或是這花的誕生是因為我？
我能再遇到他嗎？還是我從未盛開過？
不過，我知道那花從此印記成我的紋路

....

各站停靠  -- 蘇打綠

永遠站在雞蛋的那方

I added 永遠站在雞蛋的那方 to my msn personal message two days ago, and thus this msn history.

O 雞蛋?好咩? ^o)
A http://wordlife.blogbus.com/logs/2009/02/
O 我知道呀
A i see.
O 不過.... 我咁睇:覺得明知老虎會咬人重走去撩老虎果D人
A Then you need to ask what is the motive to 撩老虎
O 係其一，其二單單呢句野黎講有D語病(撇開果件事而言)如果雞蛋錯都stand by it呢個邏輯好有問題。
A did you read the whole speech?
O actually i always think they should 直接打老虎 rather than 撩老虎. just like the 辛亥革命。
O i read it, i knew the point of the article. i can understand the emotional side of it cos i'm a sentimental person; but of my dual personality, the logic is flaw n doesn't make sense
O i'd give my FULL support in a military revolution against a tyranny n peaceful demonstration against a democratic society but not the other way round. just my personal view.
A your view should be in line with the egg view.
O hm... i read the article again n some more new thoughts
A 雞蛋錯都stand by it. that is your point, right?
O hm.... .... i'd say only under certain circumstances i'd do that... but not without doubt
O e.g. 1. some uses the egg metaphor in June 4 incident, n as i said earlier, i'd fully support a coup rather than a demo against tyranny; e.g. 2 in reference to Gaza issues (more complicated). i've been to israel n saw how the palestine ppl live in isolation. my heart do goes out to the Gaza ppl. however, if u remember the battles of israelite conquering the promised land, for example the battle conquering Jericho, that's no different from a genocide. what do u think about that? israel is geographically surrounded by muslim country which would love to kick them out of the promised land, perhaps, that's something they must do to safeguard their own existence
A i think an egg may turn to a wall and vice versa， and that's may be a safeguard to be on the side of the egg.
A and the egg, even if it is wrong, it is the least damaging.
O :)
A it is not a perfect world. but I guess 永遠站在雞蛋的那方 is a easy and not too bad ethical choice. not to mention additional points he mentioned in the speech.



"Each of us is, more or less, an egg. Each of us is a unique, irreplaceable soul enclosed in a fragile shell. This is true of me, and it is true of each of you. And each of us, to a greater or lesser degree, is confronting a high, solid wall. The wall has a name: it is “The System.”

from Haruki Murakami, Jerusalem Prize Remarks

New blog address: blog.livedtwice.com

Thank you.

For 64

Two old paintings of mine.

What the

!!

I do not like Ai Weiwei's, the China contemporary art icon, works that much.
Or maybe I just don't understand.

But now he is really good for avoiding a vulgar word,
which I shamelessly find it to be very appropriate.

His blogs are also blocked due to his outspoken on another issue of
forgotten dead.

Here I posted his fresh in speech in honor of his spirit!

I may not agree with what you say, but I will defend to the death your right to say it.

by Voltaire

Finally, I could find a way to access blogspot from Beijing.

What a shame.