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A desolation and beauteous song
(Jan.10,2009)
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By the Cathedral
Karen Ann
Darling
I will remember, darling
I've been
Mellow and tender
I've seen water
By the cathedral
Under the maple
It was in April
You wore a raincoat
By the cathedral
I wasn't able,
I was unable
Someday
You will forgive me darling
Someday
You will believe that I've seen thunder
By the cathedral
Under the maple
It was in April
You wore a raincoat
By the cathedral
I wasn't able,
I was unable
Darling
I will remember, darling
I've been
Mellow and tender
I've seen water
By the cathedral
I've seen thunder
But I was unable
Darling
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EU
DELEGATION NEW YEAR RECEPTION 2008
( Dec. 12,2008)
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Here
Comes the Party Season
Here comes the party season again as in the shift period between
the end of the old and the coming New Year. A lot of activites
have been piled on my calender schedule. They are:
Dec.
5-Finland Independance Day, Finland Embassy;
Dec.
8-(today)- 24th Saarc Charter Day Celebration, Beijing Marriot
Hotel;
Dec
11 - EU New Year Eve, EU Delegation Residence;
Auckland
University New Year Reception, Guibin Hotel;
Dec.
13- Japanese Sado Show, Japanese Research Center;
Dec.
15 – European Film Festival Show, French Cultural Center.
And
more…
It is
like watching the world at the standpoint of where you are.
The world is full of varieties and dynamics and that’s why
our life is wonderful and meaningful.
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To
Good Boy
(Nov.7,2008)
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i have no words to say, good boy. you are clever in some sense
by what you said. But for me i'm not happy by the very success
of Obamma, but amazed by your democratic and electoral system.
Maybe you are right- every country has its own way. Every
system has its own delicacies and powerness. You have more
broader vision than me coz you may have comparison. For me
i support Obama not because he's balack at all, but because
his personality and showing capability. But it is all in election
show which i am very clear about. I m not 100% sure about
Obama,on the other hand, i don't like McCain either. So let's
see ... I hope we will not be tricked. |
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Crazy
oct. 15 survived
(Oct.15,2008)
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Oct.
15th is kind of a rock on my heart for a couple of days. on
this day we will be having 5 foreign affairs "occuring'
or happenging whatever. And i am most responsible for the
two biggest fussy two delegations.From the early morning in
the office i began to be engaged by the rignt-before preparations.
And then in 10:30 the minster delegation coming. then meeting
with our authority, visitng different schools , having lunch
with another senior authority. And I - receiving calls, coordinatin
affairs, doing interpretation, paying fees for all the expenses...
then farwelling to the delgation, we received another delegation
in the afternoon from ireland, a what coke university college,
it was the president. then i accompanied the authority, doing
interpretation, accompanying at dinner all through till 8:30
at night. and ---- that is not all yet. then i came back to
office, writing report for the activities so as to pulicize
it in time tomorrow.
and finally i got to refused a invitaion from a friend in
the evening for some coffee thing.
I am exhauseted. My neck begins to pain. |
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Eagles
Desperado
(Aug.2,2008)
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desperado,
why don't you come to your senses?
you been out ridin' fences for so long now
oh, you're a hard one
i know that you got your reasons
these things that are pleasin' you
can hurt you somehow
don'
you draw the queen of diamonds, boy
she'll beat you if she's able
you know the queen of heats is always your best bet
now it seems to me, some fine things
have been laid upon your table
but you only want the ones that you can't get
desperado,
oh, you ain't gettin' no youger
your pain and your hunger, they're drivin' you home
and freedom, oh freedom well, that's just some people talkin'
your prison is walking through this world all alone
don't
your feet get cold in the winter time?
the sky won't snow and the sun won't shine
it's hard to tell the night time from the day
you're loosin' all your highs and lows
ain't it funny how the feeling goes away?
desperado,
why don't you come to your senses?
come down from your fences, open the gate
it may be rainin', but there's a rainbow above you
you better let somebody love you,
before it's too late
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Kate
Bush (June
12,2008)
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| Wuthering
Heights by Kate Bush was a Big Surprise to me when I heard
first time. And this time after almost one year it still sounds
awesome. Yes still super!
Kate
Bush with her songs for me is sort of a rebellion against
mainstream Western pop songs. For me Kate is a wonderlady.
She has uncommon high pitch voice; she sings beautiful songs
with touching and deep words; her face and dress are seemingly
oriental; and her stage performance is fantastically unique.
For one thing Kate gives me the fantacy of being Oriental.
But when you listen into her songs you have to unwillingly
admit yes she’s European.
Kate
is a mixture. She ‘s not only Western; she also belongs
to us…
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Words
for Ted
(June 5,2008)
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No Ted. I haven't finished the transfer of SA pics into my
space. and i can't now because of web space limit. SA pics
in my space now is only a tiny part of that in my camera.
So SA pics to be continued... Of course Moroccan and Tunisian
pics are also great! The world is so different!21:40 | 添加评论
| 固定链接 | 写入日志the most fancy hotel I've ever stayed in
The most fancy hotel I've ever stayed in is not in Western
Europe nor in China. It is Courtyard Hotel in South Africa.
The mos fancy hotel is not like a big mansion. like Hiton.
It is hotels like Courtyard in the form of a European farm
with flat villas. It is a Holland style tranquil yard. Chairman
Yang even lived in a two-storey wooden villa. SO COOL! And
in your wooden villa you;ve got everthing in it even pots,
spoons , knives and folks and plates and bowls of diffrent
kinds with very high quality, something like bread-making
machine- all kinds of kitchen facilities. You have comforatble
bathroom with steady warm water. You watch English TV chanels
not like the strange language programs in other countries;
You even hear SA radion stations in the room with beautiful
African or Western style music! Everything is awsome.
South Africa, one of the most fancy places in the world!! |
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The
myth of Africa
(June 3,2009)
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to Africa tumbled down the steroetype of Africa in my mind
like most peole imagine. Africa is not all black. Africa has
Arab culture, Africa has strong European imprint; Africa is
not all poverty. Africa has high material development, Africa
has huge abundant resources. In Morocco and Tunisia you see
great Mosques as well as pretty European houses everywhere.
You see beautiful men and women, kids and elder like European
or Arab or whatever the mix. In South Africa You get local
highly-ranked gem and diamand, you have cheap original ALOE,
you have awewome ocean and beach along side Atlantic and Indian
Oceans, you have villas in the hills facing the ocean.You
talk to White or Black South Africans with fluent native like
English and decent dressing and behavior and Western ways
of thinking, totally like middle-class Western Eurpeans and
Americans.But on the other side you also see clusters of humble
cabins where poor black people live.You will know the real
meaning of colonialism and capitalism when you go to SA. It
seems you have everything in Africa. |
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(April
18,2008)
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a song to share at this time
imagine there is no heaven
it is easy if you try
no hell below us
above us only sky
imagine all the people
living for today
imagine
there is no cuntries
it is not hard to do
nothing to kill or die for
and no religion too
imagine all the people
living life in peace
imagine
no possessions
I wonder if you can
no need for greed or hunger
a brotherhood of man
imagine all the people
sharing all the world
you
may say I am a dreamer
but I am not the only one
I hope someday you will join us
and the world will be as one
God
bless me
Going to Africa- Morocco, Tunesia and South Africa. Sounds
great and hope it to be great, but still have great pressure.
Incredible long time stay in the air, even a couple of flights
all through night. you have to be tough- long time endurance
in the plane without enough air, long time transfer from
one place to another by bus, long time exposure under African
strong sunshine and have to be first time transferred from
the northern half globe to the opposite........ really a
tough trip. And you and i can just look forward to finding
a thin dark-skinned "African girl" when i come
back.
I hope I can survive though heavily worried now. God bless
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MORE
THAN A SCANDAL
(March 4,2008)
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FINALLY
KNOW THE EFFECT OF A LOVE AFFAIR IN THE ENTERTAIMENT CIRCLE.
the noisy big scandal of sex pictures of Edison Chan directs
me to his works which i never paid attention to before. Just
saw some images of Edison in ad or some singing party and
had a rough idea about this handsome guy. And this time the
scandal roused my huge interest on Edison- begin to see his
MV, get to know his own company which is cool, and knowing
his growing up experience whatever it's true or false. And
the result is I find I love his songs and his style. so you
see Without the affair, i would not have known him better.
And as for this scandal , just as my colleague said, it's
none of everybody's business! The only one who should be blamed
is the guy who publicize those pics into the internet, and
that effctively did harm to our society, esp. the young people.
In a word, i just wanna say that I get to know an entertainer
bedcause of this big scandal and this guy's works i find out
is pretty cool.
Recommendation of Edison's MV: "Bad Boy's Sky"
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Brooke
Shields and the Blue Lagoon (Jan
28,2008)
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Still
remember the American movie beauty that tumbled the world
Brooke Shields? This time I finally got her in the famous
Blue Lagoon. That tells the story of Adam and Eve but in a
worldly version; in another sense it is also an American pioneer
story-found oneself cast in an isle and try to make it in
living on it, passing millions of difficulties, horrors,even
death. Totally DIY life and a pure sense wild and natrual
life,cut off from civilization. See what man and woman will
be like put in a 100% natrual sense.amazed and Have to show
respect to the American film industry men. Even in 80s they
made such wonderful movie to us.
P. S. Brooke shocked me more with her face and body than her
perfomance while Richard vise versa. I like Paddy the baby.
If you got tired of metropolitan life and felt enough of modern
civilization, try Blue Lagoon. And you will be touched.
(Jan 27,2008)
the shawshenk reduption
made me break into tears twice, almost fell in love with Andy.
Like the lines below:
-Fear can hold you prisoner, hope can set you free. A strong
man can save himself, a great man can save another.
-Some
birds aren't meant to be caged, that's all. Their feathers
are just too bright...---(That's for Andy!!)
-I find
I'm so excited. I can barely sit still or hold a thought
in my head. I think it the excitement only a free man can
feel, a free man at the start of a long journey whose conclusion
is uncertain. I hope I can make it across the border. I
hope to see my friend, and shake his hand. I hope the Pacific
is as blue as it has been in my dreams. I hope.
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MARIJUANA
(Nov.27,2008)
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Find
a very interesting thing, so interesting that I have to write
it down in my space. After I returned from Europe, every single
foreigner that has been told I have been in Holland asked
me a same question, “Have you tried Marijuana?” Ted, Stephane,
Baud all asked me about this They asked me in such a unanimous
way so that I asked back “why Holland?’, and the answer is
“because it’s legal there”. Of course I didn’t because I even
didn’t thought about this issue; because I am a Chinese young
person that we don’t have this Marijuana culture. But I am
looking forward to Marijuana. I heard that after you take
it the sound around you can be magnified something. I know
that’s the feeling of taking drugs. My friend even showed
me the picture of it, it doesn’t look nice though. But anyway
I wanna sort of try it someday. Life should be colorful, isn’t‘
it.
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American
Journey 2
(Sep.11,2008)
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Today
are two of my favorite American female singers: Whiney Houston
and Tina Turner.
Whitney Houston
Whitney Houston was born in Newark, New Jersey. She is the
daughter of Cissy Houston. Whitney started singing with a
gospel choir when she was 11. She was a gospel singer and
performs backup for Rhythm & Blues singers Chaka Khan
and Lou Rawls. Whitney is a professional singer and acted
in two small roles on television. In 1985 she made her first
album, WhitneyHouston, it went to number one on the popular
Billboard music charts. The song "Saving all my love
for you" earned her her first Grammy award (1986). Her
second album was in 1987, she won a second Grammy award (1988)
for a song "I wanna dance with somebody" (who loves
me). Whitney is married to famous Rap/R&B singer Bobbie
Brown.
Tina Turner
Tina was born Anna Mae Bullock on November 26, 1939 in Brownsville,
Tennessee. She began singing as a teenager and joined Ike
Turner at the age of 18. They married in 1958 and she became
Tina Turner. In the 1960s and 1970s she was one of the top
R&B singers in country! Her most famous song is probably
Proud Mary. Tina and Ike divorced and she took off on a solo
career. In 1984 her single, What's Love Got to Do With It,
became one of the year's biggest hits, For three weeks it
was number one on the charts.
In 1985
she had a starring role in Mad Max: Beyond the Thunderdome
with Mel Gibson. Tina sang the movie’s hit theme song, We
Don't Need Another Hero.
Tina’s
amazing voice still touches people;
(Sep.6,2008)
We Are What We Eat
“Show me what you eat, then I can tell who you are”. This
is the most interesting idea in the Swiss Food Festival.
And
think about it, we are what we eat in some sense. The kind
of food you prefer, your eating habit, your attitude towards
food, etc. may predict your character in some way. It’s
like the popular way of predicting one’s character with
the sign in the sky nowadays or the traditional way of 12
animals of the year. All these are myths in predicting one’s
character or even fate. But to be frank, I ‘m strongly suspicious
about any of the above. Man are the most mysterious and
complicated being in the universe. nothing in this world
is definite in defining “us”.
By the
way the so-called Swiss Cuisine Festival is nothing and
even bad for us Chinese who are enjoying the most delicious
and complicated food in this world. Chinese are just too
much spoiled by our food so that we can hardly find a real
place for us anywhere else in the world. And, that’s too
bad!!!
(Sep.3,2008)
take the initial step
since i have branded myself as sort of "fan of America
", I 'd like begin my jouney of pursuit of my idol
like those fans of some big stars.
today
is the first step;
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