Christmas trip

I was in Nottingham for a few days…. solstice winter

I like Robin Hood… in my imagination, he is so yao yeng. Obviously, the sculpture is not portraying what's in my mind.

It is placed outside the Nottingham castle, I think because afterall, he is the thief and the royal just couldn’t allow him to be placed inside the castle. Anyway, the castle is a newly built castle, not the old ancient one…. barely 10% alike with the old one. what castle is this… totally prank

Then we went to Prague, Czech republic…

as seens, it is covered in snow… and yes, it is cold. Basically the main thing here is the Prague castle, and church…and church, and cemetery, cathedral and church, then cathedral, then church then church then church….

this place is well preserve with church from thousand years ago, and most of the museum have no english description. So, you see big grand majestic building and you ask people beside you…wow, what is this place…

they won’t answer you, cause they don’t know too~ then you can just wow~~~…snap snap some photo, NEXT~..whats next!

(well, as for historical city like the Chine forbidden city, you will like: wow!!! once the Kangxi emperor sit here, and read magazines! or the Prince are imprisoned in this garden for 30 years then die…wow…)

as for here, you can just WOW…..and……ok, next destination.

 

the church is normally very high, causing the temperature to be very low inside. The outside temperature when I was there is around –3, and inside, it will be probably –6… the local said it is colder in summer as well. As the green house trap the heat, I think the church trap the coldness. :D

this is the place lau xing and lady 9 dating…

this is the old town square, I assume it as the prague square…sing by jolin, 布拉格广场

normally it won’t be so crowded, but due to christmas…it is the christmas market~

look, they have plenty of sculpture and I don’t know any story of it…. but I can see that they are pretty religious, Catholics

and erm, their symbols animal is a lion with golden crown, their ancient politics are pretty messy like the ancient Chinese one, the prince killing each other for powers. One of the best king they had get the throne by killing his brother, and he is one of the best…. (he didn’t bother to hide the story, salute)

They sell a lot of puppet, it is one of the special things….and the point is, they are not necessarily cute one.

They exhibits cemetery too~ are they desperate for tourism or what? those cemetery are a part of the museum, they are not royal! is weird! (they are not even special, just tomb stone!) photo? no, cause you need to pay to photograph cemetery…. –.-

and…Jewish… I think there is plenty of story with Jewish here, but well, I can’t read Russia, German, or Czech words, or france~ they say the main population here is from Russia. Nazi deport and kill many Jewish here, but even without Nazis, back then the people here are not so welcoming Jewish too, they are not allowed to go to school, and they are tortured…having pretty low society status….

I am actually not feeling so well on the 2nd day onwards… bad things happen to my dear fren and I wishing him fine every single second….and my leg is aching so badly because of the new shoe, every steps….is killing me. Every morning I wake up and look at the shoe, and I have to put it on, it makes me feel like crying.

Alien visit…. don’t looks like my favorite alien from Krypton.

The snow is so fresh and clean, and tempting… so…… we pick up a fight

lastly, this is something quite interesting…the bone church… it is decorated with lots of human bones, and it last for a thousand years old… story? I don’t know… I know a half blind monk do this…

well,

this is the en dao kia from the tourist centre. He is the one guiding us via map on all the place we visited.

appreciate and grateful with every single second, for things that I wish for as I still can wish for things, for things that I owned as I owned them, for things that I’ve lost as it is printed in me for long.

hail

Have a merry little Christmas

I have submit my final assignment this afternoon and the sky leaks and drop all the snow~~

I grasp my baby Ricoh and the tripod and go to photo shooting (also to bang the piano)

The snow come in a sudden and the management haven’t get the chance to clear off them off from the main street, hehe, snow man are not murdered. I am feeling hilarious when the snow fall, I then know what is the reason.

People are snapping photograph like me, people are playing snow ball….(got a group of boys and girls play for many hours)

The snow covered are so fresh, I am printing many footstep on the snow and feel so selfish as the other might not get to see the fresh snow…. (is stupid, after few hours, the management call up all the technician and spray the salt sand and it become gross)

WOW, miracle, the sun give a peep after the big snow…This is the Tower C building, one of the Engineering building.

This is where the tribology lab located. Mechanical babies.

The following Figure 1, and Figure 2 almost cost my 10 fingers.

Kwang hua babies! I love you!

and ofcuz! permata dunia babies! I love you!

Writing this notes on the snow with my little finger, and snapping photograph for few minutes, gosh, my finger are numb! is so hard and painful. I can’t even adjust the aperture in my camera. kekekek

The reason I feel hilarious with the snow fall is because the song played in my Ipod is totally suitable… it is banging my ear with soft rock happy music… when it suddenly turn to ‘whisky lullaby’, surge of sadness strike right into my brain.. ew~ gross..hahaha. turn in back to lighter song.

…

well, is holiday.

Is time for Christmas

The weather have been nice to us lately, it stay above 0 for the whole week… but I do not granted the mood to savor it until just now.

maybe the weather is a gift for me to have less things to complain about~

I’ve submitted my 2nd baby, my simulation assignment few hours ago~ I am scared, I am worried..because I submit it in early. The dead line is delayed and I submitted it in earlier than the original deadline, I worried that I will regret, I worried that somebody will ring me and tell me there is an error in my program…

well, I try very hard to convince myself…it is already too late to regret, so just leave it.

I walk on the divider of the path way, staggering to get the balance….smirking with half eye close –.-  I am tired, but I am not sleepy, I have enough sleep actually, I am just tired of working on the paper everyday, every waking moment… the wind come and kiss on my forehead.

Accordingly to the artifact, this is the image of wind, a dragon alike hollow

Although I am cracking on my assignment, but I still spent a few hours playing Christmas coral with flute, with other instrumentalist accompany our university choir, and a lot of old folks. The are singing all together with our choir. We totally got great singer.

I am filling my ears with ‘just a dream’ from the internet singers… Please stop asking those famous online singer to get themselves published and produce recording, let them stay online, producing amazing music without getting commercialize.

I still have a proposal to do, to submit tomorrow… is time for Christmas break

 

Call the skies a home of cloud wind rain,

earth mud sand dust the tree grows blossom,

blessing fallen from the above as rain snow

cares for all human on the land, wishing everyone sound and peace, happy and healthy.

Another very tiring day

I am doing the assignment until 4am in the morning and came back campus and sleep at around 5am, and 730am I got to wake up because 8am I got to do a data collection in the coffee shop….

(a  2 hour sleep I manage to engage in some horrible messy stressful dreams, dreaming about spreadsheet of finance of each year of each product…..gross..I rather have wet dreams)

counting people in and out, queue number, queuing time, utilization of table….

well, I am then late and luckily my group mate didn’t show black face… she said she didn’t sleep at all, but then she use portion of the un-sleep time to built snow men… –.-‘

I photographed this when the snow starts…. after few hours, the snow accumulated and no more un-covered ground space.

The next morning,

the snow dye a white pale on the ground, 染白了大地，好像跌落的棉花，一块一块的覆盖大地，然后风声轻轻的唱着摇篮曲，催促大地和所孕育的生命安眠~ 等春风来唤醒你们~

好奇的薄荷叶 和我一起 看出窗外。。。。

as usual, the bridge scene:

remind me of a funny story saying people killing soon to be extinct snowmen, accusing the cruelty..

when I am walking out to campus that morning, several lorry fetching sand and salt melting away the snow in the main street..(as one of it is captured in the photo above the bridge’s)

ohya, and I had my first performance as flutist ··

this musical team singing is the best of all performance…

the photo is taken during the rehearsal, as no photography and video are allow during the performance. The director of art centre warning very stern before she let in the audience. No upload in facebook and youtube, because of the copy right issue…

as my blog is a very low profile one… I hope I don’t get lawyer letter for uploading some rehearsal photo..

I always like tripod, because I can set a time, then I know what to expect as the outcome… and if I fail the photograph, then I can alter and make it works..

because most of the time, the appointed photographer is a random person and it oftenly fails you…

…yes, I got a blur picture with my little fren…

so, I photoshop it a little..

and due to sitting whole day in the coffee shop, so no painting today…thursday painting day…

it is so not thursday without painting, it is a sad thursday..

so I call for a break tonight..(after dinner, I pening, tertiarap on the bed and dream of funny and happy things…)

snowing

I work on my assignment to very early in the morning, and came back from school… this is what I cook for myself.

热乎乎，蛋花汤。。。egg and cucumber boil soup.. simple and healthy…

It is snowing, but it is a baby snow, thus, no photograph offer, instead, let me show my dishes I tried recently: sweet sour pork

It is stupid to bring camera to the kitchen, but as I dig all my stock and ingredient and occupying all the space on the tabletop, I kinda feel like photographed it.

as usual, I forgot to photographed the food… the following result after we had start eating…

after I had start eating, only then I realize, ops, I got to photographed it!

I’m never going to be a good blogger….

it taste nice~ but there is a flaw on the deep fried pork, I sort of figuring out what is the problem, but I ain’t going to try it again anytime soon. It is consuming a lot of cooking oil, and time, and ingredient.

cooking this dishes is a stock clearance to my refrigerator.

my fren made the pumpkin cake,

with a some tapao, hehehe, happy~~ it is my next day lunch and dinner…

imagine I am the chef teaching people in the TV… aha~ there you go, …tadah~~

life goes beyond imagination, escape the reality for a few minutes, is a luxurious vacation for thoughts.

enjoy~

Heaviness in within

I have a Doctor fren who used to comment my painting reflect my mood, and my previous painting was in bright and clear color, I am happy he said.

I said, this is not so fair to say so because it involve also my drawing style, not just about mood..

until last week and this week, I suddenly agree with him..look:

this is last week progress, I am focus, I am concentrate..(I thought I am), and it turn out to be not how I want it to be..

until this week, I continue and I goes deeper into everything and make the cloud feels even much heavier (isn’t it? the dark color, harsh and cannot blend into the picture), it is so heavy…

a bell ring inside my head and ah!!! hahahaha, is me..I am the heavy one, I am burdened.. I am not concentrate as I thought I am..

come on, is painting, is art…. let go your thoughts, go inside…then I stand up and walk so far from the painting…

if there is god, this is the time the god hand me the brush…

this is the final…

(using my handphone camera, not even with my compact, so… is blur a bit, is not my painting style)

~~

When you are too focused on something, you tends to lost inside it.. let go, look it from far, go back to the problem, handle it.

Lastly, last week there is  mist…

I stand in the same position as I did few weeks back, and photograph the mist…

(no PS)

listening: celine dion> my love

sue: I met pb after painting session

tired

我很累~ 

本来我都会说，年青人说什么累，放肆！

可是忙碌忙碌的赶着功课，熬夜，上课~ 看人来人往，今天回到房间，突然很弱，吃饱了也没有力气洗碗，凉也没冲，躺在床上睡掉了，呐喊着醒来啊！醒来！冲凉了，洗碗然后好好睡，可是真的没有力~

所以三更半夜起来冲凉洗碗，然后写blog…

I am listening to :

Auld lang syne..

I’ve know her since she join the Britain got talent, and her singing in this album impressed me to another level.. I remember 2nd son sat her album got the best selling in uk and usa, which only happen to Beatles? (yuj: this is what you say?)

However,

this is whatever in my ears most of the time… best best best

The sunshine shine into my room thru the window, and my mint plant cherish it~

little mint like weeds, ordinary, smell good and strong…

lastly, showing you my favorite dish, my 招牌菜，ginger onion chicken:

normally I don’t photograph food… I forgot, because I will start eating it and remember that I actually intended to photograph it before I start eating..

(doesn’t this looks like toy?) so plastic..

birthdate

Is the anniversary of being birth.. .,..yay?

well, as for me, birthday should be a credit to the mother and father, just being born is nothing so much to be credit, it is just a anniversary of survival; being the one to deliver baby, is the one should get the credit…or raising the baby for 24 years, care and cash..phew, big amount of cash

 

so, credit to them…

and… well, it is still a anniversary, how do I celebrate?

erm… with assignment I would say, I put some virtue candles on the text book cover, pretending blow it, and flip it open and continue doing assignment?

it sounds pathetic, yet very dedicated in study…so no, I am not..

• it is a normal day, with class, meeting lecturers and friends, but I have tuned the ipod so that it play all my favorite song, playing soda green song…

• the sun is out… sunshine~lovely day,the ray of sunshine shine on my face, my eye squinted,  the wind cuddle me…close my eye and feel the nature.. as simple as this, this is what I wish for..
• running my programming and thanks to my tutor, I solve a problem which trouble me for days..~ my program start running~ and, as simple as this, this is what I wish for..
• I go to the mail room and received a parcel from a dear fren, wow, a birthday present~~ wonderful, I love it..

• ohya, is thursday, is the painting class today~ I am drawing scenery, but it is not complete yet, show you guys next week perhaps.

wonderful… when I am done walking out from the studio, I smell my hand, I smell like color.. remind me of when I am a little boy, I attend drawing class…and this is the smell I smells like when I go home..a glimpse to the past

as simple as this, this is what I wish for…

• I go to the lecture centre and play their piano… :D so long I’ve not touch piano, I miss it… miss my piano.. so I bring along ‘river flows in you’ score along, and play a song dedicated for myself.. yay; gosh, this piece are wonderful….

  suddenly, a boy walked in, a chine young boy about my age. attracted by the piano sound and talk to me.. he requested me to play again, and instead of playing it for him, I requested him to play it for me..and he is fine with it.

he play a wonderful song…

I close my eye, and think, who on earth so powerful to sent me a live version of ‘river flows in you’ to me during my birthday…

I thank you that whoever he/she/it is.. I appreciate

this is not simple, I never tot I could wish for something like this… I am happy.

• at night, my fren call me over for KFC, and he bring out his ice cream and ask me to cut a piece as my cake… then he is humming happy birthday song while he is washing his hand..

isn’t this so simple and wonderful~

• I reply each of the fb wishes one by one, with greatest gratitude in my heart, as facebook remind each everyone of your fren when is your birthday, and simply a click that spent you less than 30 second to sent a wish for a birthday person…as you spent your day on facebook, it cost not even 1/10 of your fb time…

I don’t know about the sincerity, but I do appreciate. Regardless of the sincerity, I reply every of them with sincerity, cost me more than 1 hour to do that..

what can I wish for? I’ve got everything… everything, I can only say thank you thank you~~

still, we have to make a wish during birthday: everything goes better each everyday that come..