2009-08-30

一年後的都江堰 Du Jiang Yan, one year after

都江堰 Du Jiang Yan



One year after the earthquake, a lot of the buildings in DuJiangYan are still waiting to be demolished or repaired. Many of the temples inside the historic Dujiangyan Irrigation System were damaged and are off-limited to tourists as of June 2009 when I visited. I have heard rumours that the construction of the Three Gorges Dam might have led to the violent earthquake. Whether it really caused the earthquake or not is not the primary concern now but I hope no further environmental mistakes will be made.都江堰在地震後一年多還沒有完全修復好。我曾經聽說三峽的工程可能間接造成地震的發生。無論如何,對環境的保護是很重要的,要不然不幸的事可能再發生。





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不知道是否傳統文化的壓抑的關係這個作品的“高潮”是我對它的第一感覺。然而它的所在地北京,則越來越多不同的文化沖擊和融合。



2009-08-27

maison française à Tianjin 法式洋房在天津

Les Européans ont laissé beaucoup de traces en Chine, notamment à Hong Kong. Néanmoins, Tianjin est doté avec des maisons de style européanne, si on pourrait la surnommer comme ça.



Donc, ce n'est pas Hong Kong où l'on peut voir les invasions barbares, mais dans les plusieurs grandes villes chinoises aussi. Celle-ci est située dans le quartier qui s'appelle Wu Da Dao 五大道 (les cinq grands boulevards).


中國很多大城市都有外國列強入侵二留下的建築。大家可能一想便想到香港,但事實上其他大城市從前受西方的影響也很大。這里是天津“五大道”的一棟法式洋房,那里從前是很多外國人居住的地方。

2009-08-26

Infomercial running wild

A friend of mine pointed me to this article reporting an "extreme" deodorant if you will. One must wonder if this is an American obession with (or the absence of) body odor? A "must-see-TV" on youtube featuring "Aspray".



Can you BELIEVE where those people are spraying their body parts?!?!? Beastly butt odor? Gee, this has become the nastiest blog entry on here to-date! hahaha. As commented by someone from his blog, this looked more like an SNL skit then a real commercial. On a second note, how about eating less meat or showering? Ain't those alternatives to the omnipresent Aspray? And what would people in the Victorian era think of this? hahaha

2009-08-22

巴閉 bapre


香港真是個華洋雑相處的地方。昨晚深夜看亞洲電視的舊節目“冷知識”有一項關於香港廣東話的趣聞。香港人喜歡說的口頭禪“巴閉”其實是印度人說的bapre,有一點“驚訝”、“很厲害”的意思。所以呢,我們對其他在港的少數民族要禮讓多點,因為他們跟我們生活已經很長時間,對我們的語言已發生影響。有一些更加是香港人呢!

2009-08-16

李小龍

李小龍 + 007 + 外星人...

這是香港街頭一景!

最近聽說特區政府會把李小龍的舊居改成博物館。等著吧,大概三、五個年頭就可以參觀啦!
bruce-king-alien

2009-08-10

Corazon Aquino

The passing a pioneer in Asia, the first female president in the Philippines and in the same league as first female Asian prime ministers such as Indira Gandhi or Benazir Bhutto or Tansu Çiller.

Corazon did not bring about stable and better social, economic and political changes as remarked by Marites Vitug. She did however, influence her countrymen and countrywomen with her humanity. Almost all the subsequent presidents of Philippines wanted her stamp of approval since she represented someone free of corruption and scandal. Her country seems to have a longer way to go since ALL of her successors had at one point or another be suspected or tainted by political wrongdoings.

It seems Philippines is still stuck in the post-Marcos era. Only when the number of haves and have-nots redistribute significantly in this country, will there be real progress made.

She might also be a barometer test for all the overseas Chinese with political ambition. She was more at ease than the former Canadian figurehead "head-of-state" Adrienne Clarkson who did not even dare to land on Chinese soil during or after her tenure. Mrs Aquino visited China when she was president of the Philippines. Although one could always stipulate, as a head of state of a developing nation, her meeting with China's Deng Xiao Ping, the leader of a emerging power in Asia back then, was a nothing-to-lost but everything-to-gain situation for her country. Nevertheless, apart from the Singaporean prime ministers who visited China, she was the only head of state with Chinese roots who was not ashamed of her origins.
Steven Chu or Gary Locke wouldn't even come close in 2009, let alone they are not regional, provincial or national heads when they visited China. I bet you, without looking at the various Chinese language press in the United States that gave big fuzz about it. Oh, com'on (Chinese) Americans, make up your mind. You can't be both, just look at Obama.

2009-08-07

dog ate the sun

With the solar eclipse fever in East Asia came and gone, here is my version of it, as seen through a very primitive pinhole made on cardboard in Tsim Sha Tsui, Kowloon. I went to the Planetarium but the queue was too long so I did not make it to the rooftop to use the telescopes provided to public. The last time I saw and paid attention to a solar eclipse was either 1992 or 1993 when I was on my college campus. Time flies !

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