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Hermes handbags &...more又一个不想睡觉的凌晨。和英国念书时的伙伴们周日K歌之后，周一周二2个晚上连续又唱了2晚...我想暂时的最近可以都不用去唱歌了。
最近几周有点想impulsive一下...而且是对根本无法负担的东西...
Hermes的包包一直以来都只是个梦想而已...但近几年来注意到那些身价过亿的明星们才热衷于收藏之后（虽然有不少台湾明星是投机性质，等待升值转手...) 觉得离自己好远...
但不知道为什么！！！最近真的很想收H家的Birkin！！！...和Kelly！！！（居然想同时收2款？？！！！但我只想收最普通的，不敢奢望，也排队都轮不到近百万的镶钻或者颜色特别的，这也意味着不怎么会大升值）。经典的橘色红色或卡其就好。还有给包包配上美美的H家丝巾...还要买手镯...
Birkin可能更适合年龄再长5岁以上，但显然越早收越早值得...但我盘算着偶现在可以背Kelly呀。近几天的我在跟自己这样对话。与近几年的状态不否，因为一直是，算了，十年之后再买吧或许那时可以负担。
对于鞋子也是...朋友在香港的海怡半岛折扣商场收了原价9000多HKD现价3000HKD的Jimmy Choo...还有三折的Manolo Blahnik...Christian Louboutin...在米国也从未见到过打折到那么便宜的...害得我非常想飞去淘淘还有没有剩下的哪怕只有一双...
估计都是前几周Window shopping 给闹的...上次还试戴了H家的一款红鳄鱼皮钻表...超漂亮。又让我有了诸多不切实际的冲动！！！
对了，还有那天天看新闻无意瞄到的
一直觉得'Posh'有很多款Birkin, 还有Kelly，尤其是曾经的一款Tricolour Kelly，她还配了条纹大衣蹬着经典黑色Louboutins...
图见：http://www.purseblog.com/hermes/victoria-beckham-with-her-hermes-kelly.html 很赞！！！见过她背过各种颜色的，粉色、黑色、卡其、银色、橘色、灰色..但没想到有这么多！！！下面的白色也超赞
P.S. 某人因朋友结婚送了Hermes的餐具！我却从来没有收到过任何一支来自他来自H家的东西...
想念凌晨2点57分躺下，早晨6点28分被荒诞怪异的恶梦惊醒...再也睡不着睡不下，怕被重复的梦魇到。迷糊时。想了很多。突然思念很多很多东西。人胖是有道理的。大多数由吃的东西想到和朋友们一起的日子。现在是GMT+8区的早晨7点刚过，头痛欲裂还是打开了电脑。 没想到这么快开始想念，在离开仅2个月后。 Donna Carmela 的意粉，我要传统的番茄加碎香肠加辣椒的Spaghetti或linguine。据说现在的餐厅名字多了一个字。变成Donna Carmela/Caipirnha, 菜单是不是也有了新意呢？怀念它们简单的意粉菜单，全部15新，各式各样的。还有意大利帅服务生们，（好像叫服务生有些太年轻，帅男人们）。早晨6点40，出了梦魇的心情，就开始思念的东西...无可救药。 还有无论是那2个人和那4个人都是轻松自在无所不谈的用餐...没有任何束缚和回避。绝对欧洲like的地理位置。。。可惜对于没车族的我们，不是很方便。 Liang Court的日本超市，显然是新加坡最赞的日本超市。胜过乌节路伊势丹楼下的，更纯粹的日本些。 The Central对面街角的肉骨茶，就在珍宝Jumbo后面的巷子。 说起Jumbo，辣椒蟹和胡椒蟹，个人觉得最好吃的辣椒版在无招牌海鲜，最好吃的胡椒版在以前住的地方附近的一家简陋餐室。Eunos附近。永成餐室吧。 说起The Central，就不得不提个人最爱的来自北海道的拉面。Santouka。想吃辣版的Miso Ramen加鱼子和三文鱼饭套餐版。虽然很多人对楼上有鸡肉汤底的那家日本拉面Marutama Ra-Men 赞不绝口，但个人试过3次，始终无法说服自己合流。拉面就应该是北海道Santouka那样的。据说在Santouka是先开到美国加州引起许多buzz之后，进而开进新加坡的。不过还没尝到过加州的，三番市和LA都有。 还有Central里面拥有超新鲜Sashimi的Tom Ton。蔡澜推荐过哈哈（第一次从麦琪口中被提醒蔡澜是何许人也，该被狠狠鄙视一把了我） 珠江楼的自助居然在早晨就开始口水。像是饥肠辘辘了一整天。 突然还想吃Suntec二楼的Waffle，每次有任何庆贺理由就去的地方。虽然个人对waffle不是很into. 但真的很想吃现在。 居然还想吃鼎泰丰和翡翠的小笼包... 荷兰村里那家English rose cafe ‘Foster’ 的下午茶Scone还有cod fish fillet & chips... Takashimaya 里的韩国店也不错... The Cuppage Mall里日本人开的正宗而又稍贵的Shabu Shabu...神户牛真的很靓 远东里俄国人开的shashlik里的火烧阿拉斯加甜品。。。朗姆酒烧起来之后的味道之香辅以冰激凌的甜...还有很怀旧的俄式，走路蹒跚但认真无比的老太太老爷爷服务员们... kinda like back in Europe...靓妹没那么多，基本服务业老人很多... （说起靓妹和正妹们，这次回国觉得国内在这几年内最大的变化，就是靓妹变超多，有没有，逐渐在紧跟日韩港台的趋势，满大街烟熏妆和精致眼线超会扮靓动辄手跨GucciLVChanel之长腿穿超短还穿超sexy凉鞋的妹妹们，还有"瘦"在这些地区才是王道的精神真是贯彻的很彻底... 不仅感叹早已落伍...不过妆是真的又开始成为惯例的化了，也渐渐展开了减肥活动...谁让现在压力这么大，让我快点回米国吧好了！改天老娘也上街扮嫩好了，化起M.A.C家新推出的Hello Kitty妆！） 还有曾经当家庭食堂的广东小厨... 还有很多很多...(樟宜机场T3楼下food court的云吞面, city hall附近食阁的水饺老鼠粉...家对面的小锅面...还有经典的薏米水...土司工坊和breadtalk都开进了中国，但没那个味道，虽然在新时，就觉得这两家很一般般，但是薏米水都煮不好，还开什么新加坡店呢？The Dome里的酥皮田园也不错...还有clam chowder颇有新英格兰的口感)...
最近最近最让人激动的一次艺术事件莫过于, 伦敦V&A博物馆举办的Vivienne Westwood 世界巡回展A Life in Fashion，北京原定为香港之后的最后一站。3月初就看过了宣传，并一度联络过Cat, 飞和同伴等等开展后去敬仰。还一度感叹，北京真的在慢慢朝着一个Cosmopolitan城市方向迈进了。
那天给G10充好电后，上网查坐车路线，因为下午空闲，打算一人先堵为快，然后回头再约朋友去。已想到回来后可空间图片的主题便可由旅游换时尚了... 但路线还没查到，就看到三里屯village的公告：
 Vivienne Westwood 展览取消
维多利亚阿伯特博物院（V&A）及三里屯VILLAGE遗憾地宣布，主题为A Life in Fashion的Vivienne Westwood时装设计展因不可预见的技术问题而未能按原计划举办。三里屯VILLAGE将继续把丰富多彩的文化艺术活动呈现给北京市民，并会及时公布活动动态。
...当时的失望无以言表...
那天和Cat在Saffron吃饭（对了五道营口的那家西班牙餐厅真的不错，还有Vineyard也不错，《纽约时报》和Time out都有建议过），说到这件事，我们觉得明显是political reasons...最后的猜测是，说不定老太太和dalai 关系不错... 俩人笑了半天。算算在纽约认识Cat已经快三年了，Cat是华裔英国人，当时我们G7里面，除了lik外，大概和Cat见面算是频繁的了，无论是从纽约回到伦敦后，还是她就职UNDP来华后去太原，又来京工作，每次只要时间地点一致，我们都会聊的忘了时间。那天不知怎的扯到职场恋情时，她的一句Don't shit wot you eat又让我再次熟悉地体会到英式sense of humour 呵呵as dry as martini...也可以无所不谈的聊。其他人都怎样了呢？听说Jes去了澳洲政府工作，Rowan成为加国公民后又回来工作了，Jason还继续在巴黎的街头穿梭，穿着他的signature长风衣么，Zhenhai还在英国继续着他独特又有见地的搞笑吧。呵呵记得2年多前Cat说起在Montreal很巧的和住肉丸一起时，就说到G7什么时候可以再像在纽约的时候大团聚呢？我们的答案颇为消极, which is never. 但我真的蛮希望见见大家的。 还有最近去罗马moon的那2个人，你们好不？明信片寄给我了没？哈哈好像我只是在关心这个。
最近打球打的很积极，网球，羽球，乒乓（不具天赋，在考虑放弃），以至于周四太积极了，小伤了左脚，有史以来第一次因运动受伤，在家静养中。也得以理一下最近的思绪。
最近还在想着很重要的事情，希望下个月米国成行的话，可以update。
另，澳洲的照片在慢慢po到FB上，因为Facebook的相簿真的比Space好用N倍。
Surfing... Aussie...Not been working, but quite hectic these days. dealing with all sorts of stuff... nothing yet to update but trip reviews.
Surfing in Gold Coast
Brunch before getting to surf at the coffee club
   (Best pancake I've ever had. from the coffee club, brisbane & gold coast. didn't get such quality even in New York City. )
Surfers paradise, perfect fusion of city and beach? ummm...might give a second thought.
   Not internet surfing, but hey, real ones. I almost got drown... twice, though this wasn't big deal at all for real surfers n those who's fully capable of swimming...
 for me? another story. Strangely, I got smile on my face in every pic...seems I had fun despite the danger of nearly being drown when trying to stand on the board...
    Lastly, everyone can be Andy Warhol. Thank JJ for the website
  Aussie Palate (图片摄于the Rocks, Sydney)
正式暂时回国。澳洲记在再次面对大搬家的诸多烦恼中搁置了些时日。已经算不清楚这几年来的大搬家，从一个国家到另一个、一个城市到下一个、从空运海运到陆运，有多少次。对于我那些可怜的行李和用坏的几只行李箱是如何陪我到处漂流，如何在我的不稳定中被转送被丢弃或无意遗落的记忆也已模糊。教训总是要少买东西，然而总是做不到。至今，我那些心爱的纪念品尤其是各式各样各洲各洋的冰箱磁铁还有很多压箱，一部分在西安的家里贴满了冰箱和空调...这次收拾行李，看着那堆磁铁，加之在澳洲新购的，发呆...好像最近的发呆越来越多，我问自己：什么时候可以有自己的冰箱，一只最大的冰箱，给那些磁铁安个家。也给自己的胃安个家。还有，想要一个Walk-in Closet。当心爱的衣服和鞋子必须折叠起来挤在行李箱的时候。A home's wot came up to my mind first.
写到这里。我想起了很多，人和事还有城市，过往的，现在的，开心吗？忧伤吗？问自己。好像说不出来。只能不痛不痒的说感谢每个人每件事每个地方，丰富了我的人生。今天中午看到一个笔记本，封皮有伦敦繁忙的公车站，隐隐约约可以看出是Oxford Circus的红绿灯路口、双层车的背面、繁忙的血拼族和隐约的经典米字旗。还有我一向喜欢拍照的，充满欧陆艺术气息的路灯。又愣住了。
这篇网志本由回顾澳洲的照片引起，本来对悉尼鱼市场的海鲜种类赞叹不已、对那些美食寻游怀念不已，本来很Chirpy，本要写my palate satiating dining there. 所以才取了这个题目，怎么知道由行李搬迁想起了这么多。Sorry, 现在失去了记录美食的心情。原谅我的题目。
P.S. BBC正在报道一只在Tasmania搁浅的鲸鱼。Tasmania, how coincidental. My Aussie Fun (to be cont'd)Back from Aussie trip, with a delighted heart, tanned body, and sunburnt arms. So so so much fun even greater than I had thought.
(Something off the topic) When I was applying the Aussie visa, I told the immigration officer "it'll be a between jobs holiday" and I wrote a perfectly plausible explanation as well since my employment certificate apparently wasn't right there available for me (forgot to mention here that I quit a month ago, and the only thing to lament was why i hadn't done that earlier, much earlier. A lesson hard to unlearn). got it on the spot.
Instead of uploading numerous photos and writing monotomous itineraries, i'm gonna render this trip in a slightly different approach as indeed it's way much heart throbbing (in a pleasantly exciting way of coz) and to some extent touching than just a trip. Got loads to share:
pure fun activities like swiming, surfing in Gold Coast Surfers' Paradise, cuddling koalas in Brisbane, patting and feeding kangaroos in capitivity and running into wild ones when driving;
gourmet and drinking indulgence, Tukka's valentine's dinner, the Coffee Club, Cafe Rock, Cafe Sydney, Dolcetta, and most stunningly, the Sydney Fish Market;
arts explosion, the Sydney Opera House tour and Madame Butterfly, Museum of Comtemporary Art (IMCA) and Art Gallery of NSW;
coffee sipping in shops tucked in narrow n beautiful lanes of Melbourne and in Queen Victoria Building, Sydney, bathing in the luxurious B&B in Apollo Bay;
climbing the Sydney Harbour Bridge and driving hundreds of miles and enjoying the most spectacular sceneries along the Great Ocean Road and taking the historic city circle tram in Melbourne...and of coz, the weekend markets...and architecture admiration as well...
Surely, some pities left too:
one more day there I'd be able to catch Yayoi Kusama's exhibition in the IMCA!!! Been always loving her works, my blog photo album featured some more than 3 years ago;
one more week i'd be able to catch the famous Sydney Gay and Lesbian Mardi Gras;
Wanted to stretch the Great Ocean Road driving gig further to Queenscliff, Port Fairy and Port Island where 19th century fishing towns and resorts and streets together with their usual tranquilities yet occassional excitements during festival times are well kept;
Wish I had more days to cover Yarra Valley wineries for a chic meal accompanied with fine vintege wine and Phillip Island for the smallest species of Penguines...
Guess these are partially the reasons to plan my next aussie trip.
however, most outrageouly, newly bought Cannon G10 was far beyond my capability to control...lousy colours...runied loads of my photos which supposedly to be signature ones
Seems I still got lots missing. Anyway, get started first
 Imagine Where Antarctic is when at the most southerly point of the Great Ocean Road, Otways Lighthouse (when I was there I tot it's the southernmost point of Aussie mainland). Sounds silly, but hey, I had fun. (shld give Maiqi credit for this :P thank you dear for offering such a yy tot, though it's not in Tasmania, I'll go there next time for salmon and trout haha)
  Kangaroos
Patting and feeding kangaroos in capitivity are nothing fresh, how about running into a group of real kangaroos when you are driving :P. and one of them even fell down due to nervousness...must be a rookie
Location: back to Melbourne from Prince highway after the Great Ocean Road (Warrnambool to Colac)
Wish i knew how to put a video here as only two left when i switched from video mode to phtographing :(
Btw, ironically we didn't encounter kangaroos at all where loads of these signs appeared
 Stock in Australia seems seldom see people, when they found us they were:
   Knackered after a long trip as well...that's for today and will update soon
Ohohoh lastly ME driving (but just for a little while haha)
 Guys=Jobs?不少工作经验或经历丰富人士都曾跟我讲过，或者或多或少的表达过这个意思：
其实每份工作实质上都差不多
之于我，目前为止大概适应了这样定理。可是：
每个男人又何尝不是如此？
Anyway, 我要去澳洲好好玩！！！！！不要破坏了好心情！！！ photos uploading & moreAfter nearly two years of photo albums being dormant, the windows live, in particular, the photo uploading system has changed an awful lot yet only to become increasingly user-unfriendly. Gave two goes before getting everything done. Is it time to move to other web albums which IT-challenged me can easily get my hands on?
p.s. another reason for being relunctant to update, is, besides being lazy n busy...gotta admit the fact that...i've been putting on like 20 pounds in the past year...time to face it and time to tackle it...maybe I shld map out and adopt some massive weight losing packages to echo those tailored for the lingering economic reccession? anyway get the easiest started first, badminton tmr.
Had the lousiest Chinese new year ever in my life. Not a good sign, but I'll try not to let it affect me.
Miss my parents n dear bro. DELETE终于...近两年后...翻出来...Click 一张张选好 按DELETE。一下就消失了 原来这么容易
虽然看到爱丁堡蓝色的天空下，高地深秋般的湖水间...巴斯优雅的avon河边 还是顿住。
我想，我要重新开始拍更多照片，并且，不害怕更新。
而那个8月从美国回来后，更不该成为日志上照片的结束点。
日子还是这么过着 也遇到很多风景明媚 心情喜悦的时候
经常坐车过来，东海岸边一路的绿色都让我觉得明亮
为什么不记录下来？
开始翻出较旧的照片慢慢地po吧 亲爱的，Pemmi，
继续生活着 好好地
Filthiness-a naturally born disposition with some/many? people?这个题目如果仔细论证，可以是篇心理学强大的论文题目吧。不经过一些事情，永远都无法发现一些人是多么nasty。或许诸多人的人性本来如此，本性恶劣，只是一直在修饰美好。
只能说，感谢毕业以后很多的前所未有和闻所未见的经历，让我又得到了成长，意识到了题目的深邃。
睁开眼睛、擦亮眼球，争取以后永远都与the nasty说再见。 圣诞红色杯星美元的红色圣诞杯又姗姗而至，连装小红莓核桃吐司的纸带上也漂满了雪花。记不清楚几年了，只记得从前看到红色的圣诞杯很兴奋，觉得很漂亮，可以因此在圣诞前后每天多买一杯，有一次甚至拿了只空杯，在上面贴满美美的星美元咖啡邮票，摆在书桌上。
今天早晨买咖啡，看到红色杯子的太妃拿铁和覆盆子摩卡的宣传贴。心轻轻地扭了一下，是不是圣诞杯又来了。外面的天气依然炎热如夏，去年的这个时候，拿到第一只圣诞杯再也无法兴奋，转而跟刚刚认识的同事颇为尴尬地讲，外面好热。
红色的雪花杯以前很温馨，像是冬日在洛桑湖边早早升起的太阳，让人睁不开眼睛却温暖无比，毛茸茸的羊毛靴也被晒的暖哄哄。又像是冬日睡觉将脚趾头窝进男人胸口的暖和。再次在夏天看到圣诞杯，已没有了尴尬，多了感伤。那些暖暖的日子去哪里了？
而今天的咖啡也特别热，几近到了烫的地步，但我没有要求额外加热。 An old Piece .jpg) (Vol. 1. to Vol. 11)
I had originally wanted to play here "Magnetising" by Marsmobil. Failed to find a single link that is not fragmented. So here goes an old piece by Gotan Project, whose 1999 debut hit 'Vuelo Al Sur' was played as my space background track two years ago. Well, This one is the 'Last Tango in Paris', from the album of 'Hotel Costes Vol 3', whilst 'Magnetising' was newly released in 'Hotel Costes Vol 11' just a few days ago...Guess I'll buy the album, esp given how alluring the covers of 'Hotel Costes' series have always been. Really wanted to live in Paris for sometime...
   Watched Mama Mia the movie last Saturday, the 14 times Academy Award nominee Meryl Streep +former James Bond 007, Pierce Bronson, great songs from ABBA, what have I had to whine abt? Liked it, in particular" The Winner Takes it ALL" &the eternally classic "Dancing Queen" and of coz "Mama Mia". However, sth was still missing. I liked the genre by itself, probably not in the form of movie? Should've checked out the musical at Broadway or the West End.
Struck by Stephen Fry's speech abt sth like "how BBC should position itself", nothing new for the content or his insight but the very masterly command of the speech essence...
Excessive pickled, instead of fresh, veggies helped to easily shovel down a whole box of rice during recent lunches, which surely helped as well to keep ballooning. Cut down food intake for supper but resorted to snacks such as Royce chocolate or M&S hand cooked crisps after 9pm...Hopeless me. (dinner today was a terrible terrible disapointment)
Positively Full but UnsatisfiedHere is a random bowl of miso ramen I inhaled at a place where I pass by everyday on my way home, but never tried before tonight (as, doesn't their promo picture look repellent?) Authentic Japanese ramen should've never looked like that.
Just craved a bowl of ramen after a full day inundated with tedious works, yet only two ramen places are available in the vicinity of Bugis junction, the Bishamon, allegedly serving Sapporo ramen, and the other one, the disgusting Ajisen Ramen (味千). Got no choice but ventured into the first one. (actually inappropriate to use 'venture' here as I knew it would suck ). The ramen, as expected, did the sunk job: bean sprouts in ramen, a huge pet peeve of mine; Tasteless chashu, tender though, dwelled at the low end of quality; little pickles to cut through all of the grease? sorry, no; egg or 玉子 in Japanese? super soft-boiled marinated and salty egg, oh my gosh, could've been more disgusting? miso broth, full of MSG rather than several-hours-simmered-with-bones ramen broth; noodle? limp as a result of overcooking and long time refrigerating i guess. What left here for (and not for) ramen that i haven't mentioned? Certainly will never give it another run. The repercussion was the unpleasant feel of fullness and a stinky mouth. And thanks to the unsatisfaction I further had chicken salad, yogurt, kiwi and watermelon (oh yes, I grumbled a box of takoyaki immediately before the ramen was served, and I had originally intended to take them away as home snacks...go ahead and call me a pig). Easily feel hungry these days, been binging literally n putting on weights...
I do love three ramen places here in S'pore, Ramen Santouka from Hokkaido (traditional and 'hokkaidolicious', my favourite). Ramen Marutama (an innovative version of japanese ramen) and Noodle shop Ken (great broth). How come I've never featured them in my blog, instead, I'm writing sth for today's lousy meal? probably I'm more of a picky critic (Pemmi, can you be focusing on sth more positive?) F1 is coming This FORMULA 1 should compensate well,though in a different way, my unfulfilled whim of spectating the Olympic Games that Beijing just brought curtain down.
Yes, I just booked the tickets and I am so going to watch the world first F1 night race. :D Interested?
Been trying hard to get over depression by nothing new but habitual gastronomical adventures and the occassional splurge, and frankly haven't seen much lately that's been inspiring.
Took over 2 weeks to seal my Thai trip plan with a Chinatown based agency. No credibility, not to mention a well-serviced experience. Booking an only 4 day leg of free & easy tour means an uneasy and unfree 2 weeks' time of protracted calls,queries,chasing vis-a-vis them. (mate, that's a price). Miss those days when I relied on myself to take care of every single trip.
P.S. new track will be uploading soon as I'm kinda fed up with "This is not a love song", so what? I can't deny my hatred towards repetition.
为什么一定要题目? 机车心情很差很差
需要找个出口 NO MERCY(图片摄于Pulteney Bridge frontages, Bath, England)
换下了duffy的mercy，听太久了。大概2/3月的时候买到cd? 之前在satc的sound track上发现mercy的时候非常惊讶，因为想不起来电影里什么时候出现过这首歌。试图换了不少新歌，从coldplay上个月出的viva la vida, 到cajun dance party的the hill the view & the lights 到beck的modern guilt...竟然觉得都没有太适合放在这里。翻出旧歌来听，3年前放在space上的this is not a love song 依然是那个味道。我讨厌重复，也从来没有放过重复的歌。但这次。是个例外。最近的新歌都不大对胃，电影看了不少，也没有太合拍的在那里。心情使然还是本身如此不得而知。几天前在长途飞机上无聊听老歌。第一次听到王菲的冷战，完整听完后，突然觉得耳熟，原来是tori 的silent all these years...不过阿菲演绎很好，几乎听不出歌中有tori的影子。
一整日没有出门，吃了自己煮的linguine bolognese. 很久没有煮东西给自己吃。我的parmesan cheese和spanish olive和basil和pepper都够味。底酱还是marks&spencer。Loved it。
烦？烦了很久？烦到无法再压抑？该是决定的时候了。Please, this time, NO MERCY. (no offense, duffy, you are still the no.1 new voice of 2008 in the UK)
IF(Wimbledon 2008 Newsletter - 6 July by wimbledon.org) Day 13 Review Just when you thought this tournament had seen everything – and it had seen a lot of things: Venus Williams winning her fifth title; the top four ladies’ seeds all eliminated by the end of the first week; the resurgence of Marat Safin; a first British girls’ winner since 1984 – this topped it all. James Blunt's ConcertHis concert was held on 13 May here in Singapore, the second day after the devastating quake of China. Lik bought a pair of tickets for the best seats a month before. Despite feeling a bit guilty, I went to meet James as I had been yearning to do so for nearly three years. Still remember I told lik two months ago that being unable to go to James' live was a huge sham left in London, and the second day I received the news of his coming to S'pore.
The concert was awesome. He sang almost all of his songs, commencing with "Give me some love" plus a fresh one "coz I love you", from his debut album Back to Bedlam to the second All the lost souls that rocketed by his loyal fans to number 1 arocss the globle within days of its release. He didn't talk much, though arrays of light banters in between were hilarious and obviously showed his dry sense of humour. Those anthems he carved from the simplest lyrics and a handful of chords again deeply engraved on my soul, and I had stories to fit in every single of his songs, from "High", "You're beautiful" "Wisemen" in Bath, "so long jimmy" in London, to "Goodbye my lover" in New York, to "1973" in Singapore... He was like singing straight in front of me, and thrilled, I could't help standing up and singing along with him like most of the audience did. His singing live was even more powerful and beautiful than the CDs. Btw, I'd never seen so many expats here in Singapore, and that night, they all showed up to throw their home singer a continous standing ovation.
Besides that gig, interestingly, his grandpa was travelling with them. Totally deaf and quite senile, he was however pretending to control the sound desk in the whole course. what a lovely old man. And James got a new guitar every song. His skills of guitars and panio were unparalleled.
What a night.
P.S. I went to another concert which was David Tao's a month before James' one, not quite impressed. Of coz, he is far from good to be compared with James.
Terrifying TremorMassive media coverage:
7.8 magnitude earthquake hits China. 107 casualties. more than 100 injured
The tremor felt in cities across China, including Beijing, 1,500 km away as well as Shanghai, Bangkok and Taipei
900 highschool students buried in Sichuan province school?!
Series of aftershocks follow the main quake
US Geoleogical Survey: quake struck 10 km below surface (a relatively shallow quake which can easily undermine the foundations of buildings)
80% of Buildings come down in just one county of Sichuan
Worst quake since the 1976 Tangshan one.
President Hu calls out all-out effort to help victims
an hour later, 3,000-5,000 ppl were reportedly dead, 10,000 injured just in one County?!!
an impressive all-out rescue operation in contrast to the diaster relief in Myanmar..(whose government declines or postpones to grant visas to humanitarian aids)
...
I dialled the same number again and again back to Xi'an which is though several hundreds kilometers away from the epicenter
All imaginary scenarios arised from failures to get through the line for the whole afternoon nearly slaughtered me
Finally reached my family. Their mobile phones just got a wee bit of signals which were earlier interrupted by the tremor. Mom got evacuated immediately from the shopping mall, so younger brother got from his classroom, and Dad is okay as well. All good. despite they probably got to spend the whole day n night at open area outside the premises, failing that, stay in our car for the night...
Not only concerns over the safety of my own family, but also the sight from TV of what was happening fuels my emotion and kind of anger...
What is wrong out there? why such an "eventful" 2008? Fei answered "thanks to the Olympics"...speechless Anyways, may every of you safe and well, especially to those who are near or in the diaster area or whose freinds are. Gearing up_PreludeHave tried to refrain from talking anything substantive on feelings and minds and stuff alike for a considerably long period of time. and tuned into initiating topics of food and weather with people around. I have so been excessively stifled and as a result I see my chances of staying here for long vanishingly small. Hopefully after a successful rendering of the coming gig, and bang, I can put a full stop on my suffer. Still I can not say much here and unwilling to recall again. The thing was I got DISGUSTED to a significant degree that I have never been through, however, from which I also found, sadly, another lethal flaw of myself being such a pushover and equipped with virtually NO tactics for negotiations, well, the results they arrived were certainly not on an arm’s length basis either. How am I going to survive in these “survival the MEANEST” surroundings?
Can not be more palpable that there is no point for continuation, whatever forms of, given that:
1. I am not inclined to do such tedious stuff under such bizarrely teething conditions 2. I am not into this place 3. I am no big fan of becoming a member of the local society 4. I would never ever have left where I loved to live had I not been in such a “rewarding” relationship which was seemingly going to somewhere. Well, it did go to somewhere, on heaven probably 5. Constant adverse shockings from incredibility abundant “species” of humanbeings which I had never had the “luck” to know or bump into before 6. Severely undermined confidence and skills as well 7. Disgruntled as never before 8. 9. …
Innumerable points for that “no point”, which is crystal clear now and the nutshell is I am not happy and this is not at all what I wanted. So why not gear up for something positively mesmerising and following the inner voice?
p.s. Lik took off for Macau on business last week. I had been scared by my fear of being alone, but the fear was subsequently scattered and fled away with his plane maybe. Living wise, I eat well (just as the slogan of Marks and Spencer’s which I frequent an awful lot despite the variety of food being sold there is embarrassingly small, mostly cookies and canned food) and I sleep well (tonight is an exception) and I go to FitnessFirst as usual for yoga and cardio but at shrinking frequency now (once a week? Shame on me, used to be thrice a week) and I love Swiss Emmi strawberry and cherry yoghurt, and Ramen Santouka franchised over here from Hokkaido. All these shed the light of hopes that my ego of freedom bouncing back and that I can be as independent as many of my gal pals are...Good.
I have got loads of things left undone, lol, who give a f***? Getting problems sorted out should always prevail. Moreover, I am so heading to Macau for fun at weekend. Lately终于换了颜色和背景。JJ讲要求“换一种同样有个性但不毁视力的”X3也表示同意，再很早很早前，傻也说换个不刺眼的颜色。我的懒惰已经到了无可就药的地步。因为我的电脑已换成绿色背景，再也看不到个中颜色。以至于在浏览NYU商学院的时候根本看不到东西...于是退出原来的绿色。所谓健康的未必处处可用。
换颜色的时候，我在想，换哪种背景。突然想到刚开始写日记时的心情。那个时候空间名字叫午后的阳光，主题是“下午茶”淡淡的绿色。很简单，因为我喜欢在那个时候溜出去，溜到古老的街道上，喝下午茶或咖啡，吃scone 或者那家400年老店Sally Lunn独特的超大bun，其实最独特的是她家自制的涂在bun上的cream要不就吃carrot cake, 还有没事和X3去买cookies，那家的红色Ben's Cookie杯我现在还在用。只是发现不太搭配所处的地点和环境。或者去星美元拿一个blueberry muffin吃也好，虽然有点大。突然想起了那时候经常买Somerfield的 chocolate muffin and buy one get one free for blueberry muffin...还有经常去Marks&Spencer或者Waitrose买个cheese cake, （不过我最想念的是M&S家夏天的土耳其樱桃，I can't find any other cherries that are more juicy and succulent...wherever they are from, Australia or New Zealand or the States name a few...Turkish cherries at M&S beat all）...再买一罐whipped cream配咖啡，再不就是custard和crepe还有rasperry strawberry blueberry回去自制甜品。突然又很想念Apple Strudel...最好吃的一次在Sainsbury买到过。 I was...sinfully fat...but happy。后来陆陆续续又换过些空间名字，总是因心境而异。不知道什么时候换做“PEMMi 行走”就再也没有换过了。因为好像，“行走”之于我，是不变的主题...
刚才本来想换回“下午茶”的主题，可是怎么看着都别扭，物非人非境非。所以简单的选了黑色主题。很久以前去Wien的时候，Coffee Melange 真的很不错。
前几天又去Cathay看电影，韩国的，Mission Sex Control 原以为会是色即是空类的喜剧，但看过之后，只是一点点喜。
最近上演了很多电影，有点应接不暇。不过这边又把"Atonement"引回来了，即将上映 随着金球的揭晓。还期待"Sweeney Todd"。
音乐剧方面，自从最后在Broadway看过Wicked之后，再没看过。主要是已经远离了那些有文化的地方。 P.S. Shabu ShabuP.S. Though "I'm past the age when I can claim the noun 'kid'".
Michael Clayton is not recommended unless you are craving a nap at the cinema.
Finally tried the Shabu Shabu which I had been salivating for months at Cuppage Mall after thirty minitutes ride nearly one month ago. Tasty beef slices and seafood assortments, which though is less popular and outdone by pork that the restaurant is renowned for. For me, both taste and nutrition wise, beef is much healthier and not artery clogging than the traditionally prefered pork which I'm not patient enough to scoop off the floating pork blood from the pot with the strainer (though all sorts of hotpot literally demand this kind of common practice, pork oil is more naturally occuring and more in volume and I'm always not the one who does this scooping off). I'm definitely going to frequent there as my base for Shabu Shabu. Nostalgic可能怀旧是我的天性。每到一个新地方总会恋起旧的好（北京除外，短短的几个月我苦的够呛，无论是生活环境还是工作环境还是空气环境还是交通环境还是感情环境）。会时常想念过去的建筑、街道、商店、饭店、咖啡店、小河边、桥、广场、博物馆许许多多的事物。一年多前，我还以为大概是英国的无论事物或建筑或人本身的怀旧气质影响了我。因为在纽约巨大的繁华之后，最多想起的反而是英国村镇的安静，海边的怡然。后来慢慢的，我发现这不是主要原因，慢慢的，我发现我不是主动要去怀旧，而是在记忆里，旧时的时光总是比现在快乐。因为我想不起来也不敢期待，以前或者未来什么时候会有比在巴斯的夏天快乐的日子。新加坡大街上商场里众多的英国店，已经失去了它们错落在high streets上面的味道，以至于短短的兴奋期过后，我不再有感觉。我只是“怀念过去单纯美好的小幸福”只是怀念自己发自内心、无忧无虑的笑容只是怀念那分悠然的心情，无论是在巴斯，还是半夜不睡买便宜火车票去剑桥游玩。
07年过去了，最糟糕的一年过去了。我等来了08，跨年那一刻，我默默的念着，今年要好 but my expectation plummeted the moment that my doctor told me @#$^%^&&&@*!*@**##@%@^$(@)!&!%#^!!@#(#^@*!*(!*#@^#^that more sophisticated test than the one I've taken may needed and that I might have to go through further treatment. I thought everything would turn out to be just cool in my first test, but it wasn't, things always go to the opposite side...just wish that the first was an error, and that I actually was fine. well, I'll see. And it couldn't be any worse that what happened this morning added salt heavily to my wound....
很想回到过去快乐健康的日子和生活。Dearest Papa, can I be an inconsiderate and spoiled daughter and go to live in some place where makes me happy and healthy? and can I not make money (if not, add here "via office 9-6 jobs") to support myself? which sucks and is knackering me and is the last thing I have wanted to do...remember what I murmured to you where I loved to go to and what i loved to do when I was a little girl? well, I still do. I have to half-embarassingly admit that I still haven't landed myself a rock to rely on and I don't reckon there going to be such one given that many years' failures in doing so...thus I'm afraid that I can't and have not be blessed enough and will not be a happy housewife either. Rather, I should have asked: can I be your never-grown-up girl? Recent MoviesMovies watched in theatres recently (reversed-time order)
1. Elizabeth, the golden age still cast by Cate Blanchett, but far from on par with the first Elizabeth that winned her the Academy Award. 2 stars plus
2. I am Legend still went to see on the premier night despite Noami's warning...but thank you as I'd lowered my expectation an awful lot before stepping into the hall. 3 star plus though
3. Golden Compass though wee bit phoney that the gal is too clever in the movie to be true...didn't affect the whole as it is untrue in the first place in nature...fairly few scenes of Daniel Craig...but he'd be given the main role in the next one surely i guess. 3 stars plus
4. the Warlords good for Peter. bloody battle scenes n betrayal 3 stars
5. Enchanted hilarious 3 stars but crept me out seeing swarms of rats and roaches flocking out from bath tub and everywhere at the guy's house
6. the Heartbreak kid had expected too much thanks to the 5-star review at yahoo... 3 stars
7. Hitman 1 star plus. too much playing cool and cliche plot
8. Hero..umm 2 stars plus
lifelong workout?!After rambling on so much stuff to eat at my last blog, I spent the whole weekend doing nothing, didn't venture into Holland village hunting sth to fulfil my tommy as i was sick, didn't watch the movie of the warlords thanks to the high traffic of movie heading ppl on friday night. didn't do christmas shopping as i'm financially edging broken. Suddenly remembered the pepper lunch "sizzling it your way", steaks and ribs there...a bit sinewy though, not bad at all given the low priced steaks the wod of rich-flavour-adding butter on top of them...
Signed up for FitnessFirst. (was told that it is an English fiteness brand with loads and loads of fitness studios in England and Scotland and franchised to Asia, Austrilia etc.. how come I didn't notice back then). Despite my swelling belly, I am sceptical of my stamina to stay as a lifelong memebr of fitness club yet to stick to workout regularly as I was so down signing on the receipt of my AMEX...kinda understood how come the guys in Friends were never able to quit workout clubs... they got hooked by hot chicks...well, no hunk was hitting on me at the gym the other day (they got a talkative salesman though)...why I still paid the whopping fat sum of joining fee and committed myself to be a lifelong member?!
movie ahead btw: I AM LEGEND
PeMmI行走.
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