Art for sale.

This is the Asia Week for art dealers around the world. Most of them come and check out the market. I noticed this when reading a column in NY Times and spent my Friday afternoon in the The International Asian Art Fair at Park Avenue. "The International Asian Art Fair is one of the key events of Asia Week each spring in New York city bringing together leading dealers from the United States, Europe and the Far East. It offers museums and private collectors a rare opportunity to view and buy from among the finest art treasures produced across the Near and Far East via India, the Himalayas, Tibet and South East Asia". The exhibition shows some treasures from China and other Asian countries. I like two gallaries who decidated to the sculptures from Tang Dynasty and WuDai. One of my favoriates are two riding figures, one man and one women. They dressed in similar customs and looked very peaceful. 这一对唐三彩的人物，好像在连绵的历史中为我打开了一扇想象的门，将他们的前生今世对我娓娓道来。他们微笑的表情和轻松的姿态，仿佛只是长安街头寻常的爱侣。在一千年之后的我看来，他们的美穿越了时间和空间。

Impossible love of Ms. Harris.

Ms. Harris is a new HBO production, which I watched by chance in the mid of the night. It gives me bad dream. Here is the story: "Love hurts. Nobody knew that better than Jean Harris, the prep-school headmistress and longtime paramour of celebrated "Scarsdale Diet Doctor" Herman "Hy" Tarnower. In 1980, the couple's tempestuous 14-year romance ended with Tarnower's shocking death at the hands of Harris herself - triggering one of the century's most notorious and bizarre murder trials. " I like Ben Kinsley even though he plays this impossible Dr. tarnower in this movie. Annette Bening is incredible as Ms. Harris, a woman struggling between addiction to drug and addiction to love.

A moment at Columbia

Mimic of Lin Yutang's A Moment in Peking.

Not sure how they get it, but I think it is really smart shot.

Sometimes you stay in one place for long, stick to one person for long, or stay in same mindset for long, you gradually lost your interests in the subject. nevertheless, if you watch from another one's perspective, you might just find a new land, a new lover, or a whole new world.

Mom will travel to Tianjing today for my grandfather and uncle's memorial service this weekend. However, nobody will take care of my father this year. It has been 7 long years, I don't think I can recall exactly what he looked and how he liked me and the best times we spent together. One memory clip always comes back to me. It was a rainy day in Aug and he helped me to move to Chang Ping campus to start my college life. We sat on the bus back from Changping and we didn't talk to each other. But I felt I was so close to him and language was not needed between us. And that sense of leaving and departing transforms into eternity now. I ask myself, how should I remember him? Just as I always ask myself, how should I remember my days and nights here at Columbia?

No answer, only question this time. Sorry!

Li yapeng

李亚鹏不是豪情万丈的令狐冲，他是为了成名不惜挥刀自宫的伪君子岳不群?!?!?

good girl in Beijing 

National gurad 

Holleywood movie 

blog war catch 22 

for Taiwanese friends 

in old days 

In the mode of love 

the Big Mac 

new Chinese documentary 

one-night-stand 

prepare for dissertation proposal 

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Andy Lau

He looks really good!

Hotel Rwanda

Can not sleep and so see Hotel Rwanda instead! That is a bad decision, since I can not lying down after that movie. The post-producition documentary called Message for Peace, in which the director, screenwriter and the realworld Paul reconstructed their experience in making that movie. The unforgetable moment is about when the Western gave up the land and the humanity starts to conquer the fear in ordinary people. The film is a story of "Ten years ago some of the worst atrocities in the history of mankind took place in the country of Rwanda--and in an era of high-speed communication and round the clock news, the events went almost unnoticed by the rest of the world. In only three months, one million people were brutally murdered. In the face of these unspeakable actions, inspired by his love for his family, an ordinary man summons extraordinary courage to save the lives of over a thousand helpless refugees, by granting them shelter in the hotel he manages." This morning I wake up and listen to NPR and it reports recent conflict in Congo and other Africa regions. I remember one conversation in the film. The British reporter told Paul that even if the western world see the video clips of the masacar, "people will say, God this is terrible, and then go for their dinner". That is exactly what happend in 1994 and what is happening today. The Hotel Rwanda is a miracle and people saved are most social elite from minority groups. They know how to use diplomatic power to save themselves in the mass and they are the only few who survived. In the end of the interview with Paul, he summarized why the western and the UN did not intervene in 1992. He said America and other western countries were afraid to repeat their failure in Somalia shortly before 1994. Also Rwanda is a small country without resources, the only thing they produce are "coffee and tea".

Wild Party and Turkish Charm

Went to CU's new production Wild Party yesterday with friends. It is produced by CU Musical Theatre Society, an incredibely young crew with tremendous energy and charm! Most of the performers are freshmen or sophomore and the live jazz band is fantastic. Considering the time and money limit they face, this version of the ex-Broadway show is really a decent try-on. The storyline is very simple. "Adapted from a book-length poem written in and about the Roaring Twenties, Andrew Lippa's WILD PARTY tells the story of one wild evening in the Manhattan apartment shared by Queenie and Burrs, a vaudeville dancer and a vaudeville clown. In a relationship marked by vicious behavior and recklessness (mirroring the time in which they live), they decide to throw a party to end all parties. " A recent production was around July 2005 and the critics reviewed it as follows "On top of all this, "The Wild Party" conveys a sense of the decadent side of New York of the 1920s better than anything I can recall since F. Scott Fitzgerald's The Great Gatsby. Lippa's score deserved more attention and admiration when his show debuted at the Manhattan Theatre Club in 2000, and this production's formidably gifted cast captures the youthful, hedonistic, self-destructive pulse of the Jazz Age -- its dangerous, crash-and-burn, live-for-the-moment fervor-- with riveting intensity." What a coincidence! I just finish the Great Gatsby and encounter the Wild Party right away. I miss the sensitional time in history with endless possibilities and a deep sense of lost of the past world. Ennis could not bear the dress of the performers and he quit the show after 15 mins. The rest of us enjoy it very much. Both Ennis and Otsman are Turkish, Yan and I are Chinese. There was lots of fun in the afterward dinner. I felt much comfortable to spare time with them than the previous night, when we dined out with two Chinese documentary film makers after the show. The turkish language is very interesting and it shares same grammatic structure as Japaness. Hope I could go to Istanbul as Yan did last summer some day. She and Ennis spend two weeks in Xi'an and then went to Turkey for another two weeks.