Raining, still.

I've spent one week in Japan, including two days in Kyoto and Nara. I’m having a great time and things in Japan seem familiar to me, sometimes I even thought of getting a cab then going home to Beijing. What I have to get used to is the crowds in the subway and light rail. I’m always scared of such scenes, everyone hurrying to work with stern faces and dark suits. Apart from that, and being ill the first few days, I'm quite enjoying Japan, especially the way the Japanese shower and that they are patient enough to give me directions, even if their English is even worse than mine.

I took some photos, but now I don’t have time to put them all. So I decided to put one of myself wearing kimono. A teacher arranged for her postgraduate students to learn the tea ceremony, and I was kinda cheeky enough to ask if I could go :P. I look so stupid in the photo, no make-up and with a stupid hairdo, but it is ok, just for fun.

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Big World, the video installation is made by Lu(why it’s not Lv?) Shengzhong and Yu Fei. I love that moment when I pushed door, which I even didn’t notice its existence at first.

Sponge Pool

My sister asked me to take my nephew to 798 art district. LUCKILY, he had fun there. I have to admit many art works there are dull!

His Music

I guess actually he was quite happy when I told him I couldn’t go watch his band show, since he wouldn’t love to hear something like “what the hell are you playing�, since sometimes he can’t tell if I’m kidding or not:P. But, I really wanted to see him play bass, he's cool only when he's on the stage (kidding!)

Cui Jian said there’re many good new bands in Beijing in an interview I watched the other day. I hope his band is one of them:)

Enjoy haijiao’s Dark Blue

Hi There

I felt an impulse to take a passenger's wallet from his pocket when I was in a bus. I remembered a mountain climber was asked why he was crazy for climbing the mountains, for conquering? He just said because the mountain was there. So what if a thief’s motive to steal is just because "it" was "there".

Man&Woman

Or male and female, whatever. It’s an eternal subject, isn't it? I took some pictures in Beijing Botanical Garden. Two of them are quite interesting. One is giant seed & male inflorescence, and another one is extatsome popoi & phyllum giganteum (in fact, they has nothing to do with each other, I put them together because what they're like a couple…).

It might be cool if move them to a gallery. I once saw a ceramic work, which looks like a big ass and with flowers on it, why didn't that artist just copy the shape of giant seed directly? It would be better...

Because no Title

The gray blue part—tag line disappeared when I worked on this . My friend told me “because no title�. Perhaps this is exactly the new blog about: no title… just some random stuff is written by my Sister (Shuai Lian, an editor, her posts are just her articles for the paper) and me (stupider crap) and Snowball maybe join in, anyway, it’s from friendS.

Most posts are written in Chinese. The first one is about the six towns in southern China.

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