Feb 29 2008
China is hot and sexy, so are the one storey grey brick Siheyuans (quadrangles or courtyard dwelling) and the surrounding hutong, the sprawling and vernacular narrow lanes that lattice the heart of Beijing, 咸鱼翻身 too. Oh well .. don’t throw away your old jeans, it will become fashionable again, :)
This picture depicts a san jin - three courtyards siheyuan [...]
Feb 29 2008
The tickets to the Olympic games are hard to find and expensive, Jiujiu told me. For the coveted ones. “Beijing said they will populate the arena [w/ plebs] with the unpopular games, such as jump, discus throw.. .. “ I have no doubt. He thought I’m totally out of the loop when I asked him who’s Liu [...]
Feb 29 2008
NY Phil scored huge in N Korea. Maestro’s suggestion that one day some composer might write An American in Pyongyang as he conducted Gershwin’s An American in Paris. (Was this his spontaneity or preconceived?) In any event, music knows no boundary, and America still has it, if not the hard power - the dominance - militarily, at [...]
Feb 29 2008
The Brit has bestowed a new term for middle class: coping class, with the undertone, or political overtone, that this hard working class is struggling. Although the middle class is defined widely, but without argument, it’s the largest block in the western societies, Chidia’s are emerging. Both rich and poor enjoy many privileges that are unavailable to [...]