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爱你是我消耗不起的卡路里, 我开始向往清淡的滋味
Sow an Act, Reap a Habit; Sow a Habit, Reap a Character; Sow a Character, Reap a Destiny

透明是什么颜色?!环游地球80年!!

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5/13/2009

The Day after Tomorrow

Because people are trying to survive, creativity flourishes. In places such as Dharavi one of the world’s largest slums, housing and countless tiny business mingle, enterprising spirit is in the air. This place is high-density, carfree, walkable and mixed use. It’s organic in urban forms and has strong social coherence and community network. For years in the past, we aimed to clear them all, but it has suddenly occurred to us that these appear to exhibit many good qualities that we’ve been looking for and trying to restore in our modern urban life.

However, as Rebecca Tuhus-Dubrow put it, acknowledging the values of these poverty-stricken shantytowns risks glorifying it, romanticizing or rationalizing it. Dharavi may be ecologically friendly given its extremely low energy consumption per capita, but it is not the residents’ choice and it is their welfare that suffers and pays for the price of poverty and deprivation. In cases like this, what is good for the earth is not good for the people.  

10 billion people currently live in slums like Dharavi in Mumbai or Kibera in Nairobi, and the number is likely to double by 2030. With more people live in urban areas now than ever before, the challenge could be mammoth. Demolition, relocation and start from the scratch is argueably a more cost-efficient option in economic terms, but disruption and trauma caused to the community may imply high social cost.

So there goes, cost, benefit, economic, social, now, future…. a long string of issues and concepts to look into when it comes to finding a way forward -- complicated and difficult yet constructive and meaningful.   

5/10/2009

Cat Says….

依靠是种心灵上的寄托, 在不在身边并不重要,重要的是你相信它的存在。

5110124 - 大功告成。或许骑长颈鹿的事儿还是有戏的~~

5/3/2009

人有病,猪没病 (引:马未都博客)

全世界几天之内迅速流行了一个新词——猪流感,较之禽流感指向更加明确。
禽流感因鸟类而起,一旦流行鸡鸭鹅都遭捕杀,多冤也不冤,宁肯错杀,不肯放过,为了人类自私的安全。

猪流感从墨西哥开始流行,源头明确是猪,这让猪以及与猪相关利益的部门乃至国家都十分不爽,人患上猪流感心理一定不舒服,因为猪是个肮脏、百毒不侵的家伙。

先是农业部一位副部长为猪喊冤,此次所谓“猪流感乃禽流感、人流感、猪流感病毒基因片段组合,这个病只在人之间传染”。显而易见猪此次背了黑锅。农业部喊冤是缘于农业部的自身利益——养猪大户。

国际上更热闹,日内瓦的世界卫生组织忧心忡忡,警报倏而拉响至五级,差一级就拉爆了。
“猪流感”没蔓延呢,名词蔓延。

以色列说,不应该使用“猪流感”一词,原因与犹太宗教有关,此流感应称“墨西哥流感”;墨西哥马上抗议,认为以色列冒犯了他们的国度;美国出来当和事佬,改称为“2009HINI流感”,听着像一首流行歌曲,美国人改名是幌子,其实“猪流感”影响美国猪肉出口是真。

十六世纪的航海使欧洲性病梅毒流行。英国人患上这病觉得恶心,认为是风流的法国人不洁,所以叫此病为“法国病”;
法国人还冤呢,追根溯源地叫“那不勒斯疮”,赖在意大利人身上;意大利人随便惯了,此事不随便,利用文艺复兴的话语权叫“西班牙疮”,欧洲人追来追去,追到中国广东,起名叫“广疮”,广东人赶紧说,这病来自交趾(今越南),那地方潮,易得病。

人有文化,遇现象命名;猪没文化,蒙什么冤也不惧怕。据农业部长说,此次是“人有病,猪没病”。

3/30/2009

Ce qui ne me tue pas me rend plus fort

Whatever does not kill me, makes me stronger. --  Friedrich Nietzshe.



3/23/2009

饥饿的毛虫40载

40年前的某天,Eric Carle玩弄着他的打孔机. 这令他想起了啃书本的虫.

"饥饿的毛虫"一书就这样诞生了.

此书以30秒一本的平均速度在全球范围内销售. 至今销量已过2900万册.并拥有47种语言的全译本.

在儿时珍藏的诸多儿童画册里, "毛虫"也是我极爱的一本.

吃不饱的毛虫,一页接一页的吞食了冰琪淋,色拉米,点心和水果.它带着自己渐渐膨胀的身体,在页面上的原型孔缝里穿行...

至今还记的,故事的结局如丑小鸭变天鹅, 灰姑娘变公主一般充满希望.

胖毛虫的化蝶,小孩子们喜欢的美好ending.


3/19/2009

老迈你好狠~

SeeTickets照常寄来英伦各地音乐会及演唱会快讯,这才得知老迈又出山了。

在伦敦的个唱通常100个胖子顶头儿了,而老迈的票子起价就是770。

King of Pop, 你真不是一般的牛气!

2/28/2009

Opportunity or Man-made Disaster

把自己的海岸线折腾得面目全非以后
阿联酋的疯子们把毒手伸向青岛的小渔村。
一早起来读到这样的消息真的很让人倒胃口。

Cost of Dubai's Growth - Is this what we want?


2/20/2009

Englishmen and their Pride




The Englishmen are addicted to the rhythms of their own industrial and imperial valediction
They like saying goodbye to the past
Yet saying goodbye to the past is the single biggest thing they can't say goodbye to.

The Age of Indifference by Andrew O'Hagan


2/3/2009

Lost, without being Found

病榻上方能真切体会有副健壮小身板的珍贵
错过了1个组会, 2堂大课,几场雪杖还有‘我爱宝宝’们自发组织的迎‘宝’活动
不知道是这些年来我们变得弱弱了,还是小菌们变得越发强大了
ps. 躺床上听说了让人乍舌的丢鞋事件。这真让800年老校丢尽了颜面。开了那哥们儿估计也难平民愤。



1/18/2009

1/3个80年

这个地儿,跨着年的荒芜
很久不说,也便越发懒的说了
荒着吧,我在忙着环游世界...

12/10/2008

Effectiveness matters, but Efficiency matters TOO!!

 
RED Warning to 蜜丝米:
老这么举棋不定will do you no good!!
So FGS just make up your mind!!!!
11/24/2008

She's driving us NUTS!!

 

阿莱克丝毛丽丝
我想说,你讲课真的很不靠谱!!!!
你在上面颠三倒四的讲你的统计学,
可怜我们抓狂的只想用铅笔扎烂小橡皮!!!

11/18/2008

Bible n Tax


The Bible says,
1/10 of the crops grown should be set aside
to be redistributed to the poor
and for supporting the priesthood.
I suspect, this is the origin of taxation...


11/13/2008

MINA's MIMOX

 
11/8/2008

Home in Elephant


Knocking down the old?
Displacing the existing?
Pulling in the yuppies?
Creating a "purified" new image, then Making a good fortune?
What about showing some love for the locals?
Because after all, this is the place they call Home.

Video Link --> Home in Elephant




The so-called underclass are impoverished not simply in relation to the better-off in Britain today but in relation to their own parents and grandparents. And the upper class are uncomfortably aware of it, which is why they show so little respect and affection for the lower classes. I doubt if England has been progressively (or assertively, as John Major had it) becoming a more classless society. The English working class is uniquely disinherited, and the most important ways in which it is disinherited are the more crippling because they are largely hidden from us.
-- Mind the Gap (2004), Ferdinand Mount


11/5/2008

Don't Sail Away

 
Alone, On a sailboat lost at the sea, I did not recognize the skies above me
My compass was just spinning round and round. It was just spinning round

And then with a gust of wind things changed, I set off on a course that seemed to me quite strange
I was heading through the air straight for the moon. Straight for the moon

And when I landed, he took my hand. We dined and we danced with the stars
He asked me to stay in this dreamland. But the wind called out so I went instead
Then he turned to me and said

Don`t sail away. Don`t sail away from me
Don`t sail away. We could have such a lovely time
Don`t sail away. Don`t sail away from me
Don`t sail away. You could stay and just be mine
I told him not this time

The wind carried me across deep spaces. I visited many times and many places
I driifted until my boat came to a stop on destiny`s roof top

Inside, I played chess with destiny. I saw a way to win so very easily
But he was taking far too long to make his move. Destiny wouldn`t move

So I turned my boat back towards that dreamland. And I filled the sails with my breath
When I landed. He took my hand. Though the wind called out I remained instead
He still turned to me and said
Don`t sail away. Don`t sail away from me
Don`t sail away. We could have such a lovely time
Don`t sail away. Don`t sail away from me
Don`t sail away. You could stay and just be mine

I like to stay for a life time...
10/22/2008

High high high


Workload - high
Stress level - high
Appetite for food - high
Probability of dozing off during lectures - high
   but hopefully,
Reward - will be high
Happiness index - will be high
Level of satisfaction - will be high
Employbility despite this economic downturn - will also be high


10/19/2008

Morning, Downing

 
早起的猫儿
中意柔和的晨光
深吸一口如薄荷糖般清凉的空气
早安, 唐宁~

 

This is an autumn song.... with lyrics wriiten in orange ink....

9/28/2008

C for CAM

 
they say this place is full of geeks and nerds,
but i say this place is full of cool people who are passionate about making real changes to our kaleidoscopic world
happy to be here, happy to have met you guys

When the sun rises again, a new day will begin
9/21/2008

^^

因為你不問
所以我不說
9/15/2008

夕阳の语

 我和我的费里尼
 你和你的小冰滴
 
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9/12/2008

Rainbow Shoes Rainbow Days

 
这是一场没有结局的表演
包含所有荒谬和疯狂
像个孩子一样满怀悲伤
静悄悄地熟睡在大地上

现在我 有些倦了
倦得像一朵被风折断的野花
所以我 开始变了
变得像一团滚动炽热的花火

看着眼前欢笑骄傲的人群
心中泛起汹涌的浪花
跳着放荡的舞蹈穿行在旷野
感到狂野而破碎的辉煌

现在我 有些醉了
醉得像一只找不到方向的野鸽
所以我 开始变了
变得像一团暴烈炽热的花火

蓝色的梦睡在静静驶过的小车里
漂亮的孩子迷失在小路上
这是一个永恒美丽的生活
没有眼泪 没有哀伤

  

 Song by Wang Feng -- 花火

9/5/2008

Ever

  

 
8/27/2008

827杂杂杂

 
夜里被一只大蚊闹的心烦意乱. 开灯起身, 我欲灭它. 它却机敏闪躲.
与英国乡下悠然飞行的蚊虫相比, '国蚊'俨然要比'洋蚊'精明狡猾的多.
早上起来在庄黄的博客上读到关于OY国名缩写的趣闻两则:
话说,巴西运动员不分男女,胸前都挂个大大的BRA
新加坡队员,个个都背负着沉重的SIN上场....

   MImage Photography

Red, passionate and expressive, as always....
 
8/26/2008

乐翻了....

 
贝儿们, 听说你们要来我这个乐儿啊!!!!
开车去看海, 吃大大大螃蟹, 热烈欢迎CC和cc!!!