You are painting a masterpiece, make sure to hide the brush strokes. - Betty Draper, Mad Men
What makes the desert beautiful is that somewhere it hides a well. - Antoine de Saint-Exupéry, Le Petit Prince

Friday, June 24, 2011

世界遗产?

http://whc.unesco.org/en/news/767
这样一来, 杭州更是要了不得了!

杭州原本就算是一羡慕煞人的富家小姐。论姿色,论身家,恐怕全中国没几个能与她媲美。青山碧水,物资丰沛,气候温和,再加上远离天朝,生活着还真是叫没甚压力,优哉游哉。 但好东西总是人人都想要的。这不,各处有闲情闲钱之人,开始花大把银子来杭州买房、投资、圈地… 那些个原有的惬意和慵懒被渐渐镀上了一层金。之前看过一篇文章,说,哎呀杭州阿,就快变得跟南宋时一样,歌舞升平,纸醉金迷了!

且不说传得沸沸扬扬的三台山上闲人免进的北斗七星阵,毕竟不是亲眼所见。就说说云溪竹径吧,是我最爱的景点,每次回家必去。不过去呢,也就是沿着竹径走到山顶,喝口茶小憩下,闻闻茶花,避雨亭遥想下乾隆题诗的场景,望望洗心亭前一潭水(假装净涤下心灵),看看青石上钻出的四脚蛇一家,天色渐暗也就拍拍屁股回家了。今年春假去的时候却发觉山顶一片区域被围墙围起来了,想踏入去看个究竟也被保安之类的人物拦住,说了些private property一类的话。据爸爸说,那原先是个尼姑庵,后面好像还有条路能翻下山的。看来必是有人看中了云溪竹径这块宝地,圈了几亩地,想做“隐士”哩。那青石板铺的路,原本是决不允许汽车通行的。这为了山顶豪宅or whatevers的修建,什么车都让行了,轿车、卡车…  光是走下山,我就发现好几处石板凹凸不平,显然是被压坏了… 瞬间有种被别人抢了东西的感觉。云溪竹径必然不是我的,但它原先是大家共享的(或者它原先就已经不是了,因为土地都归天朝所有!)不知道夏天回去的时候,那会变成怎样了。

这世界遗产,评了倒不如评不上的好。越好的东西,眼红的人越多。到最后,哪还有咱老百姓的份儿。

Tuesday, June 21, 2011

can't be more stressed out

要怨也只能怨自己 不够格
也就只好付出多倍的努力
若最终两头都落空 该如何是好?

呸呸呸 不吉利


深呼吸 inner-peace...

Wednesday, June 15, 2011

莫名奇妙地...

...对某人说了很多心里话
交朋友简单起来还真是不可思议

Tuesday, June 14, 2011

My first pair of Jimmy Choo! hOOray!

今天nordstrom打折 开心~~

Wednesday, June 8, 2011

Carpe Diem

Robert Frost (1923)


Age saw two quiet children
Go loving by at twilight,
He knew not whether homeward,
Or outward from the village,
Or (chimes were ringing) churchward,
He waited (they were strangers)
Till they were out of hearing
To bid them both be happy.
“Be happy, happy, happy,
And seize the day of pleasure.”
The age-long theme is Age’s.
’Twas Age imposed on poems
Their gather-roses burden
To warn against the danger
That overtaken lovers
From being overflooded
With happiness should have it.
And yet not know they have it.
But bid life seize the present?
It lives less in the present
Than in the future always,
And less in both together
Than in the past. The present
Is too much for the senses,
Too crowding, too confusing—
Too present to imagine.

Seiko + Daniel Wu