I am back from Guizhou

My Miao friend, a high school student


My friend's younger brother, a cool guy with gentle heart and a junior secondary student


Shot at a short hike


Tung Tung, a cute 3-year old baby girl, loves to eat and laugh


This silver neck ring is part of the culture that the Miao people are proud of.


Girls are busy viewing my shots, of course this photo is taken by my SE phone~


Qing Shui Jiang (清水江) by Shi Dong Zhen, same river, totally different from last summer, which was in flood but now gentle and beautiful. People simply have their washing dry under the bright Sun by the bank.



The loyal dog of my friend's family


View of the village, Liang Tian Cun (良田村), where my friend's family live


Do you find this beautiful cat a bit too solemn?


Liang Tian Cun early in the morning



Smart little dogs in Shi Dong Zhen


Another shot of Liang Tian Cun in the morning

A memo (have fun~)

Trip to Guizhou of China

A long-planned trip, see what I will get in this trip... :)

The itinerary
21 Mar
09.30 Lok Ma Chau (HK)
13.10 Depart at Shenzhen Airport
14.50 Arrive at Guiyang, take train or bus to Kaili (凱里)
18.00 Join a friend in Kaili and stay with her family

22 Mar
whole day Shidong (施洞)

23 Mar
day time Shidong
evening Kaili, stay in inn/hotel

24 Mar
morning Kaili: sight-seeing in market
noon Take train or bus from Kaili to Guiyang airport
16.30 Depart at Guiyang airport
18.00 Arrive at Shenzhen Airport
17.00 Lok Ma Chau (HK)

About Tong King Sum...

I knew this local sculptor long before I started painting. It was the days when my dad brought me to City Hall for exhibitions and visiting the old venue of the Hong Kong Museum of Art at 10/F of High Block nearly once every few months. I still remembered the fantastic exhibition of Choi Man Wing (蔡文穎的動感藝術). And then I saw Tong's wooden sculptures in Lower Block of City Hall, the fantastic bodies made by wood. In those old days, a little girl like me could only ask her dad, "Oh, how come the body just lying there with half trunk?" I did not know the name of the sculptors until my study of art in secondary school and then college. I no longer went exhibition with dad, as I knew the ways already. But I really met Tong first face to face was a talk in my college and he was the guest speaker talking about his own works. And then we met few times in the gathering of HKVAS. He was a little man of great heart in art. We knew that his health was not very good in recent years, but his love on human body makes me moved all the time. I always introduce this artist to my students by one of his work known as "Back" (collected by H.K. Museum of Art). "As you see, this work consists of the trunk of a male, strong and spontaneous. From one side, we see the body bend backwards as if he is going to throw a disc out like the Olympic game player, if we are expecting to see his chest on the other side, we are wrong. What we see on the other side is a back again! And this back looks like he is thinking, like the "Thinker" of Rodin. So, what makes an artist has such kind of love towards the "back"? As we know, Tong suffers from some problems with the bones of his chest and spine, making him unable to own a full-formed trunk like the one standing in front of us. That's why..." Most of the time, when I finished the last few words in this introduction, students got new eyes on this sculpture, not only the artform but also the life of the sculpture. It's his works that call our attention to the most familiar but likely-to-be forgotten bodies.



(the above notification is adopted from Leung Po Shan's article in http://www.inmediahk.net/public/)

Who said it takes me at least 3 working day?

HKVAS annual exhibition

It's the same day of my birthday with the opening of the 35th Exhibitiion of Hong Kong Visual Arts Society. Well, it's a very happy and exciting gathering in the dinner of seeing so many experienced and senior artists.
However, I was shocked when I heard of the death of Tong King Sum. We lost a passionate and enthusiastic artist in Hong Kong.

Small gift, great love

Decoding Francis Bacon

What? Bird flu?

Will you be frightened by these funny birds for H5N1?

Life-wide learning day -- outing in a showery day

In such a boring rainy day, man, you got to cheer up, rite?

Mei Dou Cafe forever

Diving bell and butterfly

Heard of this book for years, and knowing the prizes won by it, I dare not enter the cinema for it until some film-addicts invited me to go. Why no gut going for it? Just the same for the reason for recommending it now, the reflection of one's life towards love and life.

In fact, the tone of the story was not that sad and heavy, instead it was full of humour. The use of first-person view and narration was an interesting perspective to see one's life on his own. When Jean-Do laughed at himself for all the "troubles" suffered the "lock-in" syndrome, his life began in another way. What the film inspires me most is, we always can only treasure what is left after we lose. Death is not terrible, unable to love is even worst.

A happy evening

CNY Firework Show [Photo Show]

Kite Runner

Unexpectedly, I really found this movie lovely and really touching. Much effort of the director was put in the first half the film, just like its original story, the friendship between two boys, a young master and a servant, which turned out to be of closer relationship after the death of one of them, was full of the simplicity of childhood. The ups and downs of lives of these two boys revealed the stratification of social status, background and tribes. Before I can have clearer understanding of the so and so of the social and political issues mentioned in the movie, I was deeply attracted to the sound, the scenic views in the movie. And ultimately, the courage and love shone from people worth all tears shed in the cinema.

Funny snapshots in this cold holiday

I met Gaylord's "Swift and Safe" again in Central MTR, yeah, I was not in the museum.

At the end of each Chinese New Year, this store is always crowded with people, doing their shopping for traditional snacks for the festival.

It was really weired to find nobody in this X-box on the move, just because every body was busy preparing for the New Year. Who cares about the box?

Happy New Year!

In the Year of Rat, I would like to say...
Kung Hei Fat Choi!
Gong Xi Fa Cai!
Wish all the best to you!

A very wonderful family dinner with my friend

After the New Year Eve dinner (early version) at my home, I joined my friend's family 'annual dinner' on last Sunday. Needless to say, we had a wonderful dinner. Thanks to whole Wongs family, and the sweet kitten ambassador. Really lovely!

My best pick of mall in this CNY (so far...)

I mean the one above. Not below. Don't you find it funny to sit next to a fat rat?

Though the rats are rather stupid, lots of people like to take photographs with them~

My simple CNY eve dinner

Thanks to these two VIPs to my home! It's been a while not making such "serious" dinner at home, though it is just simple traditional dishes I used to have before Chinese New Year. And the quality was still so far so good. At least, I heard no complaint from my friends about any getting-poorer cooking skills. Most of the dishes were cleared! Perhaps it was also due to the severely cool weather, and my apartment was still pretty cool with heater and oven on. (Yes, we turned on the oven as heater to supplement the weak heater.)

Menu of the day:

Pig's tongue stewed with dried mushroom, oyster, and "hair" vegetable

Steamed pork sausage and pork liver sausage

Steamed fish

Fried glass noodles with dried shrimp and white cabbage

1 bottle of Riesling

1 bottle of Sauvignon Blanc

Mouth-watering? See if you have the other chances~

What's more, this is the gift I got. Lovely!