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Mr. Blue Sky

Listening to ELO. Its typhoon season and we might, or might not, be bracing for a big one? I love the way happy music makes me happy. I can't believe my family forgot to tell me that they were leaving for a month. All my kids are gone for the summer... BooHoooo. I get the boat for the next month though! Yayay.
On Oscar Wilde- I remember reading the happy prince in chinese as a kid... Totally almost wish I had read the bible... So many images and allusions I miss... His vision of the world is so bleak... But I love fairy tales... On being environmental- as with anything, one thing at a time. There is no way in hell you will remember to unplug you plugs, turn off the lights and a/c, seperate and compost your trash, and all sorts of other things ALL AT ONCE. Add them in slowly... Like with accessories...

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addictive / obsessive disorder...

I think i have a serious problem with addiction.  Or else I am just super obsessive.  It's not as though I dont have anything better to do (although maybe I dont) but i can't help but to post something here every few hours... its as though my blog would miss me if i stayed away for too long.

I saw my friend Andy (who was wearing the coolest outfit: V swimmers, a striped oxford shirt, and a hoodie) this afternoon after hanging out with Zhang Da who introduced me to Liu ZhiZhi.  Zhang Da - another favourite designer of mine out here - has just moved to Beijing.  Liu ZhiZhi is a graphic designer.  We sat around and i discussed my theory on language - so long as you understand me and i understand you, its all good.  Actually we had a lovely chat and they told me about the German exhibition & shop that they want to bring out here (Bless: SO COOL) and I told them about my pop up shop.  ZZ is going to do the identity for it...  Too bad he can't do mine as an individual.  It would be cool.

Back to Andy - So Andy started an NPO.  Basically Teach for America but in China.  We're going to work together by getting his teachers into my schools.  YAY.  Superdeluxe (i like this term.  will use it more?).  He also told me about his pompous (his word) girlfriend from the Chinese dept of Beida.  Oh and about his radio show.  I love the innovative ways these people have for learning chinese... jk, but maybe not.

It's friday night and there's stuff going on at Block 8, Song, and Suzie's... Yay.   Back to the Kong tomorrow and still not sure about what to do about Paris...

Fei: perhaps it was the name

Lin Jing's fashion project / boutique is no longer around. With a small enclave still standing for Zhang Da, its pretty much just a lin jing showroom now. Cool, but there goes the utopioan dream of a chinese fashion collective.

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Much Fun @ Long March

I actually went to boers-li to try to buy the liu yuanwei wallpaper painting I liked back in march. Fated not to be though, it was sold. Luckily, somehow it had changed in my eyes...
So happy they have fixed the road here at 798!!!
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Beijing...

The thing bout travelling is that it takes forever to get somewhere... I read my economist on the plane instead of my mythology book... Happy to see that Iraq is getting better but sucks about Ethiopia's latest famine. Interesting piece on inter-faith religion as well. Love the special reports. And the McDonald's index. On a lighter note have decided that I am totally over post-80s synth electro bands, that the remix is usually better than the original in an age of over commercialized and derivative music... Oh- Y's is with shine in beijing??? Hm.
Have made it to sanlitun in under 40 mins (amazing during rush hour) and am keeping my fingers crossed about the last chunk home.
Its gray, gray, gray here... But better than torrential rain and floods. Did MIA really retire btw?? Too bad she is awesome...
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Environmental Refugees...

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Taxis in hk...

Love the fact that my taxi driver is mandarin-speaking... Go chinese!!!! Sent via BlackBerry® from 3

Famous Eamous

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Got a light?

Looking out for the smokers out there who have had their lighters taken away at security...

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Qiu Hao on jinxian lu

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Good to Great

I love the fact that just about anyone can have a wicked idea but it sucks that, at the end of the day, that somebody usually can't execute it to its full potential. I guess that's why there are professional geniuses / genii...

Thank god for blackberries and iphone. Otherwise I'd have to meditate my spare traffic time away.

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