Wednesday, September 17, 2008
Jie Yi says hello from Hong Kong where the pollution has been really bad for the past week.I am so relieved that it rained today, somewhat like a passing shower.
Anyway, I realised that when you're staying alone, you would tend to be preoccupied with thoughts about food. You'll wonder what to have for breakfast, lunch and maybe prep a little dinner for yourself. The food outside does make you feel sick if you eat it all the time.
Perhaps I'll head over to Causeway Bay or Stanley for some shopping this weekend if the pollution is good. I was choking on sulphur dioxide and god-knows-what-in-the-air last weekend during Mid-Autumn festival.
Ps: 家好月圓is quite an interesting show!
Posted by jieyi at 12:57 PM
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Thursday, August 14, 2008
Oh my god! I'm so in love with him. I think I'm turning into a gymnastic freak soon. Today's men's artistic gymnastic finals was awfully fantastic, with twists and turns like roller coaster ride.
Although I know Yang Wei won, but I think this guy over here, Kohei Uchimura deserves a slap on the back too! By the way, he’s only 19 years of age, a great star to catch in the gymnastic world. I love his high bar and floor routine. He’s made such a great comeback after sitting on the pommel horse twice. His fighting spirit and composure is awfully inspiring and he looks so 可愛い~
Can't wait to catch the women's individual all-round tomorrow. Do hope that Shawn Johnson would get it. She's such an explosive gymnast.
Posted by jieyi at 5:22 PM
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Tuesday, August 05, 2008
After a long lapse, I've decided to start blogging about Gion Matsuri (祇園祭)Basically, it's a huge agricultural festival celebrated yearly in Kyoto and ranks as one of Japan's top three must-see festivals. I had to take a look at it myself and it was certainly an eyeopener.
The summer weather in Japan was BLISTERING which accounts for the azzure blue sky that makes the pictures look way too perfect.
The Matsuri spans over a month, and the peak of the festival was during the mid of July on the 17th. During that day, there were gigantic floats that paraded around the busiest streets of Kyoto all manually pulled by men (species and sex).
As you can see, the floats are a few stories high and made entirely out of wood. The structure looks damn solid and is simply lashed together with ropes only. (WHAT!)
And people from all walks of life, which includes the young, the hippies and the old are all eligible to be part of the parade. Not to mention the cute policeman who was dutifully stopping lunatics from being part of it.
But personally, the best part of the whole festival was definitely the night before, also known as the Yukata Night. Yukata, as you can see from the pictures, is the traditional Japanese summer costume that many would don on that night, coupled with thick makeup and wonderful hairstyles.With everyone looking dainty and pretty, the streets are lined up with food and games stalls that suit the likes and palates of all of us! My sister and I were dying to try everything that we could see there. The mood was so crazy. We ate, drank beer and tried to squeeze our way through the few hundreds and thousands of people. I was in a massive party mood!!!!!!!! Wish I was back there!
Posted by jieyi at 11:03 PM
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Tuesday, July 08, 2008
It was aeon ago since I last blogged and I do know that. Well, this holidays has really been a real holiday for me and I've been doing a lot of ad hoc jobs here and there. Quoted directly from my sister, I'm working towards my 20 thousand dollar a month goal as a tution teacher. So life has been tution, tution and more tution.But I've did some baking and here are my proud pieces, * Wide smile (: which includes:
1. Cookie dogs
2. Banana muffins
3. Oreo Butter cake, which kind of failed, but looked nice
I guess everyday has been learn a korean word a day.To Sybil if you're reading this: I'm going to speak Korean to you soon. Wait for me!
Posted by jieyi at 12:12 AM
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Wednesday, May 28, 2008
Due to my current unemployed status, I've been pretty much free and have started on a book by Freud. Although his writing can get rather technical and dry, his analysis of human behaviour is intriguing and I would say accurate. Decided to grab a few quotes off his book, some would agree with him about it. Human relationships as a whole can really be a messy and difficult. Sweet but bitter.
Take the way people in general behave towards one another emotionally. According to Schopenhauer's allegory of the hedgehogs seeking warmth, no one can bear the intimacy of too close contact with another human being......
On the evidence of psychoanalysis, almost every close emotional relationship of any duration between two people includes a sediment of negative, hostile emotions that escapes perception only because repressed. It is less veiled when partners quarrel, or when subordinates grumble about their superiors... Closely related peoples feel a mutual revulsion, Englishmen constantly insult Scots, the Spaniard despises the Portuguese. That greater differences result in virtually unbridgeable aversions has ceased to surprise us.
In the unveiled emergence of aversions to and revulsions against close others we recognise the expression of a self-love, a narcissism.....unmistakably, however, such human behaviour implies a readiness to hate, an aggressiveness whose roots are unknown and that one would be inclined to characterize as elemental.
Self-love fins bounds only in love of others, love of objects.... in the development of mankind as a whole, only love has had effect as a civilizing factor in the sense of a turning away from egoism towards altruism. And that applies both to sexual love of a woman, with all the compulsions that flow from it in terms of apring what the woman loved, and to that desexualized, sublimated homosexual love of the other man, which has to do with working together.
If you can get the essence of what Freud and I'm driving at, you'll know what I mean.
Posted by jieyi at 10:37 PM
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Friday, May 23, 2008
'But you know, my dear,' said Poirot gently, 'people are never like what you remember them. You make them, as the years go by, more and more the way you wish them to be, and as you think you remember them. If you want to remember them as agreeable and gay and handsome, you make them far more so than they actually were.' -- Hercule Poirot, Third GirlYeah, I kinda agree with that. Sometimes, we remember people as who they USED to be and not who they are right now. Memories stay with us, while everything else changes.
Posted by jieyi at 12:23 PM
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Thursday, May 22, 2008
MAN YOO WON!
It was a heart-stopping moment when hero Ronaldo had to stop for a moment only to hit Cech's hand during the penalty shoot-out. At that moment, from hero, he became zero. I was thinking,"How could he ever miss that shot? All was lost!" And as you know, the old adage goes, "The ball is always round". JT missed his shot too! Honestly speaking, I love JT. Personally, I've ranked him to be top 3 most cute looking footballers. (Okay, I don't need comments about who's TRULY cute looking) I could see the devastated look he had in his eyes, crest-fallen and upset. It kinda broke my heart a little, but from then on, I knew Man Yoo's going to take the cup!
Man of the match: Nemanja Vidic. Yes, it's him! He was absolutely a terror at the backline. He closes in on his opponents, leaving them with little space to shoot, not to mention to breathe. Clearing balls at every opportunity, he thoroughly worked himself out and contributed much to the tight fortress held at the backline.
Not to mention Giggs and Scholes who definitely have repaid the trust good old Fergie and United fans have given them all these years. LOVE THEM!
MAN YOO DEVILS - DOUBLE TROUBLE!