翩娜與次郎

最近重看Pina和看了Jiro，兩位令人尊敬的人，兩個啟發後輩改變別人一生的頭腦。不同的路，不同的信念，但有著一樣的熱誠和堅持。

Pina作為領導者，了解每位舞者的特質，將舞者自身的潛能及情感抒發，用舞蹈作為語言帶出深層的意義，締造了一部又一部的經典。偉大的情操感染著世界。

Jiro安守自己在社會的角色，刻己地做壽司，對每個工序研究並做到最好，對自己要求極度嚴謹，在傳統累積下來的智慧中尋找尚有空間改進的地方鑽研，然後將所得嚴謹地逐步授與學徙。

二人以不同的意念影響著後人，影響著專業，影響著世界。遇上這樣的老師，還要有天份和能耐去受教，是不能強求是福份。

Summer Break (Revised and Reblogged from SEP 2012)

I went to Kansai again last month! This time it’s mainly for the music festival that I wanted to attend, Summer Sonic. My companions were not enthusiastic about it though, they just wanted to relax. Turned out the music festival was alright, not very exciting because the musicians weren’t the powerful live band type. That included The Cardigans, Garbage, Rihanna, Kesha… Luckily I still had Foster the People and they were great! We also had some near death experience.. The weather was so bad and we could clearly see strokes of lightning happening near us with dramatic scream from some Japanese girls.. And people were packed in a stadium just like refugees.. Other days were so great.

My friend drove us to some place that I’ve never been to. We went to 和歌山 and had very nice grilled seafood at 黑潮巿場. We also went to 丹後, which is on the north of Kyoto near the seaside.  久美浜 had some really nice beaches and hotspring. And 天橋立 is famous for it’s white wine and soba. The trip was relaxing. I like the countryside of Japan more than the cities. Kyoto was still fine, just a little boring for me now. Its contemporary side was more attractive to me this time.

Cherry Blossom (Revised and Reblogged from APR 2012)

It’s been a long time since my last entry... Life is busy in these few months: work, exams, and life itself. I have made some significant move in my life…

I’ve traveled to Kansai with my parents in the Easter holiday. I can’t even remember when’s my last time to travel with parents before that. The trip is quite nice. I just hope I didn’t make the trip too rush for them.

 

We didn’t plan to go there for Sakura. The cherry blossom was a total surprise to us! My parents went crazy and took so many photos of the flowers. It was the whole purpose of the trip, to make them happy. There was this great Sakura tree in the Imperial Garden. We took our only family portrait in the trip.

 

I’ve been to most of the places before this trip: Osaka, Kyoto, Uji and Nara. But there’s also some new experience for me. I went to 嵐山 and 龍安寺 for the first time.  And we went to Gion to see Maiko dance. It was a bit hilarious. Since it was the cherry blossom period, 清水寺 was opened at night. It was nice in spite of the bad weather. we were cold and wet but overall it's still enjoyable. I spent a night in the capsule hotel, 9 Hours. I loved it there.

 

The last bit of our trip is a visit to 桂離宮. It was the best Japanese architecture we saw in the whole trip. It inspired modernist architects in last century and it’s probably still influential. The garden and buildings are full of surprises. Your perception of the garden changed with every step you took along the path. The spaces, partitions, columns, are all clean and with some graphical quality in it. Every bit of it gives a little trace of modern design, which makes me believe, this can be the origin of modern architecture.