The flight to Beijing has been delayed for three wholesome hours. Beijing has a storm, rain, thunder, lightening and a chance of another human blunder. For so many flight delays and cancellations between Beijing and Shanghai, five hours ride on bullet train becomes a calculable preference especially in a storm day like this. I decide to fly.
The first booked flight was cancelled. Then, I bo...
I am one of those who are so used to have a cup of coffee in the morning. For a good day, it is a ritual start, and for a bad day, it is a home to come to.
Coffee world is a modern human creation that its origin happened during the same period as the industrial revolution and modern philosophy defined by such as Descartes and Thomas Hobbes who laid the foundation for the modern society, rationa...
(apologize for un-crafted writing as the thoughts are leaking)
1.To stay focused, for someone is a habit, for someone is a luxury and for someone is an art. Of being an art is a conscious act with a sense of talent (or not) or diligent study to master something. Thus, it can be practiced with determination and devotion just like anything else.
2.Haven’t shot hoops for a long while, I was sho...
在圣经《旧约》创世纪篇，上帝创造天堂与地球，给予世界光亮，创造万物和人类，一切美好。但亚当和夏娃禁不住诱惑，吃了禁果。上帝惩罚，有了我们现代的人类繁衍和辛勤劳作，“苦”尽一生，都是因为元祖没有听上帝的。
人是一个非常有意思的物体，牙买加著名歌手Bob Marley说过一句话，a man knows everything but don’t know himself knows nothing，意思是，“一个什么都懂但就是不懂自己的人，其实什么都不懂。”
作为前无...
Our mind is genetically confined and is constantly manipulated by our surrounding. It is known whatever we have done renders meaningless, endurance, emotion, greed, desire and even the very being itself. A popular saying is that “to make this life count”. In other words, to live is the first genetic wire built in our biological system. It is a puppet show, and it’s a hard contradiction for...
Like a phenomenon being talked about many times and experienced by many, “if you only have days to live, make everyday count”. It is a conscious being with a conscious realization – the end is here. The real life finally comes to an end, rendering “real” irrelevant. All the artificial, superficial and deceptive feeling of a mind, which is constantly impressed by the eternal world, ceases to ...
It is always an enjoyable experience to be in the coffee shop alone when it is crowded by the strangers. It is even better to be alone after the coffee shop closes in the midnight when the jazz piano is still playing in the background. In that ultimate quietness soaked with summer moisture air, the music comes to alive and intimate. I prefer to 50’s and 60’s Jazz, sentimental Bill Evans, mellow...
As I grew up, unlike most kids by the time, I never was under any pressure, neither having any desires to become anything. A carefree and absentminded father, who followed a path neither of his choosing nor of capable to understand, had struggled to the last day of his life on who he was and who he thought to be. A super-busy and pure idealist mother, who cannot bear being boring, working dilige...
间谍电影系列007 James Bond自1962年开始，至今半个世纪，24部，先后5个演员饰演传奇式英国M16情报局特工代号007的James Bond。世纪变化，时代跌宕，政治格局演变，国家在变，世界在变，不变的是007，依然风力倜傥，美女相拥，在世界角落，飞车街头巷尾，翱翔雪山海边沙漠，在万劫不复之时化险为夷，顺便拯救世界。这是一个不老故事，一个男孩的童话。
故事主线不变，演绎手法却在演变。1990年，冷战结束，两...
马勒的《第九》交响乐是他为自己写的安魂曲。没有过一个音乐家如此清醒、冷静凝视着死亡的阴影如此缓缓拉起黑暗的帷幕。对生的希望已经放弃，但对生的留恋依然强烈。在无力的抗拒中，是瞬间的愤怒；在无际的孤寂中，有莫大的悲哀。人文世界是人清醒审视万物宇宙之后对自己短暂生存与永世现实矛盾的产物，生与死是这其中永恒的主题曲。这是一部在生命最后时刻惆怅于“存在与命运”的交响乐。
马勒是欧洲人文世界中intelligentsia...
马勒前期的作品袭成浪漫主义，理想色彩浓郁，集宗教、自然、人文一体，是当时欧洲社会的主旋律和登峰之作的代表。但是，在四十岁的他，荣华富贵、名望地位于一身，马勒突然开始转向悲观与黑暗。现实主义一直到二次大战期间才开始主导欧美社会，但马勒却在1900年开始一改音乐风格，以第五与第六交响乐为代表和开始，走向完全的现实主义。
理想主义进入现实社会更多的是一种惊讶，如儿童长大独立进入成人社会，快速演变的世界、理...
传世的艺术家一定是内心世界丰富的，而且能不带虚伪和做作的将内心世界纯粹地演绎到他们的作品中。通过他们的作品我们可以看到每个艺术家的生命与灵魂。艺术家又是生活在他们既定的大社会中，感情思想随世界大势而飘零，在他们感情自我的玩味中，也让我们洞察时代的脉搏，在梵高的画作中，在海明威的书中，在瓦格纳的歌剧中。
肖邦是感情世界中的奇葩，自幼才华横溢，备受推崇，但性格中是天生的多愁善感，时时表现柔美文弱会有...
自希腊文明以来，人与自然是西方社会一直的主题 – 存在的意义何在。进化论、自然淘汰以及自然繁衍过程被有意识的嵌入了到人的意识中，神的世界开始动摇，人不在混沌，但又左右不了世界的轨迹。宇宙世界无边无沿，自然定律永恒环绕。人于宇宙微乎其微；而每个人自己，下意识成为天宇中心；人有生老病死，时间在瞬息间就来去不留痕迹，但每个人在有生之年却欲望强烈，甚至要与天地抗衡，改变世界宇宙，这思潮在文艺复兴后的欧洲尤其...
