It was complicated.

 

Three purpose of the trip:

1. Dance with someone I really want to dance with.
There is no romance, but very nice connection and embrace between us. I would say, I come to dance with him.
I did not enjoy the festival so much, so I skipped all the classes I registered and went home quite early everyday after the Milongas.

2. Met up Shilin
We seldom get a chance to meet up. Spending an afternoon with her was enjoyable. We had tea and we shared a lot of experience of ourselves through the time we were apart. Pay a visit of her brother’s photography studio afterward. We had a nice chat and I was impressed with her brother’s ability to have a studio right downtown with its size and quality.

 

3. Most important of all is my sister- Polly

Polly went to the Grand Milonga with me to enjoy the performance of masters. When we left, there was very heavy snow. Snow was covering the Hutong.
Polly and I were trying to walk to the main road very slowly. We held each other arm tight. I found it very touching actually and the snow was very beautiful indeed.

 

On a weekend, we went to the CAFA Art Museum (中央美术学院美术馆) for an exhibition of a French director- Agnès Varda.

Before going to the exhibition, I know nothing about this director. However, she drew my attention when I saw her image in the poster.

How would an old lady be soooo cool to carry the hair colour like this? She is something special.

Reading about her movie’s info, I realized that her career pre-dates the start of the Nouvelle Vague (French New Wave).
Not only movies, she is also an artist of photographs and art installations.

She is really stylish. The film Les plages d’Agnès is an autobiographical essay where Varda revisits places from her past, reminisces about life and celebrates her 80th birthday on camera. Her image in the movie is so adorable. I would love to watch her movie some day.

At the last part of the exhibition, there were some huge boards talking about her movies one by one. Polly and I were reading the board and suddenly I saw Agnès Varda sitting right next to the board and doing an interview in French.

We were shocked and it was unbelievable to meet such a director who is over 80 years old all the way from France. We do not know if we will ever get a second chance to meet her in person. So, we came to her after the interview and politely asked if she was willing to take a photo with us.

Her English was fluent and she was very clear minded. She said yes and we did it.

So amazing.

I wish when I am 80, I will dye my hair like her.

It was such a nice memory.

 

Chennai is my earring paradise. Whenever I am there, I buy a lot of earrings.

This time, I find out that it is quite different to buy earrings for myself and buy earrings for sale. A new experience.

It was too busy to shop, so I had less time to shoot.

The end of the Star Hunter project. I guess we all learned a lot in the process.
I was scolded badly by an artist when I was handling certain things with him. Anyway, lesson learned.

Star Hunters may be confused with some of the procedures of the ceremony and the exhibition, but I saw some great teamwork.

I felt so young to work with them. They taught me a lot of new phases.

It was my pleasure to work with all of the Star Hunters.

I was totally impressed with the building of this star channel. Although it did not function as well as we planned, the kids had fun playing and running around it.

It was so sad that Tokyo Incident disbanded finally.

Could not get its farewell concert ticket in Japan, but got a ticket of its satellite live concert in Hong Kong.

My first time watching a live concert in a cinema, very interesting. We felt strange to scream as we knew that the band won’t hear us at all.

We are there, but we are not there.

No matter what, we were still very very very excited. Ringo Sheena is definitely a goddess and the band was awesome. 

Thanks Deadcat for getting the ticket and felt sorry for Jimmy as he only heard the last few songs of the concert.

 

I caught a flu. My period came crazily. I woke up in a morning with my hand hurt. 

My London flight was going to depart at night and I supposed to go to Stonehenge with Steph when I arrive.

After struggling and even crying the whole afternoon, I decided to report sick.

Luckily, Steph was very understanding. Sorry Steph for not coming to London again!

At night, my skin around my stomach started to turn itchy.

I realize it is my limit, I have to give my body a break from all the activities.

To face the problem, my Chinese massage treatment officially started on that day.

Finger Crossed!

It was totally a coincident.

I swapped in the Singapore overnight flight as I got no one to celebrate with in Valentine’s day. By chance, my brother was traveling in Singapore with his family. So, I got a chance to explore the city with my sister-in-law and my niece together.

I am not a fans of Singapore and I was not very interested to travel around Singapore. However, with my family, I joined a bus tour. It showed some of the most important spots in the city. You know? It is not my usual travel pattern, but I was willing to give it a try.

As expected, it was not very exciting. Yet I do treasure the time spending with Renee.

She was my sweetheart in this Valentine’s day.

After visiting Singapore for more than 10 times, it was my first time to visit Merlion.
It looked excellent with the skyline of Singapore as a background.

When we were taking photos of these famous hotels at Marina Bay, the laser show started suddenly. We were surprised.
The show is called Wonder full. It is the Southeast Asia’s largest light and water show.

It was a pretty long show. I am not sure how much light pollution and electricity waste it created.

We had a late dinner at China town and I got back to my hotel. An early morning flight back to HK next day.

Thanks for this special Valentine’s day! My little sweetheart!

 

 

 

Polly (my sister) is someone who belongs to New York City even before she visited it. Every time I was in New York, I hope she was there with me. Finally, after 5 years of waiting, she came with my flight.

I was very sick all the way, but I tried to put myself up to travel around with her. Thanks for taking care of me sis and bearing my sickness and mostly jet lag.

We only got 2 days in New York City, so we tried to maximize our day.

Day 1

Our first day started with a very nice breakfast. As you all may know, my sister lives in Beijing and I live in Hong Kong, so we seldom got a chance to chat day and night, night and day. In New York, we caught up a lot.

We slowly walked along Central Park from the hotel to Metropolitan Museum. 

I am not a big fans of museum with this scale, but it was nice to hang out with my sister in such a comfortable environment.

I was so attracted by the shadows of the art pieces. I even thought they are more beautiful than the piece itself.

This kind of taxi experience is essential. We are both fans of “Sex and the City”.

Here we came to Ground Zero. Different from my first visit here, now they have a new monument.

A very deep water monument with the name of victims in 911.

The orange of sunset is shining on the building.

We were walking toward the seaside and it got an amazing sunset.

We had a simple dinner and headed back to hotel as I was terribly exhausted.

Day 2

We started our day in the observation desk at Rockefeller Center. It was the place that I really hope to show Polly even I had visited there.

All building looked like boxes and toys. New York, this is my impression of New York.

The unbelievable Central Park created the most special form of the city.

MOMA is just 2 blocks away from Rockefeller Center and they got discount if you visited both of them on the same day.

Revisiting MOMA is an enjoyment for me as I never get enough time to look at all the art pieces in one time.

My year

With the audio guide, I got a really nice explanation of this piece this time. 
The painting is talking about how you see the world when you are spinning in vales. Everything looks like fragments. From the painting, we could reorganize the images and guess what is actually around the dancers. It is a piece which is full of imagination and the romance of art.

Then, it is for sure the musical time. We bought the ticket at TKTS in the afternoon and went to the show at night.
Mary Poppins was not an excellent piece, but it is a classic. Kids seem to have a good time with its music and magic.

It was very very cold and rainy when we stepped out from the theater.

Polly is trying to fulfill her “The Smurfs” dream with the smoky ground of NYC.

 

When can we travel together again?

 

 

 

Veronica and I

 

Anton (my cousin) and I went to the orienteering event organized by my Spanish teacher- Veronica. I am totally an idiot in playing this game even I was a geography student in Uni. Anton was doing much better than I did.

I did not play the game well, but it was really nice to discover such a nice park in Mei Foo. I was always crossing the park when I change line in MTR, but I never know it is that nice to hang out there.

Thanks for spending the day with me, Anton!

 

Since YYCIS started to recruit a group of HKBU students to organizing the program Star Hunter, I had a great time working with these super energetic uni-students.   

Star Hunter Field (a day camp) was one of the biggest event in the program. Everyone spent a lot of time and effort on preparing this (they worked until 3am sometimes). As a so-called adviser, I and other YYCIS members listened to their ideas and gave support to make things happen.

I was totally impressed with their creativity and passion. The activities they planned can serve the purpose of delivering the anti-light pollution message, at the same time, fun to play.

I wonder what could I do when I was in their age? Probably much less than them. I am so proud of you Star Huntersssss!