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jewellery

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Friendship Poem of the Week # 2

Let Me Be the Bandage for Your Bleeding
Let me be the bandage for your bleeding;
Let me be the ocean for your tears.
Let me be the secret of your healing;
Let me be the song to still your fears.

Love isn't love that cannot love in darkness,
Nor is it love that turns away from pain;
Nor would I love would I not hold your sadness
And with my love your love of life sustain.

So do not think your malady a burden,
And do not think my willingness deceit.
Just let your sorrow flow into my garden,
And I will share with you the harvest sweet.

laowai overload - - -"guess who?"

Ohhh... no way I didn't tell you that... Guess who is trying to get on that show.. it's a friend of ours.

Tips:

- european

- lived in beijing. not anymore.

- pours coca-cola on people during bar fights. every damn time.

- from the mountains of civilized Switzerland.

- loves a cute & smart guy. oops. loves guys.



Rock them, Lisi!

The american idol of The Weak

I don't know if you've been watching American Idol. I have - - and I got a not-that-secret crush on a contestant: Adam Lambert or, as we the fans call Him, simply "Glambert".
He is gorgeous, possibly gay, over the top, an amazing performer and he reaches awesome high pitch notes (oh, I miss listening to Kate Bush). He might win, Lihai. He is like an emo David Bowie/Elvis Presley. Seriously.

Adam in drag mode:

How awesome that he can actually win such a conservative tv show?
Hey, maybe Obama is right - things are changing?!
* not the state of american economy tho *

Yesterday was the part 1 finale episode (today will be the coronation of the winner). They made him and the other contestant - about him you just need to know he is from the south/plays accoustic guitar/is christian/married/looks cute - both sing the most HORRID CORNY SONG EVER. The new judge wrote it. Total absolute garbage called "No boundaries".

We should have our own program. Hell, if people that produce the most watched tv show in the US can be that bad at their jobs and still get away with it... let's let's let's

Ideas for a reality tv show, please, in 5..4..3..

Honey, I'm home

I'm using Hotspot shield right now, so I can avoid our lovely chinese censorship (more on that later.)

I missed blogging. I miss Carolina. Sorry I left you all by yourself writing "friendship poems". I read them, I was just not being able to replay. or comment. infuriating, really.

Well, having said that, I know you'll forgive me. Oh, the spanish exam.. god, I sucked.

привет

Anna Pavlova performing the Dying Swan blew my mind when I watched for the first time, and I keep coming back to it. It was choreographed for her in 1905 by Michel Fokine to the music of Camille Saint-Saens and it's been done a million times since by others, but nobody does it like Pavlova. She is just as much an actress as a dancer.
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=R3kPxWUbU50

I also found this conversation about Pavlova between Natalia Makarova and Sir Frederick Ashton which is quite funny. In addition to Makarova's amazing accent and Ashton's descriptions of Pavlova's style (he saw her live when he was 13 and decided to devote himself to dancing) there are also some more clips of Pavlova dancing.

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Cn_K41P0B1w&feature=player_embedded

Finally: I have decided I have to learn russian. I lööv that language. I am also reading War & Peace now and I'm completely absorbed by it. Coincidentally they are showing a quite new adaption of it on tv right now and I just saw the first episode today. I have to say they fast forward a little bit too fast sometimes but I'm very happy with the choice of actor for the part of Prince Bolkonsky (hot) so all is forgiven.

Peace

C

laowai overload

There is this competition called Chinese Bridge where they try to find the best foreign chinese speaker. Here is the American contestant. His special skill: looking like Harry Potter.
I'm sorry he doesn't have his robe and wand in this picture. Please go to the lovely video for full appreciation.
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=cPfntFSkqkc&feature=related

guilty pleasures #1

Ok, so this might not be that kind of blog but bear with me. I love nail polish. And the severe deprivation of manicures in this godforsaken place has had me dreaming of Chinese ladies with crazy ornamented nails and their million little bottles of deliciously coloured nail polish. Maybe I've just inhaled too much of the stuff...
Anywho, I was surfing for the new o.p.i's and I found a Swedish site that sells all their colours! Imagine my happiness when I placed an order for my beloved and long lost You don't know Jacques?. A little last season perhaps, but I don't care. It's me and Jacques forever now. *sighs* Oh, I should end this post before Lauren realises she shouldn't leave me alone with the site. But she is after all partly to blame for this sickly obsession. One might say she introduced me to the drug, while a certain other person (you know who you are) pulled me deep down with the Jacques and his kin.

post note: New colour - Didgeridoo Your Nails? hehe. too much? I stop now.

things I miss

Hot pot. Hot. Pot. Miss eating it. Miss saying it. Hot pot.

But what I really miss is having hot pot on a really hot day.

awkward family photos # 2

My family doesn't do family photos. At least it was that way until one day in Xian when a terracotta warrior-costume caught my mother's eye. She just wouldn't take no for an answer. And I have to admit, I'm quite happy with the result. If only my father would have made a more convincing job as the general.

home alone

Soooo, my wife has to study. Good luck at the exam! I'll take care of our baby, don't worry. hehe.

I have to study for my spanish exam so I'm gonna take a break from blogging. "Unless you blog in spanish", dear loving boyfriend said. So I'll take my time sweetie, until sunday, when I came back with a special post celebrating the end of this ordeal.

(that's for you, Ed)

awkward family photos

I can't help myself. Ridiculously lovely website.
http://awkwardfamilyphotos.com/

My Lady of the Park

So, I have been feeling kinda down. Just because. Maybe it's the damn weather that seems to please everybody but me. Or the pursue of an ok job is just taking its toll. Why do I see so many morons not only working but actually ruling the world?

I decided to go to the park, the Olympic Green park. I needed a sign. Or maybe just a bit of a tan (who am I kidding?). Getting both would be a plus, anyway.

I think I got one. I met a beautiful lady. We talked. I took some corny pictures. She calmed me down. I feel powerful again (let's rule the world, Carolina!). So this is how the conversation went:

costume party

Nadia and I are going to start dressing alike. On Saturday we're doing power dress. Including business lunch. Yes, we're so busy we work on a Saturday. I'll write a report afterwards, but I can say now that I expect better service and not having to show my ID at Systembolaget (that place we have to go to buy alcohol).

Urgently seeking Charlie Chaplin"s double for promotional film

Jobs for foreigners in Beijing.
Alert Alisha.

http://www.thebeijinger.com/classifieds/2009/05/02/urgently-seeking-Charlie-Chaplins-double-for-promotional-film

Train of thought of an amateur web designer

hehe

Aaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaah!!!!!

CONSIDER YOURSELF INVITED!
Picture this, us in a sled drawn by raindeers, stars in the sky and snow in the brisk winter air....! Ok, more like us sharing my room at my parents place. But seriously. It would be fucking awesome. And you know. Tickets for sweden are pretty cheep these days. Just tell me when is good for you. You can stay as long as you like. I'll help you look for tickets!

A plea

I'm so crazy codependent in my relationship, Ed had to sit me down yesterday to prepare me for us having to be apart for... 2 weeks... in December. Awesome. I'm that crazy.


But I kinda saw that one comin'. And since I'm already going to meet the "in-laws" next year for the (drums, please) World Cup and I cant afford the round the world trip to Brazil, I might be destined to spend the holidays crying all by myself. Like Bridget Jones. Unless...

Unless...


I go to Sweden. Wait.

Unless...

Somebody invites me to go to Sweden for the Holidays.

lost and found

I went on a job interview the other day and they asked me to send in a sample of something I've written. So I started going through my stuff looking for an essay of some sort. I found nothing because I've kept nothing. But I did find tons and tons of little drawings and other nonsense my friends and I did in school when should have been taking notes. Anywho, I really like this one that Nadia made. Death dancing ballet

color ey?

I changed the font. Tried having like a green background but it kind of took focus from our literary masterpieces... Anyway, change all you like!

this blog is in need

of some color and a nicer layout.

ideas on your idea

Oh, I thought of something like that too. Let's see.. I think maybe the same exact story, told by us in our two different countries. But we should edit it together... for sure we are gonna need to see each others' footage before editing. It's only gonna make sense like that, i guess. Let's think themes first. Something that works in both places but is also extremely different in china and sweden. ideas?

PIGGY FLU now hits 中国！ 哎呀！

I almost forgot! First case of piggy flu here in China, a man in Sichuan. Should I buy a mask? And, how good am I gonna look? The future - and future posts - will tell.

xxxxxxxxxxxxxx

Guess who said this:


- Swine flu is super trendy.


I'll tell you if you're hot or cold. Or both.



p.s.: how cute is this pig!

PIGGY FLU

Oh, I'll discuss your ideas in the next post, sweetie. But I saw some disturbing news just now and I NEED to address them.

Brazil's largest TV network, Globo (also known as the devil), has of now stopped calling the swine flu by its rightful name. It is now the "new flu" or "influenza A" or "H1N1". Like.. are you kidding me, globo???

Helloooo, it's swine flu. SWINE FLU. Yeah, it reminds people of pigs, sorry. Deal with it. (meat industry in brazil sorta OWNS the media) HÁ. My chinese tutor calls it "the piggy flu". I looouuuve it.

Anyway, if my mom calls me next time and talks about "h1n1", I'm gonna be like "nooooo, mooooom, it's called PIGGY FLU. PIGGY. PIGGY. PIGGY FLU".




p.s.: Sorry, sweetie. I know we are not political here. But it's just so ridiculous that it's kinda funny.

idea #2

What do you think of this. We write a script, we suck at scripts I know but anywho, and then we do the whole alternate thing again. So we have two sets of actors, playing the same parts.
Ok now that I'm writing it it sounds kind of stupid and confusing I just got excited thinking the story would be the only fixed thing and the environment and the actors would be sometimes in China and sometimes here.

Things I miss/I have an idea.

The fact that there's a giant continent between us is has been a problem when it comes to our film production. But maybe we should just ignore that and make films anyway.

I was thinking if you or I start by making a clip (we have to have a strict time limit, maybe 30 or 60 sec?) send it to the other without explaining anything about the thoughts behind it and the other person picks up where the other one left off and so on and so on. Could be fun and it kind of eliminates the whole painful process of editing. We should decide though whether one is allowed to edit one's own part or if it should be one 30 second take. What do you think?

C

funny presidents #1

Obama is funny now I guess. CNN:

As the world shakes off swine flu fears that started in Mexico, Obama noted his old rivalry with former Democratic presidential hopeful Hillary Clinton, who now serves as secretary of state.
"We had been rivals during the campaign, but these days we could not be closer," the president said. "In fact, the second she got back from Mexico, she pulled me into a hug and gave me a big kiss -- told me to get down there myself."

Oh, no. They are making fun of her now, Lihai. Don't let them. Not the lady with-more-brains-and- cojones-than-her-former-president-leader-of-the-free-world (crap!)-husband


She'd do a movie with us, you know. I'm sure:

Things I miss the most #2

How we would do the silliest things

and start thinking they are awesome
and sexy
cool

I miss you, beatch
(insert heart here):

Lookalike

This hairdying business I've got myself into can be painful.

Things I miss the most #1

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humiliating Carolina by once again being crowned THE QUEEN OF DEADLY TEN