wall~e~

It's been a memory loss since I was last in a movie theater. Catching Wall~E~ (read with pauses and curled tones) before he disappears into DVD was worth a TGIF evening.

He is at least 700 years old, inquisitive, persistent, sentimental, and more than a little lonely.

Love, life -- the theme contains simple things of universal pursuit, and has been laid out well.

small pleasures at the Guggenheim

I spent the Sunday afternoon off at the Guggenheim. The main attraction was the impressive "I want to believe" by Cai Guo-Qiang, which certainly warrants another post (soon hopefully). I almost walked out of the museum door before half-heartedly picked up a museum catalog -- and that drew me back to the 3rd floor annex for the Karl Nierendorf collection. It seemed at first sight to be "just another dose of modern art" but ended up exceeding the modest expectation. There were several sparkles from a rather extensive Paul Klee collection along with his peers that very much placed thing in historical context.
Another one that attracted my eyes with the vibrant colors and shapes was Kandinsky's Small Pleasures (Kleine freunden). Pleasures are colorful, they come in all different shapes, and the overall picture is a mess once life is full of them! Aren't we all constantly indulging in many small pleasures: cook a few experimental dishes, read the economist, surf facebook, take pictures, post them to flickr and watch the new comments with excitement, read the audiobook Long Tail while waiting for my train ride, secretly taking note that most of my likes and dislikes are also in the "long tail", and spending a spring afternoon watching urban flowers, and fill my brain with imaginative museum pieces. Why not?

my china map ...

long anticipated and resembling the earlier maps ... i hesitated for no time to get mine :)




create your own China map

"Ratatouille" and "Enchanted"

Two fairy tales -- in real-life human shape and animated mice.

It is easy to get enchanted with the disney simple story, complying laugh with the occasional scratch of our common itches, and leave the theater light-hearted. It is also easy to indulge in the delicious culinary tricks towards the making of ratatouille, the ups and downs of the plot, and numerous humorous remarks.

I'd rather ignore some of the life-messages bundled with the show. Being fairy tales, they can't be blamed for loading messages on the surface. I'd rate them as very good entertainment, nonetheless.

cheers,