Avatar 3 : Make the Bond !

在電影Avatar 裡，最令我著迷的，
除了比任何飛機都靈活快速的大靈鳥外，
就是人與萬物之間的連結；
神經叢的傳輸，記憶，溝通，會意與連結；
一種不需言語的，用心電感應，用感覺頻率的方式，
用眼神，用呼吸，用意念，用心....

與你連結。

與大地連結，與週遭連結，像這株大樹一樣，擁有精神，擁有生命，擁有靈魂!

"我要如何找到哪一隻靈鳥，才是屬於我的?
選擇了我? 能與我連結的，唯一的靈鳥？＂

答案令我佩服....
"是那一隻，嘗試殺了你的!!
你必須征服它, 打敗它!!
馬上與他作心的連結，與它一起翱翔天際，它就屬於你了!"

Next Five in Five : 5 New Technologies

（ＩＢＭ）最近公布第四屆「未來五年的五大創新」（Next Five in Five）預測報告，鑒於人類城市化趨勢日益顯著，去年居住在城市的人口更首次超過全球總人口的半數，今年預測未來五年可能改變城市人類生活、工作和遊戲方式的五大創新科技。

一、城市將擁有更健康的免疫機制：由於人口密度不斷增長，城市持續成為疾病和疫情傳染的溫床。不過，「健康網路」（health internet）緊急系統將提供市政府、醫院、學校和工作場所更佳的監測、追蹤和預防機制。

二。「智慧建築」（smart buildings）的趨勢已然展開:未來新科技將管理建築物內部，包括暖氣、飲用水、汙水處理和供電等系統。在器材損毀前便可自動回報，其緊急裝置也可立即反應，而消費者和企業主可透過監測，節省能源和減少碳排放量。

三、電動汽車和巴士將日益普及：以非石化燃料為動力，相較於氫氣和生質燃料等新能源，ＩＢＭ看好效能提升後的電動車電池，可望成為最受歡迎的綠色能源。新一代的電動車電池將可數日甚至數個月不需充電，一次充電可行駛四百八十至八百公里。

四、智慧的系統用水：城市對水的需求在未來五十年將增加六倍，為此，城市將建立智慧型供水系統，節省五○％的水資源浪費。而先進的淨水科技將可幫助城市在當地將湖泊和河流的水資源淨化為飲用水，並且循環和再利用水資源，而預計輸送飲用水的能源消耗可減少二○％。

五、城市可迅速對事故或危機做出反應ＩＢＭ並未明說此一科技系統將如何建立。

Avatar 2 : Hindu Gods Reincarnation

Avatar is a 2009 American science fiction film written and directed by James Cameron, and starring Sam Worthington, Zoe Saldaña, Sigourney Weaver and Stephen Lang.

In 1994, director James Cameron wrote a 114-page scriptment for Avatar.[5]

Avatar is centered around the themes of imperialism and biodiversity.[46] Cameron has said that Avatar shares themes with At Play in the Fields of the Lord, and The Emerald Forest, which feature clashes between cultures and civilizations, and acknowledged the film's connection with Dances With Wolves, where a battered soldier finds himself drawn to the tribal culture he was initially fighting against.[47]
In a 2007 interview with Time magazine, Cameron addressed the meaning of the film's title, answering the question "What is an avatar, anyway?" Cameron stated, "It's an incarnation of one of the Hindu gods taking a flesh form." He said that "[i]n this film what that means is that the human technology in the future is capable of injecting a human's intelligence into a remotely located body, a biological body". Cameron stated, "It's not an avatar in the sense of just existing as ones and zeroes in cyberspace. It's actually a physical body."[4]
At Comic Con 2009, Cameron told attendees that he wanted to make "something that has this spoonful of sugar of all the action and the adventure and all that". He wanted this to thrill him "as a fan" but also have a conscience "that maybe in the enjoying of it makes you think a little bit about the way you interact with nature and your fellow man".[48] He added that "the Na'vi represent something that is our higher selves, or our aspirational selves, what we would like to think we are" and that even though there are good humans within the film, the humans "represent what we know to be the parts of ourselves that are trashing our world and maybe condemning ourselves to a grim future".[48]

----Wiki, Avatar----

"Avatar" :Listen to your Heart !

With “Avatar” James Cameron has turned one man’s dream of the movies into a trippy joy ride about the end of life — our moviegoing life included — as we know it.

An Eden in three dimensions, that is. In keeping with his maximalist tendencies, Mr. Cameron has shot “Avatar” in 3-D (because many theaters are not equipped to show 3-D, the movie will also be shown in the usual 2), an experiment that serves his material beautifully. This isn’t the 3-D of the 1950s or even contemporary films, those flicks that try to give you a virtual poke in the eye with flying spears. Rather Mr. Cameron uses 3-D to amplify the immersive experience of spectacle cinema. Instead of bringing you into the movie with the customary tricks, with a widescreen or even Imax image filled with sweeping landscapes and big action, he uses 3-D seemingly to close the space between the audience and the screen. He brings the movie to you.

After a few minutes the novelty of people and objects hovering above the row in front of you wears off, and you tend not to notice the 3-D, which speaks to the subtlety of its use and potential future applications. Mr. Cameron might like to play with high-tech gadgets, but he’s an old-fashioned filmmaker at heart, and he wants us to get as lost in his fictional paradise as Jake eventually does. On the face of it there might seem something absurd about a movie that asks you to thrill to a natural world made almost entirely out of zeroes and ones (and that feeds you an anticorporate line in a corporately financed entertainment). But one of the pleasures of the movies is that they transport us, as Neytiri does with Jake, into imaginary realms, into Eden and over the rainbow to Oz.

If the story of a paradise found and potentially lost feels resonant, it’s because “Avatar” is as much about our Earth as the universe that Mr. Cameron has invented. But the movie’s truer meaning is in the audacity of its filmmaking.

Few films return us to the lost world of our first cinematic experiences, to that magical moment when movies really were bigger than life (instead of iPhone size), if only because we were children. Movies rarely carry us away, few even try. They entertain and instruct and sometimes enlighten. Some attempt to overwhelm us, but their efforts are usually a matter of volume. What’s often missing is awe, something Mr. Cameron has, after an absence from Hollywood, returned to the screen with a vengeance. He hasn’t changed cinema, but with blue people and pink blooms he has confirmed its wonder.
---New York Times ---

滄海一聲笑

笑傲江湖，滄海一聲笑:

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=uoDPJsRg7SA
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=wUVhD1-libQ&NR=1

滄海笑，滔滔兩岸潮，浮沉隨浪記今朝?
蒼天笑， 紛紛世上潮，誰負誰勝出天知曉?
江山笑，煙雨遙，濤浪濤盡紅塵俗事知多少?
清風笑，竟惹寂寥，豪情還賸了一襟晚照。
蒼生笑，不再寂寥，豪情仍在痴痴笑笑....

金瓶梅 3 : 潘金蓮的馭夫術

潘金蓮的妖媚的名聲遠播已有五六百年，如今可謂是家喻戶曉，人盡皆知。但是卻有很少人去考慮潘金蓮這個“尤物”能讓男人們能拜倒在自己石榴裙下的真實原因。　　　“

尤物”，這是中國歷史上許多文人對美艷女人的稱呼，唐代著名詩人白居易在《八駿圖歌》中寫道：“由來尤物不在大，能蕩君心則可害”；北宋著名詩人蘇軾在《初食荔枝詩》中也吟出：“不知天工有意無，遣此尤物生海隅”的詩句，凡此種種，不一而足，皆以美艷女人為能移人性情的“尤物”，寓褒於貶，令人深思。而明末清初的著名文人李笠翁則認為“尤物”之所以能移人性情在很大程度上有賴於她的“媚態”。同時代的戲曲家李漁也認為女人要博得丈夫的喜歡，要讓男人們神魂顛倒，“媚態”是絕對必要的。而潘金蓮身上所具備的，正是令男人們神魂顛倒的“媚態”。也就是說潘金蓮，並不是那種有色無香的塑料花一樣徒具美艷的女性，她是那種既具“魔鬼身材”，又有“尤物之媚”的“色、香、味”俱全的女人。　　　

有人就曾坦言，潘金蓮在中國古代說部中雖然不是一枝獨秀，也是少數富有女人味的角色之一。多少男人痛罵潘金蓮，不見得不想潘金蓮。看《金瓶梅》，在很大程度上就是看潘金蓮；沒潘金蓮的世界如《金瓶梅》第八十七回“武都頭殺嫂祭兄”以後，就索然無味。多少讀者感謝蘭陵笑笑生筆下留情，沒有如《水滸》早早處死潘金蓮，這才會使從第一回到第八十七回潘金蓮活躍其間的錦繡文章有如此好看。　　　

潘金蓮之所以能讓男人們拜倒在自己的石榴裙下，靠的就是“色、香、味”俱全的御夫術。　
　　
首先說潘金蓮的“色”。其實“色”就是美色。潘金蓮的美色是不容置疑的，在當時的清河縣是無人可比的。《水滸傳》中第二十三回“王婆貪賄說風情，鄆哥不忿鬧茶肆”一章中說，“那清河縣裡，有一個大戶人家，有個使女，娘家姓潘，小名喚做金蓮；年方二十餘歲，頗有顏色。”這一章還描寫了西門慶與潘金蓮第一次邂逅的情形：一日，這婦人收拾家中的簾兒時，“正手裡拿叉竿不牢，失手滑將倒去，不端不正，卻好打在那人頭巾上。那人立住了腳，意思要發作；回過臉來看時，卻是一個妖嬈的婦人，先自酥了半邊，那怒氣直鑽過“爪哇國”去了，變坐笑吟吟的臉兒。”《金瓶梅》第二回“俏潘娘簾下勾情，老王婆茶坊說技”一章中則說得更為精彩。西門慶與潘金蓮不期邂逅之時，西門慶的眼裡的潘金蓮“翠彎彎的新月的眉兒，香噴噴櫻桃口兒，直隆隆瓊瑤鼻兒，粉濃濃紅艷腮兒，嬌滴滴銀盆臉兒，輕裊裊花朵身兒，玉纖纖蔥枝手兒，一捻捻楊柳腰兒，軟濃濃粉白肚兒，窄星星尖翹腳兒，肉奶奶胸兒，白生生腿兒……”可見，潘金蓮就是那種男人一見就心驚肉跳、不能自持的“美貌妖嬈的婦人。如果看了第一眼就覺得如此，那麼到了床上那還不讓男人們魂飛魄散，死去活來？　　　

其次說說潘金蓮的“香”。其實所謂女人香並非實指女人的玉體噴香，而是指女人的才藝。一個無才無藝的女人即便是泡在香水裡，也難以吸引住男人的眼睛，只有色藝雙全的女人才是最香艷的女人。而潘金蓮就是這種可以牢牢吸引男人眼睛的最香艷的女人。西門慶和潘金蓮幽會之初，潘金蓮的色藝使西門慶神魂顛倒，格外亢奮。《金瓶梅》第六回“何九受賄瞞天，王婆幫閒遇雨”中就寫的十分香艷：　　　

西門慶與婦人重斟美酒，交杯疊股而飲。西門慶飲酒中間，看見婦人壁上掛著一面琵琶，便道：“久聞你善彈，今日好歹彈個曲兒我下酒。”婦人笑道：“奴自幼粗學一兩句，不十分好。你卻休要恥笑。”西門慶一面取下琵琶來，摟婦人在懷，看他放在膝兒上，輕舒玉箏，款弄冰弦，慢慢彈著，低聲唱著：冠兒不帶懶梳妝，髻挽青絲雲鬢光，金釵斜插在烏雲上。喚梅香，開籠箱，穿一套素縞衣裳，打扮的是西施模樣。出繡房，梅香，你與我捲起簾兒，燒一炷兒夜香。西門慶聽了，歡喜的沒入腳處，一手摟過婦人粉頸來，就親了個嘴，稱誇道：“誰知姐姐有這段兒聰明，就是小人在勾欄，三街兩巷相交唱的，也沒你這手好彈唱！”　　　

的確，西門慶成群的妻妾之中除了潘金蓮，還能誰會有這等情趣？勾欄小姐雖善彈唱，但那是在賣唱，那功利性往往沖淡了娛樂性，那裡或明或暗的討價還價往往讓那輕歌曼舞變得索然無味，遠遠比不上自己妻妾借曲抒情，率真自然。　　　

在《金瓶梅》第八十回“潘金蓮售色赴東床，李瓶兒盜財歸麗院”一章中，應伯爵也充當了一次“媒婆”的角色，想把潘金蓮介紹給西門慶的下任張二官，便狠狠地誇耀了一番潘金蓮的才藝之後說：“你如今有了這般勢耀，不得此女貌，同享榮華，枉自有許多富貴。”將潘金蓮的風流才藝視為榮華富貴者“有福的匹配”。雖然說王婆與應伯爵等小人勢利，但潘金蓮的過人的色藝由此可見一斑。　　　

最後說說潘金蓮的“味”。這裡所說的“味”，當然指的就是“女人味”。潘金蓮美艷無比，媚態可掬，當然是與她一身的女人味分不開的。西門慶妻妾成群，其中唯一有女人味的便是潘金蓮了。這個來自大戶人家的丫環不僅玉軟香溫，而且女紅更是出類拔萃，用王婆的話說，是“好個精細的娘子，百伶百俐，又不枉了做得一手好針線。諸子百家、雙陸象棋、拆牌道字皆通，一筆好字。”　　　

潘金蓮精於女紅，在《金瓶梅》一書中處處可見。第八回“盼情郎佳人占鬼卦，燒夫靈和尚聽淫聲”中，西門慶賀三十歲生日之時，潘金蓮特地做了“一雙玄色段子鞋；一雙挑線香草邊闌松竹梅花歲寒三友、醬色段子護膝；一條紗綠潞水光絹裡兒、紫線帶兒、裡面裝著排草玫瑰兜肚；一根並頭蓮瓣簪兒。簪兒上著五言四句詩一首，云：奴有並頭蓮，贈與君關髻。凡事同頭上，切勿輕相棄。西門慶一見，滿心歡喜，把婦人一手摟過，親了個嘴，說道：『怎知你有如此聰慧！』”　　　

在西門慶眾多妻妾當中，善女紅的當不乏其人，但是既善女紅，又善詩賦，將兩者天才地交融在一起的，唯有潘金蓮一人。難怪她別具萬種風情。當然，有了這種別具的萬種風情，於是就有了令男人們心蕩神搖的的“媚態”。　　　

說到“媚態”，西門慶與潘金蓮第一次邂逅的“簾下勾情”就是絕妙佳品，而《金瓶梅》第八回“盼情郎佳人占鬼卦，燒夫靈和尚聽淫聲”中寫的一個情節更令人驚艷：潘金蓮於三伏天黃昏盼西門慶不到，罵了幾句“貪心賊”，“無情無緒，用纖手向腳上脫下兩隻紅繡鞋兒來，試打相思卦”，再配上《山坡羊》曲：凌波羅襪，天然生下。紅雲染就相思卦。似藕生芽，如蓮卸花，怎生纏得些兒大？柳條兒比來剛半杈。他不念咱，咱何曾不念他！倚著門兒，私下簾兒悄呀，空教奴被兒裡，叫著他那名兒罵。你怎戀煙花，不來我家？奴眉兒淡淡教誰畫？何處綠楊拴繫馬？他辜負咱，咱何曾辜負他！　　　

這一段雖為心靈獨白，卻將潘金蓮夢斷蘭橋般的苦戀之情，表現得淋漓盡致。後來潘金蓮終於盼來了情郎西門慶，兩人竟是以別具一格的親嘴方式來表達別離後的情思，接著是潘金蓮就以丟帽撕扇的媚態表演自己的萬種風情。　　　

由此可見，潘金蓮把色香味俱全的女人媚態表現得何等淋漓盡致，真可謂令人眼花繚亂，歎為觀止！也正是由於潘金蓮擁有如此高超的御夫術，才會使諸如西門慶這樣的花心男人神魂顛倒，不能自持，夜以繼日，醉臥香裘，結果因色而亡。 ( 以上引用)

此外，她檯面下的政治智慧，手婉大膽更是讓她贏得西門慶之心的關鍵。

"金瓶梅" 2 : "沒有神的所在"

話說潘金蓮在家裡包養小厮；西門慶取了一根馬鞭子，喝令:"淫婦，脫了衣裳跪著!"

她真個脫去了上下衣服，跪在面前，低垂粉面，不敢出一聲ㄦ。她直撒謊嬌說沒這事ㄦ。

西門慶見她脫的光赤條條，花朵ㄦ般身子，嬌蹄嫩語，跪在地上，那怒氣早已鑽入爪哇國去了，把心回動了八九分。

這裡頗有Sadism SM 的意味；下一步，他讓自己找了個台階下，畢竟她是他的最寵。

男人總喜歡被捧上天，無論是真是假，

李瓶兒道: "他拿什麼來比你! 你是個天，他是塊磚；你在三十三天之上，他在九十九地之下。你等為人上之人，他若是比得上你時，奴也不忎般貪你了。"

在一個妻妾鬥爭的環境哩，好比政治黨團環境裡的訛於我詐，結黨結派；

論姿色，論出身，論才學，論財富，總總加起成為了所謂的，生命值；

但是"生存"的政治心機與人際智慧，卻是最後得勢的最大關鍵。

金瓶梅裡，字裡行間在在透露了明代的官場腐敗，民間貧困，與人類的基本慾望...

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在燙燙的熱水池裡...

金瓶梅 1: 潘金蓮...

她說, "我與你撥火，只要一似火盆來熱便好。" 這是直接撩撥武松內在慾火的雙關語。
她說，"你若有心，吃我這半盞兒殘酒。" 這是食色性也，口水交融的性暗示。

潘金蓮在時代背景下，是個命運的犧牲者；
在她的世界裡，道德是殘酷的，是虛偽的鎖鏈，生存才是真實的掙扎。
她善用青春美麗嬌媚的利器，被視為中國文學史上最放蕩，卻又最被寵愛的女人。
唯獨見識不廣的武松，不解風情，自始自終正義凜然與慌亂失措的矛盾，
處處讓讀者揭起心中對女人的悲憫，與不捨。

重讀前幾章，感受自己感官慾望的悸動，卻在內心底處醞釀著，深深的虛無與傷悲。
在浮生如夢的凡間世界，生命最深沉處，
沒 有 價 值，唯 有 慾 望 。

新小說，紅樓夢:

紅樓夢開券: "滿纸荒唐言，一把辛酸淚；都云作者痴， 誰解其中味?"
從前會抱著書，盯著螢幕，不眠不休的哭了一晚...葬花去...
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新小說對話:
他不小心開到了河堤邊，對岸是美麗華七彩的摩天輪；就這樣手牽著手坐著吧!
"哥，跟你說，我喜歡放風箏，很喜歡吹泡泡。"
"像小女孩. 下次，我們傍晚去坐摩天輪好不好? "

從摩天輪上可以看到，遠方的101；
眼前陰森森的古堡，用鳥籠自然景觀打造的沐蘭....
不知可否看到裡邊的游泳池? 還有什麼?
晚霞，用晚霞勾畫出來的我的輪廓， 精準的弧形，加上聲音，在心底形成一幅抹滅不去的印象畫。

生動的在眼前；擁抱..

Love's Excutioner 2 (愛情劊子手) : Introduction

Dr. Yalom is Professor Emeritus of Psychiatry at Stanford University and the author of several highly acclaimed textbooks, including Existential Psychotherapy and The Theory and Practice of Group Psychotherapy. He is also the author of stories and novels related to psychotherapy, including Love's Executioner, When Nietzsche Wept, Lying on the Couch, Momma and the Meaning of Life, and The Schopenhauer Cure. His latest non-fiction book is Staring at the Sun: Overcoming the Terror of Death.

“I do not like to work with patients who are in love. Perhaps it is because of envy—I too, crave enchantment. Perhaps it is because love and psychotherapy are fundamentally incompatible. The good therapist fights darkness and seeks illumination, while romantic love is sustained by mystery and crumbles upon inspection. I hate to be love's executioner.” (from the opening of the title story)

In this rare glimpse of the thoroughly engaged therapist at work, a master psychiatrist openly confronts not only his own feelings and errors but the uncertainty at the heart of the therapeutic encounter.
Dr. Irvin Yalom breaks through that uncertainty to a patients ultimate truth-to the fear of death, say, behind the life denying nostalgia of Thelma, the elderly patient of the title story who is possessed by a long past love affair; or behind the macho behaviour of Carlos, a middle aged man compulsively lustful in the face of his fatal cancer.
It is, says Dr. Yalom, only by recognizing the stark facts of human existence, only through full awareness of oneself as mortal, that any one of us, not merely patients in therapy, can come to live as whole creatures.
Indeed, these enthralling tales go beyond therapy to speak to the human condition in all its poignant oddity. And in them, Irvin Yalom achieves a pathos and humor worthy of Chekov himself.

Love's Excutioner 1 (愛情劊子手) : Irvin Yalom

Irvin David Yalom (b. June 13 1931 in Washington DC), M.D., is an author of fiction and nonfiction, Emeritus Professor of Psychiatry at Stanford University, an existentialist, and accomplished psychotherapist.
Born in a Jewish family in Washington DC in 1931, he grew up in a poor ethnic area. Avoiding the perils of his neighborhood, he spent most of his childhood indoors, reading books. After graduating from Boston University School of Medicine in 1956 he went on to complete his internship at Mount Sinai Hospital in New York and his residency at the Phipps Clinic of Johns Hopkins Hospital in Baltimore and completed his training in 1960. After two years of Army service at Tripler General Hospital in Honolulu, Dr. Yalom began his academic career at Stanford University. He was appointed to the faculty in 1963 and then promoted over the next several years and granted tenure in 1968. Soon after this period he made some of his most lasting contributions by teaching about group psychotherapy [1] and developing his model of existential psychotherapy [2]

In addition to his scholarly, non-fiction writing, Dr. Yalom has produced a number of novels and also experimented with writing techniques. In "Everyday Gets a Little Closer" [3] Dr. Yalom invited a patient to co-write about the experience of therapy. The book has two distinct voices which are looking at the same experience in alternating sections. Dr. Yalom's works have been used as collegiate textbooks and standard reading for psychology students. His new and unique view of the patient/client relationship has been added to curriculum in Psychology programs at such schools as John Jay College of Criminal Justice in New York City.

The American Psychiatric Association awarded Irvin Yalom the 2000 Oscar Pfister prize (for important contributions to religion and psychiatry).[4]

Who Ever Loved That Loved Not at First Sight?

It lies not in our power to love or hate,
For will in us is overruled by fate.

When two are stripped, long ere the course begin,
We wish that one should love, the other win;

And one especially do we affect

Of two gold ingots, like in each respect:

The reason no man knows; let it suffice
What we behold is censured by our eyes.
Where both deliberate, the love is slight:
Who ever loved, that loved not at first sight?

.....Christopher Marlowe

我們無法主宰自己的愛與恨，

一切皆是命運的安排。

在我們赤裸之前，我們的愛戀便已註定!

在我們的眼哩，思想哩，愛是如此輕蔑:

曾經戀愛過的人，哪個不是一見鐘情?

重點是，要如何長長遠遠.....!!

想你....

ps. How can a happy, innocent, musical baby know about the hardship of life and love?? :) So, he should not be born........

金色筆記 21: 威尼斯的船歌

有一首鋼琴曲，威尼斯的船歌，

孟德爾頌的無言歌集哩，最喜歡的曲子。

十歲時彈著這首曲子，

盼望著有這麼一天，和心愛的人，

在威尼斯的獨木舟裡擁吻....

十年前來到了夢幻的威尼斯，

卻是攝氏零度的冬日，

與家人朋友親人，

冷冷清清的水都格外的蒼涼；

今年來到了節慶的威尼斯，

喜歡在獨木舟裡仰望星空，

感受甜甜蜜蜜的溫暖....

別再問我是否是幻想....。

今夜

我戴上威尼斯特製的面具，

穿上你為我訂制的金色禮服，

走入一圈又一圈的派對；

像在慾望之翼裡的熱情，放縱與瘋狂...

只因，想你...好想你。

The Royal Crecent : in the film "the Dutches"

The Royal Crescent is a residential road of 30 houses, where noble people lived in, laid out in a crescent, in the city of Bath, England. Designed by the architect John Wood the Younger and built between 1767 and 1774, it is among the greatest examples of Georgian architecture to be found in the United Kingdom and is a grade I listed building.

金色筆記 20 :Jane Austen ( 1775-1817) : A critic and a Feminist from 200 years ago

1 A Royal Crescent: in Bath
2The "cottage" : in Chawton where Jane Austen lived during the last eight years of her life, now Jane Austen's House Museum

Jane Austen (16 December 1775 – 18 July 1817) was an English novelist, whose realism, biting social commentary and use of free indirect speech have earned her a place as one of the most widely read and most beloved writers in English literature.

I was inpired by "Educating Alice" , of which the aruthor A. Steinbeck reaches out her curiosity in many fields, especially in travaling to England, the path of locating Jane Auten. Austen, a Sagittarius, does not seem so ancient to me as I suddenly dived into her year of birth, 1775, finding that the whole social climbing, male chauvinism, and feminist theory, have never changed much since her time.

Sense and Sensibility (1811)
Pride and Prejudice (1813)
Mansfield Park (1814)
Emma (1815)
Northanger Abbey (1817) (posthumous)
Persuasion (1817) (posthumous)

The Prophet 4: Kahlil Gibran

Kahlil Gibran :

I love you, whatever you are, wherever you are...whether you are praying in the temple or kneeling in a church...

1. Where he was born :http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=lvjN2NK0NvA

2. He Speaks: http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=iHl9fmAr6pM&feature=related

Prophet 3 :

Prophet on love/marriage:
Let there be spaces in your togetherness;
And let the winds of the heaven dance between you.
Love one another, but make not a bond of love:

Let it rather be a moving sea between the shores of your souls.
Fill each other's cup but drink not from one cup.
Give one another of our bread but eat not from the same loaf.
Sing and dance together and be joyous, but let each one of you be alone,
Even as the strings of a lute are alone though they quiver with the same music.

Give your hearts, but not into each other's keeping.
For only the hand of life can contain your hearts.
And stand together yet not too near together.

讓天堂的風在彼此之間舞踏
注滿彼此的酒杯卻不同飲一杯
彼此相愛 卻不要成為愛的枷鎖
一同跳舞放懷歡欣 卻各保有自我
只有生命之手才能包容你的心...
讓生命擁有愛的廣大胸懷...

On Love...: From the Prophet 2

Love: Like Sheaves of corn he gathers you unto himelf.
He threshes you to make you naked...
But if in your fear you would seek only love's peace and love's pleaure.

Then it is better for you that you cover your nakedness
and pass out of love' threshing-floor.
Into the seaonless world where you shall laugh,
but not all of your laughter, and weep , but not all of your tears...


Prophet 說；愛...
他採集你 好比一捆穀子
他鞭茦你以使你裸露..

但如果你在懼怯中 只想尋求愛的平安和愉悅
那麼不如遮掩著你的裸體
離開愛的打榖場
進入那無季節的世界
在那兒你將歡笑
但不是全心的笑
你將哭泣
但不是盡情的哭..

On Love...: From the Prophet

When love beckons to you, follow him
Though his ways are hard and steep.

And when his wings enfold you yield to him
Though the sword hidden among his pinions may wound you.

And when he speaks to you believe in him.
Though his voice may shatter your dreams a the north wind lays waste the garden.

For even as love crowns you so shall he crucify you
Even as he is for your growth so is he for your pruning.

Even as he ascends to your height and careses your tenderest branche that quiver in the sun,
So shall he descend to your roots and shake them in their clinging to the earth.

問世間，情是何物?

問世間，情是何物？ 直教人生死相許。
天南地北雙飛客， 老翅幾回寒暑。

歡樂趣，離別苦，就中更有痴兒女。
君應有語，渺萬里層雲。
千山暮雪，隻影向誰去？

金色筆記 19 : 來會我吧, 夜裡

手裡翻著瑞典的設計經濟學，突然閃過這樣的畫面....

出現，是不是，因為我睡著了，
想著你？ 早知是夢 就永遠不要醒來。

當慾望變得極其強烈，
我反穿睡衣， 暗如夜之殼。
我知道在醒來的世界
我們必得如此， 但多殘酷啊—— 即便在夢中 我們也須躲避黑熊的眼光。

對你無限 思念，
來會我吧
夜裡， 至少在夢徑上 沒有人阻擋。

雖然我沿著夢徑 不停地走向你， 但
那樣的幽會加起來 還不及清醒世界允許的
匆匆一瞥。

此愛是真，是夢？ 　

想為自己採 忘憂草 　
觸碰不到我的溫度， 在這圓月的夜，
我醒著渴望你。
我的胸口淌著淚，
我的內心在燃燒。

不為修來世，只為途中與你相見?

那一日
我閉目在經殿的香霧中，驀然聽見你頌經中的真言 　　
那一月
我搖動所有的經筒，不為超度，只為觸摸你的指尖 　　
那一年
磕長頭匍匐在山路，不為覲見，只為貼著你的溫暖
那一世
轉山轉水轉佛塔，不為修來世，只為途中與你相見 　　
那一月
我輕轉過所有經筒，不為超度，只為觸摸你的指紋 　　
那一年
我磕長頭擁抱塵埃，不為朝佛，只為貼著你的溫暖 　　
那一世
我細翻遍十萬大山，不為修來世，只為路中能與你相遇

只是，
就在那一夜 我忘卻了所有，拋卻了信仰，捨棄了輪迴
只為，
那曾在佛前哭泣的玫瑰，
早已失去舊日的光澤 —

—六世達賴倉央嘉措

"風聲": The Message

"風聲"；陳國富導演，周迅，張涵予，李冰冰主演。

當身邊每個人都成為可能的敵人，
當嚴刑拷打是你的家常考題，
愛情，強暴，調情，挑臖，謊言，犧牲成為手段，
到處皆是風聲歷歷，生死，尊嚴此時毫無價值...

為的是大時代的民族命運!
原來，看來最任性自我的，卻是最執著的奉獻。

Rating: 8/10

人生，何嘗不是，演戲?
演戲? 為的是自己心中的目的。
只是，我們演得開不開心?

現實生活裡，只喜歡"天外奇蹟" 裡的純真，冒險，與激情，

不喜歡燈紅酒綠的膚淺。

喜歡平日單純藝術的感受......

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睡不好，痛醒...肚子疼. 從來沒這麼疼過.

想你. 讓你從身後緊緊的抱我...

金色筆記 18 : 白色波斯貓咪...

就你和我時， 我只想靜靜的，依畏在你懷裡...

像隻白色的波斯貓咪。

我不喜歡在迷幻中過日子，詩詞更是讓人走入雲端；
然而人們都喜歡用詩，迷迷幻幻的談戀愛，伴情人；
我很愛很愛，卻不喜歡。

人生中充滿矛盾...

每天身邊的人事物都如靜止，卻又變化無常。
只能問，心在哪裡?
倘若有人能夠，將你我的悲傷吞下，在血液裡肆意蔓延。
那麼，這世間還會有什麼悲傷?

情人豈能隔空有如此的法力願力? 在心底珍藏。
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夜闌人靜，想你...
一個人上頂樓陽台，眺望著台北夜景；

燈火闌珊，想你... 上弦月時而被雲遮住，涼涼的微風。
愛情鳥，維維靈靈大概是被我吵醒了吧，夜裡當夜鶯...

此時，拿著點火機，想著...
是該點蠟燭? 還是點薄荷草捲紙? 還是?
看著火焰燃燒著， 細細數著哪個方向是淡水河? 還是101?

今夜，只想靜靜的, 好好抱抱我.
在這瀰漫著香草氣味的陽明山上...

Road to Heaven....: 天路

Chinese "Road to Heaven":
天路:

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=AbnOVOVVRJA

清晨我站在青青的牧场　
看到神鹰披着那霞光
象一片祥云飞过蓝天
为藏家儿女带来吉祥
黄昏我站在高高的山岗
看那铁路修到我家乡
一条条巨龙翻山越岭
为雪域高原送来安康
那是一条神奇的天路
把人间的温暖送到边疆
从此山不再高路不再漫长
各族儿女欢聚一堂

Voice from Heaven : Mahler's 4th Symphony

Mahler's Symphony No. 4

1st Mov: Dynamic and Sensitive !!! Abbado's 2009 Performance...:

http://www.dailymotion.com/video/xade35_mahler-symphony-n4-1-6-abbado-lucer_music

Heaven's Life: 4th Mov: http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=pCsnpVYetMg

(From Des Knaben Wunderhorn, The Youth's Magic Horn )

We enjoy heavenly pleasuresand therefore avoid earthly ones.No worldly tumultis to be heard in heaven.All live in greatest peace.We lead angelic lives,yet have a merry time of it besides.We dance and we spring,We skip and we sing.Saint Peter in heaven looks on.

I Surrender: Powerful and Passionate Live...

Celine Dion "I Surrender " :
http://www.youtube.com/watch?gl=TW&hl=zh-TW&v=15xKfLSSQF4

There's so much life I've left to live
And this fire is burning still
When I watch you look at me
I think I could find the will

To stand for every dream
And forsake this solid ground
And give up this fear within
Of what would happen if they ever knew
I'm in love with you

'Cause I'd surrender everything
To feel the chance to live again
I reach to youI know you can feel it too
We'd make it through
A thousand dreams I still believe
I'd make you give them all to me
I'd hold you in my arms and never let go
I surrender

I know I can't survive
Another night away from you
You're the reason I go on

And now I need to live the truth
Right now, there's no better time
From this fear I will break free
And I'll live again with love
And no they can't take that away from me
And they will see...

The Ugly Truth: can you believe the truth?

The Ugly Truth:

The Truth about men only have sex and looks in mind,

The Truth about men like to be played but not controlled,

The Truth about woman with unrealistic dreams can never be fulfilled,

The Truth about pretending and gaming can win a high profile lover....

Featuring : Katherine HeiglKaren McCullah LutzKirsten Smith

Tom Rosenberg

Quote: Do not try to win his heart, aim another one.

You need to be two women: a librarian, and a stripper!

Robert Frank: A photographer with intention, and quality...

"When people look at my pictures I want them to feel the way they do when they want to read a line of a poem twice." Robert Frank, LIFE (26 November 1951 )

金色筆記 17: 能做夢...

能做夢，表示年少情懷依舊；
能愛，能哭，能盡情的笑，能狂野，能飆縱...!
倘若不再有淚，不再會感動，那麼是幸運的嗎?

很想看一部會讓我哭成淚人ㄦ的戲...；
很想聽一個會讓我倒淌淚水的故事....；

就是，很想...

眼裡泛淚光... 不夠...

金色筆記 16: Bellevita, Roger Vivier

參加一個開幕酒會, 外觀建築好古典精緻，

室內卻太過簡單寒冷的感覺。
酒會不到半小時，就頭暈目眩了，
空腹，身體未好，香檳喝太多。

看著一雙雙極美的高跟，精心打造的絲舞時尚，

像是進入美術館裡的童話世界... !!!

不喜歡太多攝影機鎂光燈...

毘濕奴之死: Death of Vishnu; 生命最後的救贖

毘濕奴之死: Death of Vishnu
原文作者：Manil Suri
出版社：心靈工坊

作者在神祇與人性的融合下，娓娓道出靈魂往上提升的窘境，更是追討人性最真實的需索貪婪：我們對這人世的貪戀終究為何？ 一個邏輯性極高的輪迴說法....

書中充滿了情慾，貪婪，怨恨，忌妒，猜疑，Vishnu 正是印度三大神祇之一，能夠變化成十種怪獸救贖世界。正因為他的死，讓書中的角色們各各展現淨化心靈的一面!

「一點一滴，一世又一世，吉夫的靈魂充分享受了人世間的富裕，直到那時，才平息了他的飢渴；唯有如此，他的靈魂才允許他再度抬頭往上看，去一個超越自我和慾望的地方，在那兒，他甘心為他人服務。」毘濕奴的母親對他說著有關轉世的故事。

「……他總認為這是人性的瑕疵，人類的墮落，才會渴求信仰某種超越的力量。宗教的存在是為了社會控制，為了監看那些無法自己思考的人們，創造一個光芒萬丈的偶像和許諾，讓大眾的慾望衝動安靜下來，以便於規範。」

「……藥物，在究竟意義上，不也是信仰嗎？相信醫生的診斷知識，相信他們開的藥能夠讓你痊癒，相信嘴裡融化的藥片能治療你，而非殺了你。這整座醫院不都是建立在信仰上嗎？」
「……但是，他若未能在這階段充分滿足自己，將永遠無法畢業，往下一個階段前進。他必須先暢飲自我飽足的池水，直到確認自己永不再飢渴。在認知到身體及所有的慾望不過是幻境前，反射的影像絕不會比暢飲池水更真實。這要輪迴好幾世呢！但我見過只輪迴一世就解脫的，或甚至只有半世。」

宗薩欽哲仁波切（欽哲諾布導演）說：「這本書的作者真是個天才，他把人性與神性融合在一起，藉由一個以印度神祇為名的小人物，神奇地介紹了印度的信仰，同時展現了印度式無獨有偶的人生幽默感。而所有的事情，就只發生在一個公寓裡。我若能把這個故事拍成電影，將會是我一生中最大的成就之一。」

Rating: 5/5 Stars

W. Blake: 我們被引導著相信謊言...

從一粒沙看世界，

在一朵野花裡見到天堂，

用你的手掌握住無限，

在霎那裏找到永恆。

我們被引導著相信謊言，

當我們看卻不經過雙眼，

它在黑暗裡生也在黑暗裡滅，

當靈魂在光照裡卻沉睡....

Milano 5: Duomo, In Purple Fashion

Verona 4: Boutique Shops at night...

In Venetian polo shirt and shorts posing ...at night in front of Arena...

Those boutiques were so decorative and unique sparkling in this small town ..
In the art museum...

Verona 3: The Arena

6:00 in the Morning,
Just Woke up without any make up...

Smiling as ever... Oh, my friend actually said I looked too pure without make up. I wish if I could always travel in the small town like Romeo's Verona!

Like a dream, a fairy tale, a fantasy in a Renaissance Period.

Paris 5: Inspired by Pombidou ...

Walking into Pombidou Posting...

Milano 4: Duomo at night...

Spooky Giant...

Venice 13: Early Morning pool side at rooftop....

8:00 am at the pool side on top of roof at Hilton, Venice .

Not Smiling? too cold and too windy ....with lots of sunblock...

金色筆記 15: Patric Swayze; Legendary Romance

認識一個人，要多久?
一個眼神，以為觸動了三世前緣，
一個擁抱，以為過去二十年來擁有彼此的記憶，
一句無心的話，以為這人是如此的陌生 ?
一句關心，以為這人將是自己今生今世的知己 ...

認識一個人，要多久?
要一輩子，要三輩子，要生生世世...
但到最後，會發現，我們都在輪迴中沉淪，甦醒，再沉淪...

愛上她的眼神? 愛上他的凝視? 愛上她的嬌媚? 愛上他的瀟灑?
愛上她的藝術氣息? 愛上他的才華洋溢?
愛上她的軟噥話語? 愛上他的豪情大器?
愛上她的霸氣? 愛上他的溫柔?
愛上她的美麗? 愛上她的驕柔? 但是哪一天，外表的她不再是她了....

哪麼還愛不愛?? 無聊到極點的問題...但是，大部分人都不愛了。

Ghost 裡就有這麼一幕反駁......

還是書上說的，只因，她就是她，他還是他，

換了一個軀殼還是她，一個擁有累世記憶的靈魂??

Wednesday Letters 3: Reviews ***

The writing of Wednesday Letters is not as poetic and deeply depicted as an award winning writer would do, however, not as weak and fragmented as some book reviewers in the amazon.com described. I do believe if this novel has been written for a screen play, it might have featured for a good original screen writing. Because there are many redundant and fragmented conversations and dialogue which you can find only on screens or plays; there are not enough beautiful descriptions of the scenery, atmosphere , and not much inner psychological conflict analysis and portraits.

However, the writing tells the story in a comfortable rhythm that the plot becomes clear with a meaningful transformation. I rate this novel 3 stars, an easy reading that has addressed couple essential topics in our heart: Romantic Love, family love, brotherhood love and Forgiveness. The only reflection I have is the Weekly Letters .....

Reviewers in amazon gave very extreme ratings, either 5 stars or one star, either very moving, and a must read novel or a waste of time reading.

Wednesday Letters 2: (星期三的信) 愛上快樂谷的Jason F. Wright

作者:
傑森‧萊特（Jason F. Wright）1971年生於美國密蘇里，為紐約時報、華爾街日報及今日美國報暢銷作家，文章散見於各大報章雜誌，同時也是CNN、FoxNews等電視台邀約演講的常客，主題包括寫作、流行文化與社會議題等。已出版過四本小說，包括The James Miracle（2004）、Christmas Jars（2005）、《星期三的信》、Recovering Charles（2008）。萊特曾於德國、巴西等地居住，2007年，為了創作《星期三的信》，他到維吉尼亞州的快樂谷（Shenandoah Valley）進行探訪，從此愛上了當地的環境，於是和妻子、兩個兒子和兩個女兒搬到快樂谷定居。作者擅長描寫溫暖人心的故事。

Wednesday Letters 1: 愛妳沒有原因...

十月份書目: Wednesday Letters (星期三的信)


親愛的蘿瑞爾：


我喜歡妳，是因為：
一，妳的頭髮。二，妳的笑容。三，妳的正義感。四，妳的耐心。五，夜裡妳翻身時，拉毯子的感覺。六，妳的想像力。七，妳的寬容。八，妳對上帝的愛。九，妳開車的方式。十，妳照料玫瑰花時的模樣。十一，妳愛我們孩子的方式。十二，妳做的法國吐司。十三，妳在床上聽我閒聊的樣子。十四，妳開心時的亂叫。十五，妳的腳。十六，妳的政治立場（雖然和我不同）。十七，妳認識朋友、維繫友誼的方式。十八，妳在懇談會上的談話。十九，就在我要靠過去親吻妳時，妳的眼睛。

二十，妳。

傑克
傑克和蘿瑞爾結婚39年來，每個星期三，傑克無論人在哪裡，都會寫信給蘿瑞爾。兩人在山谷裡經營一家民宿，生活無虞，婚姻看似完美。一天夜裡，太太突然心臟病發過世，同時，久病纏身的先生也在寫下最後一封「星期三的信」時，嚥下最後一口氣，跟太太相擁而死。

這是一個關於愛情，親情與寬恕的故事....

Music Therapy 1 : Intimacy

Music for Intimacy : For some people a light popular song will do, for some individual, a special music is required for an passionate intimacy, because in Mahler's symphony, we can hear the incessant motives and layering melody expanding through time and space; just as if during the intimacy, one needs this guidance for variety and inspiration.

「第九號交響曲」像個死亡封印，貝多芬、舒伯特、布魯克納先後烙痕而離世，因此馬勒相當忌諱。迸現於手稿第一樂章的字句：「啊，青春已消逝！啊，愛情已逃逸！」埋伏了馬勒生命老矣、愛妻離異的缺憾，然而行板的夾縫裡啪然揚起的天才殘翼，卻是Blue Mahler一生「最光輝」的樂章，可窺見他已不畏死亡及其心底的反撲：「溫柔樂段之後，會有如火山爆發般的反噬高潮！」（樂評家貝爾格）
聽進指揮大師赫比希的心坎裡，則驚喜於：「馬勒把一生創作的精華與人生體驗灌注其中，成為一闕宏偉的交響之作，最後樂章則是他向世界深情動魄的告別！」

Mahler Symphony No. 9

Part 1 http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=7r6DbdeorgE
Part 2 http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=S8YUIG3YgxQ&feature=related

Impressionism....

You are right.

Imitation....

with Ravel's Gaspal ...

Paris 4: Pombidou; Chargall

Marc Chargall (1887-1985)