Story | Pouring Rain

They say rainy days make people feel unease, annoyed, and depressed. I don't think so. I think the tears from heaven would change our emotions and take us to a roller coaster ride. Those little water droplets have magical powers to stir up memories from long ago. As they land themselves onto corrugated metal roofs, they sing out melodies of memory.

When I was five or six, I used to live in that old mansion, or apartment rather. I don't remember exactly. My parents and I stayed in the little attic above the kitchen and washroom that extended from the balcony; my grandfather lived in the same suite, but down the corridor at the other end. With the help of gravity, the energetic liquid molecules brought themselves onto the rough metal surface, hoping for a new life meandering through the ridges of machine-rolled valleys. Where would they end up? Where would each of my family member end up? How about myself, where would I end up?

Experience the delicate ups and downs of emotion that can only happened on rainy days.

2009/04/24

Andy Mouse

A painting combining two of my favourite persons:

Andy Mouse
Keith Haring
1986

Website of the Day

Go to http://www.shanghaipride.com now! Even if you are not in Shanghai.

This is Shanghai's first ever pride festival. Although there's no parades (well it's China afterall), but there'll with a week (June 7-14) filled with various activities at night, plus a crazy featured day/night on Sat June 13rd.

As for the information on the website, actually at this moment isn't really updated. But whatever. I'm super busy this week again and I don't have time to think a lot on what I should blog about. And why am I so busy? More to come (:

Andy Warhol Quiz

Take the quiz here:
http://www.rainbownetwork.com/UserPortal/Quiz/Detail.aspx?ID=22722&sid=189

This time I'm actually a bit disappointed at my results...

You scored 15 out of 20 questions.

Not bad at all, all things considered. You are quite the Warhol buff, aren't you? We’re guessing that there’s probably a Marilyn Monroe (or is it Liza?) print in your house somewhere and you’ve probably even seen a couple of his films - and understood what the hell they were about!

But seriously, I didn't know about Andy's comment for Duran Duran and David Bowie's song. I guess it's time to upgrade myself.

Keith Haring

He is gayer than I thought. Hmm.


(To tell the truth, I'm a bit scared by all those male genitalia.)

Paper Unicorn

Isn't it cute? It must take lots of effort to fold this origami.


Image from unicornology.

El Niño Pez

El Niño Pez is also know as The Fish Child. It seems like an interesting film to watch - not to mention there is girly love (along with pregnancy and murder and the tale of Mítã’í Pírã, the fish child).

Synopsis from the official site:

Lala, a teenager from the most exclusive suburban neighbourhood in Buenos Aires is in love with the Guayi, the 20-year-old Payaguayan maid working at her place. They dream of living together in Paraguay, at the shores of lake Ypoá. The murder of Lala’s father rushes their plans.

This is the starting point that spurs the escape through the highway that connects the North of Buenos Aires with Paraguay. While Lala waits to be reunited with her lover in Ypoá by reconstructing her past (the mystery surrounding her pregnancy and the legend of a fish child who guides the drowned to the bottom of the lake), the Guayi is detained in a minors institute. She turns out to be hiding a crime from long ago.

Some snapshots from the movie:

To view the beautiful trailer and for more information, go to http://www.thefishchild.com/

Apology

To make up for my cheesy blog posts on two consecutive days (yes I realized the purses topic is indecent; the articles were prepared in advanced and I just released them whenever I'm too busy or exhausted to physically write something - I've been going crazy with multiple things this week), I decided that it would be nice to recommend my friend's blog to others. Just in case you haven't been to Saeran's blog the fischer random variation. via other portals (i.e. Shirley's mega special read list) before, the link is http://saeranv.blogspot.com/.

I truly admired Saeran's thoughts/thesis/ideas on architecture, politics, or anything really (okay maybe not about lesbians) - although most of the time my level of knowledge doesn't really go that intense and I'm not able to dig further than my own world of rainbows. But for those of you who love deep discussions, go find Saeran and have a chat over coffee with him.

Bags as eye-candies Part II

To continue the lovely bag list from the previous post (see it here), I've found more potential bags for myself. They are all from Matt and Nat. Beautiful colours and nice materials (you see I like purple and yellow and black and grey, and shiny surfaces). I think I've a special bond with them - they even named one of their designs as Warhol! How can one resist that?

juno from the Pool collection

brmc from the Japanese Paper collection

warhol from the Pool collection

junk from the Streamline collection

Bags as eye-candies Part I

I've been getting really tired of my brown Zara leather bag with the gold hooks, so I decided to look for new bags. I found these attractive, yet most of them are way beyond my budget (and not to mention non-availability in Shanghai or Hong Kong too).

Which one is you favourite?

Alexander McQueen's flapper messenger

Marc Jacob's mercer flat messenger

Matt and Nat's Takumi from the Japanese Paper collection

Amercian Apparel's vinyl laptop bag in caramel

Geek Fun of the Day

Is a LED text-scroller application.

(It's supposed to show here but it messed up my blog layout so I decided to remove it. My words are "where is my rainbow?" and the colour choice is grey.)

Sorta made my day. Okay not really.

Make your own here: http://www.crazyprofile.com/scroller/led-scroller-generator.asp

Beautie

Art selection of the day.

Shape of the Moon-transit 3
Junghyun Yoo

Amazing!

As I was surfing on flickr randomly, I found Rafi Perez's paintings. They will make you feel so happy and cheery! Unfortunately I've no idea what the paintings are titled as - I only knew they are acrylic on canvas.

Gaytopia of the future? (:

Aren't the couples lovely together?

Check out Rafi Perez's other paintings here: http://www.flickr.com/photos/raphael_perez_art/

No one belongs here more than you

Is a book by Miranda July. It was wonderful to read it. My favourite story is about middle way through the book, with the 2 friends (perhaps girlfriends?) stripping for the old lady. Forgot what it was called though. Recently I discovered the website link for the book. Wonderful x 2.

See it here yourself: http://noonebelongsheremorethanyou.com/

My copy is yellow. I'm glad I don't have to purchase the pink one.

Be Like Others

Curing homosexuality with sexual reassignment surgery?! Woah. Iran seems more open-minded (okay in reality is more igonrant, go on reading and you will see why) than I thought it would be. Iran not only grants sexual reassignment surgeries as legal in the country, but also the entire process would be paid by the government too. This must be great for Iranians who are born in the wrong body and opting for surgeries. BUT for those who are just interested in the same gender, this might push them into an endless downward spiral. The government's reasoning is human beings are so intelligent and advanced now that correcting mistakes of nature is doable (not to mention heterosexuality is the only right way to go). I mean, are they stupid enough to not realize sexuality and gender are really two separate things? Why do people (in general -including the pre-educated me- not just the Iranian government) always group them together as one thing...

Be Like Others is a documentary by Tanaz Eshaghian, providing "an intimate examination of the intersection of state power, science and religion, gender and sexuality" (quoted from Joanne Nucho's article, Gender Neutralized) Read more description on the film and critiques from Gender Neutralized at http://www.reverseshot.com/article/be_others.