Wednesday, September 30, 2009

Friday September 25, 2009

Friday September 25, 2009

Me and Wijb decided to hop to Tang Paradise Theme Park. These days the weather is just fine not anymore stifling and not too cool either to stop you enjoy the beauty of nature and we both have a chance to have an extra holiday and off from work.

Tang Paradise park, is a man-made, ecological park with a great ambience with pleasant nice environment in fact. I t is located in South east of Xian city in vast greenish urban area a bit far from pollution and less traffic around.

This Royal park is located in the center of urban ,resort district which is surrounded by couple of parks around ,luxury, exclusive under construction building and villas and on the other site Big Goose Pagoda which is very symbolic and respective in Chinese religious and even though I can say more historical and cultural nowadays.

This tourist attraction not only claims to be the biggest cultural theme park in the northwest region of China but also the first royal-garden-like park to give a full display of the Tang Dynasty's (618-907) culture.

We sat on scooter and got there in less than 15 minutes. Altogether there are 12 scenic spots are distributed to the tourists. The opening hours are from 9 AM to 7 P.M.

There are large number of buildings which are representing the Tang Dynasty structure and architecture. when you get in you can take an English map and it give you not too vague guidance of the area. As far as we heard , there was a large park area on the north site which we passed by and apparently it is represented to the public in 2008.

After crossing the over pass foot bridge you could get to the other site of Paradise park and enjoy the park with a huge man-made lake in front and some paddle boats as well which are part of adventures there.

While we were strolling and staggering around we bumped into a photography exhibition, or open gallery there. There were so many professional photographers and artists there to take photos and interview the artists and a small speech around there and we had a good chance to walk around the exhibition and enjoy of watching remarkable pictures from unknown places in China. Some were totally from outskirt of cities and some were from nature and sands and desserts and grassland from autonomous areas in China which means Mongolia and Xing zing place/

There was a hotel inside and some snack shops, handy crafts market , Chinese paper making ,a tea house and some sculptures which all represent the Tang period atmosphere.

IT IS NICE TO STROLL AND WANDER AROUND A COUPLE OF HOURS AND ENJOY THE NATURE THERE.

Wednesday September 23, 2009

Wednesday September 23, 2009
Xi'an is one of China's eight ancient national capitals and the home of the famous Terracotta Army. It served as China’s capital for ten dynasties, spread intermittently over a 1,100 year period from 221 BC. This was the significant year when the first Chinese emperor, Qin Shihuang, united China for the first time. China derives its name from Emperor Qin.
One of not so well -developed and well- known attractions in Xian is located in South east of Xian in outskirt a couple kilometer far from the center.

Today Wednesday 23 of September me and wijb decided to hop on the scooter and hit that place which is called “Ocean Park “ on the spot as the weather is quite pleasant and not scorching or balmy anymore.

Although he looked up for the direction we were wondering exactly how to get there, which is not so astonishing, anyhow.
After couple of minutes we stopped by a hotel and with my broken Chinese , asking for map finally ,I could somehow figure out how to get there.

Anyhow we passed by of bunch of empty ,under construction buildings which can call them “pretty luxury types”and exclusive district.

That neighborhood was kind of foppish and elegance in matter of being clean and green and architecture of building and street was entirely new and more likely Western style. Some high blocks and some just couple of floors and presumably like villa style by the end of construction will be appeared.


Immediately after that we both were thinking if we could live there. well it was a nice area but in compare with out residential ,good-class ,dwelling area as we have everything around and handy and green enough ,I bet we wouldn’t switched our place at all.

By the time we arrived there was almost eleven-ish and we got the ticket with half price which was a pleasant surprised and got in. It was totally manifest and tangible empty as we expected at this season. I am sometimes wondering if these kind for places are popular enough in china and lucrative for the organization or not at all.

Ocean park was not too big in comparison with the one we saw in Dali an and Shanghai and the one I visited in Kuala Lumpur(Malaysia) which was fantastic in matter of size and variety of things and more important being natural which is something a visitor of nature expect that.

The point is with a surveillance of observing things as equipments marine animals statues and so on, were made of plastic type. Everything together were compiling more likely a photo album which you are glancing through .In some points was totally funny and eye-catching though.

Some other thing which was dragging our attention was couple of funny, baloney path notes, for instance : “the way to the Marine life”. There was nothing alive there, not even one small Marine animal,
as a symbol.

We passed by an area which we presumed they are trying to show Aliens flew over arctic as we could see a symbol of aliens and a UFO there. For us was kind of irritating and in funny side irrelevant to the Park theme!.

In total was quite fun and kind peaceful adventure to be out and compare places in different societies as we travel and pass by.

Comments about ER T.V series:

Comments about ER T.V series:

Monday September 28, 2009 it has been already a month passed from our faculty meeting to greet us back to work. I have already had a 10 day work and then been almost 10 days off from work due to closing the university campus which is affected by Swine flu.

More over upcoming October national holiday which is a week and might be more for us due to our weekends off in additional gives me chances to study other languages and back to my art and painting a bit more.

Today after a big shopping day and got our free moon cakes from management office I am back to write down about another T.V series which I do adore and kind of addicted.
I have always been fascinated by good T.V series

We are watching DEADWOOD and ER as I wrote on my last Blog about Deadwood. For now I am going through ER.
All the actions in ER TV series happen in a hospital and there enormous numbers of patients any type, to come there and hospitalized for short or longer periods.

I can say as I have been trough couple of it’s seasons it is particularly active ,strong characters ,authentic actions and some synopsis are competitive by bringing new doctor and surgeons who are ambitious and make it more colorful and harder to judge and digest the movie. I do like these cases which I have to kind of find out and make comment in the end of each episode abut what has happened and what could happen in reality. Its Set largely in the emergency room of Chicago's fictional County General Hospital, ER focused on the professional and personal trials and tribulations of the unit's staff,

The point is this series is really realistic as it happened if you hop into one of the hospitals and take your web cam and get some nice shots of what they do. Physician training remained a major focus all season. Viewers were frequently invited to consider different aspects of the residents' professional development. In some parts even you don’t see the nurses as their actions have been totally captures by physicians. Even if what they do sometimes facing with wrath from physicians.

In some episode sadly ,you see how much nurses are down to their senior physicians and mostly if any errors happened from the juniors they jus give a report to the seniors ,instead of giving to the intern doctors chances to learn from their mistakes and not just cover it, which in reality doesn’t happened as often like that.

I quite like one of the characters he is a young senior intern surgeon who has married for couple of years and his life nowadays is so much ups and downs and can call it “falling apart”, cause he has been offered to a higher position for next year and his wife is a young lawyer who is seeking for more options and chances in her life, This couple are a great symbol of a lot of ambitious,, over educated families who mostly consider their position and forget about priorities in life and when they get it which is too late.

He has so many obstacles in front of him and kind of discomforting him, but after a high, sever accident with one of his patients he is awaking from a deep sleep and try to take a proper ,accurate decision for his life.

The bottom line has usually been that the physicians' role is unrealistically large and robust, and the nurses' role correspondingly small and flat. In dramatic terms, the physicians are the tragic heroes, while the nurses are essentially members of the cast.
It has been one of the successful TV. series so far cause of high quality of acting ,variety of senses and strong character including brings new stores line every time to the audiences ,something have to say ,not just junk,

Tuesday, September 29, 2009

A short review of Deadwood .TV series:

A short review of Deadwood .TV series:

One of our hobbies for the evening time is watching T.V series and movies, meanwhile eating our dinner.

One of the series which I am addicted and draw my attention to follow the storyline is ‘Dead Wood’.

Deadwood is town in South Dakota ,which is part of uncivilized society on that period of time in old America back in 1800’s. Covered by corruption and violence every now and then.

There are a couple of characters whose personalities are kind of bizarre in the movie. One of the main character is “Seth Bullok” who I call him “swollen -stick man”. He is kind of arrogant and far from the community. He moved with his Jewish friend to the town and tired to find a legal business there and got a second position as a sheriff there. He is nice and trust-worthy, but he involved with affair with a rich widow calls “Alma Gareth” and in meantime tried hard to bring peace to the camp ,but his snobbish ,cold manner make the audiences feel hatred towards him ,sometimes!

I don’t admire her either ,as she is too rich to be there ,I mean part of the community .She never find a friend or even try to have one, more over she accept a Norwegian child under her authority and adapt her.
Her husband killed there and instead of being positive or doing something she tries to keep the gold from her husband side and has affair and he is addicted to drugs as well. She has to make a forceful marriage as she is pregnant secretly from sheriff and she wants to keep all her will for herself rather transfer to her ex husband family, in meanwhile she got sick and got rid of her illegitimate fetus and then treat her second husband badly , unfairly and draw back to the drugs again after a break.

We have Jane a cow boy drunk girl who tries to act so shrewdly and be as man in that society ,nice helping others but always drunk, on the other hand we have a young whore who find the Jew man( sheriff’s friend) attractive and try to spy on them in favor of her old fucker and boss in whore house and get a job there and her previous activities involve with being baby sitter for the rich widow as well…

We have a lot small other characters who act pretty nice and in their position have a great ,valuable role in the movie though.

In brief it is an epic story of greed and power, war and romance, forbidden loves and secret alliances, and a young hero who rises to power in a modern-day kingdom.

Tuesday 22 September,

Tuesday 22 September,

The second day of break time; and I was wondering today that it has been quite long time that I haven’t done any painting.
Sometime when I check Face Book, I see some friends doing art and I am thinking back in time to 15 or even more than that ,20 years ago when, I was doing art so seriously ,even I chose my major in art field .

I have had so many exhibitions in and out of Iran .Actually; I was blossoming so fast forward for my age.
Even back to that time I remembered that I was thinking about how lucrative could be my art, in matter of selling and looking into the market.
I was just 22when I finished the study, and I was working for almost 2 years professionally as watercolorist painter, organizing exhibitions in galleries and had customers, who were bugging me with calls and hooked on me with shitty questions.I always wanted particularly special artist.
I had just had a chance to enter to fashion field starting doing programmes on T.V as independent designer cause I had had 6 months training in meanwhile studying at university and I was too young for all these.

So what happened then?
Can we call it, all talent and desired died, suddenly?

Sounds a bit unsecured and hectic, it is.

Well, sometimes the ideas towards art, comes back to me.

Back in time, I wanted to grab and snap the chances. Traveling around Asia or East Asia, chances to get another job as over seas teacher seeking for a better and different life, finding my soul mate, partner, somewhere else in this world.
Maybe I was so too early for everything in life, a prodigy lost in life.

It has been 2 years that I am back to playing music ,and from last year I just watched a movie showed a talented boy how he found his way to start his art and how he blossomed at the end, was a warning and sparkle in my life again.

As the time bring chances in life ,I have had a chance to choose in a certain time in my life ,to digest the risk ,get out of country stand on my feet and use my valor to be a teacher and now stand as a professor at university teaching English and working on my languages skills, and on my free time to draw sketches for fashion and paint, or be there, stick to art there which was great back to those period there and seeking for other chances might have happened or not totally blind and veiled situation in front.!?
Sometimes you receive a total condemnation from society which has happened to me back the time in Iran and even in China couldn’t catch chances back professionally to my art, but I do it as hobby though.

Long introduction today I am in middle of creating something new again. Painting is something that brings me back memories from summer vacation in Holland.
In meanwhile I was drown in my artistic mood about clothes and new design, just a idea came in my mind which when I READ THE FOLLOWING ADRESSS
http://www.independent.co.uk/life-style/fashion/news/
An article from The Guardian gave me a surprised stun. Such a coincidence.

Girls just want to have fun. That was the message from the British designer Luella Bartley at London Fashion Week yesterday, where she unveiled a collection of sweet, colorful dresses and separates with a pop twist.

I was thinking to buy and even maybe design some new, colorful clothes and now the fashion update goes girly style this year apparently. GOOD news for charming girls.

Thinking about art ,having artistic mind helps your life to be more colorful and creative and always you have something to do ,to think new……

First day of break ,Monday, September 20:

First day of break ,Monday, September 20:

The first day of our break from work goes not very well at least for me.
Sometimes things goes on the way totally illogical and unexpected.

As they called me from the deputy municipal of headquarter at university to say: ‘The classes might be shut down for a while and no one knows for how long due to sever fast spread of Swine flu”. It was a good news and bad at the same time.

Swine flu is spreading everywhere in campus, no surprised as the quality of classes and dorms are pretty low and in our teaching building is so filthy and damp no wonder the students get sick. No proper hygiene either. It is not too ghastly at least for now.

I am happy at least we seem to be fine till now.

I have received 4 phone calls and bombarded with emails to help those desperate to give the students lesson plans and home works. Mostly things are like that and possibly I might have make up classes later on.

I have spent almost 3 hours proper nice lesson plan for all levels, but they couldn’t get it so they come up with misunderstanding and something different and finally I discovered they wanted something to be published on the Net and then they couldn’t get it and what they exactly want and asked me make it easy in the way of putting numbers and steps for students.

Usually Chinese come like that, no offence to the Chinese who read this. I am not trying to rebuking them. But unclear mumble things, for instance: use words maybe and possibly ,and could you give some suggestions by bumbling words. All those crap words, and if you are bold to neglect them ,good for you, well done, otherwise, it goes on and on until you strangle yourself .Or maybe I am too scrupulous and diligent!
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I have had so many people doing business here around me and as they claimed too, it is such a night mare understand what they want, cause they don’t know themselves exactly, like a vulnerable victim come close and….

It is not like Europe to have expectation of being professional and precise and meticulous. Things works in different way and you need to know it here.

Well god, that’s the beginning. Some people here have no apathy I wish I could be like that.!
I was kind of pissed of for couple of hours why it is the only one here me to do all work and others hang around.
Anyhow despite that today is a green day and a pleasant weather. I am going to enjoy the rest of the day.

Saturday, September 19, 2009

One of rainy in september 6th, 2009



September 6”

First of all I apologize to readers following the stories and send me their prompt comments. I haven’t uploaded things for a while and all is due to bad internet connection to blog site through proxy system. One of the reasons tempting me to write and I do love to spend some of my free time for that is receiving some comments from readers and thanks a lot.

Today is Saturday and another rainy weekend.
This season is going to be long in this pat of China luckily (I love rain and murky, gray sky)

Back on my childhood, when I was little I loved to have rainy days every day which we didn’t. I hated scorching, hot or balmy weather.
In Tehran (for all my Iranian friends out of the country, is a flash back) the city I used to live, we had plenty of snow in almost over 3 months or even more, back to the time we were kid’s and even though Couple of years ago .My dream was that I wanted to live somewhere green and have everyday rain, for me snow was ok but not too fascinating, and now I do want more snow and less rain though.
Isn’t that amazing of what we have and what we don’t in life and not always appreciate it!

It has been almost 6 years I have been living in China and especially on the east coast; we do have so much rain I strongly can say approximately 6 months of the year.
These years’ car factories and other type of factories work hard to expand their products as more and more customers’ enquiries increase rapidly. So you can imagine how much it affects the weather, as I do believe it exist in so many developing and even developed countries. Some cities might suffer less though.

How ever, we have too much rain for half of year if it stops raining we do feel a bit amount of pollution. This city which I am located now is surrounded by mountains and I am hopping soon having snow fall.