In & Out

 

 

 

 

 Shanghai---Where We Went and What We Ate?

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

The Authentic Grandma-Dishes

 

 

 

 

 

 

Hong Kong---An Incredible News, Michael Jackson Was Gone

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

Hong Kong---A Lovely Dinner with a New Book 

 

 

 

Met BD and GQ and Had a Dinner Together with Two New Friends in CUHK.

 

 

 

 

 

Shanghai---Working, Eating and Rambling

 

 

 

 

 

 

The China Beauties

 

 

 

 

 

 BEIJING---Taking a Break

 

 

15 days later of the 20 anniversaries

 

 

 

Having a quiet walk

 

 

 

Great Wall with Raining

 

 

 

 

 

BEIJING---The Happy Hours

 

 

 

Meeting the Friends and Having a drink.

 

 

 

 

BEIJING--- Working and Having a Self-Quarantine

 

 

 

A Good Timing and Angle to Watch the City.  

 

 

A Quite Morning at 6:00am in Nan He Yan

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

BEIJING---Landing in Beijing

 

 

 

 

It was the second check!

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

Photos by Sis

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

The second photo was shot 10 years later on the rooftop of USA Today.

 

 

Photos by AP and DR

 

 

 

 

The Spring in NYC is a "moveable feast" in any way!

 

I.C.P. (International Center of Photography) had a new opening of Avedon's fashion work yesterday evening in midtown.  As a milestone of the fashion photography in the US, the photographer had redefined the image of women's beauty, spirit and life style in this country for the past half century.  As he also said, his photos had portrayed that how women thought and how women felt by the gestures, the shapes, patterns and the moods.  

 

His fashion and portrait photographs in Harper's Bazaar, Vogue and New Yorker magazine brought a new meaning of art to the staff photographers in media companies.

 

 http://www.nytimes.com/interactive/2009/05/13/fashion/20090514-avedon-feature/index.html?ref=fashion#

 

 

 

 

Photos by Paula 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

The Metropolitan Museum of Art presents a special exhibition from this Wednesday.  It focus on iconic fashion models of the 20th century.  It also redescribes their roles in projecting and inspiring the fasion of their respective eara, and its influences of fashion art on the life style, art and politics in the society from the 20's of last century to present.

 

Fashion is more than dress!

 

Conde Nast brought the editorial model concept to the fashion world.

 

The trend of high fashion and high street came at early 21st century.

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 Photos by Paula and HZ

 

 

 

 

Let's talk the small things first.  On this second rainy day, I was surrounded by an irritable and depressed mood, very low, no reason.  During the lunch time, I went to see a friend in other side of the town.  I went down the stairs to get into the subway station.  Heard a melodious music from a young black guy with a saxophone, suddenly felt a lot of cheerful.  A hour later, I went back from another subway station, heard a simple melody from an older white guy with a guitar, felt even happier!

 

That was not enough.  I went to downtown after work, directly walked into Balthazar, one of my favorite bakeries in NYC.  It, actually, is a French restaurant with a vintage Montparnasse style.  Its tiny bakery is just right in next door and serves the tasty sandwiches, perfect pain au chocolat, Valrhona chocolate bread and authentic French cookies.  I had a piece of Galette with walnuts and a cup of latte.  If you asked how comparing with the one in Starbucks, I will shoot back with a "What".  Anyway, my life was FABULOUS at that moment!  PG said to me tonight that you are truly a woman.  I said yes, so what! 

 

Ok, let's back to the big things...

 

 

 

 

What did we know of the swine flu?  Here are some fresh info from the US CDCP. 

 

"Dr. Richard Besser, acting chief of the U.S. Centers for Disease Control and Prevention, said swine flu is spreading just as easily as regular winter flu.  However, the good news is when we look at this virus right now, we're not seeing some of the things in the virus that have been associated in the past with more severe flu.  That's encouraging, but it doesn't mean we're out of the woods yet."

 

So, what should we do, panic? Of course not, just use the common senses to pretect yourself like you had tried to avoid another flu each winter.  I don't usually describe things by big words, but the words from Franklin D. Roosevelt are fit perfectly on our current situation, especially when you saw some media are over done to mislead people.  The Roosevelt said that the only thing we have to fear is fear itself!

 

 

The photo below was shot at 12:30am of the past Saturday in front of Time Warner building of Columbus Circle.  People in NYC still go out to enjoy life as usual.  The restaurants and theaters at the night were all fulled with people.  Remember that "trying to keep your life normal" were the words we had heard everyday in NYC right after the Sep. 11.  

 

 

 

GJ sent me a message yesterday afternoon, which was about WC's company probably prepares for an IPO this year.  She asked me whether I know him?  I do know him and have watched the company's growth during the past several years, although the industry has been impacted by the economic recession lately, but I know nothing about the IPO plan.  

 

GJ and WC are the alumnis, and WC and I are the former colleagues.  GJ's interest of the company's history made me to recall those unforgettable days, which the bunch of young graduates had worked with full of passion to pursuit their dream together.   

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

It was chilly the day before, but suddenly we were hit by an unusual "summer heat".  We went to hiking, but the trees were "staying" still, without green!

 

 

It was outside of Manhattan, but you can still see the city in the left side of the photo.

 

 

Photos by J 

 

 

 

Who is hot like this?  That was Paul Krugman at this afternoon in midtown of NYC!

 

 

 

 

 

 Photo by Paula

 

 

 

 

 

 http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=GDXmL0eXnPs

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

A famous newspaper in the US, which has been run with over 150 years, may be shot down by its parent company---New York Times because of the economic recession and the transformation of the media industry itself.   For me, it's very very sad to hear the news last night.  I couldn't describe it in any word and any language!  

 

Working in this great newspaper was my very first job in this country.  The paper had opened a great and colorful window to me, it had also changed my entire life in a very unique way!  Looking back, I appreciate and remember the every second I had spent there! 

 

 

 

Photo from The Globe

 

 

An ancient town L'Aquila in the central Italy, which was founded in the 13th century, had almost been distroyed by a 6.3 magnitude earthquake at the early morning 3:30am on April 6th.  The power of a natural disaster has once again shown the fragility of human beings.  It reminds me of the earthquake in Sichuan province last year.  

 

Yesterday, there was the Chinese Qing Ming Jie, however the people in Sichuan haven't got a chance to release the real pains from the government!

 

Pray for all the victims in Sichuan and in L'Aquila!

 

 

I went to see the first debate of "Speaker Series" at this year.  It's called "Speaker Series: The Minds That Move The World".  It was fantastic, even better than last year.  That is probably why the organizer expanded the event to another two major cities---Boston and Chicago.  It's true, like my friend said, "all people" who are with and without brains from North-East of the US were showing up at the night.  That was a "party", a "brain-storm" party for sure!  PG said to me that those are really your things and your people. I said: you are absolutely right at this time!

 

Er pushed me to write again, I couldn't find any "lazy-excuse".  I took this topic as the first one of a new......

 

 

 

 

Photos from NYTs

 

 

 

 

Broadway was to dim its lights last Thursday in memory of Natasha Richardson, the memeber of Britain's Redgrave acting dynasty who died after a ski accident last week in Quebec.  

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

The exhibition represented a personal journey of art and a powerful strain of indigenous Amercian realism in a century.

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 Photos by Paula and J

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

It was the 248th parade of St. Patrick's Day in NYC today.  The policemen had blocked the streets very early at this morning.  When there was the lunch time, the crowd "had taken up" all the major avenues.  It was really hard to recognize those faces of many tourists, but the big green hats and fluffy hair were everywhere! I believe that the tourists of the parade were more than in any other latest years.  

 

Had a business meeting in West-Side of the Fifth Ave at this morning, but it was almost a miracle when I tried to go back to my office, which is located in East-Side of the Ave, during the lunch time.  I had tried very hard to "negotiate" with the "Sir" and the Officer.  Finally I got a chance to pass the "cordon"!

 

The weather was sunny bright, the sky was crisp blue.  This spring finally came!!!

 

The Photos by NYTimes